“The house of representatives ... can make no law, which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as the great mass of society. This has always been deemed one of the strongest bonds by which human policy can connect the rulers and the people together. It creates between them that communion of interest, and sympathy of sentiments, of which few governments have furnished examples; but without which every government degenerates into tyranny.” PeopleHumansWellsGovernmentTogetherLawPoliticalHousePoliticsInterestPolicyExampleMassTyrannyOperationsSentimentsStrongestRulersRepresentativesCommunionDegeneratesHouse Of Representatives Author:James Madison
“I have always felt that many Christians, deeply sincere Christians, support the idea of separation of State and Church and the secularist in that sense as well. They believe that religion should be very much a private affair and should not be given special treatment. The State should not fund churches for example.” ShouldBelieveWellsIdeasStatesChristianGivenFeltChurchSupportSpecialExampleAffairSeparationTreatmentFundSincereSpecial Treatment Author:Ibn Warraq
“Joschka Fischer was a Green Party politician and Germany's foreign minister. We hired Mr. Fischer, as well as former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, as advisors because we, as an automaker, want to know, for example, how new emissions laws will develop in the United States, Europe and Asia. Fischer and Ms. Albright have diverse contacts worldwide. They can call our attention to trends early on, information from which we can benefit.” KnowsWantWellsStatesLawUnitedPartyAttentionUnited StatesInformationExamplePoliticianBenefitsEuropeGreenContactFormerMinistersGermanyTrendsDiverseSecretaryAsiaEmissionsAdvisorsFischerMadeleinesGreen Party Author:Norbert Reithofer
“Basically, you're still sitting there using just the muscles of your hand, really. Of one hand, actually. It's another example of the transfer of literacy to making music because the assumption is that everything important is happening in your head; the muscles are there simply to serve the head. But that isn't how traditional players work at all; musicians know that their muscles have a lot of stuff going on as well. They're using their whole body to make music, in fact.” KnowsWellsStillsImportantWholeFactsBodyHandsStuffPlayerExampleMusicianMusic IsHappeningsSittingTraditionalAssumptionMusclesLiteracyTransfers Author:Brian Eno
“Well, we have got to understand, for example, Russia is an orthodox Christian nation. So is Ukraine. That happened in 988 in Crimea, a place called Kievan Rus, which was the Russia around Kiev at that time. It's 1,000 years ago, but, to a Russian, it's yesterday.” YearsWellsChristianNationsHappenedExampleYears AgoYesterdayRussiaOrthodoxUkraineOrthodox ChristianChristian NationCrimeaKiev Author:Marvin Kalb
“Well in the scientific there is virtually no debate over certain things. For example, that we are changing the world. Humans are changing the world very radically, very dramatically. Climate change, which I assume is one of the points you're alluding to, is at the heart of this.” WorldHumansWellsHeartCertainExampleAssumingClimateClimate ChangeDebateChanging The World Author:Elizabeth Kolbert
“I've actually heard people protesting furiously about straight male costume people as well. It's not universal and there are examples that break the mould all over the place. In my experience, it's more prevalent in the UK than in America.” PeopleWellsAmericaBreakHeardExampleUniversalMalesCostumesMould Author:Colin Firth
“Well, probably the best way to put it might be that at some time, not just in an instant, but over some period of time I became aware of the fact that I wanted to document examples like Kroger or Piggly Wiggly in the late '50s, early '60s.” WayWellsFactsMightWantedExamplePeriodsLateBest WayInstantDocuments Author:William Eggleston
“Well, start waving and yelling, because it is the so-called Oxford comma and it is a lot more dangerous than its exclusive, ivory-tower moniker might suggest. There are people who embrace the Oxford comma and people who don't, and I'll just say this: never get between these people when drink has been taken. Oh, the Oxford comma. Here, in case you don't know what it is yet, is the perennial example, as espoused by Harold Ross: "The flag is red, white, and blue." So what do you think of it? Are you for or against it? Do you hover in between?” PeopleThinkingKnowsWellsHas BeensMightWhiteCasesTakenDangerousExampleDrinkRedBlueEmbraceFlagsTowersExclusiveYellingOxfordIvoryIvory TowerRed White And Blue Author:Lynne Truss
“John Calvin's theology emphasizes the sanctity of conscience, the sanctity of companionate marriage, and the obligation of those in power to attend to the well-being of the people in general, especially the poor. Interestingly, for the interpretation of Hamlet, for example, he forbids even the thought of revenge. This is not the Calvin of myth, but when the Elizabethans read him there was no such myth, nor would there be now, if he were read.” PeopleIfsWellsPoorExampleConscienceRevengeMythTheologyObligationWell BeingInterpretationSanctity Author:Marilynne Robinson
“You essentially have a human-relations database on millions of Americans. The administration said, "Well we're not listening to calls, we don't collect content." As [Vice President] Joe Biden said when he was a United States senator, you don't need to listen to those calls. If you have who somebody called, when and where, and you learned, for example, somebody called a psychiatrist three times in the last few days and twice after midnight, you know a lot about that person that they may not want people to know about them, especially the government.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantNeedsHumansWellsMayPersonsSaidStatesGovernmentLastsThreePresidentUnitedMillionsUnited StatesExampleListeningRelationVicesAdministrationSenatorsMidnightThree TimesPsychiatristHuman RelationsVice PresidentBidenDatabases Author:Ron Wyden
“Indeed, we have reached a level of complexity where simplicity itself is suspect. For example, the simple reality is that jobs migrate to less difficult nations. It's the old Rule of Capital: Capital goes where it is treated well.” WellsRealityJobsNationsDifficultSimpleLevelsExampleSimplicityTreatedComplexitySuspectsMigrate Author:Oliver DeMille
“My generation knew pretty well what happened 50 years before our birth. Now I follow all the quiz programs because they are a paramount example of the span of memory of the young generation - they are able to remember everything that happened in their life but not before.” YearsWellsAbleRememberYoungMemoriesGenerationsHappenedExampleBirthProgramMy GenerationParamountRemembers EverythingYoung GenerationQuiz Author:Umberto Eco
“Islamic tradition is full of examples of supporting the autonomy of women and the empowerment of women. Very few people know that in Islamic history there have been well over two thousand women jurists.” PeopleKnowsWellsHas BeensTwoExampleThousandEmpowermentTraditionIslamicAutonomyJurists Author:Khaled Abou El Fadl
“As a journalist, I never critiqued anyone. I never review books. I've never felt qualified as a musician to say whether someone is a good musician or a bad musician. What happens with Black writers and Black artists is that if you're critiqued, for example, by a Black historian who wants to get his name on the cover of "The New York Times," and he says something, like, wacky, well, he'll get his name on the cover of "The New York Times" and he might get tenure, and your career suffers.” IfsWantWellsBookMightHappensArtistSufferingNamesFeltBlackCareersNew YorkExampleMusicianJournalistReviewsHistorianQualifiedNew York TimesTenureWacky Author:James McBride
“Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never understood-hence our authority.” MenWellsExampleAuthorityUnderstoodTimelyPosthumous Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“If you read Calvin, for example, he says, How do we know that we are godlike, in the image of God? Well, look at how brilliant we are. Look how we can solve problems even dreaming, which I think is true, which I've done myself. So instead of having an externalized model of reality with an objective structure, it has a model of reality that is basically continuously renegotiated in human perception. I think that view of things is pretty pervasively influential in Protestant thought.” IfsThinkingKnowsHumansWellsLooksDoneProblemDreamRealityViewsExamplePerceptionModelsStructureSolveBrilliantObjectivesInfluentialProtestantsGod ImageGodlike Author:Marilynne Robinson
“Usually it's just material that resonates with me and I never know exactly what that's gonna be. And there's obviously a certain persuasion, if you will. It's dependent upon the fact that I'm known for certain genres. So, that influences my decision making as well. I mean I'd love to, for example, do an action thriller but there are a lot of very talented people doing that and so it would be very difficult for me to switch over to that genre. So, I do look for things that I know (will resonate with) my audience.” PeopleIfsKnowsWellsLooksMeanFactsWould BeActionCertainDifficultDecisionKnownAudienceInfluenceExampleMaterialsGenreDependentDecision MakingPersuasionThrillers Author:Michael Landon, Jr.
“Growing up, Magic Johnson was my idol. He was a good example. He could always pass the ball extremely well and get his teammates involved.” WellsGrowing UpGrowingMagicExampleInvolvedBallsIdolsTeammateJohnsonGood Examples Author:Jason Kidd
“I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive. People love to read stories. They like to know you as a real person who has your struggle, pain, success and failure, etc. One well-known example is Jared Fogle's weight loss story which made millions of dollars for Subway. Start to collect your stories from today and use them in your ad campaigns.” PeopleKnowsWellsPersonsMadeRealDoneStoriesUseTodayPainLossKnownMillionsStruggleExampleTheoryWeightDollarsCampaignsEtcAdsWell KnownWeight LossSuccess And FailurePersonal ExperiencesSubwayPersuasiveReal PersonLove To Read Author:David Ogilvy
“If you think about portraying Americans, for example, in a Russian film, it all depends on where the American is from, if they went to school or not, and if they're well-educated or not. Is it an American from Texas, or an American from Brooklyn? Things would change with the vocabulary and the accent.” IfsThinkingWellsSchoolFilmExampleDependsEducatedTexasAccentsVocabularyBrooklynPortrayingWell Educated Author:Demian Bichir
“And your brain doesn't naturally know how to think the way Zeckhauser knows how to play bridge. "for example," people do not react symmetrically to loss and gain. Well maybe a great bridge player like Zeckhauser does, but that's a trained response. Ordinary people, subconsciously affected by their inborn tendencies.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWellsDoePlayLossBrainKnow HowPlayerExampleOrdinaryGainsResponseTendenciesBridgesAffectedOrdinary People Author:Charlie Munger
“A traveler's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad-as well as good example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.” MenShouldMindWellsExampleAimChiefsWiserTravelerGood ExamplesForeign Places Book:Gulliver's Travels - Literary Touchstone Edition Source: Gulliver's Travels - Literary Touchstone Edition
“We need to start treating ourselves how we deserve to be treated, even if you feel that no one else does. Prove to the world you are worth something by treating yourself with the utmost respect and hope that other people will follow your example. And even if they don't, at least one person in the world is treating you well: You.” PeopleIfsWorldNeedsFeelsWellsPersonsDoeExampleProveDeserveTreated Author:Carrie Fletcher
“Lord, help us to see in your crucifixion and resurrection an example of how to endure and seemingly to die in the agony and conflict of daily life, so that we may live more fully and creatively. You accepted patiently and humbly the rebuffs of human life, as well as the torture of the cross. Help us to accept the pains and conflicts that come to us each day as opportunity to grow as people and become more like you-make us realize that it is only by frequent deaths of ourselves, and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully, only by dying with you that we can rise with you.” PeopleHumansWellsMaySelfHelpingPainDesireDiesOpportunityGrowsRealizingAcceptingLordDyingExampleLike YouConflictCrossesEndureAcceptedHuman LifeTortureEach DayDaily LifeResurrectionAgonySelf CenteredCrucifixionRebuff Author:Mother Teresa
“My mother brought home the accordion in 1942. I was fascinated and wanted to learn to play it. Some of my music has a relationship to dance styles - The Well and the Gentle or The Wanderer for example.” WellsPlayHomeWantedMotherStyleExampleGentleFascinatedWanderersAccordions Author:Pauline Oliveros
“To pay attention to the actual core of the movement - that would be pretty hard. Can you concentrate for example on either the policy issues or the creation of functioning democratic communities of mutual support and say, well, that's what's lacking in our country that's why we don't have a functioning democracy - a community of real participation. That's really important. And that always gets smashed.” WellsImportantRealCountryHardWould BeCommunityPayAttentionSupportDemocracyIssuesPolicyExampleMovementCreationDemocraticCoreOur CountryPay AttentionMutualLackingParticipationMutual Support Author:Noam Chomsky
“Some have become more critical than others; for example, the submarines. And that's the Ohio Class submarine that needs to be modernized. The air component also needs to be modernized. The B-52, as someone earlier pointed out, is an outdated model that was flown by the grandparents of people that are flying it now. And we need a serious modernization program as well on our silo-launched missiles. All three are critical for the defense of the country.” PeopleNeedsWellsCountryThreeClassAirExampleSeriousModelsProgramCriticalDefenseFlyingGrandparentComponentsMissilesOhioOutdatedSubmarinesModernization Author:Marco Rubio
