Instead Quotes - Page 20

If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead, they should tell Americans that they believe in the dignity and value of every human being, from the defenseless unborn child, to the newborn with a disability, to the 90-year-old dealing with dementia.
Gary Bauer / Activist
Abandon
Believe
Children
Compassion
Dementia
Dignity
Disability
Heart
Newborn
Sanctity
Unborn
Unborn Child
Life Heart Believe
Child
Aiming
Life Believe Heart
Dealing
Republicans
Human Being
Instead
Last
Value
Copy Quote
Addressing the climate and biodiversity crises requires us to radically change our economic models, moving away from economic growth as the over-riding measure of progress and moving instead towards improving health and wellbeing for people and nature. That means a different economic model taking us towards a sustainable economy.
Caroline Lucas / Former Member Of The European Parliament
Health
Biodiversity
Climate
Economic
Economic Growth
Growth
Improving
Moving
Moving Away
Progress
Wellbeing
Addressing
Crises
Sustainable
Model
Towards
Instead
Measure
Radically
Requires
Taking
Copy Quote
Google Now is one of those products that to many users doesn't seem like a product at all. It is instead the experience one has when you use the Google Search application on your Android or iPhone device (it's consistently a top free app on the iTunes charts). You probably know it as Google search, but it's far, far more than that.
John Battelle / Author
Experience
Consistently
Google
Iphone
Itunes
Products
Users
Free
Android
App
Charts
Device
Far
Instead
Product
Search
Seem
Top
Copy Quote
That's what the Romney plan is all about, how to get jobs created, how to get this debt and deficit under control, how to revive small businesses so we can create jobs, and how to bring growth and opportunity to society instead of this class warfare, instead of speaking to people like they're stuck in some class or station in life.
Paul Ryan / United States Representative
Jobs
Opportunity
Society
Class
Class Warfare
Debt
Deficit
Growth
People
Revive
Romney
Stuck
Warfare
Bring
Businesses
Create
Small
Instead
Plan
Small Businesses
Speaking
Station
Copy Quote
I mean, being a stuntwoman never occurred to me until I gave up gymnastics and started doing martial arts and met people that were stunt people. I was like, 'What? Wait. You get to fight and flip and get paid?' I was like, 'Mum, dad, check this out - I could do this stuff and get paid instead of having you guys pay for me to do it.'
Zoe Bell / Stuntwoman
Dad
Flip
Martial Arts
Mum
Paid
Pay
Stuff
Dad Me Wait
Dad Fight Me
Arts
Check
Fight
Gave
Wait
Guys
Instead
Martial
Met
Occurred
Stunt
You Guys
Copy Quote
Stories about mental aberration and oddity only make sense in context. Just how do people live with someone who is peculiar, gifted, strange or alien? It's odd because there's a little part of me that wants to write about exotic, strange bizarre subjects. Instead, I've rather reluctantly realised that what I write about is families.
Mark Haddon / Novelist
Aberration
Bizarre
Exotic
Gifted
Odd
Oddities
Peculiar
People
Realised
Strange
Subjects
Writing
Me People Live
Alien
Me Live People
Context
Families
Me Alien People
Instead
Mental
Oddity
Reluctantly
Copy Quote
Today, most women are surrounded by ingenious gadgets. They don't grow the peas or raise the chicken that they serve for dinner; instead they hunt and gather in the grocery store. They go through catalogs or department stores to buy clothes instead of shearing sheep, carding wool, and weaving cloth for skirts and coats and blankets.
Helen Fisher / Researcher
Women
Clothes
Coats
Department
Department Stores
Dinner
Gadgets
Ingenious
Peas
Sheep
Skirts
Today
Weaving
Wool
Most
Go
Women Are
Blankets
Buy
Catalogs
Through
Chicken
Cloth
Gather
Grocery
Grocery Store
Hunt
Instead
Raise
Serve
Store
Surrounded
Copy Quote
The number one thing I will take with me is my experience as a social worker who saw what happened to families who couldn't find jobs, struggled to take care of their health and saw opportunity slipping away for their kids. I ran for Congress because politicians were fighting with each other instead of looking out for these families.
Kyrsten Sinema / U.s. Representative
Jobs
Opportunity
Health
Congress
Fighting
Ran
Slipping
Social
Take Care
Worker
Politicians
Number
Saw
Instead
Struggled
Copy Quote
