Means Quotes

For too many, to work means having less income.

Certainly the party counts a considerable number of intellectuals among its members, but I am by no means disposed to apologise for that.

The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.

I think sometimes that people think brave means not being afraid, which of course it doesn't mean that at all. It means that you're afraid, but you move past that and do it anyway, do what you think is right.

Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

This experience actually means the very opposite: the largest military power was unable to stop such a sensitive attack and will be unable to rule out such a possibility in the future. Precisely this is the background to the United States' military interventions.

The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers.

I believe we should use all means necessary to prevent the acquisition or fabrication of nuclear weapons by countries or groups hostile to the U. S. We should act in concert with our allies who are similarly working to protect their countries.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

Transferring successfully to the next generation means producing work that's as good as or better than the work of the first generation that founded the agency.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.

My secret for success? I don't know what the hell success means.

It's unfortunate that there's such a disconnect between what's happening on our legislatures and what the public knows about, the consequences what that means for ourselves, our mothers and our wives.

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions.

So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.

To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.

To have a film in America means precisely nothing if you don't have a distributor who stands behind it.

There is nothing wrong with wanting pay for work, or seeking to maximize one's income, as long as one does not use means that are destructive.

My family means everything to me and the birth of our daughter has enabled me to have more focus on my career and every time I compete, I dedicate my success to them.

Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.

Expressing the thoughts of my comrades, I suggested, among other means, the organization of an international information service on inventories, on production, and on the needs of the various countries for raw materials.

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.

Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

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!