Instances Quotes

211 Instances quotes by 172 unique authors

I felt in a lot of instances I was deliberately being put through stress because when you're a guy who generates money, people have a… — Dave Chappelle
Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death. — John Hanning Speke
Neoliberalization has not been very effective in revitalizing global capital accumulation, but it has succeeded remarkably well in restoring, or in some instances (as in… — David Harvey
While it may be true in some instances that our promised blessings will be fulfilled only in the eternities, it is also true that as… — Susan W. Tanner
The writer gleans wind scraps; he listens wherever he can. Each day is full of instances;Â what counts, as with all stimuli, is the sympathetic… — Nicholas Delbanco
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
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
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
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
As we grow up, it feels like you should either invite people into your life or not. There should be fewer and fewer instances of… — Sloane Crosley
The dog [in Pavlov's experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible offering accompanies the bell.… — Gordon W. Allport
The movements of nature are in a never ending circle. The animal species which has once been put into a train of motion, is still… — Thomas Jefferson
At the same time that she [nature] solicits him [man] to follow her not only into her open walks, but likewise to explore her secret… — Unknown Author
In rare instances you have to give up what you thought was a great scene. — Keenen Ivory Wayans
The advantages of a uniform statistical nomenclature, however im- perfect, are so obvious, that it is surprising no attention has been paid to its enforcement… — William Farr
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
All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance. — Samuel Johnson
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… — Unknown Author

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