If there is evidence that an employee has broken the law, caused harm to veterans, or have violated the public trust, they should be terminated immediately. Instead, due to overly cumbersome and lengthy arbitrations as well as extensive bureaucratic red tape, VA has not been able to remove employees as quickly as we would have liked.
David Shulkin /
Trust
Broken
Employee
Evidence
Harm
Lengthy
Public Trust
Red
Red Tape
Remove
Tape
Caused
Bureaucratic
Due
Liked
Extensive
Overly
Immediately
Instead
Quickly
Terminated
Va
Veterans
Violated
Copy Quote
My happiness is not dependent on others; it comes from within. Spiritual growth in a person is never encouraged, but it is important. I don't know why people want to judge others instead of doing their own thing. I firmly feel that I don't need to follow or live according to other people's rules. I like living life the way I want to.
Sonu Nigam / Singer
Happiness
Dependent
Growth
Important
Spiritual
Want
Way
Person
Feel
Like
Within
Need
Rules
Thing
According
Why
Judge
Never
Own
Doing
Encouraged
Firmly
Follow
Instead
Living Life
Other
Copy Quote
I was injured at the end of 'Kill Bill.' I hit the ground, instead of hitting the mat, pretty hard and busted my ribs and had to have surgery. I was being blown out of a trailer in a harness and actually landed on my coordinator instead - who broke my fall a little! My arm smacked into the ground and obliterated one of the ligaments.
Zoe Bell / Stuntwoman
Broke
Busted
Coordinator
Fall
Harness
Hitting
Injured
Ribs
Surgery
Actually
Pretty
Arm
Hit
Bill
Blown
Landed
Ground
Instead
Mat
Trailer
Copy Quote
In it not easy to remain rational and normal mentally in such a setting where, even in our airport in Montgomery, there is a white waiting room... There are restroom facilities for white ladies and colored women, white men and colored men. We stand outside after being served at the same ticket counter instead of sitting on the inside.
Rosa Parks / Activist
Easy
Montgomery
Normal
Rational
Sitting
Waiting
White
Inside
Men Women Waiting
Stand
Mentally
Airport
Counter
Colored
Facilities
Women Men White
Women Men Waiting
Instead
Ladies
Room
Outside
Remain
Served
Ticket
Copy Quote
We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is incomplete. Then we live wholeness itself, instead of spending our lives looking for it.
Guy Finley / Writer
Agree
Eye
Incomplete
Our Lives
Promise
Refuse
Spending
Tasks
Wholeness
Eyes
Instead
Seek
Promises
Quietly
Task
Copy Quote
Money and prices and markets don't give us exact information about how much our suburbs, freeways, and spandex cost. Instead, everything else is giving us accurate information: our beleaguered air and watersheds, our overworked soils, our decimated inner cities. All of these provide information our prices should be giving us but do not.
Paul Hawken / Environmentalist
Accurate
Accurate Information
Air
Cities
Cost
Giving
Information
Suburbs
Everything Else
Exact
How Much
Inner
Instead
Prices
Provide
Copy Quote
I would supplant the ox with the automobile and pave instead of plowing the fields. 1 have a theory that if a corn field were paved, leaving out a brick for each hill, it would increase the yield, do away entirely with the mud, and give the farmer plenty of time to meditate on lofty subjects. That is only one theory. I have many others.
Susan Glaspell / Playwright
Automobile
Corn
Fields
Increase
Leaving
Lofty
Mud
Plenty
Subjects
Theory
Yield
Away
Brick
Each
Entirely
Ox
Instead
Meditate
Pave
Copy Quote
We curate our lives around this perceived sense of perfection, because we get rewarded in these short term signals: Hearts, likes, thumbs up. We conflate that with value, and we conflate it with truth, and instead, what it really is is fake, brittle popularity that's short term and leaves you even more vacant and empty before you did it.
Chamath Palihapitiya / Venture Capitalist
Truth
Empty
Fake
Likes
Our Lives
Popularity
Signals
Term
Thumbs
Vacant
Really
Because
More
Get
Around
Did
Before
You
Curate
Short
Even
Hearts
Instead
Leaves
Up
Perceived
Rewarded
Sense
Value
Copy Quote
I think it's funny, if you look at Brian Cage, the guy calls himself 'The Machine.' 265 lbs and spends a lot of time in the gym and eating chicken breasts. The guy comes in Impact Wrestling and instead of going after a guy like Moose or Killer Kross, who is he beating up? A bunch of guys half his size? Walking around like he's a big man.
Austin Aries /
Funny
Breasts
Bunch
Eating
Guy
Half
Impact
Moose
Size
Walking
Wrestling
Time Man Look
Funny Time Man
Beating
Cage
Calls
Chicken
Guys
Himself
Instead
Copy Quote
