I Quotes
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“In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.”
“In all relationships, regardless of their nature, there comes that moment when you understand that there are some things you will never understand. When you are standing in that moment, just be right with it.”
“In all relationships, there are always aching holes and that's where the impossible wishes come into it.”
“In all religions, the quickening spirit has been symbolically represented as a bird. At the baptism, when Jesus body was in the water, the Spirit of Christ descended into it as a dove.”
Source: Mysteries of the Great Operas
“In all religions, we make a choice about what we emphasize, and I choose to come down on the side of a loving God.”
Source: Hard Questions, Heart Answers
“In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.”
“In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.”
Source: The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
“In all sectors of society there should be roughly equal prospects of culture and achievement for everyone similarly motivated and endowed. The expectations of those with the same abilities and aspirations should not be affected by their social class.”
Source: A Theory of Justice
“In all sensation we pick and choose, interpret, seek and impose order, and devise and test hypotheses about what we witness. Sense data are taken, not merely given: we learn to perceive.... The teacher has forgotten, and the student himself will soon forget, that what he sees conveys no information until he knows beforehand the kind of thing he is expected to see.”
“In all serious disease states we find a concomitant low oxygen state... Low oxygen in the body tissues is a sure indicator for disease...Hypoxia, or lack of oxygen in the tissues, is the fundamental cause for all degenerative disease. Oxygen is the source of life to all cells.”
“In all seriousness, Archer claims that if you, as a living, alive person, hear the song "You're the One That I Want" from the musical Grease three times in a single day - seemingly by accident, whether in an elevator, on a radio, a telephone hold button, or whatever - it indicates that you'll surely die before sunset.”
Source: Damned
“In all seriousness, I'm flattered and humbled to have been asked to reprise my role as Luke in the 'Veronica Mars' movie.”
“In all seriousness, it really should be difficult for me to be too strange. After all, a great family raised me.”
“In all seriousness, people think that it's the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words - that's how long a novel is.”
“In all seriousness, the first book [The Andy Cohen Diaries: A Deep Look at a Shallow Year] was such a love letter to Wacha, that I think people will be interested and surprised to see that I had some challenges with him in year two.”
“In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.”
Source: The Principles of Success in Literature
“In all situations where bad design decisions were made, people lacked some information that would have helped them make the right decision.”
“In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life. That is, a class requiring but a low order of intellect and but little skill. Its requisites are vigor, docility, fidelity. Such a class you must have, or you would not have that other class which leads progress, civilization, and refinement.”
Source: Selections from the Letters and Speeches of the Hon. James H. Hammond: Of South Carolina
“In all societies, both women and men are powerfully conditioned to repress the daily realities of (sexual harassment and workplace glass ceilings) and to collude with the rest of society in keeping these dimensions of shared experiences hidden.”
Source: Divine Duality: The Power of Reconciliation Between Women and Men
“In all societies that have applied a form of socialism, a certain degree of social economic equality has been achieved.”
“In all societies, women are in double jeopardy; on the one hand we are expected to conform to certain emotional standards in our relationships with others at the penalty of being declared insane; on the other, our political perceptions are labeled "irrational" and "hysterical.”
Source: On Lies, Secrets, and Silence. Selected Prose 1966-1978
“In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but because, if disgusted there, we can descend at any time; but if we begin with the lowest, to ascend is impossible.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“In all sorts of government man is made to believe himself free, and to be in chains.”
Source: Moral reflections, sentences and maxims of Francis, duc de la Rochefoucauld
“In all sorts of markets—music, film, art, and politics—the future of popularity will be harder to predict as the broadcast power of radio and television democratizes and the channels of exposure grow.... The gatekeepers had their day. Now there are simply too many gates to keep.”
Source: Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction
“In all spheres of life, there are constraints. You have to develop your own strategy to overcome each constraint.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“In all spheres of life, we find the grace of patient endurance.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“In all spheres of modern life the influence of Stalin reaches wide and deep. From his last simply written but vastly discerning and comprehensive document, back through the years, his contributions to the science of our world society remain invaluable. One reverently speaks of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin—the shapers of humanity’s richest present and future.”
Source: Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974
“In all states of dilemma or of difficulty, prayer is an available source. The ship of prayer may sail through all temptations, doubts and fears, straight up to the throne of God; and though she may be outward bound with only griefs, and groans, and sighs, she shall return freighted with a wealth of blessings!”
“In all successful relationships, the man respects the woman - and it takes a special guy to handle a successful woman. You have to be confident in who you are and what you do.”
“In all summaries, the problems seem simpler than they actually are. In the following conclusions, anxiety may sound again like an abnormal condition affecting only unfortunate individuals. I would like to emphasize again that anxiety is a life-long challenge. The tradegy of Brown is that his anxiety, which was severe enough at times to remove almost all possibilities from his existence, is mainly destructive and paralyzingly rather than challenging and enlivening. I hope the reader will keep in mind the essential humanness of anxiety.”
Source: The Meaning Of Anxiety
“In all superstition wise men follow fools.”
“In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.”
“In all systems of theology, the devil figures as a male person.”
“In all teaching there must be a fusion of authority as an adult providing a stable framework for the children in one's care, and humility as another human being ready to educate an equal who may turn out to be a superior.”
Source: Unfinished journey
“In all technai or arts (medicine perhaps most of all), there is a self-exhilaration on the part of the practitioner (the intoxication of the ego with its own potency) which is infectious: the patient enjoys a placebo-effect which redounds to the ego of the "artist."”
“In all tests of character, when two viewpoints are pitted against one another, in the final analysis the thing that will strike you the most, is not who was right or wrong, strong or weak, wise or foolish.... but who would go to the greatest lengths in considering the other's perspective.”
“In all that enormous excitement of fighting spirit, only Oskan noticed that the terrible warlike figure of Redrought Strong-in-the-Arm Lindenshield, Bear of the North, Drinker of Blood was still wearing his fluffy slippers and that Primplepuss the kitten was peeping out of his shirt collar to see what all the noise was about.”
Source: The Cry of the Icemark
“In all that galaxy of talent there was no brighter star than Niels Henrik Abel, the man of whom Hermite said, “He has left mathematicians something to keep them busy for five hundred years.”
“In all that I saw, I was satisfied, for I could dance in the drops of water, laugh with the laps of joyous tears, and sing to the songs of streaming senses.”
Source: Nature's 1st Gem Is Green
“In all that people can do for themselves, government ought not to interfere.”
“In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.”
“In all that was to happen, there would be that feeling of inevitability and rightness, and the sense that the universe was conspiring in it. It would be easy.”
Source: Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy
“In all that we do in the Church, we need to provide the way, as leaders, for parents and children to have time together as families.”
“In all that we lose, we rediscover a hidden part of ourselves. Loss is a road toward self discovery because it is only when we are stripped back to nothing, that we realise how truly valuable we are.”
Source: Stardust and Star Jumps: A Motivational Guide to Help You Reach Toward Your Dreams, Goals, and Life Purpose
“In all that you are living... As the problem flickers, the solution flickers too.”
“In all that you do seek to be a catalyst who brings about a positive impact.”
“In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.”
“In all the ages the Roman Church has owned slaves, bought and sold slaves, authorized and encouraged her children to trade in them. . . . There were the texts; there was no mistaking their meaning; . . . she was doing in all this thing what the Bible had mapped out for her to do. So unassailable was her position that in all the centuries she had no word to say against human slavery.”
“In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.”
Source: The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories
“In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.”
Source: Religion of the Semites (Ppr)