Quotes About Means

Prayer is a sacred and appointed means to obtain all the blessings that we want, whether they relate to this life or the life to come.

If democracy is a means rather than an end, its limits must be determined in the light of the purpose we want it to serve.

Deficit reduction is not an end in itself. It is the means to an end. Canadians must now decide what kind of country they want to build with the hard-won dividend.

I have no way and therefore want no eyes I stumbled when I saw. Full oft 'tis seen our means secure us, and our mere defects prove our commodities.

The way I've been able to embrace fame is by realizing that celebrity is just a means to send whatever message you want out into the world.

I should not get Social Security. I think it's a travesty for a man of my success and of my means to get anything from the federal government.

Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.

Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.

The United States can no longer rely upon foreign nations such as China to bail us out of our economic irresponsibility. We must live within our means and implement creative, free-market solutions to put Americans back in jobs and to create economic opportunities.

The term bipartisanship, that's a means to an end. That's not something that I think you run on. I think you run on solutions.

If you think about the actual problems we are facing - all the crises - we have the means to solve these crises. The past has shown us we are able to do things we never imagined we would be able to do.

I define socialism as the government controlling the means of production. I don't think the answer to some of the big vesting problems we have in this country are to solve them entirely with a government-only solution.

Small hopes were riches to those who until lately had none, and were to be pursued by every means at hand.

anything like her, and that the means mattered as much as the ends, but that wasn't any help; I already knew. I was just angry.

d]espotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvements, and the means justified by actually effecting that end.

Many feel that in today's climate some of those in authority are exercising, in effect, a self-serving, 'ends justify the means' mindset as well, and that, in turn, empowers them to do the same.

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

He (Newt Gingrich as a freshman congressman) was both passionate about his goals and coldly analytical in his means.

Men are too often harsh with women they love or have loved; women with men. And yet these harshnesses are tenderness itself when compared with the universal harshness out of which they grow; the harshness of the position towards the temperament, of the means towards the aims, of to-day towards yesterday, of hereafter towards to-day.

But what is Wisdom really? A steady handling of any means to bring about any end necessary to happiness. Yet whether one's end be the usual end — a wealthy position in life — or no, the name of wisdom is seldom applied but to the means to that usual end.

I put for a generall inclination of all mankind, a perpetuall and restlesse desire of Power after power, that ceaseth onely in Death. And the cause of this, is not always that a man hopes for a more intensive delight, than he has already attained to; or that he cannot be content with a moderate power: but because he cannot assure the power and means to live well, which he hath present, without the acquisition of more.

The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.

UAWs tend to live above their means; they emphasize consumption. And they tend to de-emphasize many of the key factors that underlie wealth building. YOU

Means and Ends The purpose of a fish trap Is to catch fish, And when the fish are caught The trap is forgotten. The purpose of a rabbit snare Is to catch rabbits. When the rabbits are caught The snare is forgotten. The purpose of words Is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped The words are forgotten. Where can I find a man Who has forgotten words? He is the one I would like to talk to.