I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“In a world of selfie-addiction smile usually is the brand name for an essential drug called pretense”
“In a world of seven billion people, we must see ourselves as part of the landscape.”
Source: Panda Love: The Secret Lives of Pandas
“In a world of seven billion people, where every inch of land has been mapped, much of it developed, and too much of it destroyed, the sea remains the final unseen, untouched, and undiscovered wilderness, the planet’s last great frontier. There are no mobile phones down there, no e-mails, no tweeting, no twerking, no car keys to lose, no terrorist threats, no birthdays to forget, no penalties for late credit card payments, and no dog shit to step in before a job interview. All the stress, noise, and distractions of life are left at the surface. The ocean is the last truly quiet place on Earth.”
Source: Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves
“In a world of shallowness and narcissism motivation is yet another commodity that can be gift-wrapped and sold to all those suckers who are just begging to be ripped off.”
Source: High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination
“In a world of smoke and ashes, you are milk and honey”
“In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients.”
Source: The Story Sisters: A Novel
“In a world of stupidity a thinking man is insane”
“In a world of such beauty as birds in flight, surely I can come to feel at home again, even after my loss.”
“In a world of swipes and likes,
She is a love letter kind of girl.
She doesn’t need pearls or fancy dinners;
Just a bottle of whiskey,
A car radio, and a blanket
Beneath the stars.”
Source: From Scars to Stars: Pieces of a Healing Heart
“In a world of the ordinary and predictable, be a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.”
Source: Song of a Nature Lover
“In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”
Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
“In a world of those who follow the rules without deviation those who innovate even in the shadows, will rule. Never be a carbon copy." -Ena”
Source: Silver Silence
“In a world of travail and cheap wine the ridiculous becomes sublime”
Source: A Life in the Music
“In a world of true abundance you shouldn't have to work to justify your life.”
“In a world of turmoil and uncertainty, it is more important than ever to make our families the center of our lives and the top of our priorities.”
“In a world of universal poverty
The philosophers alone will be fat
Against the autumn winds
In an autumn that will be perpetual.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
“In a world of unlimited possibilities, there is always the possibility that there are no possibilities.”
“In a world of unrest and fear, political turmoil and moral drift, I testify that Jesus is the Christ—that He is the living Bread and living Water—still, yet, and always the great Shield of safety in our lives.”
“In a world of upward mobility, choose downward servility.”
Source: Grace for the Moment: Morning and Evening Devotional Journal
“In a world of vanilla Coke be a five-dollar shake. In a world where everyone is ordinary be as sensual AF.”
“In a world of war, pain and suffering, all I want for Christmas is an underwater watch and a silver clutch rod for my dirt bike.”
“In a world of well-defined problems, directors are required to exercise influence over volatility, manage uncertainty, simplify complexity, and resolve ambiguity in the 21st-century digital environment.”
Source: Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards
“In a world of wolves one should go armed, and one of the most powerful defensive weapons within the reach of Negroes is the practice of race first in all parts of the world.”
Source: The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers: September 1920-August 1921
“In a world often marked by selfishness, a large family is a school of solidarity and sharing; and this attitude is to the benefit of society as a whole.... I always thank the Lord in seeing mothers and fathers of large families, together with their children, committed to the life of the Church and of society.”
“In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female…In their traditional exhibitionist role women are simultaneously looked at and displayed, with their appearance coded for strong visual and erotic impact so that they can be said to connote to-be-looked-at-ness”
Source: Visual and Other Pleasures
“In a world plagued with commonplace tragedies, only one thing exists that truly has the power to save lives, and that is love.”
Source: Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher
“In a world populated by oblongs,
I would surely be a square.”
“In a world preponderantly bestrided by inconsiderate and narcissistic personages, a candid creature can be deftly swindled for all intents and purposes by the disingenuous crocodiles. So, always be critical of analysing homo sapiens antecedent to getting acquainted owing to the verity that even poisons have a sweet flavour. ”
“In a world primed with the probability of hate, be love impossible and lift all lost in lament.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“In a world progressively becoming more digital, it's important to remember where we've been as we continue moving forward. How do we do that best? With museums.”
Source: Beyond the Halls: An Insider's Guide to Loving Museums
“In a world pulsating with so much information, the only information that you need is the stuff that will lead you straight to your own soul. Think of this: Most of the information that is fed to you, is motivated by the desire to earn money. Forget what the magazines say, what the forums say, what all the experts say. Your soul does not need to be spoon-fed with stuff it doesn't need. Your soul needs to be seen and found, and what leads you to that, is the only information that you need.”
“In a world rife with unsolicited messages, typography must often draw attention to itself before it will be read. Yet in order to be read, it must relinquish the attention it has drawn. Typography with anything to say therefore aspires to a kind of statuesque transparency. It's other traditional goal is durability: not immunity to change, but a clear superiority to fashion. Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.”
“In a world ruled by the dead, we are forced to finally start living.”
Source: The Walking Dead, Vol. 15: We Find Ourselves
“In a world run by indifference nobody is safe for long.”
Source: The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work
“In a world run by the indigenous, no ethnicity is the second race.”
Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
“In a world run by women, no gender is second gender.”
Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
“In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle their differences.”
“In a world, slowly but consistently morphing into a well structured global tyranny, it is preferable to have questions one cannot answer; than to have answers that one cannot question.”
“In a world so big, you can reach the sky,
You can be anything, just give it a try!
Climb every mountain, sail every sea,
Be who you want to be, happy and free.”
Source: With Love, From Mom: The Journey of Dreams
“In a world so full of pain and horror, it isn't a sin to feel happy. It's those moments that keep us going, that keep us sane, that remind us that there's something to fight for.”
Source: The Last Feather
“In a world so invested in effort, it is difficult to embrace the idea of not trying hard.”
Source: FLOWERS OF STARDUST
“In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such absence of dignity?”
“In a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.”
“In a world so unwell,
few people are sane,
and even while in hell,
they don't fight in vain.”
Source: A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job
“In a world so vast, love's tender touch speaks volumes deep, a language of love that never sleeps.”
Source: LOVE'S JOURNEY: THE REALM OF EMOTION
“In a world soaked in propaganda, men who were meant to be rational now move almost entirely by emotion.”
“In a world spoiled by the obituary of attention and the dormancy of empathy, people are coming up short of authentic emotion. (“The upper lip must never tremble”)”
“In a world starving for validity, the truth, when spoken at the right moment, can be one of the purest and most helpful forms of charity.”
Source: To Life from the Shadows
“In a world stolen by whites, anything non-white is inferior.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“In a world such as ours, where we have to cross the great divide of otherness or we will not survive, love is perhaps the most critical aspect that is there in our humanity, to both activate and to practice.”