Top 100 Instead Quotes
#1. If I was really a bitch I'd make your life a living hell. Instead, I'll just stand by and watch you do that yourself. You seem to do a pretty good job at it.
Sophie Monroe
#2. I think ... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes ... Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.
Wally Lamb
#3. I think anybody who's willing to really sink their teeth into a work like the Hammerklavier, which is a very interesting, different experience, should look instead at something like the Sonata by Paul Dukas, which, in my opinion, is a real marvel.
Marc-Andre Hamelin
#4. I agree that Ruskin has done much harm to counter balance much good in giving people the trick of talking about Art instead of really doing a little of it to enable them to understand.
William H. Hunt
#5. Don't try to make life fair, instead, be on the side where life is extra good.
Sarvesh Jain
#6. off. "You sure are full of yourself, aren't you, Ace?" He cocks his head and looks at me. "I can arrange that for you to be full of me instead, if you'd like?
K. Bromberg
#7. If everybody that had two cars had a Prius instead of an SUV, we wouldn't be in the Middle East right now.
Meryl Streep
#8. Our churches are full of people during work hours, morning, noon, evening, praying instead of being in the factories, libraries, laboratories, facilitating economic growth
Sunday Adelaja
#9. We must take the time to do what needs to be done now, what is right, instead of passing a bad bill.
Grace Napolitano
#10. Instead of going into politics, I decided to go into comedy, which is the second most daunting career path for a woman.
Casey Wilson
#11. They do not know what the words mean; they do not know how to ward them off or blunt their edge or fling them back; they are a prey to words in their emotions instead of being the masters of them in their intellects.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#12. When you were down, some guys just seemed to feel an urge to walk up your back and plant a foot on your neck instead of helping you to stand.
Stephen King
#13. Moms seem so overinvolved in solving problems for their children instead of letting the kids learn to work it out. Whatever happens between the kids becomes a drama between the moms.
Julie Lythcott-Haims
#14. If you were never encouraged to be yourself, you often try to blend in instead of standing out. It's a sense of "if only I was 'this,' then someone would love me.
David Mezzapelle
#15. ...stop pacing the aisles and counting the miles. Instead, climb more mountains, eat more ice cream, go barefoot oftener, swim more rivers, watch more sunsets, laugh more and cry less. Life must be lived as we go along.
Robert J. Hastings
#16. You fear you will fail at the very thing you were born for. And your fear torments you...instead of shunning your fear, you must let it speak and listen carefully to what it's trying to tell you. It will give you good counsel.
Jennifer Donnelly
#17. Trump might have appointed a less-eerie chief to replace Manafort. But instead he doubled-down, choosing the even eerier Stephen Bannon. Bannon
Jon Ronson
#18. Stella expected to see fire in Mr. Spencer's eyes, fire like the flames that had made tinder of his house. Instead his eyes were soft, gentle, and brown like the earth. "I have to show them they didn't destroy me," he said simply.
Sharon M. Draper
#19. Instead of looking for a great leader, we are in an era where each of us needs to find the great leader within ourselves.
Werner Erhard
#20. I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.
Julianna Baggott
#21. When instead of acting against a situation, you merge with it, the solution arises out of the situation itself.
Eckhart Tolle
#22. These are the sports, the offthrows, of the universe instead of the species; these are the weird children of the lust of the spheres.
Charles G. Finney
#23. When people can see a vision and simultaneously recognize what can be done step by step in a concrete way to achieve it, they will begin to feel encouragement and enthusiasm instead of fright.
Erich Fromm
#24. The idea that I've wounded the brute's tiny cat feelings just invites further taunting. But Prim's genuinely distressed for him. So instead, I visualize Buttercup's fur lining a pair of gloves, an image that has helped me deal with him over the years.
Suzanne Collins
#25. The problem is, some officers put more stock in their title instead of their duty. Yes, your job title is "police." But your duty is to protect and serve. Start there.
