Means Quotes

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.

My peers say I have made a difference. That means more to me than winning an Oscar.

To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.

Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.'

I don't know what to do with it. I'm very fortunate to have it, and it gives you room to maneuver. But the main thing about having money is it means you don't have to worry about it. And that for me is a lovely thing. It's not for fast cars and hookers.

I have very high expectations of myself. I'm a very competitive person but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be and if that means that I'm eventually better than everyone else then so be it.

Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

The nations of the West hope that by means of steam communication all the world will become as one family.

It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films.

We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.

I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.

By means of steam one can go from California to Japan in eighteen days.

If you have a lot of short-term debt, it means that all of that money can be demanded in a very short period of time. Technically, short-term debt means money that's coming due within a year. Typically, it means money that's coming due within 30 to 90 days.

Just because you're part of 'Twilight' does not mean you're a superstar. It means that you're given the opportunity to maybe become one later if you work hard. Once fandom goes away, which it will very soon, it's all about having your priorities straight and working hard.

Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy.

Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.

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.

And, in the past, it has been all too easy for legislators to load costs onto business in order to meet broader social goals. And costs for business means costs for consumers.

We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.

Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.

My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.

Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.

She has no imagination and that means no compassion.

In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Every time you hear a bell ring, it means that some angel's just got his wings.