Quotation Explorer - 'Means'

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it. - Alexis de Tocqueville
Careful practical work is the best expression of our freedom and safeguard of our sanity. In a healthy society, such work is the means most consistently available for people to practice holiness of life, to imitate God's enabling and sustaining care for the world. - Ellen F. Davis
Love means never saying goodbye. - Harley
Don't be afraid of the shadows, that only means there's a light nearby. - Evanescence
Surviving is a basic thing. Getting by. Staying alive in whatever way we can. It doesn't mean we make right choices or drive fine cars or have good jobs. It means we found a way not to die. I survived. - Carolyn Wall
be the rain that causes the rainbow this means, tell someone the hard truth to change their life for the better. - Mya Waechtler
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. - Lord Acton
What is the difference between disrespect (avinay) and despise (viradhana)? Disrespect (avinay) means one shows lack of respect and to despise (viradhana) means one becomes an adversary (opponent). - Dada Bhagwan
We grow before we even know what growth means. We just know, I see things differently now. - Girl Meets World
Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten - Lilo and stitch
Integrity - one word that means so much; costs so little yet makes a real difference in this world. - Salley Farquharson
historical arguments; traditional apologetics breaks down here. Since man is here dealing with God and this by definition means with the invisible, impalpable, uncontrollable, only one attitude is appropriate and required : believing trust, trusting faith. - Hans Küng
Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong. - Democritus
I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action--no matter what the action is--might help you feel better. - A.J. Jacobs
The word 'innocence' means a mind that is incapable of being hurt. - Jiddu Krishnamurti
The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Smart means having intellectual humility rather than high cognitive ability. - Tara Estacaan
Do you have to regret spending money when you earn money? And when it is time to spend, you should be strong that you got the opportunity to pay off your debt. Income is one’s responsibility and expense is the means to clear off the responsibility. - Dada Bhagwan
On having a backup plan: "Always a good plan anytime you want to follow your dream - I love writing, acting, and psychiatry - there are crazy people everywhere which means I can take my career anywhere my dream needs to go. - Samantha Steele
A person who reads lives more than one life, but that means that they die more than once as well. - Deanna Vasquez
Let our road be long, let it be very long, let it be very very long and in fact let our road be infinite! Travel means flow, flow means life! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Sticking to one person for a lifetime is not a waste of time or lack of better ones, it means you've found your place of eternity. - Michael Bassey Johnson
The means and the results, the good and the bad, are within all of us who are aware and care. - Suman Jyoty Bhante
If you're "one in a million", and the world is full of seven billion people, that means there are seven thousand people just like you. - Jeff Goins
I feel the gods are pretty dead, though I suppose I ought to know that however, to be somewhat more philosophical in the matter, if atheism means simply not being a theist, then of course I'm an atheist.[Letter to Max Otto] - John Dewey
Being crazy doesn't mean being mentally challenged. Maybe it just means being you...amplified a 100 times over. - Mamur Mustapha
In the ancient Indian Pali language, the words for mind and heart are the same. And the Chinese character for mindfulness is a combination of two characters. One part means now and the other means mind or heart. So, when you hear the word mindfulness you can also consider it to mean heartfulness. - Shamash Alidina
Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it. - Veronica Roth
I have never advocated war except as means of peace, so seek peace, but prepare for war. Because war... War never changes. War is like winter and winter is coming. - Ulysses S. Grant
Idolatry means turning a good thing into the ultimate thing. - Timothy J. Keller
When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice. - Otto von Bismarck
Being a writer means you write not only for yourself- but for others as well. That's what makes a writer a writer. - This is my own quote
If you fail at something, it means you have not mastered the art. With persistence practice, you will be master and eventually succeed. - Lailah Gifty Akita
To speak of mystery in a Christian sense means that the human mind is finite and not fully able to understand, deduce or even contain the deep structures of God's reality. - Tobin Wilson
Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us. - Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves. - Blaise Pascal
I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete. - Ronald Reagan
A broken mirror means good luck if you want it to. - Marty Rubin
Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what he would be capable of with the world looking on. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If a player won’t shoulder responsibility, he won’t work on his weaknesses, which means he won’t improve. He’ll be constantly on the prowl for a fall guy or a scapegoat, and his teammates becomes epidemic. - Bill Parcels
The opposite is best. Whenever you're angry with someone, apply this maxim. I means doing the exact opposite of what your body's telling you to do. Believe me, it works miracles. Titus in Love in Lowercase - Francesc Miralles
So, let us not be blind to our differences - but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved. - John F. Kennedy
The black clouds and the white clouds,Black means rain White means no rainToday it was different,It rained despite of white clouds.And nobody got wet. - Bikash Chaurasiya
To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery. - Nicole Brossard
Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster. - Weston H. Agor
Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties. - Doug Larson
But now we live in a time and in a culture when mystery tends to mean something more answerable, it means a crime novel, a thriller, a drama on TV, usually one where we'll find out - and where the whole point of reading it or watching it will be that we will find out - what happened. - Ali Smith
A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it. - William Penn
In its broad sense, civilization means not only comfort in daily necessities but also the refining of knowledge and the cultivation of virtue so as to elevate human life to a higher plane. - Yukichi Fukuzawa
When people wish for harmony, I wish for chaos. I'd rather see imaginative means of self-destruction, than to see laziness and wasted potential. - Lionel Suggs
By all means use some time to be alone. - Edward Young
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. - Laurence J. Peter
The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction. - Aesop
Pro and con are opposites, that fact is clearly seen. If progress means to move forward, then what does congress mean? - Nipsey Russell
Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group—whether to a race, class or state does not matter. Collectivism holds that man must be chained to collective action and collective thought for the sake of what is called the common good. - Ayn Rand
When you run a business, your business is totally different from others. This means your lifestyle, your routine and what you make out of your business is totally different. You lead a different life compared to those in your neighborhood and the people you knew around your business circle. - Dee Dee Artner
Never in mankind’s history have we so fundamentally changed our means of existence with so little thought. - James Rozoff
Don't worry about meaning. If a story's any good, it can't help but have meaning. Let the PhDs tell you what your story means. - William Kittredge
And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming wild things. - Maurice Sendak
Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means. - William S. Burroughs
holding the eveningtremblingly close to mei weepinto the sun lettingthe burdenof hopelift off my chesti realizethis is what it meansto be free. - Sanober Khan
If thousands of Marathi people follow me that means they want revolution on Marathi land. - Kjiva
But love does not mean marriage, a baby, forever. Love means you make me happy until you don't. - A. Igoni Barrett
When love is part of a game, it means nothing. When love is love, it means everything. - Kate McGahan
Automatic simply means that you can't repair it yourself.
When a plan fails, it does not mean we have failed. It just means we need a new plan. - Jenna Alatari
Stop saying that you have done it for someone, Because never in your life you do things for other's, which means every single thing you do in your life, you do it only and only for yourself, even loving your child, even feeding you dog, you do it because you get something out of it. - Manish Kejriwal
Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract. - Richard Diebenkorn
Liberty does not mean doing as you like, it means liking as you ought, and doing that.(From Slave) - John F. MacArthur Jr.
Heart-flow means listening to your intuition and hunches and following your heart. How can you let your heart lead today? - Amy Leigh Mercree
He's sort of a Svengali... It means someone who's manipulative. More than that: somebody who makes you think that you need him in order to accomplish anything. - Anne Beattie
No crime is a means to an end. No crime can be rationalized. - Compton Gage
I learn everyday what it means to love myself, and I'm constantly figuring out what makes me feel empowered. - Hayley Williams
People mean well; they just aren't here enough to get what we are dealing with or what home means to my mother. Everyone thinks they know what should be done, and their suggestions make me suspect they must consider me an idiot who doesn't comprehend the situation. - George Hodgman
Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor. - Jack D. Zipes
War is merely the continuation of politics by other means - Carl von Clausewitz
Some compilers allow a check during execution that subscripts do not exceed array dimensions. This is a help, but not sufficient. First, many programmers do not use such compilers because "They're not efficient." (Presumably, this means that it is vital to get the wrong answers quickly.)
My most educated analysis, with all means of science and technology in mind, is that it’s magic, Alex said. There’s no other possible explanation! -Alex Bailey, The Land of Stories; The Wishing Spell - Chris Colfer The Land of Stories
namaste - it means, roughly translated, "I honor the Deity within you." that is precisely what we do when we open our hearts to another; we honor the fact that he or she, like us, is a child or the same loving Father, worthy of all respect and careful attention. - Virginia H. Pearce
was a biological evolutionist, because he was first a uniformitarian geologist. Biology is pre-eminent to-day among the natural sciences, because its younger sister, Geology, gave it the means. Charles Lapworth - Darwin
No one knows for sure that that tomorrow won't come, but most people assume that tomorrow will still exist as usual. This is Toba's Paradox, which means, hope overcomes doubt. - Toba Beta
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. - Friedrich Nietzsche
The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means. - Sir Henry Taylor
The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. - J. K. Rowling
I wept because I could not believe anymore and I love to believe. I can still love passionately without believing. That means I love humanly. I wept because from now on I will weep less. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence. - Anaïs Nin
Did you know that Christmas means Christ (Jesus) and mas (a celebration)? The story about Jesus is found in the name of that special day when we celebrate His birth! - Soraya Diase Coffelt
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. - Eric Hoffer
If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances. - Julia Sorel
The presence of even a single poor child on the street means a million defeats for mankind. - Mehmet Murat ildan
Don't say Fili, sister. Say Pili. In Tagalog, pili means to choose. Pino means fine. Pilipino equals 'fine choice. - Jessica Hagedorn The Gangster of Love
Every war, no matter how brutal, is built on the premise that one day, when all is said and done, the ends will justify the means. But over and over again we learn that in real life, there is no ends. There’s just the means. All there is is means. - Raphael Bob-Waksberg
Confidence thrills men for it means you won’t be fidgety or excessively jealous when the man is in the midst of people especially those of opposite sex. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Bossy means given to ordering people around, highhanded, domineering, overly authoritative, dictatorial, abrasive. ...Could it be that girls are called bossy when they’re… well, bossy? Could it be that boys are also called bossy for the same reason? - Matt Walsh
To worship means to go higher. If you join the one who has gone higher, you will go higher and if you speak ill of that person, you will fall down. - Dada Bhagwan
Psychology ideally means giving soul to language and finding language for soul. - James Hillman
Justice can readily do her job blindfolded; she cannot function gagged and deafened, least of all when the means of gagging and deafening her are not remarked. - Markham Shaw Pyle
To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master. - Milton Glaser
For us, the greatness of this universe is to give us every means by which we may build our dreams! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Suffering just means you’re having a bad dream. Happiness means you’re having a good dream. Enlightenment means getting out of the dream altogether. - Jed McKenna
The most revolutionary aspect of the Protestant teaching however, is the fact that the Protestants began to look for ways and means to serve God better through inventions, discoveries, researches, sciences, factories, industries, etc. - Sunday Adelaja
Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way. - John Stuart Mill
we don't need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence - Margaret Wheatley
An educated person must learn to act justly, beginning, first of all, with his thoughts, then later in his deeds. This is what it means to be educated. - Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president. - Johnny Carson
To lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. - John Lubbock
We are not even going to throw the challenge of changing a whole generation before the modern day church. This generation of believers don’t even know what that means - Sunday Adelaja
I do not care a fig for any woman that knows even what an author means. - William Hazlitt
The religious scholars I have consulted are passionate about the need for political leaders to educate themselves in the varieties of faith and to see religion more as a potential means for reconciliation than as a source of conflict. - Madeleine Albright
Writing Cave means it's Coffee O'Clock...Who am I kidding? It's always Coffee O'Clock! - Tammy-Louise Wilkins
When someone puts an end to something, it doesn't mean that he gave up, it means that thing is not taking him anywhere. - Michael Bassey Johnson
To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual. - Viktor Frankl
Being a cat means beautiful, agile, innocent, brave, curious and trust also honorable respect for as much as not so doing bribery. - Sekar Arum
It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state. - Thomas Elliot
lIf someone tries to steal your watch, by all means fight them off. If someone sues you for your watch, hand it over and be glad you got away so lightly. - John Mortimer
To the ordinary, opposite, means hatred. Every person sees themselves as love. To the extraordinary, opposite means opportunity. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau
It is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. - J. K. Rowling
to us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there. - Barbara Bush
When some one steals a small hope from you, you can do nothing, only can see dreams stolen... It's small thing, but means a lot... Waiting for several such moments, when your dreams are stolen......it's life you had no choice just feel it and forget..... - Nutan Bajracharya
She knows there are traps everywhere that can make her cry, she knows the way she dies a little every time someone asks her for change and she doesn't give it to them means that she's too soft for this world or perhaps just for this city, she feels so small here. - Emily St. John Mandel
Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well. - Theodore Roosevelt
People don't realise that to be free means to be firmly attached to a system, that discipline is the road to a higher freedom. - Chandrasekharendra Saraswati
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it. - John Lennon
We are all human, and caring about the way something looks and feels does not mean we're superficial--it means we're human. We don't need to exploit sex to recognize that a certain amount of sexiness is both pleasurable and natural. - Kathy Sierra
Unless you are rich and can convalesce in a sanatorium estate (where visitors came down a tiered, oceanside lawn to found you at your easel) you have to keep going when you're depressed. That means phone calls, appointments errands, holidays, family, friends, and colleagues. - Virginia Heffernan
The notion that writings created at a time when men huddled in superstitious terror from an eclipse can possibly be a credible representation of the Creator (whatever that word means to each person) is so absurd as to border on delusional. - Dave Champion
War is only a continuation of state policy by other means.
