I Quotes
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“In a monetary system, most of us live near our work with a house, car, and lifestyle we can afford (or, all too often, cannot afford), rather than the one we prefer. We are only as free as our purchasing power permits. Even many wealthy people today select a residence mainly to impress others with their status. Lacking a true sense of self worth, many live to impress others.”
“In a mono-cultural society, people have the desire to segregate the socially different ethnic group to maintain a monotonous society”
Source: The Danger Of Monoculturalism In The XXI Century
“In a monocultural society, people deprive themselves of wise methods and principles that they could have learned from others”
Source: The Danger Of Monoculturalism In The XXI Century
“In a month, the passes into Teutlandt and Skanida will be open and my companion and I will be on our way." He paused and Philemon frowned, trying to understand what he was being told. You want us to come with you?" he asked, at last. "You expect us to follow you?" Halt shook his head. "I have no wish to ever see any of you again," he said flatly.”
“In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.”
Source: My Several Worlds: A Personal Record
“In a morally healthy family the good of each member of a family includes and overlaps with the good of other members. When one family member flourishes, so typically do the others.”
“In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality.”
Source: The 10 Greatest Books of All Time
“In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. At times monstrous images are created, but the setting and the whole picture are so truth-like and filled with details so delicate, so unexpectedly, but so artistically consistent, that the dreamer, were he an artist like Pushkin or Turgenev even, could never have invented them in the waking state. Such sick dreams always remain long in the memory and make a powerful impression on the overwrought and deranged nervous system.”
Source: Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections
“In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian.”
“In a more perfect world, that would’ve also been the moment when she’d say, “Look, honey, I know you resonate with the character of Pocahontas, but we already live on stolen land and you are not an indigenous person, so it would be very insensitive for you to wear someone else’s culture as a costume.” “Certainly, Mother,” I’d respond. “You’re absolutely correct. My teacher taught us about the land theft and subsequent genocide of Native American nations in kindergarten last week as part of our People’s Herstory class, so I shouldn’t go as Pocahontas. But could I go as another Disney princess instead?”
Source: Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story
“In a more public place, it wouldn’t be wise to do something like this without first donning the cloak. The risk of being reported by lurking social rule enforcers seeking to curry favor in the “system” was too extreme.”
Source: Virtual Mirrors: First Journal
“In a more universal sense, we only get one thing. You know...a head stone if we're lucky; if not, green grass.”
“In a mouse we admire God's creation and craft work. The same may be said about flies.”
“In a movie, dialogues take the story forward and background sounds give dramatic effect. So many people are saying so many things in your life. React to only those with whom you want to take your story forward. Regard the rest as background sounds.”
“In a movie like this, the relationship between the two guys is crucial. It sinks or swims on how these two guys are together. I think we did a good job.”
“In a movie, people only talk when they want something. If your characters are not pursuing their needs in the scene, they are invariably talking about the movie they are in.”
Source: ANATOMY OF A SCREENPLAY THIRD EDITION
“In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.”
“In a movie, when a character receives a letter, she reads it aloud for the audience. Other characters of the movie can’t know the secret, but she tells it to the audience.
Be the audience if you want to know the deepest secrets of the universe. Be the audience if you want to make sense of what is happening around you. Your character is the doer while your soul is the audience. Be at the level of soul more often.”
“In a movie you have all these logistical problems; all these practical problems. But you're also going to have people come who can do things that you can't do, and you get to direct their talents.”
“In a movie, a book, or a play, a character doesn't live in a vacuum. She is subject to pressures from the world outside of her, just like we are in life. These pressures and circumstances shape character. Who your parents are determines your genetic make up: your skin color, your sex, your height, weight. Where you are raised does affect your worldview either positively or negatively, your accent. Your economic class affects where you go to school, what you eat, where you sleep.”
“In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.”
“In a movie, you need good actors, whereas in a book, you don't, unless you have a really bad imagination. In a book, your imagination will do the acting for you. Also, the process of revelation is often different. Tension is achieved in a different way.”
