Meddler Quotes

#1. Would you make men better - set them an example. The millenium will never come until governments cease from governing, and the meddler is at rest.

Elbert Hubbard

#2. It may be tripe, but it's my tripe - and I do urge other authors to resist encroachments on their brain-children and trust their own judgment rather than that of some zealous meddler with a diploma in creative punctuation who is just dying to get into the act.

George MacDonald Fraser

#3. What I like about The Meddler style of movie is that it's a fairly lighthearted romantic comedy, but there are hidden moments where something happens that's unexpected, that hopefully have some kind of emotional resonance that you didn't see coming. I love when a film does that.

Susan Sarandon

#4. Acts 16:9 is the meddler's motto, simultaneously selfless and self-serving, generous but stuck-up. Into every generation of Americans is born a new crop of buttinskys sniffing out the latest Macedonia that may or may not want their help.

Sarah Vowell

#5. My mom has never been a big meddler and isn't, like, extremely opinionated or at least just doesn't voice it to me. She's sort of let me come into my own by myself, and I think that's just a testament to what my parents did in terms of raising us.

Mandy Moore

#6. A meddler who cannot leave his subordinates alone is a hands on executive.

John Leo

#7. I know you, you scoundrel! I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." My friend smiled. "Holmes, the busybody!" His smile broadened. "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" Holmes chuckled heartily.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#8. Because we are what we love, our identity and our dignity depend on what we love and the depth and passion with which we love.

Mark Buchanan

#9. Well, It's a Communist country, and the Communists do not reward personal initiative ... except by execution.

Tom Clancy

#10. My work has been in the field of engaged Buddhism. That is my own practice, which began in 1965 that formed the base for the work I was doing in the civil rights and anti-war movement.

Joan Halifax

#11. What the meaning of this period of unemployment is, now.
One way to get at that definition is to ask ourselves, "What is this time for?

Richard N. Bolles

#12. Cherish therefore the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention.1 Do not be too severe upon their errors, but reclaim them by enlightening them. - THOMAS JEFFERSON

Jon Meacham

#13. I used drugs as a social activity; a way to have fun with friends.

Lorna Luft

#14. By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.

Ray Bradbury

#15. At the end of the day we can't be that selfish to accept the love they think we deserve.

Sarvesh Jain

#16. I've said this before - and I mean it strongly - an abstract concept or a moral issue has to be connected to feeling. If we don't believe it somehow viscerally, we don't really take it in.

Anne Michaels

#17. Well, the disarmament conference is off to a flying start. There is nothing to prevent their succeeding now but human nature.

Will Rogers

#18. Nay, Socrates," said Glaucon, "the measure of listening to such discussions is the whole of life for reasonable men". The Republic, 450c.

Plato

#19. All the papers contained nothing but fantastic stories about the war. However, for several months we had been accustomed to war talk. We had so often packed our service trunks that the whole thing had become tedious.

Manfred Von Richthofen

#20. If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
(Get Out or Get in Line, 1928)

Elbert Hubbard

#21. There were no monsters, her parents assured her, but Luce's repeated insistence on the presence of something wobbly and dark had gotten her several appointments with the family eye doctor, and then glasses, and then appointments with the ear doctor after she made the mistake of describing

Lauren Kate

#22. No two snowflakes are alike ...

Wilson Bentley