I Quotes
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“In a way I was raised with three parents, my older sister always wanting to mother me
instead of sister me.”
Source: Survived By: A Memoir in Verse + Other Poems
“In a way I'd say it's maybe more satisfying to do a play, because there is a beginning, middle, and end. But I also really enjoy the television experience, because there's a certain part of it that you have to let go of and trust in that process.”
“In a way I'm almost more rueful about the notion of having a non-ideological Labour party than I am about the personality of Tony Blair.”
“In a way I'm lucky because when people suggest I won't be able to do something I have no choice but to show them they are wrong. If I say I'm doing it, I'm doing it. No matter how hard it is.”
“In a way I'm probably immortal.”
“In a way it costs thousands dollars before you could actually go out to put the show on because you'll need equipments, all the lights you know, and that's more just going out and playing you know.”
“In a way, it didn't. They didn't start the fight. I did. That's the part only my therapist knows. I didn't mind that they spat at me and shoved into me as I walked across the football field on my way home. I'd learned to ignore that. I snapped and started the fight because they said something awful about Ever.
Irrational gallantry, maybe? I never asked for this type of masculinity, but there it was.”
Source: Even If We Break
“In a way it does not matter where I am. In another way where I am is fated.”
Source: The Message To The Planet
“in a way it doesn't matter whether you open doors or close them, you still end up in a box.”
Source: The Women's Room
“In a way, it helped. Nothing added to your resolution to live so much as someone else suggesting that you die.”
Source: Harrow the Ninth
“In a way it is necessary to marry. If marriage is bad, the alternative is worse. For a moment he wished that he were married; he pined for the difficulty of it, the reality, the pain. And marriage must be indissoluble, for better for worse, for richer, for poorer, till death do you part. The old christian ideal, marriage tempered by adultery. Commit adultery if you must, but have the decency to call it adultery. None of that amercian soulmate slop. Have your fun and then sneak home, juice of the forbidden fruit dripping from your whiskers, and take the consequences. Better that, perhaps, than horrible freedom? You'd know, at least, that it was real life that you were living.”
Source: Keep the Aspidistra Flying
“In a way it is necessary to marry. If marriage is bad, the alternative is worse. For a moment he wished that he were married; he pined for the difficulty of it, the reality, the pain. And marriage must be indissoluble, for better for worse, for richer, for poorer, till death do you part. The old christian ideal, marriage tempered by adultery. Commit adultery if you must, but have the decency to call it adultery. None of that amercian soulmate slop. Have your fun and then sneak home, juice of the forbidden fruit dripping from your whiskers, and take the consequences. Better that, perhaps, than horrible freedom? You'd know, at least, that it was real life that you were living. The devil of it is, outside marriage, no decent relationship with a woman is possible.”
Source: Keep the Aspidistra Flying
“In a way it scared me, having a summer of experiences and feelings that belonged to me alone. What happened in front of my friends felt read. What happened to me by myself felt partly dreamed, partly imagined, definitely shifted and warped by own fears and wants. And who knows? Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.”
Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
“In a way it was a modern story but it played to all those 1980 slasher movies. We did the same thing with this. Patrick wanted to do a 1970's road movie and if you'll see, this is a modern story but it's got so much 1970's in your face feel to it. So that was the point, to take that stuff that we loved growing up and sort of do it for today. I think we accomplished it. We'll see.”
“In a way, it was easier for me to quiet my mind with my eyes open. It was when I closed my eyes and everything went dark that most of my worries came rushing out. In the dark there was no distraction, and every fear seemed to want to come out and play.”
Source: Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart
“In a way, it was the same as any normal break up. You took what was yours …. and I kept what I’d had from before we were together…
You took my heart …. and I had nothing…”
“In a way it's the emotional feeling that you get in a good rock song or folk song, there's just nothing that rivals that.”
“In a way, losing hope and losing importance are the same thing. It is that youthful vibrance, that eternal longing and believing, that makes youth so important--if you grow old and lose that without finding another way to be important, you will slip away, fall into insignificance, like one sheet of paper. You may be useful, but you will never stand out from the crowd. You cannot look at a piece of paper and say, "I remember you." You never can.”
Source: Dear Killer
“In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.”
“In a way my work is documentary. But I am also a photographer who has a distinct style. My photographs are a companion to the reality of the situation.”
“In a way, Old Man Cronin, the cemetery caretaker, had become the dead’s spokesman — someone had to stick up for them.”
Source: Billy's Experiment: An Old Castle Novel
“In a way, one could argue that the whole financial sector is a scam of sorts, since it represents itself as largely about directing investments toward profitable opportunities in commerce and industry, when, in fact, it does very little of that. The overwhelming bulk of its profits comes from colluding with government to create, and then to trade and manipulate, various forms of debt. All I am really arguing in this book is that just as much of what the financial sector does is basically smoke and mirrors, so are most of the information-sector jobs that accompanied its rise as well.”
Source: Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
“In a way, our brains mimic the universe in the way they have turned out. They are far from perfect, not fully evil yet not fully good, not fully brilliant yet not fully naive.”
Source: Random Cosmos
“In a way, people like her, those who wield a pen, can be dangerous. At once a suspicion of fakery springs to mind – that such a Person is not him or herself, but an eye that’s constantly watching, and whatever it sees it changes into sentences: in the process it strips reality of its most essential quality – its inexpressibility.”
Source: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
“In a way, plants are the business ventures of fungi. To fungi, plants are long term investments that provide enormous yield. And to the plants, fungi are very valuable investments that provide enormous yield. There's something to learn there applicable to the design of business networks and economic systems.”
