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No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

George Bernard Shaw

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

George Bernard Shaw

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Oscar Wilde

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Oscar Wilde

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.

Theodore Roosevelt

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Eric Sevareid

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Henry Ford

So, let us not be blind to our differences - but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.

John F. Kennedy

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

Calvin Coolidge

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness.

Ayn Rand

Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

Horace Mann

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Aldous Huxley

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.

Horace Mann

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

Aldous Huxley

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.

Mahatma Gandhi

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

T. S. Eliot

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Vincent van Gogh

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

Sallust

Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

Calvin Coolidge

The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.

Aesop

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.

Thucydides

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.

William Cobbett

You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever 'the old' means for you.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

G. K. Chesterton

Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.

Thomas H. Huxley

To perceive means to immobilize. We seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.

Henri Bergson

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

William Faulkner

I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.

Bob Newhart

I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.

Robert Henri

True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.

Lawana Blackwell

You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends, and how, how rare and strange it is, to find in a life composed so much of odds and ends… to find a friend who has these qualities, who has, and gives those qualities upon which friendship lives. How much it means that I say this to you -without these friendships - life, what cauchemar!

T.s. Eliot

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

John Adams

Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.

William S. Burroughs

Paranoia means having all the facts.

William S. Burroughs

Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.

John Buchan

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.

Saint Jerome

America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens.

George W. Bush

It increases what we call the footprint. It gives us more reliable coverage in an area. That saves us money because it means we have to buy fewer access points. It's more flexible and cheaper to install.

Skip Morris

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

Heinrich Heine

Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.

Eric Hoffer

This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.

Abraham Cowley

The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.

Bertrand Russell

Part of me, I'm torn on this event because I'm so excited for Dillon. I know as a golfer what it means for him, but as a college golf coach I'm kind of excited for this thing to be done. I'd like to get back to getting us all focused on college golf here. We have a team that should be the best in the Big Ten.

Pat Goss

We were playing not to lose. Whenever we play not to lose, it means that guys aren't being aggressive. It means we're slowing things down.

Andre Barrett

I feel for Ben that he has had to stand down from the position because I know how much he does cherish it. But he also has had to weigh up what the position means and it's a courageous decision for him to make.

John Worsfold

What it means is Eclipse now gets to expand its footprint beyond the traditional computing environment, and it gets to reach out to the mobile device.

Judith Hurwitz

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

Harold Macmillan

Our inventions are won't to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

Henry David Thoreau

It will be a very peaceful informational picket. It's not a work stoppage by any means.

Clay Maxwell

For the first time, we've got a woman as head of government. That means something. I hope that this woman really gets a chance and doesn't continue to be surrounded by disrespect and intrigue.

Alice Schwarzer

On beans, blue generally means I'm on higher, better ground. Red means low, poorer soil because it's higher in alkali and salts.

Arlen Koepp

Stability is useless if it means mediocrity.

Pierre Blayau

Election time means time out. There is a strong argument for refraining from doing dramatic things right now.

Shlomo Avineri

Anytime you win against a hometown rival, it's neat. The fans are more into it, and means more to the people of Springdale.

Tim Rippy

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

Eric Hoffer

Having been arrested in the early 60s for civil rights and to be recognized by the same entity that arrested you, it means very much. It's a total circle— a 360 degree turn.

Raoul Cunningham

But no, the record industry refused to embrace the idea and so what happens is, people just go ahead and do it anyway, which means there is less and less money going into the industry.

Rick Wakeman

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Dr. John Marshall

I look forward to Wednesdays. It means a lot to these people and we get a blessing out of it, too.

Dave Horton

I got very depressed at one stage. ... When you're really depressed you think of suicide but there aren't any means of doing it.

Norman Kember

When your family members in Texas and New Jersey can call you and say, 'Good game, I saw what you did,' that means a little bit more.

Atron Jackson

Stats don't mean a lot to me. What means a lot is being available to play every day. I like to play the game and that's what I think about. I love the game and I don't want to lose that.

Alfonso Soriano

When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Katherine Mansfield

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

Clement Atlee

As enterprise environments become more reliant on different types of information, search companies have to keep innovating to keep up. That means looking at what enterprises need and doing continual development based on that.

Sue Feldman

There's no use having him throw unless he's close. And if that means early September, it's early September.

Brad Arnsberg

Until you deal with this, you do not know how much you take for granted. That's why all of the love and support means so much to us. We owe it all to God!

Jennifer Wynn

Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.

Artemus Ward (writer)

This award means more because it came from Dick and Connie.

Patrick Foster

We will act according to the situation that we face, ... We will use any means peaceful and violent.

Ali Hussein

We wanted to come out of today with about 22 points and we came out with 12. That means (today) is moving day. We've got to get moving.

Tom Rutledge

It's been a good working relationship with (Electrolux) so far, ... (The expansion) means a lot to us. It means they want to be here.

Mark Pope

I find that we all get more legendary as time goes by. "Legend" means, basically, "bullshit."

Joel Rosenberg

Sometimes IM conversations you have are private and sensitive. You click a link, and that means the chat won't be saved in your email account or theirs or anywhere in between.

Keith Coleman

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means.

Dodie Smith

It means that, hopefully, there's going to be a lot of new tree sales generated in the local retail businesses, which is great for them.

Diana Cohen

We have used a different kind of grass because it gives a much thicker and more even covering which means it won't break up as the match goes on and there won't be much turn, even on days four and five.

Tony Ware

If you don't pay your fine, they put a body attachment (on you), which means you're up for arrest.

Dedra Mannon

By all means they (charges) must be laid, ... It is heartbreaking to see this happen. My daughter is crying as she is helping pull waterfowl that are oil-soaked (and) half dead out of the water.

Don Goss

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.

Erich Segal

You know, to see both cars run well this year, it's outstanding. It means a lot, because we know the equipment is the same. These guys have done an outstanding job.

Rick Hendrick

There will be good days and bad, which means that some days I may be cranky and some days really cranky!

Peter Jennings

I am very happy that we are continuing our brilliant collaboration with Cervlo. It has been a pleasure being part of the developent of their bikes. I've been constantly impressed with their technology and it means a lot to me that we have best material available. Cervlo's bikes give us a competitive edge and I know that I can win the biggest races on these bikes.

Ivan Basso

Exchanges generally have proven to be much more profitable than initially thought. They have monopolistic characteristics, which means there are very high barriers to entry, and that's a businessman's dream.

Tina Larsson

Disbursed means the contracts have been signed. That doesn't mean the money has actually arrived.

Carine Roenen

It gets rid of legibility problems, and that means a decrease in errors.

Steve Hubbard

We had a lot of chatter and there were no attacks, ... Now that there's no chatter -- does that mean there will be no attack, or is there something else we should be concerned about? I don't think we have enough information to conclude what it means.

C. David Heymann

I didn't really expect much so I guess I got more than I expected. It means I have more potential that I thought I did.

Anthony Baccam

I'm pleased. It's not that we were afraid of federal court. Our attorneys were prepared for either federal or state court. This just means it will be more convenient for us.

Laura Ward

What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself.

Karl Rahner

It means he's doing his job because he's on base. You have to be on base to score runs. The more times he scores, the better off the Chicago Cubs are.

John Mabry

It's for those who don't know what 'bonsai' means, too. Just come. Learn from there.

Tim Shea

Everyone understands. Everyone knows what this game means. You just like having this opportunity, anytime you can get it.

Cris Carter

School means I have to do homework. That takes up my time when I should be riding my dirt bike.

Richard Walker

The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.

John Naisbitt

As far as we're concerned our city council doesn't respect the work that our people do ... so this fight is not over as far as we're concerned. Not by any means.

John Mccormick

It means to me like home. There are a lot of people who care about us like Ryan and Tracy. They protect us.

Chris Garcia

Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

Robert A. Heinlein

Most companies have somebody who is so instrumental to the business that losing them means the company may never be the same.

Loretta Worters

It was given by the French, ... It means 'snake.'

Tex Hall

We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of God's existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith.

Real Live Preacher

Our experience means we can bring a bit of clarity to proceedings at crucial moments and to calm the troops if necessary.

Thomas Lievremont

We try to be really inclusive, and that means occasionally you'll get somebody that's really not very good so you try to cover for them. You try to make it as smooth as possible, but we try to limit the exposure. That way the audience might say, 'That was interesting,' but it won't be grating on your ears.

Vallorie Hodges

This (growth forecast) means that there's a foundation in the market. It's not spectacular growth but it is growth.

Frans Van Houten

Sometimes a majority simply means that all the fools are on the same side.

Claude Mcdonald

Her first name means 'princess,' and that's exactly what she was - a regal Southern lady.

David Zinman

What this means is a return to sanity. There has been so much hype and so many promises made and promises broken.

David Chamberlain

The streamlined workflow means we are able to cope with these sorts of volumes.

