I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“In dating, if you say no, your lover goes on to the next person. In marriage, if you say no, the person stays.”
“In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.”
“In daylight and up close, he was merciless, all smiles and freckles, the brightest, boldest flame a moth could wish for.”
Source: Waiting for the Flood
“In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I'm free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you”
Source: THE TALES OF AVONLEA - Complete Collection: 16 Novels & 27 Short Stories (Including Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Prince Edward Island, The Story Girl & Emily Starr Trilogy)
“In daylight we pick up our tinned rations and hike off,
every artery and nerve of us, into the rest
of our commemorative lives.”
“In days gone by, a man's word was his bond. Today, fortunately, we have glue.”
“In days gone by, we were afraid of dying in dishonor or a state of sin. Nowadays, we are afraid of dying fools. Now the fact is that there is no Extreme Unction to absolve us of foolishness. We endure it here on earth as subjective eternity.”
“In days long past, Jarod said he’d write a sentence about my love, translated in Russian, and that sentence, like my love, is clearly not for sale, unlike his virginity, or this book, which I’m both offering at ten times the market value, so hurry up and buy now, before it goes down.”
Source: Nothing is here...
“In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!”
Source: The essential Turgenev
“In days of yore, the poet's pen From wing of bird was plunder'd, Perhaps of goose, but now and then, From Jove's own eagle sunder'd. But now, metallic pens disclose Alone the poet's numbers; In iron inspiration glows, Or with the poet slumbers.”
“In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.”
Source: Heart of the Matter: A Novel
“In daytime, they're doing 50-60 pages a day, whereas nighttime, you do seven or eight.”
“In DC, policymakers think that if we can only have high enough standards, tough enough tests, and hold people accountable, we can close the achievement gap. And it hasn't happened. Yet the new law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, is based on the same test-based and market-driven framework and ideology, except it lets the states do it.”
“In de dagelijkse interactie tussen medewerkers komt de cultuur tot stand. Alleen als hier daadwerkelijk iets verandert, is er sprake van een cultuurverandering.”
Source: De cultuurladder: De sleutel tot een presterende organisatie
“In de nacht is iedereen leeftijdsloos.”
Source: The Discomfort of Evening
“In de oorlog wordt de waarheid als eerste opgeofferd.”
“In de pleidooien van wie zich tegen dramatiserende commentaar verzet klinkt vaak de stelling door dat het gros van de kiezers op 24 november 1991 niet van partij veranderd is. Dat is uiteraard juist. Toch is aan te nemen dat voor een aantal partijgetrouwen een overstap naar het Vlaams Blok en ROSSEM in de toekomst niet uitgesloten is. Op basis van enkele enquêtes mag gezegd worden dat beide partijen in Vlaanderen nog over een werfreserve beschikken.”
Source: De betekenis van 24 november 1991
“In de prospectus stond dat een zonsopgang op Zera iets heel aparts is en voor deze keer heeft dat leugenblaadje eindelijk eens gelijk!”
Source: Stof
“In De Rerum Natura, Lucretius pointed out a very central truth concerning the examined life. That is, that the man of science who concerns himself solely with science, who cannot enjoy and be enriched by art, is a misshapen man. An incomplete man.”
“In de totalitaire dictaturen van de twintigste eeuw gebeurt er namelijk iets met de mens dat in zijn geschiedenis tot dusver zonder weerga is: de totalitaire taal, of zoals Orwell het noemt, de 'newspeak' , dringt met behulp van een goed gedoseerde dynamiek van geweld en angst onherroepelijk door in het bewustzijn van de individuele mens en sluit hemzelf daar langzaam buiten; hij heeft dus geen toegang meer tot zijn eigen innerlijk leven. Hij identificeert zich steeds meer met de hem toebedeelde of opgedrongen rol, of die nu bij zijn persoonlijkheid past of niet. Bovendien is de volledige acceptatie van die rol, die functie, zijn enige overlevingskans. Maar op deze wijze wordt ook zijn persoonlijkheid volledig vernietigd, en als hij er werkelijk in slaagt te overleven, zal het waarschijnlijk lang duren tot hij ertoe in staat is -zo hij dat ooit zal zijn- om de geloofwaardige, persoonlijke taal terug te veroveren waarin hij zijn tragedie kan vertellen. Wellicht komt hij er dan achter dat die tragedie niet te vertellen valt.”
“In dealing with a girl or a horse, one lets nature take its course”
“In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.”
Source: Arrow of God
“In dealing with a race composed of cannibals for thousands of years, it is necessary to use methods which will best shape their idleness, and make them realize the sanctity of work.”
“In dealing with autism, I'm certainly not saying we should lose sight of the need to work on deficits, But the focus on deficits is so intense and so automatic that people lose sight of the strengths.”
Source: The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum
“In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.”
