I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Imagining and visualising the situation prepares you for any challenge”
“imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.”
Source: Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem
“Imagining birth as the baby experiences it was an entirely new way of looking at it.”
“Imagining in excited reverie That the future years had come, Dancing to a frenzied drum, Out of the murderous innocence of the sea.”
Source: Later Poems
“Imagining is a bridge reconciling matter and spirit. Especially when it is done intensely and often. Then the image turns into a drop of matter, and joins the currents of life.”
Source: Primeval and Other Times
“Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.”
Source: Saggi critici
“Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else...But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in. It is the machine that kills fascists.”
“Imagining may be the first step in making it happen, but it takes the real time and real efforts of real people to learn things, make things, turn thoughts into deeds or visions into inventions.”
Source: You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor
“Imagining someone else's pain with too much surety can be as damaging as failing to imagine it.”
Source: The Empathy Exams: Essays
“Imagining someone who will not collapse my complexity into compressed and simplified roles like friend, lover, genius, or ghost... such a being exists only in my dream world.”
“Imagining something is better than remembering something.”
Source: The world according to Garp
“Imagining tends to give people inconvenient ideas, and those with power don't like to be inconvenienced.”
“Imagining that hurt. Someone to love. To care for me openly. To be proud to parade me around. To touch and hold and pamper me. Someone who thought I was enough.”
Source: Cloudy With a Chance of Bad Decisions
“Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness.”
“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.”
Source: Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition
“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
Source: Looking for Alaska
“Imagining the future may be more important than analysing the past.”
“Imagining the interplay of metaruptions is a creative endeavor, not a number-crunching exercise.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“Imagining the overthrow of the current political system is the only way I can be enthused about politics.”
“Imagining the world without us is a recipe for despair and paralysis. I actually think it's more helpful to imagine the world before us, to look back at those unstable ecosystems of the Triassic and realize that were in another phase of unstable ecosystems. Knowing that, demystifying our situation as it were, makes it easier to think about solutions. We are not looking into the unknown. The only thing unknown about the situation is how we're going to fix it, and when.”
“Imagining the worst doesn’t keep it from happening”
Source: Shouldn't You Be in School?
“Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality.”
“Imagining what you want as if it already exists opens the door to letting it happen.”
“Imagining your ideal life success story is LESS about WHAT you want to do and MORE about WHO you want to become.”
“Imaginistic rituals, especially more severe types involving high stress, trauma, or other forms of shared intense emotion, can lead to identity fusion. Identity fusion is a visceral sense of -oneness- with other group members where acts of self-sacrifice on behalf of the group are not uncommon. Imaginistic rituals tend to be more frequent among smaller, more closely-knit groups where a strong sense of unity is necessary to accomplish challenging goals (for example, sports teams, Nay Seals, subversive political movements, etc.).”
Source: Ritual in Human Evolution and Religion: Psychological and Ritual Resources
“Imagino que al final, cuando la humanidad se extinga por completo, el último hombre que quede en pie será el encargado de apagar las luces de este mundo.”
Source: Diario de un Zombi
“Imagino que os pecadores sejam sempre cruéis quando falam com santos.”
Source: An Ideal Husband
“Imaginé al hombre cuando bajaba trotando hacia el hotel, después del abrazo; consciente de su estatura, de su cansancio, de que la existencia del pasado depende de la cantidad del presente que le demos, y que es posible darle poca, darle ninguna.”
Source: Los adioses
“Imaginó el dolor del mundo como un parásito informe buscando el calor de las almas humanas donde incubar y creyó saber qué le hacía a uno vulnerable a sus visitas. Lo que no sabía era que no tenía mente y por tanto no podía conocer los límites de aquellas almas y temió que no existieran límites.”
Source: All the Pretty Horses
“Imagism was a reductio ad absurdum of one or two tendencies of romanticism, such a beautifully and finally absurd one that it is hard to believe it existed as anything but a logical construction; and what imagist found it possible to go on writing imagist poetry? A number of poets have stopped writing entirely; others, like recurring decimals, repeat the novelties they commeced with, each time less valuably than before. And there are surrealist poetry, and political poetry, and all the othe refuges of the indigent.”
