#means

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#duties #marry #means #monogamous #our

You know, I'm not gonna take my money with me to heaven or hell, wherever I'm going. So I want to do something good with it even though my means are very limited. I'm no millionaire! ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#going #gonna #good #heaven #hell

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers. ↗

— Norman Schwarzkopf

#fathers #killing #left #means #mothers

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

I have always lived beyond my means. I am still trying to live beyond my means, but it is getting harder all the time. I am very rich. ↗

— Allan Sherman

#am #beyond #getting #harder #i

We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise. ↗

— Nate Silver

#how #information #learning #means #more

If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came into being on the planet. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#available #back #being #came #could

For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently means dearth to the personality of the individual. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#advance #dearth #demands #division #ever

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#full #how #life #me #means

I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics. ↗

— Peter Singer

#clash #compromise #ethics #i #means