Instead Quotes
6491 Instead quotes by 3769 unique authors
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You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead.
— Philip Johnson
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If we're all led to believe that poverty is just a matter of laziness or stupidity or whatever other justifications we can come up with,…
— Bob Torres
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I'm definitely not gonna make a joke about separating the whites and colours, so don't try to make me. So instead, I'll just say something…
— Toby Turner
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It's like your whole life you 've been falling toward the earth, until the moment someone catches you. And you realise that somehow you 've…
— Lisa Kleypas
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We do not increase compassion by expanding it to cover anything. Instead, we kill a good word by making it mean too much, and nothing.
— Marvin Olasky
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You would have thought that our first priority would be to ask what the ecologists are finding out, because we have to live within the…
— David Suzuki
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Japanese people cut their energy use by 25 percent immediately after Fukushima. They showed there was huge opportunity there. And instead, the government simply wants…
— David Suzuki
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It is so easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted the pale new…
— Anna Quindlen
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I played street hockey in Riverside Park when I was a kid. I played goalie. I didn't make the hockey team in college, so I…
— John Katzman
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I really was kind of like a musical nerd. I would watch VH1's 'Behind The Music.' That was heavy when I was a kid. I…
— Rico Love
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The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.
— Bill Forsyth
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Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as legislature.... So people who go to bed to sleep Must count French premiers or sheep,…
— Ogden Nash
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Our brains are not capable of comprehending the infinite so, instead, we ignore it and eat cheese on toast.
— Jonathan Cainer
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But I would much prefer students going to college to learn and be prepared for the rigors of the new economic order, rather than dumping…
— Buzz Bissinger
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I think I was born because my parents had two boys and wanted to give it one more go and try for a girl... they…
— Alex Borstein
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I don't actually like blocking actors. I prefer giving actors freedom. They don't have to step on a precise mark with me. Instead of giving…
— Jose Padilha
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I was supposed to be on the Tonight Show but I broke my shoulder instead.
— Rip Taylor
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Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges?
— Khalil Gibran
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Learning to enjoy being single involves the ability to experience everything through your own essence, instead of living vicariously through a spouse or partner.
— Ernie J Zelinski
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Air forces offered the possibility of striking a the enemy's economic and moral centres without having first to achieve 'the destruction of the enemy's main…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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The next time your core beliefs are challenged - try being curious instead of furious.
— Randy Gage
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I felt I was moving among two groups [literary intellectuals and scientists] comparable in intelligence, identical in race, not grossly different in social origin, earning…
— Carrie P Snow
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Appreciate life instead of resisting it.
— Judy Tatelbaum
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Don't pressure yourself to target a market. Hit the mark instead. Pay homage to your own connection. Quantity flocks to quality and quality comes from…
— Tama J. Kieves
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Quit counting fans, followers and blog subscribers like bottle caps. Think, instead, about what you're hoping to achieve with and through the community that actually…
— Amber Naslund
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