“Imagínate a todas las personas que conoces a lo largo de la vida. Son muchísimas. Aparecen en forma de oleaje; unos vienen y otros se van con las mareas. Algunas de estas olas vienen acompañadas por cosas que arrastran desde lo más profundo del mar y que lanzan en tu orilla, dejando una marcaque demuestra que esas personas han estado allí, aunque haga mucho tiempo que la marea retrocedió.”
Source: It Ends with Us: A Novel
“Imagínate el mundo sumido en el caos. La naturaleza en guerra consigo misma. Destrucción, carnicería, milones de muertos. La civilización occidental convertida en un campo de batalla tan grande que las guerras troyanas parecerán de juguete”
Source: The lightning thief
“Imaji-ku.
Cermin dari malam.
Sepasang bola mata hitam menyelinap diriku.
Terpaan angin menghela pelan menyentuh kulit epidermisku.
Kau hinggap dalam ruang-ruang penuh suara dalam bayang dalam cahaya.
Kau perpaduan angka-angka,
seakan kaulah lakon utama dalam hidup.
Memahami garis-garis yang membentuk gerak-gerik bayang.
Tindakanmu mengembara di seluruh ruang dan menggapai sel-sel dalam tubuhku yang adalah bintang-bintang yang kemudian menuju padamu – cahayaku.”
“Imali yenzana isilima.”
“Imam Hussain's sacrifice is for all groups and communities, an example of the path of rightousness.”
“Imam Ibn Taymiyya has also stated clearly that a person who does not have the tools of ijtihād, that is, has not spent the many years learning Arabic, mastering Usul-al-Fiqh and Uloom al-Hadith, encompassing the Quranic and Hadithic texts, has no
right to assert an opinion and that rather, he must do taqlīd.”
Source: Understanding Taqlid: Following One of the Four Great Imams
“Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.”
“Imam Shatibi, amongst other jurists, has explained extensively the dangers in leaving Fiqh unregulated, saying ; ultimately, the very purpose of the Shariah - which is Takleef, (that is charging people with duties and responsibilities) would become defunct as lay people, through caprice and moral corruption, created their own desirable opinions.”
Source: Understanding Taqlid: Following One of the Four Great Imams
“Iman bukanlah mempercayai apa yang terang tanpa mempercayai apa yang gelap.”
Source: Catatan Pinggir 7
“Iman bukanlah mempercayai apa yang terang tanpa mempercayai apa yang gelap. Jika iman bersentuhan dengan yang kudus, maka persentuhan itu bukan sebuah jabat tangan, sebab disana ada juga horor – seperti yang dilukiskan Bhagawat Gita, ketika Arjuna menyaksikan Sang Wisnu hadir di dekatnya menjelang perang besar yang mengerikan itu.”
Source: Catatan Pinggir 7
“Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat
(Pani, Agua, Water Sonnet)
In some circles, I am called a genius,
Yet the only genius I know of is service.
In other circles, I am branded fraud,
Yet the only fraud I know of is prejudice.
Saying, you've explored my work,
after spending an evening scrolling
through a few quotes, is like saying,
you've climbed Mount Everest,
after spending an evening scrolling
through pictures of the Himalayas.
Yet I can tell you who I am,
I don't need a million lines but one.
Iman insaniyat, mazhab muhabbat*;
Pani, agua, water, it's all one.
Take my Bible, Koran & Vedas,
Take my Origin of Species.
Throw me to the fires of hell,
My life will still smell of roses.
(*faith humanity, religion love)”
Source: Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
“Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat - The Song
[Intro]
Marham na mazhab dekhe,
Marham na dekhe mulk.
Dunya meri zimmedari meri,
This is the Naskar truth.
[Verse 1]
Jai Insaan, Cheytna Saagar;
Jai Vivek, Vidyut Ujaagar.
Rise Insaan, Ilaaj Ilaahi;
Ana al Haq, Hayaat Peygamber.
[Chorus]
Ik Onkaar, Satnaam Shahaada;
Koi bole paani, koi bole water.
Born of ash, deed amartya;
Dil on fire, aashiq ananta.
