Instance Quotes

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

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

If you see me, I'm always wearing black and pink. If I don't have it on, I at least have something that's black and pink. For instance, like, a bracelet or something.

I have had so many evidences of [God's] direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will, that I cannot doubt that this power comes from above.

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

One product is always ultimately bought with another, even when paid for in the first instance with money.

Every instance of obedience, from right motives, strengthens us spiritually, whilst every act of disobedience weakens us.

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

I love playing people who don't have a sense of humor for instance, there's nothing funnier to me than a person with no sense of humor.

Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.

If we ask, for instance, whether the position of the electron remains the same, we must say 'no'; if we ask whether the electron's position changes with time, we must say 'no'; if we ask whether the electron is at rest, we must say 'no'; if we ask whether it is in motion, we must say 'no'.

This one fact implies everything; and it is scarcely necessary to point out, for instance, that while the Difference Engine can merely tabulate, and is incapable of developing, the Analytical Engine can either tabulate or develope.

It seems to me there are no rules, only instances; but perhaps that is because I learned no rules, and am only an instance myself.

But everything is relative, Bertie... You, for instance, are my relative, and I am your relative.

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

in love: a momentary instance of bein almost interested in someone else as in oneself!

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

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

What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.

In instances in history, civil disobedience has been appropriate and useful.

The constitutional questions are in the first instance not questions of right but questions of might.

Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances.

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

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

Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death.

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

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.

There have been so many instances in my life where movies, music, or literature has made my life tangibly better.

I only travel with a carry-on suitcase in most instances.

I think the quality of something like the Beveridge, for instance, will have a life of its own.

Invention in photography is so laborious as to be in most instances perverse.

Under the system that we now have to nominate presidential candidates, for instance, I would prefer that we have a system that is closer to, say, the one we had in the 1960s.

Clearly, we are very, very concerned about the situation, for instance, that has been going on in Gaza.

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

I have yet to hear an instance where misfortune hit a man because he worked overtime. I know lots of instances where it hit men who did not.

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

General rules are dangerous of application in particular instances.

War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven.

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.

Anyone who knows of a provable instance of colour discrimination ought always to expose it.

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

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