I Quotes
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“In a few years the firm effort of Blazing Night combined with her tedious works on the net was changing the world. She had designed and established the biggest ever, the multi-trillion charitable company: Panhandlers Inc.”
Source: Blazing Night
“In a few years there will be only five kings in the world the King of England and the four kings in a pack of cards.”
“In a few years, this little girl will be a woman who will make small demands on life, who will never burden others, who will never let on that she too has sorrows, disappointments, dreams that have been ridiculed. A woman who will be like a rock in the riverbed, enduring without complaint, her grace not sullied but shaped by the turbulence that washes over her. Already Laila sees something behind this young girl's eyes, something deep in her core, that neither Rasheed nor the Taliban will be able to break. Something as hard and unyeilding as a block of limestone. Something that in the end, will be her undoing and Laila's salvation.”
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
“In a few years, this little girl will be a woman who will make small demands on life, who will never burden others, who will never let on that she too has sorrows, disappointments, dreams that have been ridiculed. A woman who will be like a rock in the riverbed, enduring without complaint, her grace not sullied but shaped by the turbulence that washes over her. Already Laila sees something behind this young girl's eyes, something deep in her core, that neither Rasheed nor the Taliban will be able to break. Something as hard and unyielding as a block of limestone. Something that in the end, will be her undoing and Laila's salvation.”
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
“In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face. That is a rather startling thing to say, but it is our conclusion.”
“In a few years, no doubt, marriage licences will be sold like dog licences, good for 12 months.”
“In a few years, you should be able to plug your American-made plug-in hybrid into the outlet in your garage, so that you never use a drop of gas on your daily commute. This won't happen overnight, but I promise you, it is closer than you think.”
“In a few Zen monasteries, every monk has to start his morning with laughter, and has to end his night with laughter - the first thing and the last thing! You try it. . . For no reason! Because there is no reason. Simply, you are again there, still alive - it is a miracle!”
“In a fiction film, we know at some level we've suspended disbelief. In a documentary, we know that we're watching a drama unfold in the world because of the movie we're watching that is real. That has enormous stakes for the whole society, and we, by the act of watching, complete the story.”
“In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing.”
Source: Collected Poems
“In a field I am the absence of field.That is always the case. Wherever I am, I am what is missing. When I walk I part the air and always the air moves in to fill the space where my body has been. We all have reasons for moving. I move to keep things whole.”
“In a field where else you found a stack
of revealing nature photographs, of supernude nature
photographs, split beaver of course nature photographs,
photographs full of 70s bush, nature taking come
from every man from miles around, nature with come back
to me just dripping from her lips. The stack came
up to your eye, you saw: nature is big into bloodplay,
nature is into extreme age play, nature does wild inter-
racial, nature she wants you to pee in her mouth, nature
is dead and nature is sleeping and still nature is on all fours,
a horse it fucks nature to death up in Oregon, nature is hot
young amateur redheads, the foxes are all in their holes
for the night, nature is hot old used-up cougars, nature
makes gaping fake-agony faces, nature is consensual dad-
on-daughter, nature is completely obsessed with twins,
nature doing specialty and nature doing niche, exotic females
they line up to drip for you, nature getting paddled as hard
as you can paddle her, oh a whitewater rapid with her ass
in the air, high snowy tail on display just everywhere.”
Source: Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals
“In a field, I am the absence of field. In a crowd, I am the absence of crowd. In a dream, I am the absence of dream. But I don't want to live as an absence. I move to keep things whole. Because sometimes I feel drunk on positivity. Sometimes I feel amazement at the tangle of words and lives, and I want to be a part of that tangle.”
Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
“IN A FIERY EXCHANGE: STOP these insults!!! Whoever makes you mad---has Won Already!!!!!”
“In a fight against Juggernaut and Cassidy in their spacious castle basement, Cassidy mentions the word 'tomb' to the X-Men. That's all it took to send Storm into a claustrophobic fit that leaves her in a heap on the floor for three straight issues. Imagine if he would have said 'Small Closet' or 'Size 2 Jeans.'”
“In a fight almost anything goes. It almost reaches the point where you stop to apologize if a chance blow lands above the belt.”
Source: Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals
“In a fight between a strong technique and a strong body, technique will prevail. In a fight between a strong mind and a strong technique, mind will prevail, because it will find the weak point.”
“In a fight between our ideals and reality, the module of reality tends to win, but our ideals once reinforced and no longer surprised tend to kick reality’s derriere. - On Ideals and Reality”
“In a fight, how your sword moves determines the victory for your sword.”
Source: Gorin no Sho & Dokkodo: Miyamoto Musashi
“In a fight you don't stop to choose your cudgels.”
“In a fight, you got to know that there's a strong chance you're going to get hurt. But at the same time, you know, most of the injuries you sustain in fighting are not career-ending injuries.”
“In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event.”
“In a film you only get two hours to do this big arc and so you have to pick and choose your moments carefully, but with television you get to take your time and just take it episode by episode and discover new things.”
“In a film, if you can capture what's going on underneath, you can begin to make a connection between the character and the people watching it.”
