I Quotes
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“In a bull market, one must avoid the error of the preening duck that quacks boastfully after a torrential rainstorm, thinking that its paddling skills have caused it to rise in the world. A right-thinking duck would instead compare its position after the downpour to that of the other ducks on the pond.”
“In a bureaucracy, they shoot the bull, pass the buck, and make seven copies of everything.”
“In a bureaucratic system, useless work drives out useful work.”
Source: Bright Promises, Dismal Performance: An Economist's Protest
“In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.”
“In a business like his, there was no room for heart, no room for weakness, no room for questions. Only the day-to-day struggle to keep his territory safe and his ass bulletproof.”
Source: Sinner, Savior
“In a business setting, one's intelligence is crucial. Many problems faced by today's executives are unique and ill-defined. So, one's ability to analyze information and render a decision based upon the probability of success is imperative. What it comes down to is that all the knowledge in the world is useless if one has no means of processing and applying it. Organizations run on the brainpower of their people.”
“In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity.”
“In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words. There is money in it.”
Source: The Folks at Home
“In a business that has exploited and ignored our people I have only found dead-ends. We need romantic comedies, gross-out and mockery comedies, horror and thrillers, teen movies and love-stories. All these and more will be a positive step towards the future of Native Americans in the world and film industry; an industry that that offers us not only the chance to play the parts of heroes, love interests and warriors, but also of villains, dorks and dangerous, brokenhearted products of circumstance.”
“In a business world, only the smartest survive”.”
“In a busy city it is easy to forget that somewhere out there are fields and rivers and peace.”
Source: Microadventures: Local Discoveries for Great Escapes
“In a busy world, even as information is moving so rapidly, we have to learn who to trust in that regard even as we ourselves have to become more critical of the people who we want to trust. It's a weird situation.”
“In a bygone era, penalty-takers would put their laces through the ball and threaten to put a permanent bulge in the netting. For reasons that remain a mystery, the modern preference is for side-footed placement and so the dilemma of goalkeepers has changed from whether to take a guess at dive right or left to if they should dive at all. Or at least that ought to have been their reappraisal. Almunia was feted as the hero in Rome but had he and Doni stayed in the centre of their goal then the number of saves they made in the shoot-out would have been doubled.”
“In a cab back in Jersey, I finally answered one of thirty-three of Kyle's text messages (he called forty-seven times, I shit you not. Who does that!)”
Source: Accidentally on Purpose
“In a Cafe" I watched a man in a cafe fold a slice of bread as if he were folding a birth certificate or looking at the photograph of a dead lover.”
Source: Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar
“In a calm sea every man is a pilot.”
Source: A complete collection of English proverbs: also, the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages
“In a calm, clear voice, she suggested that the wyrsa in question could do several highly improbable, athletically difficult and possibly biologically impractical things involving its own mother, a few household implements, and a dead fish.”
Source: The Silver Gryphon
“In a campaign against more than one state or army, it is more fruitful to concentrate first against the weaker partner than to attempt the overthrow of the stronger in the belief that the latter's defeat will automatically involve the collapse of the others.”
“In a capitalist economy such as ours, money is the fuel of freedom. To take so much of it away from taxpayers to fund military bloat, which is neither necessary nor beneficial, is to not only deprive them of some good or service, but to deprive them of their choice, which is the essence of liberty.”
“In a capitalist society there are always inequalities of class and wealth. People who inherit money and property will always see themselves as being superior to those who have to work for it.”
“In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary.”
Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
“In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or not, as their own individual judgments, convictions and interests dictate.”
Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
“In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.”
“In a capitalist state you are on you own and you will be judged according to your ability.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“In a capitalist system, there's a principle that if you invest, especially in a long-term risky investment, if something comes out of it, you're supposed to get the profit. It doesn't happen in our system. The taxpayer paid for it and gets nothing - assumes all of the risk, gets zero. The money goes into the pockets of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, who are ripping off decades of work in the public sector.”
“In a capitalist system, things are valued by what people will pay for them.”
“In a capitalist world, the word capital has taken on more and more uses. . . . human capital, for instance, which is what labor accumulates through education and work experience. Human capital differs from the classic kind in that you can't inherit it, and it can only be rented, not bought or sold.”
“In a capitalistic society the losers slaved for the winners and you have to have more losers than winners.”
Source: Hollywood
“In a captive environment, why wish for the union? A caged bird remembers no water or food.”
“In a car you're always in a compartment, and because you're used to it you don't realize that through that car window everything you see is just more TV. You're a passive observer and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame. On a cycle the frame is gone. You're completely in contact with it all. You're in the scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is overwhelming.”
“In a career playing heroes, I learned a little about the real thing. A hero stands up-for himself, for herself, but most importantly for others.”
“In a career, when you hit 40 and you've done a lot of this and that, you want to try some new things. I feel like that as a director, too, from one film to the other.”
