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In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people. -- James Madison
For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled. -- Hunter S. Thompson
The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul. -- Emma Goldman
Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults. -- Richard Armour
There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare. -- Sun Tzu
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. -- Franklin P. Adams
The constitutional questions are in the first instance not questions of right but questions of might. -- Ferdinand Lassalle
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance. -- John Ruskin
Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise. -- Jane Austen
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war. -- Saul Bellow
I like to be myself, and I don't pretend. For instance, I don't dress up for occasions; I am what I am. -- Virat Kohli
Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks. -- Jean Kerr
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. -- James Madison
The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age. -- Lascelles Abercrombie
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. -- Diane Watson
Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person. -- Usain Bolt
Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer. -- George Bernard Shaw
We seriously suspect the agents of the Americans and Israelis in conducting such horrendous terrorist acts and cannot believe the people who kidnap Philippines nationals, for instance, or behead U.S. nationals are Muslims. -- Ali Khamenei
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. -- Abraham Lincoln
A piece of wall can be visually disintegrated from the whole into a separate triangle by plunging a diagonal of light from edge to edge on the wall; that is, side to floor, for instance. -- Dan Flavin
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise. -- Benjamin Franklin
The so-called 'materialistic conception of history,' with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the 'Communist Manifesto,' still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes. -- Max Weber
Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise. -- Patricia Richardson
Words may help you understand something, but experience allows you to know. Never ever trade your own experience for someone else's words about anything that is really important... like God, for instance, or Love, or what is true about another. -- Neale Donald Walsch
The darker the chocolate is, the more antioxidants it contains. So when eaten in moderation - just a few bites from a well-made dark chocolate bar, for instance - there's no need to feel bad about indulging once in a while. -- Marcus Samuelsson
If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift'; they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains'; they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.' -- Alexei Sayle
I've seen that phenomenally successful people believe they can learn something from everybody. I call them 'mavericks with mentors.' Richard Branson, for instance, is a total maverick but he surrounds himself with incredibly successful, smart people and he listens to them. -- Brendon Burchard
You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good. -- Hans Bender
It's hard for two actors to be together. Take the traveling, for instance. It winds up being a long distance relationship, all the time, because one's working here and one's working there, or one's staying at home and one's off someplace else. -- Dennis Quaid
The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system - and its value depends on the constitutional structure implementing and strictly delimiting the voters' power; unlimited majority rule is an instance of the principle of tyranny. -- Ayn Rand
I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence. -- Lacey Chabert
We must trust to nothing but facts: these are presented to us by nature and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation. -- Antoine Lavoisier
There are a lot of ways to be expressive in life, but I wasn't good at some of them. Music, for instance. I was a distinct failure with the cello. Eventually, my parents sold the cello and bought a vacuum cleaner. The sound in our home improved. -- Sam Abell
My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it. -- William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections. -- Samuel Adams
If someone's liver doesn't work, we blame it on the genes; if someone's brain doesn't work properly, we blame the school. It's actually more humane to think of the condition as genetic. For instance, you don't want to say that someone is born unpleasant, but sometimes that might be true. -- James D. Watson
As you get older, you have to force yourself to have new dreams. For instance, I've been flying for 37 years, but now teaching others to fly is interesting for me. Sometimes you have to find new angles on life to keep you interested, like sharing successes and inspiring and helping others. -- John Travolta
The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years. -- David Bowie
Some makeup companies have really good recycling policies, and it's worth finding out whether your favourites are among them. With MAC, for instance, you can take any of your old makeup containers into its shops, and the sweetest deal is that, once you've racked up six containers, you get a free lipstick or lip gloss. -- Beth Ditto
There is no justice in love, no proportion in it, and there need not be, because in any specific instance it is only a glimpse or parable of an embracing, incomprehensible reality. It makes no sense at all because it is the eternal breaking in on the temporal. So how could it subordinate itself to cause or consequence? -- Marilynne Robinson
The more I am in a position to be tried in faith with reference to my body, my family, my service for the Lord, my business, etc., the more shall I have opportunity of seeing God's help and deliverance; and every fresh instance, in which He helps and delivers me, will tend towards the increase of my faith. -- George Muller
If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. -- George Washington
I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music. -- Maria Mitchell
everything is relative. you, for instance, are my relative. -- P. G. Wodehouse
After my own for instance, my favourite is Princess Leia. -- Peter Mayhew
Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery. -- Jonathan Swift
There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare. -- Sun Tzu
For instance, in the name of unity. You can't build without destroying. -- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
There's more to boxing than hitting. There's not getting hit, for instance. -- George Foreman
Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents. -- Aron Nimzowitsch
Antisemitism, for instance, is simply not the doctrine of a grown-up person. -- George Orwell
We've all got weaknesses. Me, for instance. I'm tragically funny and good-looking. -- Rick Riordan
We learn so many things from golf: how to suffer, for instance. -- Bruce Lansky
For instance, I always have one hanging in Budapest in the mayors office. -- Tony Curtis
Philosophy is, in the last instance, class struggle in the field of theory. -- Louis Althusser
The oneness of community for instance is at the heart of our culture. -- Steven Biko
Prayer is the supreme instance of the hidden character of the Christian life. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Who says one instance of writing has anything in common with another instance? -- Wallace Shawn
To improve at chess you should in the first instance study the endgame. -- Jose Raul Capablanca
You should always pay attentionto quality. A coffin, for instance, should laast a lifetime. -- Kurt Tucholsky
Not every instance requires a response. Truth resides silently in the seat of power. -- T.F. Hodge
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. -- Franklin P. Adams
My feelings, gratitude, for instance, are denied me simply because of my social position. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument. -- Thomas Jefferson
I'm a pretty goofy person. I'm an awkward dancer, for instance, and a terrible singer. -- Gillian Jacobs
in love: a momentary instance of bein almost interested in someone else as in oneself! -- Belle de Jour
Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money. -- William Shenstone
And, for instance, Baptists, Adventists, Lutherans, Pentecostals - let them exist on line with others. -- Vladimir Zhirinovsky
What had to move - a leaf of the chestnut tree, for instance - moved. -- Marcel Proust
Anyone who knows of a provable instance of colour discrimination ought always to expose it. -- George Orwell
Addiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate. -- William S. Burroughs
Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations. -- Learned Hand
The madness of love can always be suspended--to cook dinner or catch a plane, for instance. -- Mason Cooley
The making of thoughts is the most common instance of human participation in the creative act. -- Frank Barron
A love affair begins with a fantasy. For instance, that the beloved will always be there. -- Amy Hempel
Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process. -- Jean Piaget
Though energy and inspiration diminish, experience grows - the theme of parents and kids, for instance. -- Steve Erickson
Homogeneity is much to be admired - in milk, for instance - but not for parties. -- Barbara Walters
I always recommend people read nutrition labels so they know, for instance, how much fiber they're getting. -- Travis Lane Stork
Every instance of obedience, from right motives, strengthens us spiritually, whilst every act of disobedience weakens us. -- George Muller
The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion. -- Geoffrey Beene
I love them very much. All animals big and small. You can name an ant for instance. -- Bindi Irwin
My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker. -- Woody Allen
To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
A lot of hackers set up scam sites. They can impersonate a site like PayPal, for instance. -- Michael Demon Calce
I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty -- G. H. Hardy
On email and the first instance of spam: This is not for advertising! This is for serious work! -- Vinton Cerf
One product is always ultimately bought with another, even when paid for in the first instance with money. -- Jean-Baptiste Say
Even the most beautiful legs - Marlene Dietrich's, for instance - look better when the kneecap is covered. -- Edith Head
Some things in life are not pleasant but they have to be done. For instance, German and maths. -- Louise Rennison
Sport has been called the last bastion of male domination. Unfortunately, there are others - Congress, for instance. -- Mariah Nelson
Clearly, we are very, very concerned about the situation, for instance, that has been going on in Gaza. -- Thabo Mbeki
Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want. -- Martha Beck
Does there exist a single instance of a saint asserting that he himself possessed the gift of miracles? -- Edward Gibbon
There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it -- Andrew Carnegie
The government does a lot of stuff that it shouldn't do - the Department of Education, for instance. -- Milo Yiannopoulos
This supreme instance of Troy's goodness fell upon Gabriel's ears like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock. -- Thomas Hardy
Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football. -- Robert Frost
I think the quality of something like the Beveridge, for instance, will have a life of its own. -- Neville Marriner
War is the most striking instance of the failure of intelligence to master the problem of human relationships. -- Harry Elmer Barnes
I've never known, at least a modern historical instance, where the truth wasn't superior to distortion in every way. -- Shelby Foote
He...preferred always the more to the less remote, what, seeming exceptional, was an instance of law more refined... -- Walter Pater
There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi. -- Ferran Adria
... all professional ideologies are high-minded. Hunters, for instance, would not dream of calling themselves the butchers of the woods. -- Robert Musil
In 2005... Mumbai, India, saw that country's most intense recorded instance of rainfall - 3 feet of rain in twenty-four hours. -- Joseph J. Romm
A lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They've been offending other people for centuries. -- Billy Connolly
Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural. -- Michael Heizer
Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I cannot recall, in any of my reading, a single instance of a prophet who applied for the job. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
One should not exaggerate the importance of trifles. Life, for instance, is much too short to be taken seriously. -- Nicolas Bentley
And what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta? -- Anita Loos
For instance, The Sixth Sense had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention. -- M. Night Shyamalan
Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another. -- Benjamin Haydon
For instance, 'The Sixth Sense' had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention. -- M. Night Shyamalan
Perhaps it's a good time to reconsider pleasure at its roots. Changing out of wet shoes and socks, for instance. -- Barbara Holland
I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley -- Charles Darwin
We live in a world of copies and we're fascinated when we encounter the originals (in a museum, for instance). -- Susan Sontag
A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers. -- Honore de Balzac
Writing is still my main career, but I would love, for instance, to serve in the New York State Assembly. -- Mark Helprin
Everyone is going to binge on a diet, for instance, so plan for it, schedule it, and contain the damage. -- Tim Ferriss

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