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Quotes About Instance

The moment rules over everything.
~ David Hockney
T]hat I could find company and consolation and hope in an object pulled almost at random from a bookshelf--felt akin to an instance of religious grace.
~ Jonathan Franzen
This leaves a big question unanswered. Is it ever appropriate to store an optional in an instance field? Often it's a "bad smell": it suggests that perhaps you should have a subclass containing the optional fields. But sometimes it may be justified.
~ Joshua Bloch
of a heart attack from all this stress, I'd be impressed with her dedication. I can't think of a single instance in my life when I've tried
~ Wendy Mass
In no instance have the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
~ James Madison
4.23..If 'thought' means: instance of the subject in a truth-procedure, then there is no thought of this thought, because it contains no knowledge.
~ Alain Badiou
Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.
~ Richard Whately
A little wit and a great deal of ill-nature will furnish a man for satire; but the greatest instance of wit is to commend well.
~ John Tillotson
In this instance, she understood completely what the endorsement of a fool was worth.
~ Richard Russo
makes no difference whether the translations in question are from the pens of Jews or non-Jews. In every single instance, where the non-Jew is responsible for the translation, the knowledge shown in the making of the translation was acquired from Jewish savants.
~ William Rosenau
He left his office and made a beeline for the lounge and the coffee machine. He was reasonably certain that caffeine wasn't going to help in this instance, but as his dad had always told him, it couldn't hurt.
~ David Niall Wilson
Use e.g. when you mean "for example": "I like junk food—e.g., Doritos and Pringles." (How to remember: "For eg-zample.") Use i.e. when you mean "in other words": "He ate Doritos and Pringles—i.e., junk food." (How to remember: "in other words.")
~ David Pogue
The Man of Wrath says all women love churchyards. He is fond of sweeping assertions, and is sometimes curiously feminine in his tendency to infer a general principle from a particular instance.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
WordPress.com is the only service of its kind that not only lets you export your data, but gives you an open source package you can run on pretty much any web host out there to run your own instance of the software. So the freedom is really in your hands.
~ Matt Mullenweg
There is perhaps not an enlightened Christian in America who, notwithstanding he may believe that, at the time of Jesus, men were possessed of devils, believes that they ever have been in any other instance, either before or since.
~ Lysander Spooner
Actually, in this instance we do have probably a better tracking system than was the instance in Canada. Because this is a dairy cow, they're all individually tagged.
~ Ann Veneman
Probably in all history there is no instance of a society in which ecclesiastical power was dominant which was not at once stagnant, corrupt and brutal.
~ George Agnew Reid
There is really no such thing as the novel," observes novelist Vincent McHugh. "The novel is always a novel—the specific problem, the particular case, the concrete instance.
~ Dwight V. Swain
Suppose you try to convince someone, even if only yourself, that change is an illusion. You work your way through each step until you or your listener is convinced. Yet that your mind entertains one premise after the other and finally reaches the conclusion is itself an instance o f the change the argument denies.
~ Edward Feser
An entrepreneurial spirit that is sought in the workforce should not be mixed and confused with the spirit that an entrepreneur has got , as there are enough evidences and instances in which a person who has failed as an employee has turned out to be a successful entrepreneur, and vice versa.
~ Anuj Somany
Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process.
~ Jean Piaget
exemplification.
~ Roy Peter Clark
think that the rare Englishmen who have this gesture are never of the heavy type— for fear of any lumbering instance to the contrary, I will say, hardly ever; they have usually a fine temperament and much tolerance towards the smaller errors of men (themselves inclusive). The
~ George Eliot
There is no justice in love, no proportion in it, and there need not be, because in any specific instance it is only a glimpse or parable of an embracing, incomprehensible reality.
~ Marilynne Robinson