Means Quotes - page 5

"I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.”. (Whitney Houston)
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. View quote
Ulysses S. Grant
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means. View quote
Charles Kingsley
Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners. View quote
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense. View quote
Carl Sagan
ERA means abortion funding, means homosexual privileges, means whatever else. View quote
Phyllis Schlafly
The three main elements of public relations are practically as old as society: informing people, persuading people, or integrating people with people. Of course, the means and methods of accomplishing these ends have changed as society has changed. View quote
Edward Bernays
Kings govern by means of popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them. View quote
Charles James Fox
It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean. View quote
Karl Kraus
By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. (Richard Dawkins)
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control. View quote
Denis Diderot
An unlocked door means that, occasionally, you might get a devil come in, but a locked door means you have thousands of angels just walk by. View quote
Ian MacKaye
The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience. View quote
Muhammad Iqbal
Mars is essentially in the same orbit. Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If there is oxygen, then w. View quote
Dan Quayle
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be. View quote
Benjamin Tucker
To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status. View quote
Catharine MacKinnon
'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm. View quote
Havelock Ellis
It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression. (Henri Matisse)
As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note. View quote
Georges Bizet
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. View quote
Erich Fromm
There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg