Means Quotes

Give to yourself as much as you give of yourself! This means you have to put yourself first.

Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.

The special relationship between the region and a regional celebrity means that people feel that they have a special investment in you.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

I believe that this is a different war than America has ever fought in the past. It is a non-conventional war. It means that you've got to use every tool you've got available to you.

The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless.

There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.

I want people to understand that I intend to continue living and doing all the things that I love to do up until the end. And the end is by no means rushing up on me.

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.

Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.

If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.

Money flows into the US, and inflates US assets, and allows the US to have a monstrous trade deficit. That means we are consuming more than we are producing.

Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?

Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.

The ordinary ministry is that which receives all of its direction from the will of God revealed in the Scriptures and from those means which God has appointed in the church for its continual edification.

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

I'm going to write, and after two years, when I've quit touring, if a special event comes up that I want to do, by all means I will do it, but as far as a structured tour goes, at the last date of 2014 goes, that will be it for touring.

I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.

Barton Fink got written very quickly, in about three weeks. I don't know what that means.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night.

We were asked to believe that the variety and the novelty of even the crude films of the early days would provide a means of entertainment which would cut out the stage.

Look up the word role in the dictionary and you'll see it means playing a part. That's why I call myself a real model.

So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas.

If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came into being on the planet.