“In dealing with every person one should know where to place himself with regard to that person, should be sure of the reaction the presence of the other inspires in him – dislike or attraction, dominion or subjugation, discipleship or mastery, performance as actor or as spectator – and on the basis of these and their counterreactions one should then establish the rules of the game to be applied in their play, the moves and counter-moves to be made. But for all this, even before he starts observing the others, one should know well who he is himself. Knowledge of one’s fellow has this special aspect: it passes necessarily through knowledge of oneself; and this is precisely what Palomar is lacking. Not only knowledge is needed, but also comprehension, agreement with one’s own means and ends and impulses, which is like saying the possibility of exercising a mastery over one’s own inclinations and actions that will control them and direct them but not coerce them or stifle them. The people he admires for the rightness and naturalness of their every word and every action are not only at peace with the universe but, first of all, at peace with themselves. Palomar, who does not love himself, has always taken care not to encounter himself face to face; this is why he preferred to take refuge among the galaxies; now he understands that he should have begun by finding an inner peace. The universe can perhaps go tranquilly about its business; he surely cannot.”
Source: Mr Palomar
“In dealing with good people one should be magnanimous; in dealing with bad people one should be strict. In dealing with average people one should combine magnanimity and strictness.”
“In dealing with Mr. Nixon, it is not easy to be unfair. He invites and justifies all available criticism.”
“In dealing with others, man is inherently a slave to his preconceptions, to the stereotypes he became familiar with that made life easier for him to comprehend.”
Source: The Girl on the Trail
“In dealing with Syria's dictator...only force counts. No cease-fire was attainable in Lebanon until the 16-inch guns of the battleship New Jersey started shelling Syria's proxies; suddenly, sweet reason prevailed in Damascus.”
“In dealing with the arrogant asserter of doubt, it is not the right method to tell him to stop doubting. It is rather the right method to tell him to go on doubting, to doubt a little more, to doubt every day newer and wilder things in the universe, until at last, by some strange enlightenment, he may begin to doubt himself.”
“In dealing with the Communists, remember that in their mind what is secret is serious, and what is public is merely propaganda.”
“In dealing with the dead, if we treat them as if they were entirely dead, that would show a want of affection and should not be done; or, if we treat them as if they were entirely alive, that would show a want of wisdom and should not be done.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)
“In dealing with the press, do yourself a favor, stick with one of three responses: (a) I know and I can tell you; (b) I know and I can't tell you; (c) I don't know.”
“In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are not superior to the citizen; that every one of them was once the act of a single man; every law and usage was a man's expedient to meet a particular case; that they all are imitable, all alterable; we may make as good; we may make better.”
Source: The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“In dealing with those nations that break rules and laws, I believe that we must develop alternatives to violence that are tough enough to actually change behavior -- for if we want a lasting peace, then the words of the international community must mean something. Those regimes that break the rules must be held accountable. Sanctions must exact a real price. Intransigence must be met with increased pressure -- and such pressure exists only when the world stands together as one.”
“In dealing with those who are undergoing great suffering, if you feel "burnout" setting in, if you feel demoralized and exhausted, it is best, for the sake of everyone, to withdraw and restore yourself. The point is to have a long-term perspective.”
“In dealing with those who share his bed, the enlightened ruler may enjoy their beauty but should not listen to their special pleas.”
“In Dean Koontz's novel, The House at the End of the World, the protagonist Katie,remembers a saying her husband used to say, Failure to prepare is failure to hope.”
Source: The House at the End of the World
“In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (so frail may that web have been) we remember not that we have dreamed.”
Source: The Best of Poe
“In death a hero, as in life a friend!”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In 1 volume
“In death, a man decays to return to dust.”
“In death as in life, I defy the Jews who caused this last war [WW II], and I defy the powers of darkness which they represent. I am proud to die for my ideals, and I am sorry for the sons of Britain who have died without knowing why.”
“In death as in life, we stand together, always a family, always a team. The brotherhood never dies.”
“In death, corpses don't hold themselves together. They no longer have to play by the living's rules.”
Source: From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
“In death do triumph and failure humbly meet. We learn far less from victory than from defeat.”
Source: Victory City
“In death, I love you still.
So, forward! Aspire! Achieve!
I remain,
Daniel Blessing”
Source: Summer
“In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“In death, just like in life, sometimes there is a reaching out. One soul stretching across the darkness toward another. It can be a scary feeling if you are the one doing the reaching. A lonely feeling. But when, out of the blackness, you feel that other soul reaching out to you too... well, that is the best feeling. Believe me. At the end of it all maybe, it is the only feeling.”
Source: Good Dog
“In death metal, a lot of guys are Eddie Van Halen disciples, but they take his style to really expressionistic places. It's a real pleasure for me to hear people pushing their craft.”