I Quotes
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“In a person's lifetime there may be not more than half a dozen occasions that he can look back to in the certain knowledge that right then, at that moment, there was room for nothing but happiness in his heart.”
Source: Belles on Their Toes
“In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.”
Source: On becoming a person: a therapist's view of psychotherapy
“In a person's career, well, if you're process-oriented and not totally outcome-oriented, then you're more likely to be success. I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence.”
“In a personal way, to do with family and the father-son relationship, in a kind of artistic way with regard to him being an art student. I also studied the visual arts at Lancaster University. I then decided to become an actor as he was becoming a musician. And then as an actor/performer, we have similar sort of interests - music hall and that whole world. So, there's a lot that I felt connected with.”
“In a personalized world, important but complex or unpleasant issues are less likely to come to our attention at all.”
Source: The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think
“In a perverse way, I was glad for the stitches, glad it would show, that there would be scars. What was the point in just being hurt on the inside? It should bloody well show.”
Source: White Oleander
“In a perverse way, it's very patriarchal to think that women can't be malicious or violent.”
“In a petty theft you steal money, gold etc.; in an electoral theft you steal the future of a country! The second crime can be committed only by the meanest people! Such a heavy crime results in a heavy price!”
“In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.”
Source: Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill
“In a photo shoot, you have to be very comfortable in your own skin. It's all about confidence-boosting and putting on armor.”
“In a photograph a person’s eyes tell much, sometimes they tell all.”
“In a photograph, if I am able to evoke not alone a feeling of the reality of the surface physical world but also a feeling of the reality of existence that lies mysteriously and invisibly beneath its surface, I feel I have succeeded. At their best, photographs as symbols not only serve to help illuminate some of the darkness of the unknown, they also serve to lessen the fears that too often accompany the journeys from the known to the unknown.”
“In a Photoshopped world, only the skeptical eye prevails.”
“In a physical contest on the field of battle it is allowable to use tactics and strategy, to retreat as well as advance, to have recourse to a ruse as well as open attack; but in matters of principle there can be no tactics, there is one straight forward course to follow and that course must be found and followed without swerving to the end.”
“In a physical sense, the basis and start of existence and life is when the Nonbeing “moves” into and inhabits the Being (Being envelopes the Nonbeing). When Being and Nonbeing are divorced, there is no existence or life as we understand it.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“In a pinch, I could always get work in pictures as a makeup artist.”
Source: Natalie: A Memoir About Natalie Wood by Her Sister
“In a pinch, when my leather shoes need a quick shine, I take the inside of a banana peel and rub it on the leather like I would a shoe wax. Then I spit-shine it and buff it with a cloth, and my shoes look great.”
“In a pine tree,
A few yards away from my window sill,
A brilliant blue jay is springing up and down, up and down,
On a branch.
I laugh, as I see him abandon himself
To entire delight, for he knows as well as I do
That the branch will not break.”
Source: The Branch Will Not Break
“In a pine tree,/ A few yards from my window sill,/ A brilliant blue jay is springing up and down, up and/ down./ On a branch./ I laugh, as I see him abandon himself/ To entire delight, for he knows as well as I do/ That the branch will not break.”
Source: Collected Poems
“In a pitch black room, you can affirm "let their be light" or you can light one candle.”
“In a place like Afghanistan where the society is completely segregated, women have access to women. Men cannot always photograph women and cannot get the access that I get.”
“In a place like Israel, they're very concerned with Iran, so there's a lot of interest. So they want to see what this Iranian from France has to say in her comics. I guess that's good. My the books are coming out in other countries. And each time, they discover something different to be interested in.”
“In a place like the Guggenheim, I would like to be a representative of arte povera. This would be my ideal.”
“In a place that feels safe and private, constructively express your sadness by allowing yourself to cry. While crying, acknowledge your hurts and losses. Don't indulge any negative thoughts about yourself. Just keep telling yourself, "I'm fine. It's okay to cry. I just feel sad." You'll immediately feel washed clean, even joyful.”
“In a place where everybody thinks alike, nobody thinks very much.”
