Instance Quotes
916 quotes by 711 authors
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It is true, of course, that there is no way of knowing for sure whether or not you can trust someone, for the simple reason…
— Daniel Handler
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Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them. For instance, they may remember to mention, a week after the event happened, that when…
— James M. Barrie
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I cannot prove that gods do not exist. Nor can I prove that the world and everything in it was not created by an entity…
— Christopher Paolini
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One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All…
— Jean Rhys
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You show me what someone listens to, I’ll tell you everything you want to know about his soul. (For instance, a bunch of Nickelback albums…
— Tad Williams
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Yes?’ he asked, looking at me over the sheet. ‘I’m a writer temporarily down on my inspirations.’ ‘Oh, a writer, eh?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Are you sure?’…
— Charles Bukowski
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It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love…
— Anthony Bourdain
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The most dramatic instances of directed behavior change and "mind control" are not the consequence of exotic forms of influence, such as hypnosis, psychotropic drugs,…
— Philip Zimbardo
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The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth…
— E E Cummings
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I am certain that over the course of your own life, you have noticed that people's rooms reflect their personalities. In my room, for instance,…
— Daniel Handler
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We’ve all got weaknesses. Me, for instance. I’m tragically funny and good-looking.
— Rick Riordan
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To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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When I looked at the painting I felt the same convergence on a single point: a glancing sun-struck instance that existed now and forever. Only…
— Donna Tartt
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Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the…
— Alice Hoffman
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Well, I do not mind telling you I have been at work upon this geometry of Four Dimensions for some time. Some of my results…
— H.G. Wells
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I prize the Depression, for instance, because I learned the value of things in the Depression that a way people who don't have to worry…
— Shelby Foote
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America must always lead on the world stage. If we don't, no one else will. The military that you have joined is, and always will…
— Barack Obama
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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
— Franklin P. Adams
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The greatest crimes have been found, in many instances, to be compatible with a superstitious piety and devotion; hence it is justly regarded as unsafe…
— David Hume
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It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any…
— Jane Austen
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