Example Quotes

I try to follow his example, not to imitate him.

Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.

Art, music, and philosophy are merely poignant examples of what we might have been had not the priests and traders gotten hold of us.

All history is but a romance, unless it is studied as an example.

We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.

Infants manners are moulded more by the example of Parents, then by stars at their nativities.

Is any knowledge worthless? Try to think of an example.

I thought [first girlfriend] was trying to make a fool out of me. Then I found out that she wasn't, and we went out. That's a very good example of how little confidence I had.

Well you know I've attracted a lot of criticism by, for example, suggesting that child benefit should be taken away from higher rate taxpaying families.

For example at the moment there is a compulsory requirement to buy an annuity. That is something we would get rid of. It puts some people off saving.

There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings.

When John Murtha, for example, said the Marines are killing innocent civilians in cold blood.

Not all living creatures die. An amoeba, for example, need never die; it need not even, like certain generals, fade away. It just divides and becomes two new amoebas.

The impact remains to be seen; I don't think we can measure the enduring impact of John Paul II, for example, for another hundred, perhaps two hundred, years.

One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication.

I have a history of eating disorders but, as a mother, you think of being an example to your child. I'm so much more balanced than I was.

An important book for our times, in which one woman's determination and refusal to consent sets an example of courage and honesty.

Just wanting to be more of an example, but letting them know also that I made mistakes when I was a kid; and I'm not expecting you to be perfect.

The best way for us to cultivate fearlessness in our daughters and other young women is by example.

Let us take a little time to meditate, to think of what we can do to improve our lives and to become better examples of what a Latter-day Saint should be.

Reality has a way of injuring people who don't take it seriously. If you don't believe in gravity, for example, and then step off a tall building, you won't just float away.

Germany and Austria have had positive experiences with strong states and a cooperative democracy. I am certain that this example could be helpful in a constructive debate on the Catalonian situation.

Pastor: One employed by the wicked to prove to them by his example that virtue doesn't pay.

It is more blessed to give than receive; for example, wedding presents.

A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg,.. is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.

Matching the right kidney to the right patient is one example of an algorithmic artificial intelligence.

All technological breakthroughs start with a small "elite". Think about cellphones, for example. Now just about everyone has one. The same will happen to innovations such as Twitter.

I don't think that the "freedom movement" is a racist movement as such. But it's a virulent example of identity politics. "Whiteness" is part of the identity, but not the most important part.

It is a trite but true definition that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts.

All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small.

In an excess of examples, the walk to globalization has additionally implied the minimization of women and young ladies. What's more that must change.

Content to follow when we lead the way.

We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority.

They who set an example make a highway. Others follow the example, because it is easier to travel on a highway than over untrodden grounds.

I think Mozart, like you, is an example of someone who has the gods moving through him, and his religion was creation.

Are not the worst examples of architecture to be found in private enterprise in cheap jerry-built homes?

I'm still trying to find the perfect Nirvana song that's an example of that, but you do hear a lot of their songs start with an extremely emotional death grunts.

Teach by example and treat yourself the way you would want your children to treat themselves.

In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.

For example, if I make money, I put it in real estate. I always did very well. Location, location, location.

This is regrettable indeed for a nation that aspires to teach democracy to other nations, because, as Burke said: "Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."

This will provide an engine, an example that will allow Europe to go faster, further and better.

Is there a better example of natural selection in action than 'Project Runway?'

We will have to make new arrangements, or revive bygone ones. We may, for another example, see the return of the boarding house.

You behold in me, Stephen said with grim displeasure, a horrible example of free thought.

If I were to ask you for example right now to go back with me and define those moments in your life that shaped you as a person and you began to reexamine them, something would happen.

My grandfather for example only died twice, once during the war and once in the 1980s.

For example, you go to Fuji, and there are no animal attacks. Why? And I think that gets you into the world of "The Walking Dead" or "Lost." Humans start doing some weird stuff.

In middle age I've begun to embrace stress reducing behaviors. Just in doing yoga, for example, my health has improved dramatically.

I've had some great examples in my career of how to do things the right way.