Instruction Quotes

532 quotes by 432 authors

If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then it must somehow… — Wendell Berry
Where's your instruction manual?" I asked him. "What's the baby customer-service number? — Lisa Kleypas
Did you take Joyce's engine?' 'My instructions were to disable the car, but one of the men bet Hal a burger he couldn't get the… — Janet Evanovich
Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this… — Arthur Schopenhauer
I said, "I don't think I can give you that kind of emotion." And he [Hitchcock] sat there and said, "Ingrid, fake it!" Well, that… — Ingrid Bergman
We follow instructions to my destination, a chamber for my preparation. — Suzanne Collins
I often find myself in situations where it seems to me like everyone else has read the instruction book — Jeff Lindsay
I also think pronunciation of a foreign tongue could be better taught than by demanding from the pupil those internal acrobatic feats that are generally… — Jerome K. Jerome
...to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but instruction and training… — John Stuart Mill
What lies at the heart of every living thing is not a fire, not warm breath, not a 'spark of life.' It is information, words,… — Richard Dawkins
Without thinking, [Will] spoke. 'Halt? Are you awake?' 'No.' The ill humor in the one-word reply was unmistakable. 'Oh. Sorry.' 'Shut up.' He pondered whether… — John Flanagan
I mean,he decided we'd be better apart,you know?it wasn't a joint decision.like, if your gonna make a decision about me and my life without consulting… — James Patterson
HERE ARE YOUR INSTRUCTIONS, CROWLEY. And suddenly he knew. He hated that. They could just as easily have told him, they didn't suddenly have to… — Neil Gaiman
I mean you're given all these lessons for the unimportant things--piano-playing, typing. You're given years and years of lessons in how to balance equations, which… — Anne Tyler
As I grew older, I understood that instructions came with this voice. What were these instructions? The instructions were never to lament casually. And if… — Leonard Cohen
Voles-tu, mon petit papillon.â€ Illium laughed at Galenâ€™s instruction to â€œfly, little butterfly — Nalini Singh
Instructions For Wayfarers They will declare: Every journey has been taken. You shall respond: I have not been to see myself. They will insist: Everything… — Robert Fulghum
What is less often noticed is that it is precisely the kind of moral instruction that parents are constantly trying to give their children â€”… — J I Packer
Forever, reading has been central, the necessary fix, the support system. Her life has been informed by reading. She has read not just for distraction,… — Penelope Lively

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