#means

I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#all day #anything #being #dawn #day

The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world? ↗

— Evangelista Torricelli

#balance #beyond #carry #confines #considering

An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it. ↗

— Alejandro Amenabar

#award #awards #because #consider #creating

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty. ↗

— Margot Asquith

#beauty #big #comfortable #constant #contributes

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#man #means #merely #other #people

The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

#act #consoles #entrust #even #fact

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do. ↗

— A. C. Benson

#background #becomes #clear #itself #making

It's cool when fans spend so much time making things for me. It means a lot. ↗

— Justin Bieber

#fans #lot #making #me #means

Deficit reduction is not an end in itself. It is the means to an end. Canadians must now decide what kind of country they want to build with the hard-won dividend. ↗

— Jean Chretien

#canadians #country #decide #deficit #deficit reduction

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more. ↗

— Georges Clemenceau

#doing #free #means #more #once