Example Quotes
Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.
It's not like I'm some kind of veteran and there is this huge age gap. I identify with them more off the field. I need to set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that.
We are in truth, more than half what we are by imitation. The great point is to choose good models and to study them with care.
The rise of Islam offers perhaps the most impressive example in world history of the power of words to alter human behavior in sudden, surprising ways.
The world needs all the help you can give by way of cheerful, optimistic, inspiring thought and personal example.
"I criticize America because I love her. I want her to stand as a moral example to the world."
In Guatemala, the gap between rich and poor must be eliminated, or we will continue to be the example of conflict in America.
Directing, I just feel comfortable. I know what I want. I know what I want from my crew. I lead by example. I have limitless energy as a director.
People will still be looking to the United States. Our example will still carry great weight.
Most people would say 'the deets', but I say 'the tails'. Just another example of innovation.
Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.
Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.
I believe in the energy of art, and through the use of that energy, the artist's ability to transform his or her life, and by example, the lives of others.
The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
I've seen a lot of people - for example, Lindsay Lohan - who got into the wrong crowd. I always have my eye on what I want. And I don't want anything to distract me from that.
Theoretical physicists accept the need for mathematical beauty as an act of faith... For example, the main reason why the theory of relativity is so universally accepted is its mathematical beauty.
The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.
Now all orators effect their demonstrative proofs by allegation either of enthymems or examples, and, besides these, in no other way whatever.
Reconciliation takes time. Sometimes many decades, as the example of Europe shows. It is hard work.
With some of the bad things that come with love, there's also a lot of good. For example that connection... which I struggle to have with most people.
The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.
So my view's quite clear. I believe Cryptocurrencies, bitcoin is the first example, i believe they're going to Change the world.
Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank.
The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.
Coolidge is a better example of evolution than either Bryan or Darrow, for he knows when not to talk, which is the biggest asset the monkey possesses over the human.
I hope that through my example, such as my role on 'The West Wing,' I can help change attitudes on deafness and prove we can really do everything... except hear.
Firstly the cars aren't too complicated. They have no traction control, for example, which means you can spin if you try too hard and damage your tires if you're not careful with your driving style.
You don't become a hero by choosing to become a hero. You become a hero by becoming an example, by being an example for what's possible, for being an example for one person.
Every successive generation becomes a living memorial of our public schools, and a living example of their excellence.
A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.
Today Jesus Christ is being dispatched as the Figurehead of a Religion, a mere example. He is that, but he is infinitely more; He is salvation itself, He is the Gospel of God.
Most movie-goers are overdosing on star coverage; it's the ultimate example of too much information.
Van Gogh is the best example of how a person can be on the right track, propelled by gut feeling and some kind of strange obsessive stubborn conviction, that no one seems to understand.
Charity requires sacrifice, and members of Congress could set a good example of charity by giving up their pay increase.
It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture book text to a publisher who does not publish picture books.
God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.
Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10^27 atoms.
Technology is probably the single biggest driver of productivity gains for the developed countries. For example, I think it's much more important than free trade.
The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as "steroids.
God's heart calls to our hearts, inviting us to come out of ourselves, to forsake our human certainties, to trust in him and, by following his example, to make ourselves a gift of unbounded love.
An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past
Creativity is not an ability that you either have or do not have. It is, for example, and this may surprise you, absolutely unrelated to IQ, provided you're intelligent above a certain minimal level.