I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“In a virtuous action, I properly am; in a virtuous act, I add to the world; I plant into deserts conquered from Chaos and Nothing, and see the darkness receding on the limits of the horizon.”
Source: Select Essays and Poems
“In a virtuous and free state, no rewards can be so pleasing to sensible minds, as those which include the approbation of our fellow citizens. My great pain is, lest my poor endeavours should fall short of the kind expectations of my country.”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: a biography in his own words
“In a virtuous government, and more especially in times like these, public offices are what they should be - burdens to those appointed to them which it would be wrong to decline, though foreseen to bring them intense labor and great private loss.”
Source: Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness
“In a vision, Irie has seen a time, a time not far from now, when roots won’t matter any more because they can’t because they mustn’t because they’re too long and they’re too tortuous and they’re just buried too damn deep. She looks forward to it.”
Source: White Teeth
“In a volatile market, high leverage trading can be a double-edged sword. If you’re not an experienced trader, it is best to avoid taking large leverage positions. Protect your capital—start small, learn, and scale wisely.”
“In a volunteer organization there has to be time for community.”
“In a VUCA world, if you’re not consciously confused, you’re ignorant. If you’re not preparing, you’re negligent.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“In a war a totalitarian state has a free hand.”
“In a war between customers and the company, customers might lose the fight due to the difference of powers, but the company is the ultimate loser.”
Source: Quantraz
“In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.”
Source: Wars I have seen
“In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.”
“In a war the aggressor sets the rules.”
“In a war, the first casualty is human dignity.”
Source: The Spy
“In a war the last thing the English know is how to practice fair play.”
“In a war the most dangerous thing is to understand the enemy. To understand is to forgive.”
Source: Night Watch
“In a war the most dangerous thing is to understand the enemy. To understand is to forgive. And we
have no right to do that—we never have had, not since the creation of the world.”
“In a war you have to take up arms and people will get killed, and I can support that kind of action by petrol bombing and bombs under cars, and probably at a later stage, the shooting of vivisectors on their doorsteps. It's a war, and there's no other way you can stop vivisectors.”
“In a war, you wield every weapon you have, including words. Especially words.”
Source: Exo
“In a war, no matter the outcome of a certain skirmish or battle, the winner is the party whose attitudes, behaviors and preoccupations come to dominate the postwar landscape. By this measure, the outcome of the gender wars, if wars they were, is clear: women won.”
“In a war, you do whatever you have to do.”
“In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on”
“In a warmaxxing world of drone swarms and directed energy weapons, an aircraft carrier is a sitting duck. It's not the kind of thing I'd want in my pond with my Pekins.”
Source: Whenever you're here, I'm there for you
“In a way "Drive" is probably the greatest superhero movie ever made.”
“In a way all writers are writing against death, because writing is an attempt to defy the passage of time, to refuse to let the past disappear and be forgotten, and to refuse to let the present become the past - to try to keep living another day, to try to talk your way into life, or seduce your way into it.”
“In a way an umpire is like a woman. He makes quick decisions, never reverses them, and doesn't think you're safe when you're out.”
“In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back.”
“In a way,” Ava said, “we hardly know ourselves. Our senses are limited, our brains are biased, and our instruments are imprecise. Even all of visible matter is just a tiny fraction of what exists. Think about dark matter and dark energy. Think about all the hypotheses that haven’t been tested or can’t be tested in our lifetimes. Our bodies of knowledge are not only incomplete. They’re changing with every approximation, with every rigorous study. The more we learn, the more mysteries arise in the universe. To me, that’s the greatest realization. Discovering how insignificantly small we are in the cosmos while knowing we’re the cosmos too. We are what we’re looking for. We believe we’re so separate from everything, but we’re all connected in this moment, changing, always changing, but never capable enough to realize the immensity of existence itself. Our mammalian brains will never comprehend our interconnection to everything. We’re waves in an ocean and we don’t truly understand how deep that ocean can go.”
Source: Father in My Name
“In a way, Darius brings the vampire back to a more classical interpretation. A modern day Dracula who is charming, sensual, and completely monstrous. There is no pretense of humanity with him. He considers himself a member of a species that is the true apex predator of the world, feeding on humans and using them as puppets for their own bizarre games. He's not struggling with any inner angst. Most humans are either food, entertainment, or useful tools to him. Sometimes all three. He finds the modern popular interpretation of vampires both amusing and useful for his own agenda.”
Source: A Game of Blood
“In a way, everything we’ve ever seen across the surface of this earth is what has been dreamed up from the elements that this land contains within. This includes you, as well as me. We are the dreamed, dreaming; beings who one day not long ago were never even dreamed of. Now we do the dreaming.”
