I Quotes
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“In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.”
“In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.”
Source: Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging
“In every end is the seed of a new beginning...water it well”
Source: IgnitingYOU: How 52 Weeks of Inspiration and Action Can Lead You to Your Dreams
“In every end, there is also a beginning.”
Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty
“In every endeavour, people make the difference, and just one person has the power to make a profound difference in the lives of so many people.”
“In every enterprise ... the mind is always reasoning, and, even when we seem to act without a motive, an instinctive logic still directs the mind. Only we are not aware of it, because we begin by reasoning before we know or say that we are reasoning, just as we begin by speaking before we observe that we are speaking, and just as we begin by seeing and hearing before we know what we see or what we hear.”
“In every enterprise consider where you would come out.”
“In every evocation of a childhood scene, my stepfather's face is the least detailed, the most out of focus; when I think of him my memory's eyes have cataracts.”
Source: An Unnecessary Woman
“In every experience we get to choose either love or fear as a response. Your character is formed by the percentages of those choices, which then forms your life.”
“In every failure is the seed of success...
Our failures are stepping stones in the mechanics of creation, bringing us even closer to our goals. In reality, there is no such thing as failure. What we call failure is just a mechanism through which we can learn to do things right.”
“In every failure lies the seeds of success.”
“In every failure, there's the seed to even greater success. However, people waste their time complaining, instead of looking for the seed among the rubble of what was.”
Source: 12 Laws of Great Entrepreneurs
“In every fall and raise of my life, I am a republic and my country is democratic”
“In every fall, clever man discovers the secrets of further rising!”
“In every family, culture, or religion, ideas of right and wrong are the hot cattle prods, the barking sheepdogs that keep the masses in the herd. They are the bars that keep us caged.
I decided that if I kept doing the "right" thing, I would spend my life following someone else's directions instead of my own. I didn't want to live my life without living my life. I wanted to make my own decision as a free woman, from my soul.”
Source: Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living / A Toolkit for Modern Life
“In every family there is a murderer, a thief and a crazy person. And if you have a little Blue blood in the line, you can be sure there are more than one of each.”
“In every feeling, look deeply. Explore without ceasing. At bottom, love is.”
Source: Simply Sane: Stop Fixing Yourself and Start Really Living
“In every film, whether it's a fictional character or not, you create an idea of the character and for me I always do a bad impersonation to start with.”
“In every financial low of my life, I had never begged God and in every financial high of my life, I had never bribed God”
“In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.”
Source: Ein Granatapfelhaus
“In every forest, on every farm, in every orchard on earth, it's what's under the ground that creates what's above the ground. That's why placing your attention on the fruits that you have already grown is futile. You cannot change the fruits that are already hanging on the tree. You can, however, change tomorrow's fruits. But to do so, you will have to dig below the ground and strengthen the roots.”
“In every form of art, you really want the experience of the images to transcend the medium, for the medium to disappear into the greater experience of viewing the work. So that you forget you are looking at a painting, or a photograph.”
“In every form of womanly love something of motherly love also comes to light.”
“In every fragment you may see a different face, yet perhaps all of them belong to you.”
Source: Melisa & Arel ; You in the Mirror
“In every free and deliberating society, there must, from the nature of man, be opposite parties, and violent dissensions and discords; and one of these, for the most part, must prevail over the other for a longer or shorter time.”
Source: Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph
“In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not so much two hearts separating, but one being torn asunder.”
“In every game, there's three teams out there. There's the two basketball teams and the team of officials. If the two teams are evenly matched, it can come down to number of possessions. If one out-of-bounds call goes the wrong way, that can be the difference.”
“In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy.”
“In every generation, people resist new ideas. What are you resisting today?”
Source: Quantraz
“In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.”
“In every generation there are a few people who are authentically funny. The cosmetics change. You may not be able to articulate it, and you may laugh at them and get a certain amount of enjoyment. But when you're asleep at night, and you wake up at 3 in the morning, and you're alone in your bed, you know who's really funny.”
“In every generation, there are those who refuse to lower themselves, who refuse to compromise their character when tempted, who do the right thing no matter what. There are also those who do not care enough to stand against temptation. It is not because they can't, but they don't. And then there are the one who actively choose to be malicious, to hurt people for their own gain or just out of spite; these are the evil ones.”
“In every generation there are voices that question the authority of Scripture. So in one sense this is merely part of the continuing stream. But there's a sense in which the questions that are raised against Scripture vary a wee bit from generation to generation.”
“In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.”
“In every generation there have been atheists hiding behind every religion.”
“In every generation there is a chosen one. She alone will stand against the vampires the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the slayer.”
“In every generation there is a vault-keeper, one who guards the links fiercely and knows they are more precious than rubies.”
“In every generation women have to be taught their place one more time. The subordination of women is never accomplished for once and for all.”
“In every generation, the world is changed by a few people, who stand for something, do not fear unpopularity and dare to make a difference.”
“In every genre of biblical literature and every stage of biblical history, God is seen pouring out his grace on his people for the sake of his glory among all peoples.”
“In every glass of water we drink there are molecules once urinated by Genghis Khan”
Source: Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
“In every good man a God doth dwell.”
“In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal.”
“In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open, cultivate and improve.”
Source: Notes on the State of Virginia
“In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.”
Source: The Spirit of Laws
“In every governmental speech I give before state parliament, I say: Bavaria will remain Bavaria.”
“In every grain of wheat there lies hidden the soul of a star.”
Source: The House of Souls: Horror Stories Collections
“In every grave on earth's green sward is a tiny seed of the resurrection life of Jesus Christ, and that seed cannot perish. It will germinate when the warm south wind of Christ's return brings back the spring-tide to this cold sin-cursed earth of ours; and then they that are in their graves, and we who shall lie down in ours, will feel in our mortal bodies the power of His resurrection, and will come forth to life immortal.”
“In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame behind them all.”
Source: Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays
“In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.”