Means Quotes - page 2

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. (George Bernard Shaw)
People want more and more leisure time which means the freedom to do what they want to do, not what they have to do, and as we get richer and richer, more and more people will be able to afford that. View quote
Robert Fogel
The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means. View quote
Robert F. Kennedy
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means. View quote
Henny Youngman
The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire. View quote
Abbie Hoffman
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end. View quote
Leon Trotsky
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won. View quote
Linus Torvalds
There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States. (Woodrow Wilson)
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these. View quote
T. S. Eliot
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated. View quote
Bertolt Brecht
The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. View quote
J. B. Priestley
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. View quote
Henry Adams
Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired. View quote
Martha Graham
When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Piety is not an end but a means to attain by the greatest peace of mind the highest degree of culture. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate. View quote
Toni Morrison
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. (Thorstein Veblen)
Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. View quote
Aldous Huxley
Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock. View quote
Kurt Cobain
The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money. View quote
Karl Marx