Source: Commendable Delusions: Tales of Meaning and Imagination
“In a way fighting was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.”
Source: The Magicians Trilogy
“In a way, for women, marriage was like an extended babysitting gig. The woman was committing herself to coddling and watching over a grown man for the rest of her life.”
Source: Texas Jack
“In a way, gluttony is an athletic feat, a stretching exercise.”
Source: Rabbit at Rest
“In a way, he knew it would be better if she died a quick painless death. It would be easier for him because, otherwise, how else could he justify leaving the city without finding her, first?”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“In a way he made me think of a child doll, with briliant faintly red-brown glass eyes - a doll that had been found in an attic. I wanted to polish him with kisses, clean him up, make him evevn more radiant than he was. "That's what you always want," he said softly... "When you found me under Les Innocents," he said, "you wanted to bathe me with perfume and dress me in velvevt with great embroidered sleeves." "Yes," I said, "and comb your hair, your beautiful russet hair." My tone was angry. "You look good to me, you damnable little devil, good to embrace and good to love.”
“In a way, he made me think of a doll, with brilliant glass eyes - a doll that had been found in an attic. I wanted to polish him with kisses, clean him up, make him even more radiant than he was. "That's what you always wanted," he said softly. His tone was melancholy. "When you found me under Les Innocents, you wanted to bathe me with perfume and dress me in velvet."
"You look good to me, you damnable little devil, good to emgrace and good to love." My tone was angry. We eyed each other for a moment. And then he surpised me, rising and coming towards me just as I moved to take him in my arms. His gesture wasn't tentative, but it was extremely gentle. We held each other tight for a moment. The cold embracing the cold. "I can't remember anything sad bweween us, " I said.
"You will," he responded. "And so will I. But what does it matter what we remember?"
"Yes," I said. "We're both still here.”
Source: Memnoch the Devil
“In a way I almost feel like the election of Donald Trump has inspired Democrats and progressives and punk rockers in a way that hasn't been seen since Vietnam.”
“In a way I am saying the nation-state doesn't exist, borders don't exist, you can try going anywhere. It is a kind of pre-Internet consensus I always had in me.”
“In a way, I cherish my numerous heartbreaks almost more than the actual love that preceded them, because the heartbreak has always proven to me that I can feel.”
Source: The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
“In a way I do hate the process of writing. It's like learning a role where you never think you're going to be able to conquer it when you start and it just takes enough focus and narrowing and getting enthusiastic and not losing it and so on. It's never good enough, but you aim for something and you hope it comes somewhat close. But it is a pleasure once you have written it.”
“In a way I feel I have been vindicated because I hadn't done anything wrong. The Review Committee gave me a patient hearing and I put my point of view across to them.”
“In a way I haven't quite stopped mourning the end of my childhood.”
“In a way I imagine eternity must be a little like a photograph (a place without time) of the good and bad times we have lived through. And thus, for eternity, we will be living through them for ever, Hell and Heaven at once. Those months I lived beside Fradique will be my Heaven, the time I lived as a slave to Gabriela Santamarinha my Hell.”
Source: Nação Crioula
“In a way - I know how crazy this will sound, of course I do, but there is no sense in writing something as long as this if you can't say what feels true to your heart.”
Source: The Green Mile
“In a way I like the idea of something so dramatic happening to me. I would like to upset people's expectations.”
Source: Normal People
“In a way, I'm glad that I was poisoned. If I hadn't been, I wouldn't have found you.”
Source: Fall of Ruin and Wrath
“In a way, I'm grateful for having grown up in Halloween Town, because it forged me into a mighty queen. Jack's heart would burst with pride to see me standing up to a dragon with fire in my eyes and a tailor's sword in hand, defending someone smaller than me.”
Source: Hour of the Pumpkin Queen
“In a way, I owe the invitation to the incredible, abysmal, and really cowardly obtuseness of white liberals. Whether in private debate or in public, any attempt I made to explain how the Black Muslim movement came about, and how it has achieved such force, was met with a blankness that revealed the little connection that the liberals' attitudes have with their perceptions or their lives, or even their knowledge—revealed, in fact, that they could deal with the Negro as a symbol or a victim but had no sense of him as a man.”
Source: The Fire Next Time
“In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from where I grew up - grabbing things, taking not only from architecture but from Italy, art, writing, poetry, music.”
“In a way I think why the Ghost story is very relatable to a large audience is that it's kind of a coming of age story and it's a realisation of 'I am what I am - what has happened to me, good or bad, that is the sum of who I am now'.”
“In a way, I was incrediibly proud of her (not that I had any intention of letting it show while I was beating the crap out of her).”