All Quotes

Instead of putting someone in prison for being a hooligan, give him a choice. He may have beaten someone up and he's got eight years, but tell him you can do eight years inside or spend five years in the Army. Put him in the Parachute Regiment, they'd soon sort him out.
‐‐ David Bailey

Instead of raising taxes as some would insist, we need to reduce waste and inefficiency in government.
‐‐ Tim Murphy

Instead of reading a paper, we now read the news online. Instead of buying books at a store, we buy them on-line. What's so revolutionary? The Internet has mainly affected our leisure life.
‐‐ Ha-Joon Chang

Instead of receding, the past actually becomes more important. That's what will happen to you. It sounds unlikely, but the past actually changes complexion as you get older.
‐‐ Mark Knopfler

Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century.
‐‐ Dave Anderson

Instead of saving for someone else's college education, I'm currently saving for a luxury retirement community replete with golf carts and handsome young male nurses who love butterscotch.
‐‐ Jen Kirkman

Instead of saying that globalization is a fact, that it's inevitable, we've also got to demonstrate that while the growing interdependence of the world economy is indeed a fact, it's not uncontrollable.
‐‐ Peter Mandelson

Instead of saying we need to outlaw certain types of weapons, we need to find better ways to enforce current law.
‐‐ Gene Green

Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.
‐‐ James Hillman

Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they will be future deficits or assets for our nation's competitive needs.
‐‐ Jonathan Kozol

Instead of serving special interests, Congress should focus on the big picture. Globalization and technology have completely reshaped our economy in recent decades, and if we don't respond, we're putting the future of the middle class at risk.
‐‐ John Delaney

Instead of showing strangers kindness and giving them the benefit of the doubt, we increasingly show them only fear, and that is bad for us and them.
‐‐ Julian Baggini

Instead of sitting on the sidelines, President Obama has made it clear that the US is ready to lead a global effort to combat climate change.
‐‐ Valerie Jarrett

Instead of slashing my wrists, I just write a bunch of really crummy songs.
‐‐ Peter Steele

Instead of squirreling away your earnings early in your career, spend on experiences that will enrich your life - like diving with great white sharks. It can expose you to influential people who could open doors for you.
‐‐ Blake Mycoskie

Instead of starting a new nuclear arms race, now is the time to reclaim our Nation's position of leadership on nuclear nonproliferation efforts.
‐‐ Dianne Feinstein

Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.
‐‐ Salvador Dali

Instead of taking a very high-paying type of law job or something that I might be able to do, I have been a legislator. That's what I do. I think it's an honorable profession - if you're honest and have integrity and work hard.
‐‐ Russ Feingold

Instead of taking a year off, I started 'Dreamers of the Day' exactly 36 hours after I sent the manuscript for 'A Thread of Grace' to the publisher!
‐‐ Mary Doria Russell

Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.
‐‐ Christopher Lasch

Instead of taking five or six of the prescriptions, I decided to go a natural route and smoke marijuana.
‐‐ Melissa Etheridge

Instead of taking the reader by the hand and running him down the hill, I want to lead him into a house of many rooms, and leave him alone in each of them.
‐‐ Mary Oliver

Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.
‐‐ Edward Norton

Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style.
‐‐ Jurgen Habermas

Instead of the traditional emphasis on the sanctity of life, bioethics began to stress the quality of life, meaning that many damaged humans, young and old, don't qualify for personhood because their lives have lost value.
‐‐ John Leo

Instead of thinking that's a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists.
‐‐ Alison Moyet

Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
‐‐ Evelyn Waugh

Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America.
‐‐ Ernest Istook

Instead of this fruitless debate about having it all, men and women should focus on what make us happy. Instead of comparing our lives with people we don't know who are making sacrifices we don't see, we should try to find the right balance between home and work life.
‐‐ LZ Granderson

Instead of trade policy that is beneficial to American businesses and workers as well as our trade partners, we have a flawed trade policy that hurts all parties.
‐‐ Stephen F. Lynch

Instead of trying crazy diets now, I just live by a few easy rules: I try to stay away from white flour as much as I can - I go for grains and brown rice instead, and I pick lean meats, like chicken or turkey, over red meat most of the time.
‐‐ Jenna Ushkowitz

Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.
‐‐ Rita Dove

Instead of trying to increase your metabolism with the goal of losing weight, try to slow your metabolism with a low-calorie, high-nutrient diet for a longer, healthier life.
‐‐ Joel Fuhrman

Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.
‐‐ Drew Houston

Instead of turning away from our neighbors, our friends, our colleagues, let us instead learn from our history and avoid repeating the mistakes of our past.
‐‐ Loretta Lynch

Instead of unfairly demonizing teachers, we should be working with them to find solutions to the problems in our schools and make sure every child gets an outstanding public education.
‐‐ Albio Sires

Instead of using new technologies to preserve for ready discovery material that might in the past never have been stored, or deleting everything as soon as possible, we can develop systems that place sensitive information beyond reach until a specified amount of time has passed or other conditions are met.
‐‐ Jonathan Zittrain

Instead of using the machine as a metaphor for architecture, as Le Corbusier did, I use the human body. I want the public to know that it's them I'm designing for.
‐‐ Michael Graves

Instead of waiting until the holiday season - when mail solicitations flood in from worthy organizations - and making a flurry of gifts because this is the time of year to give, sit down and take stock. Identify your passion, learn about it, and direct your time, mind, and dollars to aligned causes and organizations.
‐‐ Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

Instead of wanting to be better than other people, let's channel that energy to be better than we were yesterday and then again to be the best we can be tomorrow.
‐‐ Grace Gealey

Instead of watching cartoons when I was little, I had Russian ballet videos from, like, the 1950s and 1940s.
‐‐ Sarah Hay

Instead of watching DVDs at home, I prefer going to the cinema to get the experience.
‐‐ Sunidhi Chauhan

Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest - then we can all die laughing.
‐‐ Lily Tomlin

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
‐‐ Dale Carnegie

Instead of worrying about who's American and who's not, here's a better idea: Create incentives for any global company to do what we'd like it to do in the United States.
‐‐ Robert Reich

Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.
‐‐ Ed Sheeran

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

Instead of yelling at a TV set, I get to talk.
‐‐ Art Spiegelman

Instead, there were a variety of controls of which some could be influenced by bankers, some could be influenced by the government, and some could hardly be influenced by either.
‐‐ Carroll Quigley