Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahatma Gandhi

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

Mahatma Gandhi

Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed.

Gene Wilder

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.This was said by gene wilder ... what does it mean ?

Gene Wolfe

I don't think anyone is more intrinsically holy. People experience God in many ways; and it seems to me that God does what the rest of us do: He chooses the means that best gets His message across.

Gavin Hood

I think if you read the story as bad guy turns good guy, then clearly it is a cliché. But my experience, when I spent three years working with young people in the townships on issues principally around HIV/AIDS, is that people are usually neither entirely good or bad. They are usually variations of both. Just because someone is a carjacker doesn't mean they are a ruthless cold-blooded murderer.

Gavin MacLeod

We sat down and read it for the first time and I thanked God under my breath, because they were all so good. And my leading ladies are both exceptional. I mean, everybody in the play. I could just go on all night about them.

Gavin Newsom

But living in uncertain times does not mean San Franciscans must live in fear

Gael Garcia Bernal

Every decision that you make you have to be incredible congruent. It doesn't mean that you have to starve. If you need money, you do something that gives you money, that's normal.

Gail Carson Levine

Things change, people change, but that doesn't mean you should forget the past.

Gail Collins

For years I've been hearing 20-somethings say they don't expect Social Security to be around when they hit 65. Eventually, I came to realize that they really mean that they just don't expect to be 65. Or 40. Neither did I, when I was 22.

Gail Carriger

Madame Lefoux shrugged. "I do not know about that, my lady. I mean to say, one's life is one thing; one's technology is an entirely different matter.

Gail Carriger

Ivy waved her wet handkerchief, as much as to say 'words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress'. Then, because Ivy never settled for meaningful gestures when verbal embellishments could compound the effect, she said, "Words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress.

Gail Carriger

I kissed her," he explained, aggrieved. "Mmm, yes, I had the dubious pleasure of witnessing that, ah-hem, overly public occurrence." Lyall sharpened his pen nib, using a small copper blade that ejected from the end of his glassicals. "Well! Why hasn't she done anything about it?" the Alpha wanted to know. "You mean like whack you upside the noggin with that deadly parasol of hers? I would be cautious in that area if I were you.

Fred Upton

Cuts in carbon emissions would mean significantly higher electricity prices. We think the American consumer would prefer not to be skinned by Obama's EPA.

Fred Upton

I'm a Reagan Republican, which means I don't speak ill of other Republicans.

Fred Wilson

When I see people laughing at ideas and companies we have backed, I smile. It means we are going to make a lot of money on that investment.

Frank Langella

However, I don't by any means suggest that I'm always playing myself.

Frank Langella

There is a thing called the death wish, a literal thing. It doesn't mean you want to die. It just means however we're built, as we get into these years, some inner part of you does begin to accept the fact that you're heading towards the end, and there's a peace that comes with that.

Frank Langella

My body of work means nothing to me

Frank McCourt

I don't know what it means and I don't care because it's Shakespeare and it's like having jewels in my mouth when I say the words.

Frank McCourt

If you were mean to your parents, they'd give you a good belt in the gob and send you flying across the room.

Francois Hollande

Symbols mean a lot in politics. They indicate a will and create new realities.

Francois Hollande

During a term in office there are highs and lows, but what counts is that the goal is set as well as the means to achieve it, and the force we put into getting results.

Frank Luntz

When you say: The simple truth is this, and then you pause, and then you finish the sentence, people stop, and they think specifically about what you're saying. And it's, in essence, trying to boil it down to something that's very understandable and meaningful.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Lack is more in means, than in principles.

Napoleon Bonaparte

When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror.

Humor is the best means of surviving in a difficult world.

Norman Spinrad

It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture.

Northrop Frye

The bedrock of doubt is the total nothingness of death. Death is a leveler, not because everybody dies, but because nobody understands what death means.