Means Quotes

My name is Arsenio. That's a very unique name for a black man. In Greek, it means Leroy.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress.

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

Mercy to animals means mercy to mankind.

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means having things to do? Then drop into full engagement with whatever you're doing, and let the worry go.

Economy consists in a due and proper application of the means afforded according to the ability of the employer and the situation chosen; care being taken that the expenditure is prudently conducted.

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.

Without any assistance whatever, I founded a school in Weimar in 10 years. Only I could perform certain works with the scanty means that I dared not ask anyone else to work with.

To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

Blackheart Records being 25 years old represents staying power and the fact that we weren't able to get a record out through conventional means, so we had to create this record company to put out our records if we wanted to be a band that had records to give out to their fans.

Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.

Being a food show and being me, I always kicked it up a notch, which means I would always elevate the spice level or the complexity of a particular dish. So, it was always like we're going to kick this up a little bit.

Our position in Europe is not negotiable. The Greek people will defend it by all means. But participation in the euro involves rules and obligations, which we must consistently meet. Greece belongs to Europe and Europe cannot be envisaged without Greece.

Our fans want us to be happy and if that means being married or having a girlfriend, they are okay with that. Of course, in this industry it is a bit harder to have normal relationships, but it is possible.

While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor.

Writing is the continuation of politics by other means.

To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.

Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

Eliminating the piano means that I've always worked closer with the bass than most players.

Just the act of listening means more than you can imagine to most employees.

Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better.

The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation, the fusion of treason as scheme and treason as language.