Meddling Quotes
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“Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she had now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world.”
― Sense and Sensibility
― Sense and Sensibility
“Meddling is what we do. It’s what defines us. Meddling gave us fire and tools and civilisation and the keys to the universe. Fingers will get burnt along the way, yes. That’s the way of it.”
― On the Steel Breeze
― On the Steel Breeze
“Never stand in the way of letting God use people’s actions, in order to solve a greater issue in the world.”
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“You may say you won’t interfere with another person’s soul, but you do—merely by existing. The snag about it is the practical difficulty, so to speak, of not existing.”
― Gaudy Night
― Gaudy Night
“Two things never mix: one is enchantments and the other is meddling with them.”
― Taran Wanderer
― Taran Wanderer
“Planetologist call it the conundrum of unforeseen ecological consequence. I call it the whack-a-mole rule of human meddling. She clasped both hands like a child hammering. WHACK! We change something here. Oops, that makes another problem pop up there where we didn't expect it. WHACK! So, we whack that mole. Oops! We're so smart that we're a menace.”
― Overkill
― Overkill
“Reality will stand firm without our need to attend to it. However, the ‘illusion of reality’ will demand constant revisions and a lifetime of assorted meddling. Therefore, if you have to attend to your reality, you might need to attend to the fact that it is not.”
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“It was a bit late to repair the damage, but Harry swore to himself not to meddle in things that weren't his business from now on. He'd had it with sneaking around and spying.”
― Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
― Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
“The thing itself, the first thing, will never do us alone, we must be elaborating, improving, poeticising.”
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“Did you ever feel, Hugh, that it might be better to let even ill alone," wondered Cadfael ruefully, "rather than let loose worse?”
― The Confession of Brother Haluin
― The Confession of Brother Haluin
“What are you doing here on this night?"
"Meddling," I answer, because it's an answer that's difficult to argue with.”
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"Meddling," I answer, because it's an answer that's difficult to argue with.”
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