“In a film, you always try to have your main character be changed by the end.”
“In a film, you have to externalize things that are internal and of course it becomes a debate about to what extent you do that.”
“In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.”
Source: The Immigration Dilemma: Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons
“In a fire you have to be thoughtful, you have to have a certain kind of intuitive smarts that the veterans have. I'm not there yet, despite the Stanford degree.”
“In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.”
“In a Fisherian world, animals are slaves to evolutionary fashion, evolving extravagant and arbitrary displays and tastes that are all "meaningless"; they do not involve anything other than perceived qualities.”
Source: The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—And Us
“In a fit of raging glory, a fool raced towards Summit while Angles feared where angles’ judgments tread. Fool, not being much one for math or spelling, was not dissuaded by angels or angles dread, merely saw life with an open heart instead of a close minded head.”
Source: Adventures With A.I.: Age of Discovery
“In a flare of clarity, Tama knew two things irrevocably: one – he had just let the girl he’d been waiting for since forever walk out of his store, and two – he hadn’t done enough to make sure she came back.”
Source: Missive
“In a flash, I remember why I don't care for therapists and why I didn't want to do this in the first place. They judge. Even if they don't mean to, they do. They think they know best and, sorse yet, they can convince you it's true.”
Source: The Truth of Right Now
“In a flash I saw the truth; that my love for this spot is built up of numberless trivialities, of small memories all incommunicable, or ridiculous when communicated...”
“In a flash it came to me - might not people who were forced to spend their working hours between walls like to hear about what went on in a hill-top croft, of how it was possible to get an immense amount of fun and satisfaction out of lifting loads of mud into a cart, even though your boots were leaking and you knew there was not enough in the kitty to buy another pair? Would they like to know about the way light could stream down a blue hillside on a spring noon, how a lark could suddenly leap into a pale, washed skye after a night of storm and make the air ring with song, of how it was possible to get by every sort of difficulty as long as there was this knowledge that you were all in it together, this solidarity with rock and sun and bird? I believed they would.”
Source: A Croft in the Hills
“In a flash, the previously lusty green irises morphed into an angry blood red. Nadua stood with a gasp, not sure what was happening to him. The horns that peeked out of his sandy brown hair began to alter their color as well, taking on the cast of burning embers. Razor-sharp fangs peeked out from his lips, twisted in rage. This was how he had looked when he was tearing through her men.”
Source: Demon Slave
“In a flat choice between smoke and jobs, we're for jobs... But just keep me out of trouble on environmental issues.”
“In a fleeting moment, as ephemeral as life itself, his time rain ran out before he could say goodbye to those who loved him.”
Source: The Time Codes: The Quest to Unravel the Truth
“In a fleeting moment, as ephemeral as life itself, his time ran out before he could say goodbye to those who loved him.”
Source: The Time Codes: The Quest to Unravel the Truth
“In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.”
“In a fool, education can be like a full box of matches in the hand of a toddler that is home-alone.”
Source: P for Pessimism: A Collection of Funny yet Profound Aphorisms
“In a forbearance, the homeowner pays interest and principal on a smaller mortgage, at least for a time, but still owes the full amount. The lower monthly payment helps with affordability, giving stressed homeowners a break.”
“In a foreign country it is far from easy to study a scene at length when you know that at any minute someone may appear and ask what you are doing and that you can't answer, and you haven't many references, and you don't know the law. Neither is it easy to find and know the subjects for portraits or comfortable to make such picture when you cannot apply an anesthesia of small talk.”
Source: Paul Strand: essays on his life and work
“In a foreign country people don't expect you to be just like them, but in Los Angeles, which is infiltrating the world, they don't consider that you might be different because they don't recognize any values except their own. And soon there may not be any others.”
Source: i lost it at the movies
“In a foreign language, a lot of social and psychological conditioning gets thrown out the window. First, you begin to interact with people who do not know you outside of the target language. The blank canvas effect here is true of any new people you meet, in general. Second, every language is a world unto itself. It is common to hear people comment on the particularity of an individual’s foreign language skills. “She speaks French well. His Spanish is formal or funny. I want to hear them speak Arabic.” In other words, people expect there to be some differences between the native-language version of yourself and the target-language version. If you want to exaggerate these differences, then more power to you. As the saying in the intro goes, the multiple personalities effect with people who speak more than one language is real but bears none of the oft associated pathology.”
Source: The Art of Learning a Foreign Language: 25 Things I Wish They Told Me
“In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike.”
“In a forever changing universe, how can we call anything a constant?”
Source: Random Cosmos
“In a forgotten corner of the world,
two hearts collided.
Their shared laughter
echoed through the night,
intertwining their souls forever.”
Source: NIRVANA: RAGA • DVESHA • MOHA
“In a formal socialization, no one individual can stand without the other to rely on, regardless of the situation.”
“In a fractal conception, I am a cell-sized unit of the human organism, and I have to use my life to leverage a shift in the system by how I am, as much as with the things I do. This means actually being in my life, and it means bringing my values into my daily decision making. Each day should be lived on purpose.”
Source: Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds