I Quotes
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“In great teams, conflict becomes productive. The free flow of conflicting ideas is critical for creative thinking, for discovering new solutions no one individual would have come to on his own.”
“In great things it is enough even to have willed.”
“In greatest joy and deepest pain one is always alone--a little ship in the sea of one's emotion. Only in the moment of a great love, out of which follows creation, when one gives oneself up and two flow together, two become one, and "a man recognizes his wife". All other is standing before the door.”
Source: Quest
“In greatness, life and death merge.”
“In Greece we're too poor to go to psychiatrists -- we have friends instead.”
“In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.”
“In Greece, the unemployment rate has risen to 22%. The solution to the problem was to raise taxes on the rich, according to the Greek president Barack Obama-opolis.”
“In Greek myth, Circe was a sorceress and a goddess born of the sun god Helios and the ocean nymph Perse. And a powerful sorceress she was, so adept at incantations that she could morph men into animals to keep them enslaved to her on her island.”
Source: National Geographic The History of Witchcraft
“In Greek mythology, Memory (Mnemosyne) is said to be the mother of the Muses, because poetry, music, and storytelling are all imagined as modes by which people remember the times before they were born.”
Source: The odyssey
“In Greek mythology, the goddess Iris sped messages to the gods on the rainbow's arc. Her flower bears no perfume, but steam distillation of the root, or rhizome, yields orris, a precious essence that smells of candle wax, but its impression in perfume is powdery, silvery green, violet-like- a prize of the perfumer's palette. How I wish I could summon the goddess to carry my message to those I love. -DB”
Source: Scent of Triumph
“In Greek mythology, there is the story of a man, Theseus, who, in order to find his way home, had to find his way through a labyrinth that led him to a dark center. Stories like these carry wisdom we must encounter if we are to become whole.
Most of us spend our lives trying to avoid the dark center, trying to find a shortcut around the labyrinth. But the only way to the light is through the dark. The only way to the other side is through the center. For it is in the dark center, in the heart of our own personal labyrinth, that we encounter the Minotaur—that part of us we have been taught to fear, the part of us we have been told is monstrous.
Yet, if we have the courage to face what we fear, to look the Minotaur in the eye, we find that it is not a monster at all, but a part of ourselves that has been waiting to be seen, waiting to be loved, waiting to be integrated into the whole of who we are. Stories like these carry wisdom we must encounter if we are to become whole and become familiar with both your labyrinth, your way in, and your thread, your way out.”
Source: The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have
“In Greek mythology, Antaeus was a giant who was strong as long as he had contact with the earth. When he was lifted from the earth he lost strength. So it is with engineers. They must not become isolated from the real world...”
“In Greek mythology, the hero wants to be great, but the very concept does not exist in the Indian vocabulary. Yet it has become the global template. And it's a template that won't fit in India.”
“In Greek tragedy, 'Destiny is Character' that means destiny drives or guides the hero. In Shakespearean tragedy, 'Character is Destiny' that means the hero creates his own destiny! But, real life is a mixture of both!”
“In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb.”
“In Greek, our word for play is paidia and the word for education is paideia, and it is very natural and right that these words should be entangled at the root, together with our word for children, paides, which gave you your words pedagogy and pediatrician.”
Source: Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
“In Greek, we do not use just one word for love. We have many words that are specific to each type of love.”
“In Green Grandeur by Stewart Stafford
Under towers of green pillars,
Grow those leafed palaces,
Stretching out their tall limbs,
Up skyward in thanksgiving.
Saplings with peacock foliage,
A forest floor carpeted thickly,
With dead leaves, kindling and,
Subterranean roots peeking out.
Storm-crooked trunks stooping,
To the lightning-shattered bows,
Fingers of dying sunlight reach,
To caress the ivy-entwined bark.
© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved”
“In green old gardens, hidden away From sight of revel and sound of strife, Here I have leisure to breathe and move, And to do my work in a nobler way; To sing my songs, and to say my say; To Dream my dreams, and to love my love; To hold my faith, and to live my life. Making the most of its shadowy day.”
“In Gretons-sur-Mer, the villagers, through the auspicious care of the Bouletiers, returned to their human form. Sometimes they wondered, looking at their reflection on the surface of water or on the rounded shine of a pewter pitcher, if a part of them had remained beastly, if the whiskers atop their lips had been there before. They wondered, stroking the spot, and mused on their transformation, to that time of war when the fabric of life was briefly woven with magic.”
Source: The Kindness of Terrible People and Other Stories
“In grief and loss, it becomes incredibly hard to recognize who we are. Grief makes us different people. Everything that we identify with—from our emotional states to our patterns to our dreams to our fears to our preferences to our core truths— everything fractures and shatters under the weight of loss.”
Source: Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss
“In grief, days come wrapped in mist, with a lake, still, in the eyes, for every teardrop has gathered there, longing to fall, but the lips have lost every word. And the search begins, the search for light. That is when the fire strikes.”
“In grief more than in joy, man longs to know that the universe turns around him.”
Source: fire from heaven
“In grief, you will be invited to hold hands with death”
Source: The Fine Art of Grieving
“In grief, words are a poor consolation - silence and agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer.”
