Quotes with means

Quotes 81 till 100 of 695.

  • Robert Louis Stevenson Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • William S. Burroughs Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Aldous Huxley Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Henry Miller Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Albert Camus As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Marian Anderson As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
    Marian Anderson
    African-American contralto and one (1897 - 1993)
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  • Calamity Jane As many of the riders before me had been held up and robbed of their packages, mail and money that they carried, for that was the only means of getting mail and money between these points.
    Calamity Jane
    American frontierswoman (1852 - 1903)
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  • Bob Ainsworth As the Chief of the Defence Staff says, you don't defend on the goal line. Defending the interests of the U.K. means tackling threats early and at source, and that means intervening overseas.
    Bob Ainsworth
    British Labour Party politician (1952 - )
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  • Marshall Mcluhan As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • James Baldwin At bottom, to be colored means that one has been caught in some utterly unbelievable cosmic joke, a joke so hideous and in such bad taste that it defeats all categories and definitions.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Ayaan Hirsi Ali Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.
    Ayaan Hirsi Ali
    Somali-born Dutch-American activist, feminist and author (1969 - )
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  • George Santayana Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Bill Clinton Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Robert Collier Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Brigitte Nielsen Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman; you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation.
    Brigitte Nielsen
    Danish actress, model and singer (1963 - )
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  • Bill Rodgers Being a runner means you are now 'free' to win and lose and live life to its fullest.
    Bill Rodgers
    American marathon athlete (1947 - )
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  • L. Ron Hubbard Being competent means the ability to control and operate the things in the environment and the environment itself.
    L. Ron Hubbard
    American author and the founder of the Church of Scientology (1911 - 1986)
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  • Bill Irwin Being nominated is a great thrill, and we like to say that all four of us were nominated, which means that our director, Anthony Page was nominated four times.
    Bill Irwin
    American actor, clown and comedian (1950 - )
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  • Joyce Brothers Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.
    Joyce Brothers
    American psychologist and columnist (1927 - 2013)
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