#means

The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest. ↗

— Steven Brust

#contest #defeat #end #foreknowledge #honorable

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time. ↗

— George W. Bush

#country #duty #from time to time #honor #leadership

Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

#games #history #holding #means #olympic

That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen. ↗

— Edward Gordon Craig

#fellows #his #means #more #perceives

We are at a major epoch in human history, which is that we don't need sex to recreate the race. You can have babies without sex. This is the first time in human history that has been true, and it means, for example, we could do some extraordinary things. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#been #could #epoch #example #extraordinary

There are only two roads, victory for the working class, freedom, or victory for the fascists which means tyranny. Both combatants know what's in store for the loser. ↗

— Buenaventura Durruti

#class #combatants #fascists #freedom #know

Well, we won the war. You know what that means. In twenty years, we'll all be driving Iraqi cars. ↗

— Will Durst

#driving #iraqi #know #means #twenty

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#doubt #height #intellectual #means #nervous

Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful. ↗

— Roberta Flack

#faith #hard #kind #means #music

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking. ↗

— Clement Attlee

#discussion #effective #government #means #only