Means By Quotes

#1. True perception is the means by which the world is saved from sin, for sin does not exist. And it is this that true perception sees.

Foundation For Inner Peace

#2. Politics is the means by which the will of the few becomes the will of the many.

Howard W. Koch

#3. I love Val. I love my job and my New York. I have no doubts that they were the right choices for me. And at the same time, I know that right choices by definition are the means by which life crystallizes loss.

Amor Towles

#4. The city-state was the means by which the Greek consciously strove to make the life both of the community and of the individual more excellent than it was before.

H.D.F. Kitto

#5. Do you happen to have a pocket mirror?
"I'm afraid not. Why?"
"I've made you late, which means by now Lady Berwick has sprouted serpents from her head, and I can't look at her directly.

Lisa Kleypas

#6. Barack Obama has raised tons of money. That is what he means by being green.

Evan Sayet

#7. Suzuki also frequently quotes a sentence of Eckhart's: "The eye wherein I see God is the same eye wherein God sees me" (Suzuki, Mysticism: East and West, p. 50) as an exact expression of what Zen means by Prajna.

Thomas Merton

#8. There are no means of finding what either one person or many can do, but by trying - and no means by which anyone else can discover for them what it is for their happiness to do or leave undone

John Stuart Mill

#9. Prayer is not a means by which I seek to control God; it is a means of putting myself in a position where God can control me.

Charles L. Allen

#10. Menders of all times and places have taught that silencing the thoughts in our heads and opening to the experience of the body and emotions is the basis of all healing. It's the only means by which we can reclaim our true nature or feel the subtle cues telling us how to find our way through life.

Martha N. Beck

#11. But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.

Seamus Heaney

#12. When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.

J.J. Abrams

#13. Sexual acts are one of the primary means by which we can act out our inarticulated inner lives.

Sallie Tisdale

#14. There was no means by which I might know, and so I chose the center opening as being as likely to lead me in the right direction as another. Here

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#15. The special life is where the ordinary becomes extraordinary, the natural becomes miraculous, the everyday becomes unique. Finding the magic and wonder within nature is the most assured means by which children rediscover the joy of life.

Shmuley Boteach

#16. I can't quite count the ways in which we hurt one another. It was the means by which we tried to help one another - me, turning her into a patient, her, turning me into a dull authority - which were as bad as, if not worse, than our actual abuses.

Hanif Kureishi

#17. There is one certain means by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin: I will die in the last ditch.

William III Of England

#18. Nobody reads anymore in America. Reading has become the least effective delivery system for narrative. That's sad because prose is the means by which you can deliver very complicated, nuanced explanations of problems and possible solutions.

David Simon

#19. The world admires wealth and velocity - these are the things for which everyone strives. Railroads, the post, steamboats, and all possible modes of communication are the means by which the world overeducates itself and freezes itself in mediocrity.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goeth

#20. The night is the means by which we find our heart's desire, our freedom for love. This is not to say that all darkness

Gerald G. May

#21. I honour endurance, perseverance, industry, talent; because these are the means by which men achieve great ends and mount to lofty eminence. -St.John Rivers

Charlotte Bronte

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

John Buchan

#23. Elizabeth's barreness and advanced age
a double symbol of hopelessness
became the means by which God would announce to the world that nothing is impossible for Him.

Charles R. Swindoll

#24. A civilization was the means by which too many people could live together despite their mutual hatred.

Steven Erikson

#25. 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

#26. Protectionism, socialism, all varieties of state favoritism and restrictions on competition, and the growth of bureaucracy and jobbery were the means by which special interests sought to exploit the public, the great mass of consumers and taxpayers.

Ralph Raico

#27. If you allow it, [suffering] can be the means by which God brings you His greatest blessings.

Charles R. Swindoll

#28. We want Israel as a democratic and Jewish state. So you have to maintain a Jewish majority, and you want to do that by legal means, by democratic means.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#29. Boys forget what their country means by just reading 'The Land of the Free' in history books. Then they get to be men. They forget even more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books.

Jefferson Smith

#30. He argues that science cannot provide the means by which to judge whether its technological inventions are good or bad for human beings. To do that, we must know what a good human person is, and science cannot adjudicate morality or define such a thing.

Timothy J. Keller

#31. Pain and suffering are frequently the means by which we become motivated to finally surrender to God and to seek the cure of Christ.

Lee Strobel

#32. Mathematics is the means by which we deduce the consequences of physical principles. More than that, it is the indispensable language in which the principles of physical science are expressed.

Steven Weinberg

#33. There exists a "fear of freedom" of selfhood, which makes people want to submerge themselves in the mass and confession is one of the obvious means by which they can do so, for thereby they lose those traits which cause them to feel separate.

