I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“In America, one must be something, but in Italy one can simply be.”
Source: The Italian Pleasures of Gabriele Paterkallos
“In America one of the first things done in a new State is to make the post go there; in the forests of Michigan there is no cabin so isolated, no valley so wild, but that letters and newspapers arrive at least once a week.”
“In America our public schools are intended to be religiously neutral. Our teachers and schools are neither to endorse nor to inhibit religion. I believe this is a very good thing.”
“In America people have this funny idea about enlightenment and money. Money expresses a level of commitment. Studying enlightenment is like going to a university.”
“In America, people with pre-existing mental health issues have access to firearms but not healthcare. Thanks, Republicans!”
Source: Inside The Mind of an Introvert: Comics, Deep Thoughts and Quotable Quotes
“In America religion is the road to knowledge, and the observance of the divine laws leads man to civil freedom.”
Source: Democracy in America
“In America right now, the people who talk about race the most are people of color - and if we are going to move the needle forward, it's WHITE people who need to acknowledge their role in racism.”
“In America right now, we use words like 'smart' to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good, capital-E Evil, and it's very clear who is on which side. But in a book you can do just the opposite. You can use all lower-case words.”
“In America’s earliest mythologizing of itself, America is the underdog guided to the promised land by a merciful God. Other countries do something similar. In some other national mythology, America might be the Egyptian Pharaoh holding a worthy population captive.
We can’t all be that righteous. And sometimes that’s hard to stomach. It’s hard accepting that your comfort, or privilege, or disinterest might feed into a real and palpable problem for another group of people. And it’s hard, once you’ve recognized this to be the case, to heed the call to change.”
“In America sex is an obsession. In Europe it's a fact of life.”
Source: Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser
“in America sono stati allertati e stanno intervenendo gli psichiatri, che hanno classificato i pazienti da selfie o da web come i nuovi disturbati digitali, che hanno una percezione distorta e non equilibrata della propria immagine, e per i quali si stanno mettendo a punto strategie terapeutiche di ascolto e di intervento, non certamente in sala operatoria ma sul lettino analitico, nel tentativo di riportare a galla l'armonia psicologica perduta e la consapevolezza svanita di se stessi, irrimediabilmente sprofondate nella ormai contagiosa e pericolosa selfie mania”
Source: La salute prima di tutto. Dal cancro all'ipocondria: manuale per non ammalarsi
“In America the biggest is the best.”
“In America the chief accusation seems to be one of "Eroticism." This is odd, rather puzzling to my mind. Which Eros? Eros of the jaunty "amours," or Eros of the sacred mysteries? And if the latter, why accuse, why not respect, even venerate?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“In America the cohesion was a matter of choice and will. But in Europe it was organic.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“In America, the glass is neither full nor empty. It is buy one, get one free.”
Source: Closure of the Helpdesk — A Geek Tragedy
“In America the government took the land from the Indians and then established laws protecting private property.”
“In america the intense desire to accumulate wealth and power was democratized...The virtue of 'hard work' was often invoked to sugarcoat aggressive, unscrupulous dealings with more naive people.”
Source: Bird Cloud
“In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.”
Source: Democracy in America
“In America, the materio-economic conditions relate to a societal, multi-group existence in a way never before know in world history. American Negro nationalism can never create its own values, find its revolutionary significance, define its political and economic goals, until Negro intellectuals take up the cudgels against the cultural imperialism practiced in all of its manifold ramifications on the Negro within American culture. But this kind of revolution would have to be predicated on the recognition that the cultural and artistic originality of the American nation is founded, historically, on the ingredients of a black aesthetic and artistic base.”
Source: The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis of the Failure of Black Leadership
“In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north.”
Source: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American
“In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.”
“In America the press rules the countrty; it rules its politics, its religion, its social practices.”
“In America, the role of blacks, as for humans everywhere, is to live and flourish and to be fit progenitors for generations to come. To do so, they must oppose racism in an unrelenting way. Psychiatry for such warriors aims to keep them fit for the duty at hand and healthy enough to enjoy the victories that are certain to come.”
