Instance Quotes

I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.

In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses.

I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not - there are no words to express some things except religious words. For instance, 'soul.'

Signs must be read with caution. The history of Christendom is replete with instances of people who misread the signs.

The first thing I would do for anyone who's trying to lose body fat, for instance, would be to remove foods from the house that he or she would consume during lapses of self-control.

I think there are other issues that the Democrats could use to rally evangelicals. There are a lot of us, for instance, who believe that the Bible calls us to be environmentally responsible.

In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.

Whenever one refuses to admit such a self-evident truth, for instance, as that it is wrong to steal, don't argue with him-search him; the reason may be found in his pocket.

Addiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate.

Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.

I cannot recall, in any of my reading, a single instance of a prophet who applied for the job.

We don't measure the quality of our other relationships by how well the other person turns out, for instance whether my husband is a better person after 10 years than he was when I first met him.

If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.

Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble: for instance those who have made money love money more than those who have inherited it.

A lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They've been offending other people for centuries.

I have a very strong color theory, for instance, where in 'Powers,' green means powerless, and red means power.The story was all there, but I was desperate to make sure that extra level was the case.

My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.

The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion.

I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter.

Several sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady of the physical memory.

If you recognize anyone, it does not mean that you like him.We all, for instance, recognize the honourable Member for Ebbw Vale.

One should not exaggerate the importance of trifles. Life, for instance, is much too short to be taken seriously.

I feel that it's important to fail now and again. For instance, if I go for a job and I don't get it, that makes me not a better person, but more balanced, more aware of what life is really like.

I've never known, at least a modern historical instance, where the truth wasn't superior to distortion in every way.

Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon.

There's still a place for marching for instance with the Black Lives Matter movement, we've seen the importance of causing a scene, being on the streets and making your demands and your voice heard.

A love affair begins with a fantasy. For instance, that the beloved will always be there.

I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

There's a sort of magic and music to comedy. Some words, some numbers even, are funnier than others. A Caramac bar, for instance, is funnier than a Milky Way.

Even the most beautiful legs - Marlene Dietrich's, for instance - look better when the kneecap is covered.

The relationship between fascism and robotics, for instance, it's very clear that it's going to become way more important as time goes by.

For instance, our country wanted to effect a revolution, and did effect it, and now we are building a new classless society.

Even now, I have traces of the good little girl. When I am not performing, for instance, I am really very quiet and ordinary.

Everything that's fun in life is dangerous. Horse races, for instance, are very dangerous. But attempt to design a safe horse and the result is a cow ... It is impossible to be alive and safe.

Bring me the head of Elton John . . . which is one instance in which meat would not be murder, if it were served on a plate.

We live in a world of copies and we're fascinated when we encounter the originals (in a museum, for instance).

I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument.

Others have been made fools of by the girls; but, this can never be with truth said of me. I most emphatically, in this instance,made a fool of myself.

Some of us will never ever find true love. Take, for instance me. And I'm pretty sure that guy right there. And that lady with the sideburns. And basically everybody at table nine.

In many instances, LSD actually produced terrifying and deleterious effects instead of beneficial effects, because of misuse, because it was a profanation.

A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.

When I opened up in "Gaslight," for instance, playing that narky maid, that all came about from my experience and my training up to that point, and so nothing was wasted.

Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy.

There are some few instances in which it is virtuous to disobey.

Perhaps it's a good time to reconsider pleasure at its roots. Changing out of wet shoes and socks, for instance.

Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.

I did not know I loved you until I heard myself telling so, for one instance I thought, "Good God, what have I said?" and then I knew it was true.

In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote.

In almost every instance, air and water quality goals were met more cheaply and quickly when we taxed pollution than when we tried to regulate it directly.

For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.