I Quotes
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“In her time Nor Tigelaar had faced insurrectionists and collaborationists and war profiteers. She'd endured abduction and prison and self-mutilation. She'd sold herself in sex not for cash but for military information that might come in handy to the resistance, and in so doing she'd come across a rum variety of human types.”
Source: Out of Oz
“In her unworldly voice she thanked them for finally understanding her. She reminded me of a female pirate captain alone on the deck of her sinking ship.”
Source: The Devil in the Flesh
“In her usual manner, Merkel spoke in German. It is worth pointing out, however, that before the translator had an opportunity to convert her statements to English, Obama gave the chancellor and the press a big smile, saying, ‘I think what she said was good. I’m teasing.’ The laughter in the room drowned out the sounds of the cameras clicking and flashing, with Merkel’s giggle and smile among the loudest.”
Source: Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel
“In her view, people, even if they had behaved deplorably in life, deserved a modicum of dignity in death. Especially family. - Marko's mother”
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
“In her way, she was a hard one. Faith in any sort of natural justice was nothing but a night light; she knew of that. Whatever she did, she would end the same way with everyone does: flat on her back with a tube in her nose, wondering, "Is this all?”
Source: Red Dragon
“In her whimsical debut author Brynne Barnes celebrates the colors of our world.”
“In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.”
“in here/ everyone must be / something other than human”
Source: Sapling: The Beginner's Guide to the Art of Modern Poetry
“In here, Phryne, is the nursery. Do you like babies?
Phryne laughed.
No, not at all. they are not aesthetic like a puppy or a kitten. In fact, they always look drunk to me. look at that one---you'd swear he had been hitting the gin.”
Source: Cocaine Blues
“In here, we don’t bring our mortal worries.”
“Not everyone can be a prince, Nathaniel.”
Source: SOUL AND HEART
“In here, the human bosom -- mine, yours, everybody's -- there isn't just one soul. There's a lot of souls. But there are two main ones, the real soul and a pretender soul. Now! Every man realizes that he has to love something or somebody. He feels that he must go outward. 'If thou canst not love, what art thou?' Are you with me?”
“In het brein worden emotioneel belangrijke beelden geactiveerd met als gevolg reële effecten op sommige lichamelijke functies; de activering gebeurt buiten het bewustzijn om en wordt veroorzaakt door stress in combinatie met herinneringen.”
Source: Intimiteit
“In het eindeloze van de nacht telt de wekker de gang van de tijd - elke tik een steentje afgenomen van de toekomst, en achterover in de put van 't verleden geworpen.”
“In het middengedeelte van de gevel van het stadhuis kan men twee beelden bewonderen die de deugden verzinnebeelden van deze stad. De ene aan de linkerkant is de uit oud-Griekse waan geboetseerde Vrouwe Justitia ofte rechtvaardigheid, en aan de rechterkant vindt men, al even antiek en dus uit een noodzakelijk roemrijk verleden, Vrouwe Prudentia, ofte voorzichtigheid.
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Prudentia heeft te maken met de juiste beslissingen treffen op het juiste moment. De schilder Bruegel was in deze stad aan het werk toen dat stadhuis werd gebouwd. Op zijn prent die de Voorzichtigheid verbeeldt wordt er geoogst en gepekeld, en staat vrouwe Prudentia op de spijlen van een ladder die op de grond ligt terwijl haar rechterarm een lijkkist omvat. Onder aan de prent staat er in het Latijn te lezen: 'Wilt gij voorzichtig zijn, houdt dan de toekomst voor ogen en houdt alles wat gebeuren kan in gedachten.”
Source: WIL
“In het overladen met cadeaus wordt niet alleen de vrijheid en de superioriteit van de schenker uitgedrukt, de ontvanger krijgt met de gift ook een schuld in handen. Op dezelfde wijze als een compliment niet alleen hoogachting, maar ook goedkeuring impliceert.”
Source: Schuldgevoel
“In heterosexual love there's no solution. Man and woman are irreconcilable, and it's the doomed attempt to do the impossible, repeated in each new affair, that lends heterosexual love its grandeur.”
Source: Practicalities
“In hidden orchards the stone fruit ripened so fast that what we didn't eat was given to the animals, and so like chimps like finches like gilas we glutted on plums so ripe they split if looked at, cherries and blackberries staining our sheets. We distilled summer meads heady with anise and yogurt, and watered fields with the barrels' dregs. To the tidal boom of an underground aquarium, I cut a sturgeon nose to slit and ransacked its body for that other fruit, pure caviar. I looked to Aida for the salt. Sweaty, unshowered, her pubis its own rough ocean. Saline, the meat of her as she bucked against my tongue, split open, gleaming.”
Source: Land of Milk and Honey
“In Hiding - available for pre-order on Amazon!
The emotion of her words silenced him. He knew it was the damn truth. The bastard’s lawyer claimed the video of the robbery was too blurry, which made it ineffective. Grand’s attorney then pulled some bullshit about the inability to find the gun. Without it, they would never link the ballistics to the shooting. To stress the point, their hired ballistics specialist rattled off enough mumbo-jumbo to confuse any layman. When the specialist left the stand, the prosecutor hung his head, knowing that his case had died. Not enough evidence to bring it to trial, the prosecutor could take another run at it after they solidified their case. The defense attorney had successfully fooled the Grand Jury, but Kate hadn’t accepted this. Instead, she hunted Grand down and shot him point-blank, just like he'd killed her folks. After her family posted bail, Kate ran, and Wayne chased her. Now, they both sat steeped in the events that brought them to this moment.
“Don’t tell me you wouldn’t have done the same!”
