Means Quotes

I have very high expectations of myself. I'm a very competitive person but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be and if that means that I'm eventually better than everyone else then so be it.

Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

The nations of the West hope that by means of steam communication all the world will become as one family.

It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films.

We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.

I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.

By means of steam one can go from California to Japan in eighteen days.

If you have a lot of short-term debt, it means that all of that money can be demanded in a very short period of time. Technically, short-term debt means money that's coming due within a year. Typically, it means money that's coming due within 30 to 90 days.

Just because you're part of 'Twilight' does not mean you're a superstar. It means that you're given the opportunity to maybe become one later if you work hard. Once fandom goes away, which it will very soon, it's all about having your priorities straight and working hard.

Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy.

Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.

Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.

Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.

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.