I Quotes
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“In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.”
Source: Recollections
“In a revolutionary age talk of equality may well have represented a passion to provide full human dignity to those who had previously been denied it by systems of political and economic domination; but in the present age it softens the spiritual requirements that are an essential ingredient in human dignity. Thus the slogans of equality serve not so much to elevate individuals to the dignity of being human as to free them from the responsibility of rising to this vocation.”
Source: Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society
“In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.”
Source: Herakleitos and Diogenes: Translated from the Greek by Guy Davenport
“In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.”
Source: I Made My Boy Out of Poetry
“In a rising market, enough of your bad ideas will pay off so that you'll never learn that you should have fewer ideas.”
“In a rising market, everyone makes money and a value philosophy is unnecessary. But because there is no certain way to predict what the market will do, one must follow a value philosophy at all times.”
“in a rising price environment, party culture and a gambling mindset take over. People think it is easy to make money, and it is fun. The stock market is a big giant casino
where the odds are in favor of gamblers. The more you play, the more you win. However, the facts are precisely the opposite.”
“In a rising price environment, people tend to throw analysis of risks out of the window. In their mind, the only possible risk is not to join the party.”
“In a river mist, if another boat knocks against yours, you might yell at the other fellow to stay clear. But if you notice then, that it's an empty boat, adrift with nobody aboard, you stop yelling. When you discover that all the others are drifting boats, there's no one to yell at. And when you find out you are an empty boat, there's no one to yell.”
“In a rock garden we foster a little patch of the wilderness that stands to us for freedom.”
“In a rook and pawn ending, the rook must be used aggressively. It must either attack enemy pawns, or give active support to the advance of one of its own pawns to the queening square.”
“In a room full of burning candles
I saw the man staring at me
and knew desire would drown
everyone standing between us
until we are the only two people alive.”
Source: Sacrament of Bodies
“In a room full of journalists someone would already be doing an impersonation of the Robot Man. We’d also make fun of the smarmy host, who is a bit like Tom Bergeron, host of Hollywood Squares, America’s Funniest Home Videos, and Dancing with the Stars, only cheesier, which is remarkable because Tom Bergeron is already the gold standard of cheesiness, and yet here is this total amateur, this complete unknown, blowing Bergeron away.”
Source: Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble
“In a room full of nothingness, I’m still happy with you.”
Source: Selfish
“In a room sit three great men, a king, a priest, and a rich man with his gold. Between them stands a sellsword, a little man of common birth and no great mind. Each of the great ones bids him slay the other two. ‘Do it,’ says the king, ‘for I am your lawful ruler.’ ‘Do it,’ says the priest, ‘for I command you in the names of the gods.’ ‘Do it,’ says the rich man, ‘and all this gold shall be yours.’ So tell me—who lives and who dies?”
Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows
“In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.”
“In a room with many windows
some thoughts slide past uncatchable, ghostly.”
Source: The Beauty
“In a roomful of shouting people, the one who whispers becomes interesting.”
“In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter.”
“In a rural society communities are "given" for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste.”
Source: Managing in the Next Society
“In a sacred moment, when attention is pulled inward, rather than continuing in its usual outward direction, silence is realized.”
“In a sad twist of fate, the bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act was debated on the floor of the House of Representatives the same day that terrorists struck again.”
“In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
“In a safe Western world where we're not being shot at and we're not starving, the worst thing that happens to us most days is someone's rude to us, or we accidentally insult someone. Social faux pas is the worst thing that happens to most people, most days, so we've got to concentrate on that, really.”
“In a sailboat I become oblivious to everything else in the world.”
“In a sane society no woman would be left to struggle on her own with the huge transformation that is motherhood, when a single individual finds herself joined by an invisible umbilical cord to another person from whom she will never be separated, even by death.”
“In a sane world, a term like "chronic crisis" would be instantly seen by anone as an oxymoron. Nevertheless, that's the state that many of us Western Worlders live in, provoking crisis after crisis so that we can justify our dis-ease rather than addressing that directly.”
