I Quotes
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“In difficult circumstances, teams either separate or come closer together, it's as simple as that”
“In difficult moments it’s sometimes a good idea to ask yourself what it is you most want to be doing and consider how it can be achieved. If it can’t, move on to the second best thing.”
Source: Sweet Tooth
“In difficult times bring to mind my words and the sound of my voice. In that way, I shall always be present for you.”
Source: Patience, Princess Catherine: A Young Royals Book
“In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.”
“In difficult times your best must be hugged, loved, kissed, rewarded, paid - everything. And your worst must be the people that leave, because your best are going to take you to the next game.”
“In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous.”
“In difficult times, in dark times, some people shine.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“In difficult times, it's so hard to look around and to see what to be grateful for.”
“In difficult times, people just like to hear music. They like to be moved by what they hear. And music speaks different languages.”
“In difficult times, people too often lose the ability to face the future optimistically. They begin to think about their tomorrow's negatively. They forget that the tough times will pass. They concentrate on the problems of today rather than on the opportunities of tomorrow. In so doing, they not only lose the potential of today, they also throw away the beauty of tomorrow.”
Source: Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do!
“In difficult times, we're not supposed to quit believing; we're not supposed to quit growing.”
“In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?”
“In digital marketing, tools assist but teams achieve. Success belongs to those who build both”
Source: Scaling Your Digital Marketing Team: Business Is A Team Sport: Build smarter, scale faster, and lead your team to success in the AI-driven marketing landscape
“In digital world, sport provides opportunity to bring people together.”
“In digital, you can maintain the quality.”
“In digital, you may have your big launch, but then you continue to work, and you continue to innovate and continue to enhance your platforms as you go along.”
“In diluted reality, the whole world is the same; the micro-dimension is the same everywhere; the macro dimension is the illusion of the senses and eyes. Macro-shapes exist, but only as of the sum, not as inherently different. The basis of every star and every galaxy is the same—antimatter or dark matter and dark energy hide similar or opposite laws in themselves. However, although they are similar or opposite to the visible ones, they are based on the same laws of the bigger or smaller “particles,” shapes, and masses. The same principles are everywhere, from the visible to the invisible world or in the world incomprehensible or beyond the cognitive ability of humans.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.”
“In dim mirrors now I see;
Who God wants me to be.”
Source: Fractures of Gold
“In diminishing the role of the worker's body in the labor process, industrial technology has also tended to diminish the importance of the worker. In creating jobs that require less human effort, industrial technology has also been used to create jobs that require less human talent. In creating jobs that demand less of the body, industrial production has also tended to create jobs that give less to the body, in terms of opportunities to accrue knowledge on the production process.”
“In dinner talk it is perhaps allowable to fling any faggot rather than let the fire go out.”
Source: Tommy And Grizel (Annotated Edition)
“In diplomacy, as in life itself, one often learns more from failures than from successes. Triumphs will seem, in retrospect, to be foreordained, a series of brilliant actions and decisions that may in fact have been lucky or inadvertent, whereas failures illuminate paths and pitfalls to be avoided.”
“In diplomacy, clear-cut wins and losses are rare.”
“In diplomacy, like in great many other things, the rules of engagement survive only until one remarkable person decides to break them.”
“In dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family.”
“IN DIRE STRAITS, WE HEAD STRAIGHT TO THE OCEAN
The good Lord answered Beryl’s prayer when Dorjan came home next. On the cusp of the rainy season, when porch sitting Beryl was more inclined to watch tufts of moisture hung from invisible threads in fairytale skies than her playing children, he announced, “I have a will ‘ta move ‘ta the land of Hollywood and ‘burgeoning coastal developments,” like he’d read that phrase in a magazine. Then, he pressed on the horn in case she hadn’t heard his hollering.
“I want a piece o’ that action, baby,” he said. “I can run my own company. ‘Reckon I know to do just about anything related to construction. Heya baby, why not?” He grinned as he rolled out of the driver’s seat. As she came down the steps to him, he smacked his thighs in a rhythm and did a fancy two-step. “The sun’s always shining. There’s bound to be work for me till I have no more need.” She went to hug him. “Lickety split, we’ll be going west… at the childr’n’s school break,” he said.
