Instance Quotes · Page 62

There have been many instances of people combining the political life with the spiritual life, a life of constant self-examination. Gandhi was…

— Pankaj Mishra

It became a bit of a challenge to make an album that is essentially quite alternative sounding, and has a lot of…

— Will Farquarson

There are instances when we are like horses, we psychologists, and grow restless: we see our own shadow wavering up and down…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hungarian generals there is such a considerable…

— Heinrich Himmler

A great deal of American T.V. viewed on Hulu, which is superb - '30 Rock', for instance, is on very good form.

— Ben Schott

In exposition and in argument, the writer must likewise never lose his hold upon the concrete; and even when he is dealing…

— William Strunk, Jr

These moments were wondrous and divine, instances when the gossamer curtain between heaven and earth ripped and all of humanity witnessed the…

— Danielle Trussoni

It seems to me that every phenomenon, every fact, itself is the really interesting object. Whoever explains it, or connects it with…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Invention in photography is so laborious as to be in most instances perverse.

— Robert Adams

The psychedelic experience is simply a compressed instance of what we call understanding, so that living psychedelically is trying to live in…

— Terence McKenna

The personality of the Queen [ Elizabeth II]... For instance, once she goes - if she's ever going to die, it seems…

— Bob Hawke

We don't measure the quality of our other relationships by how well the other person turns out, for instance whether my husband…

— Alison Gopnik

Our problem in Quebec is our summer is so short that we can't wear bathing suits, whatever, what kind of bathing suit.…

— Andre Pratte

War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven.

— Ezra Stiles

I was highly aware, in writing [the book] ROOM, that there are unsavoury aspects to our interest in such cases, and I…

— Emma Donoghue

Different nations have different ways of forming their national identity. In America, for instance, the model was one of homogeneity breaking from…

— Kabir Bedi

These pictures possibly give rise to questions of political content or historical truth. Neither interests me in this instance. And although even…

— Gerhard Richter

Every instance of obedience, from right motives, strengthens us spiritually, whilst every act of disobedience weakens us.

— George Muller

Lately we have been getting facts pointing to the "oceanic" nature of the floor of so-called inland seas. Through geological investigations it…

— Vladimir Belousov

I think it's very hard for us, for Christians, to understand that it's okay to read a book, for instance, on how…

— Donald Miller

I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have…

— Winston Churchill

Conditioning can be not a big heavy thing. (For instance:) I've got a brand new pair of shoes, by mistake you step…

— Joseph Fiennes

Worry is the most popular form of suicide. Worry impairs appetite, disturbs sleep, makes respiration irregular, spoils digestion, irritates disposition, warps character,…

— William George Jordan

Nature delights in making use of the same forms in the most various biological connections: as it does, for instance, in the…

— Sigmund Freud

Everyone is going to binge on a diet, for instance, so plan for it, schedule it, and contain the damage.

— Tim Ferriss