I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.”
Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America
“In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.”
“In a stream of life, we find the source of life.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“In a stress pressure-cooker like America, I believe we will see more and more shooting massacres. Violence is in our cultural DNA.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.”
“In a strictly scientific sense God is at the bottom of both good and evil.”
Source: The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi
“In a strong relationship, you should love your companion more than you need them.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly.”
“In a structure as complex as the human brain a multitude of things can go wrong. The wonder is that for most people the brain functions effectively and unceasingly for more than 60 years.”
“In a study in which people were given white bread with almonds; their glucose spikes afterward were significantly lower than when the white bread was eaten alone. In addition, the more almonds the participants ate the more their glucose was reduced & In insulin resistant individuals high amounts of fiber are shown to be associated not only with reduced post glucose spikes & insulin levels but also with reduced spikes in variability.”
Source: Drop Acid: The Surprising New Science of Uric Acid―The Key to Losing Weight, Controlling Blood Sugar, and Achieving Extraordinary Health
“In a study of children's toy and television preferences, researchers Isabelle Cherney and Kamala London found that, when left alone, half of boys ages five through thirteen picked "girl" and "boy" toys equally - until they thought they were being watched. They were especially concerned about what their fathers would think if they saw them. Over time, boys' interests in toys and media become more rigidly masculinized and codified, whereas girls' stay relatively open ended and flexible.”
Source: Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
“In a study that examined clothing and athletic performance, researchers found that athletes who wore red clothing in the 2004 Olympic Games won more events than those athletes who wore blue.”
Source: The Power of Tattoos: Twelve Hidden Energy Secrets of Body Art Every Tattoo Enthusiast Should Know
“In a study that I just did, I found that it was older children, not younger children, who felt that they didn't have enough time with their parents.”
“In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioning, but grown. This was due to a kind of increased existential awareness that resulted from this confrontation with the death of another. And I think it brought them in touch with their own death, so they began to experience a kind of preciousness to life that comes with an experience of its transiency.”
“In a study, scientists report that drinking beer can be good for the liver. I'm sorry, did I say 'scientists'? I meant Irish people.”
“In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will.”
Source: George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
“In a stupid society, a clever man can come into the power; but in a clever society no stupid can come into the power!”
“In a subway car, my skin would typically fall in the middle of the color spectrum. On street corners, tourists would ask me for directions. I was, in four and a half years, never an American; I was immediately a New Yorker.”
Source: The Reluctant Fundamentalist
“In a successful marriage, there is no such thing as one's way. There is only the way of both, only the bumpy, dusty, difficult, but always mutual path.”
Source: The province of the heart
“In a successful painting everything is integral - all the parts belong to the whole. If you remove an aspect or element you are removing its wholeness.”
“In a successful picture book, you always want the voice of the text to match the voice of the art; so that it seems as if the same person writing is the one illustrating and vice versa.”
“In a sudden and soundless eruption, as if he has fallen into a waking dream, a stream of images pours down, images of women he has known on two continents, some from so far away in time that he barely recognizes them. Like leaves blown on the wind, pell-mell, they pass before him. A fair field full of folk: hundreds of lives all tangled with his. He holds his breath, willing the vision to continue.
What has happened to them, all those women, all those lives? Are there moments when they too, or some of them, are plunged without warning into the ocean of memory? The German girl: is it possible that at this very instant she is remembering the man who picked her up on the roadside in Africa and spent the night with her?
Enriched: that was the word the newspapers picked on to jeer at. A stupid word to let slip, under the circumstances, yet now, at this moment, he would stand by it. By Melanie, by the girl in Touws River; by Rosalind, Bev Shaw, Soraya: by each of them he was enriched, and by the others too, even the least of them, even the failures. Like a flower blooming in his breast, his heart floods with thankfulness.”
Source: Disgrace
“In a suit and tie, Jacob Weston is a businessman, chivalrous, generous, and kind. But in the bedroom, he’s demanding, domineering, and downright delectable, and I will let him control me in any way he deems fit.”
