Quotes for All
When we believe or say we have been offended, we usually mean we feel insulted, mistreated, snubbed, or disrespected. And certainly clumsy, embarrassing, unprincipled, and mean-spirited things do occur in our interactions with other people that would allow us to take offense. However, it ultimately is impossible for another person to offend you or to … Read more
There are a lot of black-hearted, mean-spirited bastards in the world. It’s important that we hold them to acount. But always remember that you might be the most black-hearted and mean-spirited in the lot, so hold yourself the most accountable of all. Darren Shan
Harmony can not thrive in a climate of mistrust, cheating, bullying; mean-spirited competition. Dalai Lama
Oh my brethren, Bold hearted men are always called mean-spirited by cowards! Charles Spurgeon
There are as many stories to be told as there are people to tell them about; only the mean-spirited would consider there to be a competition at all. Charles de Lint
I’m a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don’t you ever forget it. You know who else was kind of “divisive” in terms of challenging the status quo and the powers-that-be of his day? Jesus Christ. Ann Coulter
I’m a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don’t you ever forget it. Ann Coulter
Whatever the joke is has to be funny, and not coming from a mean-spirited place. I think some things are totally off limits. If someone’s spouse died, or one of their children, I would never joke about that in a Roast situation. I don’t have any aspirations towards writing any cancer jokes, and there’s some … Read more
Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their anger, their conflicts, their endless grief and rolling list of loss, through their stories. That however mean-spirited or diabolical, it’s only a story. That the darkness in the soul is shaped into type and lies there, brooding and inert, black on the page, and active, dangerous, only … Read more
Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it. Alexandra David-Neel