Quotes About Means

Early on, you talk about God because you consider Him to be most important. But later, you realize there are means by which God is known and portrayed.

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.

Our state has a balanced budget. We have to live within our means in the state of Wyoming. I was in the state senate. This country needs a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. We need to live within our means.

I don't try to show off technology in my work. The technology is a means to tell stories, so I think conversations about my work can be had by very large audiences.

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.

What I have been talking about for many years is opportunity conservatism, that every policy should focus like a laser on easing the means of ascent up the economic ladder.

God has given us the Disciplines of the spiritual life as a means of receiving his grace. The Disciplines allow us to place ourselves before God so that he can transform us.

God has given us the Disciplines of the spiritual life as a means of receiving his grace. The Disciplines allow us to place ourselves

God has given us the Disciplines of the spiritual life as a means of receiving his grace. The Disciplines allow us to place ourselves before God so that he can transform us. The

the Spiritual Disciplines are the means God uses for producing in us the needed transformation of heart and mind and soul.

What's that got to do with it? Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

Grand strategy is about marrying ends to means, about doing what you can, consistent with the nation's capabilities and resources.

Forgetting our objectives. —During the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every profession is chosen and commenced as a means to an end but continued as an end in itself. Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent of all acts of stupidity. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, 1844

A kind of bolt-hole, you mean. To escape to if there's trouble." "Exactly. I think there are people in these transnationals who want Mars terraformed just as quickly as possible, by any means necessary.

When a heart is sufficiently focused and ruthless in its desires...then, for good or evil, the end will justify any means

When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.

Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability.

The knife is the most durable, immortal, the most genius thing that man created. The knife was the guillotine; the knife is the universal means of solving all knots; and along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox - the single most worthy path of the fearless mind.

Freedom and crime are so indissolubly connected to each other, like... well, like the movement of the aero and its velocity. When the velocity of the aero = 0, it doesn't move; when the freedom of a person = 0, he doesn't commit crime. This is clear. The sole means of ridding man of crime is to rid him of freedom.

Freedom and crime are so indissolubly connected to each other, like . . . well, like the movement of the aero and its velocity. When the velocity of the aero = 0, it doesn't move; when the freedom of a person = 0, he doesn't commit crime. This is clear. The sole means of ridding man of crime is to rid him of freedom.

Every political mean is imperfect."

Any humane and reasonable person must conclude that if the ends, however desirable, are uncertain and the means are horrible and certain, these means must not be employed.

You are the only means that love has for conquering its opposition; therefore you are infinitely precious in the eyes of spirit.