Example Quotes · Page 51

The authority of example and considerations of character, unlike pudding, are not whipped up in an instant.

— Neal A. Maxwell

[James] Baldwin explained that you have your own history, and that you cannot be responsible, for example, for slavery.

— Raoul Peck

I really want to make a big mark in athletics, to be a legend and be a good example to kids.

— Eliud Kipchoge

Fox [News] is far and away the extreme example. They'll have a known holocaust denier debating a holocaust survivor.

— Craig Rosebraugh

I look for the kind of text that doesn't look like the writer I'm considering. Plutarch is a great example.

— John D'Agata

“Anyway, what about you? How's, um, Abby? Angie? What's her name?" Oh, Hudson. Your suavity is an example to us all. ”

— Sarah Ockler

Cristiano Ronaldo is more of a professional, hard-working guy. Ronaldo is the example you follow.

— Samir Nasri

There's no doubt 'normal' is changing - spring actually came a month early in Alaska, for example, and we had to stop…

— Travis Rice

Throughout my career I've struggled to encourage people to read my books on a more metaphorical level. I'm less attached to my…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

The fact is that it is reasonable for us to say that there is going to be an emergency that happens in…

— Allyson Schwartz

People have always wondered what my opinion on Stevie Wonder is. I say if he's so great how come he can't see?…

— Zach Braff

In recent years, Ronaldo is the example: wherever you put him in the attacking three, he's going to make an impact and…

— Marcus Rashford

You've got to set yourself up to be as healthy as you can. The thing we tend to do is when it…

— Curtis Stone

If I were to ask you for example right now to go back with me and define those moments in your life…

— James Lipton

I don't think writers should be convenient examples. I don't think we should make people feel settled. I don't try to be…

— Richard Rodriguez

It feels like my books come true. I write these things, and then they kind of end up happening. I wasn't divorced,…

— Elizabeth Berg

As the people of the United States enjoy the great merit of having established a system of Government on the basis of…

— James Madison

North Korea is a necrocracy, or a mauselocracy or a thanatocracy in which the one [Kim Il-sung] is diffused into being with…

— Christopher Hitchens

Rather than accepting the drifting separation of the generations, we might begin to define a more complex and interesting set of life…

— Richard Louv

In love, for example - the so-called love - we are 'related.' We appear to be related. We create the fallacy of…

— Rajneesh

It is clear that several countries, in the Balkans for example, need to be considered countries of safe origin. But others like,…

— Paolo Gentiloni

If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the…

— Edward Snowden

I am encouraged as I look at some of those who have listened to their "different drum": Einstein was hopeless at school…

— Madeleine L'Engle

So much of our conversation about love is possessive. "You are mine. And if you stop being mine, I will hate you."…

— Mohsin Hamid

“When you change you are illustrating the fact that it can be done. And what people need today are illustrations.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Pastor: One employed by the wicked to prove to them by his example that virtue doesn't pay.

— H. L. Mencken

If you think about for example, proportionality and beauty, things like that, these seem to be some kind of representations of a…

— Peter Adamson

Your example should be stellar among your friends, associates, family, teachers, co-workers, and other Christians.

— Monica Johnson

An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written…

— Pierre Corneille

Lectures often confuse our kids, but the example we set is crystal clear.

— Zig Ziglar

I think the forms of terrorism are becoming very diverse, amongst them cyber-terrorism, for example.

— Yoshihiko Noda

I want to be remembered as a great actor - and a shining example of humanity.

— Jesse L. Martin

I want to display my failures at every turn, and ultimately I want to lead by example.

— Gabe Kapler

The Orange Revolution was a powerful example of democracy around the world. The people of Ukraine are continuing to shape their own…

— Scott McClellan

Neither my husband nor I am interested in mincing words. If I break something, for example, I have to announce it. I'm…

— Jennifer Connelly

Islam, for example, like so many other faiths, stresses the importance of mutual solidarity with our fellow man.

— Mehdi Hasan

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as…

— George Bernard Shaw

Compliance does not foster innovation, trust does. You can't sustain long-term innovation, for example, in a climate of distrust.

— Stephen Covey

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

— James Madison

Who but an English professor would threaten to kill a duck a day and hold up a goose as an example?

— Richard Russo