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Religion became the evil of our society when it started to teach resentment and hate instead of unconditional love and wisdom.
— Debasish Mridha
My life is just like Breaking Bad except instead of a chemistry teacher I'm just a guy and instead of making meth I don't do much.
— Dana Gould
Consider a 15- or 20-year fixed-rate mortgage instead of a 30-year, if you can afford the monthly payments - they may not be as high as you think.
— Suze Orman
We're on the eve of destruction. Men have lost all sense of honor. Power has become their faith instead of faith being their power.
— Atiq Rahimi
It's so important to always be yourself. If you do that, you will be successful as you, instead of worrying about trying to conform.
— Leighton Meester
I don't actually take much stock in the collapsing culture bit. I'm beginning to see it instead as the conduct of life without input from your soul.
— Saul Bellow
Instead of bringing this diamond to our meeting the first time we met, he decided to come with a rhinestone.
— Lucinda John
I could have taken a nap instead of waiting for you to finally show up. What took you so long human? Did you walk?
-Grimalkin — Julie Kagawa
-Grimalkin — Julie Kagawa
In order to experience peace instead of conflict, it is necessary to shift our perception.
— Gerald G. Jampolsky
We have changed our moral code to fit our behavior instead of changing our behavior to harmonize with God's moral code.
— Billy Graham
I love talking to people, but what I really love is to feel you're doing something instead of sitting home and twiddling your thumbs.
— Barbara Bush
What if we actually demonstrated God's love for the world instead of just talking about it?
— Richard Stearns
She wished now she'd brought that vibrator as a flashlight instead of leaving it on the couch.
— Jill Shalvis
Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.
— Catherine Of Siena
But Michael Jackson didn't have perfect diction - He said 'chamone' instead of 'come on'.
— Will.i.am
Instead of speaking of justice and injustice, freedom and oppression, classless society and class society, they talked in terms of God and the Devil.
— Mario Vargas-Llosa
I try to find my way in the world you know, I try to be somebody instead of just, make money off of everybody
— Tupac Shakur
I was going through the motions of life, instead of really living, and there's no excuse for that. It's not something I'll let happen to me again.
— Charles De Lint
In interactions with others, instead of trying to be right, why don't we try being kind?
— Wayne Dyer
Instead of sitting on the sidelines, President Obama has made it clear that the US is ready to lead a global effort to combat climate change.
— Valerie Jarrett
Instead of looking for the success in your life, look for the thing that is going to bring you the greatest joy.
— Oprah Winfrey
Imagine about anything instead of assume about it.
— Savan Solanki
I do not know exactly why, but it seems to me that images do not belong to anybody but are instead there, at the disposal of all.
— Maurizio Cattelan
Instead of last man standing, it'll be last man smiling.
— John Currin
Why, if it had been--a smothering instead of a wedding,
— Charles Dickens
Acting is wonderful therapy for people. Instead of suffering for yourself, someone will do it for you.
— Sophie Marceau
War has crossed out the day and replaced it with horror, and now horrors are unfolding instead of days.
— Zlata Filipovic
They wanted Guy Middleton instead of Kenneth More, and even Kay Kendall wasn't their first choice!
— Dinah Sheridan
Instead of trying different keys to open different doors, try only one key to open any door: The key of love!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Instead of the scream of a fish hawk scaring the fishes, is heard the whistle of the steam-engine, arousing a country to its progress.
— Henry David Thoreau
Now you'll have to wait for hours in line for medical care instead of immediately not getting any.
— Stephen Colbert
People who would refuse to share their bread shared their insanity instead.
-Three Daughters of Eve — Elif Shafak
-Three Daughters of Eve — Elif Shafak
I think that instead of feminism being a political thing, it should be an act of creativity. It's more of a rock n' roll thing.
— Caitlin Moran
Ego is borne of the need to 'prove' oneself instead of making the choice to 'be' oneself. And so maybe we need to begin curbing the birthrate.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Why wasn't my time spent helping people instead of a puppy? I don't know and I don't care but at least I saved something.
— Jay Kopelman
Why follow the herd? Be you - fearlessly. Make the herd stronger instead of just blending in.
— Cindy Tansin
If you want success in life, then just learn how to walk like a turtle instead of flying.
— Auliq Ice
I use circumlocution too often, and instead of getting my point across, I tend to babble.
— Genevieve Padalecki
don't label a lot of things good/bad. [Instead, I ask] can I evolve from this? What do I want now?
— Timothy Ferriss
I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.
— Adam Sandler
Instead of a thoroughgoing democracy, Americans have settled for democratic stagecraft.
— Nancy Isenberg
Enlightenment is not about becoming divine. Instead it's about becoming more fully human ... It is the end of ignorance.
