#means

Pray a little more, work a little harder, save, wait, be patient and, most of all, live within our means. That's the American way. It's not spending ourselves into prosperity or taxing ourselves into prosperity. ↗

— Mike Huckabee

#american way #be patient #harder #into #little

Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#discrimination #emancipation #fears #his #inadequacies

I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don't have to be nice anymore. ↗

— Billy Idol

#be nice #i #i love #insults #love

Patience means restraining one's inclinations. ↗

— Tokugawa Ieyasu

#means #patience #restraining

Netflix, Amazon, iTunes - whatever platforms emerge - we are looking at as having the same potential that home video had for the movie business. Which means there are entirely new opportunities to monetize our capital investment in content and do so in ways that work for distributors, for consumers and for creators. ↗

— Bob Iger

#business #capital #capital investment #consumers #content

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#always #any #back #conquering #difficulty

Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco. ↗

— Bill Gross

#human #human nature #institutions #lose #means

I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#american #consider #creative #creative writing #culture

Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power. ↗

— Chuck Hagel

#expand #influence #international #leadership #means

You can use your means in a good and bad way. In German-speaking art, we had such a bad experience with the Third Reich, when stories and images were used to tell lies. After the war, literature was careful not to do the same, which is why writers began to reflect on the stories they told and to make readers part of their texts. I do the same. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#art #bad #began #careful #experience