Best Example Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Every time I come to the States, I wish people would react to war like they react to tobacco, for example. Because war really kills in a second lots of people, thousands of people.”

People War States Wish Example Tobacco

Author:Diego Luna

“Mobile is the perfect example of what is enabling economic growth in the technology sector.”

Growth Perfect Technology Economic Example Mobile Economic Growth Enabling

Author:Max Levchin

“For example, Michael Mann's film Collateral - there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very raw stories that digital photography kind of lends itself to.”

Kind Stories Film Certain Example Photography Digital Collateral Digital Photography

Author:Matthew Modine

“If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction.”

“On the contrary, if they are treated with justice and humanity, proper example and the advantages of education given them, the coming years will be as bright and prosperous to the unfortunate race as the past has been dark and painful.”

Ifs Years Has Beens Past Humanity Given Justice Dark Race Example Advantage Painful Contrary Treated Unfortunate Prosperous

Book:SERVING THE REPUBLIC

Source: SERVING THE REPUBLIC

“Let Jammu and Kashmir lead the way in the building of a new future for India. Let it set an example to the rest of India and the world by showing how the entire region can be transformed into a zone of peace, stability and prosperity.”

World Way Example Building India Prosperity Zone Regions Stability Transformed Kashmir New Future Jammu Jammu And Kashmir

Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain amount of beachfront property in California. It is going to be scarce, it is going to be expensive.”

Certain Example Amount Property California Expensive Scarce

Author:Ralph Merkle

“And understand that scarce spectrum is used today for example for cell phone operators, they have to pay for the airwaves they use, for their services.”

Use Today Used Pay Example Phones Cells Spectrum Cell Phone Scarce Operators

Author:Robert Waterman McChesney

“Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound.”

Feels Whole Song Sound Chance Simple Example Personality Tunes Bucks Straightforward Being Straightforward Bakersfield

Author:Juice Newton

“There is always some universal proportion, but along with that there are some places where special things happen. Ireland, for example. I've always felt it's interesting to play there. Maybe they just drink more than anybody else.”

Play Happens Felt Interesting Special Example Drink Universal Things Happen Proportion Ireland Special Things

Author:Ed O'Brien

“It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't go into acting for that because it's really your own self-belief that's going to get you through.”

People Self Belief Acting Careers Stage Example Goes On Affirmation Belief In Self Enticing

Author:Miranda Otto

“For example, I was privileged to be working at the White House under the Clinton administration and had not finished my Ph.D., and I thought I was the cat's meow.”

House White Example Cat Clinton Finished Administration White House Privileged

Author:Peter R. Orszag

“Examples of human stupidity. Blasphemy in Pakistan can now include spelling errors by children or throwing away a card bearing the name "Muhammad".”

Humans Children Names Example Errors Stupidity Cards Throwing Pakistan Muhammad Blasphemy Spelling Throwing Away Human Stupidity

Author:William C. Brown

“Because that's what intimacy is: It's a willingness to be vulnerable, a willingness to bite my tongue and a willingness to set an example of what I believe in.”

Believe I Believe Example I Believe In Tongue Vulnerable Intimacy Willingness Bites

Author:Diane Lane

“If I were to ask you for example right now to go back with me and define those moments in your life that shaped you as a person and you began to reexamine them, something would happen.”

Ifs Persons Moments Happens Asks Example Right Now

Author:James Lipton

“We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography.”

Principles Example Introducing Entropy Randomness Topography

Author:Michael Polanyi

“Once you start to provide public services that have to be run under public rules, for example child protection, then it has to go with public law. Institutions have to make a decision whether they want to do that or they don't want to do that.”

Want Children Running Law Decision Example Institutions Protection Public Service

Author:Trevor Phillips

“In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.”

World States Nations Religious Vision Century Example Minorities Nationalism 20th Century Turkeys Turkish Muslim World Armenians Kurds

Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf

“It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.”

People Feels Has Beens Done Moments America Speak Responsibility Example Adventure Iraq Bridges Glorious Speak The Truth Builder

Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf

“You cannot have companies where many of the largest ones lose money indefinitely without someone finally waving the white flag, and IBM is the most recent example of that.”

Loses White Company Example Flags Ibm White Flag

Author:Kevin B. Rollins

“But in my own particular case, there was something that happened when I became a mother. Whenever in the news I saw an example of a child being abused or mistreated, my response went from being appalled to being physically revolted.”

Children Mother My Own Cases Saws Happened Example Particular News Response Mistreated

Author:Mercedes Ruehl

“If you see how a plant grows and you taste it in situ you have a perfect example of how it should taste on the plate.”

Ifs Should Grows Perfect Example Taste Plant Plates

Author:Rene Redzepi

“There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25.”

Mean Has Beens Example Musician Died Brown Great Music Great Musician

Author:Sonny Rollins

“Every novel presents a slice of life. A noir policier for example presents one slice, one that perhaps addresses social dysfunction or some sort of pathology, while mine present a slice that is more upbeat and affirmative.”

Social Novel Example Mines Addresses Noir Affirmative Dysfunction Pathology Upbeat Slice Of Life

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“The best way for someone to govern is to set an example.”

Way Example Best Way

Author:Antonis Samaras

“Watching the completed version of The Two Towers for example, I was very conscious of scenes - sometimes whole sequences - that I had seen being filmed or edited but which hadn't made it into the final cut.”

Made Two Sometimes Whole Cutting Example Scene Conscious Finals Versions Made It Towers Sequence Edited Two Towers

Author:Brian Sibley

“So much of the world's suffering results from the sinful action or inaction of ourselves and others. For example, people look at a famine and wonder where God is, but the world produces enough food for each person to have 3,000 calories a day. It's our own irresponsibility and self-centeredness that prevents people from getting fed.”

People World Looks Persons Self Enough Action Suffering Results Wonder Example Produce Feds Inaction Famine Calories Irresponsibility Self Centeredness Centeredness

Author:Lee Strobel

“Clark, what in your honest opinion is the right standard for determining conduct? Is the only right standard for everyone, the probable action of Jesus Christ? Would you say that the highest, best law for a man to live by was contained in asking the question 'What would Jesus do?' And then doing it regardless of results? In other words, do you think men everywhere ought to follow Jesus' example as closely as they can in their daily lives?”

Thinking Men Action Law Jesus Christ Results Christianity Opinion Honest Example Ought Highest Standards Jesus Christ Asking Christian Life Daily Life Live By

Author:Charles Sheldon

“So-called "inspiration" is no more than an extreme example of a process which constantly goes on in the minds of all of us.”

Writing Mind Inspiration Process Example Goes On Extremes

Book:Churchill's Black Dog, Kafka's Mice, and Other Phenomena of the Human Mind

Source: Churchill's Black Dog, Kafka's Mice, and Other Phenomena of the Human Mind

“The Indian economy grew at 5.5 percent, but if you look at the last 30 years - for example, 1960 to 1985 - the progress made by East Asian countries was phenomenal. In a single generation they had been able to transform the character of their economy. They were able to get rid of chronic poverty.”

Ifs Years Looks Made Country Character Able Lasts Poverty Economy Progress Generations Example Grew Percent East Indian Asian 1960s Phenomenal Asian Countries

Author:Manmohan Singh

“I love playing for my country, getting the support. Especially for the kids and everybody, showing my example of what I can achieve so early. And maybe they can achieve it, too, just to get that in their minds.”

Mind I Can Country Kids Support Achieve Example

Author:Maria Sharapova

“An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.”

Ifs Life Giving Looks Self Use Reality Beautiful Success Behinds Fronts Example Huge Misery Vanity Hiding Behind You Self Absorbed Peacock

Author:Pope Francis

“For example, I wouldn't hesitate to sit somebody down if he wasn't performing, even if he was the No. 1 player in the world. I've been sat down before.”

Ifs World Player Example Performing Sat

Author:Payne Stewart

“My personal assessment is that Dr. King is the greatest American we have ever produced. I can argue for Lincoln, I can argue for FDR, but for my money, King is the greatest American we have ever produced. His only weapon was love. He transforms a nation, transforms the world with one weapon and that of course being again the weapon of love. So that for me, King is the quintessential example of everything that I could ever want to be in my lifetime.”

World Want I Can Courses Nations Example Kings Weapons Lifetime Arguing Drs Assessment Smiley Quintessential

Author:Tavis Smiley

“The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example.”