Roger Butcher

Terrorism is a word that's bandied around a lot at the moment, and the more we use it, the less it means; and the more we use it, the less we have to ask ourselves why someone is doing these things. The important thing is to ask why.

Hugo Weaving

This means that we can now afford to do those studies.

Peter Donnelly

It by no means was related to his enthusiasm for the performance. He gave it everything he had.

David Demartini

If there's someone who stole her password through surreptitious means, there's nothing [Hilton] could do.

Avivah Litan

The fact that we are launching the satellite in Russia means that we can do so with the Earth's rotation and makes it more effective and gives it a longer life span.

Shimon Eckhaus

We've called for a citizens' boycott. That means we're being responsible, we're republicans.

Ali Keita

The combination of the good people that surround him, with the experience that James Packer's had, means they will have the capacity to execute those plans.

Craig Shepherd

It's a great way to get away from the pressures of finals and a great way to have fun on campus, even if it means getting people to fling mud at each other.

Leia Biholar

By all means we want our members to be active in a number of different programs, but we want fellowship also.

Mike Rolston

Our whole mission is enriching lives through learning. Basically, that means exposing them to everything, whether it's swinging a golf club or developing a picture.

Terry O'connor

Agriculture for an honorable and highminded man, is the best of all occupations or arts by which men procure the means of living.

Xenophon

Offers accepted, or initiated sales (for single-family homes) were way down also, at only 811 (for January 2006). Only January 2001 had fewer, at 761. So 811 is significant and it means February closings will be way down.

Richard Calhoun

If you can cover [a wideout] with one rather than with two or three, do the math. It means more guys are rushing.

Al Golden

The law creates a means test, ... it remains as it has always has been.

Jim Donahue

This win means we're back. We won because of heart and by believing we could do it.

Turhan Douglas

If you give people access to means to solve their own problems, it touches something very, very deep.

Neil Gershenfeld

What is going on today is the seizure of power by unconstitutional means.

Aleksandr Milinkevich

Indonesia has been exploring and producing oil and gas for 100 years. Now you have to push further out and that means more expense and deeper water.

Angus Graham

That means a lot to us. Most of my friends back home, they don't have this. Everyone's been great.

Brandon Nash

It feels good to come into this gym and win, ... But 2-0 means nothing in the TAC-8. There are four teams that could win this league.

Ida Scott Taylor

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

Maria Callas

The biggest problem we had doing this project was that some homerooms only have eight or 10 people in them. That means that each person would have to bring in 10 items, and that can get kind of expensive.

John O'malley

Their eyebrows almost tumble into their eyes. That means that blurting things out is very important to them. Spontaneous communication.

Rose Rosetree

Just the act of listening means more than you can imagine to most employees.

Bob Nelson

We're still checking on that. Actually, I hope he did. That means he liked it.

Herbert Spiegel

This aircraft means a lot, being in here, not just because it was the aircraft I got shot up in, in Vietnam, but because it is the aircraft we used in Vietnam.

Jim Newman

Every game here means something. We're not just playing it out.

Gary Bennett

Designation simply means you have an interest in future space activities that may require licensing.

William Hoffman

There is no means by which men so powerfully elude their ignorance, disguise it from themselves and from others as by words.

Gamaliel Bradford

We have to find out what the settlement means. The case is still on.

Thomas Bach

Not as much as Clark Gable's, but in that direction. It means that they're rebels in real life.

Rose Rosetree

The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.

Alan Coren

For victims and survivors, the help means everything.

Jennifer Garraway

We're looking forward to going back. It means a lot. Hopefully this time we can bring back the state championship.

Meredith Levison

Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that God gave me to use. I'm happy with that.

Aretha Franklin

For me, it is ok that everyone talks about Rossi. It means I can just calmly focus on what I have to do.

Felipe Massa

[Van Meir said she ultimately concluded that the therapy was merely] the bait ... I believe they will use any way they can to get kids involved. For them, the end justifies the means.

Alfred E. Newman

AOL customers bought $2.5 billion worth of goods last year. What that means is a lot of transactions went through AOL.

Barry Parr

It means that people are frustrated and people are not happy.

Hossam Badrawi

A pylon in the garden means cancer in the house. It's not just because this is my home that I am protesting. I want to protect everyone's homes.

Kenny Logan

I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.

Agnetha Faltskog

Narrowing the spread means more is left in the consumer's pocket and less in the stock dealer's pocket.

Jeff Duncan

The main question now is how can the churches come back on their own. That will be difficult given the economic means. But I think if the help pours in from outside, it will happen.

