I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“In countries where associations are free, secret societies are unknown. In America there are factions, but no conspiracies.”
“In countries where breast-feeding has stopped, more smoking will automatically be there. That's why the West smokes more than the East - because no mother is ready to give her breast to the child because the shape is lost. So in the West smoking is increasing more and more; even small children are smoking.”
“In countries where democracy is either non-existent or in development, on the other hand, citizens crave those freedoms. Maybe that is one lesson Western citizens can learn from those countries: treasure what you have. Use your rights and freedoms to effect the change you want.”
“In countries Where development is a Right and not a tool of trade; politicians using development projects to buy loyalty and votes, parliaments are more useful than statehouses. Where leaders- elected and appointed practice professionalism, independence, autonomy and dare to trust the courage of their convictions, corruption doesn't thrive. Most democracies have turned into cesspools because of corruption.”
“In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.”
“In countries where people have to flee their homes because of persecution and violence, political solutions must be found, peace and tolerance restored, so that refugees can return home. In my experience, going home is the deepest wish of most refugees.”
“In countries where there are no horses, donkeys are called horses.”
Source: Thinkers of the East
“In countries where there are real civil wars, people go through a lot, and we should be willing to go through a lot to help them.”
“In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle.”
“In countries where there is no marriage, there is no duty between husband and wife; when marriage comes, husband and wife live together on account of attachment; and that kind of living together becomes settled after generations; and when it becomes so settled, it becomes a duty.”
Source: Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action
“In country after country we see white men building empires on the sweat and suffering of colored people.”
Source: Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
“In country and R&B, there's much more of that division between writers and performers, and that's where you see more of those [crossover] songs, but you don't get a lot of that coming out of the more pop and rock side of things.”
“In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous new singers who are interested in writing and interpreting a lyric and in all form of popular music.”
“In country music, there are certain female artists, like Gretchen Wilson, where you're going to find lesbians because they're responding to that more aggressive side.”
“In country, as in people, a plain exterior often conceals
hidden riches, to perceive which requires much living in and with.”
Source: Round River
“In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story.”
Source: The George Barr McCutcheon MEGAPACK ®: 25 Classic Novels and Stories
“In course of time the Brothers Cowper removed the manufacture of their printing machines from London, to Manchester. There they found skilled and energetic workmen, ready to carry their plans into effect.”
Source: James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography
“In course of time the slow advance of knowledge, which has dispelled so many cherished illusions, convinced at least the more thoughtful portion of mankind that the alterations of summer and winter, of spring and autumn, were not merely the result of their own magical rites, but that some deeper cause, some mightier power, was at work behind the shifting scenes of nature.”
“In court, defense lawyers do this properly by mentioning everything their client is accused of, and all the weaknesses of their case, in the opening statement. They call this technique “taking the sting out.”
Source: Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
“In court the next morning I sat at a table in the judge’s chambers. On the other side of the table, close enough for me to reach across and touch him, sat Ted Bundy. He’s adorable, I thought, surprised at my first impression, because I’d pictured him in my mind as brooding, dark, intense disdain (p. 83).
(Loftus testified as a defense expert for Ted Bundy in 1976, Bundy was found guilty of aggravated kidnapping)”
Source: Witness for the Defense: The Accused, the Eyewitness, and the Expert Who Puts Memory on Trial
“In Courtney Moreno's In Case of Emergency the working class save the world and themselves. A wonderful first book!”
“In COVID19 uncertain conditions and contexts it's vital for leaders to SWIFTLY build psychological capital and GO (Growth Optimised) Mindsets, into their people, in order to ENSURE thriving in these tough VUCA times.”
“In Crash, you've got a pathological cop who at the end justifies police brutality. He tells the naïve, young cop that you're going to end up the same as him. He's the most sympathetic character in the movie. So, the naïve cop ends up murdering this Black kid and tries to cover up the evidence. It sort of justifies police brutality and the planting of evidence which is what happened in the O.J. Simpson case.”
“In creating a building, architects do think they're making the world a better place. And then they hope to make the world an even better place by making another thing which will be even bigger than the last thing... and it is part of the pathology of being an architect to believe thus, and they do believe it, despite all the evidence to the contrary.”
“In creating a family, we fulfill our greatest purpose on earth.”