Philosophy Behinds Example Philosopher Myth Republic Examining

Author:Robert Trout

“I find my dress sense tends to be a bit of a mixture between high fashion and unique vintage pieces with a little bit of street trends. For example, I might find a really nice, suede dinner jacket that I'd wear with a basic plain white shirt and some chinos and a pair of Nike trainers.”

Littles Might Bits White Pieces Nice Streets Fashion Example Little Bit Unique Dresses Dinner Shirts Pairs Trends Mixtures Jackets Really Nice Trainers Vintage Nike High Fashion White Shirts

Author:Tinie Tempah

“I'm into everything. My iPod is very eclectic - if you kept it on shuffle, you'd be amazed. For example, I was forced to grow up on Dolly Parton. My mum was obsessed by her. She bought all this memorabilia for the front room. It's ridiculous.”

Ifs Grows Rooms Growing Up Fronts Example Ridiculous Obsessed Mum Amazed Ipods Eclectic Shuffle Memorabilia

Author:Tinie Tempah

“Ukraine is a vital link for Europe: our energy transportation networks; our location between the European Union and Eurasia. We're the melting pot of Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity. The democracy we founded with the Orange Revolution has to be an example for other post-Soviet states.”

“History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right - how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed.”

People Humans Facts Fiction Example Materials Behavior Research Novelists Japan Factories Human Behavior Gloves Raw Materials Courtesans

Author:Amy Waldman

“Today, lawyers are attacking more; they're attacking everything. A good example is the O.J. Simpson case.”

Today Cases Example Lawyer Attacking Good Examples

Author:Joseph Wambaugh

“Human rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of POWs under the Geneva Conventions.”

“Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating.”

Names Numbers Example Benefits Conventions Serials Geneva Pow Cooperating Geneva Convention

Author:John Yoo

“Money never seems to be interested in strengthening regulatory agencies, for example, but always in subverting them, in making them miss the danger signs in coal mines and in derivatives trading and in deep-sea oil wells.”

Wells Seems Sea Missing Danger Example Mines Oil Agency Coal Trading Strengthening Derivatives Deep Sea

Book:No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler

Source: No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler

“Liberal that I am, I support health-care reform on its merits alone. My liberal blood boils, for example, when I read that half of the personal bankruptcies in this country are brought on, in part, by medical expenses.”

Country Care Half Support Blood Example Medical Reform Health Care Merit Expenses Bankruptcy Health Care Reform

Author:Thomas Frank

“"Very" is the most useless word in the English language and can always come out. More than useless, it is treacherous because it invariably weakens what it is intended to strengthen. For example, would you rather hear the mincing shallowness of "I love you very much" or the heart-slamming intensity of "I love you"?”

Writing Heart Language Love You Example Useless Intensity English Language Treacherous Shallowness I Love You Very Much

Author:Florence King

“If you expound the teaching of the Logos from the standpoint of the moral life, using materialistic words and examples which correspond to the capacity of your hearers, you make the Logos flesh. Conversely, if you elucidate mystical theology by means of the higher forms of contemplation you make the Logos spirit.”

Ifs Mean Christian Form Spirit Moral Teaching Example Higher Capacity Flesh Theology Contemplation Orthodox Mystical Standpoint Materialistic Logos Moral Life

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“Even though artists of all kinds claim to put their hearts and souls into their works, it will only confuse you, for example, if you try to discern a painter by his paintings. His masterpiece may be the master because of its iridescence; it may display a hundred different perspectives through his single face.”

Ifs Trying Heart Kind May Different Soul Faces Artist Example Painting Masters Perspective Hundred Claims All Kinds Painter Working It Display Masterpiece Heart And Soul Different Perspective

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“For in 1900 all electromagnetic radiation of longer wavelengths was already known at least to the extent that one could not seek in it the more striking characteristics of X-rays such as, for example, the strong penetrating power.”

Strong Known Example Characteristics Rays Radiation Wavelength

Author:Max von Laue

“You have to check out 'March of the Penguins'. Penguins are the really ideal example of monogamy.”

Example Ideals Checks March Monogamy Penguins

Author:Rich Lowry

“My parents showed me by example that they could balance their work and family lives.”

Parent Example Balance Family Life

Author:Ben Marcus

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