I Quotes
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“In nearly all cases, if the people complain of the length of our sermons it is because we fail to interest them personally in what we have to say.”
“In nearly all the matters in which the Pan-German movement was wanting, the attitude of the Christian Social Party was correct and well-planned.”
Source: Mein Kampf
“In nearly every case, trying to lead everyone results in leading no one in particular.”
Source: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
“In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.”
“In nearly everything I write, I am like a ventriloquist, throwing my voice into my characters, animating them by the slightest twitch as I register my anxieties and alarms. This is true even in my comedies.”
“In Necessary Marriage, I tried to repeat entire phrases without the reader noticing. My work doesn't have the rigor of music, but I hope it alludes to it.”
“In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.”
“In Nederland was het sinds 1985 mogelijk om het geslacht op je geboorteakte te veranderen van man naar vrouw of andersom, op één voorwaarde: definitieve onvruchtbaarheid.”
Source: Welkom bij de club
“In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.”
“In negotiating with rejected lovers or husbands, women must stop thinking they can make everyone happy. In many cases of harassment and stalking, it is clear that the woman never learned how to terminate the fantasy which requires resolution and decisiveness on their part. Wavering, dithering, or passive hysterical fear will only intensify or prolong pursuit.”
Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays
“In negotiations, everyone goes home with a slice of tactful compromise but nobody gets to binge on the whole cake and leave selfish, greedy and unrealistic crumbs for the rest.”
“In neidan, the Mysterious Pass represents the time and place in which an alchemist joins the complimentary antinomies on which he or she works, such as inner nature and vital force (xing and ming), Dragon and Tiger (longhu), lead and mercury, Fire and Water, heart and kidneys, or kăn 坎 (Yang within Yin) and lí 離 (Yin within Yang).”
“In neither his definition nor the examples illustrating what memes are does Dawkins mention anything that would distinguish memes from concepts.”
Source: What Makes Biology Unique?: Considerations on the Autonomy of a Scientific Discipline
“In neoliberal society, the capitalist market is no longer imagined as a distinct arena where goods are valued and exchanged; rather, the market is, or ideally should be, the basis for all of society.” Politics is no longer primarily a negotiation of where the line between public and private falls (as in classical liberalism), for neoliberalism “works to erase this line between public and private and to create an entire society – in fact, an entire world – based on private, market competition. … Consequently, contemporary politics take shape around questions of how best to promote competition.”
Source: Naming Neoliberalism: Exposing the Spirit of Our Age
“In Nepal, I realized a certain part of my spiritual search had come to an end. I wasn't ever going to live in a Himalayan cave (I like electricity and a soft bed way too much), and I sure wasn't going to find enlightenment so easily.”
“In Nepal, the phenomenon is reversed. Time is a stick of incense that burns without being consumed. One day can seem like a week; a week, like months. Mornings stretch out and crack their spines with the yogic impassivity of house cats. Afternoons bulge with a succulent ripeness, like fat peaches. There is time enough to do everything - write a letter, eat breakfast, read the paper, visit a shrine or two, listen to the birds, bicycle downtown to change money, buy postcards, shop for Buddhas - and arrive home in time for lunch.”
Source: Shopping for Buddhas: An Adventure in Nepal
“In Neptune, the past was always grabbing at your ankles, trying to pull you back.”
Source: Mr. Kiss and Tell
“In network theory, the value of a system grows as approximately the square of the number of users of the system.”
“In network TV, you have to present the box before you can step outside it.”
“In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.”
Source: Selected Papers of Karl Abraham, M.D.
“In Nevada I could feel the Long Crisis with a terrifying intimacy, as if it was some sort of uncanny, bodily contact— like the feeling you get camped out in the swirling, galaxy-littered darkness of the open range when a reptile brushes up against your prostrate body. Except that the reptile at least shares with you some deep, serpentine connection, a lineage lost somewhere in the plummet of primeval time. The Crisis, on the other hand, is a vast creature, not contained by familiar scales of time or space. It is a social terror made of masses of machinery and animals, yet not in any way kin to these components. And what we sense of it today is merely one of its many limbs extending backward from its true body writhing somewhere just out of sight, at home in our own incomprehensible future.”
Source: Hinterland: America’s New Landscape of Class and Conflict
“In New England enslaved people had the right to sue for wrongful enslavement.”