“In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.”
“In a moving world filled with endless distractions, time is the most valuable currency. When someone gives you theirs, they cut a slice of their life span and serve it to you. In their brief existence, in their undeterminable episode of consciousness, you were chosen. And the equation goes: with others, you mean.”
Source: The Goodbye Song
“In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.”
Source: The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense
“In a mucked up lovely river, I cast my little fly. I look at that river and smell it And it makes me want to cry. Oh to clean our dirty planet, Now there's a noble wish, And I'm puttin' my shoulder to the wheel 'Cause I wanna catch some fish.”
“In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.”
Source: Selected speeches
“In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.”
“In a multipolar world, there must be more powers capable of taking responsibility, the US and Europe must be able to unite to achieve peace in the Middle East.”
“In a multitude mistakes , mercy triumph judgement.”
“In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.”
Source: Mardi: And A Voyage Thither (Annotated Complete Edition)
“In a multitude of sin, there is mercy.”
“In a murderous time/the heart breaks and breaks/and lives by breaking.”
Source: Conversations with Stanley Kunitz
“In a museum in El Paso, Texas, there's a map that shows all the places the border between the U.S. and Mexico has been (because it shifted) - I find it very clarifying (not confusing) to be reminded that everything we feel like we've really pinned down is transient, arbitrary, and marks the site of a painful if not violent negotiation, one that may not have ended.”
“In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“In a museum in London there is an exhibit called "The Value of Man": a long coffinlike box with lots of compartments where they've put starch phosphorus flour bottles of water and alcohol and big pieces of gelatin. I am a man like that.”
“In a musical sense, it seemed like all the good intentions had gone awry, very quickly. I mean, we got back from America and Blur had made The Great Escape, which I thought was a really, truly awful album - so cheesy, like a parody of Parklife, but without the balls or the intellect. And Oasis were enormous and I always found them incredibly dreary. There was this uncritical reverence surrounding the whole thing”
“In a musically imperfect world, there is still perfection in the voice of Barbara Cook. For anyone eulogizing the historic scores of a long-lost era of Broadway greatness, not to worry. Somebody is still singing them with purity and passion. She is Barbara Cook, and she sings them for the angels to applaud.”
“In a myriad of ways you tell one truth.”
“In a mystery, the sleuth must be believably involved and emotionally invested in solving the crime.”
“In a mystery, you must play fair by giving all the clues, but disguise them by immediately distracting the reader with something else.”
“In a mystical sense, three can become one, in the sense that two is not one; three is a way of resolving difference between two. It's about creating balance: of energies, of dispositions. Sonic balance. That's the approach for me, what it means.”
“In a narcissist's world you are not their one and only. You are an extension of that person and last place in their mind, while they secure back up narcissistic supply.”
“In a narcissistic cathexis, you invest more energy into your ideas about another person than in the actual, objective, external person. So the man who falls in love with beauty is quite different from the man who loves a girl and feels she is beautiful and can see what is beautiful about her.”
“In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.”
“In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims.”
“In a narrow market, when prices are not getting anywhere to speak of but move within a narrow range, there is no sense in trying to anticipate what the next big movement is going to be. The thing to do is to watch the market, read the tape to determine the limits of the get nowhere prices, and make up your mind that you will not take an interest until the prices breaks through the limit in either direction.”
“In a narrow sphere great men are blunderers.”
“In a nation committed to better living through chemistry - where Viagra-enabled men pursue silicone-contoured women - the national pastime has a problem of illicit chemical enhancement. Steroids threaten the health of the 5 percent to 7 percent of players proved, by a mild regime of scheduled tests, to be using them. Steroids also endanger emulative young people. Further, steroids subvert what baseball is selling - fair competition. And they strike at the pleasure of engagement with America's team sport with the longest history.”
Source: One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation
“In a nation of celebrity worshipers, amid followers of the cult of personality, individual modesty becomes a heroic quality. I find heroism in the acceptance of anonymity, in the studied resistance to the normal American tropism toward the limelight.”