Source: Together We Lie
“In a suitable temperature, an egg becomes a chicken, and there are no chickens born of stones.”
“In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.”
“In a supportive classroom, every student's voice is heard, valued, and respected, creating a sense of belonging and empowerment.”
“In a surprising unanimous ruling, the Supreme Court ruled the police cannot search what is on your phone without a warrant. Court observers said a unanimous decision from this court was slightly less likely than Scalia winning the annual Supreme Court wet robe contest.”
“In a survey of American educational institutions, Robert M. Hutchins, then President of the University of Chicago, developed the thesis that the character of our educational systems reflects the character of the society that sustains and engenders them. The society in this instance is one characterized by aggression, both individual and social, by a wide disparity of wealth, privilege, and opportunity, by materialistic values and standards, and by a rather confused and demoralized ideology. Our educational system is the inevitable progeny of its present society.”
Source: Reveille for Radicals
“In a suspended psychic state, writers cull words and symbols from the mystical world of memory, imagination, and intuition.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is magic in this moist world, in how the mind lets go, slips into sleepy water, circles and nuzzles the banks of palmetto and wild iris, how it seeps across dreams, smears them into the upright world, rots the wood of treasure chests, welcomes the body home.”
Source: Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination
“In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance.”
Source: Carlyle Reader
“In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance. In the symbol proper, what we can call a symbol, there is ever, more or less distinctly and directly, some embodiment and revelation of the Infinite; the Infinite is made to blend itself with the Finite, to stand visible, and as it were, attainable there. By symbols, accordingly, is man guided and commanded, made happy, made wretched.”
Source: Carlyle Reader
“In a system of capitalism, as people's wealth rises, the financial incentive to serve them rises. As their wealth falls, the financial incentive to serve them falls, until it becomes zero. We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.”
“In a system of free trade and free markets poor countries - and poor people - are not poor because others are rich. Indeed, if others became less rich the poor would in all probability become still poorer.”
“In a system that integrates additive manufacturing at scale, shipping will be less about getting products from one place to another and more about getting commodities from each place to the other.”
“In a system where the cost of care is hidden by taxes levied on your income, property, and business activities, it is no wonder why so many Americans rely on Medicaid to pay their long term care.”
“In a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day. The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear. Never let fear prevent you from doing right.”
“In a systemic world, there is no such thing as a discrete or isolated event - impacts cascade and spill over.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption
“In a systemic world, there is no such thing as discrete or isolated events - impacts cascade and spill over. Drivers of disruption collide, intersect, and amplify.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation
“In a technologically advanced world, the most powerful nation is not the one with nuclear power, but the one with coding power.”
Source: Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather
“In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.”
“In a theater you can fool everyone past the tenth row if you're good, but on the screen you can't really fool anyone for a second.”
“In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery”
“In a theatre it happened that a fire started off stage. The clown came out to tell the audience. They thought it was a joke and applauded. He told them again, and they became still more hilarious. This is the way, I suppose, that the world will be destroyed-amid the universal hilarity of wits and wags who think it is all a joke.”
“In a thing, they can create a pretext coined hundreds of excuses , but the truth is only one.”
“In a thousand pound of Law there's not an ounce of love.”
“In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964
“In a thousand voices singing the Hallelujah Chorus in Handel's "Messiah," it is possible to distinguish the leading voices, but the differences of training and cultivation between them and the voices in the chorus, are lost in the unity of purpose and in the fact that they are all human voices lifted by a high motive.”
Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes
“In a thousand words I can have the Lord's Prayer, the 23rd Psalm, the Hippocratic Oath, a sonnet by Shakespeare, the Preamble to the Constitution, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and almost all of the Boy Scout Oath. Now exactly what picture were you planning to trade for all that?”
“In a thousand years, nobody will remember the naysayers and meek worshippers, but your work will write your name upon the very fabric of time in golden engravings.”
Source: Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty