I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“In a regime where words are watched, lies are rewarded, and silence is survival, there is no truth.
- Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad”
“In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground.”
“In a regular class I don't focus on the form, but I think that focus is helpful for brainstorming and coming up with ideas quickly, especially with autobiographical material.”
“In a rehearsal room, your real resource as an actor aren't the things around you; your resources are your imagination and your director and the other actors. In those close quarters, your imagination and your skills are what you turn to.”
“In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.”
“In a relationship, honesty is the bedrock foundation of a safe relationship. To the degree that there is deception, there is danger.”
“In a relationship I'm a very loving person, emotional and sensitive.”
“In a relationship if you are giving and getting nothing back in return, stop giving so much, and spend time being. Give to yourself, be who you are.”
Source: Zen and the Art of Falling in Love
“In a relationship, if you treat me like a priority and then stop and start treating me like an option, don't be surprise when I become a priority for someone else.”
“In a relationship it is important to say ‘yes’ just enough times to keep them around to tell them ‘no.’ This is the key to a happy, successful adult relationship. To balance and harmony. This is the key to cultivating real love.”
Source: In Limbo
“In a relationship, people may be inhabited by discordant personalities. For that reason, it might be convenient for partners if one of both could sometimes be a little hard of hearing, or the other a bit shortsighted. ("Mutual understanding")”
“In a relationship, prudent application of the gray theory is a key ingredient in assuring years of happiness; “till death do us part”. Balance is at the center of success, satisfaction and a lifetime of love.”
Source: The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
“In a relationship the details are everything because they remind you - just when you need to be reminded the most - why you fell in love with someone in the first place.”
“In a relationship the way to overcome problems, is to focus our attention on higher principles that can help us transcend them.”
“In a relationship, the word 'sorry' is worth more than gold. However, the more it's mentioned the lesser your love and affection becomes.”
“In a relationship to the other, there is everything that is not of the same, of the same that is not, and of the other that he or she is. Generally, one notices all the same that he or she is not. It is much easier. It is harder to see the other he or she is. That is where the real work begins.”
Source: Reading with Clarice Lispector
“In a relationship, what you hide matters more than what you choose to share.”
“In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop talking because you don't want to lose one another.”
“In a relationship with a narcissist you will do 90% of everything in the relationship. The 10% they give is only when they want something.”
“In a relationship with God, it’s far more about the willingness to be ‘found’ and far less about possessing the ability to ‘find.”
“In a relationship with God, our most secret places once thickly cloaked and meticulously hidden away now stand before us utterly and entirely exposed. And it may be that this dreaded fear is the single thing that keeps us an arm’s length from God, and forever a single step away from His blessings.”
“In a relationship you have to communicate, which means listening to her talk. Ladies, you fake orgasms. We fake listening.”
“In a relationship you have to open yourself up.”
“In a relationship you want to treat people the way you want to be treated.”
“In a relationship, it is better to be the leaver than the leavee.”
“In a relationship, it's so important that a man knows how much you physically desire him. When he wears that shirt that makes him look sexy, tell him he's sexy! If he wears a cologne you like, say "I can't resist that smell on you".”
“In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?”
“In a relativistic universe you don't cling to anything, you learn to swim. And you know what swimming is - it's kind of a relaxed attitude with the water. In which you don't keep yourself afloat by holding the water, but by a certain giving to it.”
Source: The Essential Alan Watts
“In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion and its associated metaphysical propositions.”
“In a remarkable midrash (commentary) on Proverbs, we read the following: “All of the festivals will be abolished in the future [the Messianic Age], but Purim will never be abolished.”
The miracle of Purim is very different from the miracles mentioned in the Torah. While the latter were overt miracles, such as the ten plagues in Egypt and the splitting of the Red Sea, the miracle of Purim was covert. No law of nature was violated in the Purim story and the Jews were saved by seemingly normal historical occurrences. Had we lived in those days, we would have noticed nothing unusual. Only retroactively are we astonished that seemingly unrelated and insignificant human acts led to the redemption of the Jews. The discovery that these events concealed a miracle could only be made after the fact.
