Top 1200 Life Means Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

The power of art is that it can connect us to one another, and to larger truths about what it means to be alive and what it means to be human.

Jesus' whole life and mission involve accepting powerlessness and revealing in this powerlessness the limitlessness of God's love. Here we see what compassion means. It is not a bending toward the underprivileged from a privileged position; it is not a reaching out from on high to those who are less fortunate below; it is not a gesture of sympathy or pity for those who fail to make it in the upward pull. On the contrary, compassion means going directly to those people and places where suffering is most acute and building a home there.

Awareness means grasping life just the way it is, without contamination by mental projections.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.

World power means nothing. Only the unsayable, jeweled inner life matters.

The essential feature, and necessity of life is to know reality, which means knowing God.

It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time.

Lifelong readers continue to read, finding in books the means to enjoy life or endure it

Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church, consecrated to Christ, and wholly influenced and governed by his rules. And family education and order are some of the chief means of grace. If these fail, all other means are likely to prove ineffectual. If these are duly maintained, all the means of grace will be likely to prosper and be successful.

Sustainability is a seemingly laudable goal - it tells us we need to live within our means, whether economic, ecological, or political - but it's insufficient for uncertain times. How can we live within our means when those very means can change, swiftly and unexpectedly, beneath us?

My perspective is this: my allegiance is to the best product for my needs. For a computer, this means Macintosh. For phone and tablet, this means Android.

Parents don't believe that lifting life-chances in one school means reducing them in another.

I love the psychology versus math and logic. In algebra, "X" means any possible variable. I sort of think about "X" in terms of the equation of my own life. Adding "X" to my own life has given me a freedom that I didn't have before in the equation of my own existence.

We're Americans! Do you know what that means? It means our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world.

Nothing in life gives a man so much courage as the attainment or renewal of the conviction that other people regard him with favor; because it means that everyone joins to give him help and protection, which is an infinitely stronger bulwark against the ills of life than anything he can do himself.

What does remembering ourselves mean? It essentially means coming back to life- re-membering.

As much as we complain about it, though, there's part of us that is drawn to a hurried life. It makes us feel important. It keeps the adrenaline pumping. It means I don't have to look too closely at my heart or life. It keeps us from feeling our loneliness.

If you believe in the right to life, then you must believe in the right to have the means to defend that life.

The ninth rule of the ethics of means and ends is that any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical.

Gratitude is looking on the brighter side of the life, even if it means hurting your eyes.

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.

Anarchism means voluntary co-operation instead of forced participation. It means harmony and order in place of interference and disorder.

Loving yourself means caring enough to make the hard decisions in your life.

I can hardly wait for tomorrow, it means a new life for me each and every day.

Being a runner means you are now 'free' to win and lose and live life to its fullest.

'Carpe Diem' is a phrase that I try to embrace. It means seize the day, to make the most of the present and to give little thought to the past or future. In the time that I have here, I want to love and live life to the fullest while being a positive influence on others. And I want a full life for everyone.

I learned early on what debt means, how vulnerable it makes people, what the security of owning a home means.

In the country, weather is as important as food and sometimes means the difference between life and death.

Me being able to trash hotel rooms on set means I don't do it in real life.

Socialism means government dependency, rationed resources, and exorbitant taxation. It means the destruction of every incentive to achieve.

Tenure in any department is serious business, because it means, essentially, employment for life.

I've never written a book with the intention of winning someone back or getting back at someone or anything like that. It's always just been about thinking about life and how relationships fit in to what life means.

The Greek idea of fate is moira, which means "portion." Fate rules a portion of your life. But there is more to life than just fate. There is also genetics, environment, economics, and so on. So it's not all written in the book before you get here, such that you don't have to do anything. That's fatalism.

Womanpower means the self determination of women, and that means all the baggage of paternalistic society will have to be thrown overboard.

Living rationally and authentically means understanding that life centrally involves making leaps of faith, both small and large, and that the value of living is to a large extent the value of experiencing your life, whatever that experience is.

When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.

There are many actors who have not been trained, but self-taught means one cannot be limited. It means you're continuously learning.

Prayer means rushing to the Father as His child. It means asking and receiving, loving and thanking Him.

Intensity is a mental attitude more than a physical attitude. Many people misunderstand what intensity means. They think it means straining and sweating. No! That is a wrong meaning of the word! Intensity is to get totally involved, fully immersed and absorbed in what one is doing. Intense practice means a fast and keen mode in adjusting, correcting, and progressively proceeding.

Selfless giving means forgeting about yourself. It means letting go and doing something crazy.

Mark Fox is always criticized recruiting: he can't keep the Georgia kids home. What that means - he's not cheating and paying. That's what it means.

He who freely praises what he means to purchase, and he who enumerates the faults of what he means to sell, may set up a partnership with honesty.

The tattoo that means the most to me would probably be my Chinese symbol on my neck. It means love - I got it on Mother's Day.

The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.

Few can accept happiness if it means change. We want the life we have now, only happier.

An income means life to wretched mortals, but it is a terrible fate to die among the waves.

I'm blue collar, which means white trash with a job. But it also means people who take pride in what they do.

I have to explain to my daughter what it means when adults lie. I have to explain to my daughter what it means when adults are bullies. I have to explain to my daughter what it means when an adult says something that's not true just to try to score political points.

Just to know I have so many fans out there buying my jersey means a lot. It means I'm doing something right.

Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!

Calvin:"It says here that 'religion is the opiate of the masses.'...what do you suppose that means?" Television: "...it means that Karl Marx hadn't seen anything yet

It's hard for me to get shows in the U.S. It's that simple. I don't know what that means. I think it means there's not as much support here for my music?

Look, if America - if being an American means anything, it means not having to lie under oath, not even for the president.

Enlightenment means choosing to dwell in a state of presence rather than in time. It means saying yes to what is.

You can’t reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.

In the Middle East, bread is so essential to everyday life that word for it in Egyptian Arabic is aish, which means life. It's always been the staple grain. But the predicament is that the Fertile Crescent, where wheat cultivation began, has now become the part of the world most dependent on imported wheat.

Intelligence essentially means that your intellect is sharp enough to see life the way it is.

Coming through the years, and finding that I not only have just the fans of my day, but the young ones of today - that's what it means, it means it was worth all of it.

Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.

When we're being grateful it means that we're acknowledging that life is a gift, that life is a blessing, that this body is only here for a short period of time and it really shifts the whole internal landscape of the mind and it puts things into perspective and it allows us to get our bearings. To get a firm footing in what's real, and then go from there.