Janelle Gray
#26. I do my work. My work is my statement. Generally, I think, there is too much interest in what an artist has to say. Or what she or he looks like, instead of what she or he does.
Candida Hofer
#27. Suddenly Elena wished that Stefan wasn't the type of boyfriend to give her space. She wished that he was here with her. Come to think of it, if they were all grieving for the same person, why shouldn't he be with her? Why had he run away instead of staying to support her?
L.J.Smith
#28. Instead of hate, celebrate.
Prince
#29. Instead of building castles against your enemies, build bridges for them to come to you!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#30. The law enforcement in this town is terrific. All through prohibition Eddie Mars' place was a night club and they had two uniformed men in the lobby every night-to see that the guests didn't bring their own liquor instead of buying it from the house.
Raymond Chandler
#31. Praise your God in a silent and humbly manner instead of rubbing his back with loud praises while silently committing horrendous acts.
Gloria D. Gonsalves
#32. I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.
Taylor Swift
#33. Instead of beseeching men to be reconciled to God, we find ministers wasting their time in giving Sunday lectures about all kinds of subjects. Rome is burning and Nero is playing his fiddle. Souls are perishing and minsters are amusing them.
Todd Friel
#34. Until we start thinking in terms of revolution instead of compromise the Church will continue to pat itself on the back with token steps of renewal.
Mike Yaconelli
#35. No one knows if he or she or anyone in his or her life will be here in the next five minutes. Don't hold back on expressing yourself. Tell that special person today how you feel, give a hug, cast a smile instead of a frown, and don't forget to tell those you love that you love them.
Suzane Northrop
#36. In this time of national crises ... per haps we would do well to spend a few minutes in considering projects which grace and embellish the earth, instead of shaking it.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#37. If we lean on a human love story as our primary source of fulfillment and happiness, well never find what we are looking for. But when we find our fulfillment in Jesus Christ, we are free to selflessly love our spouse instead of constantly thinking about our own needs and wants
Eric & Leslie Ludy
#38. Don't spend two dollars to dry clean a shirt. Donate it to the Salvation Army instead. They'll clean it and put it on a hanger. Next morning buy it back for seventy-five cents.
Billiam Coronel
#39. Fifteen years ago, while I was temporarily chairing meetings of pro-life leaders, I pleaded with the angry males to say no to interviews, and instead let beautiful pro-life women become the face for the movement.
Marvin Olasky
#40. As long as people are talking instead of fighting, nobody loses very much blood - unless he happens to bite his tongue.
David Eddings
#41. Why don't you write an anti-glacier book instead?'
What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that too.
Kurt Vonnegut
#42. But instead I am applying for a job as an elf. Even worse than applying is the very real possibility that I will not be hired, that I couldn't even find work as an elf. That's when you know you're a failure.
David Sedaris
#43. Strictly by accident, Scott stumbled upon the most advanced weapon in the ultrarunner's arsenal: instead of cringing from fatigue, you embrace it. You refuse to let it go. You get to know it so well, you're not afraid of it anymore.
Christopher McDougall
#44. Instead of pondering the question "Can we have it all?," we should be asking the more practical question "Can we do it all?" And again, the answer is no.
Sheryl Sandberg
#45. It frustrates me that Britain can't make something like 'CSI' or 'The Sopranos'. Instead, British TV puts soap in primetime while every other civilized nation leaves it in daytime. Viewers should be more demanding.
Jamie Bamber
#46. If you are facing trouble right now, don't ask, "Why me?" Instead ask, "What do you want me to learn?" Then trust God and keep on doing what's right.
Rick Warren
#47. I changed my headlights the other day. I put in strobe lights instead! Now
when I drive at night, it looks like everyone else is standing still ...
Steven Wright
#48. The man who'd saved her wasn't just a pair of sexy lips and a rugged jaw with big, yummy eyes. He was the whole package. Seriously? What Earth woman would prefer downloading offspring when she could ravage this instead?
Patricia Eimer
#49. The left's idea of science is that we should all be riding bicycles and using the Clivus Multrum composting latrines instead of flush toilets. Anyone who dissents, they say - while adjusting their healing crystals for emphasis - is afraid of science.
Ann Coulter
#50. I wanted a girl as perfect as Brooke, and instead, she gave me something I never knew I wanted: something perfect that looks like me.
Katy Evans
#51. Keep working. Keep trying. Keep believing. You still might not make it, but at least you gave it your best shot. If you don't have calluses on your soul, this isn't for you. Take up knitting instead.
David Eddings
#52. Maybe instead of fire and brimstone, hell is just a feeling of loneliness
Amy Huntley
#53. Real joy, the kind that permeates your life and brings contentment to your soul comes from service. So no, happiness is not the word. Purpose. Contentment. Joy. To find those things, don't seek happiness. Search instead for those who need your gift and give it away.
Mia Sheridan
#54. Instead of dissecting Scripture, we need to let Scripture dissect us our thoughts and attitudes, our dreams and desires, our fears and hopes.
Mark Batterson
#55. Don't fight against what you don't want, instead stand for the spiritual qualities you would like to manifest in your life and watch how the universe rushes to flesh out your intentions as new life experiences.
Chaz Day
#56. Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you.
Ramana Maharshi
#57. But even more so, it reminded me that this was all really happening. Stanford. The end of the summer. The beginning of my real life. It was no longer just creeping up, peeking over the horizon, but instead lingering in plain sight.
Sarah Dessen
#58. A real leader spends his time fixing the problem instead of finding who to blame.
David Cottrell
#59. Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy, and which will put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill.
Michele Bachmann
#60. We are so trained into believing the worst, into thinking some people are beyond hope. What if it's our lack of belief that makes people hopeless? What if we can change the world just by hoping for the best instead of settling for the worst?
Marilyn Grey
#61. But sometimes I see instead the young girl's face I once spent so much time rearranging and deploring, drowned and floating just beneath my present face,
Margaret Atwood
#62. We must meditate on what God has done in our life instead of what we are still waiting on Him to do.
Joyce Meyer
#63. The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.
Thomas Sowell
#64. Hello. My name is Henry. I am a fan. Somewhere in the late 1980s', I got tired of people telling me to get a life. I wrote a book instead
Henry Jenkins
#66. Refuse to put others either above you or below you, but instead see them as you.
Pauline Holyoak
#67. I think people understand things different when they get older. It's not a question of getting soft, or seeing things in the gray areas instead of black and white. I really believe I'm just understanding things different. Better.
Jeff Lindsay
#68. On walks, make sure that your dog is not in front of you, pulling you down the street. Instead, keep your dog to your side or behind you. This will also demonstrate to your dog that you are the alpha figure.
Cesar Millan
#69. By being grateful, appreciating all we have instead of focusing on what is lacking, we allow more of the same to flow toward us.
William Powers
#70. Haitians do not need development programs imposed on them by expatriates. Instead, they need help in developing as self-assured persons.
Tony Campolo
#71. The libertarian thinks that this world is chiefly a stage for the swaggering ego; the conservative finds himself instead a pilgrim in a realm of mystery and wonder, where duty, discipline, and sacrifice are required-and where the reward is that love which passeth all understanding.
Russell Kirk
#72. If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself in wisdom, and wear a smile.
Ann Thompson
#73. We pray to God for ourselves instead of the general good.
Sunday Adelaja
#74. When we start to feel anxious or depressed, instead of asking, "What do I need to get to be happy?" The question becomes, "What am I doing to disturb the inner peace that I already have?"
D.T. Suzuki
#75. If [the characters] grow a lot, they begin to influence the course of the story instead of the other way around.
Stephen King
#76. I come from a whole goddam family of inventors," said Will. "We had ideas for breakfast. We had ideas instead of breakfast. We had so many ideas we forgot to make the money for groceries.
