(935 quotes found)
“Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire”
Dale Carnegie
“Instead of a trap door, what about a trap window? The guy looks out it, and if he leans too far, he falls out. Wait. I guess that's like a regular window. - Deep Thoughts (Saturday Night Live)”
Jack Handy
“Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.”
Charles Handy
“Instead of studying for finals, what about just going to the Bahamas and catching some rays? Maybe you'll flunk, but you might have flunked anyway; that's my point.”
“If all politicians fished instead of spoke publicly, we would be at peace with the world.”
Will Rogers
“See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.”
Robert Collier
“Trials, temptations, disappointments - all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy.”
James Buckham
“It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around.”
Mary Pickford
“If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That way, if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like "Hey, look. He's carrying a soldering iron!" and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, "That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice." Then everybody would get real quiet and ashamed, because they had made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink.”
“You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.”
Charlotte Bronte
