Quotes of: Instead Keyword

A brick could be used instead of a red light. They’re both red, and I’d run both with equal fervor. 

Blanket

She did what girls generally do when they don't feel the part: she dressed it instead.

On Beauty

Maybe eventually winter will finish our job for us and end the world in ice instead of blood.

Boarded Window

But in dying so suddenly her mother had become a riddle at the gate instead of the road you walked to get there.

Broken for You

I wasn't a class clown, I just found at an early age that I was able to make people laugh. So I mostly wrote funny stuff instead of writing what I was supposed to be writing.

Alan Zweibel

In the digital age, we filter forward instead of filtering out. As a result, all that material is still available to us and to others to filter in their own ways, and to bring forward in other contexts.

David Weinberger

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Maurice Chevalier

If we read the Bible asking first, 'What would Jesus do?' instead of asking 'What has Jesus done,' we'll miss the good news that alone can set us free.

Tullian Tchividjian

Don't contour with blush - that's so eighties. It was an amazing trend then, but it's not hot now. Instead, go for a neutral contour color that's one or two shades deeper than your skin tone.

Tyra Banks

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.

Jay Chiat

I was hoping to find a way out of here and instead found you.

Hans & Greta: a Twisted Fairy Tale Novella

The neocortex is not like a computer, parallel or otherwise. Instead of computing answers to problems the neocortex uses stored memories to solve problems and produce behavior.

On Intelligence

We spend more time asking what would Jesus do instead of what did Jesus do.

Jesus + Nothing = Everything

A pure heart does not demean the spirit of an individual, it, instead, compels the individual to examine his spirit.

Killosophy

Anything you dream [can] be yours simply because you've focused on the steps you could take instead of the distance to get there.

Rise of the Morningstar

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

Renegade's Magic

It was like the Justice League of Super Heroes but instead it was the Justice League of Hot Guys.

Rock Chick Rescue

I do not mind when you tell me what you want and put that first instead of last.

The Sagan Diary

Instead of channeling passion through my fingertips, I summoned the courage to channel it through my eyes.

Shattered Illusions

Think in terms of opportunities and solutions instead of problems, disappointment, and failure.

No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book