Means Quotes

Our species is on the verge of changes that will fundamentally alter what it means to be human... and we are the people driving that change.

An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.

Your primary presumption that The Bridge was proffered as an epic has no substantial foundation. You know quite well that I doubt that our present stage of cultural development is so ordered yet as to provide the means or method for such an organic manifestation as that.

When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand.

I work hard at that, but the fact that there are a lot of good songs means there are also a lot of really bad songs I've written that you never hear.

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.

Hospice means end-of-life care. The admission ticket is a diagnosis from a doctor that you have six months or less to live.

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

I try to be fussy about the parts I play. I think that's quite prudent, it means you're stretching different muscles, and you're scaring yourself by doing something which is out of your comfort zone.

Time means a great deal to every runner. It means everything to me, because most days miles don't count; only minutes do.

Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men.

Of course, there is no question that Libya - and the world - will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake.

I've always been spontaneous and outgoing... I've tried lots of things so I've got some good life experiences, which is great 'cause it means I've got lots of material to work with as an actor.

I always leave that for other people to decide, because some of the things I consider to be disasters are some people's favorite movies. And that's what I like so much, is that you never know. Something intrigues somebody and means nothing to somebody else.

As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love.

I'm a Reagan Republican, which means I don't speak ill of other Republicans.

It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.

Once the attacks occur, as we learned on Sept. 11, it is too late. It makes little sense to deprive ourselves of an important, and legal, means to detect and prevent terrorist attacks while we are still in the middle of a fight to the death with al Qaeda.

My first care the following morning was, to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey cloak.

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

It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.

I still don't know what Episcopalian means.

There's so many people that dislike you all the time, so when somebody loves anything that you do, you go 'Yes! Finally!' Even if it means the dyn-o-mite thing.

Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition.

Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent.

I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.

But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.

What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?