Top 1200 Instance Quotes & Sayings

For instance, in the name of unity. You can't build without destroying.

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare.

I got involved in cultural studies because I didn't think life was purely economically determined. I took all this up as an argument with economic determinism. I lived my life as an argument with Marxism, and with neoliberalism. Their point is that, in the last instance, economy will determine it. But when is the last instance?

Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.

The point of mathematics is that in it we have always got rid of the particular instance, and even of any particular sorts of entities. So that for example, no mathematical truths apply merely to fish, or merely to stones, or merely to colours. So long as you are dealing with pure mathematics, you are in the realm of complete and absolute abstraction. . . . Mathematics is thought moving in the sphere of complete abstraction from any particular instance of what it is talking about.

Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance.

There aren't as many girl superheroes, but there are cool ones. Banshee, for instance.

During Rahul Dravid's captaincy, Dhoni got the role of a finisher. He got out a couple of times playing a bad shot, and he was also reprimanded by Dravid during one instance. But from that instance, he completely changed his approach and became a very good finisher.

Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process.

Philosophy is, in the last instance, class struggle in the field of theory.

We learn so many things from golf: how to suffer, for instance.

I think the question really is, whether our political leaders have stepped out of bounds. Because all this has been approved by our political leaders, Cheney and Bush in the first instance, and now, sadly, Barack Obama in the second instance.

Prayer is the supreme instance of the hidden character of the Christian life.

If you don't treat an ingredient and its flavors with respect - if you drown it in oil, for instance - you'll spoil it.

Motherhood was the first instance in my life where I was asked to sacrifice anything for anyone.

I love thinking about things subtextually and I actually - like for instance when I write, I actually, I'm not very analytical about it. I don't ever deal with the subtext because I just know it's there so I don't have to deal with it. I just keep it about the scenario. I keep it on the surface, on my concerns. And one of the fun things is is when I'm done with everything, like now, for instance.

There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it

Antisemitism, for instance, is simply not the doctrine of a grown-up person.

Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.

All of that is constantly operating when you not only learn, but when you recall. But as you recall in a different light, the weights with which something is more probably going to be or not recalled on the next instance, are going to be changed. So you're constantly changing the way, for instance, synapses are going to fire very easily or not so easily.

For instance, I always have one hanging in Budapest in the mayors office.

My philosophy about the game, for instance, is that you have players out there who really do different things.

Let's not even talking about chain migration, immigration, which is another trick, but all of these things are designed to penetrate the heart exactly is it has yours so that there can be a modification in the law, a moderation of the law here for this instance, and over here for another instance, and there for another.

The parallels between 9/11 and Pearl Harbor are striking. In each instance there were warning signs before the attack, and in each instance our government failed to connect the dots.

For instance, when "Gender trouble " is translated into Japanese, it produces a problem of vocabulary and a way of thinking about a quality for instance that is somewhat controversial in academic circles and also outside of the academy. In other places, "Gender trouble" is old.

Actually, in this instance we do have probably a better tracking system than was the instance in Canada. Because this is a dairy cow, they're all individually tagged.

I am an instance of what is possible with a lot of hard work.

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.

The gods in Yoruba mythology are not remote at all. They're benign, they're malign, they are mischievous, like Eshu for instance, tricksters, rascally, fornicators, that's a similarity to Greek mythology, for instance, you know. They're not saints, they're not saints. They're powerful. It's why they're not tyrannical. Of course, a number of them are also very, you know, benevolent, you know, there are saintly virtues to be found in them.

But the truth is, countries have to do what is best in each instance to pursue both their interest and their values.

I just feel like there's something to be said about feeling comfortable with what you have and don't have. And - for instance, I don't think I'm particularly a great singer, but I feel like I write songs that complement my voice, you know, and I feel like it's unique. And I don't feel like I'm particularly a great actor, for instance, but I feel like I approach each thing that I do with some level of sensitivity. And I would say that comedy in general is the most disarming.

I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.

To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position.

The oneness of community for instance is at the heart of our culture.

There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.

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

Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents.

On email and the first instance of spam: This is not for advertising! This is for serious work!

We’ve all got weaknesses. Me, for instance. I’m tragically funny and good-looking.

The government does a lot of stuff that it shouldn't do - the Department of Education, for instance.

I'm a pretty goofy person. I'm an awkward dancer, for instance, and a terrible singer.

Everyone is going to binge on a diet, for instance, so plan for it, schedule it, and contain the damage.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

In my view the bundle theorist should say that when a bundle is located somewhere, there is an 'instance' of the bundle there. The instance is entirely constituted by the universals of the bundle. But the bundle and the instance are two distinct entities. Bundles of universals can be multiply located, but their instances cannot, and particulars are instances of a bundle of universals.

Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.

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.

After my own for instance, my favourite is Princess Leia.

There's more to boxing than hitting. There's not getting hit, for instance.

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

You are hard at work madam ," said the man near her. Yes," Answered Madam Defarge ; " I have a good deal to do." What do you make, Madam ?" Many things." For instance ---" For instance," returned Madam Defarge , composedly , Shrouds." The man moved a little further away, as soon as he could, feeling it mightily close and oppressive .

Scotland is extraordinary as a location, the light is amazing, for instance on the west coast.

To improve at chess you should in the first instance study the endgame.

In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

Homogeneity is much to be admired - in milk, for instance - but not for parties.

For instance, it was very rare for anyone there with dogs to allow them into the house.

Who says one instance of writing has anything in common with another instance?

The rise of the anti-hero can be traced to a litany of social reasons. Post World War I, for instance, saw the blooming of some pretty dark stuff - I'm thinking of Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest, for instance, when "The Continental Op" shows up in Poisonville to clean up the town...and proceeds to kill something like thirty people.

Some things in life are not pleasant but they have to be done. For instance, German and maths.

We just worked hard to not just get things right and authentic, but also to make it consistent and visually right. For instance, there are colours that aren't in the film that would have been there in reality. I think part of the look of the film not only has to do with the way it's shot and lit, but also the lack of certain colours that give it a softness which really suits it because there's more focus on the characters. For instance, there's no yellow at all until we get to Miss Stubbs' flat at the very end.

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