Instance Quotes · Page 16

Acting is very personal. I don't want to be like anybody else. There are positions I would like to be in -…

— Catherine Mary Stewart

A lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They've been offending other people for centuries.

— Billy Connolly

There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where…

— Thomas Perry

I've always been fascinated and stared at maps for hours as a kid. I've especially been most intrigued by the uninhabited or…

— Andrew Bird

If man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do. If, for instance, Siddhartha had not learned…

— Hermann Hesse

This principle applies to your family pet, for instance, which I believe are wonderful because they put you into a great emotional…

— James Arthur Ray

Don't say I want to lose 30 pounds in 30 days. Say, you know what I want to lose weight- say 30…

— Jackie Warner

For instance, the most common type of "affordable housing" in the world comes in the form of apartments over stores.

— James Howard Kunstler

I see myself as a social conservative, but I think that there are lots of social institutions that produce beneficial reforms, like…

— Tony Abbott

The Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those…

— Ada Lovelace

What I do see, for instance, is that the French are not very happy with the ... I am happy but they…

— Helmut Schmidt

I am all for cultural diversity and would be willing to see each recognizable group value its cultural heritage. I am a…

— Isaac Asimov

Social media, for all of its limitations, is rarely irrelevant. The stream of updates on your Facebook page, for instance, is algorithmically…

— Ryan Holmes

I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies…

— Jeff Bridges

You have to minimize your losses and try to preserve capital for those very few instances where you can make a lot…

— Richard Dennis

[Ruling elie] haven't given up on neoliberal ideology, they use it. And I think they've normalized that ideology, the notion that, for…

— Henry Giroux

My feelings, gratitude, for instance, are denied me simply because of my social position.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the…

— Minoru Yamasaki

I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty

— G. H. Hardy

Christians, for instance, are not, properly speaking, believers in religion; rather, they believe that Jesus of Nazareth, crucified under Pontius Pilate, rose…

— David Bentley Hart

A vague goal is no goal at all. The Ten Commandments wouldn't be very impressive, for instance, if they weren't specific, but…

— Neal A. Maxwell

We are disturbed about the effect of the Jewish influence on our press, radio, and motion pictures. It may become very serious.…

— Charles Lindbergh

..she began to stand around the gate and expect things. What things? She didn't know exactly. Her breath was gusty and short.…

— Zora Neale Hurston

given the nature of the human couple, the love of a man and a woman is a priori inferior to that which…

— Milan Kundera

The movements of nature are in a never ending circle. The animal species which has once been put into a train of…

— Thomas Jefferson