Exemplification Quotes

#1. Every work of science great enough to be well remembered for a few generations affords some exemplification of the defective state of the art of reasoning of the time when it was written; and each chief step in science has been a lesson in logic.

Charles Sanders Peirce

#2. Chan Ho had a great career and was the exemplification of class, dignity and character.

Tommy Lasorda

#3. It takes practice to use one's eyes, even when God has opened them. And there are some believers who never get beyond confounding a doctrinal statement of a truth with a living exemplification of that truth.

Henry Clay Trumbull

#4. Richard III is not a monster. He is the natural outgrowth of monstrous and horrible times. He is the fitting termination of the rule of the House of York the exemplification of an old, divinely attested saying that they who take the sword shall perish by it.

James Gairdner

#5. My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#6. Accustomed to trace the operation of general causes, and the exemplification of general laws, in circumstances where the uninformed and unenquiring eye perceives neither novelty nor beauty, [the scientist and natural philosopher] walks in the midst of wonders.

John Herschel

#7. The search which takes place in my studio might best be described as a mining operation, a vertical dig in which a number of discoveries are apt to surface from a single shaft.

Abe Ajay

#8. All that matters to me now is my family.

Terrell Owens

#9. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.

Oswald Chambers

#10. Sing, boy! sing! The ages are waiting for you. Sing! sing! All the world will hear you. God knows what will come of it.

Charles Carleton Coffin

#11. A circle swoop, and a quick parabola under the bridge arches
Where light pushes through;
A sudden turning upon itself of a thing in the air.
A dip to the water.

D.H. Lawrence

#12. Roasted sweet potatoes are like illicit sex in the old Chinese saying, "Having it isn't as good as not having it." The smell is better than the taste. When you smell it, you feel you must have one, but once you actually sink your teeth into it, you find it's not really anything special.

Qian Zhongshu

#13. I'm sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I've never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly interested in writing about them if I did meet them.

Ayelet Waldman

#14. Before you go out into the world, wash your face in the clear crystal of praise. Bury each yesterday in the fine linen and spices of thankfulness.

Charles Spurgeon

#15. This proves Indians do nothing else but surf the Web.

Amitabh Bachchan

#16. Well the you should sue Mc Donald's because the really fucked you up" *gestures at fat man*

Hancock

#17. But people underestimate just how starved everybody is for some magic pathway back into childhood.

John Darnielle

#18. Passion is about the calling. Passion is the motivator behind the mission. Passion focuses us on "being" and not on "doing.

Wendy K. Walters

#19. I feel like I came in comedy's side door, and still feel very fraudulent in many ways.

Carrie Brownstein

#20. Do business with honesty irrespective of what happens, whatever happens thereafter is correct. But do not start any accounts (karma).

Dada Bhagwan