Ik Onkaar, Satnaam Shahaada;
Koi bole paani, koi bole water.
Born of ash, deed amartya;
Dil on fire, aashiq ananta.
[Verse 2]
Vision Viraat, Vajra Avinashi;
Na koi dev, na koi daasi.
Love is the law, tolerance is anthem;
Dervish Divaane, Advaita Ruhani.
[Chorus]
Ik Onkaar, Satnaam Shahaada;
Kisika mai dervish, kisika advaita.
Born of ash, deed amartya;
Dil on fire, aashiq ananta.
[Verse 3 - Spoken]
Na koi kaafir, na koi sant;
Na andh-vishwas in dharmgranth.
Love is my duty, brain is my flame;
I'm signpost on the cosmic lane.
[Bridge]
Border ke paar, har koi yaar;
Na koi ajnabi, har din Iftaar.
Har ek mulk, mera hi mulk;
Har ek culture, mera culture.
[Chorus]
Ek Insaan, aur ek hi lakshya;
Moksh ka matlab ek hi manushya.
Dharm se upar Insaan hi satya;
Imaan Insaaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat.
Marham na mazhab dekhe,
Marham na dekhe mulk.
Dunya meri zimmedari meri,
This is the Naskar truth.
[Verse 4]
Karm se hum baney Vishwaroop,
Reeti rivaaz sab andhaa jhooth.
Naam se Maanav, karm se Marham;
Dil na dekhe foreign-sanatan.
[Chorus]
Ek Insaan, Hoonkaar-e Asmaan;
Rag rag Khaalsa, Noor-e Nadaan.
No togetherness, no tomorrow;
Tum hi ho sooraj, tum hi Insaan!
Marham na mazhab dekhe,
Marham na dekhe mulk.
Dunya meri zimmedari meri,
This is the Naskar truth.
[Bridge]
Khoon nahi, Rehmat pehchaan;
Ek hi ummah - saara jahaan!
Ek hi kalma - pyar ka peygaam;
Jai Insaan, Noor-e Nadaan!
Khoon nahi, Rehmat pehchaan;
Ek hi ummah - saara jahaan!
Ek hi kalma - pyar ka peygaam;
Jai Insaan, Noor-e Nadaan!
[Final Verse - Spoken]
Insaan se ucha na vatan, na khoon,
Na koi sanskaar, na koi kaanoon.
Rehmat se jiye to har roz ramzaan,
Insaan se mile Insaan ka sukoon.
[Final Chorus]
Jai Insaan, Cheytna Saagar;
Jai Vivek, Vidyut Ujaagar.
Koi bole water, koi bole paani;
Koi bole darvish, koi sanyaasi.
Utho Insaan, Marham ka Sagar;
Ana al Haq, Vigyan Ujaagar.
Koi bole water, koi bole paani;
Koi bole scientist, koi bole sufi.
[Outro]
Marham na mazhab dekhe,
Marham na dekhe mulk.
Dunya meri zimmedari meri,
This is the Naskar truth.”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“Imani huchukua miaka mingi kuijenga lakini sekunde chache kuibomoa.”
“Imani ina thamani kubwa kuliko mali, wale wenye mali wana thamani machoni pa Mammon, wale wenye imani wana thamani machoni pa Yehova.”
“Imani ni nia ya kujua kisichoweza kujulikana na hupeleka watu kwenye ukweli. Kuamini hupotosha, na ni nia ya kudharau kinachoweza kujulikana.”
“Imao sam oči samo za ono čega nije bilo.”
Source: The Orange Girl
“Imbalance and self-destruction can be our inevitable fate if we devote ourselves entirely to others without previously nurturing a stable sense of self. (" Sweet Smell of Submission")”
“IMBALANCE
Do not let one negative carry the same weight as ninety nine positives
Kamil Ali”
Source: Profound Vers-A-Tales
“Imbalance of reason and emotion may explain the tenacity of religion in societies: world religions are optimized to tap into the emotional networks, and great arguments of reason amount to little against such magnetic pull.”
Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain
“Imbalance or abnormity is never so dangerous as when it is widely perceived or accepted as being normal. The worst thing you can do is not to try.”