Instead Quotes · Page 3

The U.S. should incentivize energy production instead of penalizing it.

— Ryan Frazier

“Refuse to put others either above you or below you, but instead see them as you.”

— Pauline Holyoak

My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead,

— Jenny Offill

I should have written books instead of reading them.

— Alan Lightman

Instead of fantasizing about food, I'm fantasizing about the WWE championship.

— Jinder Mahal

“I couldn’t get in the tub, so I ran some bath water instead.”

— Caryn Lee

Point at solutions instead of at each other.

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

When I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead.

— Barney Stinson

Sometimes when people can't speak English, they hum the melody instead of singing along. Having 20,000 people humming your song is incredible.

— Nikki Sixx

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

— Anonymous

Instead of always waiting for your next vacation, you ought to create a life that you don't need to escape from.

— Makes Me Think

No one wants to give up time with their family or entertainment, so they give up sleep instead.

— Matthew Walker

But instead I usually say that, though it may surprise them, I too believe in the necessity of organization.

— Robert Shea

As I stood and gave the eulogy for young Michael Brown last week, I kept thinking about the fact that this child…

— Al Sharpton

In order to be who you want to be, it's best to concentrate on who you are, instead of who you're not.

— Anonymous

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

— Lewis Grizzard

Instead of five hundred thousand average algebra teachers, we need one good algebra teacher. We need that teacher to create software, videotape…

— Michael J. Saylor

We ought instead of retreating should follow up the enemy and take Richmond. And in full view of all responsible for such…

— Philip Kearny

Well I think any designer that can understand what people need to be wearing right now is the biggest and best step…

— Jessica Simpson

I'm ambitious. I do think you have a tendency to be less happy sometimes when you're a seeker. You can be disenchanted…

— Matt Dillon

Of course I planned to write the Great American Novel; that lasted about a week, at which point I decided I had…

— Jasmine Cresswell

When I was a child, the thing I wanted more than anything was to grow up and live in one house. Since…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

There will be Apple Glass, and Google Glass, and RIM Glass. These companies are all working on glass. I think everyone is…

— Steve Mann

I have long accepted that an art fair is not a perfectly curated museum show. Instead, it's more like a brightly lit…

— Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis

Hollywood could use less instead of more of everything.

— Bruce Davison

Lets talk to one another instead of about one another.

— John F. Kennedy

Instead of fighting your problems, picture your way out of them.

— Vernon Howard

I'd much prefer to have a laugh instead of a fight.

— Mike Connors

If you want to become that close to 'God', die instead.

— Kazuya Minekura

So instead of getting to Heaven, at last - I’m going, all along.

— Emily Dickinson

Take the back roads instead of the highways.

— Minnie Pearl

Envy is the art of counting another's blessings instead of your own.

— Harold Coffin

“So you made a mistake. Don’t beat yourself up over it. Let me beat you up instead.”

— Jarod Kintz

I eat quinoa instead of rice. I eat elk. And some duck.

— Brandin Cooks

“What will it be like to be one instead of half of two?”

— Raffaella Barker

“And this—instead of happiness—would be only what the two of us deserved, after all.”

— Melanie Benjamin

“How could I dream when I knew I could act instead.”

— Susan Dennard

I get jealous when u r talking with some1 else instead of me.

— Rajesh

“Instead of using the expression “It is what it is,” just shut up.”

— Bill Maher

“Because then you would know my strength in Wulder instead of discovering your own.”

— Donita K. Paul