I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities.”
“In any high stress situation you are going to default to your level of training...period.”
“In any influence, will, a self, the ego, the I AM is the greater force to be dealt with, but as numbers do influence, a knowledge of same certainly gives an individual a foresight into relationships.”
Source: Planetary Influences & Sojourns
“In any institution-factory, university, health center, or whatever-there are a variety of interests that ought to be represented in decision-making: the work force itself, the community in which it is located, users of its products or services, institutions that compete for the same resources. These interests should be directly represented in democratic structures that displace and eliminate private ownership of the means of production or resources, an anachronism with no legitimacy.”
“In any insurgency there will be people who are irreconcilable and who pose a clear and present threat to the U.S. and our allies.”
“In any interaction, indeed in life itself, our intentions – as in, our authentic purpose - is all that matters to anyone. Not our words. Our deeds.”
Source: The Sciences of Change: Anyone can create meaningful change. It starts with authenticity
“In any investment, you expect to have fun and make money.”
“In any kind, in any form, in any way, the most precious thing to receive or give is a kiss.”
“In any kind of comic scene you're going to perhaps push the boundaries of plausibility but as long as there is some semblance of logic I think as an audience you'll buy it and as an actor, when it comes to playing things like that, it gives you something to delve into. When I don't buy into a comic scene is the type of scenario where you'd just go: "Well, that would never happen."”
“In any kind of conflict, you have a certain dehumanization that comes along with it. And it's important as a reporter, a writer, a journalist, to try to restore humanity.”
“in any kind of loss, your grief is never abated, prevented, or reduced by not allowing yourself joy and excitement while you actually have the thing. So enjoy it.”
Source: Crushmore: Essays on Love, Loss, and Coming-of-Age
“In any kind of relationship we can make the assumption that others know what we think, and we don’t have to say what we want. They are going to do what we want because they know us so well. If they don’t do what we want, what we assume they should do, we feel hurt and think, “How could you do that? You should know.” Again, we make the assumption that the other person knows what we want. A whole drama is created because we make this assumption and then put more assumptions on
top of it.”
Source: The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
“In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean.”
“In any leadership position, you're always going to be disappointing somebody.”
“In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.”
“In any love-story there are usually two stages or phases. There is the initial stage, where love is expressed by the giving of gifts, especially the gift of self. Then there comes a time when it is no longer enough to give gifts to the beloved, but one has to be ready to suffer for her or for him. Only then can it be seen whether the love is real. In the story of a vocation to consecrated virginity there are also usually two stages. There is the initial stage of the vocation, when, spurred on by grace and attracted by the ideal, one joyfully and enthusiastically says, "Yes, Lord, here I am!" Then comes the time of solitude of heart, of weariness, of crisis, when, in order to maintain that "Yes," one has to die”
Source: Virginity: A Positive Approach to Celibacy for the Sake of the Kingdom of Heaven
“In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.”
Source: Yevtushenko: Selected Poems: Selected Poems
“In any marginalized community, whether people identify themselves or not affects us all.”
“In any market, in any country, there are developers who make money. So I say all of this doom and gloom, but there will always be people who make money, because people always want homes.”
“In any match, there are few critical moments where there's no second best decision. The rest of the moves are intuitive.”
“In any matter of moral importance, our first task, before we plunge ahead and decide what to do, is to figure out what we ought to do.”
“In any matter where we have questions, we have a right to ask the Holy Spirit to lead us and to expect His gentle guiding.”
Source: Bread for Believers
“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.”
“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century
“In any moment we can learn to let go of hatred and fear. We can rest in peace, love, and forgiveness. It is never too late. Yet to sustain love we need to develop practices that cultivate and strengthen the natural compassion within us.”
“In any moment, I guess we could whip out a guitar and start playing old school.”
“In any moment, in any circumstance, a miracle will occur when we align ourselves with truth.”
“In any moment, no matter how lost we feel, we can take refuge in presence and love. We need only pause, breathe, and open to the experience of aliveness within us. In that wakeful openness, we come home to the peace and freedom of our natural awareness.”
“In any nation but the USA, it is taken for granted that a man of distinction, ability, wealth or power will keep a mistress and a few girlfriends on the side. Only in America, still suffering from its grotesque, hypocritical Puritan heritage, do we persist in attempting to deny and repeal a million years of basic primate biology.”
Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
“In any nation in which people's rights have been subordinated to the rights of the few, in any totalitarian nation, the first institution to be dismantled is the jury. I was, I am, afraid.”
Source: Trial by fire: the true story of a woman's ordeal at the hands of the law
“In any nation, the hypocrites do not become apparent except during times of fitnah (severe tests and hardships).”
“In any negotiation, the one who first gives a number is the loser.”
Source: Beyond All Recognition
“In any new situation, whether it involves an elevator or a rocket ship, you will almost certainly be viewed in one of three ways. As a minus one: actively harmful, someone who creates problems. Or as a zero: your impact is neutral and doesn't tip the balance one way or the other. Or you'll be seen as a plus one: someone who actively adds value. Everyone wants to be a plus one, of course. But proclaiming your plus-oneness at the outset almost guarantees you'll be perceived as a minus one, regardless of the skills you bring to the table or how you actually perform.”
“In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct action.”
Source: Why We Can't Wait
“In any normal season, most of the teams below Chelsea would think they are doing quite well.”
“In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world.”
“In any of the arts, you never stop learning.”
“In any of the big acting cities, there are breakdowns that the casting directors put together for the projects that they're working on and then they get sent out to the agents and stuff like that. It's difficult to find projects, sometimes, unless your agent or manager is submitting you for those specific projects.”
“In any offense you put me in, when things break down, I'm going to get outside the pocket and move ... West Coast, East Coast. It doesn't matter. I'm taking off if I have to, to make things happen.”
“In any open question, we should argue from what we do know to what we do not know. We do know that fervent legends and stubborn myths arise easily and naturally. We do not know that dead people rise from the grave.”
Source: Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists
“In any organization, a person tends to survey the talent in the room. The talented and hardest working employees, the persons primarily responsible for the organization’s success, are disinclined to accept criticism from persons whom perform auxiliary functions, the type of menial work replicated by numerous support personnel.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“In any organization men would move up form the bottom to the top. That develops loyalty, ambition and talent, because there is a chance for promotion.”
“In any organization, someone must be the boss. If it’s even just one person, you’ve got to be the boss of yourself.”
Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“In any organization there ought to be the possibility of discussion... fence sitting is an art, and it's difficult, and it's important to do, rather than to go headlong in one direction or the other. It's just better to have action, isn't it than to sit on the fence? Not if you're not sure which way to go, it isn't.”
“In any performance, you're on stage for two hours, and there's 40 seconds or maybe a whole five minutes where you feel like the whole universe is in place, and you've gone even beyond the universe that you know.”
“In any period it is upon a very small minority that the discerning appreciation of art and literature depends ... They are still a minority, though a larger one, who are capable of endorsing such first-hand judgement by genuine personal response.”
“In any piece of rhetorical discourse, one rhetorical term overcomes another rhetorical term only by being nearer to the term which stands ultimate. There is some ground for calling a rhetorical education necessarily aristocratic education in that the rhetorician has to deal with an aristocracy of notions.”
Source: The Ethics of Rhetoric
“In any problem where an opposing force exists and cannot be regulated, one must foresee and provide for alternative courses. Adaptability is the law which governs survival in war as in life ... To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it; the best chance of overcoming such obstruction is to have a plan that can be easily varied to fit the circumstances met.”
“In any profession, there are always ups and downs.”
“In any profession, there's a sleazy side and an honorable side”