I leave comparisons to history, claiming only that I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
Why multiply instances? It is written, the Heavens and the Earth shall fade away like a Vesture; which indeed they are: the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
In rare instances you have to give up what you thought was a great scene. — Keenen Ivory Wayans Copy Share Image
So far, the Far Eastern focal point of danger is the most active.It is possible, however, that the center of the menace… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
The tension between 'yes' and no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
We've learned that women can and should do 'men's jobs,' for instance, and we've won the principle (if not the fact) of… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
Every letter was a love letter. Of course, as love letters went, this one could have been better. It was not very… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
You can get a bit bored of finding out about yourself. I know nothing about politics, for instance. There's nothing that's stopped… — Sophia Myles Copy Share Image
We’ve all got weaknesses. Me, for instance. I’m tragically funny and good-looking. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
I think it is fair, in a way, to describe certain forms of Marxism, for instance, as the secular equivalent of a… — Ross Douthat 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
My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
I really think it's just the people you put around you. For instance, you mentioned "Kiss Goodbye," that was a song that… — Cody Johnson Copy Share Image
In this modern world of ours many people seem to think that science has somehow made such religious ideas as immortality untimely… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
I had long ago discovered that when a word or formula refused to come to mind the best thing for it was… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
As you get older, you have to force yourself to have new dreams. For instance, I've been flying for 37 years, but… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
One can't even know what it means to be lost in reality. For instance, it is easy to know whether you are… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are… — Hans Bender Copy Share Image
Of course, the toxic bullshit of incessant advertising and show biz for nearly a century has stripped us of cognitive abilities for… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
If an art has for its function to represent manners and people, I do not see how it can avoid systematizing its… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
At no time within the last five-hundred years can one point to a single instance of the Negro as a race of… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
Kids are finding out about the potential for discovery online from other sources; many of them have computers at home, for instance,… — Daniel Greenberg Copy Share Image
