A Quotes
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“An incompetent government locks criminals up, whereas a competent government treats the criminal as a sickened person that probably has a range of systemic deficiencies that need to be treated in order to rehabilitate them back into society.”
“An incompetent lawyer can delay a trial for months or years. A competent lawyer can delay one even longer.”
“An incompetent person in a responsible position may cause huge damage. Such a person should act less and think more.”
“An incompetent public servant troubles the people but he tarnishes the president.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“An incompetent teacher is even worse than an incompetent surgeon because a surgeon can only cut up one person at a time.”
“An incomplete sketch superbly executed is power.”
“An Incompleteness Stares Us Until We Seek A Deeper Relationship With Our Spiritual Existence”.”
“An inconsistent political philosophy is that which feeds our battle yet starves our victory.”
“An inconsolable longing describes that aching sense of waiting and dissatisfaction that regularly clouds our thoughts; that feeling that in the deepest depths of existence all we will find is a void.”
Source: Cocaine Confidence
“An inconstant woman is one who is no longer in love; a false woman is one who is already in love with another person; a fickle woman is she who neither knows whom she loves nor whether she loves or not; and the indifferent woman, one who does not love at all.”
“An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.”
“An inconvenience is an unrecognized opportunity.”
“An Inconvenient Truth is so convincing that it makes opposers of the argument as credible as Holocaust deniers.”
“An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.”
“An increase in the productivity of labour means nothing more than that the same capital creates the same value with less labour, or that less labour creates the same product with more capital.”
Source: Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy
“An increase in the relative price of products from the low wage manufacturers in Asia and Latin America will also make those products less attractive to American consumers.”
“An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course, and to accept what tears us apart.”
Source: Les Misérables
“An increase of two or three degrees wouldn't be so bad for a northern country like Russia. We could spend less on fur coats, and the grain harvest would go up.”
“An increasing amount of climate research suggests a possibility of global cooling.”
“An increasing number of Canadians must juggle the demands of work with the need to care for children, or for family members who are ill or too frail to care for themselves. Our programs have simply not kept pace with these societal changes.”
“An increasing number of people are growing uncomfortable with the gulf between the world's rich and the poor. Ostentatiously splashing your money around simply draws attention to that disparity, and to your own position on the lucky higher ground. It suggests a callousness, an inhumanity, a let's-just-rub-their-noses-in-it arrogance.”
“An increasing number of people are taking advantage of having a leg up on their competition by branding themselves as "the expert" in their particular niche. Call it a business card, a resume, a billboard, or whatever you choose, but the long and short of it is that books are no longer just books. They are branding devices and credibility builders, not to mention door openers. Books are the reason that authors command large speaking and consulting fees.”
Source: Book Power: A Platform for Writing, Branding, Positioning & Publishing
“An increasing number of people who lead mental lives of great intensity, people who are sensitive by nature, notice the steadily more frequent appearance in them of mental states of great strangeness ... a wordless and irrational feeling of ecstasy; or a breath of psychic pain; a sense of being spoken to from afar, from the sky or the sea; an agonizingly developed sense of hearing which can cause one to wince at the murmuring of unseen atoms; an irrational staring into the heart of some closed kingdom suddenly and briefly revealed.”
“An increasingly digital world is no longer an abstract concept, it is a reality. As a systems thinker, I strongly believe that an enterprise must strive to synchronize its digital transformation strategy with a cybersecurity strategy.”
“An incredible advertising career is not about creating an incredibly amazing ad, it's about making an incredible amazing ad every single day of your career, it's about getting those adds killed, and resurrecting them over and over again. It's about your season average not that occasional home-run.”
“an incredibly beautiful read”
Source: Mariners 2001: A Joy Ride into the Record Books
“An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.”
“An incredulous scowl crossed his face as he saw a gathering of dockworkers, porters, and cabmen near his wife. A navvy called out to her- "Gi' me a smile, ye sweet tidbit! One little smile! What's yer name?"
Cassandra tried to ignore the catcalls, while the coast guard stood by, doing nothing to shield her.
