Instance famous quotes

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

#Virtuous #Instance #Disobedience

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

#Party #Milk #Instance

in love: a momentary instance of bein almost interested in someone else as in oneself!
-- Belle de Jour

#Instance #Oneself

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

#Suitcases #Instance

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

#Golf #Suffering #Instance

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.
-- Eleanor Farjeon

#Instance

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

#War #Heaven #Instance

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

#Might #Firsts #Instance

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

#Children #Parenting #Instance

Probably in all history there is no instance of a society in which ecclesiastical power was dominant which was not at once stagnant, corrupt and brutal.
-- George Agnew Reid

#Religion #Brutal #Instance

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

#Obedience #Motive #Instance

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

#Discrimination #Colour #Instance

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

#Doctrine #Persons #Instance

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'.
-- J. Robert Oppenheimer

#Position #Instance #Electrons

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

#Wise #Sorry #Instance

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

#Process #Static #Instance

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

#Firsts #Instance

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

#Delight #Twins #Instance

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

#Math #Done #Instance

I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.
-- Maria Mitchell

#Appreciate #Born #Instance

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

#Thinking #Quality #Instance

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

#Order #Firsts #Instance

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

#Hypothesis #Phenomenon #Instance

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

#War #Warfare #Instance

And, for instance, Baptists, Adventists, Lutherans, Pentecostals - let them exist on line with others.
-- Vladimir Zhirinovsky

#Lines #Baptists #Instance

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

#Writing #Common #Instance

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.
-- Diana DeGarmo

#Wearing Black #Bracelet #Instance

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

#Literature #Made #Instance

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

#Instance #Has Beens #Appropriate

General rules are dangerous of application in particular instances.
-- Charlotte Mary Yonge

#Dangerous #Application #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.
-- Rita Moreno

#People #Sense Of Humor #Instance