I Quotes
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“In opera tradition, when opera die-hard fans, there is a replacement of singer or singer wasn't at his or hers vocal best, doing something, they boo. Especially now that they pay hundreds of dollars for the ticket.”
“In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.”
“In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much to film.”
“In opera, there is always too much singing.”
“In opposing Communism, we are defeating ourselves if we use methods that do not conform to the American sense of justice.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954
“In opposing we always talk about freedom in the Western world, Muslims always talk about justice. Very often we mean the same thing. But what we do mean, what in the Western world we call human rights, in the Islamic world, they don't talk about rights. Now they do, but in the past they didn't. It wasn't part of their terminology. But really it's the same thing.”
“In opposition to sex education: Let the kids today learn it where we did - in the gutter.”
“In opposition to the plenary ability taught by the Pelagians, the gracious ability of the Arminians, and the natural ability of the New School theologians, the Scriptures declare the total inability of the sinner to turn himself to God or to do that which is truly good in God's sight”
Source: Systematic Theology : Volume II (Illustrated)
“In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.”
“In opposition... to all the suggestions of the devil, the sole, simple, and sufficient answer is the word of God. This puts to flight all the powers of darkness.”
Source: A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians
“In oppressing, one becomes oppressed. Men are enchained by reason of their very sovereignty; it is because they alone earn money that their wives demand checks, it is because they alone engage in a business or profession that their wives require them to be successful, it is because they alone embody transcendence that their wives wish to rob them of it by taking charge...”
Source: The Second Sex
“In optimism there is magic. In pessimism there is nothing.”
“In or orchestra we have many nationalities, types, and temperaments.”
“In or out of marriage, abortion is not an individual choice. At a minimum, three lives are involved.”
“In or towards whomsoever the Holy Spirit puts forth His power, or acts his grace for their regeneration, he removes all obstacles, overcomes all oppositions, and infallibly produces the intended effect.”
“In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.”
“In oratory affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself than by those words which may smell either of the lamp or inkhorn.”
“In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.”
Source: The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin
“In oratory the will must predominate.”
“In order always to learn something from others (which is the finest school there can be), I observe in my travels this practice: I always steer those with whom I talk back to the things they know best.”
“In order effectively to liberate oneself from the grip of existing social reality, one should first renounce the transgressive fantasmatic supplement that attaches us to it.”
Source: The Fragile Absolute Or, Why is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For?
“In order every one in our homeland learns principles of democracy and the peaceful transition of power, and in order to stabilize and develop multiple choices in democratic practice.”
“In order for a boy to have become a good man, that boy would have had to have held the hand of a good man.”
“In order for a business to scale, it has to improve efficiencies. Efficiency is a prerequisite for sustainable scaling.”
“In order for a god to be all-knowing, he must know even the fact of his own omniscience. But can he do this? He may know the totality of facts constituting the world; call this Y. But in order to know that he has mastered Y, he must also know that 'There are no facts unknown to me' — and this is beyond Y.
It seems impossible that a god (or anyone) could ever be sure that nothing exists beyond his ken. It makes no sense to imagine [a god] arriving at this limit, peering beyond it (at what?), and satisfying himself no further facts exist. But without this certainty he cannot be sure of his own omniscience, and so does not know everything.
A theist might argue that his god has created all the facts in existence. But an omniscient god would have to be sure of even this — that he is the sole creator, and that there are no facts unknown to him. And how could he come to this knowledge?”
“In order for a holiday to be a great holiday, it must somehow involve water-related activity, because water is a magician who relaxes our soul and body!”
“In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out.”
“In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman.”
“In order for a man to feel whole, he needs someone to look up to and someone to look up to him.”
“In order for a man to really understand himself he must be part of a nation; he must have some land of his own, a God of his own, a language of his own. Most of all he must have love and devotion for his own kind.”
“In order for a musician to grow, he's got to pay his dues. Some musicians ask me, 'well, what do you mean? You're saying I have to 'starve' and pay all these dues just to play jazz?' And my answer to them is, well, to some degree, yes! Because in order to play jazz you have to live it. Those notes mean something. They don't just come from your brain, they come from your heart and soul too. And in order to have that heart and soul you have to experience life. So I relate my music to my life and my life style. You can't separate the two.”
“In order for a person to be able to “turn our lives and our wills” over requires something very difficult for a spiritually wounded person to accomplish - Trust. Yet, to accomplish this step, trust of the spirit must be present.”
“In order for a police force to be effective, it has to earn the trust of its people. But to those who only scratch the surface, to those who do not investigate their simplistic opinions about the root cause of crime in inner cities and the animosity between police forces and communities of color, the answer is simply more policing. But what we need is different policing. Policing not steeped from root to flower in the need to control people of color.”
Source: So You Want to Talk About Race
“In order for a relationship to work, you need to learn from each other. Grow and experience. One can’t be the leader and the other the follower. You learn and grow and you do this together, with each other. This creates love, loyalty and growth.”
“In order for a seed to rise, it must be buried in dirt; likewise, in order for the great to rise they must be buried in adversity.”
“In order for a service to be social, you've really got to start from the ground up. The fact that almost a third of the U.S. population have even heard of Spotify is really because they've seen it on Facebook and friends have been sharing.”
“In order for a society to survive, it must generate a sufficient level of physical production both to meet its current needs, and to produce a surplus for upgrading its productive powers.”
“In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize.”
Source: THE OCTOBER COUNTRY
“In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign... Secondly, a just cause... Thirdly... a rightful intention.”
“In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.”
“In order for America to remain a global leader in innovation and opportunity, we must give our children a solid foundation in math and science.”
“In order for American Pie to have worked, you have to have a character who, even while he is humping a pie, the audience still likes”
“In order for an act to be a crime, libertarians say, someone must be harmed - there must be a victim. Anything that's peaceful, voluntary, and honest should be tolerated regardless of whether we agree with it. Part of the price of our own freedom is allowing others to be free.”
“In order for an idea to be viable, there has to be a market willing to pay money for that idea, presented as a product or service.”
Source: Business Ideation: The Five Steps
“In order for an ideal to become a reality, there must be a person, a personality to translate it.”
“In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.”
“In order for any smartphone manufacturer to decrypt the data on your phone, it has to hold onto a secret that lets it get that access. And that secret or that database of secrets becomes an extremely valuable and useful target for intelligence agencies.”
“In order for anything to happen you will have to act. Knowing is not enough. Neither is just being. Talking becomes annoying beyond a certain point. Doing makes all the difference. Doing converts thoughts into things. Doing turns talk into solutions and tangible results.”
Source: Know What Matters
“In order for architecture to experience its ongoing evolution as a language, there has to be a lot of adjusted copies between how architects draw, think, engage bylaws and constraints.”
“In order for collaboration to take place, managers must give up their silos and their perceptions of power.”
Source: Collaboration Begins with You: Be a Silo Buster