Example Quotes - Page 10

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

Example moves the world more than doctrine.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

I am obliged to interpolate some remarks on a very difficult subject: proof and its importance in mathematics. All physicists, and a good many quite respectable mathematicians, are contemptuous about proof. I have heard Professor Eddington, for example, maintain that proof, as pure mathematicians understand it, is really quite uninteresting and unimportant, and that no one who is really certain that he has found something good should waste his time looking for proof.

a man is no example for a woman. It’s a different thing.

Would you make men better - set them an example. The millenium will never come until governments cease from governing, and the meddler is at rest.

The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion.

Somewhere a portion of contemporary art has to exist as an example of what the art and its context were meant to be.

I'm a classic example of what can happen if you follow your inner voice. I was cursed with interests and some talent in many different areas. It confuses people.

So you never know who you touch. You never know how or when you'll have an impact, or how important your example can be to someone else" (20).

Here's one truth that perhaps your typical investment counselor would disagree with: if you're comfortably rich and someone else is getting richer faster than you by, for example, investing in risky stocks, so what?! Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.

God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh.

I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example.

When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise, for the redress of which, no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say, that, although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still while they continue in force, for the sake of example, they should be religiously observed.

I'm convinced that a person in my position must provide a positive example to people.

It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism of natural selection. We are supposed to abandon this naïve response, not in favor of a fully worked out physical/chemical explanation but in favor of an alternative that is really a schema for explanation, supported by some examples. What is lacking, to my knowledge, is a credible argument that the story has a nonnegligible probability of being true.

Whenever there is a conflict between precept and example, the latter wins because deeds speak louder than our words.

The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.

The greatest works of admiration, And all the fair examples of renown. Out of distress and misery are grown.

Human nature will never part with power. Look for an example of a voluntary relinquishment of power from one end of the globe to another - you will find none.

In Christianity, it's very clear that the god we worship is equal to love. The bible says, 'God is love'. The god we worship was sacrificed, crucified on the cross, tortured, spit on, and was still forgiving. This is our highest example.

I've never been a flag waver, but I can lead by example.

I cannot save the world, that's not what I'm trying to do. I guess I'm just trying to walk the walk and be an example to those that want it. Not everybody does, but if Mary J Blige can come out of that same hole you were in, then you can do it too - that's my goal: to do that without saying it, but actually live it.

There are many examples of companies and countries that have improved their competitiveness and efficiency by adopting open source strategies. The creation of skills through all levels is of fundamental importance to both companies and countries.

He only is a true atheist to whom the predicates of the Divine Being - for example, love, wisdom and justice - are nothing.