I Quotes
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“In every case the story opens with a perfect state of Yin. Faust is perfect in knowledge; Job is perfect in goodness and prosperity; Adam and Eve are perfect in innocence and ease; the Virgins— Gretchen, Danae and the rest— are perfect in purity and beauty. In the astronomer’s universe the Sun, a perfect orb, travels on its course intact and whole. When Yin is thus complete, it is ready to pass over into Yang.”
Source: A Study of History, Abridgement of Vols 1-6
“In every case the storyteller is a man who has counsel for his readers.”
Source: Selected Writings: 1935-1938
“In every case, I find pre-planning noble, but not always that useful in comedy. You know comedy once you're doing it.”
“In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.”
“In every case, the remedy is to take action. Get clear about exactly what it is that you need to learn and exactly what you need to do to learn it. BEING CLEAR KILLS FEAR. Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.”
“In every case, we ought to act that part towards another, which we would judge to be right in him to act toward us, if we were in his circumstances and he in ours; or more generally - What we approve in others, that we ought to practise in like circumstances, what we condemn in others we ought not to do.”
Source: Thomas Reid's Inquiry and Essays
“In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.”
“In every chain of reasoning, the evidence of the last conclusion can be no greater than that of the weakest link of the chain, whatever may be the strength of the rest.”
Source: Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man
“In every challenge lies an opportunity for growth.”
“In every challenge, seek the lesson; it is there to help you grow.”
“In every change, ignite the new levels of creativity from the golden state of mind shake up long-standing beliefs with conviction and allow the sparks to fly.”
Source: Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management
“In every change, in every falling leaf there is some pain, some beauty. And that's the way new leaves grow.”
“In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.”
“In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.”
“In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again: and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life; toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God.”
Source: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families
“In every Christian's Heart, there is a cross and a throne, and the Christian is on the throne till he puts himself on the cross; if he refuses the cross, he remains on the throne. Perhaps this is at the bottom of the backsliding and worldliness among Gospel believers today. We want to be saved, but we insist that Christ do all the dying. No cross for us, no dethronement, no dying. We remain king within the little kingdom of man's soul and wear our tinsel crown with all the pride of a caesar; but we doom ourselves to shadows and weakness and spiritual sterility.”
“In every circle of friends there's always that one person everyone secretly hates. Don't have one? Then it's probably you.”
“In every circumstance, call out to Jesus Christ.”
“In every circumstance, though the nation has liberated already and we have worked for the nation, or we have not, providing the foundation for critical thinking to the people is still important.”
“In every circumstances there is good, train your mind to see it.”
“In every civilization, life grows easier. Men grow lazier in consequence. We have a picture of what happened to the individual Greek. (I cannot look at history, or at any human action, except as I look at the individual.) The Greeks had good food, good witty talk, pleasant dinner parties; and they were content. When the individual man had reached that condition in Athens, when the thought not of giving to the state but of what the state could give to him, Athens' freedom was doomed.”
“In every civilized society, there is an established institution put in place to design laws that make people live civilized and having rights and privileges as citizens of that nation.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“In every civilized society there is found a race of men who retain the instincts of the aboriginal cannibal and live upon their fellow-men as a natural food.”
“In every class of society, gratitude is the rarest of all human virtues.”
Source: The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice
“In every cloud, in every tree – filling the air at night, and caught by glimpses in every object, by day I am surrounded with her image! The most ordinary faces of men, and women – my own features mock me with a resemblance. The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her!”
Source: Wuthering Heights
“In every color, there is a pleasant pain.”
“In every colour there's the light.
In every stone sleeps a crystal.
Remember the Shaman, when he used to say:
Man is the dream of the dolphin”
“In every combustion there is disengagement of the matter of fire or of light. A body can burn only in pure air [oxygen]. There is no destruction or decomposition of pure air and the increase in weight of the body burnt is exactly equal to the weight of air destroyed or decomposed. The body burnt changes into an acid by addition of the substance that increases its weight. Pure air is a compound of the matter of fire or of light with a base. In combustion the burning body removes the base, which it attracts more strongly than does the matter of heat, which appears as flame, heat and light.”
“In every committee of twelve, one will love you and one will betray you.”
“In every community there are little knots of fantastic extremists who loudly proclaim that they are striving for righteousness, and who, in reality, do their feeble best for unrighteousness. Just as the upright politician should hold in peculiar scorn the man who makes the name of politician a reproach and a shame, so the genuine reformer should realize that the cause he champions is especially jeopardized by the mock reformer who does what he can to make reform a laughingstock among decent men.”
Source: The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses
“In every community there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don’t mean the criminals. For them we have punitive sanctions. I mean the leaders. Invariably the most dangerous people seek the power.”
Source: Herzog
“In every community there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don't mean the criminals. For them we have punitive sanctions. I mean the leaders. Invariably the most dangerous people seek the power. While in the parlors of indignation the right-thinking citizen brings his heart to a boil. (p. 51)”
Source: Herzog
“In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.”
Source: A return to love: reflections on the principles of
“In every community, whether large or small, there are people who lead in their community in easy and difficult times.”
“In every company which I have done strategic planning, the number-one value people choose is always integrity. The second values may be quality of products and services, caring about people, excellent customer service, profitability , innovation, entrepreneurship, and others. But integrity always comes first.”
Source: Reinvention: How to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life
“In every company, differentiation is never more important than it is in times of trouble, and that's the time when everyone tends to go to the well and equalize rather than differentiate.”
“In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.”
“In every conflict, some rhetoric and posturing, so we should take that aside. When facts is that everybody is exhausted and that no one believes that there is a military solution to this. The solution must be a political one.”
“In every contest, there comes a moment that separates winning from losing. The true warrior understands and seizes that moment.”
“In every conversation I've had - with housewives in Mumbai, with middle-class people, upper-class, in the slums - everyone says there is an underlying consciousness of karma. That people believe in karma - that what you're putting out is going to come back. If I do something to you, the energy of it is going to come back to me in the future.”
“In every corner of the Earth, there is a sign of Heaven. Every mountain, every valley, and every ocean has God written all over.”
Source: Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration
“In every corner of the Earth there is a sign of Heaven. Every mountain, every valley and every ocean has God written all over it. Hence, it is hard to deny that God is alive and still feel alive on the inside.”
Source: Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration
“In every corner of the Earth, there is a sign of Heaven. Every mountain, every valley, and every ocean has God written all over it. Hence, it is hard to deny that He is alive and still feels alive on the inside.”
Source: Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration
“In every corner, there were languid smiles, sipping on crystal vials of liquid courage, whispered conversations laced with the hopeful promise of mergers and acquisitions. Deals of the century drifted around me like bubbles rising in champagne flutes—glimmering under the ballroom lights, and just as fleeting.” - Alex
Excerpt From
Unchartered Horizons”
“In every countrey the sun rises in the morning.
[In every country the sun rises in the morning.]”
“In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. It is easier to acquire wealth and power by this combination than by deserving them, and to effect this, they have perverted the purest religion ever preached to man into mystery and jargon, unintelligible to all mankind, and therefore the safer for their purposes.”
Source: Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness
“In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.”
“In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.”
Source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 7: 28 November 1813 to 30 September 1814
“In every country dogges bite.”
“In every country in the world, killing human beings is condemned. The Buddhist precept of non-killing extends even further, to include all living beings.”