Top 82 Quotes About Meaner
#2. Ronnie Spector's hair was taller and meaner and scarier than all four Shangri-La's combined, plus the drummer from the Honeycombs. You just know her rat-tail comb was a switchblade.
Rob Sheffield
#3. My mother warned me about short, determined women," he said at last, clearing his throat. "Said they're are meaner than any other kind.
Joey W. Hill
#4. ..I resent the jerk part. I'm meaner than that....
Finn Marlowe
#5. The nice word for you is methodical. Obsessive-compulsive is the meaner phrase, and one you've truly earned.
Claire Kendal
#6. And the world is so much meaner when your heart is hard." July
Dan Buri
#7. I am blessed with a good metabolism, and as long as I work out, carbs don't add to my weight. If I need a leaner, meaner look for a film, I go off carbs for a bit.
Arjun Rampal
#8. Men start off good and then the world makes them mean. The world is mean from the start and gets meaner every day. It uses you up until you only dream of death.
Colson Whitehead
#9. Home Owner's Association." I said. "They're like the Mafia, but meaner.
Jerry Brandon
#10. I'm bigger and meaner than you." Krychek raised an eyebrow. "Bigger, yes. Meaner? Let's leave that an open question. However,
Nalini Singh
#11. Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan.
Alexander Pope
#12. That's what a skinwalker is: a mean asshole with a meaner spirit squatting inside."
"I've run into some of those at the dog park," Oberon said. "They're usually attached to Chihuahuas.
Kevin Hearne
#13. We all know people who have been made much meaner and more irritable and more intolerable to live with by suffering: it is not right to say that all suffering perfects. It only perfects one type of person ... the one who accepts the call of God in Christ Jesus.
Oswald Chambers
#14. That said, I have come to believe that the more committed one is to leftism, the more likely one is to become meaner.
Dennis Prager
#15. Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are.
Kurt Vonnegut
#16. Bush's life is that a fundamentally decent man presided over a moment when politics got meaner and rougher. '88 was the year of the handler, of bringing in political consultants who played very hard and very tough'.
Evan Thomas
#17. When a soul turns as black as Black World, these old spirits find them a comfortin' touch of home, and if they're called to move in, they will. That's what a skinwalker is: a mean asshole with a meaner spirit squatting inside. Oberon said.
Kevin Hearne
#18. The mean things of this world had only one lesson-we are meaner than you'd ever imagine.
Dennis Lehane
#19. I'm a little sadder for all of it, and a little meaner and a little more conscientious as well.
Anne Rice
#21. Every guy liked to think that his demons were meaner and crazier than anybody else's.
Tom Piccirilli
#23. Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.
George Santayana
#24. Um, she's meaner than a bag full of squirrels and twice as nuts.
Sherry D. Ficklin
#25. So where are they moving today? They're going to move to be meaner to immigrants in order to bring their conference together.
Luis Gutierrez
#26. For most Americans of the eighteenth century, it was assumed impossible for a servant to shed his lowly origins; the meaner sort, as one newspaper insisted, could never "wash out the stain of servility." There were fears that the meaner sort were treading too close on the heels of those above them.
Nancy Isenberg
#27. Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.
Thomas Carlyle
#28. My wife had learned to give in to what someone older, stronger, and meaner wanted.
Deborah Harkness
#29. Shakespeare opens a mine which contains gold and diamonds in unexhaustible plenty, though clouded by incrustations, debased by impurities, and mingled with a mass of meaner minerales.
Samuel Johnson
#30. When one that holds communion with the skies
Has fill'd his urn where these pure waters rise,
And once more mingles with us meaner things,
'Tis e'en as if an angel shook his wings.
William Cowper
#31. Don't even try to stop me from seeing her, Krychek," he said to the cardinal, who still hadn't spilled Silver 's location. "I'm bigger and meaner than you."
Krychek raised an eyebrow. "Bigger, yes. Meaner? Let's leave that an open question.
Nalini Singh
#32. At first it was just a misdemeanor, but then you lost the "mis-de" and you just got meaner and meaner..
Louis Armstrong
#33. I used to be a longshoreman. I didn't go to college. I have a voice that when I say something, it can sound way meaner than you think it is.
Artie Lange
#34. I consider sex a misdemeanor, the more I miss, de meaner I get.
Mae West
#35. The uglier, older, meaner, iller, poorer I get, the more I wish to take my revenge by doing brilliant color, well arranged, resplendent.
Vincent Van Gogh
#36. All I know is that once you have children, you put them before anything you're feeling or going through. Today, my daughter walked into the room and I said, 'I love you, baby,' and she said, 'Well, I don't like you,' and I said to my wife, 'The meaner she is to me, the more I love her.'
Jeremy Sisto
#37. I'm getting older. I'm getting sexier. I'm getting meaner. I can still do what I do.
Shaquille O'Neal
#38. You're taller than I am, but I'm stronger, and meaner right this minute than you could ever imagine - Lady Madelyne.
Julie Garwood
#39. HENRY, EARL OF RICHMOND:
True hope is swift and flies with swallow's wings,
Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.
William Shakespeare
#40. Meanings with no purpose are useful for meaningless debates on what the "meaner" meant. And that's what #politics is all about - misreading.
Will Advise
#41. He's bad, bad Leroy Brown, baddest dude in the whole damn town, badder than old King Kong, and meaner than a junk yard dog.