Kate’s words struck a chord that he struggled to ignore. He couldn’t say he disagreed. He’d never expected it to end like this. Despite his skepticism, a part of him rooted for her; he wanted to believe that she was not a bad person; she was just in a bad situation. Kate should be back in college, busting her ass to pass a mid-term or, at worse, making a questionable decision with some dude. She didn’t deserve to go to prison for murder. Most of the people he chased were assholes like Grand. The world was better for it, and he moved to the next skip. Kate was different. The world would be lacking without her.”
“In hiding the truth, we become its puppet.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“In high altitude astronomical facilities we routinely discharged large amounts of nitrogen gas into closed spaces. We were never informed by the astronomy management team about the abnormally low oxygen environments that the use of liquid nitrogen creates, how long term exposure to it manifests itself in human health and the resulting abnormal mental behaviors.”
“In high altitude astronomy, it is time for the old guard to be replaced with new blood that fully understands the law, health and safety, and the full range of toxicity that astronomical observatories present to their workers.”
“In high altitude astronomy, summit workers were never warned about Monge’s disease.”
“In high altitude astronomy, we would throw broken mercury spectral lamps into the closest trash can.”
“In high performing countries, principals are working with highly qualified teachers who come from the top tiers of the graduation range, who have been rigorously prepared in universities and through supervised practice in schools, and who remain in education for all of their careers.”
“In high school and college all my friends and my brother wrestled.”
“In high school and college, I was an athlete.”
“In high school ethics they went around and asked what everyone thought their classmates were qualified to do. For me, everyone said actress. But to me it was very much "if it happens, it happens."”
“In high school I dated a white woman. She would come to visit me on the rez. And her dad, who was very racist, didn't like that at all. And he told her one time, 'You shouldn't go on the rez if you're white because Indians have a lot of anger in their heart.'”
“In high school I definitely had a clique of friends. And what I loved about it was that we were healthy and good girls.”
“In high school I developed a habit of wandering through shopping malls after school, swaying through the bright, chill mezzanines until I was so dazed with consumer goods and product codes, with promenades and escalators, with mirrors and Muzak and noise and light, that a fuse would blow in my brain and all at once everything would become unintelligible: color without form, a babble of detached molecules. Then I would walk like a zombie to the parking lot and drive to the baseball field, where I wouldn't even get out of the car, just sit with my hands on the steering wheel and stare at the Cyclone fence and the yellowed winter grass until the sun went down and it was too dark for me to see.”
Source: The Secret History
“In high school I had a boyfriend who was super into rap, so I was into Too $hort and Wu-Tang for a little while. And my best friend's older brother would sometimes drive us home in this pimped-out truck, and he'd play all his dirty rap music. We thought we were really cool.”
“In high school I had sex with girls quite a few times. They were straight women who I convinced to jump in the sack with me.”
“In high school I never went to the prom because I was too consumed with gymnastics. Also, with my hair in pigtails and looking about 10, I wasn't exactly date material.”
“In high school I read [Lev] Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" and loved it. Then I read [Friedrich] Nietzsche's "On the Genealogy of Morals" and that hit me hard. I don't know where I got it. My parents warned me not to mention either of those books when I went for my college interviews so I wouldn't seem like an egghead. They told me to talk about sports.”
“In high school, I remember reading poetry by John Keats, Percy Shelley, Pablo Neruda, and William Blake and not understanding their romantic odes and verse. But right now, in this moment, I was a poet, and I think I finally understood all the words and lines they’d written. Tonight the world was full of poetry.”
Source: Fated to Love You
“In high school I spent most of my time in jeans and T-shirts or Juicy sweats. We're such a laid-back town. I mean, people wore bikinis under their clothes half the time, so you didn't really get dressed up to go to school.”
“In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.”
“In high school I was a jazz nerd, listened to a lot of Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk and stuff like that. Maybe in Harry Pussy I was listening to more horn players.”
“In high school I was a nerd and very academic. On the weekends, instead of going out and partying, I’d close myself in my room and read Shakespeare. I hid from boys. I didn’t know what a boyfriend was, although I think I wanted one.”
“In high school I was always thinking, 'Should I be doing more? What else should I be doing?' Now I know it will all come to me. I just have to trust my path, so that's very different.”
“In high school I was an outcast I wasn't cool to hang out with. I ate my lunch in a bathroom stall because that was the one place I could go where I wouldn't been seen.”
“In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.”
“In high school I was drawn to the study of literature, poetry Shakespeare, contemporary fiction, drama, you name it - I read it.”
“In high school I was good at math and everybody wanted me to do something with that - mathematics or engineering - which was a nightmare scenario for me. Meeting other artists and going to punk rock shows at that age, there was a feeling of freedom and community that I wanted to partake in.”
“In high school I was in a band called Goodfight, but it was more me running around on stage. It was very punk inspired. Then I started to get into indie-rock and older music and decided I wanted to write my own stuff. I quit the band. Around 16 or 17, I started recording myself at home on keyboard and piano.”
“In high school I was leafing through an anthology that our teachers had given up and I found a poem, I go, "That's so strange. This poem looks so much like my grandfather's poem."”
“In high school I was on the basketball team, but the coach did something I didn't dig and the next day he looked up and saw me practising with the football team.”
“In high school, I was on the carpentry team, but I got benched. It was awkward sitting on it while my teammates built it.”
Source: The Lewis and Clark of The Ozarks
“In high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body, and part of my whole exhibitionist thing has probably been a way of testing to see whether or not I really was this repulsive creature that I felt like for so long.”
“In high school I was the manager of the football team, so being around boys is natural to me!”