Daniel N. Robinson Quotes

Does the end justify the means? Or should it be, Do the ends justify the mean; do the extremes justify moderation?

Daniel N. Robinson

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• I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Think
  • Try
  • Moderation

• I love Fall Fashion Week because it means lots of layering, long sweaters and vintage coats.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Long
  • Fashion
  • Means

• I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means.

  

  M. Ward
  • Love
  • Like
  • Sound

• To move up to hardcover is a way of getting more attention for my books. It means a lot to me: It means my books are legitimate.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Way
  • Attention
  • Books

• As I said before, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, and that means that Pennsylvania did not have jurisdiction over the contract of marriage that occurred in Las Vegas, Nevada.

  

  Larry Burns
  • Marriage
  • Means
  • Vegas

• Everything in moderation, including moderation.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Everything
  • Moderation
  • Including

• Moderation is the key so I work certain amout of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Time
  • Work
  • Certain

• Youth deals only in extremes.

  

  Ursula Bloom
  • Youth
  • Deals
  • Extremes

• I love that you can be laughing one minute and crying the next, and then be shocked the next. I like things that provoke emotions to such extremes.

  

  Courteney Cox
  • Emotions
  • Crying
  • Extremes

• EXTREME LUXURY ISN'T THE MOST BLING-BLING, IT'S EXTREME REFINEMENT, WHICH IS COUTURE AT ITS FINEST.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Luxury
  • Extremes
  • Finest

• I'm pretty confident, let's just say that, in my game right now, for what it is. So if that means a win, then I'll be real happy.

  

  Stephen Curry
  • Happy
  • Win
  • Means

• First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

  

  Aristotle
  • Money
  • Wisdom
  • Goal

• Everyone makes moral choices that better themselves and hurt someone else along the way - and whether or not the means justify the ends. And that, to me, is universal.

  

  George Clooney
  • Mean
  • Hurt
  • Moral

• Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.

  

  Aristotle
  • Virtue
  • Extremes
  • Vice

• The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

  

  Aristotle
  • Wisdom
  • Justice
  • Virtue

• What I say is that 'just' or 'right' means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party.

  

  Plato
  • Party
  • Interest
  • Means

• All things in moderation, including moderation.

  

  Socrates
  • Things
  • Moderation
  • Including

• If discrimination based on race is constitutionally permissible when those who hold the reins can come up with "compelling" reasons to justify it, then constitutional guarantees acquire an accordion-like quality.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Quality
  • Reason
  • Discrimination

• Always bet on yourself, no matter what the odds are. It means more to be in the race than watching the victory lap from the stands.

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • Victory
  • Means
  • No Matter

• Matter, though divisible in an extreme degree, is nevertheless not infinitely divisible. That is, there must be some point beyond which we cannot go in the division of matter. ... I have chosen the word “atom” to signify these ultimate particles.

  

  John Dalton
  • Degrees
  • Ultimate
  • Chosen

• To some men knowledge of the universe has been an end possessing in itself a value that is absolute: to others it has seemed a means of useful applications.

  

  Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
  • Knowledge
  • Universe
  • End

• They say that at that moment you didn't do this, you didn't do that, but at that time I didn't have the means. I didn't have an army to stop the killings. I'm not Moses, I can't do miracles.

  

  Augustin Misago
  • Stop
  • Means
  • Killings

• The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Liberty
  • Democrat
  • Defends

• Does the end justify the means? Or should it be, Do the ends justify the mean; do the extremes justify moderation?

  

  Daniel N. Robinson
  • Means
  • Extremes
  • Moderation