An Example Quotes
The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too.
When a leader takes responsibility for his own actions and mistakes, he not only sets a good example, he shows a healthy respect for people on his team
The quality of food is in inverse proportion to a dining room's altitude, especially atop bank and hotel buildings (airplanes are an extreme example).
Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.
The fact that a former senator and secretary of state claimed not to know what the letter "C" means is just one more example why she is totally unfit to hold the office of president. Totally unfit.
Creativity is in everyone; it just manifests itself differently with each person. My CPA, for example, is one of the most creative people I know.
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
And understand that scarce spectrum is used today for example for cell phone operators, they have to pay for the airwaves they use, for their services.
Mankind can live free in a society hemmed in by laws, but we have yet to find a historical example of mankind living free in lawless anarchy.
"... he had understood, better than anyone ... the beauty that grew out of the simple knowledge that everything, no matter how small or large it might be, was a perfect example of what it was."
Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this republic an example of justice, with no caste but the caste of humanity.
Tramaine Hawkins has been a mentor, a confidante and an example of greatness. She has been through a lot in her life, and her career has spanned over 50 years. To me, that's what you call a legend.
I did have fun, for example, in The Black Hole which was very popular among youngsters.
Men trust their eyes rather than their ears; the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual.
The U.S. Coast Guard is a shining example of how well a Federal agency can perform with its flexibility, speed, and expertise.
It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.
History is full of examples of people compromising their beliefs in order to keep themselves alive.
Every time I come to the States, I wish people would react to war like they react to tobacco, for example. Because war really kills in a second lots of people, thousands of people.
It is impossible to find a single example of a monopoly that has ever existed without official protection.
When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence.
Ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transitions than we had in Darwin's time.
People live by example. I can't tell you, "You can be anything," if I shot my own dreams down or was too afraid to go after them.
After I was injured, I had several good examples of "Get on with it, stop whinging and life can be what you make it," because the world doesn't stop turning when you have a boo-boo.
Democrats single out glaring examples of tax preferences or spending priorities that favor the wealthy and Republicans cry 'class warfare!'
We call ourselves a "capacity building" organization; self-motivated and self-initiated capacity building. For example, in 30 years, I don't think I have signed a check for the company.
I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe.
You just click and you get 18,000 screen shots on how to apply lipstick, for example, but there will be the same selection that has taken place in paper in digital, too.
The biggest benefit in my life comes from my Segway, which I use everywhere I am. If I'm going to San Antonio, for example, I'll load it in the car and just go everywhere with it.
The Internet is a powerful example of free speech and the free market in action; it is curious that the Net has alarmed the lawmakers of a nation founded on those principles.
Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and, as we develop the peace process, we continue to use examples from South Africa.
It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.
Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority.
Notice, for example, that people who talk about "the joys of childhood" are always adults. Only an adult, utterly remote from the reality of childhood, could suppose it is time of joys.
With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.
The NBA's chosen ones think I'm setting a bad example? I think they need to look around and stop taking themselves so seriously.
To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence.
I like putting my money into things like food and shelter. I'm probably a bad example of an investor.
What you learn from bad habits and in bad society you will never forget, and it will be a lasting pang to you.
Pride comes from a place of real acknowledgment that somebody's actually living their life for themselves, and I want to be that example for my son.
Analytics only goes so far. Basketball, more than baseball, for example, is really a team sport.
Robert Gober, for example. He doesn't seem like somebody who is just going to show in a gallery that asks him to show. He's just making his work, and when he's ready, he's going to show it.