“In a way players at the top should try to promote the game in their own countries as that is the legacy that makes you feel proud. If you have not done that you have failed as a sportsperson.”
“In a way Poe was a big influence for Conan Doyle to create Sherlock Holmes. I think he really did influence many artist of the time like Baudelaire, who was a big fan of Poe, and who was the one that brought attention to Poe's work in Europe.”
“In a way records are like paintings. Instead of using paints and brushes we use sounds and instruments.”
“In a way, science might be described as paranoid thinking applied to Nature: we are looking for natural conspiracies, for connections among apparently disparate data. Our objective is to abstract patterns from Nature (right-hemisphere thinking), but many proposed patterns do not in fact correspond to the
data. Thus all proposed patterns must be subjected to the sieve of critical analysis (left-hemisphere thinking).”
Source: The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
“In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.”
Source: Ender's Game
“In a way, she'd rather trust him and be wrong than deal with the worry of mistrust.”
Source: The Well of Ascension
“In a way song writing can almost be detrimental, because suddenly you find an outlet that is a kind of cheating. You don't need to have direct communication. You can say, 'I can't describe it to you, but I will record it and send it to you.'”
“In a way that somebody else converts to Judaism or becomes a Hare Krishna, I belong to the church of fried chicken.”
“In a way, the chair was her friend. It freed her from all the illusions. It showed her the truth. She was alone. No one was there to help her.”
Source: Horrorstör
“In a way the new music showed things could be transformed by new channels of communication.”
“In a way, the organizations we lead have the opportunity, every day, to be brought out from the grave like Lazarus. In a way, the organizations we lead must regularly embark on a sort of self-crucifixion (as Christ), experience a death of the old, that they may be born again better. This, among other things, demonstrates that R6 is a philosophy, not just a framework.”
Source: GAME CHANGR6: An Executives Guide to Dominating Change, by applying the R6 Resilience Change Management Framework
“In a way, the Phi Triangle of the Golden Mean could be compared to the path of light sent forth from the great All-Seeing Eye of God in the beginning, and which paved the way for the creation of the Universe.”
Source: The English Cabalah Volume 2, The Mysteries of Phi
“In a way the philosopher and the barber are of the same guild; the barber cuts hair and the philosopher splits hairs.”
Source: Man and People (Norton Library
“In a way, the view that we are chained to our natures and the belief that we are products of external forces are diametrically opposed. One sees each human as a product of his or her own static character and disposition. The other sees each individual as an object on which circumstances act. Both see human behavior as constrained rather than free. One can be agnostic about whether internal or external forces are more influential in any given case and still acknowledge that the end result is limit rather than choice.”
Source: The Myth of Choice: Personal Responsibility in a World of Limits
“In a way then, the Divine Principle, this new revelation, is the documentary of my life. It is my own life experience. The Divine Principle is in me, and I am in the Divine Principle.”
“In a way there's only a fine shade of difference between the healthy and the deranged.”
“In a way, we are all imprisoned by our beliefs, our opinions, our fears and our worries. We are therefore causing our own suffering. We are responsible for our unhappiness. Happiness truly is a decision. It is the ability to unshackle ourselves, to break free from all those people, events and things that makes us intensely unhappy. And this ability manifests itself in you when you understand that Life is intrinsically a limited-period offer and when you realize that by postponing your Happiness, you are actually squandering an opportunity of a lifetime – literally!!!”
“In a way, we're basically equipped to empathize with others because we feel happy when we're nice to someone. Because we are social animals that live in packs, we're programmed to share happiness when we do something for another person.”
Source: Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism
“In a way, what Tarantino has done with the French New Wave and with David Lynch is what Pat Boone did with rhythm and blues: He's found (ingeniously) a way to take what is ragged and distinctive and menacing about their work and homogenize it, churn it until it's smooth and cool and hygienic enough for mass consumption. Reservoir Dogs, for example, with its comically banal lunch chatter, creepily otiose code names, and intrusive soundtrack of campy pop from decades past, is a Lynch movie made commercial, i.e., fast, linear, and with what was idiosyncratically surreal now made fashionably (i.e., "hiply") surreal [...] D. Lynch is an exponentially better filmmaker than Q. Tarantino. For, unlike Tarantino, D. Lynch knows that an act of violence in an American film has, through repetition and desensitization, lost the ability to refer to anything but itself. A better way to put what I just tried to say: Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear.”
“In a way, when TV went digital, we lost a foothold in reality. Now, we'll never truly know if what we're watching is real or has been altered and transmitted to us. Digital culture brought a step away from truth.”
Source: The Tao of Wu
“In a way Winter is the real Spring - the time when the inner things happen, the resurgence of nature.”
“In a way women are fleshier because of estrogen. It's hard for us to lose weight because when we get super skinny we don't ovulate. Women in camps during the Holocaust didn't menstruate and didn't ovulate. They were starving; they were terrified. Why emulate that condition? It's nonsensical to me.”
“In a way, yes,’ said Jack and handed the peeled clementine over to the squire, then took another one for himself. ‘But some of us are wealthier than others – just look at your house and your valley, and your horses. And your wisdom.’
‘My wisdom?’
‘You know things.’
‘And you? Don't you know things?’
‘Yes,’ said Jack, sharply drawing in the air, ‘I know things. Everyone knows some things. But I wish you'd share some of your wisdom with me as graciously as your food.’
‘Wisdom is not the same as knowing things, my boy, and I am not wise.”
Source: The First Tale of the Tinners' Rabbits
“In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, now, how would this go for him? Would this do or not?”
“In a way, 'Billy Elliot' was autobiographical. I can't dance, but I think his dancing was me discovering about writing and literature.”