I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“In an excuse to drink lies reason not to drink.”
“In an exhibition wherein paintings of nudes were commonplace, that of Madame Gautreau in her black evening dress was considered scandalously erotic. -from The Greater Journey”
“In an expanding universe, order is not really order, but merely the difference between the actual entropy exhibited and the maximum entropy possible.”
Source: Blue Mars
“In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.”
“In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.”
“In an experiment by Dr. Robert Emmons at the University of California–Davis, people who kept a ‘gratitude journal,’ a weekly record of things they felt grateful for, enjoyed better physical health, were more optimistic, exercised more regularly, and described themselves as happier than a control group who didn’t keep journals.”
Source: Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out
“In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence”
“In an extensive reading of recent books by psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and inspirationalists, I have discovered that they all suffer from one or more of these expression-complexes: italicizing, capitalizing, exclamation-pointing, multiple-interrogating, and itemizing. These are all forms of what the psychos themselves would call, if they faced their condition frankly, Rhetorical-Over-Compensation.”
“In an extreme credit crunch, leveraged purchases of gold cause forced sales, because any price correction triggers margin calls. As a result, gold can be very volatile - upward and downward - at the peak of a crisis.”
“In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent.”
Source: Killosophy
“In an honest effort to gain understanding, asking questions do not, necessarily, imply a conclusion has been determined. They can be used to avoid making the wrong judgement. If building trust is the ultimate goal - there is no need to be defensive, or feel threatened by any inquiry.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“In an honest man there is always something of a child.”
“In an honest search for knowledge, you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period.”
“In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labor; in this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty and power; and who would not balance creditor on this side, when all the hazard that is run for it, at worst, is only a sour look or two at choking. No, a merry life and a short one, shall be my motto.”
“In an hour, every person in America will be able to look at a screen and see their First Son and his boyfriend.
And, across the Atlantic, almost as many will look up over a beer at a pub or dinner with their family or a quiet night in and see their youngest prince, the most beautiful one, Prince Charming.
This is it. October 2, 2020, and the whole world watched, and history remembered.”
Source: Red, White & Royal Blue
“In an hour, you'll be in hell or glory.”
“In an hundred elles of contention, there is not an inch of love.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“In an ideal society, mothers and fathers would produce potty- trained, civilized, responsible new citizens while government and corporate leaders would provide a safe, healthy, economically just community.”
Source: American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie
“In an ideal state of society we never lose sight of the womanliness of women…why should it be considered a compliment to any woman to be told she writes, paints, sings, talks, or even thinks, like a man?”
“In an ideal world for me, I would like to go back and forth [between film and theater]. I kind of want to do it all”
“In an ideal world for me, school lunch would be free for everybody.”
“In an ideal world no one would talk before 10am. People would just hug, because waking up is really hard.”
“In an ideal world people would know the words just for the show and then forget them right after.”
“In an ideal world the scientist should find a method to prevent the most severe forms of autism but allow the milder forms to survive. After all, the really social people did not invent the first stone spear. It was probably invented by an Aspie who chipped away at rocks while the other people socialized around the campfire. Without autism traits we might still be living in caves.”
Source: Thinking in Pictures
“In an ideal world the script is written lean and tight and therefore there are no scenes left on the cuttring room floor and therefore no extended edition.”
“In an ideal world,
Two would be two letters,
I wouldn’t have to make small talk,
And we could all survive without a liver.
In an ideal world,
Love would not have a past tense,
Home would be anywhere you want,
And there’d be no such phrase as ‘On the fence’.
In an ideal world,
We would only need water to live,
Wars would end after the first gunshot,
And stammering would be the only disease.
In an ideal world,
There’d be no such thing as ‘meat’,
We would have no need for education,
And caring for nature would be our only responsibility.
In an ideal world,
Wealth would be synonymous with Health,
Time and space would not be a continuum,
And we would never be able to forget!
Poem - In an Ideal World, from Respectful Ideation.
July 26, 2022.”
