Example Quotes

• You're a good example of why some animals eat their young.

  

  Jim Samuels
  • Young
  • Animals
  • Eat

• Some countries need extra stimulus in specific areas. Something has to be done against high youth unemployment in Greece and Spain, for example. But in the end, there is no way around it: The debt levels have to come down.

  

  Dalia Grybauskaite
  • Country
  • Needs
  • Levels

• I think the best villains are ones that you can look at and say, 'Yeah, he's obviously going about this the wrong way or going too far or whatever, but I can see where he's coming from.' Magneto's a great example of that, and the reason he and Charles Xavier can have such great conversations is that they can both make some good points.

  

  Ryan North
  • Conversations
  • Obviously
  • Villains

• We with Alix MacKenzie had decided we needed further training, and certainly Leach was the one we turned to. So we went to England this summer and we took examples of our work along with us and showed them to Bernard Leach and told him what we were trying to do. And of course he took one look at our work and he said - very quickly he said, "I'm sorry, we're full up," and this was his way of politely saying, you just don't make the cut.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Trying
  • Training
  • Summer

• The best example is that if any person, any Muslim wants to leave Islam, then the penalty is death. It is not even allowed to leave it. That's why I believe Islam should not be compared with other religions like Christianity or Judaism.

  

  Geert Wilders
  • Should
  • Persons
  • Christianity

• One example is worth a thousand arguments.

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Example
  • Argument
  • Thousand

• I don't hero worship for the sake of hero worship. When I find people who are truly remarkable - and I think Joseph Needham is a classic example - I do value their counsel.

  

  Simon Winchester
  • Hero
  • Example
  • Worship

• Dana White came out very often in public saying I'm this and that; I'm sure it's also to play with my ego, to make me, for example, come out of retirement and say 'Oh ok, I'll fight for peanuts.' No, I'm not like that. I know the game.

  

  Georges St-Pierre
  • Play
  • Fighting
  • Games

• To be a movie star, you have to carry a movie. And to carry a movie where you play the title role is the supreme example.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Play
  • Roles
  • Movie Star

• There are lots of examples of routine, middle-skilled jobs that involve relatively structured tasks, and those are the jobs that are being eliminated the fastest. Those kinds of jobs are easier for our friends in the artificial intelligence community to design robots to handle them. They could be software robots; they could be physical robots.

  

  Erik Brynjolfsson
  • Community
  • Intelligence
  • Handle

• Throughout history there have been many other examples, similar to that of Haeckel, Huxley and the cell, where a key piece of a particular scientific puzzle was beyond the understanding of the age.

  

  Michael Behe
  • Age
  • Understanding
  • Keys

• Example, whether it be good or bad, has a powerful influence.

  

  George Washington
  • Influence
  • Example

• I'm grateful for the likes of Kundera, Murnane, Markson, Berger, and, in his recent work, Coetzee. But no matter how celebrated they are, critics still consider them askance. Elizabeth Costello, for example, is a great novel, but it got quite a critical panning when it was published. The complaint was that it was simply a book of speeches, without the machinery of conventional fiction. Markson's books are compilations of facts and alleged facts, very artfully.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Book
  • Facts
  • Novel

• Jimi Hendrix is a classic example of a player in which everything he did, it was all in his hands.

  

  Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
  • Hands
  • Everything
  • Classic

• Will [Smith] is not like preachy. He's more like lead by example. There's two ways to approach Will. You can follow or you can watch and learn, and I just kind of watched him and learned how he dealt with people, how he dealt with life and how he approaches his own work.

  

  Michael Ealy
  • Kind
  • Approach
  • Watches

• I lead verbally, not by example.

  

  Daryl Morey
  • Example

• The greatest gift we can give another is the gift of a good example.

  

  Delbert L. Stapley
  • Give
  • Greatest
  • Example

• I want to be able to follow the example of those extraordinary British actresses who move effortlessly from film to TV to theatre roles.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Film
  • Theatre
  • Move

• The Orange Revolution was a powerful example of democracy around the world. The people of Ukraine are continuing to shape their own future.

  

  Scott McClellan
  • People
  • Future
  • Democracy

• And money can't buy everything. For example: poverty.

  

  Nelson Algren
  • Poverty
  • Example

• I'm not saying everything out there is bad and toxic, but there are some things that are not scriptural. For example, some people don't understand that the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

  

  Joseph Prince
  • Jesus
  • Grace
  • Moses

• I lead by example. But if I get pissed enough, I'll say something. It usually isn't rah-rah; it's more complaining.

  

  Brian Urlacher
  • Example
  • Complaining

• Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

  

  George Washington
  • America
  • Example
  • Europe

• The weird set an example for the rest of us. They raise the bar. They show us through their actions that in fact we're wired to do the new, not to comply with someone a thousand miles away.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Facts
  • Bars
  • Miles

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