Instance Quotes · Page 2

I'm a pretty goofy person. I'm an awkward dancer, for instance, and a terrible singer.

— Gillian Jacobs

There aren't as many girl superheroes, but there are cool ones. Banshee, for instance.

— Kat Dennings

The government does a lot of stuff that it shouldn't do - the Department of Education, for instance.

— Milo Yiannopoulos

I only travel with a carry-on suitcase in most instances.

— Brad Goreski

There's more to boxing than hitting. There's not getting hit, for instance.

— George Foreman

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

— Hunter S. Thompson

What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Good and bad luck is a synonym in the great majority of instances, for good and bad judgment.

— John Lyman Chatfield

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

— Billy Connolly

In the Soviet Union, for instance, the pressure on the chess stars was immense. When Boris Spassky came home after losing that…

— Liz Garbus

Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting…

— Richard Whately

Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright color ever, unless the story says 'there…

— Edith Head

The joke that I make is that there are instances on the TV series that happen to me, - except on Sex…

— Candace Bushnell

I have some weird habits. For instance, I love beets. Show me a salad bar and I will clean them out of…

— Chris Pratt

We overlook how much in our lives is invisible; love, for instance; thought, God, the future, time, faith, hope and even the…

— Dorothy Gilman

I would like to cite an instance which proves the efficacy of clean living on the part of an athlete coupled with…

— Major Taylor

The cultural institutions which embody and enforce those interlocked aberrations-for instance, law, art, religion, nation-states, the family, tribe, or commune based on…

— Andrea Dworkin

One of the most important axioms is, that as the quantity of any commodity, for instance, plain food, which a man has…

— William Stanley Jevons

It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without…

— Jane Austen

I have heard a good story of Charles Fox. When his house was on fire, he found all efforts to save it…

— Robert Southey

Anti-Semitic publications have existed in Germany for centuries. A book I had, written by Dr. Martin Luther, was, for instance, confiscated. Dr.…

— Julius Streicher

Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think mentoring is essential in life, both being a mentor to someone and being mentored, and I think that when you…

— Carol Friedman

Sometimes I'm just a little bit too honest. There was some things that were going on behind the scenes that I didn't…

— Wale

Your closest relationships are often the ones that have the most effect on you, but they are frequently the ones most difficult…

— Richard Moss

Yes?’ he asked, looking at me over the sheet. ‘I’m a writer temporarily down on my inspirations.’ ‘Oh, a writer, eh?’ ‘Yes.’…

— Charles Bukowski

The true makes of history are the spiritual men whom the world knew not, the unregarded agents of the creative action of…

— Christopher Dawson

If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I firmly believe this ... that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the builders…

— Benjamin Franklin

In enforcement, you always have to have both a focus on the really worst actors - you know, gang bangers, in this…

— Mark Krikorian

In obedience to the feeling of reality, we shall insist that, in the analysis of propositions, nothing "unreal" is to be admitted.…

— Bertrand Russell

You may twist the word freedom as long as you please, but at last it comes to quiet enjoyment of your own…

— William Cobbett

General rules are dangerous of application in particular instances.

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

“Flowers, for instance, because where would we be without them?”

— Margaret Atwood

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

— G. H. Hardy

The instances that second marriage move Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.

— William Shakespeare

I like to be myself, and I don't pretend. For instance, I don't dress up for occasions; I am what I am.

— Virat Kohli

If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.

— Andy Summers

Some things in life are not pleasant but they have to be done. For instance, German and maths.

— Louise Rennison

For instance, it was very rare for anyone there with dogs to allow them into the house.

— Marie Windsor