Means Quotes
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The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.
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Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.
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I grew up in South Florida, and my family was pretty poor. We weren't your upper-class whites by any means.
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We tend to think of dangers and uncertainties as anomalies in the continuum of life, or irruptions of unpredictable forces into a largely predictable world. I suggest the contrary: that dangers and uncertainties are an inescapable dimension of life. In fact, as we shall come to understand, they make life matter. They define what it means to be human.
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God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice.
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Find purpose. The means will follow.
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That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.
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Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available.
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I'd rather do something than read about it." "That's fine, but if you do it, and then can't think what it means, it's never much of a memory. Life has more to so with memories of the past and longings for the future than it ever does with *right now*." -pg 138-9
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We change by changing our consciousness and by saying, money should not be a commodity. Money should be a means to an end.
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To a longer and worse life, a shorter and better is by all means to be preferred.
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Do I know what rhetorical means?
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I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.
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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose.
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Nature...does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.
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It means a lot in my business and its a wonderful feeling to be recognized for what you have done over a lifetime, but I didn't go crazy. I still eat my cereal in the morning, have a sandwich in the afternoon, go to bed at night. You know, nothing really different.
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More always means worse.
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The end is inherent in the means.
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The best content is the means, not the end.
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The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live.
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Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.
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To love a thing means wanting it to live.
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We're in the sunshine. That means negatives will come out. That's OK.
