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Instead Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. All of them? Sure, he says. Think about it. There's…
- Anything that suffers and dies instead of us is Christ; if they didn't kill birds and fish they would have killed us. The animals die…
- Things might have been different if she hadn't been able to drift; if she'd had to concentrate on her next meal, instead of dwelling on…
- Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you…
- All Creatures know that some must die That all the rest may take and eat; Sooner or later, all transform Their blood to wine, their…
- Once in a while, Jimmy would make up a word but he never once got caught out. ... He should have been pleased by his…
- By now you know: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, "Take me to your leaders." Even I--unused to your…
- Instead I will say, "Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me…
- So Crake never remembered his dreams. It's Snowman that remembers them instead. Worse than remembers: he's immersed in them, he'd wading through them, he's stuck…
More Instead Quotes
- Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. — Richard Bach
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
- I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't… — Arthur Ashe
- The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that… — Chinua Achebe
- Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day. — John James Audubon
- A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil… — Teresa of Avila
- Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he… — Sai Baba
- Instead of creating new jobs, Republicans gave tax cuts to companies that send jobs overseas. — Joe Baca
- Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs… — Michele Bachmann
- After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you implored Washington… — Michele Bachmann
- How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them. — Lucille Ball
- The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home… — Edward Abbey