Example Quotes
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A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.
Edgar Allan Poe
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It raises several serious questions. For example, how can there possibly be more than one person as awesome as me?
Zach Braff
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I'm a prime example of the way kidney disease strikes silently.
Sean Elliott
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You know what we pride ourselves on that - although I wouldn't mind if my backside was a little smaller. But look at the original divas... take Aretha Franklin for example - I've seen her live in the States and she was mammoth, but she had that crowd under control and they doted on every movement she made! We're not little midgets but the music industry is not about that, it's about loving the music and respecting what you do.
Kate DeAraugo
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It is almost impossible for children and youth to find their way through the seas of life without the guiding light of a good example.
M. Russell Ballard
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Ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transitions than we had in Darwin's time.
David M. Raup
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Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
Confucius
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But he has left us the legacy of heroes—the memory of his great name, and the inspiration of his great example.
Benjamin Disraeli
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I'm able to live as an example of what I believe.
Will Compton
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The people are fashioned according to the example of their kings; and edicts are of less power than the life of their ruler.
Claudius Claudianus
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I had to figure out my own faith. That was something I figured out a while ago when I was 18. But I can always stand on the fact that my dad has been a great example for me. Beyond that, building my career hasn't been attached to my dad. It's been me figuring things out for myself.
Anthony Evans
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I love being a mom. And I think what I love the most is the way it makes me think about what's important and what's not important. What to fight for and what to just be cool with. What it is that I'm teaching through example and what it is that I was taught that I don't want to teach.
Alicia Keys
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I lead by example. My kids know what sweat is. They've seen me come home from so many runs and asked, 'What's on your skin? How did you get it?' And I tell them, 'It's from exercise!' So now my son will come home from a bike ride, take off his helmet and say, 'Look, Mom. I'm sweating! I just worked out!'
Summer Sanders
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When I used Claudia Cardinale for example, in Once Upon a Time in the West, she represented the birth of American matriarchy. Because women had enormous weight in America.
Sergio Leone
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The simple Wordsworth . . . / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose.
Lord Byron
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If Europe’s example is any guide, here are the two secrets of coping with expensive oil: own fuel-efficient cars, and don’t drive them too much.
Paul Krugman
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The reason that viruses are so hard to fight, the reason for example we need a flu virus every year is that they evolve very fast.
Carl Zimmer
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Don't just tell your kids to be active and to get outside and play. Lead by example.
Summer Sanders
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I feel like everybody has a purpose. For me, I just want to be an example of what I talk about like speaking and what I preach about when I speak to schools and companies during the off-season.
Will Compton
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Examples of human stupidity. Blasphemy in Pakistan can now include spelling errors by children or throwing away a card bearing the name "Muhammad".
William C. Brown
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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.
Miranda Otto
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I think a lot of people are getting more serious about how to do the most good, but there is no road map. I'm hoping I can offer an example.
Mohnish Pabrai
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Everything has a sort of double meaning for me, there's the ordinary everyday meaning of things, and the imaginary meaning about it all, and I wanted to bring these things together, and in this first big Resurrection of mine you have a good example of this sort of thing.
Stanley Spencer
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I'm not a preacher, and I'm certainly not a good example, but I have my own feelings about God. I'm kind of a nature guy. My cathedral is forests, or the prairies, or the beach.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield