All Quotes

Instead of a few hundreds of thousands of men meeting each other in war, millions would now meet, and modern weapons would multiply manifold the power of destruction.
‐‐ Edward Grey

Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.
‐‐ Hiawatha

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.
‐‐ Charles Handy

Instead of a weak and vacillating Government, a single, purposeful, energetic personality is ruling today.
‐‐ Hjalmar Schacht

Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage.
‐‐ Raul Julia

Instead of an attic with a few test tubes, bits of wire and odds and ends, the attack on the atomic nucleus has required the development and construction of great instruments on an engineering scale.
‐‐ Ernest Lawrence

Instead of an end to austerity, Labour has made clear that it wants to impose more austerity cuts.
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon

Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my doing was to make people to see.
‐‐ Josef Albers

Instead of asking God to remove our problems so that our lives might be happy, we must purposefully try to learn as much as we can - and thereby become happier due to our insights and growth.
‐‐ Karen Salmansohn

Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'
‐‐ Henry Miller

Instead of becoming an engineer like my brother, I moved to New York to be an actor.
‐‐ Anthony Mackie

Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, let's use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems.
‐‐ Pete Domenici

Instead of being a page-turner, 'Moby-Dick' is a repository of American history and culture and the essentials of Western literature. The book is so encyclopedic that space aliens could use it to re-create the whale fishery as it once existed on the planet Earth in the midst of the 19th century.
‐‐ Nathaniel Philbrick

Instead of being a teacher, I got a job with a company called Bain & Co., consulting firm, and they taught me how to build businesses.
‐‐ Stephen Pagliuca

Instead of being able to look at smaller interesting research projects, I am trying to see the links between all the research NASA does. For me, that's extremely fun because I get to go play and learn about areas of science that I know nothing about.
‐‐ Ellen Stofan

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.
‐‐ Confucius

Instead of being critical of people in authority over you and envious of their position, be happy you're not responsible for everything they have to do. Instead of piling on complaints, thank them for what they do. Overwhelm them with encouragement and appreciation!
‐‐ Joyce Meyer

Instead of being focused on teaching what we already know, we now have to be focused on creating new knowledge that is China-based, because it's absolutely clear that China is going to shift from a production economy to a knowledge economy.
‐‐ John Quelch

Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.
‐‐ Pope Francis

Instead of being lionized and admired for her genius, instead of being able to earn a decent living as a writer, Andrea Dworkin was misrepresented and demonized.
‐‐ Catharine MacKinnon

Instead of being on teams at school, I was preparing for auditions.
‐‐ Shawn Ashmore

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
‐‐ Margaret Mead

Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.
‐‐ B. Carroll Reece

Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what's been on your mind so you can think about what you've been thinking about.
‐‐ Joyce Meyer

Instead of books, art, theatre, and music being consigned to specialized niches, we might have a criticism that better reflects the eclecticism of our time, a criticism that takes in various arts all at once.
‐‐ Lee Siegel

Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
‐‐ Vicente Fox

Instead of buying into the global agenda, which is using food as just industrial stuff, we would say we view food as biological, a living thing, that belongs in smaller communities.
‐‐ Joel Salatin

Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don't keep buying just for the sake of it.
‐‐ Vivienne Westwood

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.
‐‐ Robert Smithson

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
‐‐ Helen Keller

Instead of constantly enhancing the norm - forever upping the ante of the 'normal' with new technologies - we should work on enhancing the concept of normal by broadening appreciation of anatomical variation.
‐‐ Alice Dreger

Instead of creating new jobs, Republicans gave tax cuts to companies that send jobs overseas.
‐‐ Joe Baca

Instead of cutting waste, the Obama Administration is hurting workers. President Obama should stop protecting wasteful government spending.
‐‐ Timothy Griffin

Instead of destroying an area for a paltry amount of oil, we should be increasing fuel standards for automobiles and focusing our efforts on biofuels and other alternatives.
‐‐ Raul Grijalva

Instead of doing cinnamon, nutmeg, and all those baking spices I'll have one spice that's for sweets, and that's pumpkin pie spice.
‐‐ Sandra Lee

Instead of doing thousands of dives, I am focusing on quality, and I'm listening to my body more.
‐‐ Troy Dumais

Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.
‐‐ Jane Fonda

Instead of dumping all my money on an independent film that nobody would watch and most people would make fun of behind my back, I decided, 'I'm just going to buy a house.'
‐‐ Daniel Tosh

Instead of educating students, these professors are trying to indoctrinate them.
‐‐ David Horowitz

Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.
‐‐ Frances Wright

Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we owe to youth; and with your permission I shall consider you as representing here not only the academic youth of Sweden nor even of Europe but also of America.
‐‐ Felix Bloch

Instead of five hundred thousand average algebra teachers, we need one good algebra teacher. We need that teacher to create software, videotape themselves, answer questions, let your computer or the iPad teach algebra... The hallmark of any good technology is that it destroys jobs.
‐‐ Michael J. Saylor

Instead of focusing on growing jobs and reigniting our economy, President Obama focused on growing government and tried to remake the United States into the image of the debt-laden countries of Europe. His approach has been more spending, more regulation, and higher taxes.
‐‐ Rob Portman

Instead of focusing on my looks I focus on the character that I am playing.
‐‐ Anil Kapoor

Instead of focusing on, 'Oh, there's a black lady who plays videogames,' focus on that there's another person out there who loves the same stuff that you do.
‐‐ Aisha Tyler

Instead of focusing on that circumstances that you cannot change - focus strongly and powerfully on the circumstances that you can.
‐‐ Joy Page

Instead of focusing the traditional planning cycles where companies benchmark their businesses against existing competition, teams need to be developed to foster internal change and disruption. Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.
‐‐ Jay Samit

Instead of following one another the sounds overlap; a sound which is acoustically perceived as coming after another one can be articulated simultaneously with the latter or even in part before it.
‐‐ Roman Jakobson

Instead of following through on their promise to concentrate on jobs, Republicans have attacked seniors, working families, women, and the most vulnerable among us. They have pursued an extreme agenda that would end Medicare as we know it and cut Social Security benefits in order to continue giving tax breaks to Big Oil and millionaires.
‐‐ Dina Titus