“In New England they once thought blackbirds useless, and mischievous to the corn. They made efforts to destroy them. The consequence was, the blackbirds were diminished; but a kind of worm, which devoured their grass, and which the blackbirds used to feed on, increased prodigiously; then, finding their loss in grass much greater than their saving in corn, they wished again for their blackbirds.”
Source: A Benjamin Franklin Reader
“In New England, especially, [faith] is like sex. It's very personal. You don't bring it out and talk about it.”
“In New England, farmers say, "If you don't like the weather, wait a minute!" Meaning, of course, that New England weather is constantly changing. This is like the brain and its mind.”
Source: The Dream Drugstore: Chemically Altered States of Consciousness
“In New Haven, Conn., when I was growing up, there were two sorts of Irish. There were the "drugstore cowboy" micks, who hung around the Elm Street poolroom over Longley's Lunch. And there were the earnest young Irishmen who fought their way up from the Grand Avenue saloonkeeper backgrounds of their fathers, went through Yale Law School, and have now found high place by the preferment of local politics or in the teaching profession.”
Source: Studs Lonigan
“In New Jersey, for example, Governor Harold Hoffman refused to allow any camps for African American corps members because of what he termed “local resentment.” The national CCC director, Robert Fechner, implemented a policy never to “force colored companies on localities that have openly declared their opposition to them.”
Source: The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
“In New Mexico, he always awoke a young man, not until he arose and began to shave did he realize that he was growing older. His first consciousness was a sense of the light dry wind blowing in through the windows, with the fragrance of hot sun and sage-brush and sweet clover; a wind that made one's body feel light and one's heart cry 'To-day, to-day,' like a child's.”
Source: Death Comes for the Archbishop
“In New Mexico, I inherited the largest structural deficit in state history, and our legislature is controlled by Democrats. We don't always agree, but we came together in a bipartisan manner and turned that deficit into a surplus. And we did it without raising taxes.”
“In New Orleans the funerals remind us that Life is bigger than any individual life, and it will roll on, and for the short time that your individual life joins the big stream of Life, cut some decent steps, for God’s sake.”
“In New Orleans, where I'm from, the average household income, with two working parents, two kids, a dog and a little fence is $16,000 a year, so $15,000 for a movie sounds pretty good.”
“In New Orleans, you can pitch a rock and hit a great trumpeter.”
“In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you. (And the ones you can't Google.)”
Source: The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On
“In new situations, I look carefully at appearances. In familiar ones, I glance.”
“In new work, we need to see the shadow, however faint, of previous literary effort.”
“In New York - not to say New York isn't a competitive place - but there's much more of a sense of, we're all here and some of us are up and some of us are down and some of us are in the middle, but we have a longer view of history and how it works, rather than just this week.”
“In New York - whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame - not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.”
“In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been ''tattooed'' with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame -- not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements . Even the most chronically dispossessed appear prepared to endorse the legitimacy of the ''haves.”
Source: Myths & memories
“In New York alone, there was an average of more than 300 campus fires per year between 1997 and 2000, with roughly 160 of them annually in dormitories.”
“In New York and L.A., there is sort of that silent competition to be on the cutting edge of something. You end up having a conversation with how the world receives your work, especially if you are writing narrative, not fiction. Sometimes it is an awkward conversation. It's like group therapy.”
“In New York and LA, there is sort of that silent competition to be on the cutting edge of something.”
“In New York and New England the sap starts up in the sugar maple the very day the bluebird arrives, and sugar-making begins forthwith. The bird is generally a mere disembodied voice; a rumor in the air for two or three days before it takes visible shape before you.”
Source: The Art of Seeing Things: Essays
“In New York City, more than 700 languages are spoken...There are more languages per square mile in Queens than anyplace in the world.”
Source: Carbon: The Book of Life
“In New York City there are interesting characters and there are interesting stories. There's a story on every street corner. I love it. I think that's what really attracts me to making films.”
“In New York City, a lot of people think "the great outdoors" is the area between your front door and a taxi cab.”
“In New York City, everybody goes into therapy.”
“In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.”
“In New York City, one suicide in ten is attributed to a lack of storage space.”
“In New York City, the common bats fly only at twilight. Brick-bats fly at all hours.”
“In New York City, the meek don't inherit the earth. The big mouth does.”