Jim Croce
#42. But he fails to realize that, by declining the opportunity to define himself, he allows others, less interested, more callous, meaner others, to create definitions for him.
Stephen Dau
#43. Religions have become a hindrance, rather than a help, to our shared pursuit of peace and progress. They tend to make us meaner rather than better human beings, less sensitive to the demands of justice, compassion and fellow humanity in our times.
Agnivesh
#44. When you're down and out, there's no meaner place to live than Hollywood. You can get away with your embezzlements and your lies and your murders, but you can never get away with failing.
Dominick Dunne
#45. Why was it the meaner the girl, the more she sparkled?
Nicole Williams
#46. You think people was meaner then than they are now? the deputy said.
The old man was looking out at the flooded town. No, he said. I don't. I think people are the same from the day God first made one.
Cormac McCarthy
#47. Fear, at its center, is a perceived loss of control. When life spins wildly, we grab for a component of life we can manage: our diet, the tidiness of a house, the armrest of a plane, or, in many cases, people. The more insecure we feel, the meaner we become.
Max Lucado
#48. My grandma has said many of the things her character says. But she was much nicer! I made her meaner for dramatic purposes.
Nicole Holofcener
#49. You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light; You common people of the skies, What are you when the sun shall rise? This was printed with music as early as 1624, in East's Sixth Set of Books, and is found in many manuscripts.
Henry Wotton
#50. There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.
Jane Jacobs
#51. Tis a meaner part of sense to find a fault than taste an excellence.
John Wilmot
#52. From out the throng and stress of lies, from out the painful noise of sighs, one voice of comfort seems to rise: It is the meaner part that dies.
William Morris
#53. I don't like those shows where people get eliminated every week, and then they have to get meaner to survive.
Michel Gondry
#54. A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
George Eliot
#55. Elmo is telling kids about how great it is to share. Oh, Elmo, you poor, deluded little red fur ball. You don't have a clue, do ya, li'l buddy? Kids are way meaner than Muppets.
Sarah Darer Littman
#57. Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean. It's like how turning on a light makes you realize how dark the room had gotten. And the way you usually act, the things you would have normally done, are like these ghosts that everyone can see but pretends not to.
Rebecca Stead
#58. Indeed," Fowler answered. He turned and looked at Tony critically. "I say, old man, but you're not much older than that German kid."
Yeah," Tony grinned. "But I'm from Texas and meaner than a junkyard bulldog. Makes a difference, you know.
Robert L. Wise
#59. The bad news is, people are crueler, meaner and more evil than you've ever imagined. The good news is, people are kinder, gentler and more loving than you've ever dreamed.
Pleasefindthis
#60. Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
William Cowper
#61. I learned some invaluable lessons in Nashville that apply to both farming and show business: Do not corner something you know is meaner than you; keep skunks of all kinds at a distance; if you forgive your enemies, it messes up their heads.
Willie Nelson
#62. Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion.
Robert Redford
#63. Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner condition in their lesser merit and fortune.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#64. At that moment, he was meaner and madder than he'd ever been, but mainly at himself, which is the worst kind of mean and mad to be, because the only thing to do about it is to take it out on someone else.
Victoria Forester
#65. The profligacy of a man of fashion is looked upon with much less contempt and aversion, than that of a man of meaner condition.
Adam Smith
#66. As things now stand, the office is a slightly meaner battleground than the home. Male bosses seem to dominate their women underlings as they would never dominate their wives.
Wilfrid Sheed
#67. Oh, sir, the loftiest hopes on earth Draw lots with meaner hopes: heroic breasts, Breathing bad air, run risk of pestilence; Or, lacking lime-juice when they cross the Line, May languish with the scurvy.
George Eliot
#68. To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.
George Eliot
#69. Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
James M. Barrie
#70. We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.
Aristotle.
#71. The Internet, in general, I find troubling. The anonymity has made us all meaner and dumber. This thing that was supposed to bring us closer together, I see it doing the opposite.
Aaron Sorkin
#72. I have no idea why people want to watch puppets be the slightly meaner version of the weirdo holding them. It's beyond my comprehension.
Daniel Tosh
#74. Ambition will take you And ride you too far and Conservatism bring you to boredom once more Sit down by the river And watch the stream flow Recall all the dreams That you once used to know The things you've forgotten That took you away To pastures not greener but meaner.
Van Morrison
#75. I'm very much aware of the dangers of becoming a cliche. Mr. Anger, someone who gets meaner, angrier on record.
Trent Reznor
#76. To be selfish is to sacrifice the nobler for the meaner ends, and to be sordidly content.
Hugh Reginald Haweis
#77. The world is mean from the start and gets meaner every day. It uses you up until you only dream of death. Mabel
Colson Whitehead
#78. Dez kissed his cheek and hissed in his ear, "You say a word - they won't find your body for months." Wolves were a smart breed and always knew when a predator meaner than them was near.
Shelly Laurenston
#79. Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself, That in my action I may soar as high As I can now discern with this clear eye.
Henry David Thoreau
#80. Confronted with people who have power, and who enjoy using it, I turn into a different person, a baser and meaner one.
Peter Hoeg
#81. I don't think it's ever easy to be funny. I find it easy to amuse myself with a certain sort of cynical dark humor that tends toward the meaner side, like my character in Happy Gilmore. Those kinds of characters come easily to me.
Ben Stiller