John Steinbeck
#77. her neck so I could smell roses instead of the smoke from the fires." She opened her eyes and looked
Daniel Silva
#78. The saddest thing is that this is often all we understand about ourselves: that so often, we live our neighbor's life, instead of our own.
Robin S. Sharma
#79. I've been stung by bees before, but it's never been this bad. It's like having PMS bloat throughout my whole body instead of just my midsection.
Cat Patrick
#80. And now having a child has been taken out of the sphere of biological determinism and placed instead in the domain of intentional action. Another option to consider and decide upon. And ... not to choose is to choose.
Rebecca Goldstein
#81. Your soul is like a drop of water yearning to return to the ocean. There it will cease to exist as an individual and instead become a greater existence. It becomes an entire ocean.
Douglas James Cottrell
#82. If you make provision for the desires of the flesh and bear a grudge against your neighbor on account of something transitory, you worship the creature instead of the Creator.
Maximus The Confessor
#83. There are times that insistence of demands becomes the stumbling obstacle, that instead of paving way to something smooth for the realisation of some matters which end up in a ditch of rejection.
Angelica Hopes
#84. I felt the need to distance myself from my problems, instead of dealing with them. My mother said It's not uncommon for people to run away from their fears to start somewhere new with a better attitude.
Documentary Recordings
#85. Anyone could end up drawing a spren, but you learned early that talking to one was pointless. Was he mad? Perhaps he should wish for that - madness was an escape from the pain. Instead, it terrified him.
Brandon Sanderson
#86. If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we'll achieve is a reflection of the one we want to destroy.
Jean Genet
#87. Hadn't they watched any high school comedies? We should have been whipping him with wet towels at this point, ferocious in our fury to protect the sanctity of the girls' locker room. Instead, they were concentrating on strategic posture shifts for maximum cleavagization.
Kiersten White
#88. We should get in the habit of continually seeking His counsel on everything, instead of making our own commonsense decisions and then asking Him to bless them.
Oswald Chambers
#89. Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.
Robert Heinecken
#90. What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.
George Bernard Shaw
#91. I guess this thing we call faith is a climb. I always wanted to think of it as a big slide straight into the arms of God who waits at the bottom to catch us. But instead, He's a God who's on top of things - & like any mountain you climb, the closer we get to Him, the steeper the terrain.
Lisa Samson
#92. It sometimes seems to me as if I do not belong to this world at all. I deplore music that engenders in people not love but madness: which rouses them to scornful laughter instead of lifting their thoughts to God.
Franz Schubert
#93. Yeah, I've banged some female costars. I swore I'd never tell their names, so instead I'll present some anagrams: Sahar Clahke and Haether Gharam.
Zach Braff
#94. If you accept that a relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy, then the relationship will offer you salvation, and you will be aligning yourself with the higher consciousness that wants to be born into this world.
Eckhart Tolle
#95. In science we kill our hypothesis instead of each other.
Jonathan Rauch
#96. Instead of feeling sorry for the exceptionally able student who has no one to talk to, we need to worry about what happens when the exceptionally able students hang out only with one another.
Charles Murray
#97. In the past, I was a perpetual victim; how I was doing in any given moment depended on what happened to me. Today I do my best to avoid this kind of 'victim thinking.' Instead, how I am doing is determined by how I respond to what happens to me.
Jenni Schaefer
#98. Meanwhile starvation and death were rampant. The Boar came in increasing numbers each passing week. Food that had been reserved to keep hungry children fed went instead to feed the endless bellies of the steadily growing barbarian hoard.
Seth A. Kathigen
#99. I eat eight times a day. But it's what my intake is. I eat all the time, but it's good stuff. You want to eat that chocolate? You want to eat that dessert? Have that apple or vegetable instead.
Billy Magnussen
#100. He remembered believing there had been a time when monsters roamed the earth. The brave hearted fought flesh-and-blood dragons instead of shadowboxing their inner demons, the sport of modern man.
Katherine Starbird
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