Quotation Explorer - 'Means'

"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

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

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

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

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

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry". - Erich Wolf Segal

If your freedom means immorality, the cross will cry over your freedom. - JOEL NYARANGI AKOYA

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

Love means making time for that special someone - even when you don't have the time. - Charline Ratcliff

Moderation is an attempt to live within one's emotional means. - Marty Rubin

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

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

Love means touching someone's soul may or may not be body - Utpal Dutta

Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage. - Evan Esar

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

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

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

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

There's nothing good about goodnight when it means goodbye. - Jeff Thomas

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

faith means super confidence - Nation Chirara White

Smart means having intellectual humility rather than high cognitive ability. - Tara Estacaan

To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery. - Nicole Brossard

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

Failure doesn't mean you have failed. It means you haven't succeeded yet - Anamika Mishra

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

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 a lot of cures are suggested for a disease, it means tat the disease is incurable. - Anton Chekhov

Forgiveness means letting go of the hope for a better past. - Lama Surya Das

Freedom without the means to be self-supporting is a one-armed triumph. - Michelle Cliff

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

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

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

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

Love means never saying goodbye. - Harley

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. - Laurence J. Peter

The word 'innocence' means a mind that is incapable of being hurt. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

Namaste means that whatever is precious and beautiful in me honors whatever is precious and beautiful in you. - Debasish Mridha

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

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

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

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

if youre never scared, or embarased, or hurt, it means you never take any chances. - Julia Sorel

Moha (illusory vision) means new things keep arising, and one indeed sees new things; and he remains engrossed in them. - Dada Bhagwan

Never in mankind’s history have we so fundamentally changed our means of existence with so little thought. - James Rozoff

...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.

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

at start of a day -a day ends ,means there is no start or no end of a date - litymunshi

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

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

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.

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

There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one's problems and sorrows with one. - Elizabeth Aston

If you think we can't change the world, it just means you're not one of those who will. - Jacque Fresco

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

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. - Calvin Coolidge

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

Essentially, meditation means to experientally realize that you are not an individual bubble - you are a universe. - Sadghuru

Words don't means; people means. - Griffin

What does greed mean? Greed means taking away what belongs to others. - Dada Bhagwan

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense. - Carl Sagan

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

getting over it/ just means getting around it/ and sometimes/ you gotta go through it/ leave it torn and blasted apart - Shane L. Koyczan

Prayer gives you a supernatural boldness that you cannot get by any other means - Sunday Adelaja

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

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

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

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

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means. - Sallust

The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end. - Saint Jerome

To succeed means you to sail across some difficult courses. - Auliq Ice

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

Light means knowledge in the Greek language it can also be translated as illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding and wisdom - Sunday Adelaja

To dream" means to focus and zoom the photos of destiny called visions for clearer view, manipulation and exploitation. - Israelmore Ayivor

War is not a means but an end. It makes violence respectable and makes sadists look like heroes. - Mary Horlock

If we preach God, it means we preach light. Consequently we preach freedom from ignorance. - Sunday Adelaja

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

If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow. - William McFee

His attention means nothing if you don't have his respect. - Stephan Labossiere

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

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

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

Fostering a spirit of cooperation with your ex means laying down your weapons in the war of divorce in order to protect your children.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When something means nothing to you, you can do everything you want; but someday, somehow you may have to pay for it. - Munia Khan

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 wake up with a song stuck in your head, it means an angel sang you to sleep. - Denise Baer

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

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

Creativity means bringing simplicity to the existing. - Amit Kalantri

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires. - Pope John Paul II

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

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

To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes. - Fritz Kunkel

Spirituality [Nischay] means complete truth and worldly interactions means truth to a certain extent. - Dada Bhagwan

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

[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

Paranoia means having all the facts. - William S. Burroughs

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

If you get NO as an answer, remember, N.O means Next Opportunity. - Jerhia

Courage doesn't mean you don't get afraid. Courage means you don't let fear stop you. - Bethany Hamilton

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

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. - Andrew Schweitzer

If people are jealous of you, it means you are worth something. - Amit Kalantri

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life. - William Blake

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Liberty also means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. - George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Failure doesn't means falling down; it means hiding somewhere to safeguard own interest. - Ashish Patel

Gnani (The Enlightened one) means without Ego. - Dada Bhagwan

If you allow it, [suffering] can be the means by which God brings you His greatest blessings. - Charles R. Swindoll

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. - George Bernard Shaw

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. - G.K. Chesterton

Being crazy doesn't mean being mentally challenged. Maybe it just means being you...amplified a 100 times over. - Mamur Mustapha

Human excellence means nothing unless it works with the consent of God. - Euripides

The end must justify the means. - Matthew Prior

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

It is a law of nature that we defend ourselves from one affection only by means of another. - Paul Valery

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

never trust anyone who says they do not see color. this means to them,you are invisible. - Nayyirah Waheed

To love someone means to see them as God intended them. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support. - John Buchan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends. - Immanuel Kant

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. - Aristotle

Living your life on your terms, means No excuses and only results. - LadyTiara

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. - Henry Miller

Accomplishing the impossible means only the boss will add it to your regular duties. - Doug Larson

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..."

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

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

Every single person is sacred. Sacred means special, precious, a treasure of true beauty. That means you. - Amy Leigh Mercree

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

When a plan fails, it does not mean we have failed. It just means we need a new plan. - Jenna Alatari

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

Moksha (ultimate liberation) means that you just have to change your vision. - Dada Bhagwan

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means. - Sir Henry Taylor

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

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

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.

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

Healing doesn’t mean forgetting or making the memories insignificant. Healing means refocusing - American Pregnancy Association

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

... I said to myself that growing up really means slowing down.

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

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

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

Accepting the nonexistence of being,when the absence of existence means the negation of being. - Marieta Maglas- Eschatological Regression

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. - Thorstein Veblen

Politics is merely war by other means.-an old Andorian saying - David Mack

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.

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

Tax reform means "Don't tax you, don't tax me, tax that fellow behind the tree."

Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness. - George Orwell

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

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

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

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

To tell a ghost story means being willing to be haunted. - Judith "Jack" Halberstam

Liberty means refusing to allow some men to use the state to compel other men to serve their interests or opinion. - Auberon Herbert

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

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

War is a continuation of politics by other means.

A step ahead means a risk ahead... Count your steps before a mistake is made.. - Debolina Bhawal

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

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

Being able to feel love, loyalty, gratitude and happiness means you have a soul? Then all my pets are bound for heaven. - Jury Nel

Color is only beautiful when it means something. - Robert Henri

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.

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

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

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

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

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

If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. - George Orwell

Forgiveness means that you will not allow a temporary event to have forever repercussions. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

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

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

I'mpossibility simply means I'm possibility - Nana Adom

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

No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means. - Maimonides

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

A taste for adventure is by no means a masculine monopoly. - Lloyd Alexander

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

Transparency means to dedicate our thoughts and efforts to non privacy rules and not to defend negative intelligence ideas or surveillance programs. - Auliq Ice

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

Politics doesn’t mean playing deceitful and trickery games against the people, it means playing resourceful and organized games for the people. - Amit Kalantri

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

War is only a continuation of state policy by other means.

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

Heart-flow means listening to your intuition and hunches and following your heart. How can you let your heart lead today? - Amy Leigh Mercree

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

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

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

Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to. - Joe Gores

Racism in impenetrable. Staying in America means always fighting. For our own sanity and safety, we must go. - Darnell Lamont Walker

To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes. - Akira Kurosawa

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

If you Fail, Never Give Up because, F.A.I.L means First Attempt In Learning. - Jerhia

Silence is argument carried out by other means. - Ernesto Che Guevara

If nothing lasts then everything has meaning. If everything dies that means we actually live. - Chris Matakas

Being healed means committing to use your resources and knowledge. - S. Kelley Harrell

Don't ask me what it means; ask me what it felt. - Jill Telford

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

If you are staying inside your comfort zone, It means you are in a prison and that hinders your life. - Mohith Agadi

...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

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

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

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong. - Democritus

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

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right. - Albert Guinon

I do not care a fig for any woman that knows even what an author means. - William Hazlitt

AIMS without MEANS are USELESS. - shaikh mustafa

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

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

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

Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract. - Richard Diebenkorn

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-...

Success in business means doing things better than rivals, not just doing things well. - Phil Rosenzweig

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

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

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either. - Bodhidharma

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

Let me in the ring. I'll show you what that big word means. - Lorde

The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best. - Colin Powell

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

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

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

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

Potential is an excuse to procrastinate;Ambition is a means to thrive. - Donovan

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

....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

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

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

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

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

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

Mom means miracles of a magical life. - Debasish Mridha

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 a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead. - Kurt Vonnegut

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances. - Julia Sorel

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

Being brave means that knowing when you fail, you won't fail forever. - Lana Del Rey

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

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 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

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it. - Archibald Alexander

Writing well means never having to say, 'I guess you had to be there.' - Jef Mallett

Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood. - Hanif Kureishi

If a man has lost everything he has but his dreams, it means that he has still everything! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

Many people seem to think that opportunity means a chance to get money without earning it.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Our freedom through Christ means we are all free to love one another and to serve one another. - Chris Vonada

Freedom necessarily means that many things will be done which we do not like. - Friedrich von Hayek

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

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

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

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

I have been using art as a means to the emotions of life and reading into it the ideas of life. - Clive Bell

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

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. - Oscar Wilde

Being still does not mean don't move. It means move in peace. - E'yen A. Gardner

A language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols by means of which a social group cooperates. - Bernard Bloch

True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible. - Lawana Blackwell

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

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

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

If people think honoring pastors means doing everything they say, why don't they honor Jesus the same way? - D.R. Silva

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

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

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

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

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

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

I think acting is revealing to people what it means to be human. - Nick Enright

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 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

Companies' motives to make profit means they neglect inherent social or moral values. - Russell Brand

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure...it just means you haven't succeeded yet. - Robert Schuller

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

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

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

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

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.

