Instead Quotes
6491 quotes by 4013 authors
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Instead of agitating for war, the Jewish groups in this country should be opposing it in every possible way, for they will be among the…
— Charles Lindbergh
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Had the white settlers in North America called the natives 'Americans' instead of 'Indians', the early Americans could not have said that the 'only good…
— Thomas Szasz
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Your god may be your little Christian habit - the habit of prayer or Bible reading at certain times of your day. Watch how your…
— Oswald Chambers
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Don't ask 'Why', ask instead, 'Why not'.
— John F. Kennedy
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And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years…
— Vernor Vinge
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Don't evaluate your life in terms of achievements, trivial or monumental, along the way... Instead, wake up and appreciate everything you encounter along your path.…
— Wayne Dyer
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Walls don't work. ... Instead of building walls to create security, we need to build bridges.
— James G. Stavridis
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We each focus on what we're going to buy, but that's an incorrect focus. Focus instead on why you want to spend the money on…
— Suze Orman
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The prostitutes worked for a pimp now. He was splendid and cruel. He was a god to them. He took their free will away from…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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C. S. Lewis pointed out that some people are angry with God for His not existing, and others for His existing but for failing to…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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If we change in different directions, then we don't have any future anyway, do we? I think it's possible for two people to change together,…
— Richard Bach
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I'd like to see people, instead of spending so much time on the ethical problem, get after the problems that really affect the people of…
— Richard M. Nixon
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It's never enough to just tell people about some new insight. Rather, you have to get them to experience it a way that evokes its…
— John Seely Brown
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Of course, Ginger was able to accomplish sex through dance. We told more through our movements instead of the big clinch. We did it all…
— Fred Astaire
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I thought she'd [her mother] offer me some sympathy. Instead, she said, 'Don't you ever call me crying again! You wanted to be in this…
— Jennifer Lopez
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And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never tread ~ These…
— Annie Lennox
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The immense wealth of doctrine and institutions can become a handicap if we are trying to present all of that to a person who has…
— Raniero Cantalamessa
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You know what comes next, of course. You know I'm writing this at my desk, on a Thursday, and day after tomorrow I'll put on…
— James Autry
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What all this tells me is that a large proportion of the people in positions of power across Australia - politicians and media pundits included…
— Clementine Ford
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