I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“In aviation they have auto pilot and color radar and a lot of other instrumentation that is a backup for pilots. It's really brought the incidents of plane crashes way down. Same thing ought to happen in the medical industry, I think.”
“In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not discretion.”
“In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.”
“In avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations. For the time being the world, life itself, could be his chosen field.”
“In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.”
“In avoiding this situation -- this real nakedness of the soul in prayer -- you will be helped by the fact that the humans themselves do not desire it as much as they suppose.”
Source: The Screwtape Letters
“In awareness there is no becoming, there is no end to be gained. There is silent observation without choice and condemnation, from which there comes understanding.”
Source: The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1945-1948): The Observer Is the Abserved
“In awe at the sheer beauty of the setting, Celina stepped onto the balcony, which overlooked a terrace garden of fruit trees.
"It's so beautiful here." She breathed in, catching the scent of fruit trees below. "What type of fruit are you growing?"
"Mostly lemon," Sara said. "But also olive, grapefruit, orange, fig, and pomegranate. With our temperate climate, most everything thrives."
Celina peered over the balcony's edge. To one side, a cliff dropped to the sea, while on the other, a terrace sprawled along the hilltop perch. Flaming pink bougainvillea and snowy white jasmine curled around the corners of grapevine-covered archways that framed the shimmering ocean view.”
Source: The Chocolatier
“In awe, I watched the waxing moon ride across the zenith of the heavens like an ambered chariot towards the ebony void of infinite space wherein the tethered belts of Jupiter and Mars hang, for ever festooned in their orbital majesty. And as I looked at all this I thought... I must put a roof on this toilet.”
Source: Les Dawson's Joke Book
“In Baby You're A Rich Man the point was, stop moaning, you're a rich man and we're all rich, heh heh, baby!”
“In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages.”
“In Bach, Beethoven and Wagner we admire principally the depth and energy of the human mind; in Mozart, the divine instinct.”
“In Bach, the vital cells of music are united as the world is in God.”
“In backbends, one touches the body physically, mentally, intellectually, consciously and spiritually everywhere.”
“In bad or corrupted natures the body will often appear to rule over the soul, because they are in an evil and unnatural condition. At all events we may firstly observe in living creatures both a despotical and a constitutional rule; for the soul rules the body with a despotical rule, whereas the intellect rules the appetites with a constitutional and royal rule. And it is clear that the rule of the soul over the body, and of the mind and the rational element over the passionate, is natural and expedient; whereas the equality of the two or the rule of the inferior is always hurtful.”
Source: Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens
“In bad times and in good I've never lost my sense of zest for life.”
“In bad times, the rich usually get richer.”
Source: The Trick to Money is Having Some
“In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives.”
“In badminton, they use a lot from the wrist. But I use a lot from the shoulder.”
“In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.”
Source: The Square Egg And Other Sketches
“In Bakersfield, California, a Mexican strawberry picker with an income of $14,000 and no English was lent every penny he needed to buy a house for $724,000.”
Source: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)
“In ballads, love is a disease, an affliction. You contract it as a mortal might contract one of their viruses. Perhaps a touch of hands or a brush of lips, and then it is as though your whole body is fevered and fighting it. But there's no way to prevent it from running its course.”
Source: The Prisoner’s Throne
“In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell. We can't dance synonyms.”
“In ballet, I felt that no matter how good I was, if I didn't have the right body type or if I didn't fit a certain mold there was nothing I could do.”
“In Baltimore they can't do police work to save their lives. Now because of Freddie Gray they're not even getting out of the car and policing corners - they're on a job slowdown, basically. Right now if the police stopped being brutal, if we got police shooting under control, and the use of excessive force, if we have a meaningful societal response to all that stuff, and the racism that underlies it, the question still remains: what are they policing, and why?”
“In Baltimore, kids grow up very quickly. You're placed in a lot of situations that a child shouldn't be in and a lot of Baltimore kids lose innocence very soon.”
“In Baltimore, soft crabs are always fried (or broiled) in the altogether, with maybe a small jock-strap of bacon added.”
“In Banff, the mountains are really close to your head.”
“In Bangladesh a prostitute normally wouldn't even undress for a man. He pays, she pulls up her sari, and he's done in 20 seconds.”
“In Bangladesh, there's a saying that if you get killed by a snake, its destiny... But if you get killed by a tiger, its just bad luck.”
Source: Burma Chronicles
“In banking, compliance is not optional. It’s the foundation. And ignoring it? That’s not a lapse — it’s malpractice.”
“In banking or insurance trust is the only thing you have to sell.”
“In BANKSY we trust.”
Source: You Can't Google Life
“In baptism, new Christians become part of a body of fellow believers who are called to spiritually encourage one another and hold one another responsible for consistent Christian living.”
Source: Letters To A Young Evangelical
“In Barack Obama, Democrats have put forth a man of strong religious faith who is comfortable connecting his spiritual life to his public role as a policymaker.”
“In Barcelona, things seem so different. For example, I know that it's traditionally the least Spanish city, but you'd never know they had a monarchy, coming here as a tourist - as opposed to the UK, where the Queen is probably the best-known animal, vegetable and/or mineral going when it comes to overseas visitors.”
“In baseball and sex, cliches are usually true: pitching beats hitting, and people always want to be loved by anyone who doesn't seem to care.”
Source: Downtown Owl: A Novel
“In baseball terminology, the team was hitting singles, but had yet to hit a home run.”
Source: Betrayal In Blue
“In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! - I hope I'll be safe at home!”
Source: The Best of Brain Droppings
“In baseball when they say you're out, you're out. It's the same way in politics.”
“In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.”
“In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base.”
“In baseball you train the whole body, except for the hip and eyes.”
“In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's.”
Source: Tuned to Baseball
“In baseball, even the best hitters fail seven of ten times, and of those seven failures there are different reasons why. Some are personal failures, others are losses to the pitcher. You just get beat. In those personal failures, I felt I could have done better.”
“In baseball, I don't fraternize with players when it's time to hit. I'm preparing for the game. It's the most important time of the day. And I know if I don't hit, I won't have a job in the big leagues. That's why I tend to get very upset when people try to talk to me.”
“In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.”
“In baseball, I was always in control of everything until I let the ball go.”
“In baseball, it's tough to get up for every single game, every single moment. In football, you have 90,000 fans screaming and the band's playing. I do miss that adrenaline rush.”
“In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted; if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.”