Instance Quotes

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Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise. — Jane Austen
If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning… — David Hume
Disassemble the cells of a sponge (by passing them through a sieve, for instance), then dump them into a solution, and they will find their… — Bill Bryson
The country is in deep trouble. We've forgotten that a rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better… — Cornel West
Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that… — Virginia Woolf
I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers, but… — Jonathan Swift
In Brueghelâ€™s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster, the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But… — Wystan Hugh Auden
I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieites… — Jane Austen
There's the ambiguity of human relationships, for instance. A relationship between two people, just like a sequence of words, is ambiguous if it is open… — Elliot Perlman
And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed… — Henry David Thoreau
Still, no one finally knows what a poet is supposed either to be or to do. Especially in this country, one takes on the jobâ€”because… — Robert Creeley
A novel is not a summary of its plot but a collection of instances, of luminous specific details that take us in the direction of… — Charles Baxter
In a way, it's nice to know that there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things go wrong. For… — Rick Riordan
The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class… — Cormac McCarthy
For instance, this new idea that You-Know-Who can kill with a single glance from his eyes. Thatâ€™s a basilisk, listeners. One simple test: Check whether… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Stealing, of course, is a crime, and a very impolite thing to do. But like most impolite things, it is excusable under certain circumstances. Stealing… — Daniel Handler
Some mothers in today's world feel "cumbered" by home duties and are thus attracted by other more "romantic" challenges. Such women could make the same… — Neal A. Maxwell
Forgiveness works two ways, in most instances. People have to forgive themselves too. The powerful have to forgive themselves for their behavior. That should be… — Sidney Poitier
I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people. — Mark Twain
The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as… — Douglas Adams

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