I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science - really good science: the semiconductor came out of it.”
“In order for the weakest to be the strongest, he must know all the struggles of the strongest on their way to be the strongest!”
“In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that's why you're not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable.”
Source: The periodic table
“In order for them to be the best they can be, my children need me to be the best version of me I can be. That means
taking charge of our lives, being strong even if I don’t feel it,being brave and believing that I can make things better.”
Source: Mummy Fever: Mission Accomplished
“In order for there to be light, there must first exist non - light or total darkness. Nowhere in the Taoverse would there be light. No stars. Total darkness. Zero light. The blackest of the black. Therefore light exists in total darkness.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“In order for things to change you, you must be able to change.”
“In order for this struggle to have meaning, the oppressed must not, in seeking to regain their humanity (which is a way to create it), become in turn oppressors of the oppressors, but rather restorers of the humanity of both”
Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition
“In order for this team to win the game, the quarterback has to throw the ball.”
“In order for this to happen, your entire frame of reference will have to change, and you will be forced to surrender many things that you now scarcely know you have.”
“In order for three people to keep a secret, two must be dead.”
“In order for tomorrow to move in an enlightened direction, humanists and nontheists of all stripes must unite coalitions on every matter facing us today. As Frederick Douglass said: "Power concedes nothing without a demand.”
Source: Creating Change Through Humanism
“In order for us [people] to progress, we need brilliance and brilliance isn't fair and it's not polite and we can't grow it. It happens. Genius happens and it doesn't always happen in a zip code where we can access it. Therefore, we kind of need [Internet] not to keep tabs on everybody but we need to give them access to everybody else.”
“In order for us and our families to withstand the pressures of the world, we must be filled with light and gospel truth.”
“In order for us as poor and oppressed people to become part of a society that is meaningful, the system under which we now exist has to be radically changed... It means facing a system that does not lend its self to your needs and devising means by which you change that system.”
“In order for us human beings to commit ourselves personally to the inhumanity of war, we find it necessary first to dehumanize our opponents, which is in itself a violation of the beliefs of all religions. Once we characterize our adversaries as beyond the scope of God's mercy and grace, their lives lose all value.”
Source: The Jimmy Carter Library
“In order for us to be able to love, we need to have faith, because faith is love in action and love in action is service. In order for us to be able to love, we have to see and touch. Faith in action through prayer, faith in action through service: each is the same thing, the same love, the same compassion.”
Source: No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition
“In order for us to become the Bride of Christ, we must stop being so divided. We must start coming together. We must be places of refuge for the nonbelievers and start being places they want to come. That doesn't mean that we will always agree on everything, but we must start pursuing unity.”
Source: Cursing the Church or Helping It?: Exposing the Spirit of Balaam
“In order for us to become truly happy, that which we can become, we must become.”
“In order for us to compete with China, we've also got to make sure, though, that we're taking - taking care of business here at home. If we don't have the best education system in the world, if we don't continue to put money into research and technology that will allow us to create great businesses here in the United States, that's how we lose the competition.”
“In order for us to deliver this we have to integrate the big-screen capability, the PC capability, and the Internet experience. This is a combination of hardware and software that delivers a new media experience.”
“In order for us to feel like we have the time, energy, money, and space to create the lives we really want to live, we need to create and enforce healthy boundaries that enable us to experience a sense of balance. From this open space, we can truly bloom.”
Source: InstaGrateful: Finding Your Bliss in a Social Media World
“In order for us to grow we have to get our feet wet. If God put all the answers in front of us, we would never learn. We need to dig a little deeper, reach a little further, think a little harder, run a little faster, and surprisingly when we utilize our capabilities and push our limits, we begin to grow in leaps and bounds.”
“In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization.”
“In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself.”
“In order for us to practice self-control, we must have a goal. We must have something we are saying “yes” to, which necessarily comes with things that we must say “no” to. We use self-control to maneuver ourselves toward this “yes.” This goal must be entirely our own. The minute another person is choosing and managing our goals for us, we have left self-control behind.”
Source: Keep Your Love On: Connection Communication And Boundaries
“In order for us to reach success, we must first find, the ladder.”
“In order for us to solve many big problems around the world, it is in our interest to work with Russia and obtain their cooperation.”
“In order for us to truly create and contribute to the world, we have to be able to connect countless dots, to cross-pollinate ideas from a wealth of disciplines, to combine and recombine these pieces and build new castles.”
“In order for us to use the very best judgment possible in spending the taxpayer's money intelligently, we just have to do a certain amount of this research and development work ourselves. We just have to keep our own hands dirty to command the professional respect of the contractor personnel engaged with actual design, shop and testing work.”
“In order for us, black and white, to disenthrall ourselves from the harshest slavemaster, racism, we must disinter our buried history.... We are all the Pilgrim, setting out on this journey.”
Source: The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century
“In order for you to be able to say that you have really succeeded, what you have accomplished must be a very beneficial thing not only for yourself or your family, but also for humanity!”
“In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.”
“In order for you to insult me, I would first have to value your opinion.”
“In order for you to insult me or verbal abused me, I would have to value your opinion."”
“In order for you to master your true self, you need to first expose and explore yourself. When you do you will see yourself through your own mirror and that's where you start to see your true self. But how many do? Or have the courage to face themselves?”
“In order for you to receive, someone else has to give. That’s called sacrifice.”
Source: Refined: Turning Pain into Purpose
“In order for you to succeed you are going to have to set up weekly times at which you or some of the rare people that you can actually trust must inspect each element of your company’s workflow to make sure it is being done right.”
Source: Will Not Work for Food - 9 Big Ideas for Effectively Managing Your Business in an Increasingly Dumb, Distracted & Dishonest America
“In order for you to win a game, a lot of things have to go right. Your team has to win. Your team has to perform. When you talk about striking out people or ERA, that's personal stuff and where you show people what kind of pitcher you are.”
“In order for your dreams to come true, you've got to stay awake.”
“In order for your situation and life to get better, you have to lay out boundaries for yourself and your relationships.”
Source: When Roses are Crushed
“In order not to annul our free will, I judge it true that Fortune may be mistress of one half our actions but then even she leaves the other half, or almost, under our control.”
“In order not to be astonished at obtaining victories, one ought not to think only of defeats.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“In order not to be misunderstood, I want it perfectly clear that I believe it is incumbent on us to conduct our lives in a way that takes into account all the consequences of our actions, including the consequences to other people, and the consequences to the environment.”
“In order not to cut out a large part of one's private life, the creative work should not swallow up every other form of self-expression. But that is the most complicated thing.”
Source: Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey
“In order not to end up like the masses out there who are merely wandering and unsure of their goals and dreams, your objective must be clear. When your purpose is clear, your life will have meaning.”
“In order not to fall into isolation we have to be established in the house of God and focus on serving Him”
“In order not to feel time's horrid fardel bruise your shoulders, grinding you into the earth, get drunk and stay that way. On what? On wine, poetry, virtue, whatever. But get drunk!”
“In order not to leave any traces, when you do something, you should do it with your whole body and mind; you should be concentrated on what you do. You should do it completely, like a good bonfire. You should not be a smoky fire. You should burn yourself completely. If you do not burn yourself completely, a trace of yourself will be left in what you do. You should not have any remains after you do something. But this does not mean to forget all about it.”
“In order not to lose your resolve and purpose, you need to unite with others of like mind and work with an advanced Teacher who is in touch with, and can transfer, knowledge and power.”
“In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love.”