I usually stalk fans because I think they're really funny on Twitter. They don't know it, but I'll just go through their timelines, and if something is happening in the media, I always read fan accounts instead of the news because they have all the info and make the funniest jokes about it, so that's how I get my gossip - by stalking fans.
Gigi Hadid / Model
Funny
Accounts
Gossip
Media
News
Stalking
Twitter
Fan
Read
Funniest
Happening
Instead
Copy Quote
Globalization and trade liberalization were supposed to make us all better off through the mechanism of trickle-down economics. What we seemed to be seeing instead was trickle-up economics, accompanied by a destruction of democratic politics, as we moved ever closer to a system of 'one dollar, one vote' as opposed to 'one person, one vote.'
Joseph Stiglitz / Economist
Better Off
Democratic
Destruction
Economics
Globalization
Mechanism
Moved
Seeing
Trade
Vote
Accompanied
Closer
Dollar
Off
Instead
Opposed
Supposed
System
Copy Quote
I didn't decide to play guitar, but that was the instrument which I was offered. I've always been interested in horn-type instruments, such as a saxophone; but those instruments are very expensive, so my dad bought me a guitar instead. I didn't like the guitar at first, but after noodling on it for several months, I developed a feel for it.
Allan Holdsworth / Guitarist
Expensive
Months
Saxophone
Dad Guitar Me
Dad Always Guitar
Interested
Bought
Dad Guitar Always
Developed
Instead
Instrument
Offered
Several
Copy Quote
If I were involved with the NBA, I wouldn't want a 19-year-old or a 20-year-old kid to bring into all the travel and all the problems that exist in the NBA. I would want a much more mature kid. I would want a kid that maybe I've been watching on another team, and now he's 21, 22 years old instead of 18 or 19, and I might trade for that kid.
Bobby Knight / Basketball Coach
Travel
Involved
Mature
Might
Nba
Team
Trade
Bring
Exist
Instead
Maybe
Problems
Copy Quote
Everyone's frightened. It's how you deal with that fear. It's very, very powerful. And what you've got to do is get it as a tailwind instead of a headwind. And that's a little bit of a judo trick in your mind. And once you learn that, fear starts to excite you. Because you know that you are going to enter into something and try it and risk.
Jimmy Iovine / Entrepreneur
Frightened
Little Bit
Mind
Powerful
Risk
Little
Because
Fear Your Mind
Once
Very
Going
Get
Everyone
Try
Bit
Fear Mind Your
Deal
How
Enter
Excite
Got
Trick
Instead
Learn
Something
Starts
Copy Quote
To me, acting used to be just, 'Get my face out there, get girls, make a little bit of money, make my mom proud.' It was just like sports. But there were moments in 'Moonlight' that I really felt like I had to know why he is the way he is. Or just people in general - why this person walks around with a frown on their face instead of a smile.
Trevante Rhodes /
Sports
Little Bit
Moments
Moonlight
Proud
Walks
General
Frown
Instead
Copy Quote
After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you implored Washington to please stop spending money we don't have. But, instead of cutting, we saw an unprecedented explosion of government spending and debt, unlike anything we have seen in the history of our country.
Michele Bachmann / United States Representative
Cutting
Debt
Government Spending
Massive
Please
Spending
Spending Money
Stimulus
Bailout
Seen
Bill
Budget
Washington
Explosion
Unlike
Saw
Instead
Copy Quote
I believe that my worth is not measured by what I do, by the honors that are bestowed upon me, or by material wealth that I might obtain. Instead, I am measured by the courage I show while standing for my beliefs, by the dedication I exhibit to ensure my word is good, and the resolve I undertake to establish my actions and deeds as honorable.
Burgess Owens /
Courage
Good
Dedication
Deeds
Honorable
Material Wealth
Might
Resolve
Standing
Wealth
Actions
Me
Am
Beliefs
Bestowed
Show
Ensure
Establish
Exhibit
Honors
Instead
Word
Material
Obtain
Undertake
While
Worth
Copy Quote
If I should have a daughter, instead of 'Mom,' she's gonna call me 'Point B,' because that way she knows that no matter what happens, at least she can always find her way to me. And I'm going to paint solar systems on the backs of her hands so she has to learn the entire universe before she can say, 'Oh, I know that like the back of my hand.'
Sarah Kay / Poet
Daughter
Mom
Happens
Matter
Paint
Universe
Backs
Before
Oh
Call
Entire
Gonna
Hand
Her
Instead
Learn
Least
Point
She
Solar
Systems
Copy Quote