“In Grimm's fairy tales, you kiss a frog and in two seconds, it becomes a prince. That is a fairy tale. In evolution, you kiss a frog and in two million years, it becomes a prince.”
“In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. That wasn't really skating backward, but I guess I was going in the right direction.”
“In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise.”
“In growing up in Seattle, I don't know a single family that didn't barbecue or cook on the weekends and make its own kind of simple, pared-down, what I call Pacific Northwest cooking.”
“In growing up, I was a child of the movies. I went to the movies every given opportunity, and that's pretty much what has informed a lot of my choices.”
“In Guatemala, in 1954, a legally elected government was overthrown by an invasion force of mercenaries trained by the CIA at military bases in Honduras and Nicaragua and supported by four American fighter planes flown by American pilots. The invasion put into power Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas, who had at one time received military training at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The government that the United States overthrew was the most democratic Guatemala had ever had. The President, Jacobo Arbenz,
was a left-of-center Socialist; four of the fifty-six seats in the Congress were held by Communists. What was most unsettling to American business interests was that Arbenz had expropriated 234,000 acres of
land owned by United Fruit, offering compensation that United Fruit called "unacceptable." Armas, in power, gave the land back to United Fruit, abolished the tax on interest and dividends to foreign investors,
eliminated the secret ballot, and jailed thousands of political critics.”
Source: A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
“In Guatemala, the gap between rich and poor must be eliminated, or we will continue to be the example of conflict in America.”
“In Guhyagarbha (māyājāla tantra) it is said:
In any of the four times and ten directions
Enlightenment will not be found
Except in the Mind, which is the fully enlightened state.
Do not seek the Buddha in any other source.
(Otherwise) even if the Buddha (himself) searches, it will not be found.”
Source: The Practice of Dzogchen
“In Guinea I could read [Franz] Kafka. I re-discover in him my own discomfort.”
“In gymnastics, everything is a competition. You want to have your hair look the best and your makeup look the best. You want to be the best, and you want to have the prettiest leotard.”
“In gymnastics, smaller will always be better in many ways. The stress in the head, that will be the same for all. But the stress on the body and the concussions it must endure, that will always be easier for the little ones.”
“In gymnastics, the longest routine you do is a minute and a half, and that's pretty tough to get through.”
“In gymnastics, you have to be perfect every step along the way.”
“In Gypsy [Rose Lee] the musical, her mother, 'Mama Rose', is portrayed as a slightly eccentric, pushy, ambitious stage mother, but that version doesn't come close to the truth.”
“In haar gesprekken met hem (…) stelt ze alles ter discussie, zelfs de uitgangspunten van het katholieke geloof, die hij niet kan bewijzen alleen dan door te citeren uit de Bijbel. Wat een vreemde cirkelredenering is, zegt zij, zoiets als het bestaan van een dromedaris aantonen, niet door er een te vangen en te bestuderen, maar door een koe te beschrijven, en via een ingewikkeld betoog te verklaren waarom bij deze dromedaris de bult onder de buik hangt en niet op de rug is gegroeid, en waarom hij hoorns heeft en boe zegt, en wat niet zoal, net zolang totdat in de belevenis van mensen een koe een dromedaris is geworden. En stuit iemand vervolgens op een echte dromedaris, dan houden de kenners vol dat het geen dromedaris kan zijn, want kijk maar, zeggen ze, lees de beschrijving.”
(p. 417)”
Source: Het lied van ooievaar en dromedaris
“In haar kindertijd ziekelijk en vlug van begrip, was ze door haar natuurlijke aanleg niet eerder vrouw geworden dan toen ze ruim zeventien was, maar op die leeftijd kende ze wel al de noten, de akkoorden en de melodieën waaruit de romantische symfonieën bestonden die zij op de piano had leren spelen om de dagen door te komen in dromen en verlangens, en de nachten in illusies waarvan ze er niet op vertrouwde ze ooit in vervulling te zien gaan, maar die ze voedde om de zin van een leven te behouden die haar door niets, behalve door de muziek, werd gegeven.”
Source: El alma de los peces
“In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy.”
Source: The Final Days
“In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States.”
“In Haitian mythology there is the figure Ghede, who in West Africa, is Iku, whose role is to show "each man his devil." He's represented by a figure wearing a top hat and smoking a cigar. That's my gig.”
“In Halberstram's fun house, television elected John F. Kennedy in 1960 (presumably Richard J. Daley and his precinct captains were at home on election night watching the Cook County ballots being counted on television).”
“In half an hour, I'll know more than you do.”
“In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past.”
Source: Vanishing Acts
“In half that time, I’ve spent my life training to kick the ass of people like you.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“In Halloween, I viewed the characters as simply normal teenagers. Laurie, Jamie Lee's character, was shy and somewhat repressed. And Michael Myers, the killer, is definitely repressed. They have certain similarities.”
“In Hamburg the waiters always had Preludin - and various other pills, but I remember Preludin because it was such a big trip - and they were all taking these pills to keep themselves awake, to work these incredible hours in this all-night place. And so the waiters, when they'd see the musicians falling over with tiredness or with drink, they'd give you the pill. You'd take the pill, you'd be talking, you'd sober up, you could work almost endlessly - until the pill wore off, then you'd have to have another.”