Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
Immanuel Kant

There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.
Woodrow Wilson

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
Orson Welles

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
Albert Camus

Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'
Lewis Carroll

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Albert Schweitzer

Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.
Chuck Palahniuk

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
Virginia Woolf

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
Virginia Woolf

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
Calvin Coolidge

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

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
Calvin Coolidge

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
Viktor E. Frankl

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
Margaret Thatcher

Silence is argument carried out by other means.
Che Guevara

Today, one year after their divorce, Pamela and Tommy Lee announced they're getting back together. You know what that means? There's still hope for Ike and Tina Turner.
Jay Leno

Nullification means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down.
Andrew Jackson

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

If the end does not justify the means - what can?
Edward Abbey