#instance

Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land,' in most instances they're not even law. ↗

— Sonia Sotomayor

#constitution #even #instances #iv #land

A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#colours #consider #dependence #forth #instance

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#alleviating #chance #christianity #difficult #instance

I like, for instance, 'Serpico.' I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could - I could embody him. I could, you know, I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It's almost like a painter having a model to become. ↗

— Al Pacino

#because #become #could #embody #enjoyed

For instance, 'The Sixth Sense' had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention. ↗

— M. Night Shyamalan

#audience #bad #critical #had #instance

Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death. ↗

— John H. Speke

#death #delight #family #hailed #instances

The concern right now is that families are paying for insurance, or getting insurance from their employer and trusting that health care will be available for their families. In too many instances now, the care they need isn't available. ↗

— Debbie Stabenow

#care #concern #employer #families #getting

What's even more unsettling is the way these people hide what they're doing from the public. They strip the labels off miracle wheat when they ship it, for instance, and say, 'Watch out. Don't plant too much and don't depend on it too much.' ↗

— David R. Brower

#doing #even #hide #instance #labels

Bush is morally a universalist. For instance, he says the freedom is good, the same thing is good, all over the world. So in that sense he's a universalist. ↗

— Peter Singer

#freedom #good #instance #morally #over

All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance. ↗

— Gianni Agnelli

#behind #going #had #infinitely #instance