Quotes About Means

Enchantment and seduction were fine means of persuasion, but when time is short, an awkward but quick concussion could better serve a girl's purpose.

The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration

I have been disillusioned, however, this long, long time in the means used by any but the saints to live in this world God has made for us.

When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth.

About half the global economy is living beyond not only its means but its diminished number of children's means. Instead of addressing that fact, countries with government debt of 125 percent of GDP are being rescued by countries with government debt of 80 percent of GDP. Good luck with that.

The rooms at the Folkestone hotel must be large, and on the first floor. A carriage must be hired for her use while she remained; but every shilling must be saved the spending of which would not make itself apparent to the outer world. Oh, deliver us from the poverty of those who, with small means, affect a show of wealth!

El que quiera el fin tiene que querer también los medios.

Wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

Happiness is a kind of activity of the soul; whereas the remaining good things are either merely indispensable conditions of happiness, or are of the nature of auxiliary means, and useful instrumentally.

Nevertheless, some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.

Rhetoric then may be defined as the faculty of discovering the possible means of persuasion in reference to any subject whatever.

It is thus evident that Rhetoric does not deal with any one definite class of subjects, but, like Dialectic, [is of general application]; also, that it is useful; and further, that its function is not so much to persuade, as to find out in each case the existing means of persuasion.

For there are two reasons why human beings face danger calmly: they may have no experience of it, or they may have means to deal with it: thus when in danger at sea people may feel confident about what will happen either because they have no experience of bad weather, or because their experience gives them the means of dealing with it.

Further: Wish has for its object the End rather, but Moral Choice the means to the End; for instance, we wish to be healthy but we choose the means which will make us so; or happiness again we wish for, and commonly say so, but to say we choose is not an appropriate term, because, in short, the province of Moral Choice seems to be those things which are in our own power.

As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful.

It mattered to us both to have some point of reference in that strange place, some means of attesting to the effect it had on us. [p. 87]

Civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of the means to power and coercion.

The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.

The means, it is said, will be justified by the end; but it is the means which define it, and if it is contradicted at the moment that it is set up, the whole enterprise sinks into absurdity.

Faith is not the ground or basis upon which we are justified, but the means, the instrument, by which we are united to Christ, in whom our justification, our right-wising with God, has been accomplished.

You want to go out? he asks suddenly. I blink. As in a date? Yes. That's what a guy usually means when he asks that question.

The opportunities of living are diminished in proportion as what are called the "means" are increased.

For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life.