Instance Quotes

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War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven. — Ezra Stiles
Millar Burrows of Yale observes: 'Archeology has in many cases refuted the views of modern critics. It has shown in a number of instances that… — Millar Burrows
The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every other instance it… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Christians, for instance, are not, properly speaking, believers in religion; rather, they believe that Jesus of Nazareth, crucified under Pontius Pilate, rose from the dead… — David Bentley Hart
Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of… — Brian Ferneyhough
Writers are idolized not because they love their fellow men, which is never a recommendation and in extreme instances leads to crucifixion, but because their… — Hugh Kingsmill
I have used the words and expressions which my experiences from Minsk to Kharkov to the Don suggested to me. But I should have reserved… — Guy Sajer
The tension between 'yes' and no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable… — Anatole Broyard
If my children do not behave according to Islam, if they do not pray for instance, I will punish them. — Abu Bakar Bashir
What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One can understand well enough how… — Terry Eagleton
Most people just aren't grateful for the lives they have, and it really saddens me. For instance, I said 'hello' to a man the other… — Zach Braff
Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and… — Bobby Hull
There are certain fixed rules that one observes for one's own comfort. For instance, never be flippantly rude to any inoffensive grey-bearded stranger that you… — Hector Hugh Munro
What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself, -- it is the purest, most ethereal language… — Carl Maria von Weber
It's high time that Christians made up their minds to do something . . . What are we going to show in the way of… — Hans Scholl
Now I usually try not to give advice. Information, yes, advice, no. But, what has worked for me may not work for you. Well, take… — Dolly Parton
SETH said: The natural person is to be found, now, not in the past or in the present, but beneath layers and layers of official… — Jane Roberts
Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble: for instance those who have made money love money more than those who have… — Aristotle
We can learn that at the center of our agency is our freedom to form a healthy attitude toward whatever circumstances we are placed in!… — Neal A. Maxwell
I remember that grand word of the Katha Upanishad - ShraddhÃ¢ or marvellous faith. An instance of Shraddha can be found in the life of… — Swami Vivekananda

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