I Quotes
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“In a man's letters, you know, madam, his soul lies naked. His letters are only the mirror of his heart. Whatever passes within him is there shown undisguised in its natural progress; nothing is invented, nothing distorted; you see systems in their elements, you discover action in their motives. Samuel Johnson to Mrs. Thrale (1777)”
Source: The World's Greatest Love Letters
“In a "man's world," women may feel unidentified as "default humans" but as a marginalized species, frequently misunderstood, often ignored. Instead of surviving in a man's world, they must reshape it, empower their individuality, claim and reframe their narrative, and engage in collective action. ("Terra Incognita - The lady is a tramp")”
“In a man they forgive anything. In a woman nothing.”
“In A Man With a Pipe, my brother observed that although my father had been seen as intellectual and my mother more a creature of temperament, she had often been the more levelheaded of the two. In sum, we miss them as we love them, equally and always.”
“In a man, you have to look for character and security, going beyond his age.”
“In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius
“In a Man's Letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirrour of his breast.”
“In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.”
“In a man's world, I am a woman by birth and after 19 times around I have found - they will stop at nothing once they know what you are worth.”
“In a man, I like funny guys. A guy who doesn't have a lot of therapy, who's mature. A man, not a boy.”
“In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.”
“In a manner akin to the influence of Tiger Woods on the other side of the Atlantic, Thierry Henry has helped kick down a few of the remaining bigoted stereotypes. Through his undisputable class and dignity, Henry has made a deep-seated difference to race relations in this country. Racism will flounder whenever white children grow up with a black man as their hero. That so few comment on Henry's colour is a silent tribute to his impact.”
“In a manner of speaking," I said, using one of my favorite ways of saying "No, you are wrong.”
Source: Poison for Breakfast
“In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.”
Source: the man of letters in the modern world
“In a manner of speaking. As we intend for you to found a dynasty. And that dynasty will rule society until it has progressed enough to-" "Overthrow the dynasty in a revolutionary, blood filled coup!" Iggy said eagerly. We all looked at him. "Just saying." He sheepishly took a bite of cookie.”
“In a manner of speaking. I certainly never want to lose my voice as an educator.”
“In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the [3.6 million year old] fossil footprints were eventually noticed one evening in September 1976 by the paleontologist Andrew Hill, who fell while avoiding a ball of elephant dung hurled at him by the ecologist David Western.”
“In a market economy with the division and specialization of labor, people use others as means to achieve their ends. This is the essence of market cooperation.”
“In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state”
“In a marriage relationship, God desires us to funnel our focus on celebrating and leveraging one another's differences. He intended our diversities. When we embrace them as an opportunity for growth, we experience remarkable results and accomplish more together than we would separately.”
Source: Two Are Better Than One: Build Purpose and Unity in Your Marriage
“In a marriage, you and your partner come first.”
“In a marriage, you and your partner come first. And unless you and your partner are happy, that kid's never going to be happy.”
“In a marriage, you struggle and struggle and struggle, and then you realize that you have to ride the horse in the direction it's going. You stop trying to pull the reins in another direction.”
“In a marshland amongst the crocodiles, there float beautiful water lilies! Even in the Hell, one can find the good and the beauty.”
“In a massive, long-term study of 17,000 civil servants, an almost unbelievable conclusion emerged: the status of a person's job was more likely to predict their likelihood of a heart attack than obesity, smoking or high blood pressure.”
“In a materialist society, a man's value is measured by his money, not morality, and a woman's value is measured by her flesh, not her mind.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“In a materialist society, be it modern or medieval, woman's clock starts at 19 and ends at 29, while a man's clock starts at 30 and runs till he drops dead.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“In a materialistic society, an employed boy is older than an unemployed man.”
Source: N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups
“In a materialistic society, being poor but happy is a political statement.”
“In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man’s dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass.”
“In a materialistic society, there’s no such a thing as a ‘romantic’ broke man.”
“In a mathematical proposition, for example, the objectivity is given, but therefore its truth is also an indifferent truth.”
“In a matriarchy men should be encouraged to take it easy, for most women prefer live husbands to blocks of shares and seats on the board.”
“In a matrilineal society, a woman has basic rights that no one has to grant her but you can't take it away from her because the society is based on the concept that the lifegiver is equal to those she gave the life to. And that will remain... until you find a pregnant man.”
“In a matter of a moment the amount of sand in the upper part of the hour-glass had dwindled dramatically, the tiny grains were rushing through the opening, each grain more eager to leave then the last, time is just like people, sometimes it’s all it can do to drag itself along, but at others, it runs like a deer and leaps like a young goat, which, when you think about it, is not saying much, since the cheetah is the fastest of all the animals, and yet it has never occurred to anyone to say of another person He runs and jumps like a cheetah, perhaps because that first comparison comes from the magical late middle ages, when gentlemen went deer-hunting and no one had ever seen a cheetah running or even heard of its existence. Languages are conservative, they always carry their archives with them and hate having to be updated.”
Source: Seeing
“In a matter of months, I went from boy crazy to man insanity”
Source: Flock
“In a matter of only a few seconds, in fact, her eyes appeared to jettison everything that was dark and heavy and to glow with fan-club appreciation.”
“In a matter of seconds I, too, had come to despise her.”
Source: In the Cut
“In a matter of seconds, there were more than a dozen bodies piled on the street around him.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“In a mature democracy, what is legal is decided by parliament... Our process is legitimised by parliament and by the ballot box.”
“In a mature relationship, romantic idealization waxes and wanes through the connection at various times. It arises out of a deep appreciation and gratitude for the person's presence and love, yet it retains the reality of who he is at the same time.”
“In a mature society, 'civil servant' is semantically equal to 'civil master.'”
Source: Time Enough for Love
“In a maturing market it's not advisable to be always everybody's darling, because you get too thin.”
“In a meadow full of flowers you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry of life.”
“In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.”
“In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.”
“In a media-saturated world, persistent hype lends unwarranted credulity to the wildest claims.”
Source: Next
“In a medical context, the most peaceful death occurs by sudden de novo acute heart failure, compared to prolonged sickness or accidental death.”
“In a medical sense I'm a prophet. But I'm not unique. I mean there are many prophets in many different vocations. I happen to be one of them, without sounding too egotistical I am a pioneer. I am doing pioneering stuff in neurosurgery. There is stuff that I'm doing that no-one else is doing.”
“In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can.”