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Meddling Quotes

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Jane Austen
“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.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
tags: matchmaking, meddling
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Karl Kraus
“I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.”
― Karl Kraus
tags: humor, meddling, privacy
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Alastair Reynolds
“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.”
― Alastair Reynolds, On the Steel Breeze
tags: meddling
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Shannon L. Alder
“Never stand in the way of letting God use people’s actions, in order to solve a greater issue in the world.”
― Shannon L. Alder
tags: actions, adversity, bias, blinded, blindsighted, boredom, character, choices, civil-rights, consequences, consequences-of-evil, cruelty, cyberbullying, evil, evil-actions, evil-doers, fear, games, god-s-plan, hacking, haters, human-rights-violations, hypocrisy, ignorance, injustice, judgers, liars, lies, meddling, mental-health-stigma, obsession, perception, satan, selfishness, sinners, stalking, stereotypes, trials, tsloama, warped, wicked, witch-hunts, wrong-acts, wrong-choices
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Dorothy L. Sayers
“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.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
tags: friendships, interference, interpersonal-relationships, life, loners, meddling, relationships
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Lloyd Alexander
“Two things never mix: one is enchantments and the other is meddling with them.”
― Lloyd Alexander, Taran Wanderer
tags: enchantments, humorous, magic, meddling
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Robert Buettner
“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.”
― Robert Buettner, Overkill
tags: consequences, human-nature, human-superiority, humanity, humans, meddlers, meddling
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Sebastian Barry
“The thing itself, the first thing, will never do us alone, we must be elaborating, improving, poeticising.”
― Sebastian Barry
tags: acceptance, changing, denial, meddling, restlessness, tinkering
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William Faulkner
“… curiosity is another of the mistresses whose slaves decline no sacrifice.”
― William Faulkner, The Mansion
tags: curiosity, fate, meddling, stubbornness
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Craig D. Lounsbrough
“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.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough
tags: deceit, deception, fact, illusion, meddling, reality, revisions
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J.K. Rowling
“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.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
tags: meddling, sneaking, spying
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Ellis Peters
“Did you ever feel, Hugh, that it might be better to let even ill alone," wondered Cadfael ruefully, "rather than let loose worse?”
― Ellis Peters, The Confession of Brother Haluin
tags: knowing-when-to-quit, meddling
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Maggie Stiefvater
“What are you doing here on this night?"

"Meddling," I answer, because it's an answer that's difficult to argue with.”
― Maggie Stiefvater
tags: meddling
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