“My personal time is limited, more so than I wish. However, my wife and I have talked about the fact that there are opportunities right now that won't be there forever. For example, when the Grateful Dead offered me to tour in 2004, my first reaction was to say no, I just can't do it. Then my wife said, "Well, let's rethink this. You don't want to look back down the road and say, I could've done that, but I said no." So, we made it work.” WantFirstsWellsLooksMadeSaidDoneFactsOpportunityWishForeverWifeExampleRight NowGratefulMy WifeReactionsMade ItDown The RoadPersonal Time Author:Warren Haynes
“Emmies, for example, most of that's bullshit. Oscars are even worse. We have a strange, terrible affliction in this town. Everybody walks around bent-backed from slapping each other on the backs so much. It looks like arthritis but it isn't. It's hunger for recognition. And it's sort of like, well, I'll scratch you this time if you'll scratch me next time. That kind of thing.” IfsWellsLooksKindNextWalksExampleStrangeTerribleTownsHungerRecognitionBullshitOscarsNext TimeBentAfflictionScratchesArthritisSlapping Author:Rod Serling
“For example, when I was writing Leviathan, which was written both in New York and in Vermont - I think there were two summers in Vermont, in that house I wrote about in Winter Journal, that broken-down house... I was working in an out-building, a kind of shack, a tumble-down, broken-down mess of a place, and I had a green table. I just thought, "Well, is there a way to bring my life into the fiction I'm writing, will it make a difference?" And the fact is, it doesn't make any difference. It was a kind of experiment which couldn't fail.” ThinkingWayWritingWellsKindTwoFactsHouseDifferencesFictionFailingWrittenNew YorkExampleBuildingBrokenSummerTablesGreenWinterExperimentsMessMaking A DifferenceJournalBroken DownVermontShackLeviathan Author:Paul Auster
“I think that the climate change policy and strategy that we have developed and that we have rolled out thus far is an example of incredibly high-quality work, incredible collaboration by an exceptionally large number of well-informed people.” PeopleThinkingWellsNumbersQualityPolicyExampleStrategyClimateClimate ChangeIncrediblesCollaborationLarge NumbersHigh QualityQuality Work Author:Rachel Notley
“There is less gray area there, less doubt. There is a security in being some thing all the way. Our culture, too, encourages this way of being - exaggeration, for example, is the key to advertising success in the United States. But hyperbole also seems a big part of Iranian culture, as well.” WayWellsStatesBigsSeemsCultureUnitedUnited StatesDoubtSecurityExampleKeysAreasAdvertisingGrayExaggerationIranianHyperboleGray Area Author:Porochista Khakpour
“There are a range of women not represented in the Western fairy tale tradition. Husband-beaters are particularly interesting, as well as male pederasts. Children are often told in The Arabian Nights, "This man likes to abduct boys, be careful of him." These issues are explored through the medium of the stories, but actually the architecture of the book is such that there are many examples of women who are loyal, brave, devoted - especially to their lovers.” MenWellsChildrenBookStoriesNightInterestingBoysIssuesExampleLoversHusbandTraditionBraveWesternMalesCarefulArchitectureLikesTalesMediumsRangeFairyBe CarefulFairy TaleLoyalDevotedArabianArabian Nights Author:Marina Warner
“From a political perspective, it is important to uphold certain universal principles so that, for example, you can condemn both Islamist forms of violence and injustice as well as forms of violence and injustice from other groups - some superpowers, for example, or the English Defence League, as other examples.” WellsImportantFormPoliticalCertainPrinciplesViolenceGroupsExamplePerspectiveUniversalInjusticeLeagueDefenceSuperpowerIslamists Author:Alison Assiter
“When an English man speaks well, for example now, and this is another way of putting us down, they say he's "eloquent" you see. "Oh, eloquent chap they are!" An Irish person speak well, they say, "Ah, you have the gift of the gab." "Ah, you kissed the blarney stone." You see, all of this putting us down.” MenWayWellsPersonsSpeakExampleStonesAnother WayEloquentChapsBlarney Author:Malachy McCourt
“For example, the use of chemical weapons [in Syria]- some on the Democrat side have said well, this encourages the North Koreans to use chemical weapons against our troops.” WellsSaidUseSidesExampleWeaponsDemocratChemicalsTroopsSyriaNorth KoreaKoreanOur TroopsChemical WeaponsNorth Korean Author:Rand Paul
“I would say George Mitchell was like Clark Kent sometimes with his horn rimmed glasses and his very quiet manner. People say, well, he's just a quiet leader, but then he emerges as super hero and begins to move this legislation. He led by example.” PeopleWellsSometimesMovingLeaderExampleHeroQuietGlassesLegislationHornsKentSuper Hero Author:Barbara Mikulski
“And, for example, like, when you're having the conversation with your child about getting their driver's license. Well, a white family - their biggest fear is just that you're driving safely and that they're minding the rules of the road, whereas a black family - their biggest fear is that their child is going to get pulled over and treated unfairly for a reason that they won't understand.” WellsChildrenReasonBlackWhiteExampleConversationOur ChildrenDrivingTreatedYour ChildrenDriversLicenseBiggest FearBlack FamilyTreated Unfairly Author:Regina King
“The more outlandish things he said, the deeper the connection. Well, [Donald] Trump has that. That's why I don't think they can destroy Trump the way that they're trying to destroy Trump over this thing in Scotland today. This is a perfect example.” ThinkingWayTryingWellsSaidTodayPerfectExampleTrumpConnectionsDeeperScotlandOutlandish Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There is a trend in child-rearing that I find abhorrent: "Whatever the kids want to do is fine." For me, the classic example of this is when someone has a visitor and says, "Go kiss Aunt Gertrude," and Aunt Gertrude says, "She doesn't have to kiss me if she doesn't want to." Well, I think that's wrong.” IfsThinkingWantWellsChildrenKidsExampleFineKissingClassicTrendsAuntVisitorsKiss MeChild RearingAbhorrentGertrude Author:Marianne Williamson
“Take the example of people who are being most unrealistic - people who are beating monks to death and torturing them. Why shouldn't you be angry or hate that person? Well, the person who is doing that is very unhappy. They are being ordered by a higher-up.” PeopleWellsPersonsHateExampleHigherAngryUnhappyMonk Author:Robert Thurman
“For any species to change, if they are unable and are unwilling to do so - I might, for example, have suggested to the dinosaurs that heavy armor and great size was a sinking ship, and that they do well to convert to mammal facilities - it would not lie in my power or desire to reconvert a reluctant dinosaur.” IfsWellsMightLyingDesireExampleSpeciesSizeHeavyShipsFacilityUnwillingArmorDinosaursReluctantSinkingMammals Author:William S. Burroughs
“Were money no object, we could have a dedicated door-opener-and-closer on all trains. But in the real world, train drivers in different countries have a wide range of responsibilities. On rural routes in Scandinavia, for example, you might find the driver selling you the ticket as well as operating the doors, helping disabled passengers, handling parcels and driving the train.” WorldWellsDifferentRealCountryHelpingMightResponsibilityDoorsExampleObjectsTrainWideDrivingSellingRangeDriversReal WorldDedicatedTicketsRoutesDisabledPassengersParcelDifferent CountriesScandinavia Author:Simon Calder
“There are historic examples where a soft domination of certain states worked well. For instance the US, who dominated the Western alliance after World War II - with a giant army, an enormous population, and its globally superior economic power. This role is quite different for Germany today.” WorldWellsDifferentWarStatesTodayCertainRolesEconomicExampleArmyWesternPopulationEnormousSuperiorsInstanceWar Of The WorldsGiantsGermanyWorld War IiWorld War IDominationHistoricAlliancesEconomic Power Author:Jaroslaw Kaczynski
“It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't mean you know anything about marketing. Or layout. Or editing. Or publicity. Or selling your books for foreign markets.Everyone can point to a few examples of people that have done very well for themselves self-publishing. But honestly, those folks are lucky as lottery winners.” PeopleKnowsWellsMeanBookSelfDoneStoriesProblemMightExampleLuckyLettersMarketingFolksBe GoodHonestlySellingWinnerPublishingEditingPublicityLotteryLayoutQueries Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“There are guys I admire. Like Jimmy Stewart and - a more modern example - Tom Hanks. They managed to do it and have a really high standard for their work, but at the same time they remained incredibly classy and well-regarded personally throughout the process, which I thought was rare and kind of cool. And I'm trying. I try. I haven't thrown any TVs out the hotel window yet.” TryingWellsKindGuyProcessModernHavensExampleTvsStandardsWindowAdmireThrownHotelTomsJimmyHigh StandardsJimmy Stewart Author:Ryan Reynolds
“For most of the rise of modern medicine, the brain was a really unknown zone and was all based in guesswork. Well, that's all changing. And the opioid recovery is a very good example of the scale of change we're seeing.” WellsBrainSeeingModernExampleMedicineVery GoodScalesRecoveryZoneGood ExamplesModern MedicineGuessworkOpioids Author:Newt Gingrich
“Most developing countries would know Malaysia quite well. Why? It is because we believe in contacts. We offer them some help for training, for example. We call it 'technical cooperation'.” KnowsBelieveWellsCountryHelpingExampleOffersTrainingContactDevelopingCooperationDeveloping CountriesMalaysia Author:Mahathir Mohamad
“To me, the model example of how to share your faith is Jesus with the woman at the well in John 4. He was patient with her. He took time for her. To some degree, she was kind of disrespectful to Him at first, initially kind of blowing off what he said and blowing off what he was saying to her. But then, as it continued on, she began to understand and ultimately believed.” FirstsWellsKindSaidJesusShareExampleDegreesModelsPatientDisrespectful Author:Greg Laurie