Source: Polyamory: Roadmaps for the Clueless & Hopeful
“In a sane world, we would be heroes. Teachers would applaud as we walked into the school. There is the smart one, the one who wants to be a writer. And there is the runner.”
Source: Darius & Twig
“In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.”
“In a saturated population life is always cheap.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)
“In ‘A Scandal in Bohemia’, he said it was a capital mistake to theorize without data, because you ended up twisting facts to suit theories instead of the other way around.”
Source: Behind the Curtain
“In a scene [where the improvisers must interact] without the letter S, the audience is waiting for you to lose - so they can laugh at you. Don't try to win.”
“In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?”
“In a school where everyone is famous or rich or whatever, you have a culture, 'What does your dad do?' 'What does your mom do?”
“In a science fiction movie, the first act is a little longer than it is in most movies because there is so much world building to do.”
“In a science fiction novel, the world is a character, and often the most important character.
In a mainstream novel, the world is implicitly our world, and the characters are the world.”
Source: What Makes This Book So Great: Re-Reading the Classics of Science Fiction & Fantasy
“In a script, you have to link various episodes together, you have to generate suspense and you have to assemble things - through editing, for example. It's exactly the same in architecture. Architects also put together spatial episodes to make sequences.”
“In a scrum team, no one is boss but a partner, for the success of a project.”
Source: Agile Able: Project Management Simplified
“In a sea of a thousand faces God’s eyes are always locked on us (like the slow-motion scenes of eyes locking in a crowd in the movie The Passion of the Christ). We all tie for first place in His heart and His gaze is firmly set on each of us. Not to put us down when we’re wrong or off, but because He’s enamoured by us. There’s no kinder heart, no kinder eyes and no kinder love than that of God. His words of affirmation over me have always filled my hunger.”
Source: Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts
“In a sea of a thousand mines, the crew of the Lifemaker had to be lucky a thousand times, but in that same sea, the Regime only had to be lucky once.”
Source: Lifemaker
“In a sea of fragile young women she stood out as the one most likely to drown.”
Source: The Vulnerables
“In a sea of human beings, it is difficult, at times even impossible, to see the human as being.”
“In a sea of stories, find the right one to tell, and the right way to tell it.”
“In a season like this,
I wouldn't be held by the snow.
With all these feelings of bliss,
I've to put aside my ego
And step out to let you know,
With you, I'm well pleased
And the love you show,
Is to me the bee's knees.”
Source: 101 Short Love Poems
“In a second-hand bookshop head to the back, find the old books with dust undisturbed and worn off covers for these clothe true treasures.”
“In a second you can change your mind, in a minute you can change your heart, in an hour you can change your life, and in a day you can change your destiny.”
“In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.”
Source: Nights at the circus
“In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.”
“In a seedy cinema on ru du Temple, watching Disney's Peter Pan with my son, I found that although we were all gazing at the same screen in the flickering dark, I was seeing a different film to the rest of the audience. What seemed fantastical and exotic to the Parisian kids looked like home to me. I knew secret coves and hidey-holes like those of the Lost Boys. I'd grown up in a world of rocky islands, boats and obscuring bush. To my mind the only setting that was alien - even whimsical - was the cold, lonely nursery in the Darling family attic. The wild opportunity of Neverland with its freedom from adult surveillance was deeply, warmly familiar. Watching the movie for the umpteenth time and seeing it anew, forsaking story and focusing greedily on the backdrop, I understood what a complete stranger I was in that hemisphere. But acknowledging my strangeness made those years abroad easier to digest and enjoy.”
Source: Island Home
“In a seemingly dark and troubled world, there are hundreds and thousands of lightworkers, standing strong, refusing to dim their lights. Look for the light workers they are all around you. Follow them back to the light.”
Source: An Empowered Life: Mind/Body/Spirit Empowerment