Means Quotes
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In times of prosperity we are apt to forget God; we imagine it does not matter whether we recognise Him or not. As long as we are comfortably clothed and fed and looked after, our civilisation becomes an elaborate means of ignoring God.
Oswald Chambers
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By all means tell the world how good you are - but do it with actions, not words.
Napoleon Hill
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Intercession means raising ourselves up to the point of getting the mind of Christ regarding the person for whom we are praying.
Oswald Chambers
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It's so hard getting rid of something that means something to you, as many of the pieces on our site do for me.
Tavi Gevinson
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Transgressive to me means breaking the rules and sinning. I don't see myself as breaking the rules and sinning. I'm really interested in what it means to be female.
Susanna Moore
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If you’re not accountable in life that means ultimately that your life doesn’t count.
R. C. Sproul
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It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.
Francis Bacon
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A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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War means an ugly mob-madness, crucifying the truth tellers, choking the artists, sidetracking reforms, revolutions, and the working of social forces
John Reed
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Each time I saw a cliff, I wondered whether I could free solo it. My life shaped itself around the understanding that falling means I die. To break the paradigm I had to empty out my essence, rummaging for fundamentals I thought were gone forever.
Dean Potter
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It means a lot to be compared to Eric Roberson. He's a hero of mine.
Avery Sunshine
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It's going to be an honest, fair, unvarnished look at what we do, and that means that it's an experiment. It's a risk. Not everybody approves of what we do. But I'm banking on the fact that people will also see how much effort we make about being fair and being ethical.
Andrew Heyward
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Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the disposition that ruled Him will rule us. It will cost everything that is not of God in us.
Oswald Chambers
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For me photography was the means to the end, but they made it the most important thing. (On the discovery of X-ray photography.)
Wilhelm Rontgen
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Your life in every way should become a beacon of guidance and it should become a means for Dawah.
Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi
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Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk.
Blaise Pascal
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Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.
Tom Cruise
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I'm in it, whatever that means, I'm expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
Al Pacino
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Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man.
Albert Einstein
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I promised to keep on going but maybe keep on going means coming back first.
Patrick Ness
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You become what you believe. And to believe that you are created by the power that's greater than yourself means anything is possible.
Oprah Winfrey
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God has great plans for you today... creative and unexpected means by which He will make you a saint. He needs only your joyful submission to His plan.
Mark Hart Crowded House
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The khadi spirit means also an infinite patience.
Mahatma Gandhi