James A.C. Brown

#34. A good Government implies two things: first, fidelity to the object of Government, which is the happiness of the People; secondly, a knowledge of the means by which that object can be best attained.

James Madison

#35. Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness.

F.R. Leavis

#36. Through the influence of real art, aided by science, guided by religion ... peaceful co-operation of man is now obtained by external means - by law courts, police, charitable institutions, factory inspections ... It should be obtained by man's free and joyous activity.

Leo Tolstoy

#37. No pleasure is evil in itself; but the means by which certain pleasures
are gained bring pains many times greater than the pleasures.

Epicurus

#38. It seems clear at last that our love for the natural world-Nature-is the only means by which we can requite God's obvious love for it.

Edward Abbey

#39. War may claim for itself the power to destroy and to clear the ground. It can never construct or create. It is not the means by which ideals are imposed. There is ultimately no way of combating a wrong idea but the setting forth of a right one.

Maude Royden

#40. Deliberate tactical errors and minor losses are the means by which to bait the enemy.

Sun Bin

#41. If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.

Maria Montessori

#42. The cross is the place where, and the means by which, God loved us to the uttermost.

N. T. Wright

#43. Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others love to us.

Thomas Traherne

#44. Leash: n, a means by which animals, formerly running wild, are prevented from running tame, also.

Robert Breault

#45. Trailer for sale or rent, rooms to let, fifty cents. No phone, no pool, no pets, ain't got no big regrets. Two hours of pushin' broom, buys an eight by twelve, four-bit room. I'm a man of means, by no means, king of the road.

Roger Miller

#46. For me, photography is not a means by which to create beautiful art, but a unique way of encountering genuine reality

Daido Moriyama

#47. The indulgence of one sin opens the door to further sins. The indulgence of one sin diverts the soul from the use of those means by which all other sins should be resisted.

John Owen

#48. Humaneness and justice are the means by which to govern properly. When government is carried out properly, people feel close to the leadership and think little of dying for it.

Du Mu

#49. Doubt, skepticism, innovation, and inquiry are the only means by which wonder, beauty, awe, and symmetry will be discovered.

Christopher Hitchens

#50. In sum, doubling is the psychological means by which one invokes the evil potential of the self. That evil is neither inherent in the self nor foreign to it. To live out the doubling and call forth the evil is a moral choice for which one is responsible, whatever the level of consciousness involved.

Robert Jay Lifton

#51. Faith is also the means by which we live in response to the commands of God.

R.C. Sproul

#52. Engaging in Socratic question-and-answer dialectic is the key and indispensable means by which to sustain this commitment to care for one's own soul.

John M. Cooper

#53. Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour themselves against reprimand. It is a word intended to stand in place of ethics, denying all moral context.

Steven Erikson

#54. Something deep in our conscience tells us that hostility is part of the problem to be overcome in the world, not the means by which problems will be overcome. Hostility is a symptom of the disease, not part of the cure.

Brian D. McLaren

#55. Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from reality, but the means by which he accedes to it.

W. Somerset Maugham

#56. Prayer should be the means by which I, at all times, receive all that I need, and, for this reason, be my daily refuge, my daily consolation, my daily joy, my source of rich and inexhaustible joy in life.

Saint John Chrysostom

#57. The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion; it is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#58. Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns
or dollars. Take your choice
there is no other.

Ayn Rand

#59. In the Classical tradition, deriving from ancient Greece and Rome, beauty was perceived as the means by which the artist captured the viewer's eye in order to engage the viewer with truth and so inspire goodness.

John Walford

#60. Greater association with the Angels lifts our minds from ourselves and focuses them upon ways and means by which we too may assist in establishing God's Plan.

Flower A. Newhouse

#61. If your boss hands you a project to manage and you ask what she means by "project" and "manage," this chapter is for you.

Bonnie Biafore

#62. Working with language is a means by which we can identify the bullshit within ourselves (and others).

George Saunders

#63. You have absolute control over just one thing, your thoughts. This divine gift is the sole means by which you may control your destiny. If you fail to control your mind, you will control nothing else.

Napoleon Hill

#64. No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.

Francis Marion Crawford

#65. The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#66. I believe it is our values and our ideals that ultimately bind us together as a nation. But it is the English language which serves as the means by which we can communicate these values to those around us. Our common language, English, is that which unites us.

Asa Hutchinson

#67. Bodybuilding has come to be seen as a means by which boys can turn desire into identification.

Mark Simpson

#68. The will of the entire people is the true basis of republican government, and a free expression ... by the public vote of all citizens, without distinctions of race, color, occupation, or sex, is the only means by which that will can be ascertained.

Victoria Woodhull

#69. The euro has become a means by which superior German productivity is able to gain an absolutely unbeatable advantage over the whole eurozone territory.

Boris Johnson

#70. It's not that achievements prove our worth but rather that the process of achieving is the means by which we develop our effectiveness, our competence at living.

