Means Quotes

Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.

I think it would help tremendously to have a senator that knows where jobs come from, that knows how to create them, that knows how to bring them back and, importantly, knows what it means to manage billions of dollars' worth of expenses and cut billions of dollars' worth of expenses.

Our talks in Paris tackled economic, democratic, security and political issues; we talked on means for combating terrorism, in addition to latest regional and international developments of mutual interest, especially those in region.

This shirt is dry clean only. Which means... it's dirty.

I also urge the Obama administration - both on its own and in cooperation with other responsible governments around the world - to use all legal means necessary to shut down WikiLeaks before it can do more damage by releasing additional cables. WikiLeaks' activities represent a shared threat to collective international security.

The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence.

No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.

More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life.

If President Bush is serious about genocide, an immediate priority is to stop the cancer of Darfur from spreading further, which means working with France to shore up Chad and the Central African Republic.

As soon as you judge communication a little more rigorously, there is a possibility that the message will not be democratized. I have to say what I believe to be right. I have to spread out the statement among all the means of expression available to us at present.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.

Blues means what milk does to a baby. Blues is what the spirit is to the minister. We sing the blues because our hearts have been hurt, our souls have been disturbed.

If you are a writer you're at home, which means you're out of touch. You have to make excuses to get out there and look at how the world is changing.

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

Goodness means the highest degree of popularity.

If I'm the weak link or whatever, I guess that means I've got something to prove. I've always had something to prove.

I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own young children were to turn away from the church when they grow up. I am also a critic of Christianity, if by critic one means an observer who brings historical and literary judgment to bear on the texts and traditions of the church.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions.

Women leading means that Congress is working to create jobs, make quality child care more affordable and strengthen the middle class because we understand that America grows the economy and opportunity from the middle out, not the top down.

In Psychology we deal with minds and their processes, and leave out of account as far as possible the objects that we get to know by means of them.

ERA means abortion funding, means homosexual privileges, means whatever else.

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.