Means Quotes
- Page 32Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
Herman Hesse
When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.
William Blake
I've learned what it truly means to be Canadian and in turn I've been inspired to make a difference in the world, however small it's been.
Clara Hughes
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.
M. H. Abrams
I think the government should do everything they possibly can to, to bring this crisis to an end; and that means going after BP, enforcing the laws that are on the books, and restoring the gulf to its original condition.
John Boehner
Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.
Edward Thorndike
To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.
Jasper Johns
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
Bela Lugosi
The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.
Muhammad Iqbal
Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.
Nigel Dennis
Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.
Rita Dove
There are times everyone needs to be together for me and we all just work together; making sure that my energy is good and right when I go do what I'm going to do. That means the family needs to spend time together.
Picabo Street
Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.
Georgia O'Keeffe
Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
Franz Kafka
I remember the first time I heard a teenager say 'LOL.' Just what? But it means 'laugh.' Why don't you just laugh? What are you doing?
J. K. Rowling
The working out of a balanced economy throughout Germany to provide the necessary means to pay for approved imports has not been accomplished, although that too is expressly required by the Potsdam Agreement.
James F. Byrnes
I think in the NFL knowledge is power, and you try to get the knowledge by whatever means.
Steve Sabol
Inspiration is one thing and you can't control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work.
Kevin Eubanks
The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.
Edward Hopper
But there's one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn't one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.
Salman Rushdie
My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig.
Steve Buscemi