Means Quotes

The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.

PR is extremely important, and being able to use it in the right way means everything. You have to market your success.

Being an American musician means being adventurous.

The information gained from these techniques was valuable in some instances, but there is no way of knowing whether the same information could have been obtained through other means.

No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order.

I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.

I am against preventive war because it means measures by the UN against us.

I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means.

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.

By no means do I anticipate screening those who come on to campus... And I have no difficulty if a bishop across the country or some local pastor may say that's not Catholic teaching - that's fine.

Everything that I decide to do means something, otherwise I don't do them.

I was a little lacking in vision as mayor - I failed to understand the significance that housing and the revitalization of housing means for a city.

After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means - and that if we stand together, we can accomplish anything.

I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing.

Restoring the Welsh language in Wales is nothing less than a revolution. It is only through revolutionary means that we can succeed.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

The Republicans in the House and Senate took the district that I firmly represent, 22 in south Florida, from a D plus one to a D plus five almost a D plus six district, which means you are given a five to six percent registration advantage to Democrats. They drew in more Democrats into the district I represent.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

We are at a major epoch in human history, which is that we don't need sex to recreate the race. You can have babies without sex. This is the first time in human history that has been true, and it means, for example, we could do some extraordinary things.

The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.