“In a carefully prepared, loving LSD session, a woman will inevitably have several hundred orgasms.”
“In a case like Iraq the UN has again shown what important role it plays as the guarantor for protecting international peace and stability in the global political structure.”
“In a case like this, the thing is (in my own opinion) to draw back upon oneself, and not to strive after any other being, not to relate the suffering, occasioned by both, to the cause of the suffering (which lies so far outside) but to make it fruitful for oneself. If you transfer what goes on in your emotion into solitude and do not bring your vacillating and tremulous feeling into the dangerous proximity of magnetic forces, it will, through its inherent flexibility, assume of its own accord the position that is natural and necessary to it. In any case, it helps to remind oneself very often that over everything that exists there are laws which never fail to operate, which come rushing, rather, to manifest and prove themselves upon every stone and upon every feather we let fall.
So all erring consists simply in the failure to recognize the natural laws to which we are subject in the given instance, and every solution begins with our alertness and concentration, which gently draw us into the chain of events and restore to our will its balancing counterweights..."
―from letter to Emanuel von Bodman Westerwede bei Bremen (August 17, 1901)”
Source: Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910
“In a case such as this, unless an entire army is available, the safest number of men will be one. We have no army, and therefore I will go.”
Source: The Isle of Arcrea
“In a case where both the buyer and seller believe they are correct, the most apparent reason for excess trading is overconfidence.”
Source: Unbiased Investor: Reduce Financial Stress and Keep More of Your Money
“In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.”
“In a cave where everything is fragranced with water, she asks for a daughter instead of praying for a son.”
Source: The Girl and the Goddess: Stories and Poems of Divine Wisdom
“In a cement park across the street is this giant sculpture. It is a giant umbrella frame lying on its side. It's green. Stand under it, during a rainstorm, you'll still get wet - that's why it's art.”
Source: What's Eating Gilbert Grape
“In a century or two this planet will have been destroyed by external cosmic forces or by the senseless activity of the human race. Human life is a freak phenomenon, soon to be blotted out. That is a consoling thought. Meanwhile we are surrounded by strange invisible entities, possibly your angels."
"I hope so."
"Ah, you think they are good, they cannot be good, there is no good, the tendency to evil is overwhelming. One has only to think of the horrors of sex, its violence, its cruelty, its filthy vulgarity, its descent into bestial degradation. You had better go and dream in your monastery."
"Would you come and visit me there?"
"Of course not. I do not visit. Only, unfortunately, am sometimes visited."
"You don't want to discuss — you know — what happened? My priest said — "
"No."
"I care about how you are, I love you."
"You still fail to realise how this sort of talk sickens me. Now please go. This will do for a welcome home scene. Tell them not to come. I desire to be left alone.”
Source: The Green Knight
“In a century or two, or in a millennium, people will live in a new way, a happier way. We won"t be there to see it - but it"s why we live, why we work. It"s why we suffer. We"re creating it. That"s the purpose of our existence. The only happiness we can know is to work toward that goal.”
“In a certain limited sense Chinese Communism is more egalitarian than the Soviet variety; not, however, because it is less totalitarian, but because it is more so.”
Source: Main Currents Of Marxism: The Founders, The Golden Age, The Breakdown
“In a certain period, a particular piece of news becomes popular, and people start talking about it everywhere and all the time. Then, this news fades into the past and is replaced by another. People begin thinking and talking about that one. Eventually, it too is replaced by yet another. And now, people are interested in this new topic, calling it "following trends." This is a predictable and, therefore, mechanical cycle.”
“In a certain reign there was a lady not of the first rank whom the emperor loved more than any of the others. The grand ladies with high ambitions thought her a presumptuous upstart, and lesser ladies were still more resentful. Everything she did offended someone.”
“In a certain respect, in a movie, you inevitably have a lot of people doing a lot of different jobs because that's the only practical way to get it done. When you make a record, you can still be an auteur, because you can make a whole record without anyone's help if you want.”
“In a certain sense a writer is 'selected' by his subject - his subject being the consciousness of his own era.”
Source: Conversations with Nadine Gordimer
“In a certain sense all men are historians.”
Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: By Thomas Carlyle
“In a certain sense I made a living for five or six years out of that one star [υ Sagittarii] and it is still a fascinating, not understood, star. It's the first star in which you could clearly demonstrate an enormous difference in chemical composition from the sun. It had almost no hydrogen. It was made largely of helium, and had much too much nitrogen and neon. It's still a mystery in many ways ... But it was the first star ever analysed that had a different composition, and I started that area of spectroscopy in the late thirties.”
“In a certain sense it was simply play-acting but at Hampden, where creative expression was valued above all else, play-acting was itself a kind of work, and people went about their grief as seriously as small children will sometimes play quite grimly and without pleasure in make-believe offices and stores.”
Source: The Secret History