Example Quotes - page 2

To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example. (Samuel Johnson)
Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe. View quote
George Washington
Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. View quote
Jean Giraudoux
Caesar had his Brutus; Charles the First, his Cromwelland George the Third (Treason, cried the Speaker) ... may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it. View quote
Patrick Henry
Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily contain within itself forces which must bring either decay or explosion. View quote
Bertrand Russell
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology. View quote
James A. Garfield
Chaos is hard to create, even on the Internet. Here's an example. Go to Amazon.com. Buy a book without using SSL. Watch the total lack of chaos. View quote
Bruce Schneier
He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other. View quote
Francis Bacon
God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh. View quote
Benny Hinn
Don't take advice, be an example. (Jared Leto)
I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week. View quote
Mario Cuomo
Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money. View quote
Wim Wenders
Natural science served as - if we overlook the hasty identification of mind and matter which had its origin in natural science - as a shining and fruitful example to psychology. View quote
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Most of people talk, we do things. They plan, we achieve. They hesitate, we move ahead. We are living proof that when human beings have the courage and commitment to transform a dream into reality, there is nothing that can stop them. Dubai is a living example of that. View quote
Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
There are, for example, so many kinds of tongues in this world; and none is without voice. If then I know not the power of the voice, I shall be to him to whom I speak a barbarian; and he that speaketh, a barbarian to me. View quote
Paul
Then he asked if I didn't like things changing. And I said I wouldn't mind things changing if I became an astronaut, for example, which is one of the biggest changes you can imagine, apart from becoming a girl or dying. View quote
Mark Haddon
But it is true that sometimes an enveloping darkness aids one to clearer vision; as in a panorama building, for example, where the obscurity about the entrance prepares one better for the climax, and gives the scene depicted a more real and vivid appearance. View quote
Pierre Loti
And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability. View quote
Ulrich Beck
Republicans use think tanks to come up with a lot of their messages. The think tanks are the single worst, most undisciplined example of communication I've ever seen. (Frank Luntz)
Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession. View quote
Fredrik Bajer
Once you realize that everything happens for a reason, attitudes towards matters such as illnesses, or lawsuits, for example, change. View quote
Shari Arison
Have fun, be active. Ride a bike instead of driving, for example. View quote
Dan Buettner
I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation. View quote
Jane Smiley