Gerald Webster

You have to have a Class B Commercial Drivers License with a passenger restriction. That means the only thing you can drive is a bus.

Heath Kramer

But we are going to keep trying to communicate with the Cuban people by any means we can.

Michael Parmly

So I still have a number of years left at this level if I keep myself right. To have 50 caps and still only be 30 means there are a few more in me yet.

John Hartson

The narrowness in the market is troubling and that probably means that the short term is not going to be all that exciting.

Scott Wittman

Today, one of the most important means of spreading diseases around the globe is air travel.

C. David Heymann

The labor market is very healthy, with both jobs and wages advancing at a nice clip. This means that households will have plenty of cash to support consumption in 2006.

Stephen Stanley

You don't learn how to say 'hey, I have a problem,' but you also don't learn how to hear it. There's a total breakdown of how females talk to one another. It's very disconcerting for leadership because it means you don't talk to each other; you talk about each other.

Rachel Simmons

Digging yourself a hole is one thing. If you have the character to dig yourself out of it, that's another. I don't think the game was handed to us by any means. The guys really dug deep. That's impressive.

Ken Gernander

He knows the game and he is always talking which means I don't have to. He brings a lot of vocal leadership to the field.

Terry Kochis

We've made a big step, but I don't think this means we can relax our guard.

Nobuyoshi Fujiwara

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.

Antonin Artaud

I say that confidently. I'm not by any means going to play the perfect game, but I feel like I can go in there and make the plays and get the things done that can win us a game.

Philip Rivers

God means us to be free. With divine daring, He gave us the power of choice.

Cecil B. De Mille

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

George Santayana

Music is a means of Rapid Transportation.

John Cage

It's basically a beauty contest for dogs. And beauty is judged by the breed standard. And he is very, very much what they call in the dog show business, 'typing,' which means he's very much the type that the standard describes.

Anne Paige

The council felt it was important because of the public vote that every legal means should be exhausted. Now that the courts have made the decision, we'll have to follow it.

City Manager Carlos Palacios

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

Barbara Bush

While we've all heard of Einstein's big idea, very few of us know what it means.

John Lithgow

My performances tend to be a little bit off-centre, whatever that means.

Rachel Weisz

Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.'

Russell B. Long

We expect to see sales to our western customers increase. We'll be closer to the customer, which means they should get their orders quicker.

Doug Eckrote

The faculty is all excited ... they are well aware of what it means. This is the best chance we've ever had.

Paul Rickard

There is a part of this that means we're good stewards of the taxpayer dollar.

Hannah Vick

It means we are going to have to contend with stronger opposition consistently and we are going to have to step up.

Barry Barnes

It is probably too early for us to tell what that means, but it is very important to us that he has a lot of brain activity.

Dr. Julian Bailes

I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are.

Aaron Mcgruder

We understand what it means to lose your generators. Everything went under for us in '77.

Cheryl Hickman

It's exciting to see that the Legislature is embracing it as a means of bringing help and healing to people. I'm excited at the momentum it's gaining.

Daryl Logullo

Being here creates an impact of its own and really gives a sense of the reality and what that means, what Israel means, what the people of Israel are like.

Michael Kotzin

It's confidence. You've got to know you've got to be able to get away in big matches, and that means something to me. It's the biggest match I've been in since high school, the state championship match, and I got out in the state finals.

Matt Irwin

The first incarnation was where the protein was a product. Now we have entered a phase where the protein isn't the product, but a means to an end.

Jim Swartz

Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion.

Dorthea Brande

I'm still not feeling that hot, but this event means so much for the kids, ... That's what it's really all about. For the kids, this is an important week.

Peter Jacobsen

The rivalry means a lot. I've been watching it ever since I can remember. I can't say I hate them. I dislike them a lot, let's put it that way. It feels good to know that since I've been in school, we haven't lost to them.

Frostee Rucker

The current technology means that people can open and close an appendage, a hook, that has a cosmetic cover but nothing more. Everybody in the field knows we have to improve upon this.

William Craelius

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

Ulysses S. Grant

The most effective means for trunk strengthening should involve back or abdominal exercises with unstable bases.

David Behm

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

Joan Didion

Now a Master's means everything. That was my little bit of advice to him. If I could do it all over again, I would get my Masters.

Tommie Patterson

Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.

Don Shula

With the new rules this season and our inconsistency, a two or three-goal lead isn't a safe lead by any means.

Nick Vitucci