Means Quotes - page 4

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. (Paulo Freire)
A nation without means of reform is without means of survival. View quote
Edmund Burke
Pressed into service means pressed out of shape. View quote
Robert Frost
The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal. View quote
Aleister Crowley
Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking. View quote
Samuel Johnson
I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine. View quote
Andrew Wiles
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. View quote
Henry Miller
We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy. View quote
Henry Miller
Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself. View quote
Henry Miller
Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. (George Bernard Shaw)
There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be. View quote
Emil Cioran
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature. View quote
Paul Valéry
The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting. View quote
Edward Hopper
A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it. View quote
William Penn
This shirt is dry clean only. Which means... it's dirty. View quote
Mitch Hedberg
Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict. View quote
Saul Alinsky
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. View quote
E. E. Cummings
The village is a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is Number Six and will live there happily as Number Six for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can't break. View quote
Patrick McGoohan
Extremists think "communication" means agreeing with them. View quote
Leo Rosten
Suffering can become a means to greater love and greater generosity. (Mother Teresa)
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Winning means being unafraid to lose. View quote
Robert Kiyosaki
Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the blue sky, is by no means waste of time. View quote
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury