I Quotes
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“In a different moment, in the 60s and 70s, I did believe we were going to succeed - that we were going to create a revolution, that America was going to be a completely transformed nation state and that there would be an amazingly different set of beliefs; that this country would reflect. And I thought that that was the fulfillment of the American democratic dream and I believed in it passionately.”
“In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been developing itself. The actual truth is the sum of all these.”
“In a different world, in a different life, we'd be together," I whisper. "No kingdoms to rule, no people to save, just you and me and a simple life loving each other."
"But we're in this world. In this life." He presses a kiss to the top of my head, and it feels like goodbye. "So I'll have to save that for my dreams.”
Source: These Twisted Bonds
“In a difficult business, no sooner is one problem solved than another surfaces - never is there just one cockroach in the kitchen.”
Source: Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha
“In a difficult marriage, both of us have failed each other. Even though one may be the major problem,you also have failed often in the way you have responded to them, the way you have treated them, in the way you have handled your hurt and your pain.”
“In a difficult situation one never-failing guide is to ask yourself: "What would Christ have done?" Then do it-as nearly as you can.”
Source: Playing the Game: A Baden-Powell Compendium
“In a difficult year, trees may increase their mass by less than one gram! During this time, the tree devotes its limited resources to maintaining the status quo. Like an eternal optimist, the tree concentrates on keeping itself alive until such time that conditions improve.”
Source: Last Stand: A Journey Through the Ancient Cliff-Face Forest of the Niagara Escarpment
“In a difficulty in the company of the central and the instigator, be successful your central.”
“In a digital world, the gift I give you almost always benefits me more than it costs.”
“In a digital world, there are numerous technologies that we are attached to that create infinite interruption.”
“In a digitally connected world a byte of data can boost or bite your brand”
“In a dilemma, it is helpful to change any variable, then reexamine the problem.”
Source: Have Space Suit, Will Travel
“In a direct quote from Isaiah,
God lets us know:
"I form light and create darkness,
I make weal and create woe.
I the lord do these things."
– and if God said it, it must be so.”
Source: The Creation of Jesus: and other things that baffle scientists
“In a discreet man's mouth, a public thing is private.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“In a discussion of this kind our interest should be centered not on the weight of the authority but on the weight of the argument. Indeed the authority of those who set out to teach is often an impediment to those who wish to learn. They cease to use their own judgment and regard as gospel whatever is put forward by their chosen teacher.”
“In a discussion, the difficulty lies, not in being able to defend your opinion, but to know it.”
“In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.”
“In a disparate world, children are a unifying force capable of bringing us all together in support of a common ethic.”
“In a dispassionate comparison of the relative values of human and robotic spaceflight, the only surviving motivation for continuing human spaceflight is the ideology of adventure. But only a tiny number of Earth's six billion inhabitants are direct participants. For the rest of us, the adventure is vicarious and akin to that of watching a science fiction movie. At the end of the day, I ask myself whether the huge national commitment of technical talent to human spaceflight and the ever-present potential for the loss of precious human life are really justifiable.”
“In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader.”
Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“In a district of ten families, there must be someone as honorable and sincere as I, but none as fond of learning.”
“In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist.”
“In a divine commonwealth holiness must have the principal honor and encouragement, and a great difference be made between the precious and the vile.”
Source: Richard Baxter & Puritan Politics
“In a dog social cue from a master can override where he saw the being placed. That won’t happen unless we have bred a social in tune animal, that’s what a dog is. That’s why they got so much trouble with separation anxiety – you leave them home alone and they’re chewing up the house and stuff. A lot of dogs don’t handle being home alone very well.”
“In a dog's life, some plaster would fall, some cushions would open, some rugs would shred. Like any relationship, this one had its costs. They were costs we came to accept and balance against the joy and amusement and protection and companionship he gave us.”
“In a dog's world, only three states existed: "now," "in a while," and "forever." If someone left, he was gone "forever," and when he returned they rejoiced as much as if he were back from the dead precisely because he'd been gone "forever.”
Source: Firebird
“In a donburi bowl, on top of the rice, were four or five little fish, and a scattering of sliced scallions. Accompanying this was soup in lacquered bowls.
"And this would be...?"
"Try it first."
Otoha picked up the donburi bowl and put one of the small fish and rice into her mouth.
"It's delicious, Mr. Kinoshita. It looks so very simple, but it's amazing."
"I just warmed up canned oil sardines in a frying pan, added some soy sauce, and put it and the sardine oil over rice. That's it. The scallions I bought at a convenience store on the way her 'cause it was the only place open. But it works, doesn't it?"
"It does. I could eat a ton of this rice."
"It's a recipe in an essay by the novelist Yoko Mori. The soup is an egg soup with dried wakame seaweed and eggs.”
Source: Dinner at the Night Library
“In a dozen strides he was with me, had his arms around me, held me so tightly I could barely breathe, and hid his face in my hair. And I did not know until he embraced me how I had longed for his embrace! His strength and joy gave me the peace I had been seeking; he was my rock, my rest, my certainty…. “You are alive!” he breathed. “Alive! Nothing matters beside that!...When I heard—what Cathbad told me—Guinevere, the light went dark.”… He pulled me to his breast and kissed my hair.”
Source: Queen of Camelot
“In a dream I cannot see tangled abstract phallacy random turmoil builds in me i'm a addicted to chaos -Megadeth, Addicted to Chaos”
“In a dream I saw Jesus and My God Pan sitting together in the heart of the forest. They laughed at each other's speech, with the brook that ran near them, and the laughter of Jesus was the merrier. And they conversed long.”
“In a dream I walked with God through the deep places of creation; past walls that receded and gates that opened through hall after hall of silence, darkness and refreshment--the dwelling place of souls acquainted with light and warmth--until, around me, was an infinity into which we all flowed together and lived anew, like the rings made by raindrops falling upon wide expanses of calm dark waters.”
“In a dream, in a fairytale, nothing has to be explained, everything happens of its own accord.”
Source: The Storyteller
“In a dream it's typical not to be rational.”
“In a dream thou mayst live a lifetime, and all be forgotten in the morning: Even such is life, and so soon perisheth its memory.”
Source: Proverbial philosophy
“In a dream world, I would love to be a master pastry chef, because it combines something I love doing baking with something I'm not good at doing baking. BUT! Practically, if I weren't writing and doing comedy things, I'd like to teach kids to read. I would be good at that in real life.”
“In a dream you are never eighty.”
“In a dream, we are simply confronted with various loaded symbols, and where one is exhausted, it gives way to another.”
“In a dreamlike state, with eyes closed (I found the daylight too unpleasantly glaring), I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors.”
“In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy brook, Thy bubblings ne'er remember Apollo's summer look; But with a sweet forgetting, They stay their crystal fretting, Never, never petting About the frozen time.”
Source: The Complete Works of John Keats
“In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne'er remember Their green felicity.”
“In a drop of rain can be seen the colors of the sun.”
“In a drunken sky we light up the suns we want.”
“In a duel, man to man, sword against sword, it can be a lack of skill that gets you killed. Often as not, though, it'll be a matter of luck, or if it goes on too long, then it'll be the man who tires first that tends to die.
In the end it's about staying power. They should put that on headstones, "Got tired.”
Source: Prince of Thorns
“In a dung heap, even a plastic bead can gleam like a sapphire.”
Source: The Hippopotamus
“In a dying civilisation, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician but of the man with the best beside manner. It is the decoration conferred on mediocrity by ignorance. Yet there remains one sort of political prestige that may still be worn with a certain pathetic dignity; it is that given to the liberal-minded leader of a party of conflicting doctrinaire extremists. His dignity is that of all doomed men: for, whether the two extremes proceed to mutual destruction or whether one of them prevails, doomed he is, either to suffer the hatred of the people or to die a martyr.”
Source: The mask of Dimitrios
“In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner.”
Source: A Coffin for Dimitrios
“In a dynamic, decentralized system of individual choice and responsibility, people do not have to trust any authority but their own.”
Source: The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise,
“In a dynamical system, or a massively complex dynamical system such as we live in, when there is a moment of bifurcation, which is the technical mass jargon for “the snap”, that is the only time you get to do anything about the evolution of the system. So according to this self-inflating view, we live at an especially important special moment in history where when we think something or do something it has actually an enormous effect on the future. What we do has some influence on the creation of the future more than at other times in history.”
“In a face, look for the main light and the main shadow; the rest will come naturally — it's often not important. And then you must cultivate your memory, because Nature will only provide you with references. Nature is like a warden in a lunatic asylum. It stops you from becoming banal.”
“In a factory production line, two products are moving on conveyor belts. One is moving on a maze-like path, slipping from one belt to another. It says, “I am making choices and creating my own path.”
The other is moving on straight path. It says, “I am doing nothing because this is all Maya.” Both are in illusion. Both are moving where the moving belts (Time) are taking them.”