If the universe has an end, it means we are captive fishes in an aquarium! If it has no end, we are lost sheep in the eternal darkness! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Standing alone scares alot of people it means they have to be themselves and more often than not they haven't the slightest clue who they've been all this time & that's why people stay the same because it's a frightening choice to step away from the crowd. - Nikki Rowe
Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change! - Mehmet Murat ildan
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. - George Orwell
Prayer gives you a supernatural boldness that you cannot get by any other means - Sunday Adelaja
A reputable person is he who has trust in his own Self. Self means who? I am Pure Soul, it is that Self. - Dada Bhagwan
I think everything should have an end, an end of the brutal stuff happening home. ENd for the song, end of the film, end of the evil... This how it must go and it will go, if you think that evil has gone it's still here. If you believe in god, that's means that you believe this evil. - Deyth Banger
When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set. - Lin Yutang
Training is the word we use now. To train means to teach a particular skill over a period of time. Every time you get up, show up, work out, you are training yourself to be better, to live happier and healthier. Don’t expect results in a snap. Remember, change takes however long it takes. - Toni Sorenson
If your freedom means immorality, the cross will cry over your freedom. - JOEL NYARANGI AKOYA
BENEFACTOR, n. One who makes heavy purchases of ingratitude, without, however, materially affecting the price, which is still within the means of all. - Ambrose Bierce
No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means. - Maimonides
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. - G.K. Chesterton
Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.
Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I say Be Perfect - it means BE AUTHENTICALLY YOURSELF in expressing your feelings, without any external interference! - Ramana Pemmaraju
If you think we can't change the world, it just means you're not one of those who will. - Jacque Fresco
To see the years touch ye gives me joy", he whispered, "for it means that ye live. - Diana Gabaldon
Sometimes It is really important to explain how much love and care you have for someone. It doesn't mean that If you have lot and do not need to explain but it means that explanations make a relationship more strong. - Pawan Mehra
The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive. - Adam Gopnik
Not only does love bring joy and happiness, it also means very different things to people. - Auliq Ice
Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well. - Jane Austen
Real communication occurs...when we listen with understanding. What does this mean? It means to see the expressed idea and attitude from the other person's point of view, to sense how it feels to him, to achieve his frame of reference in regard to the thing he is talking about. - Carl Rogers
Love means never to have to say, "That hooker meant nothing to me" - Jonathan "Jack" McVoy - E.J. Eisman
I hate it when my foot falls asleep during the day because that means it's going to be up all night. - Steven Wright
For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are forbidden to see. - Adrienne Rich
faith means super confidence - Nation Chirara White
But they love each other. Isn't that what love means? That you're supposed to be there for the other person to turn to, no matter what? - Cassandra Clare
The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires. - Pope John Paul II
The fact that people are in positions does not justify the means that they are leaders. A leader can be blind and to know this, check his sense of vision. - Israelmore Ayivor
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. - Aldous Huxley
And keep them thinking in terms of 'being good' as this is not an end so much as a means to something else —happiness, respect, self-esteem, etc… And whatever their true end is, take it away, and so goes their goodness. - Geoffrey Wood
Potential is an excuse to procrastinate;Ambition is a means to thrive. - Donovan
I bet you've seen the fundamentalist bumper sticker that says, "God said it! I believe it! That settles it!" It must be a typo because what the driver really means is, "I said it! God believes it! That settles it! - Robert M. Price
If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Management" means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force. . . - Peter Drucker
Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and shuffles, romance only sighs. - Margaret Atwood
When all that’s left of us is the pure untainted consciousness without form, we’ll know what it means when the last human breath expires. - Zeena Schreck
...in the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.
Higher consciousness means your self consciousness ceases to exist; you become the ocean of life and a part of the universe. - Debasish Mridha
Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness. - Ayn Rand
a man in earnest finds means, or if he cannot find he creates them. A vigorous purpose makes much out of little, breathes power into weak instruments, disarms difficulties, and even turns them into assistances. Every condition has means of progress, if we have spirit enough to use them. - William Ellery Channing
We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly. - Mark Twain
A heart is a fragile thing, that's why we protect them so vigorously, give them away so rarely, and why it means so much when we do. Some hearts are more fragile then others, purer somehow. Like crystal in a world of glass. Even the way they shatter is beautiful.
You don't know what it means to live the life that you could have lived, if an event over which you have no control, an unforeseeable circumstance, had not distracted and diverted you, and at times crushed you, as has happened to me. - Luigi Pirandello
A stupid is one who thinks that those in power today had clandestine means of getting there, yet wants to get there without thinking of the clandestine route they would be taking. - Michael Bassey Johnson
whenever a new thing is required for the world, then it is created spontaneously. This means a new thing is created within the body of a human body and the world gets the same thing.What is that new thing? It is the eternal question - who am I and what is the relation between the human race and me. - Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond
The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end. - Saint Jerome
Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed. - Charles Baudelaire
Finally, slowly, drippingly, degrade the term Choice down to its most meager means: The red car not the black one. The 9:25 showing, not the 7:15. Ritz not Wheat Thins. - Geoffrey Wood
I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means someone's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading. - Amy Poehler
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense. - Carl Sagan
When someone tells me "no," it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them. - Karen E. Quinones Miller
Respect means: even in your absence people speak good of your person - Constance Friday
to be a poet meansto live with a permanent wound forever susceptibleto either the shade of the skyor someone's eyes. - Sanober Khan
We are living in a time where the hearing from God is bombarded by many frequencies and voices. This noise, corrosive in nature, makes it difficult to hear God’s voice...living with more noise means we live less like a disciple. We need a prism. Eric Samuel Timm is a prism. - Mark Batterson
Cheerfulness means a contented spirit, a pure heart, a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and ~ charity, a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion of self. - William Makepeace Thackeray
The main message of Jesus, I believed, is that mercy trumps justice every time. Not only that, but maybe the basic message of original sin isn't "feel guilty all the time." Maybe it is more along these lines: "We all have a notion of what it means to be good, and we can't live up to it all the time. - Paul Kalanithi
Personal Responsibility is when a person sees a problem and refuses to be indifferent, but decides to rather look for ways and means of resolving the problem - Sunday Adelaja
This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. - Andrew Schweitzer
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong--or absolutely right. - Albert Guinon
Worship means respecting all of God’s creation. - Lamees Alhassar
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. - James M. Barrie
If a lot of cures are suggested for a disease, it means tat the disease is incurable. - Anton Chekhov
A moral foreign policy means your positions on certain matters are clear no matter what, and that you won't forget about them when it's convenient. - Garry Kasparov
I'm already crazy. I'm a fearless person. I think it creeps up on you. I don't think it can be stopped. If my destiny is to lose my mind because of fame, then that's my destiny. But my passion still means more than anything. - Lady Gaga
Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can. - John Wesley
High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. - Oscar Wilde
Every means hitherto employed with the intention of making mankind moral has been thoroughly immoral. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them. - Rania Al Abdullah
I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better. - William Faulkner
There's no such thing as a limit on being the best. You can always go for more. That's what it means to be human. No... That's what it means to be me. - Claire Stanfield - Narita Ryohgo
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
One must count ones riches by the means one has to satisfy his desires. - Abbé Prévost
As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the obstacles that impede knowledge, both the obscurity of the question and the shortness of human life. - Diogenes Laërtius
When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. - Idries Shah
The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. - James Madison
... I said to myself that growing up really means slowing down.
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. - Charles Baudelaire
War is the continuation of politics by other means.
If there's no sea-gull there's no meeting, Wicklow had said. No sea-gull means abort. That's my epitaph, thought Barley. 'There was no sea-gull, so he aborted. - John le Carré
I'mpossibility simply means I'm possibility - Nana Adom
When I say that we are spiritual beings that means that every human being has a universal consciousness. That universal awareness is our spirit, but we have different mindsets. Mind is a creation of society. - Debasish Mridha
If people think honoring pastors means doing everything they say, why don't they honor Jesus the same way? - D.R. Silva
You Hang on to your pain like it means something; like it's worth something. Well, let me tell you, it's not worth shit, so let it go. Infinite Possibilities and all you can do is whine.""Well, what am I supposed to do?""What do you think? You can do anything, you lucky bastard; You're alive! - Nancy Oliver
getting over it/ just means getting around it/ and sometimes/ you gotta go through it/ leave it torn and blasted apart - Shane L. Koyczan
The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. - Joseph Priestley
Never patronize your readers. That means don't talk down to them. - Tom Greer
To have a desire means to have dependency. - Dada Bhagwan
When you pursue your goals with passion, you will attract people who love you; but you’ll also attract haters. I’m okay with that; I welcome it. I don’t want to live life as a spectator. I’ve learned that if no one is cheering you on and/or booing you; it means you're not in the game. - Steve Maraboli
feeling means your dealing means your healing - Karen Salmansohn
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. - Henry Adams
The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means. - Tom Stoppard
Trust means there is no question.If there is no question then no need for any answer,which means complete balance.Always keep in your mind trust is the base for any kind of relationship. - Deshwal Sachin
To be a follower of Christ and not just a fan means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. - Shannon L. Alder
Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee... - Helen Keller
Before my term has ended, we shall have to test anew whether a nation organized and governed such as ours can endure. The outcome is by no means certain. - John F. Kennedy
Ethel and Frances found a means for consolation together: travel. - Nancy Carpentier Brown
Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money. - Horace
There is no playing safe with me any longer. I only take huge risks. I know this means I can lose big time, but so long as there is a chance that I will win big time, I will take it - Sahndra Fon Dufe
I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops. - Tom Clancy
Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private rants of life. To be great at all one must be great here, now, in Philadelphia. - Russell H. Conwell
I have been using art as a means to the emotions of life and reading into it the ideas of life. - Clive Bell
New thinking doesn't mean shuffling your old thoughts around; it means getting rid of the old and implementing the new. That way your, "I can't" become "I can!" and "I did! - Toni Sorenson
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is in the doing, not the getting - in the trying, not the triumph. - Wynn Davis
Moksha (ultimate liberation) means that you just have to change your vision. - Dada Bhagwan
The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His works means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning. - Truman Capote
Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know. - Ted Chiang
Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire. - Abbie Hoffman
I don't go in for ancient wisdomI don't believe just 'cos ideas are tenacious it means they're worthy - Tim Minchin
Gender empowerment doesn't mean discrimination, It only means equality. - Mohith Agadi
Success means you have succeeded in overcoming the obstacles and finally realizing the goal. - Lailah Gifty Akita
There are no worse oppressors than those who have been oppressed themselves for they will justify all means of self-preservation, including persecution and oppression of others, to the extent of, and worse than that which they had endured. This will weigh heavily on the souls of future generations. - H.N.Ellessy
One definition of success is achieving what your haters don't want you to achieve. Them wanting you not to achieve it means it's worth a lot. - Mohammed Zeyara
Equanimity means that one does not do abhorrence at the time of abhorrence (generating incidents) and one does not do attachment at the time of attachment (generating incidents). - Dada Bhagwan
The Bible is the means through which we are introduced to Jesus and invited to follow Him in the life of humility and service. - Richard Foster
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'. - Bob Newhart
Being insulted again and again it doesn't mean that you haven't self respect. It means that you value someone most. - Abhishek Rai
All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer.
Once you are defiled, you can't get back your purity by any means, instead, you will only look for ways to be defiled over and over again. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Creativity means bringing simplicity to the existing. - Amit Kalantri
As no designation of good and evil can be absolute, neither can it be fixed; no law which is just now will be forever just, and no political institution designed to secure the good can remain the best means to that good. - Allen Wheelis
In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.
Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.
Withdrawing back is like ending school withouth examination which means your not tested to face the professional aimed at. Never get back on the aimed forward processes. - Wilson M. Mukama
We are not free, separate, and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. - Thomas Mann
I love therapy. I don't get the taboo about seeking therapy at all. It's exactly like taking Buzzfeed quizzes. At the end of the day, we all want to know what cocktail we are. But it means so much more when it comes from a shrink. It's like 'Ooh, I really am Liquid Cocaine! - Judy Balan
Language is the expression of ideas by means of speech-sounds combined into words. Words are combined into sentences, this combination answering to that of ideas into thoughts. - Henry Sweet
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. - Isaac Asimov
Gratitude means to recognize the good in your life, be thankful for whatever you have, some people may not even have one of those things you consider precious to you (love, family, friends etc). Each day give thanks for the gift of life.You are blessed - Pablo
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure that is all that agnosticism means. - Clarence Darrow
... it is because we have acquired technical knowledge without understanding the total process of life that technology has become a means of destroying ourselves - Krishnamurti
[I]f you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous thing in the world, that means you don't think the Islamic Republic of Iran or North Korea or the Taliban is as bad. - Christopher Hitchens
Engineering is the continuation of politics by other means - Me, with a nod to Carl von Clausewitz
Make money, money, honestly if you can;if not, by any means at all, make money.
Not knowing what you have means not having it (at all). Not knowing where you have what you have means not having it (at all). Not knowing that you don’t own what you don’t have means never getting it. Having, not having human (being) you are. - VIRGIL PROFEANU
To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss. The great symbol of Christianity means sacrifice and no one calls himself a Christian can evade this stark fact. - Elisabeth Elliot
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher. - Socrates
I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got. - Toni Morrison
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country. - George Bernard Shaw
Gaia spins on, silently contemplating what it means to be born into a sarcastic universe. - David Brin
It is easy to tell confidence from pride. Confidence lifts, encourages, helps, and is full of gratitude. Pride demeans, mocks, destroys, and is bitter and resentful. - Damon Throop
Paranoia means having all the facts. - William S. Burroughs
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. - George Orwell
Part of our work as faithful Christians is to learn how to discern when, and by what means, to resist authority. - The Liberty Book
GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest. - Ambrose Bierce
When you thank GOD for what you have, it means you appreciate and value what's in your hands. And when you value what's in your hands, it will open up its wonder to you. - TemitOpe Ibrahim
Illusion means to weigh right and wrong with the same scale. - Dada Bhagwan
It is a law of nature that we defend ourselves from one affection only by means of another. - Paul Valery
To dream" means to focus and zoom the photos of destiny called visions for clearer view, manipulation and exploitation. - Israelmore Ayivor
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections. - Gerard Way
Authors always carry a means for scribbling and an excuse for pausing, often inopportunely, to record those fleeting sparks of creative fancy that might otherwise vanish like a wisp in the wind if ignored. Writing is a jealous and needy lover. - Richelle E. Goodrich
People can change anything they want to, and that means everything in the world. - Joe Strummer
Racism doesn't have to fit our stereotypes for what it is in order for it to hurt - but it also means that tools for dismantling the system don't have it fit our stereotype either. - Simon S. Tam
Freedom means either be mindful or do not mind. - Aditya Ajmera
The limits of my language means the limits of my world. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry. - Gaston Bachelard
Don't let a thief into your house three times. The first time was enough. The second time was a chance. The third time means you're stupid. - C. JoyBell C.
Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't. - David Shore
Marrying means to halve one's rights and double one's duties - Arthur Schopenhauer
To reform the world - means to reform upbringing... - Janusz Korczak
Religion means researching the true Eternal thing with Deluded world view (with wrong belief) and ‘this’ (akram vignan) is a science itself. - Dada Bhagwan
Absolute freedom means absolute lawlessness. - Sunday Adelaja
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about. - G. K. Chesterton
One would see the multitude oppressed inside society as a consequence of the very precautions taken against threats from outside, one would see oppression increase continually without the oppressed ever being able to know where it would end, nor what legitimate means remained for them to halt it.
Being poor in the Spirit means you are humble, gentle, meek, God-fearing,kind and exhibit the fruits of the Spirit but being Spiritually poor is lacking in every thing that pertains to life and godliness. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Facts, like living things, have a value in and of themselves and demand respect. Yet some people use them as means to an end, and dismiss them as soon as they are done using them. - James Rozoff
Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education, knowledge; and through humane ways. - Dalai Lama XIV
Progress means to be true to the world, If we need to make a change. - Auliq Ice
What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority. - Robert Altman
Diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. - Zhou En Lai
A word mother, means a world to me. - Auliq-Ice
if we want individuals to take responsibility for their actions we must first establish a rational, effective and empowering means of separating individual responsibility from that of the collective. - Daniel Waterman
someone who love someone without her/his problem .then he never loved anyone . no one of us without problems. without problem loving someone means -you keep your half real part in your life.i want your smile and tears you handle' . - litymunshi
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself. - Oswald Chambers
never trust anyone who says they do not see color. this means to them,you are invisible. - Nayyirah Waheed
The era of revolution by military means produced a greater degree of desperation and frustration. This was brought to an end by the people. - Nilantha Ilangamuwa
A salary does not make a person rich, but only gives him the opportunity to take care of hisneeds. It is not a means of becoming wealthy. It is a means of fulfilling our potential. - Sunday Adelaja
If you can bow in front of the justice at the height of your power, it means that you are really a just person! - Mehmet Murat ildan
It is better to be alone then to be in a relationship, while you are trying to figure out what love means to you. - Shannon L. Alder
Color is only beautiful when it means something. - Robert Henri
I will never tell another person, I don’t understand you... and why? Because if I say that, it means that I am disabled in a way. The inability to connect to another's perspective is, I believe, a disability. - C. JoyBell C.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. - Henry David Thoreau
Courtesy, not control, that was His means. Just as He requested the stars to sing and they leapt into bright being, so request was to be their rule over bird and beast, seas and trees, mountains and moons and all the dancing distances between the heavenlies filled with the unending song of Creation. - Geoffrey Wood
Moha (illusory vision) means new things keep arising, and one indeed sees new things; and he remains engrossed in them. - Dada Bhagwan
I have finally figured out the meaning of life: there's no such thing. And that's a beautiful thing, because that means that WE get to choose it ourselves. Life has no meaning besides the meaning you give it. You are indeed the author of your destiny. So why not write a book worth reading? - Dean Bokhari
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall. - Frank Lloyd Wright
There are many sources of spirituality; religion may be the most common, but it is by no means the only. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades. - Michael Shermer
A responsible citizen is the one that sees something wrong in the society, something he is not satisfied with or that he cannot agree with and responds not by blaming the government or leaders. But by designing ways and means of bringing a lasting solution to the issues at hand - Sunday Adelaja
It is of the greatest important in this world that a man should know himself, and the measure of his own strength and means; and he who knows that he has not a genius for fighting must learn how to govern by the arts of peace. - Niccolò Machiavelli
I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality. - Overstreet
State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its adherents, and that state brings only ruin and bankruptcy to all. - Benito Mussolini
To love someone means to see them as God intended them. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Unsuccessful people think the end justifies the means. Successful people understand that the means justifies the end; if the means isn't available, the end can wait. Successful people simply cut their coat according to their size, then grow by increasing their size. - Asuni LadyZeal
The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means. - Georges Bernanos
Enlightenment does not mean getting rid of anything. It means changing one's frame of reference so that all things become enlightening. - Mark Epstein
When people walk away from you, let them go. Your destiny is never tied to anyone who leaves you, and it doesn't mean they are bad people. It just means that their part in your story is over. - Tony McCollum
Complements from your companion will do you no good, but if you get complements from your competitors it means you are really doing good. - Amit Kalantri
If people make fun of you, that probably means you're doing something right. - Evanescence
To the tourist, travel is a means to an end; to the traveler, it's an end in itself. - Marty Rubin
When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I see in you that part of me which is you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness. - Anaïs Nin
We Live in a World Measured by Piracy because Piracy means Access. - Kalyan C. Kankanala
Whenever a person is the object of your activity, remember that you may not treat that person as only the means to an end, as in instrument, but must allow for the fact that he or she, too, has or at least should have, distinct personal ends. - Pope John Paul II
Succes is really nothing more than the record of failure. To be successful means you must be willing to fail more than anyone else. - Simon Van Booy
To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God's grace means. - Brennan Manning
My students should be afraid: choosing what kind of work you'll do to a great extent means choosing who you'll be. - Maureen Corrigan
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 oxygen, that means we can breathe. - Dan Quayle
Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness. - F.R. Leavis
Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights and keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose. To that high concept there can be no end save victory. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
It's ok to not like yourself sometimes, it just means there's something in you that needs "fixing". Love yourself to recognize these parts of you and watch yourself grow beautifully into the person you were meant to be. - Karen A. Baquiran
A country road, a gravel road, is a sign of civilization, sure, but it’s just a farm, an easy conquest. Iron means a stronghold, people who can defend what’s theirs. - Kathy Bryson, Fighting Mad
Don’t let anyone sell you on the idea that anything (apart from the Lord Himself) is more important than your marriage. God means for your life and your marriage to be filled with passion and purpose. - Elizabeth George
Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others. - Marianne Williamson
After all, when you come across the word prothalamium and find it means a preliminary nuptial song and a yaffle is a green woodpecker-well, I ask you! You cannot let matters rest there-or can you? Peradventure you will develop into lexicomaniacs. - E. Norman Torry
Missing someone enlightens how the person means to you and broadens the feelings shared. - Unarine Ramaru
Paranoid means you are aware of 10% of the problem - Oran Kangas
Trust means everything. But when it is broken, sorry mean nothing. - Alex Jiang
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 emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. - T. S. Eliot
There is a story I always tell my students...when I came for the 1st time to the US. I didn’t speak English (Only Spanish) & I saw on every door the word exit which in Spanish means Success = Exito. And then I said :No wonder Americans are winners ,every door they open leads to success - Pablo
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life music and cats. - Albert Schweitzer
Gnani (The Enlightened one) means without Ego. - Dada Bhagwan
There is an apparent need to save the earth and the means God chose to do this is not by sending POWER but by sending his Son - Sunday Adelaja
If the Internal enemy of hatred is not tamed, when one tries to tame external enemies, they increase. Therefore, it is a practice of the wise to tame themselves by means of the forces of love and compassion. - Bodhisattva Tokmay Sangpo
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. - Oscar Wilde
Charge’ means coming together of all the circumstances and ‘discharge’ means the circumstances get over. - Dada Bhagwan
If you're not satisfiedWith the work done by youMeans it has not done!!! - Harshit Vaishnav
if you fooled a person, don't think he or she is a fool...it means, they trusted you more than themselves... - Michael J Herbert
By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell -- and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed.
Having a finite life in an infinite universe means nothing; having an infinite life in a finite universe means nothing; having an infinite life in an infinite universe, now, that means something! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The mere fact that I exist means that I deserve to be here and to express myself any damn why I please. - Euphoria Godsent
Don't ask me what it means; ask me how it felt. - Jill Telford
Nature takes the decision first, man agrees, reconciles, modifies, refutes, contradicts etc., subsequently. It means the application of reason, the discretionary power of a man, only happens afterwards! - Thiruman Archunan
Having all the answers just means you've been asking boring questions. - Joey Comeau
The fundamental virtue of success is that it allows you to know the true significance of what it means to have the freedom to make your dreams come true. - Stacy Keach
If you do not lend your car, your fountain pen or your wife to anyone, that is because these objects, according to the logic of jealously, are narcissistic equivalents of the ego: to lose them, or for them to be damaged, means castration. - Jean Baudrillard
Hakuna Matata means no worries - The Lion King
Being strong doesn't mean that you never break! Being strong means that even if you break into a million pieces, you still have the courage to pick those pieces up, put them back together, and keep going on. - Manprit Kaur
I will take away your means of escape. - Natsuki Takaya
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. - Albert Einstein
If you feel unwanted or unappreciated where you are or by those you're with, it only means you're in the wrong place or with the wrong people. Hang in there. Someone else will see you for the true gift you are. - LK Hunsaker
One of the leading causes of obesity is the misbelief that, when it comes to juice, ‘100%’ means ‘sugar-free. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Great leaders do not shift responsibility even if it means acknowledging their own failures. - Gugu Mona
I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means. - Oscar Wilde
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking. - Clement Atlee
we raise them for us; that means we owe them some respect. nature is creul but we dont have to be. i wouldnt want to have my guts ripped out by a lion. i'd much rather die in a slaughter house if it were done right. - Temple Grandin
You won't know what "success" means if you don't appreciate what "hardwork" is. - Jonathan Page Acabo
Right person, wrong timing doesn’t mean God was wrong. It means you were there at the right time to fulfill something else. Look for it. - Shannon L. Alder
Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave. - Karl Kraus
Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it. - Archibald Alexander
Everything is inspiration. If you look at the world as the incredible place it is, then each moment is a feast. - J.D. Means
I must look at the 'nature' of God, not the 'nature' of the challenge. For the former means everything and the latter means nothing. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
I'm cautious with the love word because I really know what it means. I've been there, done that and I know what the implications are. I also know that people say they love people when they don't, and it often results in tears and avoidance of bars, supermarkets, even whole towns in extreme cases. - Jessica Thompson
Better locks just means better burglars. - Marty Rubin
We must consult our means rather than our wishes. - George Washington
I think acting is revealing to people what it means to be human. - Nick Enright
Knowing that you are perfect as you are does not mean you will no longer grow. It means that everything you've experienced up to this moment has made you who you are, and that is perfection. Tomorrow, you will be an even more perfect version of yourself. - Julie-Anne
When finally substantiated by scientific means, such a view will allow an individual to see his place in the world with greater clarity-- how he came from the world and how he may contribute to his fellows while he enjoys for a brief time the privilege of consciousness and communication. - Gerald Edelman
In other words, for purposes of sex discrimination law, to be a woman means either to be like a man or like a lady. We have to meet either the male standard for males or the male standard for females. - Catharine MacKinnon
I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it. - Robert M. Sapolsky
An adventurous life does not necessarily mean climbing mountains, swimming with sharks, or jumping off cliffs. It means risking yourself by leaving a little piece of you behind in all those you meet along the way. - Shawna Grapentin
When you smile, it means that your mind smiles; when you cry, it means that your mind cries! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The suicide committed by Sampson was partly determined by the craftiness of Delilah and partly decided by the disobedience of Sampson. Satan uses crafty means to set traps for us, but by our obedience of the laws of God, the traps remain functionless. - Israelmore Ayivor
Peace means the way of finding the inner calmness, tranquility and joy, in the midst of conflicts and injustice. - Debasish Mridha
EXCOMMUNICATION, n. This "excommunication" is a word In speech ecclesiastical oft heard, And means the damning, with bell, book and candle, Some sinner whose opinions are a scandal -- A rite permitting Satan to enslave him Forever, and forbidding Christ to save him. Gat Huckle - Ambrose Bierce
If I were surrounded by people who always approved of me, I wouldn’t need such a deep relationship with my own sense of right and wrong. And you know what that means? It means that other people’s approval is actually a hindrance, more than a helper, when it comes to self-discovery. - Vironika Tugaleva
Yet if I was asked to do this again - in fact, if I was ever asked to repeat any of my experiences - I'd have to say, fuck it, bring them on. I've no regrets.This is what it means to be alive. - John Barrowman
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone. "It means just what I choose it to mean - neither more or less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master - that's all." - Lewis Carroll
‎Man is never his emotions and that all feelings are ephemeral- that no one is truly genuinely ecstatic, sad, angry or passionately in love forever, which means emotions are never to be trusted. - Lourd de Veyra
A vacation frequently means that the family goes away for a rest, accompanied by mother, who sees that the others get it.
To succeed means you to sail across some difficult courses. - Auliq Ice
Being grateful does not mean that everything is necessarily good. It just means that you can accept it as a gift. - Roy T. Bennett
To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize how it really was. It means to take control of a memory, as it flashes in a moment of danger. - Walter Benjamin
And I got to thinking about the moral meaning of memory, per se. And what it means to forget, what it means to fail to find and preserve the connection with the dead whose lives you, or I, want or need to honor with our own. - June Jordan
I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black; it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect. - June Jordan
"He means well" is useless unless he does well.
What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it. - Krishnamurti
Wealth is neither an ends nor a means, it is a symptom. - Christopher Dutton
A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil that good may come of it. - William Penn
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means. - Albert Camus
A simple, sober guy who is often very shy is always relatively reliable than the people who usually wish to drive, fly or try different means to bring around oneself the crowd. - Anuj Somany
Healthy people have healthy boundaries. Unhealthy people, well, let’s not get into that. It’s like this: some people have walls which means they let no one in. This equals unhealthy. Some people let everyone in and let themselves be stepped all over. This equals unhealthy. - Benjamin Alire Sáenz
If you are staying inside your comfort zone, It means you are in a prison and that hinders your life. - Mohith Agadi
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be. - Daniel J. Boorstin
Remember that when God calls us to leave behind something, it means He has something better in store for us. Allow Him to replace the old with the new today! - Paige Omartian
Inner strength of character cannot be measured by any means but performance in the time of need. - K.L. Toth
Politics doesn’t mean playing deceitful and trickery games against the people, it means playing resourceful and organized games for the people. - Amit Kalantri
God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and the beauty and the infinite worth that he really is. This is what it means to be created in the image of God. - John Piper
I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number. - Abraham Lincoln
Opportunity for all means making taxes fair. I'm not out to soak the rich. But I do believe the rich should pay their fair share. For twelve years, the Republicans have raised taxes on the middle class. It's time to give the middle class tax relief. - Bill Clinton
When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another except brute, physical force. - Ayn Rand
Shuddha upayog (applied awareness of the Self, The Soul) means to be able to see the Soul and the Body of the other person as separate. The constant contemplation of ‘I am pure Soul (Shuddhatma)’ is shukladhyan (pure contemplation as the Self). - Dada Bhagwan
To give means to think, every single day, about what you can do to make people happy. - Ryuho Okawa
What we do today means a great deal, though it may mean nothing tomorrow. - Marty Rubin
Writing well means never having to say, 'I guess you had to be there.' - Jef Mallett
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. - Frederick Buechner
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion - Simone de Beauvoir
...my object is to show that the chief function of the child--his business in the world during the first six or seven years of his life--is to find out all he can, about whatever comes under his notice, by means of his five senses... - Charlotte M. Mason
Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.This means the when you go to sleep you close your eyes and you are and look like you are dead but then when you wake up it looks like you are reborn because you are up and ready. - Mahatma Gandhi
Finding who you are means losing yourself, and letting the Creator put you back together! - Mary Kate
Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny. - Steve Maraboli
The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself. - Joseph Sobran
Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly. - Lawrence G. Lovasik
The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Those who decide to live in the Present, must leave their past behind. Once past has been left behind, future also disappears! What is left then? The actual moment, the Present! Living in the here and now means that we are able to get rid of time and suffering! - Frank Wanderer
There is nothing quite so tragic as a young cynic, because it means the person has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. - Maya Angelou
Heresy," by the way, simply means "choice." It came to mean "thoughtcrime," implying it was blasphemy to presume to choose your own belief instead of swallowing what the bishops spoonfed you. - Robert M. Price
The Ego uses the mind as a means of spiritual search. It is through the mind that the Ego intends to understand what is beyond mind and forms. The mind in this way prepares the mental image of enlightenment, seeking, happiness etc. - Frank Wanderer
Being at one with everything just means accepting that the future is always going to be unsure and learning to find ways to be okay with the uncontrollable sequence of events. - Mohadesa Najumi
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right. - Albert Guinon
Unhappiness means lack of control. - Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
An apology can be a wonderful thing so long as it is infrequent and from the heart. However, beware of the person who justifies bad behavior with apologies. For them it is a means to an end, and quite often at your expense. - Gary Hopkins
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' - Isaac Asimov
As an artist, motive means opportunity - Siren Waroe
I have a repository of knowledge, but I have no money, it means I have no respect. - Tanmaya Guru
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong deisre to live taking the form of a readiness to die. - G. K. Chesterton
Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions . . . by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions. - Malcolm Gladwell
It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past. . .
All the means of action - the shapeless masses - the materials - lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I finally faced the fact that it isn`t a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems. - Whitney Houston
As to the causation, of the feeling of meaningless, one may say, albeit in an oversimplifying way, that people have enough to live by but nothing to live for; they have the means but no meaning. - Viktor E. Frankl
Companies' motives to make profit means they neglect inherent social or moral values. - Russell Brand
Your technique means nothing if you're not using your talents for the betterment of humanity. - Gene Dunn
That means, in turn, that this is an experience which shatters time and liberates people from the confinement of time by at once recalling all that has gone before and anticipating all that is to come. - William Stringfellow
Forgiveness simply means to give love instead of hate. - Auliq-Ice
To be thankful for just being alive...To survive means to win... That only applies to animals, but I'm a human being! - Nobuyuki Fukumoto
America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens. - George W. Bush
SMILE Is Not Just A Word.... It Means A Lot, Love, Trust, Warmth, Tenderness Etc, In Fact It Means WORLD.... So SMILE ALWAYS.... That Means, YOU Are Giving A WORLD To SOMEONE.... - Muhammad Imran Hasan
Let me in the ring. I'll show you what that big word means. - Lorde
Each and every day we manifest our own reality and this reality is experienced by a series of meaningful coincidences that we attract into our awareness by means of focused thought and vibrational alignment. - LJ Vanier
Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confidence in the storms of spring without fear that after them may come no summer - Rainer Maria Rilke
Maybe forgiveness means you stop keeping tabs on those people. Wounds can't heal if you keep touching them. - Joyce Rachelle
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. - T.S. Eliot
Depression is a sign of strength because it means no matter how weak your mind might be to you, your heart is still strong enough to feel. - Emma Hart
Accomplishing the impossible means only the boss will add it to your regular duties. - Doug Larson
Poetry never makes any money, and so there's no pressure to appeal to an audience. That makes a lot of things about being a poet difficult, but it also means freedom to write whatever you want to write, however you want to write it. - Garth Greenwell
Loving yourself means caring enough to make the hard decisions in your life.
There is no doubt that the most effective way to heal my pain is to purposefully put it to work healing the pain in the life of another. But that means I must endure the pain of not focusing on 'my' pain. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Existing is going through the motions of life with no zeal and feeling you have no control; living means embracing all that this large world has to offer and not being afraid to take chances. The beauty of living is knowing you can always start over and there's always a chance for something better. - J'son M. Lee
The word Ilaah means something that deserves to be worshiped AND obeyed at the same time. It is not enough to worship Allah through rituals. We have to give His obedience precedence over our desires in every situation of our life. - Nouman Ali Khan
Being a one of a kind means we are automatically the best in the world at what we do. - Victor WIlliamson
If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow. - William McFee
The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the hardest thing, because we want to flinch. The artist must go into the white hot center of himself, and our impulse when we get there is to look away and avert our eyes. - Robert Olen Butler
Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private ranks of life. To be great at all one must be great here, now, in Philadelphia. - Russell H. Conwell
That is not what Geek means to me. We are more than the hobbies that we do or the things that we like. To me, Geek means an outsider, a rebel, a dreamer, a creator, a fighter. It's a person who dares to love something that isn't conventional. - Felicia Day
Merkabah is translated as either meaning the throne of god or chariot. Both definitions imply a means of spiritual ascension, not a physical one. They only have it partly right. - L.Z.Marie
Do not fall in love.....it means you have to look at someone else. - sunny-drunk
Habits - the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.
... each of us describes our existence by means of objects which are indifferent to us, which survive us, and which are then thrown back into the common stock from which they are soon gathered again and ascribed other roles in other circumstances. - Andrew Motion
we love rain cause raining means cleaning sins - MK PRINCE
CINDERELLA"walked on broken glass."AURORA"Let a whole lifetime pass."BELLE"Fell in love with a hideous beast."JASMINE"Married a common theif."ARIEL"Walked on land for love."SNOW WHITE"Barely escaped a knife.Because LOVE means facing your biggest fear... <3 <3 :) :) - Pooja siwa
When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves. - Eda J. LeShan
Freedom necessarily means that many things will be done which we do not like. - Friedrich von Hayek
Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud. - Rosa Luxemburg
Courage doesn't mean you don't get afraid. Courage means you don't let fear stop you. - Bethany Hamilton
at start of a day -a day ends ,means there is no start or no end of a date - litymunshi
Behavior speaks… If you’re chasing them, it means they’re running from you. Save your energy. - Steve Maraboli
the only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.. live wild dont be a normal person.. to become presence, means accepting the risk.. and be sure if u don't take risks u'll have a wasted soul.. - Marouane LAASSAFAR
Over the course of human history, many items have briefly flourished as means of exchange, only to be demonetarized. Now, we have demonetarized money. - Markham Shaw Pyle
AIMS without MEANS are USELESS. - shaikh mustafa
They say your hardcore's not yours, and it's not fate. Nobody's gonna tell you what shit like that means. - Noah Wareness
Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer. - Joseph Sobran
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control. - Denis Diderot
There are all sorts of kisses... from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of them all, the kiss of an actress is the most unnerving. How can we tell is she means it or if she's just practicing? - Ruth Gordon
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common. - Denis Diderot
What freedom means, is being allowed to sing in my bath as loudly as will not interfere with my neighbour's freedom to sing a different tune in his. - Tom Stoppard
The body is poisoned through the mouth, even so is the heart through the ear ... And even if we do mean no harm, the Evil One means a great deal, and he will use those idle words as a sharp weapon against some neighbor's heart. - Francis de Sales
Men love women who are courageous for it means they can go all the way with him in his pursuit of his good dreams and intentions. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Patriotism in an independent nation means timely Action & Affirmation on a constructive mode, and not whiling away the time via Debate & Discussion on a burning topic in the house or a road. - Anuj Somany
Small wonder that spell means both a story told, and a formula of power over living men. -On Fairy Stories - J.R.R. Tolkien
I think it is the duty of all human beings, as intelligent and communicative beings, to learn all the ideas thought up before ours and use them as a means to think up new ones. - Jonathan Culver
Protecting your treasure means to give your life for it. - J.R. Rim
Marriage to the groom does not means that his heart belongs to the bride. - Dennis E. Adonis
Words only make sense when the person who says them means a lot. - Christian
To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. - C.S. Lewis
There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a BILLION people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you." - A. Whitney Brown
Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness. - Ayn Rand
Loneliness means when you have no one to celebrate your success with and share your pains. - M.F. Moonzajer
Words don't means; people means. - Griffin
I readily admit that I'm not, and have never been, big on forgiving. That doesn't mean I will seek revenge - It just means I don't forgive. - Karen E. Quinones Miller
Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word "freedom" should ever be more than an empty political slogan. - Wilhelm Reich
If you exist tomorrow as you do today, that is a miracle! It means that thousands of bad things which may happen did not happen and you are still alive! Existence is always a miracle in this universe of chaos! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Let’s be very clear about this, asshole: I’ve been a woman in Arkansas. I know damn well what it means when a man says to me 'Calm down.' Being raped comes next, and that’s a fact I’m never going to forget. - Agnostic Zetetic
Forgiveness means letting go of the hope for a better past. - Lama Surya Das
To let the gospel of Jesus shape how we work means to heed the influence of both the psychological idols within our hearts as well as the sociological idols in our culture and profession. - Timothy J. Keller
Earthquake means destruction; dictator means destruction! In the case of earthquake, you need a strong building; in the case of dictator, you need an educated rational mind, because an irrational ignorant mind always serves the dictator! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage. - Evan Esar
If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. That's the lesson. That lesson alone, will save you a lot of grief. Even doubt means don't. - Oprah Winfrey
TRUST, n. In American politics, a large corporation composed in greater part of thrifty working men, widows of small means, orphans in the care of guardians and the courts, with many similar malefactors and public enemies. - Ambrose Bierce
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president. - Theodore Roosevelt
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. - Jane Austen
Do not trust a person without scars. If they have no scars, then it means someone else is wearing theirs, usually unfairly, and usually permanently. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau
Smiles are such a simple thing to give but means so much to many. - Tony Curl
The purpose of Karate is to guide you out of trouble by any means necessary, both in actual combat and in life - Soke Behzad Ahmadi
A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man. - Amos Bronson Alcott
A threat is basically a means for establishing a bargaining position by inducing fear in the subject. When a threat is used, it should always be implied that the subject himself is to blame by using words such as "You leave me no other choice but to..."
In College average and numbers means everything to a guy. - Slicktor Victor Robinson
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream. - Edgar Allan Poe
Oppose vigorously any tendency to sadness ... You must persevere. By means of sorrow the enemy tries to make us weary of good works, but if he sees that we don't give them up and that being done in spite of his opposition they have become very meritorious, he will stop troubling us. - Francis de Sales
To be a human being means to be lonely.To go on becoming a person means exploring new modes of resting in our loneliness. - Robert Hobson
What "wasting time" means? At the time we glorify self instead of glorify God, at that time we are wasting our time as... God is Time. - indonesia123
A person can always know the character of the people by their face, but it is possible perhaps only to one who says only what he means and ,therefore, remains often on the life's challenging phase. - Anuj Somany
if youre never scared, or embarased, or hurt, it means you never take any chances. - Julia Sorel
Letting go doesn't have to mean walking away. It means the things that hurt you don't hurt you anymore. - Sue Fitzmaurice
You don't ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what you mean. You enjoy it. - Joseph Campbell
Kissing is a means of getting two people so close together that they can't see anything wrong with each other.
Sometimes being a good friend means being harsh.
Wherever you are, be there. If you can be fully present now, you’ll know what it means to live. - Steve Goodier
An aim of an argument should be progress, but progress ultimately means little without victory.
It doesn't matter how many friends you have on Facebook or twitter, if you have no real friends means you have nothing in your life. - Nash
Tax reform means "Don't tax you, don't tax me, tax that fellow behind the tree."