"Now, now, Mr. Severin-" the old harbormaster said, following as Tom headed toward Cassandra with swift, ground-eating strides.
Tom reached his wife, blocked her from view, and sent a chilling glance at the navvy. "My wife doesn't feel like smiling. Is there something you'd like to say to me?"
The catcalls faded, and the navvy met his gaze, taking his measure... deciding to back down. "Only that you're the luckiest bastard alive," the navvy said cheekily. The crowd broke up with a mixture of chuckles and guffaws.
"On your way now, lads," the harbormaster said, briskly dispersing the gathering. "Time to go about your business."
As Tom turned to Cassandra, he was relieved to see that she didn't seem upset. "Are you all right?" he asked.
She nodded immediately. "No harm done."
The officer looked sheepish. "I thought they would tire of their sport if we ignored them long enough."
"Ignoring doesn't work," Tom said curtly. "It's the same as permission. Next time, pick the ringleader and go for him."
"He was twice my size," the officer protested.
Tom shot him an exasperated glance. "The world expects a man to have a backbone. Especially when a woman is being harassed.”
Source: Chasing Cassandra
“An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.”
“An incurable soul! You poor thing! I-330 burst out laughing. And her laughter splashed all over me, the whole delirium passed, and little sequins of laughter were flashing and how ... how wonderful it all was.”
“An incurable spring mood took possession of every thought and every tuft of grass, upsetting the schedules of airborne insects, which collided in the aerial avenues. There was drunkenness in the earth and the air that announced the birth of something splendid. Spring is that miracle that materializes like fireworks in the sky, when the shapeliness of every girl and woman is hormonally magnetic and that little Krakatoa in your trousers is primed to erupt.”
Source: Knjiga o Uni
“An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.”
“An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.”
Source: Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature: Four Essays with an Introductory Survey
“An independent and free media is essential to ensure democracy.”
“An independent attitude is only possible
when you are dependent.
Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Religion of Blue Circle
September 28, 2016”
“An independent attitude is only possible
when you are dependent.
Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Religion of Blue Circle
September 28, 2016
Amen”
“An independent Ireland would see its own independence in jeopardy the moment it saw the independence of Britain seriously threatened. Mutual self-interest would make the peoples of these two islands, if both independent, the closest possible allies in a moment of real national danger to either.”
“An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.”
“An independent judiciary does not mean judges independent of the Constitution from which they derive their power or independent of the laws that they are sworn to uphold.”
“An independent newspaper? It is a newspaper that looks nothing like a newspaper.”
Source: The New Land
“An indescribable, inescapable shiver welled up from deep within and ran through my whole being.”
Source: The Mill House Murders
“An indescribable sadness emanated from the white splendour of the staircase and balustrade; the blood-red, now almost black splendour of the carpets. The huge palms in their huge pots looked like they had recently arrived from the cemetery. Their dark green leaves also looked blackish, like wizened, perished weapons from olden days.”
Source: The Tale of the 1002nd Night
“An index fund is a fund that simply invests in all of the stocks in a market. So, for example, an index fund might invest in every single stock or almost every single stock in the U.S. market, it might invest in every single stock abroad, or it might invest in all of the bonds that are out there. And you can make a perfectly fine investing portfolio that mixes equal parts of all three of those.”
“An index is a great leveller.”
“An India awakened and free has a message of peace and goodwill to a groaning world.”
Source: The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings
“An India free from exploitation from within and without must prosper with astonishing rapidity.”
Source: Young India
“An India prostrate at the feet of Europe can give no hope to humanity.”
Source: India of My Dreams
“An Indian child is brought up in England, and he will speak both English and Hindi very well. English in school and Hindi at home. But here it’s English both in schools and at home. Why can’t you speak Swahili with your child at home? If this continues we will turn into an English speaking country.”
“An Indian is an Indian regardless of the degree of Indian blood or which little government card they do or do not possess.”
“An Indian is pluralism personified, take away pluralism, and you're left with a monkey draped in saffron.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot