Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
In instances in history, civil disobedience has been appropriate and useful. — Philip Hart Copy Share Image
The constitutional questions are in the first instance not questions of right but questions of might. — Ferdinand Lassalle Copy Share Image
On email and the first instance of spam: This is not for advertising! This is for serious work! — Vinton Cerf Copy Share Image
In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses. — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations. — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
For instance, if you're playing a record with drums - horns would sound nice to enhance it so you get a record… — Grandmaster Flash Copy Share Image
Mastering the lawless science of our law,- that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we… — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
The . . . inescapable truth is: government does not have all the answers. In too many instances, government does not solve… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“However, you should know I disagree with a lot of traditional advice. For instance, they say the best revenge is living well.… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I do not put myself in a box and say, for instance, I'm writing post-colonial literature. I don't know what I'm writing.… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I never, for instance, have the urge to paint animals 'the way I see them,' but rather the way they are... The… — Franz Marc Copy Share Image
The limitless content of our universe might be only one instance of a large (and possibly infinite) number of other universes. — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Our Last Will and Testament, providing for the only future of which we can be reasonably certain, namely our own death, shows… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I became very close with Charles Bronson and his wife, Kim. We did 'Sea Wolf' together along with Christopher Reeve. I've been… — Catherine Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, or perhaps it is fortunate that I have always been forced to stand on my acting ability. I haven't a personality… — William Powell Copy Share Image
Contact with like-minded painters - a group means a great deal to me: nothing comes in isolation. We have worked out our… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
There are instances where lines in my work are borrowed or stolen from sources, mainly from books, or they become my own… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
Poetry is a bad medium for philosophy. Everything in the philosophical poem has to satisfy irreconcilable requirements: for instance, the last demand… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Then there are some minor points that strike me as suggestive - for instance, the position of Mrs. Hubbard's sponge bag, the… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Sabbath, in the first instance, is not about worship. It is about work stoppage. It is about withdrawal from the anxiety system… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
Antisemitism is unique among religious hatreds. It is a racist conspiracy theory fashioned for the needs of messianic and brutal rulers, as… — Nick Cohen Copy Share Image
The movements of nature are in a never ending circle. The animal species which has once been put into a train of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
We women are callow fledglings as compared with the wise old birds who manipulate the political machinery, and we still hesitate to… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I understand that each one of us works at a different speed, and has a slightly different process. I understand that these… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
But everything is relative, Bertie... You, for instance, are my relative, and I am your relative. — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Clearly, we are very, very concerned about the situation, for instance, that has been going on in Gaza. — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
Philosophy is, in the last instance, class struggle in the field of theory. — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
I'm a pretty goofy person. I'm an awkward dancer, for instance, and a terrible singer. — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
There aren't as many girl superheroes, but there are cool ones. Banshee, for instance. — Kat Dennings Copy Share Image