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
  • Choices

• 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

• “Modernity proclaims rights without in any way providing the means to exercise them.”

  

  Alain de Benoist
  • Exercise
  • Means
  • Modernity

• What we celebrate at Christmas is not so much the birth of a baby, but the incarnation of God Himself.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Baby
  • Christmas

• Very few Black people ever embraced back to Africa movements, and very few actually, a tiny number actually went back to Africa. They said, "We are going to make America live up to the ideals of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States." They produced one of the world's great cultures; they produced individuals who were just as brilliant and made contributions to the world civilization. In fact, they produced a world-class civilization, the African American civilization, in music, in dance, in oratory, in religion, in writing.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • People
  • World
  • Writing

• Almost all systems of economic thought are premised on the idea of continued economic growth, which would be fine and dandy if we lived on an infinite planet, but there's this small, niggling, inconvenient fact that the planet is, in fact, finite, and that, unlike economic theory, it is governed by physical and biological reality

  

  George Monbiot
  • Economic
  • Planet
  • Systems

• Some things I cannot change, but 'til I try I'll never know.

  

  Stephen Schwartz
  • Know
  • Change
  • Try

• 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