Flowing water never goes bad; our door hubs never gather termites.
Three things are good in small doses and bad in big ones: yeast, salt, and hesitation.
Why save when your son is a good son? Why save when your son is a bad son?
Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear.
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.
A brick could be affixed to each end of an axle, for an example of transportation in a pre-wheel society.
For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer.
What I believe about the young age of the earth comes out of taking the Bible as written. And I've said numerous times over the years that the age of the earth, for example, is not a salvation issue but an authority issue.
I hate the stereotype of the pitfalls of the child actor. There are so many amazing examples - Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jodie Foster, Drew Barrymore - of people who have made it through.
Female artists are the perfect example of a creator: They know how to make life and art with their bodies. Life comes from their bodies, so on a very basic level, they have more to write about.
Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes trash it completely.
The example could encourage others who only fear to start.
The road is long if one proceeds by way of precepts but short and effectual if by way of personal example.
I watched a bowl of fruit on the table remain motionless. Just another example of life imitating art.
Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most.
Many of the books I loved as a kid, that even my mother read as a child, are very slow going. Today's children are not as patient. The best example of this is 'The Secret Garden,' which I adored as a child.
I believe the best influence you can have is not by being preachy, but by trying to live. For example, knowing you're not perfect, but trying to treat everyone kind and accepting everyone for who they are.
Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.
I think that the only way to teach is by example, as children will more easily follow what they see you do than what you tell them to do.
I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in fifty years what my father taught me by example in one week.
When you do television, you have this opportunity to drop these subtle hints everywhere. The way you say things, for example, sometimes those seeds turn into trees.
