Instead Quotes
6491 Instead quotes by 3769 unique authors
-
FREEDOM CANNOT BE LICENSED, liberties cannot be regulated and rights cannot be granted. History teaches us that when the rights and liberties of a free…
— Steve Kubby
-
I finally managed to try to do away with myself, as neatly and concisely as possible. I would rather die young leaving various accomplishments, some…
— Francesca Woodman
-
Hopefully I've shown them (fellow cyclists) you just need some self-belief and that you need to take your destiny into your own hands instead of…
— Jens Voigt
-
Stop telling people how far they have left to go. Instead tell them how far they’ve come.
— Bob Goff
-
I once heard somebody say that God had closed a door on an opportunity they had hoped for. But I've always wondered if when we…
— Bob Goff
-
God pursues us into whatever dark place we've landed and behind whatever locked door holds us in. He holds our unwashed and dirty hands and…
— Bob Goff
-
The real game of Bigger and Better that Jesus is playing with us usually isn't about money or possessions or even our hopes. It's about…
— Bob Goff
-
Most of us are searching-consciously or unconsciously- for a degree of internal balance and harmony between ourselves and the outside world, and if we happen…
— Walter Murch
-
Write as you like, use the rhythms that come out, try different instruments, sit at the piano, destroy the metric, shout instead of singing, blow…
— Violeta Parra
-
When a man is hit by Friendly Fire, his blood pressure lowers and his morale sinks. I have been hit by Friendly Fire in my…
— Hideo Kojima
-
Perhaps within the next hundred years, science will perfect a process of thought transference from composer to listener. The composer will sit alone on the…
— Raymond Scott
-
No matter how much of our liberty Washington takes away in the name of security, there are no guarantees that there won't be another terrorist…
— Walter E. Williams
-
Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man.
— Robert Ardrey
-
Now is not the time to compromise on the economy. Instead, we should be doing everything in our power to support long-term economic growth. Permanent…
— Todd Tiahrt
-
Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital,…
— Patrick Geddes
-
When we are angry, we will use a lie as fast as a truth if we can hurt with it. Anger feels strong but it…
— Pat McBride
-
If you both agree at a conscious level that the purpose of your relationship is to create an opportunity, not an obligation-an opportunity for growth,…
— Neale Donald Walsch
-
The mortal experience . . . is not like a college course which we can passively audit. Instead, we are taking life's course for credit…
— Neal A. Maxwell
-
And the pond's stillness nippled as if by rain instead is pocked with life.
— Maxine Kumin
-
A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay,- A cap by night, a stocking all the day.
— Oliver Goldsmith
-
When building a complex system, having crackerjack programmers (who can make any design work, even a bad one) can be a liability. The result, after…
— Richard E. Pattis
-
Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom…
— John Milton
-
Ultimately the most profound problems with psychotherapy have always been that instead of possessing any contrarian or transcendent values to enable it to produce insights…
— Kenny Smith
-
People who turn to philosophy expecting to harvest a crop of formulas of wisdom or understanding do not understand-philosophy has such things, but they are…
— Kenny Smith
-
The ego is not a thing but a subtle effort, and you cannot use effort to get rid of effort - you end up with…
— Ken Wilber
Who Wrote These Instead Quotes
3,769 authors contributed a total of 6,491 Instead Quotes, led by these top contributors: