#means

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas. ↗

— Edward Bond

#comes #containing #democracy #genes #ideas

By means of steam one can go from California to Japan in eighteen days. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#days #eighteen #go #japan #means

If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice. ↗

— Estelle Getty

#everything #having #love #marriage #means

No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means. ↗

— Maimonides

#any #disease #means #other #should

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

#freedom #freedom means #means #never #opportunity

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#everything #faith #forgive #hope #hopeless

Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#because #being #books #companionship #conscious

Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash. ↗

— Cecil Beaton

#airline #belief #cash #comforting #control

I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes. ↗

— Larry Hovis

#from time to time #get #going #grapes #i

My name is Arsenio. That's a very unique name for a black man. In Greek, it means Leroy. ↗

— Arsenio Hall

#greek #man #means #name #unique