When I was 19 and at drama school, a couple of friends and I decided to drive from Guildford through France, down to the heel of Italy and then take a ferry to Greece - in an MG Midget. On our second day, in France, we were in a very bad accident and wrote off the car so we had to go home. But we then flew out instead and went island hopping.
Michael Ball /
Car
Couple
Decided
Drama
Ferry
Flew
France
Greece
Midget
Accident
Drive
Drama School
Island
Go Home
Heel
Instead
Italy
Second
Wrote
Copy Quote
The Fed should make a clear commitment to stable money to reduce the swings in interest rates and inflation. Instead, it champions and flaunts unstable money. This encourages momentum trading and the growth of derivatives. Meanwhile, layers of financial regulation make Washington bigger and more powerful but don't fix the underlying problems.
David Malpass / Economist
Bigger
Clear
Commitment
Derivatives
Financial
Growth
Inflation
Layers
Momentum
Powerful
Regulation
Stable
Swings
Trading
Unstable
Champions
Washington
Encourages
Fed
Instead
Interest Rates
Meanwhile
Problems
Rates
Reduce
Underlying
Copy Quote
We are raising today's children in sterile, risk-averse and highly structured environments. In so doing, we are failing to cultivate artists, pioneers and entrepreneurs, and instead cultivating a generation of children who can follow the rules in organized sports games, sit for hours in front of screens and mark bubbles on standardized tests.
Darell Hammond /
Sports
Bubbles
Failing
Games
Hours
Mark
Organized
Pioneers
Screens
Tests
Today
Rules
Artists
Cultivate
Entrepreneurs
Follow
Front
Generation
Highly
Instead
Raising
Sit
Standardized
Sterile
Structured
Copy Quote
Just as people can watch spellbound a circus artist tumbling through the air in a phosphorized costume, so they can listen to a preacher who uses the Word of God to draw attention to himself. But a sensational preacher stimulates the senses and leaves the spirit untouched. Instead of being the way to God, his 'being different' gets in the way.
Henri Nouwen / Priest
Air
Artist
Attention
Being Different
Circus
People
Preacher
Sensational
God People Way
Costume
Draw
Watch
Gets
Himself
Instead
Word
Leaves
Stimulates
Untouched
Uses
Copy Quote
Women have been trained in our culture and society to ask for what we want instead of taking what we want. We've been really indoctrinated with this culture of permission. I think it's true for women, and I think it's true for people of color. It's historic, and it's unfortunate and has somehow become part of our DNA. But that time has passed.
Ava Duvernay / Filmmaker
Women
Society
Color
Dna
Historic
Permission
Unfortunate
Ask
Time Women Society
True
Been
Part
Instead
Passed
Somehow
Taking
Trained
Copy Quote
An actor is supposed to emulate life. Instead, alas, many are imitating other actors. You don't fashion your knowledge of theatre or your approach to a role on the basis of what other actors have done. This kind of thinking is a great danger, especially in dealing with TV producers who frequently say things like, 'This is a Sean Connery type.'
Theodore Bikel / Actor
Knowledge
Alas
Approach
Danger
Emulate
Fashion
Imitating
Producers
Sean
Theatre
Thinking
Type
Life Great Done
Life Knowledge Great
Tv
Actor
Basis
Connery
Dealing
Frequently
Instead
Role
Supposed
Copy Quote
At the beginning, Edo was a photographer, and I was more of a talent scout and doing styling and modelling. Then all of a sudden, in 1977, he gave me a Polaroid camera, and I discovered that instead of having to go to a lab and develop the film, I could just take a click and get a picture! It was genius, and I was very good at manipulating it.
Maripol /
Film
Genius
Modelling
Photographer
Talent
Picture
Good Me Beginning
Beginning
Good Me Talent
Camera
Click
Develop
Discovered
Gave
Instead
Lab
Manipulating
Polaroid
Scout
Styling
Sudden
Copy Quote
Most therapists do not appear to know how to pinpoint and reverse therapeutic resistance - to head it off at the pass. Instead, they try to persuade the patient to change, or to do the psychotherapy homework, while the patient resists and 'yes-butts' the therapist. The therapist ends up feeling frustrated and resentful, and doing all the work.
David D. Burns / Author
Frustrated
Homework
Patient
Psychotherapy
Resentful
Resistance
Therapeutic
Appear
Instead
Pass
Persuade
Pinpoint
Copy Quote
Camera lies all the time. It's all it does is lie, because when you choose this moment instead of this moment, when you... the moment you've made a choice, you're lying about something larger. 'Lying' is an ugly word. I don't mean lying. But any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.
Richard Avedon / Photographer
Artist
Lying
Made
Mean
Paint
Picks
Ugly
Because
Any
Does
Same
Write
Camera
Choice
Choose
Say
Lie
Instead
Word
Larger
Moment
Photographers
Something
Copy Quote
When you search for Fortnite on iOS, you'll often get PUBG or Minecraft ads. Whoever bought that ad in front of us is the top result when searching for Fortnite. It's just a bad experience. Why not just make the game available direct to users, instead of having the store get between us and our customers and inject all kinds of cruft like that?
Tim Sweeney / Computer Programmer
Ads
Available
Customers
Direct
Users
Why Not
Ad
Bought
Fortnite
Front
Instead
Result
Search
Store
Whoever
Copy Quote
When the Soviet Union fell, optimistic scholars believed the world had shifted inexorably in the direction of free markets and liberal democracy. Instead, the West gradually embraced bigger government and weaker social bonds, creating a fragmented society in which the only thing we all belong to, as President Barack Obama puts it, is the state.
Ben Shapiro / Commentator
Optimistic
Barack
Bigger
Creating
Democracy
Fragmented
Liberal Democracy
President
President Barack Obama
Soviet
Soviet Union
West
Obama
Barack Obama
Believed
Belong
Bonds
Direction
Embraced
Fell
Free Markets
Gradually
Inexorably
Instead
Liberal
Markets
Union
Puts
Scholars
Shifted
The Only Thing
Weaker
Copy Quote
I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids! The judges were like, 'Very interesting interpretation!' I thought I was playing it right.
Eddie Van Halen / Musician
Music
Beach
College
Contests
Crazy Things
Interesting
Interpretation
Long
Long Beach
Prize
Stuff
Two
Used
Years
Inside
Music Me Long
Annual
City
Music Long Me
First
Read
Down
Won
Music City Me
Instead
Judges
Put
Row
Copy Quote
I think the main goal of the feminist movement was the status degradation of the full-time homemaker. They really wanted to get all women out of the homes and into the workforce. And again and again, they taught that the only fulfilling lifestyle was to be in the workforce reporting to a boss instead of being in the home reporting to a husband.
Phyllis Schlafly / Lawyer
Boss
Degradation
Fulfilling
Homemaker
Husband
Lifestyle
Movement
Taught
Workforce
All Women
Instead
Main
Reporting
Status
Copy Quote
Since United States military operations in Iraq began in 2003, I have visited Iraq at least 15 times. But unlike politicians who visit, the question for me has never been why the U.S. got into Iraq. Instead, as the CEO of Blackwater, the urgent question was how the company I head could perform the duties asked of us by the U.S. State Department.
Erik Prince /
Ceo
Department
Military
Operations
United States Military
Me Never Company
Me Never Why
Asked
Began
Perform
Politicians
Duties
Instead
Question
State Department
Visit
Copy Quote
When I make film music, I'm a filmmaker first and foremost. It's about serving the needs of the film. You're telling a story; in a way, you stop becoming a composer and become a storyteller instead. You tell the story with the most appropriate themes. How you approach these things is a very personal matter, but your goal is to tell the story first.
Johann Johannsson /
Music
Approach
Becoming
Composer
Film
Matter
Needs
Serving
Storyteller
Music Your Way
Foremost
Music Way Your
Instead
Personal
Story
Tell
Themes
Copy Quote
We are estranged from our own deeper physiology because we are no longer in contact with nature. Instead, we are controlling nature with air pollution, heating, technology. But you have to know you have a depth within yourself which needs to be stimulated. If it doesn't get stimulated it becomes weaker, like a muscle that's not being used any more.
Wim Hof /
Technology
Air
Air Pollution
Contact
Deeper
Depth
Heating
Needs
Physiology
Pollution
Used
Yourself
Within
Because
Muscle
More
Being
Get
Any
Own
Becomes
Being Used
Instead
Longer
Stimulated
Weaker
Which
Copy Quote
We already know that kids who get put in front of TVs instead of interacting, this is not good in all kinds of ways. And it's just not good for their cognitive - it's not good for their social development - I mean, that is incredible that kids in kindergarten... We should be moving away from screens at all levels of education, not moving into them.
Jill Stein / Physician
Cognitive
Development
Interacting
Levels
Moving
Moving Away
Screens
Social Development
Front
Instead
Ways
Copy Quote

Top Authors

Martin Luther
Monk
Saturday, Nov 10, 1483
Monday, Feb 18, 1546
Billy Graham
Evangelist
Thursday, Nov 07, 1918
Marcus Aurelius
Roman Emperor
Saturday, Apr 26, 0121
Friday, Mar 17, 0180
W. Edwards Deming
Statistician
Sunday, Oct 14, 1900
Monday, Dec 20, 1993
Robert Frost
Poet
Thursday, Mar 26, 1874
Tuesday, Jan 29, 1963
Carl Sagan
Astronomer
Friday, Nov 09, 1934
Friday, Dec 20, 1996
Plato
Philosopher
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Voltaire
Writer
Sunday, Nov 21, 1694
Saturday, May 30, 1778
George Bernard Shaw
Playwright
Saturday, Jul 26, 1856
Thursday, Nov 02, 1950
Henry David Thoreau
Author
Saturday, Jul 12, 1817
Tuesday, May 06, 1862
Tyler, The Creator
Rapper
Wednesday, Mar 06, 1991
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist
Wednesday, May 25, 1803
Thursday, Apr 27, 1882
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Writer
Thursday, Aug 28, 1749
Thursday, Mar 22, 1832
Dolly Parton
Singer-Songwriter
Saturday, Jan 19, 1946
Vincent Van Gogh
Painter
Wednesday, Mar 30, 1853
Tuesday, Jul 29, 1890

View All Authors

Instead Quotes - Page 20

App & Tools

Popular Topic Tags

Top Authors

Share This Page

Stay Connected

App & Tools

Popular Topic Tags

Top Authors

Share This Page