Covert miracles will never cease to exist explains the Torah Temimah. In fact, they take place every day. The midrash on Proverbs is not suggesting that the actual festivals mentioned in the Torah will be nullified in future days. Rather we should read the midrash as follows: Overt miracles, which we celebrate on festivals mentioned in the Torah, no longer occur. But covert miracles such as those celebrated on Purim will never end; they continue to occur every day of the year. Purim, probably rooted in a historical event of many years ago, functions as a constant reminder that the Purim story never ended. We are still living it. The Megillah is open-ended; it was not and will never be completed!”
Source: The Revival of the Dead & the Miracle of Return: Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo's Afterword to Returning, by Yael Shahar
“In a remarkably steady voice, Sadie whispered, "Last night should never have happened."
"The only thing about last night that shouldn't have happened was the way it ended," Killian rasped....
"Is that so?" Sadie pulled his shift loose from his jeans and slipped her fingers underneath before trailing them along the hard planes of his stomach. Arching one eyebrow, she held his heavy-lidded gaze and unsheathed her fangs. "How do you suppose it should have ended?"
"The same way it should end every night from now on," he growled. Killian slid both hands into her long hair. Sadie shivered when his fingertips grazed her scalp. He pressed his hips against her before slipping his thigh between her legs. Sadie gasped with pleasure as he put pressure on just the right spot, and when a moan escaped her parted lips, a cocky grin emerged on his. Killian tightened his grip on her hair and leaned in so his mouth was just a breath away. "Every single night should end with me buried deep inside you.”
Source: Vampires Never Cry Wolf
“In a representative republic, the education of our children must be of the utmost importance!”
“In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.”
Source: Conversations with Don DeLillo
“In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.”
“In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.”
“In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.”
“In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.”
“In a Republican district I was a Republican. In a Democratic district I was a Democrat. And in a doubtful district, I was Doubtful. But I was always for Erie.”
“In a republican land the power behind the throne is the power.”
“In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance.”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts
“In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance.... Reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments. To make way for these, free inquiry must be indulged.... Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them.”
“In a Republican primary every candidate is going to come in front of you and say I'm the most conservative guy that ever lived. Goshdarnit, whodidily, I'm conservative. You know what, talk is cheap. The word tells us you shall know them by their fruits ... Look every candidate in the eye and say 'Don't talk, show me.'”
“In a restaurant in Nepal, someone said I look like Allu Arjun! Pushpa is an Icon for the common Man. And I am an Icon for the common Man!
I accept the compliment with utmost respect.”
“In a restaurant one is both observed and unobserved. Joy and sorrow can be displayed and observed "unwittingly," the writer scowling naively and the diners wondering, What the hell is he doing?”
Source: Writing in restaurants
“In a restaurant, tangoing couples circled past, and the look in Hale's eyes was especially mischievous when he told her, "Oh, I see. You brought me here so you can have your way with me on the dance floor.”
“In a restless heart the seed of betrayal lay.”
“In a retreat the lame are formost.
[In a retreat the lame are foremost.]”
“In a reverse way, sharing my mother's long, slow dying consumes my creative energy. I manage one angry and bitter story, and feel better for it, but most of me is involved in Mother's battle. Watching her slowly being snuffed out is the opposite of pregnancy, depleting instead of fulfilling: I am exhausted by conflict.”
Source: The Summer of the Great-Grandmother
“In a revolution of consciousness the windows slowly become mirrors. We will see that there was only an illusion of freedom and at the same time we are forced to look at ourselves and contemplate the consequences of our own actions.”
Source: What's Going On? How Can We Help?: The consequences of capitalism and actionable steps towards a healthy and sustainable future
“In a revolution one wins or dies, if it is a real one”
Source: Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Politics & Revolution