It means little to anybody but us. We set store by kinfolk. We've our troubles from time to time, but when one of us is in danger, there'll be help from any who are around. - Louis L'Amour
As we all know, blinking lights means science. - Joss Whedon
We must unceasingly ask for [perseverance] by making use of the means which God has taught us for obtaining it: prayer, fasting, almsgiving, frequenting the sacraments, association with good companions, and hearing and reading Holy Scripture. - Francis de Sales
Ego means being afraid. - Maria Erving
If we preach God, it means we preach light. Consequently we preach freedom from ignorance. - Sunday Adelaja
Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest. - Marilyn Ferguson
Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age. - George Burns
If God the Father and God the Son use light, knowledge, insight, understanding and wisdom to function on the earth, it means that is the greatest power in existence. - Sunday Adelaja
I don't like the word 'allegorical', I don't like the word 'symbolic' - the word I really like is 'mythic', and people always think that means 'full of lies', whereas of course what it really means is 'full of truth which cannot be told in any other way but a story'. - William Golding
Sir, pay no attention to the people who say the glass is half empty, because 32% means it's 2/3 empty. There's still some liquid in that glass is my point, but I wouldn't drink it. The last third is usually backwash.(Said to President Bush at the White House Correspondents Dinner) - Stephen Colbert
Each member of this shadowy network resented the others, who were irritating reminders that nothing was more American, whatever that means, than fleeing the American, whatever that is, and that their soft version of self-imposed exile was just another of late empire's packaged tours. - Ben Lerner
If everything happens for a reason that means you made the right choice even when it’s the wrong choice - Lil Treyco
Silence is argument carried out by other means. - Ernesto Che Guevara
What life means has individual answers for each of us. - Jay Woodman
Focus means being diligent. Diligence always leads to wealth. - Sunday Adelaja
Not being a man of means, I knew that if I did not stay sober enough to earn money, I would run out of liquor. - Alcoholics Anonymous
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness... but only when you pay your taxes? That means your freedom is rented, leased, & not unalienable. - Steve Maraboli
I do know this much though: If a man resorts to wiles, guile and petty deceptions, it means he's nowhere near being in love. - Orhan Pamuk
Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see -- to see correctly -- and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye.
Arrogant pride (abhimaan) means public display of self-pride (maan). - Dada Bhagwan
Ohana means family - no one gets left behind, and no one is ever forgotten.' <3 - Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois
Engineering is the practice of safe and economic application of the scientific laws governing the forces and materials of nature by means of organization, design and construction, for the general benefit of mankind. - S. E. Lindsay
The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Today's temporary disappointment means tomorrows permanent appointment. - Auliq-Ice
This is biblical ethics. It has little to do with the middle-class ethics of avoiding a few things which are supposed to be wrong and doing a few things which are supposed to be right. Biblical ethics means standing in ultimate decisions for or against God. - Paul Tillich
Remember: If someone's trying to pull you down that means they're already beneath you. - Karen Salmansohn
To Tengo, sexual desire was fundamentally an extension of a means of communication. And so, to look for sexual desire in a place where there was no possibility of communication seemed inappropriate to him. - Haruki Murakami
Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. - Peggy Noonan
A person with money who chooses to spend it on you, takes little effort and is meaningless. However, a person with no time who manages to spend what little they have on you... this means everything and should appreciated. - Mark W. Boyer
Every decision, every single one, comes with a price to pay. It means you chose one thing over another, always. Whether you chose right or wrong, that cost remains constant. It's a permanent life tax. That's where taxes come from. - Hubert Martin
Accepting the nonexistence of being,when the absence of existence means the negation of being. - Marieta Maglas- Eschatological Regression
We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends. - Eric Hoffer
Every single person is sacred. Sacred means special, precious, a treasure of true beauty. That means you. - Amy Leigh Mercree
If we deny the grief its right in our lives, then we must question the love for which the grief is supposedly rooted. God's grief is founded in His love for Himself and His love for us. Looking at God as our model is healthy. Facing the pain means honoring those with whom our love is rooted. - W. Scott Lineberry
To show our commitment to the future means to dedicate our time, efforts, resources, saving nature and to develop nice thoughts for better thinking. - Auliq Ice
Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear. - Ayn Rand
A trusted man doesn't flip-flop on where he stands. He says what he means and stand where he stands.He's not easily influenced by fear. He's influenced by destiny and will not be taken advantage of. - Henry Johnson Jr
I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. - Joan Didion
Extremists think "communication" means agreeing with them. - Leo Rosten
It’s only the ego that wants to surrender the ego; the real meaning of surrender does not involve anything external. It means to surrender to your true nature. - Enza Vita
Being more self-aware means welcoming more light into a dull life. When we throw light upon our self-perceptions, we immediately realise that the light has always been there, yet we had created an illusion of darkness. - Raphael Zernoff
Self-serving-pride (swamaan) means to take precaution against being insulted. - Dada Bhagwan
Everyone says that you should live like there is no tomorrow, but I think it’s even more important to live like there is no yesterday. Your future means so much more than your past. - John A. Ashley
MISCREANT, n. A person of the highest degree of unworth. Etymologically, the word means unbeliever, and its present signification may be regarded as theology's noblest contribution to the development of our language. - Ambrose Bierce
That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life. - Paul Tournier
Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you've met your New Year's resolution. - Jay Leno
To tell a ghost story means being willing to be haunted. - Judith "Jack" Halberstam
The embryological record is almost always abbreviated in accordance with the tendency of nature (to be explained on the principle of survival of the fittest) to attain her needs by the easiest means. - Francis Maitland Balfour
Being healed means committing to use your resources and knowledge. - S. Kelley Harrell
I’m saying that sometimes we don’t want to see the ugliness in others because it means seeing what’s ugly in ourselves. - Brian F. Walker
Maybe it’s just in America, but it seems that if you’re passionate about something, it freaks people out. You’re considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are. - Tim Burton
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. - Eleanor Roosevelt
When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend - William Blake
Success in business means doing things better than rivals, not just doing things well. - Phil Rosenzweig
And yet, troublingly, there is one difference between 'labour' and other elements [raw materials, machinery] which conventional economics does not have a means to represent, or give weight to, but which is nevertheless unavoidably present in the world: the fact that labour feels pain. - Alain de Botton
Liberty means refusing to allow some men to use the state to compel other men to serve their interests or opinion. - Auberon Herbert
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either. - Bodhidharma
We are all the authors of our own fates; but we have gotten so lost in the technicalities of forming letters and stringing words together that we've forgotten what it really means to write. - Cristen Rodgers
With love, when you let it go, life finds the ways and means to grow. - Debasish Mridha
Feeding birds means feeding yourself! Birds are part of nature and feeding nature is nothing but feeding yourself! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The end always doesn't justify the means you used to reach there. - Auliq Ice
Chase opened the mini fridge. Wanna drink? He asked.No thank you and you shouldn’t either.Oh I definitely need one, besides it numbs the hunger. He grabbed a few of the tiny bottles from the door shelf.Then by all means get your drink on. Samuel chuckled. - S.L. Ross
The Honey that Adorns my soul to Network with all Nobility in an Affable Humility means Hannah - Wisdom Kwashie Mensah
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation. - John F. Kennedy
The only means of strengthening one's intelligence is to make up one's mind about nothing-- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. - John Keats
In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate. - Toni Morrison
The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it withing his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter. - Norman Cousins
Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction. - Anne Frank
I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas. - Johnny Cash
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. - Calvin Coolidge
The mere fact that a boxer covers his face never means that he is much afraid of his opponent. A good punch will give a better explanation for his action! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
As our larynxes descended, we were able to make sounds with our mouths in new and far more expressive ways. Verbal language soon overtook physical gesturing as the primary means of communication for all human beings except Italians. (Earth (The Book), p. 36) - Jon Stewart
Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better. - King Whitney Jr.
Being brave means that knowing when you fail, you won't fail forever. - Lana Del Rey
You may think there's nothing very interesting about seeing someone sleep, but that probably means you've never found the girl of your dreams. - Jodi Picoult
There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with. - Harry Crews
It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder, and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge. - Phyllis Diller
Egoism [Ahamkar: Aham=I; kar=did] means ‘I did’. Where one is not the doer and he says, ‘I did’; that is egoism. To do egoism and to walk around with an inflated chest is pride (maan) and then to go on telling others ‘I did it myself’, is known as pride with my-ness (abhiman). - Dada Bhagwan
The end must justify the means. - Matthew Prior
Either I've always spoken to her from the heart in times like this, or I never have and I don't know what it means. - Ian McEwan
A peaceful mind appreciates the present moment as the living embodiment of naked perfection, rather than a means to future attainment. - Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Meow means woof in cat. - George Carlin
The ends must justify the means. - Matthew Prior
Money should never be the goal. It should only be the means of attaining the goal. - Sunday Adelaja
Bureaucrats complicate. It gives them more work to do. It gives them job security. It means promotions as ever more bureaucrats are added to the Ministry of Redundancy. - Sieg Pedde
Before meeting you, I didn't know what it was like to feel lonely. I never even considered myself to be alone. That's because when you feel lonely, it means that there is someone for you to miss. - Yuuki Obata
For what is love if one loves a woman without knowing her? Just a decision to love? Or even an imitation? The question concerns us all: If, from our childhood on, the examples of love were not there inviting us to copy them, would we know what "loving" means? - Milan Kundera
That is my rule of life. If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow. Do you remember Henley's magnificent lines? 'Under the bludgeonings of chanceMy head is bloody, but unbowed.' ? That is my gospel. What do you think of it? - William McFee
Everything in the world is actually connected. That means, even if we get separated, we'll never be alone - Shinobu Ohtaka
I've found that replacing one thing for another only means you don't yet know where the glitches are. - L.R.W. Lee
If nothing lasts then everything has meaning. If everything dies that means we actually live. - Chris Matakas
If it's to protect our family, be it the Kingdom or the entire world... We would make anyone our enemy! That's what it means to be Fairy Tail!! - Hiro Mashima
Love is hope and expectation. If many want to pencil it in, some don’t dare to ink it in, because love also means mystery and enigma. ( " Love as dizzy as a cathedral") - Erik Pevernagie
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over. - Gloria Naylor
Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it. - G.K. Chesterton
If "doctor" means "master teacher," then I think teaching in K-12 for 10 years deserves said title. Our practicum is potent and our expertise is in the service of children. In fact, I might start calling myself Dr. Vilson on principle. Fight me - Jose Luis Vilson
There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one's problems and sorrows with one. - Elizabeth Aston
I will not cease to walk in the direction towards my purpose, even if it means constantly walking on a bumpy road. - Gugu Mona
Grace means God gives. Faith means I receive. - Dr. Lewis W Gregory
Sometimes friendship means not having to say anything. Thank yous and apologies can sometimes get lost, but that doesn't mean they're unexpressed," murmured Hermione. - Bex-chan
With the earth firmly beneath our feet, we can approach what attracts us, and withdraw from what unnerves us. If there is real danger, we can run. Mobility means security, both physically and emotionally. Flying takes away our most basic way of regulating feelings. - Capt Tom Bunn LCSW
Being assertive does not mean attacking or ignoring others feelings. It means that you are willing to hold up for yourself fairly-without attacking others.
The whole hard work in achieving any goal is not in the means of achieving greater heights, but in the courage in fulfilling the simple yet daunting tasks. - Chinonye J. Chidolue
The freedom to choose...means the freedom to make mistakes, to falter and fail, to come face-to-face with your own flaws and limitations and fears and secrets, to live with the terrible uncertainty that necessarily attends the construction of a self. - Caroline Knapp
If you never try, you will never know what it means to succeed. - Belle Ami
Travel means a lot of learning experience to me". - Kunal Karan Kapoor
Peace does not mean an absence of violence or conflict, but it means how we respond to it, with violence or with love and understanding. Hate never can eradicate hate but love can. - Debasish Mridha
To me art means power to sway people not with my words but with a mere picture. Art means expression, not my own but of the subjects. Art means truth; because when you see a picture you see all that is real. Art is exposure, showing things in a way they haven’t been seen before. - CV
Know this: If you are afraid of starting over, it means you have not yet begun. - Tehya Sky
Love means making time for that special someone - even when you don't have the time. - Charline Ratcliff
I can hardly wait for tomorrow, it means a new life for me each and every day. - Stanley Kunitz
In philosophy it is always good to put a question instead of an answer to a question. For an answer to the philosophical question may easily be unfair; disposing of it by means of another question is not. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
His attention means nothing if you don't have his respect. - Stephan Labossiere
Follow your passion. Stay true to yourself. Never follow someone else's path unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path. By all means, you should follow that. - Ellen DeGeneres
Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood. - Hanif Kureishi
if we are wayfarers who want to return home, then we must see the world as a means of transportation (terestibus vel marinis vehiculis) and always remember to distinguish the means and ends. - Augustine of Hippo
If you enjoy being at work more than being at home it doesn't mean you are a workaholic, it simply means you are in love with your work and you worship it. - honeya
Elizabeth's barreness and advanced age--a double symbol of hopelessness--became the means by which God would announce to the world that nothing is impossible for Him. - Charles R. Swindoll
When your drive is moving your purpose, focus must hold the wheels else your might miss the way. And do you know what that means? Avoid Crash!!!. Stay focused! - Israelmore Ayivor
It seems symbolic of this all-pervading unpredictability that those engaged in the perfection of the means of destruction have finally brought about a level of technical development where their aim, namely warfare, is on the point of disappearing altogether. - Hanna Arendt
The term "work" is getting thrown around as though everyone seems to be doing so. The question is, working for what? Every time I am at work, it means I am getting closer to my goal. Once you have the vision, you work towards it. - J.R. Rim
The pursuit of the crucified crown follows the performance of the crucified King such that both performances go against the power structures of the world that think victory and power come only through aggressive and violent means. - Matt Farlow
When someone comes to you for some help it means Allah has chosen you for gaining some good deeds its upon us how we look at it..... - Adil Adam Memon
Sort of' is such a harmless thing to say... sort of. It's just a filler. Sort of... it doesn't really mean anything. But after certain things, sort of means everything. Like... after "I love you"... or "You're going to live"... or "It's a boy! - Demetri Martin
Living your life on your terms, means No excuses and only results. - LadyTiara
If you're making mistakes it means you're out there doing something. - Neil Gaiman
Human excellence means nothing unless it works with the consent of God. - Euripides
You like economics, don't you?' I asked. 'Everyone should know the basics,' said the Princess. 'Lasting peace will only be brought about through economic means - we should be trading with the Trolls rather than fighting them. - Jasper Fforde
Faith means I chose not to know, which is different than ignorance which refuses to know. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Heaven is high and earth wide.If you ride three feet above ground than other men,you will know what that means. - Rudolf C. Binding
As a soul, you have the freedom and earned responsibility to transpose your personal process of evolution, to manifest your greatest talents and vision, into the work that matters to you most as a means to personal redemption. - Darrell Calkins
I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are. - Aaron McGruder
Serving others means being willing to make sacrifices for their good. - Jim George
Art is the expression of appreciation of beauty real or imagined. It's also an examination of what it means to be alive with all its varied things, emotions, and experiences. We are forever trying to explain ourselves to the world or the world to ourselves. - Jay Woodman
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means. - Sallust
If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Being able to feel love, loyalty, gratitude and happiness means you have a soul? Then all my pets are bound for heaven. - Jury Nel
True faith is unconditional.It is simply the reverence and aspiration towards a certain kind of spirit.Faith is not even the means of obtaining reward.Faith itself is the end. - Xue Mo
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation. - Mahatma Gandhi
This story is about love, which means that it is also about hate. - Philip José Farmer
When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you. - Randy Pausch
Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness. - George Orwell
Money means nothing to a real man. - James Clavell
I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis - Antony Beevor
We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself. - Brian Cox
Belief means not wanting to know what is true. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Moderation is an attempt to live within one's emotional means. - Marty Rubin
Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness. - George Orwell
O God! I ask You for the means to do good, to avoid evil and to love the poor.
A diplomat who says yes means maybe", a diplomat who says maybe" means no, and a diplomat who says no is no diplomat. - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
A new week means new goals. New goals means new success. No goals mean no success and no success means a wasted week. - Onyi Anyado
Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
Education means nourishing the mind and make it develop in order to see beyond the limitations of current social perception. - Abhijit Naskar
Mom means miracles of a magical life. - Debasish Mridha
This particular strand of feminism is characterized by two tenets: 1. men are jerks, and 2. women should strive by all means to become like them. - Douglas Wilson
Civilization is very much an immature and ongoing experiment, the success of which is by no means yet proven.
If you have the dedication, means and patience to treat your daily struggle, like a step towards success, something bigger will come your way. - Auliq Ice
Forgiveness means that you will not allow a temporary event to have forever repercussions. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible. - Karl Marx
Light means knowledge in the Greek language it can also be translated as illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding and wisdom - Sunday Adelaja
Failure doesn't means falling down; it means hiding somewhere to safeguard own interest. - Ashish Patel
Self-condemnation means speaking against one's own success. If can't stop confirming your incompetencies for what you are competent for, you are unlikely do pursue your true purpose. - Israelmore Ayivor
As we travel great lengths in this world away from home, most of us come back with a clearer view on what home means. And most likely it isn't so much about the place in itself, but more about the places and people that have made us feel AT home… - lauren klarfeld
Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully.Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh; "my name means the shape I am - and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost. - Lewis Carroll
Spontaneous and natural (sahajik) speech means there is not an iota of ego in it. - Dada Bhagwan
Reading doesn't mean accepting everything you read, it means reasoning everything you read. - Amit Kalantri
No one HAS to do something he doesn’t want to do for the rest of his life. But then again, if that’s what you wind up doing, by all means convince yourself that you HAD to do it. You’ll have lots of company. - Hunter S. Thompson
The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily the supreme rule. - Friedrich Hayek
If you get NO as an answer, remember, N.O means "Next Opportunity". - Jerhia
Love doesn’t conquer all; it’s a powerful tool to overcome everything because it means you’re not alone. - Stephanie Witter
Solitude and retirement cherish grief, employment and exertion are the only means of dissipating it. - Lord Melbourne
Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul. - Joyce Carol Oates
He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
For me, living means I can be responsive to the other person. It means I can show my emotions and my feelings. Talk to them. Feel with them - Morrie Schwartz
Since when did the community become our moral compass—our viability and ethics as writers determined so much by our team spirit? ... What if all this communing actually hurts the primary means by which I set out to participate and communicate—my writing itself? - Meghan Tifft
Trekking means a travelling experience with a thrilling excitement. - Amit Kalantri
When love is sweet, the sweetness means its lightAnd light may keep the truth, when love is pure.But love is bitter, when it turns to fight.Lovers in a fight are quite immature.''From the poem ''A Note on Existentialist Love - Marieta Maglas
Being still does not mean don't move. It means move in peace. - E'yen A. Gardner
Fostering a spirit of cooperation with your ex means laying down your weapons in the war of divorce in order to protect your children.
To know what's in my food means to prepare a gun, to know what I drink means to go and put ammo in the gun after cleaning it and finding it and to as last just to push the trigger and look... I'm dead. I'm now just watching my body! - Deyth Banger
This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.
Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns--or dollars. Take your choice--there is no other. - Ayn Rand
You thought I was writing The Truth? Honey, I don't even know what The Truth means. - Hugh Elliott
We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something. - Orson Scott Card
If an apology is followed by an excuse or a reason, it means they are going to commit same mistake again they just apologized for. - Amit Kalantri
The victory of the ignorant masses always means a temporary backward movement in the progression of humanity! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Encourage means to put courage into, and discourage is to take courage away. Don't be a courage thief. - Benjamin Lotter
Samkit’ (right belief) means knowing the Soul (self). - Dada Bhagwan
Being single doesn't mean you're weak, it means that you're strong enough to wait for the right person. - Niall Horan
If a man has lost everything he has but his dreams, it means that he has still everything! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Study after study has show that human behavior changes when we know we’re being watched. Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively *are* less free. - Edward Snowden
The use of the word 'just' by an Australian means that whatever it is you have to do, it will not be easy, as in 'Just pull that sword out of the stone' or 'Just split that atom'.
Managing your emotions doesn't mean you don't express yourself; it means you stop short of hurting others and sabotaging yourself. - Sue Fitzmaurice
We can not paint that in a more positive way if it is already negative, we have to take it that way and think of other means for reaching there. - Auliq Ice
With a stop light, green means 'go' and yellow means 'slow down'. With a banana, however, it is quite the opposite. Yellow means 'go', green means 'whoa, slow down', and red means 'where the heck did you get that banana?' - Mitch Hedberg
The book-learned preacher who carries the badge of authority, is by no means religious. - Abhijit Naskar
All of our lives are a living, breathing story, and each heartbeat means a new page has been turned; chapters don't close, they continue. - Jeff Dixon - Storming the Kingdom
If I don’t believe in your god, it means he was incapable to manipulate me. - M.F. Moonzajer
They said they respect me, which means, their judgment is crazy. - Morrissey
I really don't know what "I love you" means.I think it means "Don't leave me here alone. - Neil Gaiman
I think fitting in is highly overrated. I’d rather just fit out... Fitting out means being who you are, even when people insist that you have to change. Fitting out means taking up space, not apologizing for yourself, and not agreeing with those who seek to label you with stereotypes. - Golda Poretsky
Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts. - Georges Rouault
Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry.
being genius does not necessarily means knowing it all or having the highest academic qualification but a persons ability to apply wisdom and common sense to common things in a distinctive manner and courageously exhibiting the latent deft to the admiration of the masses - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
There's nothing good about goodnight when it means goodbye. - Jeff Thomas
If you get NO as an answer, remember, N.O means Next Opportunity. - Jerhia
We have been so busy perfecting the means of travel that we have forgotten where we wanted to go. - Arthur M. Young
That by the decrees and volitions, and consequently the providence of God, Scripture (as I will prove by Scriptural examples) means nothing but Nature's order following necessarily from her eternal laws. - Baruch Spinoza
Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead. - Kurt Vonnegut
Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means. - Leo Buscaglia
When your ex says "I miss you", that means the person they tried to replace you with has failed. - Manasa Rao Saarloos
Money is only a means to serve God. - Sunday Adelaja
Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today."(Interview, Sierra Magazine, May/June 2005) - Jared Diamond
I tell people not to be afraid of their fears; because their fears are not there to scare them, they're there to let them know that something is worth it. Yet I am often afraid. I guess that means in my life, lots of things have been worth it! - C. JoyBell C.
Artists think along the edges of the box, because that's where things get done. That's where the audience is, that's where the means of production are available, and that's where you can make an impact. - Seth Godin
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates
Living in a democratic society means that I can express my opinion,Having a democratic government means that they don't have to listen. - Anthony Hincks
Revision means throwing out the boring crap and making what’s left sound natural. - Laurie Halse Anderson
If I burn the candles, it means not only giving you light. It means to show you the fire which I have inside. - Gaurav GRV Sharma
It is be­cause freedom means the renun­ciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so much more knowledge than the mind of the wisest ruler could comprehend. - Friedrich Hayek
Reckon your weakness as praise of God’s power, endure suffering in joy, risk your life on the veracity of Christ, count your loneliness a means of grace. - William Stringfellow
It is obvious that 'obscenity' is not a term capable of exact legal definition; in the practice of the Courts, it means 'anything that shocks the magistrate.' - Bertrand Russell
Biblical spirituality means powerlessness, living without embellishment or pretense, free to be faithful in the gospel, and free from anxiety about effectiveness or similar illusions of success. - William Stringfellow
Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary line and adding to one's liberty. - Henri-Frédéric Amiel
If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means 'flunk'. - Lemony Snicket
If a man means to be hard, let him keep in his saddle and speak from that height, above the level of pleading eyes, and with the command of a distant horizon. - George Eliot
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over. - Gloria Naylor
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. - G.K. Chesterton
Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job, and your spouse, and even your kids. Even if it's a bit edgy, a bit out of your comfort zone, saying yes means that you will do something new, meet someone new and make a difference. - Eric Schmidt
Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. - William Lyon Phelps
Success comes from doing the hard part. When the hard part is all you've got, you're more likely to do it.And this is precisely why it's difficult to focus. Because focusing means acknowledging that you just signed up for the hard part. - Seth Godin
The best way to realize the pleasure of feeling rich is to live in a smaller house than your means would entitle you to have. - Edward Clarke
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. - George Bernard Shaw
Every new book we read in our brief and busy lives means that a classic is left unread. - B.R. Myers
Unless you are rich, and can con vales center in a sanatorium estate (where visitors came down a tiered, oceanside lawn to found you ato your easel) you have to keep going when you're depressed. That means phone calls, appointments errands, holidays, family, friends, and colleagues. - Virginia Heffernan
Forgiving other people does not mean that they will get away with what they did to you, it means that You are set free from the pain they have caused you. Forgiveness is the hardest lesson we are here to learn to master, but it is possible with time and patience. - Jeanette Coron
PREJUDICE, n. A vagrant opinion without visible means of support. - Ambrose Bierce
If you allow it, [suffering] can be the means by which God brings you His greatest blessings. - Charles R. Swindoll
I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living. - Robert Henri
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. - Oscar Wilde
A language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols by means of which a social group cooperates. - Bernard Bloch
Freedom without the means to be self-supporting is a one-armed triumph. - Michelle Cliff
The triumph of the philosophy of Atheism is to free man from the nightmare of gods; it means the dissolution of the phantoms of the beyond. - Emma Goldman
GRACE means God does the work. FAITH means I let Him. - Dr. Lewis W Gregory
My silence never means I don’t have nothing to talk, but it was important who were audiences and what was the topic. - Ali Rezavand Zayeri
Forgiveness means that you are willing to give someone else a second chance to breathe in new life in his body. That is one of the greatest attribution of a Leader. - Indy Bissessur
All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant. - Aldous Huxley
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. - Thorstein Veblen
Silence can be breathing space and spawn release and wellness in a time of appalling inflation of words. But silence may be intolerably screaming, if it means absence of communication, deficiency in friendship and emotional deficit. A gap of silence) - Erik Pevernagie
Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave. - John Ruskin
You have an inbuilt goodness. Why should you allow some poisonous elements to destroy that goodness? Protect your goodness by any means. Stay away from the toxic people. - Anjan Dey
Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind. - Henri-Frédéric Amiel
To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is ... the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence. - John Quincy Adams
Forgiveness means letting go of the past. - Gerald G. Jampolsky
Perfection of means and confusion of ends seems to characterize our age. - Albert Einstein
Failure doesn't mean you have failed. It means you haven't succeeded yet - Anamika Mishra
Always stand up for what you believe in…even if it means standing alone. - Kim Hanks
Lasting peace is only found through a lifesaving relationship wit Jesus Christ... knowing Christ means that all the world might be falling apart just outside your front door, maybe just inside it - yet that inner peace, that inner knowing, remains unshaken. - Karen Kingsbury
They speak very well of you".- "They speak very well of everybody."- "That so bad?"- "Yes. It means you can´t trust them. - Iain M. Banks
Grief is beautiful?' She thought it was the most dreadful feeling possible. At best she viewed the world through a haze, and at worst everything looked black.'It means you've loved another with all your heart,' Luka said. 'What's the use of being alive if you've never loved like that, not even once? - Belinda Alexandra
Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.
Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building an individual's cash flow and wealth. - Robert T. Kiyosaki
It is naive to think that self-assertiveness is easy. To live self-assertively--which means to live authentically--is an act of high courage. That is why so many people spend the better part of their lives in hiding--from others and also from themselves. - Nathaniel Branden
Freedom of speech means setting words free. Imprisoned and freed words are consequential. All words have consequences. Restrain and release words with respect for their consequentialness. - John R. Dallas Jr.
Rumi says love turns thorns into flowers. This means that hate turns flowers into thorns! - Mehmet Murat ildan
To be alive simply means to have faith, one has faith that the air one breathes will sustain one, hence being alive without the other kind of faith will be counterproductive to the reason one is alive. - Auliq-Ice
A woman knows what it means to experience the world as her individual self. That gives her insight into her own reality. - K.J. Kilton
Take patiently the petty annoyances, the trifling discomforts, the unimportant losses which come upon all of us daily; for by means of these little matters, lovingly and freely accepted, you will give Him your whole heart, and win His. - Francis de Sales
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting. - E.E. Cummings
Being smart means you learned it well; being stupid means you haven't learned it yet; but true genius means you know it when no one taught it to you. - Sneha Abraham
There is one certain means by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin -- I will die in the last ditch.
We Live Must Have A Dream , But Doesn't Means Life Is Just A Dream. - Jemmy Wiratama
We must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means. - Martin Luther King Jr.
Clear skies, cousin". Good luck, he means. There are never clear skies on Avon, no blue, no stars. But we don't give up hope, and we use those words to remind ourselves. Clear skies will come, one day. - Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
It means the third rail has seven hundred volts of direct current running through it. Touch it and you're human popcorn - James Patterson
This is life...by all means necessary - Natasha Head
To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power. - Tryon Edwards
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry. - Erich Segal
To me, being appropriatedoes not always mean conforming. Often it means justthe opposite. Sometimes, refusing to conform and even confrontingis not only appropriate but necessary to change theworld for the better. - Donda West
Free will is about the power to decide for yourself without outside influence. That means no family, no religion, no ethnicity, no boundaries to encumber you in making decisions that are solely for YOUR LIFE. That is complete free will - Levon Peter Poe
Good at something necessarily doesn't means you are bad at all the other things - Nitin Yadav
Essentially, meditation means to experientally realize that you are not an individual bubble - you are a universe. - Sadghuru
When people say, "You really, really must" do something, it means you don't really have to. no one ever says, "You really, really must deliver the baby during labor." When it's true, it doesn't need to be said. - Tina Fey
Don't listen to a man who says we have to work together as a team. He means we have to work as he says. - C.J. Langenhoven
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure...it just means you haven't succeeded yet. - Robert Schuller
if someone smiles at you it does not mean they’re happy. It just means I think that if I smile I might get out of this alive! [] Tsitsi Dangarembga - http://brickmag.com/interview-tsitsi-...
Education and knowledge are no longer values of truth and beauty that make life worth living- they are reduced to an economic means to the ends of greater pay and more consumption. - Shawn Otto
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. - Henny Youngman
It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes. - Robert E. Lee
Don't ask me what it means; ask me what it felt. - Jill Telford
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. - Denis Diderot
Liberty also means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. - George Bernard Shaw
Networking means the act of exchanging information with people who can help you professionally. - Michele Jennae
Chant to him: An individual thinks for himself. Then roll that around in his head till it means: If I didn’t think of it, it has no bearing on my life. - Geoffrey Wood
[W]hen one has a religious experience, what is 'true' is only that one has had that experience, not that its contents convey anything about reality. To determine that, one needs a way to verify the contents of a revelation, and that means science. - Jerry A. Coyne
Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed. - Vida D. Scudder
When you hate someone it means you like it. - Rida Noor
When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something. - Dmitri Shostakovich
End is not the End, in fact, E.N.D means "Effort Never Dies". - Jerhia
Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and dies in minutes. - Philip Larkin
Poetry calls into question what it means to be human - Sandra Alcosser
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. - Henry Miller
Sometimes new opportunity means new opposition. Not everything God asks us to do will be comfortable. - Joyce Meyer
But to a Vietnamese peasant whose home means a lifetime of back-breaking labor, it will take more than presidential promises to convince him that we are on his side. - Morley Safer
Everyone tells us to be one in a million... What they don't tell us is that being one in a million also means being one against a million. - Saahil Prem
Writing means being a fascinated slave to current events. - Allan Gurganus
Our freedom through Christ means we are all free to love one another and to serve one another. - Chris Vonada
But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience. - Immanuel Kant
Before embarking on important undertakings, sit quietly, calm your senses and thoughts, and meditate deeply. You will then be guided by the great creative power of Spirit. After that you should utilize all necessary material means to achieve your goal. - Paramahansa Yogananda
Love means touching someone's soul may or may not be body - Utpal Dutta
We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity I think that’s what being really human means. - Gustave Flaubert
Urgency means paying the details the attention they deserve, with the respect they deserve, without delay. - Richie Norton
Spirit means Breath and without one or the other there is no life. - Stacy Snapp Killian aka StacyK
I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead. - Kurt Vonnegut
Success means nothing if you don't know who you are. If you don't know who you are then you are not a success. - Pasha Cook
‎"What does it mean if i'm afraid? Does it mean something bad is going to happen?" "No, it doesn't mean something bad is going to happen. It just means that you have the chance to be brave. - C. JoyBell C.
Depression exist without you knowing it, even denying it. It is not an illusion. You don't even know you're in it. It takes awhile before you realize it. If you deny it, it means your still in there or else you won't talk about your misery and the dramas in your life. - Ann Marie Aguilar
Victory must be real. It must be earned. That means it must be rare and difficult, against steep odds, and defeat must be the other. - Rick Riordan
You know, people always talk about how Jesus came down to Earth as a human being. He became a human being, But no one ever takes into account what that means. - David Javerbaum
You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music. - Billie Holiday
A human being must have an auxiliary means of discovering the truth, a means that exists outside of his own belief or outside any alleged revelation. Otherwise…well, who’s to say he isn’t insane? - Michael Vito Tosto
Science fiction" means different things to different people. "When I make a word do a lot of work like that," said Humpty Dumpty, "I always pay it extra"—in which case the term science fiction has piled up a lot of expensive overtime. - Robert A. Heinlein
When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less. - Lewis Carroll
People become wealthy when they become specific... when they know what that means to them, not only in terms of the objects and amounts involved - ... but also in terms of how they want this wealth to make them feel. - Kiki Theo
Unless you are rich and can convalesce in a sanatorium estate (where visitors came down a tiered, oceanside lawn to find you at your easel) you have to keep going when you're depressed. That means phone calls, appointments, errands, holidays, family, friends, and colleagues. - Virginia Heffernan
Excellence in health means devoting your life to ending poverty. - Patch Adams
Personally, I believe Young Adult to be an arbitrary title that means the book "Can be enjoyed by anyone/Has a main character who’s not quite an adult/Isn’t really boring. - Shannon Hale
Just like "All American" means "White," "All Lives" means "White. - Darnell Lamont Walker
Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape. - bell hooks
END is not the END, in fact, E.N.D means Effort Never Dies. - Jerhia
Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others. - Eric Hoffer
A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us. - Henri J.M. Nouwen
Hell means torture; torture means badness. Goodness cannot create or produce badness. Hell does not belong to God; it has been invented by the horrific and sick minded people. - Mehmet Murat ildan
Usually when your imagination is bigger then one's comprehension, this normally means you've out grown the small circle. Get with like-mined people and go after your vision.By T-cupp - Takina Cupp
With new hope.We build new lives.Why complain when it rains?This is what it means to be free. - Lawson Fusao Inada
Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be. - George Sheehan
What matters for the dialectician is having the wind of world history in his sails. Thinking for him means: to set the sails. It is the way they are set that matters. Words are his sails. The way they are set turns them into concepts. - Walter Benjamin
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth . . . Then he said, "Let there be light." Which means he made the entire universe in the dark! How fucking good is that? He's brilliant. - Ricky Gervais
Living in the ocean means never having to salt your food.
Writing is the delicate, difficult, and dangerous means of succeeding in avowing the unavowable. - Hélène Cixous
By means of industry and perseverance you will rise higher and higher. - Robert Schumann
Is it a fact or have I dreamt it that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time? - Nathaniel Hawthorne
You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever 'the old' means for you. - Sarah Ban Breathnach
If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. - George Orwell
alone doesn't mean lonely. It just means alone. It just means that for now, you're on your own, and that's not a terrible thing. - Hemal Jhaveri
We want big results-sooner rather than later. And we've forgotten that God showers his extraordinary gifts through ordinary means of grace, loves us through ordinary fellow image bearers, and sends us into the world to love and serve others in ordinary callings. Michael Horton, Ordinary, 14 - Michael S. Horton
The rich and powerful always seem to prefer the tops of buildings. Hasn't anyone ever explained to them that higher just means you have farther to fall? -- Anita Blake - Laurell K. Hamilton
For a writer, I'm not sure that feeling of knowing you've just written something good and strong can be trumped. Not because it means I did something right. But because it proves how many wrongs I pushed through to get there. - Cara Rosalie Olsen
Artifacts are alive. Each has a voice. They remind us what it means to be human - that it is our nature to survive, to create works of beauty to be resourceful, to be attentive to the world we live in. - Terry Tempest Williams
An ancient gate, sealed by the powers of Light and Darkness, barred the way to the Pillars beyond. To depart this place and continue my journey, I would have to find the means to open it. - Amy Hennig
Writing means making things large. - Christa Wolf
Being enlightened ironically means realizing that there is no separate entity that can be enlightened or unenlightened. - Enza Vita
Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe. - Thomas H. Huxley
I am a conscious parent. That means I realize that I am not here to teach my children, but rather we are meant to teach each other. I have found that the truth is that I have far more to learn from them than they could ever learn from me. - Monika Zands
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. - William Faulkner
Capitalism means that a few people will do very well, and the rest will serve the few. - Michael Moore
What does "poet laureate" mean? Nothing. It means a person with laurel branches twined around his head. Which is not something people do much now. - Nicholson Baker
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. - Oscar Wilde
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. - Vincent Van Gogh
The opposite of value is a commodity item with little or no perceived value which means people are not seeking it out and when they do, it’s merely one of the many choices (so very likely the cheapest offering will get the sale). - David Brier
Healing doesn’t mean forgetting or making the memories insignificant. Healing means refocusing - American Pregnancy Association
Sadhana means the practice to closest to the GOD (Baba) and a Shivir means an environment in which the sadhakas get the opportunity and guidance to do sadhana in a perfect manner................ i think. - shailendra kumar Lal
not all feeling of butterflies in the tummy means love, it might sometimes mean lust, fear, hunger e.t.c - Jesustibab
Dance means different things to different people. It is a blend of Nritta, Nritya and Natya. It is a poetic expression which tells stories to people, a subtle interfusion of drama in an otherwise classical pattern. - Shallu Jindal
The world admires wealth and velocity—these are the things for which everyone strives. Railroads, the post, steamboats, and all possible modes of communication are the means by which the world overeducates itself and freezes itself in mediocrity. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goeth
To truly be successful you must of have a clear vision of what success means to you & then share that knowledge with others to grow a team ~bns~ - Bluenscottish
We don't live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means, and that is what life is for. - George Mallory
He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it. - Confucius
When you wake up with a song stuck in your head, it means an angel sang you to sleep. - Denise Baer
Discipline means choices. Every time you say yes to a goal or objective, you say no to many more. - Sybil Stanton
Many people seem to think that opportunity means a chance to get money without earning it.
The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best. - Colin Powell
You know you love something if you're willing to die for it, and you know it means nothing if you walk away from that which is dying. - Anthony Liccione
....Game, game! game!! they say life is game, either you win or lose but you have to play. Other say life is a journey that you have to travel, either you reach the destination or not. Is that all about life? NO life is not that. Life is LIFE which means Let your Inner-self Find the Eternity. - SatishSharma
Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them. - Immanuel Kant
When you favour a woman, she will want to return the favour in so many means, but its better to rupidiate such offerings. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Past is always afraid of being forgotten because being forgotten means being never-existed in a way! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold them and be fair to them. - Rainer Maria Rilke
To me YES, AND means don't be afraid to contribute. Always make sure you're adding something to the discussion. Your initiations are worthwhile. - Tina Fey
The mask of art is the means through which corruption is spread. The mask makes vice seem beautiful, turns squalor and nastiness into glamorous thrill, seduces the onlooker into the game and leaves him or her with the corpse on his hands. - Jennifer Birkett
We have a choice. We can embrace our humanness, which means embracing our broken natures and the compassion that remains our best hope for healing. Or we can deny our brokenness, forswear compassion, and, as a result, deny our own humanity. - Bryan Stevenson
There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means. - Albert Jay Nock
School means work and work means death. Let's all go take a nap. - Emma Shannon
Growing up doesn't mean that you are older than someone, it means that you are no longer an amateur. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Spirituality [Nischay] means complete truth and worldly interactions means truth to a certain extent. - Dada Bhagwan
Peace does not mean an absence of violence or conflict, but it means how we respond to it, with violence or with love and understanding. Hate never can eradicate hate but love can do that. - Debasish Mridha
A step ahead means a risk ahead... Count your steps before a mistake is made.. - Debolina Bhawal
What does greed mean? Greed means taking away what belongs to others. - Dada Bhagwan
It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. - Albert Einstein
Time Management means managing ourselves with the timezones when we are naturally energetic. - Rajasaraswathii
Assuming that all ‘unschooled’ people to lack education is akin to assuming that a salary is the only means to make money, or, that a vagina or a penis is the only source of an orgasm. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Hannah means The Honeycomb of Abundant nutrients which Nourish my soul to be Noble in my all networks with an Affable Humility. - Wisdom Kwashie Mensah
Being married means giving it your all to your spouse daily. Even when you don’t feel like it and even when it hurts. It means looking beyond yourself, and giving to them because they are a part of you. - marriage.com
Relationships are never complicated. You’re either together or you’re not. If someone says it’s complicated, it really just means someone’s killing time until something better comes along. - Teresa Lo
Our thoughts create our lifestyle, if you live healthy, it means you think healthy thoughts and if you think unhealthy thoughts, it will reflect in your health and lifestyle too. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
No, you don't shoot things. You capture them. Photography means painting with light. And that's what you do. You paint a picture only by adding light to the things you see. - Katja Michael
Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are. - Jo Deurbrouck
If people don't want you to question something, that probably means you should question it. - Michel Templet
Inner peace doesn't have to be religious, spiritual, or impossible. It simply means you think and act with clarity and compassion--no longer conquered by the storms of the mind. - Janice Anderson
The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood - Otto von Bismarck
When you know that someone is playing love games with you and still you are there then it means either you are a true lover or a true loser. - Jasmine Kiyani
To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. - George Washington
You think that peace means that no one will fight. True peace is when you create peace within yourself leaving no one to fight. - Debasish Mridha
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection. - Bertrand Russell
If you see many paths before you, don't be afraid; if you see only one path before you, then be afraid because choice means freedom and no choice means slavery! - Mehmet Murat ildan
I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left. - Margaret Thatcher
Compassion means knowing that I may never find that person who understands my pain but through my struggle I can become one who understands. - Rachel Hamilton
To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes. - Fritz Kunkel
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Running a business well means knowing when it's time to make profit. - Auliq Ice
Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free. - Edward Snowden
I do not put much stock in "believing in God." The grammar of "belief" invites a far too rationalistic account of what it means to be a Christian. "Belief" implies propositions about which you get to make up your mind before you know the work they are meant to do. - Stanley Hauerwas
What we think affects our life so much that life is for each of us just what we think it is. So the question of what life means has individual answers for each of us. - Jay Woodman
liberty, which means resisting all forms of cultural authoritarianism, be it from the right wing church, black ideologues, black nationalists, or mainstream white media. We have to accent liberty and freedom of expression and thought in all their forms. - Cornel West
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. - George Bernard Shaw
Oh, man. I’m not interested to driving the Lamborghini. I’m more interested in making Lamborghini. That’s what creativity means to me. - Seong pill kon
If you're stuck in a puddle, it means there's higher ground all around you, you just have to step onto it. - Emilyann Girdner
All of us sport an invisible sign around our necks -- AS IS. It means, take me as I am. I may not become what you want me to be. And I’m far, far from perfect. But I have some great qualities, too, as well as my share of faults. You will have to take me AS IS and I’ll take you that way, too. - Steve Goodier
Sometimes I am all right. Is this what they call letting go? I have let go, if letting go means I am all right sometimes. - David Sheff
If at anytime this life of ours grows feeble, or low, or lonely, I know no other remedy than to return to its Eternal Source, to God Himself; and through Him all the means of grace become again living and true; and through Him all His creatures become again near and dear and accessible - Elizabeth Rundle Charles
EGO means attachment to layers of our unexamined thoughts and illusions.We avoid self inquiry because it shatters our belief system and false image. - Aditya Ajmera
I think when we sleep, the world belongs to everyone still awake. Which means a shitload of the world belongs to Craig. ~Lio - Hannah Moskowitz
When a man says "I know what I mean, but I can't express it," he generally does not know what he means—for there can be no knowledge without words; there can only be feelings. - Sydney J. Harris
Every utterance is an event, and no two events are precisely alike. The extreme view, therefore, is that no word ever means the same thing twice. - Louis B. Saloman
Love is this divine ingredient. It alone describes what can be our perfect relationship to our Heavenly Father and our family and neighbors, and the means by which we accomplish His work.
