#means

It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer. ↗

— Sallust

#conquer #fail #fair #foul #means

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means. ↗

— Sallust

#defeat #defeated #evil #good #good man

You are graduating from college. That means that this is the first day of the last day of your life. No, that's wrong. This is the last day of the first day of school. Nope, that's worse. This is a day. ↗

— Andy Samberg

#day #first #graduating #last #life

Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#agree #any #beach #blank #casting

Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us. ↗

— David Sarnoff

#experience #forces #generally #maximum #means

The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters. ↗

— May Sarton

#constant #disasters #few #garden #growth

To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#foundations #hair #important #me #means

Early on, a story's meaning and rationale seem pretty obvious, but then, as I write it, I realize that I know the meaning/rationale too well, which means that the reader will also know it - and so things have to be ramped up. ↗

— George Saunders

#early #i #i write #know #meaning

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own. ↗

— Charles Scribner, Jr.

#forces #means #mind #own #person

When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work. ↗

— Andres Segovia

#down #elaborate #erected #everything #get