I Quotes
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“In District 12, looking old is something of an achievement since so many people die early. You see an elderly person, you want to congratulate them on their longevity, ask the secret of survival. A plump person is envied because they aren't scraping by like the majority of us. But here is different. Wrinkles aren't desirable. A round belly isn't a sign of success.”
Source: The Hunger Games Trilogy
“In diversifying blockchain portfolio, there is a common pattern. And that is, what you thought was solid foundation turned into liquid, and what you thought was liquid turned into a solid foundation.”
“In diversity is life and where there's life there's hope, was the general sum of his creed, a modest one to be sure.”
Source: The Word for World is Forest
“In diversity, our progress grows. In uniformity, it slows.”
“In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”
Source: Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wit and Wisdom of Maya Angelou
“In diversity we find our strongest bonds and most violent divides.”
“In divine love or devotion, you lose yourself like ice melts into water. In love, you just lose control over yourself like iron loses control near a magnet; And when you regain control, you feel bad.”
“In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.”
“In division others see opportunity, In division I see suffering. In love it does not exist.”
“in Divorce American style, there was the discomfort of seeing one of the beautiful wasted actresses of the screen, Jean Simmons. Her suggestions of sensibility - what she embodies - were too fine for the world of that movie. Her presence made the movie she was trapped in seem uglier.”
“In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations so that the truth will come out.”
“In documentary films, being able to be a storytelling and embrace film as an art form - while being very clearly connected in trying to help make the world a better place - is really important to me.”
“In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.”
“In documentary we deal with the actual, and in one sense with the real. But the really real, if I may use that phrase, is something deeper than that. The only reality which counts in the end is the interpretation which is profound”
“In documentary you sometimes see the tyranny of the linear, but what I've noticed in the last ten years in narrative film is the tyranny of the non-linear.”
“In documentary, which is the only thing I'm really very familiar with, women are very easily relegated into a producer role.”
“In Dogen's writing, the practical instruction, philosophy and poetry are together in one voice. People hear about his poetry, go to his work, and expect to find poetry, or they hear about his philosophy and expect to find philosophy. They look just for practical instruction and find poetry and philosophy. They can't make out the complexity of his writing, become frustrated and let him go.”
“In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say?”
“In Dogtown, skateboards are like bikes to the Chinese.”
“In doing God's work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced with other kinds of men.”
“In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But theworks of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand; touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute.”
Source: The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke
“In doing nothing men learn to do evil.”
“In doing one's work primarily for God, the fear of undue restriction is put, sooner or later, out of the question. He pays me and He pays me well. He pays me and He will not fail to pay me. He pays me not merely for the rule of thumb task, which is all that men recognize, but to everything else I bring to my job in the way of industry, good intentions and cheerfulness. If the Lord loveth a cheerful giver, as St. Paul says, we may depend upon it that He loveth a cheerful worker; and where we can cleave the way to His love there we find His endless generosity.”
Source: The Conquest of Fear
“In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.”
“In doing that which we most enjoy, we will probably make our most significant contribution to society, and the contribution we make to society determines our rewards.”
“In doing the research, I found myself consumed by a single, overwhelming question, as relevant today as it was seventy years ago: When would I, as a wife and mother, risk my life - and more importantly, my child's life - to save a stranger? That question is at the very heart of The Nightingale. I hope that everyone who reads the novel will ask themselves the question.”
“In doing we learne.
[In doing we learn.]”
“In doing what I'm doing, you have to be sensitive to the fact that you're not dealing with numbers, you're dealing with people. And I will continue to be sensitive to that.”
“In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.”
“In doing your best serving others for free, a lot of eyebrows will raise and sneers will curve many a - faces. But in the end those incredulous to what you put up with to help, no longer matter. It's not between you and those snobs, but with whom you have given your hand to lift, and of course to God who Is watching and noting it in your book.”
“In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the football field: Don't flinch, don't fall; hit the line hard.”
“In doing zazen it is desirable to have a quiet room. You should be temperate in eating and drinking, forsaking all delusive relationships. Setting everything aside, think of neither good nor evil, right nor wrong. Thus having stopped the various functions of your mind, five up even the idea of becoming a Buddha.”
“In domestic life the woman's value is inherent, unquantifiable; at home she exchanges proven values for mythological ones. She "wants" to be at home, and because she is a woman she's allowed to want it. This desire is her mystique, it is both what enables her to domesticate herself and what disempowers her.”
“In Donald Trump, you have somebody who praises Vladimir Putin all the time. America should really wonder about a President Trump, who had a campaign manager with ties to Putin, pro- Putin elements in the Ukraine, who had to be fired for that reason. They should wonder - when Donald Trump is sitting down with Vladimir Putin, is it going to be America's bottom line or is it going to be Donald Trump's bottom line that he's going to be worried about with all of his business dealings?”
“In Donald Trump, you have someone who will bring real change to Washington, D.C. He's a bold leader. He's distinctly American. He doesn't play by the old-fashioned rules. He's going to Washington, D.C., break up the status quo, and I believe get this economy moving again and have America standing tall in the world.”
“In doses, like most people, I like all different kinds of movies. I like any movie that can take me somewhere and make me feel something. Horror movies, if they're done well, they make you feel nasty or scared or relieved.”
“In doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom.”
Source: The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings
“In doubt if an action is just, abstain.”
“In doubt, fear is the worst of prophets.”
“In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.”
“In doubtful matters boldness is everything.”
“In doubting we come to inquiry; by inquiry we perceive the truth.”
“In down times I do things like go for a long bike ride or run. The other thing I'm doing in that quiet time is just observing.”
“In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.”
“In Downton Abbey, foreplay is basically hanging your clothes up properly”
“In Dr. King's last speech, he said, "Either we go up together; or we go down together."
Solidarity was his final gift.”
Source: Shift Happens: The History of Labor in the United States
“In Dragon’s Tail, Andrew Charlton explores the supercharged rise of China and considers Australia’s future as the Chinese dragon stirs and shifts.”
Source: Dragon's Tail: The Lucky Country after the China Boom
“In drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.”
“In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story.”
“In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters.”
Source: Making Movies