Example Quotes

Amy Winehouse and Paul Weller are examples of poets, I think.

A good example of the modern world is the Eurotunnel. And mobile phones - I like them.

In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense.

Lambs have little chance to follow the right path if the shepherds go astray.

What Plato was really asking was perhaps why a horse was a horse, and not, for example, a cross between a horse and a pig.

My family has had to move and change their name and have been subject to threats from right wing blogs calling for my son, for example, to be killed to get at me.

There are many things you shouldn't measure. Don't, for example, try to measure how much you love your wife!

Discovering, for example, that as witnesses to your life diminish, there is less corroboration, and therefore less certainty, as to what you are or have been. [p. 65]

'Oscar Wao' for example cohered in a period of terrible distress. All the novels that I wanted to write were not happening.

Examples of vicious courses practiced in a domestic circle corrupt more readily and more deeply when we behold them in persons in authority.

Whatever is committed from a bad example, is displeasing even to its author.

I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.

My daughters depend on me for a lot more than food, clothing and shelter. They depend on me as an example of how to go on.

If we drop money, we are usually very sad if the money is big. But for example, if we drop 310 dollars, we can relax, because this is very small in the 3-adics.

Ultimately, I don't believe that you can build a company without a lot of effort, and that you need to lead by example.

Treat each guitar track-and each song-completely different. For example, if I'm using a certain amp and guitar on one track, I'll deliberately use something else for the next tune or overdub.

I wanted to get away from having a minister who pretends to be a certain type of role model. I don't want my life to serve as an example for anyone.

Go forward with new zeal and determination, and through your example shine the light of the gospel in this troubled world.

There’s nothing more fierce than the female, like the momma lion. Believe me, my wife is a good example.

Know the white, But keep the black, Be an example to the world! Being an example to the world, Ever true and unwavering, Return to the infinite.

The sage embraces the one, and is an example to the world.

The wise cares about everyone, and he becomes an example to all.

If you consider, for example, that democracy is much like a religion then 9/11 is akin to finding the body of God.

The subtle differences in language and humor that get lost in translation, for example, make it almost impossible for big companies to do something that will appeal at home and abroad.

In its Roman-era setting, for example, Christianity was so different that critics of the time referred to it as a "superstition" (meaning a bogus or dangerous religion).

I wasn't that familiar with silent films. I didn't know, for example, how hugely popular silent films were in the 1920s, how people would go to the movies several times a week.

I hope I've been a good example to the youth of the church.

Sometimes, people forget my record of fiscal conservatism on major issues in the state legislature. The greatest example is my voting against the pension borrowing scheme in 1997.

For example, I wear clothes I buy at trendy shops because I don't care much about clothing. If someone wants to create a trend around clothing, I'll happily and blindly follow.

There were worse things to be than sexist. For example, you could be the sort of person who pinched your fingers together while using the words “teeny weeny.

I need to be happy. I need to set that example for my daughter so that she goes into something she loves, not because other people want her to do something. It's a good feeling, it's freeing.

I still have a lot of room for improvement. For example, I want to shoot equally well with both feet.

I have heard that it was the perfection of the administration of criminal justice to take care that the punishment should come to few and the example to many.

Those of us who preach religion: Preach the meaning of "ritual," and stop burying the people and enslaving the people by religious rituals, and then showing them a hypocritical example in leadership!

French cinema has always been very interesting, and it's still very powerful. I think it goes to show that it's great to still have a cinema that doesn't try to emulate, for example, American cinema.

The movies like "Star Wars," for example or "Lord Of The Rings," they work because it's a a mix of everything.

People show surprise that I have interests outside my political career. There is subtle surprise, for example, that I would be interested in a recipe.

A main cause of philosophical disease-an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example.

If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in so doing, you did not encounter new images.

Slowly but without question - and Presidents' Day is only one example - Americans are forgetting and ignoring the men and events that have made this nation great.

Some of it just involved thinking about, for example, the different kinds of science, what chemistry is.

It is almost impossible for children and youth to find their way through the seas of life without the guiding light of a good example.

We learn as much by others' failings as by their teachings. Examples of imperfection is just as useful for achieving perfection as are models of competence and perfection.

The states can make the finest contribution to the building of India's future independence if they set the right example in their own territories.

The devotion of such titans of spirit as Lenin to an Ideal must bear fruit. The nobility of his selflessness will be an example through centuries to come, and his Ideal will reach perfection.

Communists should set an example in study; at all times they should be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers.

I mean whatever I do it's important that I put my stamp on it and keep it in my world, whether I'm doing a dance track or something like the Russian album for example.

I'll give you an example. Henry, the old black guy who cooks the corn bread, he worked on the railroads for about 20 years so he knows how to lay and build track.

When I make commitments I like to stick to them, especially when I'm giving back to kids. Just giving them an example of what they can achieve. I love giving back to kids. It's fantastic.

My mother never asked me to do anything she wouldn't do herself. She always taught by example.