Means Quotes

In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.

The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.

But the important thing is to lie down and fall asleep. That little nap means you wake up fresh again and can continue.

There is a phrase in French, which means 'to miss.' To pass by. To not be able to stop. You love someone and someone loves you, but it just can't work for different reasons.

The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states.

Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.

Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, 'I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.'

Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.

I'm 31 now. I think I'm beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

Home schooled children frequently combine for many purposes - and they interact well. The growth of the home schooling movement means that more and more children are learning together, just not in a traditional classroom.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

It's no fun to have HIV even though it's viewed as a chronic, controllable disease. It means being wedded to the health system.

It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a democracy; it has become a nation controlled by a very small, very wealthy elite.

People are always telling me that change is good. But all that means is that something you didn't want to happen has happened.

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means.

I address myself to the Communists, to those Communists who were prompted to join the Party by the progressive ideas of mankind and socialism, and not by selfish personal interests - let us represent our pure and just ideas by pure and just means.

If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.

The process of rehearsal means you learn so much and really get the chance to develop your work on a character.

Heaven means to be one with God.

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Ageing means a loss of a number of skills over time.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

But when I first got cancer, after the initial shock and the fear and paranoia and crying and all that goes with cancer - that word means to most people ultimate death - I decided to see what I could do to take that negative and use it in a positive way.

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.

But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living.