Instance Quotes

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There is no filmmaking legislation because distributors are not interested in sharing their money with the film industry - for instance, by giving a percentage… — Andrzej Wajda
Immoral: Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be… — Ambrose Bierce
Actually, in this instance we do have probably a better tracking system than was the instance in Canada. Because this is a dairy cow, they're… — Ann Veneman
No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him… — Thomas Jefferson
Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. It is essentially a written language, and it endeavors to exemplify in its written… — Alfred North Whitehead
The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to… — Goldwin Smith
Attaching significance to invariants is an effort to recognize what, because of its form or colour or meaning or otherwise, is important or significant in… — Herbert Turnbull
I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Bring me the head of Elton John . . . which is one instance in which meat would not be murder, if it were served… — Steven Morrissey
Sometimes you have to be careful when selecting a new nickname for yourself. For instance, let's say you have chosen the nickname "Fly Head". Normally,… — Jack Handey
The much-maligned idle rich have received a bad rap: They have maintained their wealth while many There is scarcely an instance of a man who… — Warren Buffett
All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance. — Samuel Johnson
Anti-Semitic publications have existed in Germany for centuries. A book I had, written by Dr. Martin Luther, was, for instance, confiscated. Dr. Martin Luther would… — Julius Streicher
For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to… — Eleanor Roosevelt
It will be cheering to know that many people are skillful chessplayers, though in many instances their brains, in a general way, compare unfavorably with… — James Mortimer
A piece of wall can be visually disintegrated from the whole into a separate triangle by plunging a diagonal of light from edge to edge… — Dan Flavin
The terms good and bad indicate no positive quality in things regarded in themselves, but are merely modes of thinking or notions, which we form… — Baruch Spinoza
They fought on with a devotion which would puzzle the generation of the 1980s. More surprising, in many instances it would have baffled the men… — William Manchester
I never, for instance, have the urge to paint animals 'the way I see them,' but rather the way they are... The way they themselves… — Franz Marc
Assumptions are dangerous things to make, and like all dangerous things to make - bombs, for instance, or strawberry shortcake - if you make even… — Daniel Handler

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