Nathaniel Branden

#71. Words are the gateway to reality, the means by which we engage with the objective truth beyond ourselves.

Joseph Pearce

#72. There are more important things than finding the murderer. And justice is a fine word, but it is sometimes difficult to say exactly what one means by it. In my opinion, the important thing is to clear the innocent. - Hercule Poirot

Agatha Christie

#73. I would say what Mad Men has taught me has been a super elevated evaluation of text in general, and understanding subtext, and understanding where a character comes from - what he means by this or by that.

Ben Feldman

#74. [Gardening] is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable.

Jan Struther

#75. As a result, gender is not to culture as sex is to nature; gender is
also the discursive/cultural means by which "sexed nature" or "a natural
sex" is produced and established as "prediscursive," prior to culture,
a politically neutral surface on which culture acts

Judith Butler

#76. All the things in this world are gifts of God, created for us, to be the means by which we can come to know him better, love him more surely, and serve him more faithfully.

Ignatius Of Loyola

#77. I concede his greater ingenuity. It bodes well for his endeavor. Pragmatism avails a savior far more than aestheticism. I wonder what he intends to do after he's saved the world. I comprehend the Word, and the means by which it operates, and so I dissolve.

Ted Chiang

#78. If we lived within our means - by being prudent - the 7 billion people in the world could have everything they needed. Global politics should be moving in that direction. But we think as people and countries, not as a species.

Jose Mujica

#79. Such perfect incompleteness, suggestion and ambiguity are among the most valuable devices of the skilled poet, means by which the poem opens to let us in.

John Ciardi

#80. Teach him to call it 'real life' and don't let him ask what he means by 'real'.

C.S. Lewis

#81. Grace becomes not only the means by which God once justified us, it is also the means by which we are continually encouraged and enabled to serve him with undiminished delight.

Bryan Chapell

#82. If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

Henry David Thoreau

#83. I would imagine Malcolm, his body bound in a cell, studying the books, trading his human eyes for the power of flight. And I too felt bound by my ignorance, by the questions that I had not yet understood to be more than just means, by my lack of understanding

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#84. Technology is the means by which we have decommissioned natural selection and are seizing control. We are no longer to be victims of some blind evolutionary process where sentient beings are massacred by entropy.

Jason Silva

#85. Certainly I was typed. But what is typing? It is a trademark, a means by which the public recognizes you. Actors work all their lives to achieve that. I got mine with just one picture. It was a blessing.

Boris Karloff

#86. Faith is the means by which the righteousness of Christ is given to us.

R.C. Sproul

#87. One's own independent judgment is the means by which one must choose one's actions, but it is not a moral criterion nor a moral validation; only reference to a demonstrable principle can validate one's choices.

Ayn Rand

#88. Hospitality can be an expression of doctrine beyond the pulpit. Hospitality is the means by which the Church, from the ground level, models the gospel to others.

Matt Chandler

#89. Look closely into his aims, observe the means by which he pursues them, discover what brings him content - and can the man's real worth remain hidden from you?

Confucius

#90. A man engaged in a constant search for the weaknesses of others, Hilemore decided. Perhaps the means by which he maintains faith in his own superiority. "Chief

Anthony Ryan

#91. Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.

Brandon Sanderson

#92. I have to phrase this perfectly: I'm just not convinced that the attention we give to creating what we think of as a character isn't actually quite often the means by which an actor overcomes his own terror of standing there onstage and creating a mask to hide behind.

Stephen Dillane

#93. This is what Zen means by being detached - not being without emotion or feeling, but being one in whom feeling is not sticky or blocked, and through whom the experiences of the world pass like the reflections of birds flying over water.

Alan Watts

#94. God has great plans for you today ... creative and unexpected means by which He will make you a saint. He needs only your joyful submission to His plan.

Mark Hart

#95. Language is the means by which we negotiate our relationship with time.

Romesh Gunesekera

#96. If the people are victorious against the government, the nation will be weak; if the government is victorious against the people, the military will have strength. [thus they] will have the means by which they may fight, and thus ascend to supremacy.

Shang Yang

#97. Strong, proactive obedience is anything but weak or passive. It is the means by which we declare our faith in God and qualify ourselves to receive the powers of heaven. Obedience is a choice. It is a choice between our own limited knowledge and power and God's unlimited wisdom and omnipotence.

L. Tom Perry

#98. For I can raise no money by vile means: By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash 75By any indirection.

William Shakespeare

#99. When you make up your mind to do good things, you will accomplish them if you use dynamic will power to follow through. No matter what the circumstances are, if you go on trying, God will create the means by which your will shall find its proper reward.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#100. A wise prince will seek means by which his subjects will always and in every possible condition of things have need of his government, and then they will always be faithful to him.

Niccolo Machiavelli