“In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.”
“In America the taint of sectarianism lies broad upon the land. Not content with acknowledging the supremacy as the Diety, and with erecting temples in his honor, where all can bow down with reverence, the pride and vanity of human reason enter into and pollute our worship, and the houses that should be of God and for God, alone, where he is to be honored with submissive faith, are too often merely schools of metaphysical and useless distinctions. The nation is sectarian, rather than Christian.”
“In America, the unqualified word 'pie' unequivocally means a sweet dessert item, whereas in Australia it just as certainly means a meat pie.”
Source: Pie: A Global History
“In America the word revolutionary is used to sell pantyhose.”
“In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“In America there are people advocating for trans rights and people like Vice President Pence, who is vehemently opposed. In Pakistan, too, you have all kinds of folks - from flamboyant gay fashion designers and female Air Force pilots to the Taliban. A cross-dressed man used to be the top TV talk show host. It was actually quite radical. So the diversity of these societies is often lost on people.”
“In America there are some places that are just gorgeous to play.”
“In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.”
“In America there is a channel called TruTV which is just reruns of 'Cops' and 'World's Dumbest Criminals'. I could watch that the entire day.”
“In America there is a public library in every community. How many public libraries are there in Africa? Every day there are new books coming out and new ideas being discussed. But these new books and ideas don't reach Africa and we are being left behind.”
“In America there is really very little knowledge of the literature of the rest of the world. Of the literature of Latin America, yes, But that's not all that different in inspiration from that of America, or of Europe. One must go further. You don't even have to go too far in terms of geography - you can start with the Native Americans and listen to their poetry.”
Source: There Was a Country: A Memoir
“In America there must be only citizens, not divided by grade, first and second, but citizens, east, west, north, and south.”
“In America there’s one winning story—no adaptations. The
Story imagines a noble, grand progress where we’re all united.
Like truths are as self-evident as the Declaration states.
Or like they would be if not for detractors like me, the ranks of
Vagabonds existing to point out what’s rotten in America,
Insisting her gains come at a cost, reminding her who pays, and
Negating wild notions of exceptionalism—adding ugly facts to
God’s-favorite-nation mythology.”
Source: Worldly Things
“In America there's a saying that children should be seen and not heard, .. In Cambodia, children should not be seen nor heard because you would not survive.”
“In America there's a tendency to write the same book over and over because that's what sells. So in a way, my success in America has come at the expense of what I do. I haven't sold out, and I haven't taken the popular road to writing a best-selling book. I've really bucked the system. So it was necessary for me not to go and find the easy fans, the ones who want something digestible and fast with a happy ending that they can read over and over again no matter how many different books it is. I had to find fans who really wanted to think. Worldwide they all have that in common.”
“In America there's lot of cool cities, but in Canada there's, like, well, Vancouver, Toronto and Halifax may be cool, but they're so expensive. Montreal is the only city that's affordable but also has buses and culture.”
“In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.”
“In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.”
“In America they distrust happy people.”
Source: Everything Sad Is Untrue
“In America they got two policemen, five policemen and one car watching each other, each has got a pistol, one has got a machine gun, one' got a shotgun and two dogs growling at each other.”
“In America they had no chance - I knocked them all cold in America”
“In America they have to know just what you are-- novelist, poet, playwright... Well, I've been all of them... I think poems and novels and stories spring from the same seed. It's not like, say, playing polo and knitting.”
“In America they like my spicy TV alter ego, probably because there were a lot of Italians and Hispanics in the country, but the real L.A. life is a hard-working one.”
“In America, they make a lot of fuss over little things.”
Source: Truth, Love & A Little Malice
“In America, they make such things of wire and of sponge-rubber, such as you use in the sets of tanks. You never know there, whether there is any truth in the matter, unless you are a bad boy as I am.”
Source: Across the River and Into the Trees
“In America they make too much fuss of poets; in London they make too little.”
Source: Caitlin: a warring absence
“In America, they use exclamation marks to make everything terrific, in France to make everything terrible, but here in England we don't use them at all.”