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

In College average and numbers means everything to a guy. - Slicktor Victor Robinson

By all means, let's not confuse ourselves with the facts! - Anonymous

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

Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it. - Veronica Roth

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

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

This is life...by all means necessary - Natasha Head

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. - C.S. Lewis

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.

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

Sometimes being a good friend means being harsh.

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

Think different does not mean to think out of the box. It means to question what the significance of a box is? - priyavrat gupta

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

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'.

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

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

We Live in a World Measured by Piracy because Piracy means Access. - Kalyan C. Kankanala

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

The presence of even a single poor child on the street means a million defeats for mankind. - Mehmet Murat ildan

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

Reading doesn't mean accepting everything you read, it means reasoning everything you read. - Amit Kalantri

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

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

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave. - John Ruskin

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

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

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

I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living. - Robert Henri

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend - William Blake

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

... 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

PREJUDICE, n. A vagrant opinion without visible means of support. - Ambrose Bierce

Grace means God gives. Faith means I receive. - Dr. Lewis W Gregory

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"He means well" is useless unless he does well.

I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number. - Abraham Lincoln

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

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

Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness. - George Orwell

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

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

Ohana means family - no one gets left behind, and no one is ever forgotten.' <3 - Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois

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

Travel means a lot of learning experience to me". - Kunal Karan Kapoor

Money is only a means to serve God. - Sunday Adelaja

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

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

Charge’ means coming together of all the circumstances and ‘discharge’ means the circumstances get over. - Dada Bhagwan

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

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

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

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. - George Bernard Shaw

Religion means researching the true Eternal thing with Deluded world view (with wrong belief) and ‘this’ (akram vignan) is a science itself. - Dada Bhagwan

Integrity - one word that means so much; costs so little yet makes a real difference in this world. - Salley Farquharson

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

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

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

When I say Be Perfect - it means BE AUTHENTICALLY YOURSELF in expressing your feelings, without any external interference! - Ramana Pemmaraju

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

to be a poet meansto live with a permanent wound forever susceptibleto either the shade of the skyor someone's eyes. - Sanober Khan

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

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

A word mother, means a world to me. - Auliq-Ice

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

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

The victory of the ignorant masses always means a temporary backward movement in the progression of humanity! - Mehmet Murat ildan

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love means never to have to say, "That hooker meant nothing to me" - Jonathan "Jack" McVoy - E.J. Eisman

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

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

I have a repository of knowledge, but I have no money, it means I have no respect. - Tanmaya Guru

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

Trust means everything. But when it is broken, sorry mean nothing. - Alex Jiang

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

Great leaders do not shift responsibility even if it means acknowledging their own failures. - Gugu Mona

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

By means of industry and perseverance you will rise higher and higher. - Robert Schumann

As an artist, motive means opportunity - Siren Waroe

Success means you have succeeded in overcoming the obstacles and finally realizing the goal. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Trekking means a travelling experience with a thrilling excitement. - Amit Kalantri

The limits of my language means the limits of my world. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

Imagination means nothing without doing. - Charlie Chaplin

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

Worship means respecting all of God’s creation. - Lamees Alhassar

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking. - Clement Atlee

The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.

The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means. - Tom Stoppard

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

‎"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.

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

The goal of life isn't to make lots of money. Its to make a life that means EXCLUSIVE. - Mohit Manke

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

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

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

What life means has individual answers for each of us. - Jay Woodman

Faith means I chose not to know, which is different than ignorance which refuses to know. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Every means hitherto employed with the intention of making mankind moral has been thoroughly immoral. - Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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]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

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

Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others. - Eric Hoffer

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

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

Everything in the world is actually connected. That means, even if we get separated, we'll never be alone - Shinobu Ohtaka

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

Being a cat means beautiful, agile, innocent, brave, curious and trust also honorable respect for as much as not so doing bribery. - Sekar Arum

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

The end always doesn't justify the means you used to reach there. - Auliq Ice

Forgiveness means letting go of the past. - Gerald G. Jampolsky

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

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

School means work and work means death. Let's all go take a nap. - Emma Shannon

Having all the answers just means you've been asking boring questions. - Joey Comeau

Behavior speaks… If you’re chasing them, it means they’re running from you. Save your energy. - Steve Maraboli

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

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

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

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

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

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

Small wonder that spell means both a story told, and a formula of power over living men. -On Fairy Stories - J.R.R. Tolkien

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire. - Abbie Hoffman

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

I really don't know what "I love you" means.I think it means "Don't leave me here alone. - Neil Gaiman

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

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

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

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

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

Inner strength of character cannot be measured by any means but performance in the time of need. - K.L. Toth

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

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

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

The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His works means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning. - Truman Capote

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.

