Them Instead Quotes
66 quotes by 56 authors
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When I was young, my family didn't go on outings to the circus or trips to Disneyland. We couldn't afford them. Instead, we stayed in…
— Jenny Lawson
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It gets crazy in my mind sometimes but the reason why I like to express so much positivity on my Twitter is because I think…
— Jhene Aiko
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We seem to know when to 'tap the heart.' Others have hit the intellect. We can hit them in all emotional way. Those who appeal…
— Walt Disney
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If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.
— Donald Trump
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It seemed to me that if the lawyers failed to do their duty, they ought to pay people for waiting upon them, instead of making…
— R.D. Blackmore
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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…
— Margaret Atwood
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For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an ‘ism becomes so involved in reaction against other ‘isms that…
— John Dewey
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I do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead
— Anne Enright
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In really bad times, the hungriest would gather at his door at nightfall, vying for the chance to earn a few coins to feed their…
— Suzanne Collins
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The nurses, I have already learned, are the ones who give us the answers we’re desperate for. Unlike the doctors, who fidget like they need…
— Jodi Picoult
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My head grew muddled with it all; the silly ways adults acted with one another, never saying what they meant, trusting in sighs and glances…
— Melanie Benjamin
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We never pray against our government or call down curses on them. Instead, we have learned that God is in control both of our own…
— Brother Yun
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Kindness is a rotten fruit that poisons anyone who partakes of it. Throw it in the face of your enemies and let it ruin them…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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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…
— Margaret Atwood
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You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they're not self-sufficient.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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When meeting royalty, it is very important, no matter how excited you are, not to vomit on them. Instead, vomit on the nearest commoner.
— Stephen Colbert
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Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead…
— William Martin
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You have to look at yourself objectively. Analyze yourself like an instrument. You have to be absolutely frank with yourself. Face your handicaps, don't try…
— Audrey Hepburn
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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…
— Margaret Atwood
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