#examples

History is full of examples of regimes that were oppressing at home and aggressive abroad, and I can't think of too many liberal democracies engaging in counterfeiting, drug running, missile proliferation, and just about any other illegal activity you can think of as North Korea does. ↗

— Ed Royce

#abroad #activity #aggressive #any #democracies

These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#appearances #apply #contrary #could #english

It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#love

If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose. ↗

— William Bartram

#animal #artifice #attention #bestow #creation

Democrats single out glaring examples of tax preferences or spending priorities that favor the wealthy and Republicans cry 'class warfare!' ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#class warfare #cry #democrats #examples #favor

My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#father #how #life #live #mother

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown. ↗

— Samuel Daniel

#adversity #distress #examples #fair #greatest

Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death. ↗

— Stevie Ray Vaughan

#ahead #because #being #bottom #death

Parents should be the most important examples for their children. ↗

— Christy Turlington

#examples #important #most #parents #should

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#culture #enter #examples #extinct #having