I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“In a country like India, the British were only able to rule the country because it had completely co-opted the elite of the country, who did their work for them.”
“In a country like India, we don't want to put everyone in one big mixture. We have a different language, culture and cuisine for each region, even though we are united in the larger context. We are more like a fruit salad, where each ingredient has its own specialty, each fruit its distinct flavor, and together, the salad makes a tasty dish, without losing the individuality of each constituent.”
“In a country like Iraq with its culture of blood feuds - is that the more locals are killed, the more motivation there is for the insurgency, for the insurgents the more feelings of revenge there are, and in the end the more the operational security of the soldiers suffers, because any soldier who kills an infant today is grooming the killer of his mate tomorrow.”
“In a country like Pakistan where is politics is often an art form of the elite, and it's often very dynastic, it's hard to explain to people why I don't think it's a birthright.”
“In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.”
“In a country of children where the option is Santa Claus or work, what wins?”
“In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.”
“In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.”
Source: We Need To Talk About Kevin
“In a country that never wins anything: in Canada, if one of our athletes so much as makes the final in a World Championship, we declare a national holiday.”
“In a country that tries to pull you down with all its stupidity, all your struggle must be to work hard so as to stay on high!”
“In a country this large and a language even larger ... there ought to be a living for somebody who cares and wants to entertain and instruct a reader.”
“In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.”
“In a country where Christians were looked upon with suspicion and disfavor, a government leader said to me with a twinkle in his eye, 'Christians seem to thrive under persecution. Perhaps we should prosper them, and then they would disappear.'”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“In a country where employment opportunities are not growing fast enough, the fear of change tends to be very acute.”
“In a country where even humans are treated brutally, animals must be in a totally desperate condition!”
“In a country where everyone strives for attention, it is better to be bankrupt than to be nothing.”
“In a country where half a million die every year only for drinking polluted water, it is more necessary for us to do something for them.”
“In a country where ignorant millions are in majority, nightmares never end! When one nightmare finishes, another one starts!”
“In a country where miracles are been emphasized, people lose their sense of priority.”
“In a country where misery and want were the foundation of the social structure, famine was periodic, death from starvation common, disease pervasive, thievery normal, and graft and corruption taken for granted, the elimination of these conditions in Communist China is so striking that negative aspects of the new rule fade in relative importance.”
Source: notes from china
“In a country where nature has been so lavish and where we have been so spendthrift of indigenous beauty, to set aside a few rivers in their natural state should be considered an obligation.”
“In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another.”
Source: Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States
“In a country where only men are encouraged, one must be one's own inspiration.”
“In a country where people are afraid of criticizing the government, many things must be going horrible! In such countries people must know that a society of cowards will always be remembered as a society of honourless people!”
“In a country where people's attention span is short and they are holding the clicker in their hand, and they got a hundred other options, you have to basically understand what the audience is responding to. If you don't, you're going to fail.”
“In a country where the civil services exams are treated as sacred, the only affairs one is encouraged to pursue deeply are current affairs.”
Source: The Great Indian Brain Rot : Love, Lies and Algorithms in Digital India
“In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.”
Source: The Revolution Betrayed: What is the Soviet Union and where is it Going?
“In a country where those who are committing crime are supported, rewarded, applauded and promoted. In a country where no one is arrested for doing wrong or for breaking the law. No one is taking responsibility and accountability. It will make everyone in that country to voluntarily participate in committing crime. Everyone will eventually end up being corrupt or criminals including foreigners. It will be a competition or a dare for thieves on who steals more and who steals better. People everyday will ask themselves why should they bother being good and not committing a crime, when everyone is doing it. Crime stats will be so high and increasing everyday. It is a duty of the president and the cabinet ministers in making sure the law is followed .If not everyone in that country will commit crime and they will be ok with it. No one will see anything wrong. That includes the law enforcement or institution.”
“In a country with millions of people & cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in a while.”
“In a couple of Ahdaf Soueif's novels, she gets at the certain kind of English that's being spoken by Egyptians. It's a beautiful, expressive English but it is non-standard, "broken" English that happens to be efficient, eloquent, and communicates perfectly well even if it is breaking rules.”
“In a couple of days after our arrival, it already became clear that our things were lost forever and would never be found. They put in the paperwork that Emirates Airlines had lost it, although we knew for sure it was all stolen by those girls in the airport of our first departure.”
Source: MALDIVES... THE PARADISE
“In a couple of days, it will be 40 days, 40 hours, 40 years in the desert - 40 is fraught with meaning and symbolism.”
“In a couple of decades you have half of the wells that are drilled right now, and you're talking about numbers in the millions of wells drilled, leaking. That's a huge crisis in terms of water contamination. There's no way to fix that problem.”
“In a couple of hours, months or years, make sure that what you are doing now will be worthwhile. Focus!”
Source: The Precious Gift of Time: Inspirational Quotes and Sayings
“In a couple of years I think it [sequel to What We Do] will come out as a script and we'll shoot that. Or maybe it will just come out as some t-shirts.”
“In a couple of years, I'll be the most glamorous woman, hopefully.”
“In a couple of years, the Chinese will be seen as regular participants in international industry. Their companies have to report to shareholders as well as to the Chinese authorities. They need to make money, they have to be efficient.”
“In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family.”
“In a course of a lifetime, what does it matter?”
“In a covenant...among proprietor and community tenants for the purpose of protecting their private property, no such thing as a right to free (unlimited) speech exists, not even to unlimited speech on one’s own tenant-property. One may say innumerable things and promote almost any idea under the sun, but naturally no one is permitted to advocate ideas contrary to the very covenant of preserving and protecting private property, such as democracy and communism. There can be no tolerance toward democrats and communists in a libertarian social order. They will have to be physically separated and removed from society.”
“In A COVID-19 World, Don’t Zoom Away Your Credibility.
Your attire and grooming are some of the simplest things you can do to maintain your professional bearing.”
Source: My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
“In a crazy world, it's only your insanity that will keep you sane”
“In a creative activity such as architecture, metaphor is less a threat to objective truth and more (to use another architectural metaphor) an arena of conceptual vitality – an arena being a performance area shareable with others.”
Source: Metaphor: an exploration of the metaphorical dimensions and potential of architecture
“In a creative business, if you're happy, it will come out in your work. I don't see how you can be happy if you don't like the people you're working with and if they aren't a joy to have fun with.”
“In a creative journey, it is essential, no matter how far one runs, to examine that which is closest to home.”
“In a cricket career, your life is in some ways controlled for you. You have no control over schedules, you have no control about where you want to play, you don't have control over that as a cricketer.”
“In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.”
“In a criminal justice setting, it's very hard to create a therapeutic environment where people do feel safe, but the real important thing to do is to do your best to do that.”
“In a crisis perhaps it is old clichés one clings to, like a child to a parent.”
Source: The Human Factor
“In a crisis, the inevitable suffering that life entails can rapidly make a mockery of the idea that happiness is the proper pursuit of the individual. On the radio show, I suggested, instead, a deeper meaning was required. I noted that the nature of such meaning was constantly re-presented in the great stories of the past, and that it had more to do with developing character in the face of suffering than with happiness.”
Source: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos