I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.”
“In government, I'm a strong believer in the need for reform of government agencies and departments. They - they have gotten fat and sloppy, and they're not user friendly. They are inefficient. They cost too much.”
“In government, one actress is enough.”
“In government, the scum rises to the top.”
“In government-directed economies, the collective takes priority over the individual. The moral ideal is equal results. That approach could not be further removed from the real world.”
“In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see
the people of the world
exactly at the moment when
they first attained the title of
'suffering humanity”
Source: A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems
“In grad school, a friend and I gave ourselves the task of writing poems in the voice of Beyoncé and Lady Gaga after they did the collaboration for "Telephone." I just kind of kept going. That was quite a while ago - Beyoncé meant something very different then than she does now.”
“In grade school I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the one who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three.”
“In grade school I was smart, but I didn't have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart and started having friends.”
“In grade school I was taught that the United States is a melting pot. People from all over the world come here for freedom and to pursue a better life. They arrive with next to nothing, work incredibly hard, learn a new language and new customs, and in a generation they become an integral part of our amazing nation.”
“In grades 1 through 4 these books introduce the child to U.S. society - to family life, community activities, ordinary economic transactions, and some history. None of the books covering grades 1 through 4 contain one word referring to any religious activity in contemporary American life.”
“In graduate school, early on, I once overheard a classmate talking in her office as I walked by. She didn't know I was there. She was gossiping about me to a group of our classmates & said I was the affirmative-action student...Rationally, I know it was absurd, but hearing how she & maybe others saw me hurt real bad...I stopped joking about being a slacker. I tripled the number of projects I was involved with. I was excellent most of the time. I fell short some of the time. I made sure I got good grades. I made sure my comprehensive exams were solid. I wrote conference proposals & had them accepted. I published. I designed an overly ambitious research project for my dissertation that kind of made me want to die. No matter what I did, I heard that girl, that girl who had accomplished a fraction of a fraction of what I had, telling a group of our peers I was the one who did not deserve to be in our program.”
Source: Bad Feminist
“In graduate school, he'd had a teacher who had told him that the best actors are the most boring people. A string sense of self was detrimental, because an actor had to let the self disappear; he had to let himself be subsumed by a character. "If you want to be a personality, be a pop star," his teacher had said.”
Source: A Little Life
“In grammar, as in war, there is strength in numbers.”
Source: Principles of Akkadian Textual Criticism
“In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too long. It was the black-consciousness period, and I felt really bad.”
“In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fact!”
“In grammar school, I went to eight o'clock mass pretty much like four days a week.”
“In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.”
“In gratitude and joy, my heart sings better than ever in words I could.”
Source: Magic And Mayhem - Tree Of Knowledge
“In gratitude for God's gift of life to us we should share that gift with others. The art of giving encompasses many areas. It is an outgoing, overflowing way of life.”
“In gratitude to the Mossos d'Esquadra, the Police of Catalonia, and the Guardia Urbana for saving my life.
In gratitude to former President Barack Hussein Obama, former President Donald John Trump, and President Joe Robinette Biden for their unwavering efforts in combating international crime organizations.
In gratitude to the United States of America, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for safeguarding my life.
I dedicate this book to Roberto Saviano.
In Memoriam of Timothy.
I dedicate this book to all those who have gone Missing In Action and
to all Prisoners Of War.
I dedicate this book to the love of my life and her father.”
Source: BARCELONA MARIJUANA MAFIA
“In grave danger of suffocation, the mermaid peeled away from him and emitted a sonar wail that woke drowned sailors from their oyster beds.”
Source: The Minotaur's Son & Other Wild Tales
“In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.”
“In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest. Livy Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.”
“In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer.”
“In great art there is no beginning and end in point of time. All time is comprehended.”
Source: The Art Spirit
“In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.”
Source: Motivation Lombardi Style
“In Great Britain the price of food is at a higher level than in any other country, and consequently, the British artisan labours at a disadvantage in proportion to the higher rate of his food.”
“In Great Britain, an author published a book in which he claimed that Jesus Christ had children. Such statements don't trigger civil unrest and bloodshed in Europe. But write similar statements about Islam in Syria and you might see bloody uprisings.”
“In Great Britain, governments often change their policies without changing their men. In France, they usually change their men without changing their policy.”
Source: The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill
“In Great Britain, woman was subordinate and confined. But at least she was also safe.”
“In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors.”
Source: Sybil: or, the two nations
“In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“In great cities where people of ability abound, there is always a feverish urge to keep ahead, to set the pace, to adopt each new fashion in thought and theory as well as in dress - or undress.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Illustrated)
“In great cities, spaces as well as places are designed and built: walking, witnessing, being in public, are as much part of the design and purpose as is being inside to eat, sleep, make shoes or love or music. The word citizen has to do with cities, and the ideal city is organized around citizenship -- around participation in public life.”
Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking
“In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.”
“In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.”
“In great deeds something abides.”
“In great deeds, something abides. On great fields, something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear; but spirits linger, to consecrate ground for the vision-place of souls… generations that know us not and that we know not of, heart-drawn to see where and by whom great things were suffered and done for them, shall come to this deathless field, to ponder and dream; and lo! the shadow of a mighty presence shall wrap them in its bosom, and the power of the vision pass into their souls.”
Source: Bayonet! Forward: my Civil War reminiscences
“In great groups, the right people always have the right job.”
“In great hearts the cruelty of life gives birth to good.”
Source: Life and Fate
“In great humility, we find our strength.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself.”
“In great matters, men reveal themselves as they find it appropriate to do so; but, in small matters, they reveal themselves as they truly are.”
“In great matters, men behave as they are expected to; in little ones, as they would naturally”
“In great misfortunes, people want to be alone. They have a right to be. And the misfortunes that occur within one are the greatest. Surely the saddest thing in the world is falling out of love--if once one has ever fallen in.”
Source: The Professor's House
“In great pedigrees there are Governours and Chandlers.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“In great quantity, madame. In great quantity.”
“In great struggle, you must pray for great strength to overcome the test of time.”
“In great teams conflict becomes productive.”