mean quotes

“In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. ”

“Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. ”

“Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.”

“It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends. ”

“The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.”

“The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.”

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

“Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science. ”

“The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words. ”

“To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.”

“We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.”

“Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible. ”

“Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.”

“In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.”

“Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed. ”

“There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.”

“For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.”

“Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.”

“Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers? ”

“As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.”

“My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well. ”

“Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.”

“Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence”

“Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms. ”

“The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool. ”

Mean quotes - For I can raise no money by vile means.

“For I can raise no money by vile means.”

“You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.”

“Generally speaking, I went through that. I came to a place where I realised what true value was. It wasn't money. Money is a means to achieving an end, but it's not the end.”

“He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery and part of that is falling into darkness - the temptations of life. ”

“I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet.”