Source: Respectful Ideation
“In an ideal world we would all learn in childhood to love ourselves. We would grow, being secure in our worth and value, spreading love wherever we went, letting our light shine. If we did not learn self-love in our youth, there is still hope. The light of love is always in us, no matter how cold the flame. It is always present, waiting for the spark to ignite, waiting for the heart to awaken and call us back to the first memory of being the life force inside a dark place waiting to be born - waiting to see the light.”
“In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case.”
“In an ideal world, entertainment would be regarded as what it is - entertainment - and wouldn't be valued more heavily than education, than science, than environmental awareness.”
“In an ideal world, I'd be able to do my shows in my pajamas. Luckily I've got one of the best stylists in the business, Rebecca Allen - she knows what looks good on camera and gives it a sexy kick.”
“In an ideal world, I'd bounce between big projects and no-budget TV dramas with fantastic scripts.”
“In an ideal world, I'd bounce between big projects and no-budget TV dramas with fantastic scripts. A lot of Hollywood films tend to be bloated, bombastic, loud. At the same time, I do like the infrastructure of making a blockbuster; it's like having a big train set.”
“In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.”
“In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.”
“In an ideal world, one populated by vegetarians and Esperanto speakers, derivatives would be used for one thing only: reducing levels of risk. The list of individual traders who have lost more than a billion dollars at a time betting on derivatives is not short.”
“In an ideal world, pressure should come from below and from the top.”
“In an ideal world, social responsibility would be a prerequisite for design, and designers would vow to produce beautiful, useful, positive, responsible, functional, and economical things and concepts that are meaningful additions to—or sometimes subtractions from—the world we live in. Indeed, design deserves such thoughtful consideration.”
“In an ideal world, the intelligent investor would hold stocks only when they are cheap and sell them when they become overpriced, then duck into the bunker of bonds and cash until stocks again become cheap enough to buy.”
“In an ideal world, we would have been orphans. We felt like orphans and we felt deserving of the pity that orphans get, but embarrassingly enough, we had parents.”
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
“In an ideal world, where there are only good states, power would be largely irrelevant.”
Source: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)
“In an ideal world, you could reunite the Pakistan-occupied part of Kashmir with the Indian-occupied part and restore the old borders. You could have both India and Pakistan agreeing to guarantee those borders, demilitarise the area, and to invest in it economically. In a sane world that would happen, but we don't live in a sane world.”
“In an idealized realm, individuals would pursue happiness unhindered, freed from the burdens that had plagued generations.
—-R.M.Alwyn”
“In an idealized world, we would all be able to do what our English teachers told us to do, which is to write beautiful prose where enthusiasm is conveyed by word choice and grammar.”
“In an ignorant country, everything will try to drag you down! Stay firm, aim at the stars, keep going up and drag up the people who are trying to drag you down!”
“In an illuminating comment on the financialisation of business, Jack Welch — now long retired from General Electric — would in 2009 proclaim shareholder value 'the dumbest idea in the world.”
Source: Other People's Money: The Real Business of Finance
“In an imperfect world perfection is not instantly available. Railroad safety, for instance, cannot be secured by mechanical devices alone. It is primarily a resultant of care and discipline.”
“In an important article, Angelika Neuwirth eloquently described the shortcomings of our field's insularity as a failure to situate the Qur'an in the "thought world" and "epistemic space" of Late Antiquity - a failure she diagnoses as rooted in the subconscious, but nonetheless persistent, tendency of modern scholarship to reproduce the premodern view of early Islamic history as momentous yet "foreign" and somehow outside and beyond the forces exerted by Late Antiquity on Western and European history.”
Source: Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam
“In an important sense, all culture is one: human beings today owe something to every culture that has gone before us.”
Source: Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age
“In an improv group and a successful work team, the members play off one another, each person's contributions providing the spark for the next. Together, the improvisational team creates a novel emergent product, one that's more responsive to the changing environment.”
“In an inclusive classroom environment, every student feels valued, respected, and capable of reaching their full potential.”