I Quotes
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“In making films, I'm constantly looking for people who are in conflict and who are going to surprise you and challenge you.”
“In making friends, she was wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it. She had been involved with a few--the blind attract them, and they are the enemy.”
Source: Red Dragon
“In making Himself known to us He stays by the familiar pattern of personality. He communicates with us through the avenues of our minds, our wills and our emotions.”
Source: The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine
“In making movies, time is so short-because it is so expensive-that we tend to neglect the place from which the best ideas come, namely that part of ourselves that dreams. The unconscious is our best collaborator.”
“In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts which He also gave us. A man who has not learned to say, No -who is not resolved that he will take God's way, in spite of every dog that can bay or bark at him, in spite of every silvery choice that woos him aside-will be a weak and a wretched man till he dies.”
“In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts, which He also gave us.”
“In making policy designed with copyright in mind, you end up making decisions about whether other important technologies, such as privacy-enhancing or file-search technologies, should be encouraged or discouraged. A collision is happening between creativity and protecting IP.”
“In making portraits, I refuse to photograph myself as do so many photographers. My style is the style of the people I photograph.”
Source: Lotte Jacobi
“In making soldiers...we first teach men how to stand straight and to look right and left, then to march, etc., and, finally, by gradual discipline, they are brought to move with the precision of machinery.' So, the government, he [Longstreet] concluded, ought to accomplish the great end of Reconstruction 'by gradual steps.' -- from Interview with the Indianapolis Journal, September 24, 1874.”
Source: Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
“In making tactical dispositions, the highest pitch you can attain is to conceal them.”
Source: The Art of War
“In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have a majority. It is just as necessary that the party in power should never outrage the minority.”
Source: The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy
“In making the life of another better, you will have done the same for yourself in ways that are frequently hidden by the sacrifices that were made for the betterment of that other.”
“In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.”
“In making up my mind as to what Mr. Lincoln really believed, I do not take into consideration the evidence of unnamed persons or the contents of anonymous letters; I take the testimony of those who knew and loved him, of those to whom he opened his heart and to whom he spoke in the freedom of perfect confidence.”
Source: Ingersoll: Fifty Great Selections, Lectures, Tributes, After Dinner Speeches and Essays, Carefully Selected from the Twelve Volume Dresden Edition of Colonel Ingersoll's Complete Works
“In making war with nature, there was risk of loss in winning.”
“In Malaysia where the front end pushes so much, extra engine braking is really going to help you.”
“In Malaysia, where Western culture was extremely influential, I'd grown up listening to Elvis and the Beatles and watching American movies. People wanted to be like Americans. In contrast, when I got here, I saw prosperous middle-class American college students wanting to somehow join the Third World.”
Source: Moving the Mountain: A New Vision of Islam in America
“In male-driven [films], the protagonist is not the person who's necessarily in harms way. There's a sense that they're going to figure out how to persevere and take on the obstacles and foes and you don't necessarily know if that's going to happen with the subjects of love stories.”
“In Mallrats, you pretty much don't see him sell any weed, really. I don't consider him a big dealer.”
“In Malta, the Wars of Religion reached their climax. If both sides believed that they saw Paradise in the bright sky above them, they had a close and very intimate knowledge of Hell.”
Source: The Great Siege, Malta 1565: Clash of Cultures: Christian Knights Defend Western Civilization Against the Moslem Tide
“In man (as the only rational creature on earth) those natural capacities which are directed to the use of his reason are to be fully developed only in the race, not in the individual.”
Source: Philosophical writings
“In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders cling on to the land that they're occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people's will is what achieves victory.”
“In man or woman, but far most in man,
And most of all in man that ministers,
And serves the altar, in my soul I loathe
All affectation. 'Tis my perfect scorn:
Object of my implacable disgust.”
Source: The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life ; Six Engravings on Steel
“In man's brain the impressions from outside are not merely registered; they produce concepts and ideas. They are the imprint of the external world upon the human brain.”
“In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is usually embraced with vehemence and extremism, for we have to convince ourselves that what we took as second choice is the best there ever was. Thus blind faith is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves; insatiable desire a substitute for hope; accumulation a substitute for growth; fervent hustling a substitute for purposeful action; and pride a substitute for an unattainable self-respect.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“In man's life, time is but a moment; being, a flux; sense is dim; the material frame corruptible; soul, an eddy of breath; fortune a thing inscrutable, and fame precarious.”
Source: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to himself: in English
“In man's most dark extremity Oft succour dawns from Heaven.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Walter Scott: Complete in One Volume with All His Introductions and Notes Also Various Readings and the Editor's Notes
“In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.”
“In man, at least, satisfaction is commonly followed by boredom.”
Source: Mirage of Health: Utopias, Progress, and Biological Change
“In man, reason quickens and guides feelings; in brute, the soul lies ever dormant.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“In man, social intercourse has centred mainly on the process of absorbing fluid into the organism, but in the domestic dog and to a lesser extent among all wild canine species, the act charged with most social significance is the excretion of fluid.”
Source: An Olaf Stapledon Reader
“In man, the mechanical breathing is essential to life, and it is one of the old tests for death to see whether these movements have ceased completely.”
“In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.”
Source: Man the Unknown
“In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.”
“In management, the first concern of the company is the happiness of people who are connected with it. If the people do not feel happy and cannot be made happy, that company does not deserve to exist.”
“In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.”
“In managing a business, there's a lot of wisdom in observing and replicating natural patterns.”
“In Manchester while walking down the roads, we come across so many faces full of tears and saying goodbye friend see you soon. They cherish the year long bonding and wish each other good luck. This is the beauty of Manchester, it rules the hearts of millions forever and ever. It blossoms the relationships and nurture them in just a short span of time.”
“In Manchester while walking down the roads , we come across so many faces full of tears departing each other and saying "goodbye friend see you soon" . They cherish the year long bonding and wish each other good luck. This is the beauty of Manchester, it blossom relationships and mature them in just a short span of time. Manchester rules on millions of heart forever and ever.”
“In Mandeville, LA, Lorraine Hyde is a trailblazer in logistics. With a rich 25-year career, she's opened doors for major players and revitalized supply chains.”
“In Manhasset you were either Yankees or Mets, rich or poor, sober or drunk...You were 'Gaelic' or 'garlic," as one schoolmate told me, and I couldn't admit, to him or myself, that I had both Irish and Italian ancestors.”
“In Manhattan, brown men were either cab drivers or Wall Street bankers, immigrants or expatriates, the gulf between them as wide as a skyscraper was tall.”
Source: The Radiance of a Thousand Suns
“In Manhattan last month I heard a woman borrowing the jargon of junkies to say to another, 'Want to do some chocolate?'”
Source: A Natural History of the Senses
“In Manhattan, and its true on some level till this day; its a whole different mentality from the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, which I didn't know at the time - because you basically just know your neighborhood.”
“In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.”
“In Manhattan, I often do two or three or more shows a night, so I'm always working on new material.”
“In Manhattan, marriage is a trend. Couples kiss over their arugula and radicchio salads. They fondle each other's genitals while devouring their pasta puttanesca. By the time the tiramisu arrives, they've slid under the table.”
“In Manhattan, when you're out of the front door, you're on, and you have to be ready to smile and speak to people.”
“In manufacturing, we try to stamp out variance. With people, variance is everything.”
Source: Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader
“In manufacturing, where mechanization and the use of chemical processes are much easier, it is easier to raise productivity than in services. In contrast, by their very nature, many service activities are inherently impervious to productivity increase without diluting the quality of the product.”