“In a place where everyone knew my story, it was nice to know there was a chapter that ONLY I HAD TO READ. :)”
Source: Gallagher Girls: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You
“In a place, where everything has already happened and is yet to happen... we are all at the same time, all in the same place, close one another, dead and living, anyway. Enclosed and immutable, like inside a diamond. Looking for happiness, 'cause we are happy. Following God's plan.”
Source: Möbius - La fine e l'inizio
“In a place where the mind works very well, an exit from the darkness will always be found!”
“In a place where there are no humans, one must strive to be human.”
“In a plan of life based on nonviolence, woman has as much right to shape her own destiny as man has to shape his.”
Source: The Essential Writings
“In a planet of apes, if you want power and control, all you have to do is sell fear - sell fear, blood, rage, the lot - if you are in politics sell fear, if you are in religion sell hate, if you are in cinema sell rage, but never call them by their real name, always package it in modern language, package bloodshed as patriotism, package fanaticism as tradition, package derangement as righteousness.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.”
“In a play, you can adjust your performance to audience reaction, but in a film it's like you're trapped in a bad dream watching yourself act and you're in the audience”
“In a plutocracy, commercialism dominates far beyond the realm of economics and business; everything is for sale, and money is power. But in an authentic democracy, there must be commercial-free zones where the power of human rights, citizenship, community, equality, and justice are free from the corrupting influence of money. Our elections and our governments should be such commercial-free zones; our environment, air, and water should never fall under the control of corporations or private owners. Children should not be programmed by a huckstering economy where their vulnerable consciousness becomes the target of relentless corporate marketing and advertising.”
Source: Breaking Through Power: It's Easier Than We Think
“In a pocket of his knapsack he'd found a last half packet of cocoa and he fixed it for the boy and then poured his own cup with hot water and sat blowing at the rim.
You promised not to do that, the boy said.
What?
You know what, Papa.
He poured the hot water back into the pan and took the boy's cup and poured some of the cocoa into his own and then handed it back.
I have to watch you all the time, the boy said.”
Source: The Road
“In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.”
“In a poem the words should be as pleasing to the ear as the meaning is to the mind.”
“In a poem, the words happen; they just come. I let them. Otherwise, I wouldn't write. To interfere with what is happening is to distort the poem. Just a very small degree of intelligence and supervision is necessary. Very tactful. Any revision later that violates the text as it came, that begins rewriting the words, is fake.”
“In a police K-9 team, the human is always the weak link. We are forgetful and our enthusiasm waxes and wanes. Dogs love to work and they forget nothing.”
Source: Werewolf: The True Story of an Extraordinary Police Dog
“In a police state, referencing one's rights is seen as an act of aggression.”
“In a polished surface of metal I happen to notice my reflected face; it wears a pale, beaten lonely look, eyes looking out at nothing with an expression of fear, frightened and lonely in a nightmare world. Something, I don’t know what, makes me think of my childhood; I remember myself as a schoolchild sitting at a hard wooden desk, and then as a little girl with thick, fair, wind-tossed hair, feeding the swans in a park. And it seems both strange and sad to me that all those childish years were spent in preparation for this – that, forgotten by everybody, with a beaten face, I should serve machinery in a place far away from the sun.”
Source: Asylum Piece
“In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.”
Source: The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: with a biographical memoir of the author, written expressly for this edition
“In a political context of the utmost significance, ["freedom from fear"] recognizes a human right which, in a broad sense, may be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.”
“In a political fight, when you've got nothing in favour of your side, start a row in the opposition camp.”
“In a political sense, there is one problem that currently underlies all of the others. That problem is making Government sufficiently responsive to the people. If we don't make government responsive to the people, we don't make it believable. And we must make government believable if we are to have a functioning democracy.”
Source: Selected speeches
“In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.”
“In a political struggle, never get personal - else the dagger digs too deep.”
“In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.”
“In a poll commissioned by Time and CNN, two-thirds of American parents said they think that their children are spoiled.”
“In a poll taken in 1998, only 7 percent of the members of the US National Academy of Sciences, the elite of American scientists, said they believed in a personal god.”
Source: God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist