Quotes of Specimen - somelinesforyou

“ This is an example of the resiliency of the market, of what has driven stocks higher for months. You've got PPI, GE, not so great, but they find a positive angle and take the market up. ”

- John Hughes

“ Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. ”

- Albert Schweitzer

“ Well done, is better than well said. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ We are too quick to imitate depraved examples. ”

- Juvenal

“ Advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves. ”

- Henry Wheeler Shaw

“ Example is always more efficacious than precept. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Many candles can be kindled from one candle without dimminishing it. ”

- The Midrash

“ Example is more efficacious than precept. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh. ”

- Robert Cecil

“ Sheep follow sheep. ”

- Talmud

“ A good example has twice the value of good advice. ”

- Albert Schweitzer

“ This noble ensample to his sheepe he gaf, — That firste he wroughte and after he taughte. ”

- Geoffrey Chaucer

“ Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ Nothing preaches better than the act. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ In other instances, it's political incompetence. ”

- Stephen Hess

“ For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you. ”

- Bible

“ He was a classic example of somebody who didn't have a clue. ”

- Bill Parcells

“ The horrific tragedy is another illustration of the need to do an array of things. ”

- Tom Daschle

“ Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and, as we develop the peace process, we continue to use examples from South Africa. ”

- Gerry Adams

“ I think the greatest way to learn is to learn by someone's example. ”

- Tobey Maguire

“ I'm going to try to enjoy the All-Star break, hope my players reflect on what happened the first half of the season, come back with a different attitude, try to find our solution on how to win it. ”

- Don Baylor

“ A good example is the best sermon. ”

- Unknown

“ Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing. ”

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

“ Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic. ”

- Susan Sontag

“ Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other. ”

- Angela Davis

“ When a man and a woman see each other and like each other they ought to come together - wham - like a couple of taxis on Broadway, not sit around analyzing each other like two specimens in a bottle. ”

- Thelma Ritter

“ Example is the best precept. ”

- Aesop

“ There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting. ”

- Mark Twain

“ A good example is the best sermon. ”

- Unknown

“ I don't know any other way to lead but by example. ”

- Don Shula
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