Example Quotes - Page 37

The heroic example of other days is in great part the source of the courage of each generation; and men walk up composedly to the most perilous enterprises, beckoned onward by the shades of the brave that were.

I'm not on a health kick. I know I should take vitamins, for example, but I forget half the time. I just can't be bothered carrying around a lot of little bottles.

I'm very much a lead by example person.

If you're worried about safety, you might like to follow my example and put on that seat belt." "The what?" Xavier shook his head in disbelief. "You worry me," he muttered.

The legs, for example, of that chair--how miraculous their tubularity, how supernatural their polished smoothness! I spent several minutes--or was it several centuries?--not merely gazing at those bamboo legs, but actually being them---or rather being myself in them; or, to be still more accurate (for "I" was not involved in the case, nor in a certain sense were "they") being my Not-self in the Not-self which was the chair.

History is littered with examples of men who would become gods, but only one example of God becoming Man.

Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so.

It would scarcely be acceptable, for example, to ask in the course of an ordinary conversation what our society holds to be the purpose of work.

Just because something happens to be legal does not make it moral, ethical or right. Abortion is perhaps one of the most dramatic examples of a situation where something is legal, but is very much a sin against God.

It may be affirmed, without extravagance, that the free institutions we enjoy, have developed the powers, and improved the condition, of our whole people, beyond any example in the world.

I set a good example with my way of being, eating, acting, speaking.

There are a million examples of not feeling the jazz, but using the jazz.

Lectures often confuse our kids, but the example we set is crystal clear.

It raises several serious questions. For example, how can there possibly be more than one person as awesome as me?

Have you ever seen a chess article without a brilliant example of the author's own play? 'Silly question,' you will say. Quite.

I think the forms of terrorism are becoming very diverse, amongst them cyber-terrorism, for example.

The world of fashion. I'm interested in the world, not in fashion! But, maybe I was too quick to put down fashion. Why not look at it without prejudice? Why not examine it like any other industry, like the movies for example?

Biocides, for example, are designed to kill bacteria—it's not a benign material.

If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide, By self-example mayst thou be denied.

But the argument is still unsound, because the first premise is false: there are other unmentioned alternatives, for example, that Jesus as described in the gospels is a legendary figure, so that the trilemma is false as it stands.

The most any one can do is to confess as candidly as he can the grounds for the faith that is in him, and leave his example to work on others as it may.

We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.

As we have throughout this century, we will lead with the power of our example, but be prepared, when necessary, to make an example of our power.

Edgar Wayburn has worked to preserve the most breath-taking examples of the American landscape. In fact, over the course of more than a half-century, both as President of the Sierra Club and as a private citizen, he has saved more of our wilderness than any person alive.

In the whole history of this country, we have probably won more friends from the power of our example than from the power of our military.