“In creating a work of art, the psyche or soul of the artist ascends from the earthly realm into the heavenly. There, free of all images, the soul is fed in contemplation by the essences of the highest realm, knowing the permanent noumena of things. Then, satiated with this knowing, it descends again to the earthly realm. And precisely at the boundary between the two worlds, the soul’s spiritual knowledge assumes the shapes of symbolic imagery: and it is these images that make permanent the work of art. Art is thus materialized dream, separated from the ordinary consciousness of waking life.”
“In creating cultural categories we give shape to this world, And whoever manages to change the categories this changes the shape.”
Source: Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art
“In creating music you are the writer, the director, the producer, you create it from scratch. Obviously in playing a role in a film, you take guidance and put your trust into the director. You come into it and you really trust people.”
“In creating technology for ourselves we created it for the world.”
“In creating the Harry Potter artwork, I try to bring a certain amount of realism and believability to the characters and setting, but still add an element of wonder and the unknown.”
“In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.”
“In creating the strange milieu in which your story takes place, you must first understand as well as you possibly can the familiar milieu in which your own life is taking place. Until you have examined and comprehended the world around you, you can't possibly create a complex and believable imaginary world.”
Source: How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy
“In creating the world, God used arithmetic, geometry, and likewise astronomy.”
“In creating Wonder Woman, Marston hoped to provide a strong superheroine that appealed to both male and female readers, thus educating all citizens to women’s superiority and potential to create a harmonious society.”
“In creating you, God has already
given you everything you need to live
a life of endurance, abundance, and
purpose.”
Source: Single, Not Dead
“In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“In creation alone there is the possibility of perfection.”
“In creation myths, a god shapes mud or clay into living form, much like a potter throws a pot or a sculptor reveals the statue within a block of marble. But a writer has to create his own clay or stone before he can begin shaping life from it.”
“In creative endeavors luck is a skill.”
Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
“In creative pursuits, we connect with the qualities of our inner being. We open up to the invisible, yet, powerful world of Spirit. It carries with it all the immensity, love, power, wisdom, beauty, and harmony of the Universe. We are part of it. We allow it to flow through us with the beautiful feeling and potency of that which supports the entire world and more. We are a channel for universal energy, passion, and soul. It is Energy which explodes into all creative activity. It is Passion which gives us courage and unlimited vision. It is Soul which moves us beyond our own limited world to see the interconnectedness of all humanity.”
Source: The Love of Being Loving
“In creativity the way will be found for subject to pass into object, the identity of subject with object will be restored. All the great creators have foreseen this turning-point. Today, in the depths of culture itself and in all its separate spheres, this crisis of creativity is ripening.”
“In creativity, as in running, you have to start where you are.”
Source: Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance
“In creativity, brightest minds have no place You have to think from the heart”
“In crew, contempt is important. In Boston, Boston University and Northeastern crew are treated with contempt by the college up the river. Intramural crew is treated with contempt. Nonathletic coxswains (Chinese engineering majors, poets) are treated with contempt. A true coxswain is a diminutive jock, raging against the pint size that made him the butt of so many jokes at Prep school. He runs twenty stadiums a day, his girlfriend is six feet one, and he can scream orders even when he has the flu (which he catches at least three times a winter).”
Source: The official preppy handbook
“In cricket- be fit, be alert and be Sachin.”
Source: 5 Feet 5 Inch Run Machine – Sachin Tendulkar
“In cricket fielding, if catch comes right in your hand, there is no fun. You enjoy the most when you have to dive to catch the ball. This is what playfulness is all about. Difference between being a servant of someone and surrendering to someone is playfulness. Don’t make things too easy in your relationship with your spouse or children or gods. Keep the playfulness alive.”
“In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless.... In no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously.”
“In crime and enmity they lie
Who sin and tell us love can die,
Who say to us in slander's breath
That love belongs to sin and death.”
Source: Poems Chiefly from Manuscript
“In crime fiction, I just don't write the parts that aren't a thriller and it's exactly the same in my TV reporting - I distill the essence of the story until it's only the jewels of the tale - and leave in only the most compelling and exciting parts.”
“In crime the egoist has hitherto asserted himself and mocked at the sacred; the break with the sacred, or rather of the sacred, may become general. A revolution never returns, but an immense, reckless, shameless, conscienceless, proud—crime, doesn't it rumble in the distant thunder, and don't you see how the sky grows ominously silent and gloomy?”