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

Kissing is a means of getting two people so close together that they can't see anything wrong with each other.

Being grateful does not mean that everything is necessarily good. It just means that you can accept it as a gift. - Roy T. Bennett

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

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.

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

The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night. - Friedrich Nietzsche

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

May we always be burdened with thinking of the suffering of others, for that is what it means to be human. - Kamand Kojouri

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

END is not the END, in fact, E.N.D means Effort Never Dies. - Jerhia

Wealth is neither an ends nor a means, it is a symptom. - Christopher Dutton

Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry.

Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what he would be capable of with the world looking on. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If you get NO as an answer, remember, N.O means "Next Opportunity". - Jerhia

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

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

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

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

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

Marrying means to halve one's rights and double one's duties - Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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

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

Good at something necessarily doesn't means you are bad at all the other things - Nitin Yadav

feeling means your dealing means your healing - Karen Salmansohn

I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are. - Aaron McGruder

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

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

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

And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming wild things. - Maurice Sendak

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

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means. - Leo Buscaglia

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

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

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

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

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

Automatic simply means that you can't repair it yourself.

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. - Henry Adams

An aim of an argument should be progress, but progress ultimately means little without victory.

… we don't need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence … - Margaret Wheatley

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

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

Self-serving-pride (swamaan) means to take precaution against being insulted. - Dada Bhagwan

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

Capitalism means that a few people will do very well, and the rest will serve the few. - Michael Moore

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. - George Orwell

Do not fall in love.....it means you have to look at someone else. - sunny-drunk

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means. - Albert Camus

One must count ones riches by the means one has to satisfy his desires. - Abbé Prévost

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be. - George Sheehan

Do not give your haters the gratification, It means you will never let yourself down. - Mohith Agadi

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

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

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

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

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

Solitude and retirement cherish grief, employment and exertion are the only means of dissipating it. - Lord Melbourne

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seems to characterize our age. - Albert Einstein

To reform the world - means to reform upbringing... - Janusz Korczak

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 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

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

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

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

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

A practice of giving [it] your best, means you don't just have to hope for it. - T.F. Hodge

A broken mirror means good luck if you want it to. - Marty Rubin

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said. - George Santayana

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever 'the old' means for you. - Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Spontaneous and natural (sahajik) speech means there is not an iota of ego in it. - Dada Bhagwan

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.

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

When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physical force. - Ayn Rand

With new hope.We build new lives.Why complain when it rains?This is what it means to be free. - Lawson Fusao Inada

Being single doesn't mean you're weak, it means that you're strong enough to wait for the right person. - Niall Horan

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

Money means nothing to a real man. - James Clavell

One of the leading causes of obesity is the misbelief that, when it comes to juice, ‘100%’ means ‘sugar-free. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Better locks just means better burglars. - Marty Rubin

They say your hardcore's not yours, and it's not fate. Nobody's gonna tell you what shit like that means. - Noah Wareness

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

Money should never be the goal. It should only be the means of attaining the goal. - Sunday Adelaja

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

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 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

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

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

Alas, I am dying beyond my means. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

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

I've found that replacing one thing for another only means you don't yet know where the glitches are. - L.R.W. Lee

Idolatry means turning a good thing into the ultimate thing. - Timothy J. Keller

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry. - Erich Segal

Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are. - Jo Deurbrouck

Psychology ideally means giving soul to language and finding language for soul. - James Hillman

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 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

Protecting your treasure means to give your life for it. - J.R. Rim

The Christian life means putting off the character of the world and putting on the character of Christ. - Jim George

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

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

Living in the ocean means never having to salt your food.

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

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.

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

Illusion means to weigh right and wrong with the same scale. - Dada Bhagwan

I don't go in for ancient wisdomI don't believe just 'cos ideas are tenacious it means they're worthy - Tim Minchin

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

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

Diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. - Zhou En Lai

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

Everything is inspiration. If you look at the world as the incredible place it is, then each moment is a feast. - J.D. Means

Pro and con are opposites, that fact is clearly seen. If progress means to move forward, then what does congress mean? - Nipsey Russell

Urgency means paying the details the attention they deserve, with the respect they deserve, without delay. - Richie Norton

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