Means Quotes

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

I'm going to write, and after two years, when I've quit touring, if a special event comes up that I want to do, by all means I will do it, but as far as a structured tour goes, at the last date of 2014 goes, that will be it for touring.

I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.

Barton Fink got written very quickly, in about three weeks. I don't know what that means.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night.

We were asked to believe that the variety and the novelty of even the crude films of the early days would provide a means of entertainment which would cut out the stage.

Look up the word role in the dictionary and you'll see it means playing a part. That's why I call myself a real model.

So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas.

If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came into being on the planet.

And, in the past, it has been all too easy for legislators to load costs onto business in order to meet broader social goals. And costs for business means costs for consumers.

We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.

Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.

My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.

Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.

She has no imagination and that means no compassion.

In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Every time you hear a bell ring, it means that some angel's just got his wings.

There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

It means that the silver coins of the United States at whatever ratio is fixed, and I want the present ratio that we have now, 16 to 1, maintained precisely as it is.

By all means use some time to be alone.

The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another, will serve Israel through its control over the American administration.

If we continue to allow the federal government to live beyond its means, we will all soon have to live beneath ours.

I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a "mature" record means.

Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.

I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.