I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.”
Source: Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49: V. 1: Pre-Marxist Period, 1912-20: Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49
“In general, any incoming administration must carefully examine ('vet') its nominees for high public office.”
“In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it.”
Source: The Closing Circle: Nature, Man, and Technology
“In general, anyone who paid the long distance telephone tax will get the refund on their 2006 federal income tax return. This includes individuals, businesses and non-profit organizations.”
“In general, being independent is so liberating, you get to create without someone looking over your shoulders.”
“In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.”
“In general, comedians are attracted to vice.”
“In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.”
Source: The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
“In general, costumes are the first thing in life that let other people know who we are. They indicate who the person is without saying anything.”
“In general, democracy and individualism have advanced in spite of and often against specific economic interest. Both democracy and individualism have been based upon financial sacrifice, not gain. Even in Athens, a large part of the 7,000 citizens who participated regularly in assemblies were farmers who had to give up several days' work to go into town to talk and listen.”
“In general, each form is a relief from the other forms. I can't write a novel after a novel. I just use up all the material each time, and I need to rest.”
“In general, Europeans need to get a wider perspective on the problem of Islamism. Even if the Israel-Palestine question were solved - and I think and hope that one day soon it will be - this wouldn't stop one person from becoming a terrorist.”
“In general, even if I'm dealing with a historical subject, I begin with invention rather than investigation, because I need to understand what is going to be the voice or the tone of the story.”
“In general, every country has the language it deserves.”
“In general, every stimulus directs activity. It does not simply excite it or stir it up, but directs it toward an object.”
Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors
“In general, everyone wants to work and work more. But in fact, when a young generation has sufficient capability then we should create conditions for them to work.”
“In general, fakirs, like scribes and potters, are sitting down, when he's standing up, a fakir is just like an other man, and sitting down, he'll be smaller than the others.”
“In general, fire is used to throw enemies into confusion so that you can attack them.”
“In general, Gazprom is doing well and is increasing export in its traditional partner countries.”
“In general, generalization is to lie, to tell lies.”
“In general, good tools for staying in sync just haven't been built and made available to the world.”
“In general, great companies prefer to grow organically, as Wall Street likes to say. That is, from the inside out, by finding new markets or by taking market share from their competitors.”
“In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective.”
“In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy, and abortion.”
“In general, Hitler embodied the view of any popular newspaper.”
“In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also allows potentially threatening new words to develop, language needs the chance to constantly renew itself.”
“In general, I almost always watch foreign films.”
“In general, I always make it my mission to focus on the one person in the audience who seems to be absolutely miserable about being there and try to convert them.”
“In general, I did what a lot of character actors do: I did it to get girls.”
“In general, I distrust philosophy. Plato recommended chasing poets from the city; the 'great' Heidegger was a Nazi; Lukacs was a communist; and J. P. Sartre wrote: 'Any anti-communist is a dog.'”
“In general, I do not agree with spying against one's country.”
“In general, I don't care for scenes of copulation.Certain functions of the human body are bloody private.”
“In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.”
“In general, I don't like game mechanics, I mean it's the idea you do the same things through different levels. I think, in my mind, it's an ideas I don't really like because I love to do different things and like to see the story moving on and I like to do different things and different scenes, not do the same thing over and over again. If it involves violence at some point fine, if it makes sense in the context. But violence for the sake of violence, it doesn't mean anything to me anymore.”
“In general, I don't think that economic, social and cultural rights are primarily a matter of going to court. They are most useful today as commitments which can help ensure effective and equitable policy-making at every level.”
“In general, I enjoy athletes who have a strong character who let their abilities speak for themselves.”
“in general, I feel most comfortable between known quantities.”
“In general, I feel, or I have come to feel, that the richest writing comes not from the people who dedicate themselves to writing alone. I know this is contradicted again and again but I continue to feel it. They don't, of course, write as much, or as fast, but I think it is riper and more satisfying when it does come. One of the difficulties of writing or doing any kind of creative work in America seems to me to be that we put such stress on production and material results. We put a time pressure and a mass pressure on creative work which are meaningless and infantile in that field.”
“In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic.”
“In general, I find that poets spend a lot of time thinking about themselves, and not a lot of time thinking about other poets, or other poetry. Unless they think about how it affects them, or how it could impact them.”
“In general, I go to see the stuff that for me is, "Thank God for that actor, he's doing something that I never imagined; thank God for this filmmaker, because if this person didn't exist, this movie wouldn't exist." That's why I go to the movies. That, to me, is what's so exciting about this movie.”
“In general, I have some precise ideas about everything, because the film is completed in my head before we ever start shooting. With casting, I am always present, even for the smallest character.”
“In general, I like the healthy stuff and don't really have a problem with any of it.”
“In general, I think audiences are a lot smarter than people think. So, it's not "know your audience", it's "respect your audience, and really know your content".”
“In general, I think every novel is a political novel, in that every novel is an argument about how the world works, who has power, who has a voice, what we should care about. But political novels can be boringly polemical if they end up being too black and white, too one dimensional, like war is bad, killing people is wrong.”
“In general, I think I'm a very private person. But I also love human beings.”
“In general, I think I'm quick to worry about disasters of all kinds.”
“In general, I think man-on-the- street ads and endorsement spots are having less and less effect on people. The electorate's getting very sophisticated, and they want to make their own judgments.”
“In general, I think my freedom of invention is not limited when I use historical characters.”
“In general, I think the best thing to do is to connect with other females. I love meeting other female artists and feeling like we're all rooting for each other. I think that's shifted even more.”