That’s just what the Hudsons did. They left their free-of-charge huge, white house to the older brothers and sisters, taking brother Dennis along in the back seat with three of the children.
Coalbert, sitting up front, sighed. “We’re just gonna leave the house like that? For someone other’n us to occupy, Daddy?” His heart was lying in that big white house with the wraparound porch.
“Small thing. The place is tainted. It ‘taint yours and it ‘taint mine.”
“I hope we get an indoor toilet, Mama!” Laila shouted.
“Your daddy’s set on getting all the new things where we’re going to.”
“In dire times of survival it's not uncommon for people to turn to their faith and that was also true for the men on the oil tanker Pendleton, which was cut in half by 60-foot waves during the hurricane.”
“In dire times you can lose joy, but you can't lose hope. Hope is your guide.”
“In direct address, a noun names the person (or the dog) being spoken to.”
Source: The Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager and the Doomed
“In direct contradiciton to the American dream, God actually delights in exalting our inability.”
“In direct navigation, users type exactly what they are looking for in the browser's web address field. This could be the exact domain name or web address. Millions of people do this, emphasizing the need for on- and off-line marketing and branding.”
Source: Get Rich Click!: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet
“In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.”
“In discarding everything that you are, you have recklessly thrown away all of that which can build you into everything that you can be. And that is entirely different than attempting to change who you are, which will leave you with who you won’t be.”
“In discourse more sweet; For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense. Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute; And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors
“In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded me for having an excess of feeling, saying that I was too sensitive - as if one could be in danger from feeling too much instead of too little. But my outsize emotions were well represented in books. [] there simmered all the feelings no one ever admits to.”
Source: The Forest for the Trees: An editor's advice to writers
“In discussing Barbarism and Christianity I have actually been discussing the Fall of Rome.”
“In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material.”
“In discussing the state of the atmosphere following a nuclear exchange, we point especially to the effects of the many fires that would be ignited by the thousands of nuclear explosions in cities, forests, agricultural fields, and oil and gas fields. As a result of these fires, the loading of the atmosphere with strongly light absorbing particles in the submicron size range (1 micron = 10-6 m) would increase so much that at noon solar radiation at the ground would be reduced by at least a factor of two and possibly a factor of greater than one hundred.”
“In discussing these exceptions from the course of nature, the first question is, whether the fact be justly stated. That which is strange is delightful, and a pleasing error is not willingly detected.”
Source: Journeys in Scotland: Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland, Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, The Clyde: River and Firth
“In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.”
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“In disobedience lies a walk in the wrong path.”
“In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!"
(Letter to Alexander Chekhov, May 10, 1886)”
“In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!”
“In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations! Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions. Nor is it necessary to portray many main characters. Let two people be the center of gravity in your story: he and she.”
“In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.”
Source: Crania Americana; Or, A Comparative View of the Skulls of Various Aboriginal Nations of North and South America: To which is Prefixed an Essay on the Varieties of the Human Species
“In disputes upon moral or scientific points, ever let your aim be to come at truth, not to conquer your opponent. So you never shall be at a loss in losing the argument, and gaining a new discovery.”
Source: Of prudence
“In disputes, be not so desirous to overcome as to not give liberty to each one to deliver his opinion and submit to the judgment of the major part, especially if they are judges of the dispute.”
Source: The Writings of George Washington: pt.1. Official letters relating to the French war and private letters before the American revolution: March, 1754-May, 1775
“In disquisitions of every kind there are certain primary truths, or first principles, upon which all subsequent reasoning must depend.”
Source: The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers
“In distance we seek what we call home, the mad city where we belong.”
“In distinguishing between Islamic teachings and social taboos, we must remember that Islam forbids injustice; Injustice against people, against nations, against women. It shuns race, color, and gender as a basis of distinction amongst fellowmen. It enshrines piety as the sole criteria for judging humankind.”
Source: Speeches and Statements: Oct. 1993-Nov. 1996