Means Quotes
-
People who wish to numb our caution in dealing with them by means of flattery are employing a dangerous expedient, like a sleeping draught, which, if it does not put us to sleep, keeps us all the more awake.
-
Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the world: telling stories is a universally accessible means through which people make meaning.
-
I'm the Duke of Riverside. I build things here and pretty much keep the peace, and discourage certain behaviors. If you think all that has been achieved through entirely civil and lawful means, you've had your head in a bucket.
-
I think, in the past, you could buy a flat and live comfortably on theatre and touring theatre, but you can't do that anymore, which means that you have to have a certain amount of celebrity and profile to, therefore, get TV and film work.
-
Multinational corporations and a market economy have transformed human beings into instruments of making money. Human beings should be the end. And money should be the means to an end.
-
If I am intuitively led to buy and read a book, what that means is that there is something there that will help me grow spiritually.
-
'Miss Saigon' taught me what it means to help carry a big show, and it had some of the most gorgeous songs wrote.
-
People say, 'Stalin's daughter, Stalin's daughter,' meaning I'm supposed to walk around with a rifle and shoot the Americans," she once said. Or they say, 'No, she came here. She is an American citizen.' That means I'm with a bomb against the others. No, I'm neither one. I'm somewhere in between.
-
We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?
-
If you have won a national award, it means you have done something great.
-
Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.
-
Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.
-
Lack is more in means, than in principles.
-
My opinion of mankind is founded upon the mournful fact that, so far as I can see, they find within themselves the means of believing in a thousand times as much as there is to believe in.
-
Drawing is a means of obtaining and communicating knowledge.
-
If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?
-
There are means that cannot be excused. And I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don't want just any greatness for it, particularly a greatness born of blood and falsehood. I want to keep it alive by keeping justice alive.
-
Struggle is what it means to be alive and free.
-
Forgiving yourself means that you give up on your hope that the past will be different.
-
I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me.
-
And out of good still to find means of evil.
-
Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.
-
If you are bitter, that means they got the best of you. If they got the best of you, that means they won.
-
That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.
