Quotes of: Instead Keyword

Create your own “LUCK” in your personal life—instead of relying on “fate” and hoping that your happiness will spontaneously materialize sometime and somehow, as if by magic. Be the “magician” of your own destiny. Take control of your ow...

The Honest Book of International Dating / Smart Dating Strategies for Men

Once an opportunist like Mickey, who took the argument when she jumped on some devastated wretch's machine and jackpotted that it was the "cash-ino's money" she was winning, Moon returned after her six month break with the view that the separation ha...

Somebody Get Me A Hammer!!

I am developing new coping mechanisms for lost words and lost negatives, as here for instance: compensate by describing the episode instead. When something is lost, redirect energy, follow the derivé, the chance and flow of what life tosses us, and ...

Long Life Cool White: Photographs and Essays

Why not other elements besides fire, air, earth and water? There are four of them, just four, those foster parents of beings! What a pity! Why aren't there forty elements instead, or four hundred, or four thousand? How paltry everything is, how miser...

Le Horla et autres contes fantastiques

So many television marriages - that playing out of lives against a background of the tube. Instead of two lives filing the room, There are their two lives and the eleven o'clock news with Constant commercial interruption. Instead of what you say and ...

Lovetalk; how to say what you mean to someone you love

The test of real and vigorous thinking, the thinking which ascertains truths instead of dreaming dreams, is successful application to practice.

Considerations on Representative Government

And his father has the gall to think I’d seduce a kid who uses Clearasil instead of aftershave!

Calculated Risk

Instead, she's as still as a leaf-littered pond, dark water evaporating, waiting desperately for rain.

Cinnamon Rain

He danced with the sky instead, and the sky dropped him like a rotten plum.

Daughter of Smoke & Bone

I felt a smile on my face. "Thanks." "For what?" "Using my name instead of calling me a thing.

Dark Light of Mine

All the clues are there in front of us,hidden under a veil,we cannot get the clue by searching for,we have to search for the veil instead.

THE DEAD VETERAN

I would give Alex back control so she could protect herself instead of making the decision for her.

Elixir

She had come into the garden expecting summer roses and had instead been caught in a bank of twisted, thorny, frostbitten vines.

Fearscape

I steeled myself for the next response. I knew it was going to be one of the Zen life lessons. [...] Instead he kissed me.

Frostbite

You know she needs you. Think for a minute instead of playing the wounded ego card.’’ — Derek

Fix Up

I want you to walk away from a fight instead of run toward it, goddamn it.

Hunter of Her Heart

She is no longer a person in his life; instead, she is a person that other people will remind him of.

Are We There Yet?

Instead of putting flowers in books to flatten them you can use a brick.

A bit of rubbish about a Brick and a Blanket

I’d much rather a monkey throws a blanket instead of a brick.

A bit of rubbish about a Brick and a Blanket

He swallowed his food this time and actually spoke instead of humphing,

Baby Girl Book 3: City by the Bay

There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.

Breakfast of Champions