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  • We have important things to talk to the Russians about, despite their meddling in our elections. I hope they're talking about a way to eventually end this horrific humanitarian crisis in Syria, end that war. The Russians have more leverage than we do. I hope they're talking about the fact that, if Kim Jong-un's long-range missiles can reach Alaska one day, they can also reach Vladivostok.

    War   Important   One Day  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • Not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysicks, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetorick, or Logick.

  • All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

    Plato (1866). “The Republic of Plato, tr. with an analysis and notes, by J.L. Davies and D.J. Vaughan”, p.55
  • I think my constant fiddling and meddling with the status quo may have been one of my biggest contributions to the later success of Wal-Mart.

    Success   Thinking   May  
    Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.34, Bantam
  • A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won't fail to see a chance to meddle.

    Opportunity   Men   Evil  
    William Faulkner (1985). “Novels, 1930-1935”, Library of America
  • Nor must we always be neutral where our neighbors are concerned: for tho' meddling is a fault, helping is a duty.

  • We're not going to meddle in the internal life of other peoples and other governments, because we don't want them meddling in ours.

  • In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.

    Running   Fall   Anxiety  
    Eric Hoffer (2011). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, p.14, Harper Collins
  • In politics as in religion, my tenets are few and simple. The leading one of which, and indeed that which embraces most others, is to be honest and just ourselves and to exact it from others, meddling as little as possible in their affairs where our own are not involved. If this maxim was generally adopted, wars would cease and our swords would soon be converted into reap hooks and our harvests be more peaceful, abundant, and happy.

    War   Simple   Justice  
  • Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization.

    Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.1044, Wordsworth Editions
  • Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things We murder to dissect. Enough of Science and of Art; Close up these barren leaves; Come forth, and bring with you a heart That watches and receives.

    Sweet   Nature   Art  
    'The Tables Turned' (1798)
  • Living apart and at peace with myself,I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with anothers way of life-so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands Off.

    Henry Miller (1962). “Stand Still Like the Hummingbird”, p.18, New Directions Publishing
  • I don't care how little your country is, you got a right to run it like you want to. When the big nations quit meddling then the world will have peace.

  • I disapprove of lots of decisions made by George Bush: the war, the meddling in the affairs of other countries, the conversations with dictators; it was a dark time.

    Country   War   Dark  
  • If we stuck to the Constitution as written, we would have: no federal meddling in our schools; no Federal Reserve; no U.S. membership in the UN; no gun control; and no foreign aid. We would have no welfare for big corporations, or the "poor"; no American troops in 100 foreign countries; no NAFTA, GAT, or "fast-track"; no arrogant federal judges usurping states rights; no attacks on private property; no income tax. We could get rid of most of the agencies, and most of the budget. The government would be small, frugal, and limited.

    Country   School   Gun  
  • The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

    Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.75, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • Born originals, how comes it to pass that we die copies? That meddling ape imitation, as soon as we come to years of indiscretion, (so let me speak,) snatches the pen, and blots out nature's mark of separation, cancels her kind intention, destroys all mental individuality. The lettered world no longer consists of singulars: it is a medley, a mass; and a hundred books, at bottom, are but one.

    Edward Young, John Doran (1854). “The complete works, poetry and prose, of ... Edward Young. Revised [by J. Nichols]. To which is prefixed, a life of the author, by J. Doran”, p.561
  • The government should stop meddling in the business of the farmers, who would actually still be living ina desert if not for government meddling.

  • Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person.

    Law   Knowing   Shaving  
    Charles Dickens (1848). “The Old Curiosity Shop ... With a Frontispiece. From a Painting by Geo. Cattermole, Etc”, p.168
  • You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.

  • Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.

  • Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

    Life   Wisdom   Anger  
    The Fellowship of the Ring bk. 1, ch. 3 (1954)
  • I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.

  • If we have a decent sort of cat to begin with, and have always treated it courteously, and aren't cursed with meddling, bullying natures, it's a pleasure to let it do as it pleases. With children, this would be wicked and irresponsible, so raising children involves a lot of effort and friction. They need to be taught how to tie their shoes and multiply fractions, they need to be punished for pocketing candy in the grocery store, they need to be washed and combed and forced to clean up their rooms and say please and thank you. A cat is our relief and our reward.

    Bullying   Children   Cat  
    Barbara Holland (1989). “Secrets of the Cat: It's [sic] Lore, Legend, and Lives”
  • ... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.

    Iris Murdoch (2001). “The Sea, The Sea”, p.369, Penguin
  • We habitually engage in meddling with nature. Until this century most of this meddling was good. Witness the preservation of the European countryside. But since then we've smoked it up and littered it and dumped too much in too many waters. I don't think it's our privilege to behave this way.

  • Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They seem utterly real. They come, we imagine, directly to us without human meddling, and they are the most effortless food for the mind conceivable.

    "Public Opinion". Book by Walter Lippmann, 1922.
  • The critical spirit never knows when to stop meddling.

  • Intimately concerned as we are with the system of Europe, it does not follow that we are therefore called upon to mix ourselves onevery occasion, with a restless and meddling activity, in the concerns of the nations which surround us.

    Europe   Doe   Restless  
  • Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis.

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