Quotes About Means

The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means.

Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.

When any great design thou dost intend, Think on the means, the manner, and the end.

We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.

All men have happiness as their object: there are no exceptions. However different the means they employ they aim at the same end.

Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.

Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.

The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.

Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.

The history of all the world tells us that immoral means will ever intercept good ends.

Construed as a means instead of an end, history is the weapon with which we defend the future against the past.

Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil.

When your mission is to restore honor and integrity to the White House, you've got to be willing to use any means necessary.

To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.

For a people, as for an individual, it is tragic to have ambitions and to lack both the means essential to their fulfillment and any hope of acquiring those means.

Sherlock [Holmes] is on the side of the angels, but don't think he's one of them. He uses similar means, but it seems to be for a better purpose, one would hope.

I find so much writing colourless, small in its means, unwilling to take stylistic risks. Often it goes wrong; I am not the one to judge. Sometimes, I hope, it goes right.

If there is to be any proving of our humanity it must be by revolutionary means

Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. Its a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.

I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination?

When people wish for harmony, I wish for chaos. I'd rather see imaginative means of self-destruction, than to see laziness and wasted potential.

Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realization of the end.

Knower of the means makes impossible tasks also possible.

A state without the means of some change, is without the means of its own conservation.