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about. - Saskya Pandita
Do not give your haters the gratification, It means you will never let yourself down. - Mohith Agadi
Forgiving others simply means that you refuse to be a prisoner of a past that you can't change, and shackled to decisions that you didn't make. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
By all means, let's not confuse ourselves with the facts! - Anonymous
Racism in impenetrable. Staying in America means always fighting. For our own sanity and safety, we must go. - Darnell Lamont Walker
Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness. - John Ruskin
When you move like a jellyfish rhyth don't mean nothing. You go with the flow, you don't stop. Move like a jellyfish, rhythm means nothing.You go with the flow you don't stop. - Jack Johnson
It's okay, we can go back from this." It comes out of his mouth so kind - he means it - and it just makes me feel worse. That he can kiss me like this and change everything, but still promise me nothing has to change because I can't promise him anything. - Courtney Summers
Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. - Anne Lamott
An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support. - John Buchan
To live in denial of caring deeply, to hold oneself back from speaking from the heart as a means of self protection, to speak in whispers, to describe what you have together as "this." Oh the sweet sadness of forbidden love. - Cheryld
Silence doesn’t mean no activity; it means highly synchronized actions, much like the work of a well-tuned motor. More noise and vibration never assure better engine performance; indeed, quite the opposite. - Love, Life, and Logic
Leo, Jason said, you’re weird.Yeah, you tell me that a lot. Leo grinned. But if you don’t remember me, that means I can reuse all my old jokes...! - Rick Riordan
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible. - Lawana Blackwell
Transparency means to dedicate our thoughts and efforts to non privacy rules and not to defend negative intelligence ideas or surveillance programs. - Auliq Ice
If you want to do itDo it by all means,And if you left this incompleteThen it should be not even start.!! - Harshit Vaishnav
Namaste means that whatever is precious and beautiful in me honors whatever is precious and beautiful in you. - Debasish Mridha
The man who pursues moral ends with unmoral means is involved in acontradiction of motives, and nullifies the object at which he aims,since he denies it by his actions. - Fredrich Von Bernhardi
With courage you take on gracefully anything that tries to stop you. To have courage means to be brave and take on what ever challenges you - Angie karan
A practice of giving [it] your best, means you don't just have to hope for it. - T.F. Hodge
The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mindabout nothing -- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. - John Keats
Imagination means nothing without doing. - Charlie Chaplin
Write to your heart’s content and by all means, have fun with your creation. It’s your moment to do absolutely anything within those pages. - Jennifer Murgia
The phrase "we (I) (you) simply must..." designates something that need not be done. "That goes without saying" is a red warning. "Of course" means you had best check it yourself. These small-change cliches and others like them, when read correctly, are reliable channel markers.
May we always be burdened with thinking of the suffering of others, for that is what it means to be human. - Kamand Kojouri
Innovation is deviance which means that the rebellious personality is a natural resource for practical creativity. As an innovator, you need to reject the old to establish a new, better, status quo. And one of the most powerful sources of newness is the rebel or maverick, mind. - Max McKeown
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said. - George Santayana
Sometimes doesn't mean behaving nice, means you will got the same answer, it never means that everything done in positive = returns positive.... sometimes comes and negative. - Deyth Banger
If we lose all our sweet memories, it means we are dead even if we are alive! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to. - Joe Gores
Theere is an imperative to be in a process, the energy & consciousness of life means for us to be constantly observing, learning & becoming. - Jay Woodman
Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends. - Immanuel Kant
To ‘let go’ sometimes makes us feel like losers because it means giving up what truly we felt we had a right to. But true strength lies in resisting the urge to hold onto things and people that bring us down. - Chinonye J. Chidolue
Alas, I am dying beyond my means. - Oscar Wilde
I've always been led to believe that the ultimate goal for an author is the movie deal. Now I understand that the movie deal is merely a MEANS TO A MUCH HIGHER END: NAIL POLISH. - Kristin Cashore
Being honest it doesnt mean you are always doing the right thing. It means you are truethful. In doing that you are getting more respect and being respected for the trueth you say nomatter what you did or worse is the damage. You will also be trusted in many things. - De philosopher DJ Kyos
The central feature of pride is enmity—enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen. Enmity means hatred toward, hostility to, or a state of opposition. It is the power by which Satan wishes to reign over us. - Ezra Taft Benson
That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything. - Noam Chomsky
When something means nothing to you, you can do everything you want; but someday, somehow you may have to pay for it. - Munia Khan
Penance is a sacrifice, a voluntary punishment to show remorse for a sin. The more grievous the sin, the greater the self-inflicted suffering. For some, the ultimate penance is death. But for others, it simply a means to an end. - Emily Thorne
I challenge every one of you who can hear me to rise to the divinity within you. Do we really realize what it means to be a child of God, to have within us something of the divine nature? - Gordon B. Hinckley
The true sign of a robust and mature life rests in how many times that life has been knocked down, for to be incessantly knocked down and yet find oneself still standing means that someone had the resolve to get up that many times plus one. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Having faith often means doing what others see as crazy. Something is wrong when our lives make sense to unbelievers.and also my friend i learned this To believers, the bible is a holy book, to unbelievers like u it is a story book. - Sean Davz
Achievement of divine consciousness means innumerable people will give him this divine consciousness. Innumerable people will come and say, ‘We are you.’ So, when these people are announcing this before me, then only I am getting divine consciousness. At the same time they are also achieving it. - Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond
To understand possible means to understand impossible. - Dejan Stojanovic
The Christian life means putting off the character of the world and putting on the character of Christ. - Jim George
In what areas are you learning and growing? If the answer is none that means you're stagnating or regressing. Learn more, earn more, know more, grow more! - Rob Liano
I hope I can never trust my wife. If I trust her it means I know her. If I know her it means I understand her. If I understand her it means I can control her, and if I can control her it would make her boring and uninteresting… Dear god I hope I can never trust my wife… - Ben Mitchell
The world needs the kind of education by means of which character is formed, strength of the mind is increased and the human intellect is expanded beyond its own limits. - Abhijit Naskar
The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.
To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it. - Osho
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. - e e cummings
By all means judge and react, but at some point afterwards be sure to reflect and switch sides. The next time you might be less quick to react. - Nina Joshi Ramsey
Global inequality means that while the wealthy have too few needs, the needy have too little wealth. Capitalism is stymied, courting long-term disaster. - Benjamin Barber
Think different does not mean to think out of the box. It means to question what the significance of a box is? - priyavrat gupta
Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement. - Jackson Pollock
Being a positive person doesn't mean you never have negative thoughts. It just means you don't allow them space to take root and grow to control your life. - Lorri Faye
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. - Aristotle
Since the end of human action, as distinct from the end products of fabrication, can never be reliably predicted, the means used to achieve political goals are more often than not of greater relevance to the future world than the intended goals. - Hannah Arendt
War is a continuation of politics by other means.
You'll be happy if you'll remember that men don't change much. Women do. Women adapt themselves, and if you think that means they lose their individuality, you're wrong. Show me a happy marriage and I'll show you a clever woman. - Elizabeth Cadell
Therefore we will not listen to the source itself in order to learn what it is or what it means, but rather to the turns of speech, the allegories, figures, metaphors, as you will, into which the source has deviated, in order to lose it or rediscover it—which always amounts to the same. - Jacques Derrida
War means fighting, and fighting means killing. - Nathan Bedford Forrest
War is not a means but an end. It makes violence respectable and makes sadists look like heroes. - Mary Horlock
Until is a very important word. It means that you will never give up. - Jim Rohn
If people are jealous of you, it means you are worth something. - Amit Kalantri
Be as audaciousAs you wish.By all means look to the heavens. - Scott Hastie
All I know is I'm totallyalone. All alone i n an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who's lost his compass and his map. Is this what it means to be free? I don't know, and I give up thinking about it. - Haruki Murakami
Comfort zone: simply means the routine of one’s daily life it is a psychological state in which one feels familiar, safe, at ease, and secure. - Roy T. Bennett
Presumption means nothing more than as stated by Lord Mansfield, the weighing of probabilities, and deciding, by the powers of common sense, on which side the truth is. - Sir William Draper
Every man ought to be supposed a knave, and to have no other end, in all his actions, but private interest. By this interest we must govern him, and by means of it, make him cooperate to public good, notwithstanding his unsatiable avarice and ambition. - Alexander Hamilton
Most whites do not have a racial identity, but they would do well to understand what race means for others. They should also ponder the consequences of being the only group for whom such an identity is forbidden and who are permitted no aspirations as a group. - Jared Taylor
Being more self-aware means welcoming more light into a dull life. After the light is let in to our self-perceptions, we immediately realise that it always has been there, yet we created an illusion of darkness. - Raphael Zernoff
When you born again you are stepped into greatness and it means you are in zone of Miracles. - Dariush Youkhaneh
The goal of life isn't to make lots of money. Its to make a life that means EXCLUSIVE. - Mohit Manke
The mere fact that I exist, means that I deserve to be here and to express myself any damn way I please. - Euphoria Godsent
Apologizing does not always mean you're wrong and the other person is right. It just means you value your relationship more than your ego. - Mark Matthews
Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistake of our own period. And that means the old books. - C.S. Lewis
The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends. - Charles de Gaulle
Nobody wants to fall into a safety net, because it means the structure in which they've been living is in a state of collapse and they have no choice but to tumble downwards. However, it beats the alternative. - Lemony Snicket
To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes. - Akira Kurosawa
I alternate between feeling sympathetic toward humanity and being a misanthrope. When I'm sympathetic, it usually means I haven't been around people in awhile. - John Raptor
A taste for adventure is by no means a masculine monopoly. - Lloyd Alexander
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry". - Erich Wolf Segal
What is love?It's not empathy, nor kindness.Empathy takes two, the one who hurts and the one who empathizes.Kindness takes two, the one who gives and the one who takes.But love takes just one.The two get together into one.They don't separate.The "I" and the "you" disappear.I LOVE MEANS I DISAPPEAR.. - Nikos Kazantzakis
If you Fail, Never Give Up because, F.A.I.L means First Attempt In Learning. - Jerhia
Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life. - William Blake
Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. "It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.
It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants. - William Cobbett
But life isn't something that should be edited. Life shouldn't be cut. The only way you'll ever discover what it truly means to be alive and human is by sharing the full experience of what it means to be human and each blemish and freckle that comes with it. - Iain Thomas
Whether you attribute it to some mysterious triple package or to your own Horatio Alger story, to succeed in America is, somehow, to be complicit with the idea of America—which means that at some level you’ve made peace with its rather ugly past. - Vijay Iyer
Becoming like Christ means aiming to serve, not be served. - Jim George
Feminism is not a dirty word. It does not mean you hate men, it does not mean you hate girls that have nice legs and a tan, and it does not mean you are a bitch or a dyke. It means you believe in equality. - Kate Nash
Politics is merely war by other means.-an old Andorian saying - David Mack
Principle’ [Established Truth] means everywhere applicable; when there is nothing else, it is called Principle. - Dada Bhagwan
By all means, learn beyond the classroom. In the end, thats all that will matter - Gossy Ukanwoke
Writing well means never having to say, "I guess you had to be there. - Jef Mallett
Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work. - Adrienne Rich
God long ago defined what it means to do evil. It is for violations of His standards that we are to be afraid. - The Liberty Book
Problems can usually be solved with simple, mundane solutions. That means there’s no glamorous work. You don’t get to show off your amazing skills. You just build something that gets the job done and then move on. This approach may not earn you oohs and aahs, but it lets you get on with it. - Jason Fried
If you Fail, Never Give Up because, F.A.I.L means "First Attempt In Learning". - Jerhia
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