All Quotes

Instead of forcing everyone to buy health insurance, Congress should pass a law protecting the uninsured from being charged more than the insurance companies are for a given service.
‐‐ Robert Zubrin

Instead of fostering the kind of dialogue in the boardroom that has in part contributed to our success, the board has inappropriately chosen to silence my concerns through termination as an executive officer.
‐‐ George Zimmer

Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means having things to do? Then drop into full engagement with whatever you're doing, and let the worry go.
‐‐ Martha Beck

Instead of generating either unnecessary alarm or a false sense of security regarding these fundamental issues, the best course is to empower people with the truth.
‐‐ Dick Thornburgh

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.
‐‐ Joan Baez

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house.
‐‐ Rod Stewart

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
‐‐ Doug Larson

Instead of giving people fish, teach them how to use hooks.
‐‐ Stef Wertheimer

Instead of giving preference to oil imported from overseas, Washington should look to North American coal, oil shale and oil sands, all of which provide an affordable, abundant and alternative source of fuel. In addition to increasing cost effectiveness options for the government, it will also increase America's energy security.
‐‐ John Barrasso

Instead of going into politics, I decided to go into comedy, which is the second most daunting career path for a woman.
‐‐ Casey Wilson

Instead of going out and shooting people, why don't you go start a band.
‐‐ Joel Madden

Instead of going out, I'm trying to encourage people to have a memorable experience in their own home. We call it 'Delicioso Night In.' I invite the people I care about the most. Then, when I get a lot of people together, I like to have finger foods.
‐‐ Aaron Sanchez

Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.
‐‐ Ina Garten

Instead of going to college, I spent my time out on the road learning how to be a better musician.
‐‐ Miranda Lambert

Instead of going to the ends of the Earth - and plumbing the depths of the oceans - to squeeze out every last drop of oil, we need, instead, to do everything we can to reduce the risks of offshore oil and gas production.
‐‐ Frances Beinecke

Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
‐‐ Camryn Manheim

Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there.
‐‐ Seth Lloyd

Instead of hazarding our future on the dirty fuels of the past, let's invest in clean power that can drive this country forward. Let's cut energy waste, make our economy the world's most efficient, and give our workers a leg up in the global marketplace.
‐‐ Frances Beinecke

Instead of hoping that some day the boys' club will open its doors, we can form our own clubs, define 'worthy' our own way, and celebrate the books and voices that we decide deserve celebration.
‐‐ Jennifer Weiner

Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature.
‐‐ Omar Bongo

Instead of inventing imaginary friends, I invented whole imaginary worlds. They were elaborate scenarios about spies and adventurers and top secret missions. I crawled along my swing set, searching for escape routes from my maximum-security prison; I biked through the neighborhood, the wind in my hair and a fleet of evildoers on my heels.
‐‐ Robin Wasserman

Instead of investing our resources in locking people up, let's invest more of those resources in our fellow citizens so they don't end up in the system to begin with. And if they do, they can get back on their feet.
‐‐ John Legend

Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.
‐‐ Patrick Geddes

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.
‐‐ Lorna Luft

Instead of judging people, we need to pray.
‐‐ Joyce Meyer

Instead of just giving lip service to improving our schools, I will actually put the kids first and the teachers union behind in giving our kids better teachers, better options and better choices for a better future.
‐‐ Mitt Romney

Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.
‐‐ Buffy Sainte-Marie

Instead of leading the world by how much we borrow, it's time that we make sure we lead the world in how much we build and create and invest.
‐‐ Mitt Romney

Instead of locking people up and throwing away the key, it's important to invest in them and show them another way - show them what they can do, instead of telling them what they can't do. Because by investing in youth, we're investing into the future of this great nation of the United States of America.
‐‐ Q'orianka Kilcher

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.
‐‐ Liz Carpenter

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.
‐‐ Diana Ross

Instead of looking outside of ourselves and counting potential enemies, fasting summons us to turn our glance inward, and to take the measure of our greatest challenge: the self, the ego, in our own eyes and as others see us.
‐‐ Tariq Ramadan

Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.
‐‐ E. W. Howe

Instead of making people victims of people who are successful, we should be telling people, 'Look, you are having a hard time, I feel bad for you. Let's look at what you're doing, let's teach you how to succeed. Let's give you the tools to succeed as opposed to turning everybody into victims.
‐‐ Jon Lovitz

Instead of marginalizing women, Congress must get to work on policies that can foster job creation and fuel economic growth.
‐‐ Kirsten Gillibrand

Instead of me having a breakdown, I'm focusing on me having a breakthrough.
‐‐ Terrell Owens

Instead of me keeping my art a personal thing, we can use it to save lives, change lives and inspire.
‐‐ Swizz Beatz

Instead of me telling them what they need to work on, I wanted to hear from them what they needed to work on.
‐‐ Isaiah Thomas

Instead of mindlessly tossing billions at or taking billions from the Net as such, investors should be spending their time making sure that it's the future Fords and General Motors of cyberspace that are getting the capital they need.
‐‐ James Surowiecki

Instead of more talk about salmon and high-speed rails, more criticism of the Supreme Court or more praise for the Soviet's Sputnik mission - President Obama should use his State of the Union Address to tell the American people the truth about the fundamental financial challenges our country faces.
‐‐ Tim Griffin

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
‐‐ Margaret Mead

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

Instead of passing on choppy waters to the next generation, we should endeavor to leave them a calmer sea.
‐‐ Najib Razak

Instead of piling up food in my fridge that says 'Come eat me!' I keep enough for only a couple of days. And I rarely have treats around that might tempt me late at night, which is when I usually crave something really fattening. What am I going to do? Drive out at 11 at night just to satisfy a craving? No, that's crazy.
‐‐ Jennifer Love Hewitt

Instead of planning the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, America should be preparing the shuttles for their next step in space: evolving, not shutting them down and laying off thousands of people.
‐‐ Buzz Aldrin

Instead of playing heroes and righteous people, I'd rather portray characters with problems of conscience who have to lie, to betray, and then have to cope with that. They feel more true to me.
‐‐ Vincent Cassel

Instead of playing with army men or whatever, I played golf, like for hours every day.
‐‐ Bubba Watson

Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch 'American Idol' and video their children's concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do.
‐‐ Jodi Picoult

Instead of putting Americans to work, the Teamsters have been busy yanking members off projects and idling construction projects from California to Indiana to New York in order to shake down employers.
‐‐ Michelle Malkin