Words matter. These are the best Means Quotes from famous people such as Erich Fromm, Clara Zetkin, Charles Farrar Browne, Martin Luther King, Jr., Hunter S. Thompson, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
All women, whatever be their position, should demand political equality as a means of a freer life, and one calculated to yield rich blessings to society.
Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
We do not wish to enter Heaven until our work is done, for it would make us uneasy if there were one single soul left to be saved by our means.
Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.
Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people.
Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don’t have the opportunities to advance themselves.
Cricket is not everything, not by any means, but it is a large part of who I am.
I finally faced the fact that it isn’t a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.
The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn’t have been complete without you.
When you really need help, people will respond. Sincerity means dropping the image facade and showing a willingness to be vulnerable. Tell it the way it is, lumps and all. Don’t worry if your presentation isn’t perfect; ask from your heart. Keep it simple, and people will open up to you.
Today’s a beautiful day, and yesterday was a beautiful day, so that means it’s a great life.
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.
If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I’ve won.
Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave – and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process.
Of course, there is no question that Libya – and the world – will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake.
For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently means dearth to the personality of the individual.
It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
You can tell it’s good if you light it and a blue flame comes up; that means it’s good moonshine and it won’t make you go blind.
Liberalism, above all, means emancipation – emancipation from one’s fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.
My parents survived the Great Depression and brought me up to live within my means, save some for tomorrow, share and don’t be greedy, work hard for the necessities in life knowing that money does not make you better or more important than anyone else. So, extravagance has been bred out of my DNA.
Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else – men, guns, ammunition.
The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
We know that peace is only possible when it is the fruit of justice. True peace is a profound transformation by means of the force of nonviolence that is the power of love.
Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
A man walks on through life – with the external call ringing in his ears but with no response stirring in his heart, and then suddenly, without any warning, the Spirit taps him on the shoulder. What happens? He turns ’round. The word ‘repentance’ means ‘turning ’round.’ He repents and believes and is saved.
I am humbled, gratified and overjoyed at the dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial in commemoration of my father’s leadership. It of course means a lot to our family. But more important, it is a great step forward for America.
Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.
Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.
I used to think of ‘alternative rock’ as a radio format, kind of the way ‘indie rock’ used to have more meaning. But it means different things depending on where you are or what country you’re in.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
By all means use some time to be alone.
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
I like to say, ‘Chop suey’s the biggest culinary joke that one culture has ever played on another,’ because chop suey, if you translate into Chinese, means ‘tsap sui,’ which, if you translate back, means ‘odds and ends.’
I like difficult people because that means they’re perfectionists and they’re passionate.
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
We believe in peace in the settlement of all disputes through peaceful means, in the abolition of war, and, more particularly, nuclear war.
A broken immigration system means broken families and broken lives.
The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps.
The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it’s going to go and where you’ll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don’t let anyone deter you from that.
The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.
What ‘jazz’ means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term ‘jazz’ has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.
Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.
That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
Being an artist doesn’t just mean you have a song. That doesn’t make you an artist. The word ‘artist’ means so many different things, and I feel like to be a real one, you really have to do it all. The people that I think of as artists – Tyler the Creator, Childish Gambino, Kanye West – are doing the most.
Dreaming means ‘rehearsing’ what you see, playing it over and over in your mind until it becomes as real to you as your life right now.
You need your mom and dad to protect you. It means they love you so much.
Health to the ocean means health for us.
Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?
We are a G20 country. One of the biggest world economies. We’re in the middle of three continents. Changing Saudi Arabia for the better means helping the region and changing the world. So this is what we are trying to do here. And we hope we get support from everyone.
By no means could I play at the level of these kids who play in the NHL now but as 50-year-olds go, I feel really good and I feel blessed that I’m still healthy.
Effective management always means asking the right question.
Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.
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.