— Lama Surya Das
Once in everyone's life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half-asleep.
— E.B. White
Thinking first of money instead of work brings fear.
— Henry Ford
Even when we were standing in church and I was getting ready to take my vow I can remember wishing that you were standing there instead of him.
— Nicholas Sparks
I decided that instead of apologizing for having a lot to say, I wanted to create a format where people would come to hear me sing and speak.
— India.Arie
I'd rather look back at my past and say, "I can't believe I did that!" instead of saying "I wish I did that.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
Instead of complaining about problems in your stomach, mind what goes into your stomach to cause the problems in your stomach.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Instead of worrying about taking, we should worry about giving. We can't stop the take. But we can do a hell of a lot about the give.
— Kiera Cass
She was standing by the barometer, which, if it had had an ounce of sense in its head, would have been pointing to 'Stormy' instead of 'Set Fair
— P.G. Wodehouse
Maybe I couldn't be dafter, But I keep wondering if this time we settle our differences before a war instead of after.
— Ogden Nash
Uncle is gone, she wrote instead of all this. And somehow, in some way, I envy him.
— Victoria Aveyard
[Instead] of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long.
— Edward Gibbon
You will be tempted to think this ordeal marks you as weak. Instead, remember it as proof of your strength.
— Cassandra Clare
Every genius thinks INWARDLY toward his Mind instead of outwardly toward his senses
— Walter Russell
Personal value is the kind of value we receive from being active instead of passive, creative instead of consumptive.
— Clay Shirky
Impermanence is very important, crucial for life. That is why instead of complaining about impermanence you have to say "Long live impermanence!"
— Nhat Hanh
She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
— D.H. Lawrence
The difference between poetry and rhetoric
is being ready to kill
yourself
instead of your children. — Audre Lorde
is being ready to kill
yourself
instead of your children. — Audre Lorde
Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.
— Leo Tolstoy
Often, instead of offering empathy, we have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or feeling.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
Seems like sometimes life gives you what you need instead of what you want, if you know what I mean
— Karen McQuestion
What was it about high school that made people think with their insecurities instead of their brains?
— Lisi Harrison
Apple wants to reach your heart instead of your wallet.
— Carmine Gallo
It's a lot like the Wild West out here... just with tea shops instead of saloons. Wild West Sahara, that is.
— T.K. Naliaka
The Mullahs and monks, they must worship you instead of empty rooms.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Luck is not a magical ability or a gift from the gods. Instead, it is a way of thinking and behaving.
— Richard Wiseman
Try to see what's in front of you instead of what's behind.
— Jordan Silver
Sometimes we make duaa for a door of dunya. When it doesn't open, we cry. Not realizing that Allah has instead opened a door of jennah for us.
— Yasmin Mogahed
Instead of seeking success we should look for fulfillment. And fulfillment is giving total attention to the process of living.
— Satish Kumar
Too often we participate in the globalization of indifference. May we strive instead to live global solidarity.
— Pope Francis
Make sure you stay in touch with beauty instead of letting the ugliness of the world corrupt your soul
— John Frusciante
Why waste your strength envying and hating instead of loving?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Of course they danced together; how could Callum resist dancing with a real live woman instead of a cardboard cut-out?
— Liane Moriarty
What are you going to do if it's the end of the world? You better go out having fun instead of stressing about it.
— Kirsten Dunst
Instead of sounding like a Beckett-style threat, Dr. Lavender's observation solidified something. Livia would live for love. Today will count.
— Debra Anastasia
Stop looking for things that could go wrong instead of finding things that will go right." I
— Amanda Bouchet
I'm not lazy. I'm just really gifted, only instead of being good at music or math I'm good at sleeping late.
— Elizabeth Jane Howard
The canary is like a man's soul. It sees bars around it, but instead of despairing, it sings.
— Nikos Kazantzakis
Make your having dinner out become The Event of the Night, instead of just the beginning.
— John Walters
Being an unhappy person does not mean you must be sad or dark. You can be interested instead of happy. You can be fascinated instead of happy.
— Augusten Burroughs
It is so easy to exist instead of live.
— Anna Quindlen
The Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder.
— Megan Whalen Turner
It is because people live in the things they possess instead of in their relationship to God that God seems at times to be cruel.
— Grace Livingston Hill
I hope we can all agree that, instead of continuing to subsidize yesterday's energy sources. We need to invest in tomorrow's.
— Barack Obama
To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains.
— Albert Einstein
My hunger serves me instead of a clock.
— Jonathan Swift
I'm not sure exactly how...but instead of darkness I saw light.
— Rachel E. Carter