Quotes about mean
mean adaptation given
Prudence supposes the value of the end to be assumed, and refers only to the adaptation of the means. It is the relation of right means for given ends. William Whewell
mean reality imagination
Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality. William Wordsworth
mean soul looks
By all means sometimes be alone; salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear; dare to look in thy chest; and tumble up and down what thou findest there.
mean reality men
Together they [President Nixon and Secretary Kissinger] pursued ends that frequently had a tenuous link with reality, using means that were not merely disproportionate but counterproductive and untrue to those values they were meant to defend. In fact neither man demonstrated much faith in those values. William Shawcross
mean independence desire
Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune. William Shenstone
mean men two
It is true there is nothing displays a genius, I mean a quickness of genius, more than a dispute; as two diamonds, encountering, contribute to each other's luster. But perhaps the odds is much against the man of taste in this particular.
mean people littles
The love of popularity seems little else than the love of being beloved; and is only blamable when a person aims at the affections of a people by means in appearance honest, but in their end pernicious and destructive.
mean people
What a people talk about means something. What they don't talk about means something. William Saroyan
mean appreciate listening
Why does the lizard stick his tongue out? The lizard sticks its tongue out because that's the way its listening and looking and tasting its environment. It's its means of appreciating what's in front of it. William Shatner
mean fighting fate
If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow. William McFee
mean goal people
Leadership means bringing people together in pursuit of a common cause, developing a plan to achieve it, and staying with it until the goal is achieved. William J. Clinton
mean science one-thing
It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is. If 'is' means 'is and never has been' that's one thing - if it means 'there is none', that was a completely true statement,
mean
Just because you can't do everything, it doesn't mean you shouldn't do what you can.
mean doe should
Just because we cannot do everything for everyone does not mean we should do nothing for anyone.
mean government impact
I mean my life was a combination of fascination with other people, with politics, and with policy, and the impact of government decisions on people's lives and the life of our nation and the life of the world.
mean reflection oil
[Alternative energy] will make us less dependent on foreign oil. It would make us more secure in our future. It would mean that our foreign policy could be a reflection of our values and our other interests, and not just that.
mean responsibility government
Our new immigrants must be part of our one America. After all, they're revitalizing our cities, they're energizing our culture, they're building up our economy. We have a responsibility to make them welcome here, and they have a responsibility to enter the mainstream of American life. That means learning English and learning about our democratic system of government. There are now long waiting lines of immigrants that are trying to do just that. Therefore, our budget significantly expands our efforts to help them meet their responsibility. I hope you will support it.
mean people together
Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.
mean thinking two
If, two people have good minds and they're looking at problems, if they agree all the time it means one of them is not thinking. If they disagree all the time, it means one of them is not thinking. They're just allowing their political position to dictate their position on an issue. And I think that's unhealthy. And the public knows better.
mean aids-day world
We live in a completely interdependent world, which simply means we can not escape each other. How we respond to AIDS depends, in part, on whether we understand this interdependence. It is not someone else's problem. This is everybody's problem.
mean what-it-means-to-be-an-american generations
Each generation of Americans must define what it means to be an American.
mean men solitude
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude. William James
mean issues doubt
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is still theoretically possible ... faith is the readiness to act in a cause the prosperous issue of which is not certified to us in advance.
mean views differences
From a pragmatic point of view, the difference between living against a background of foreigness (an indifferent Universe) and one of intimacy (a benevolent Universe) means the difference between a general habit of wariness and one of trust.
mean men absence
Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse
mean awareness conscious
To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.
meaningful perseverance men
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
mean independent reality
That reality is 'independent' means that there is something in every experience that escapes our arbitrary control. If it be a sensible experience it coerces our attention; if a sequence, we cannot invert it; if we compare two terms we can come to only one result. There is a push, an urgency, within our very experience, against which we are on the whole powerless, and which drives us in a direction that is the destiny of our belief.
mean cutting order
Materialism means simply the denial that the moral order is eternal, and the cutting off of ultimate hopes; spiritualism means theaffirmation of an eternal moral order and the letting loose of hope.
mean goal variables
Intelligence is a fixed goal with variable means of achieving it.
mean ideas
Truth in our ideas means their power to work.
mean language imperfect
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
meaningful short-best-friend my-best-friend
It is your friends who make your world.