I Quotes
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“In our methodical American life, we still recognize some magic in summer. Most persons at least resign themselves to being decently happy in June. They accept June. They compliment its weather. They complain of the earlier months as cold, and so spend them in the city; and they complain of the later months as hot, and so refrigerate themselves on some barren sea-coast. God offers us yearly a necklace of twelve pearls; most men choose the fairest, label it June, and cast the rest away.”
Source: Outdoor Studies, Poems
“In our minds lives the madonna image--the all-embracing, all- giving tranquil mother of a Raphael painting, one child at her breast, another at her feet; a woman fulfilled, one who asks nothing more than to nurture and nourish. This creature of fantasy, this myth, is the model--the unattainable ideal against which women measure, not only their performance, but their feelings about being mothers.”
“In our minds we can proceed without hesitation to the place we might never go in our own lives. There is an opportunity to taste the forbidden and savor its sweet delights. It is only within our imaginations that we can enter into these situations with no fear and no regret.”
Source: White
“In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew”
Source: The Stargirl Collection
“In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.”
“In our minds, rich is always the other person, the other family. Rich is having more than you currently have. If that is the case, you can be rich and not feel it. You can be rich and not know it.”
“In our modern age, there are writers who have heaped scorn on the very idea of the primacy of story. I'd rather warm my hands on a sunlit ice floe than try to coax fire from the books they carve from glaciers.”
Source: My Reading Life
“In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas.”
“In our modern day and age, words like faithfulness, lifelong commitment, and covenant are not very popular. Instead, we prefer words such as soul mate, true love, and happiness. But the truth is, these feelings-based words do not produce the type of enduring marriages that we long for.”
Source: Love Defined: Embracing God's Vision for Lasting Love and Satisfying Relationships
“In our modern lives we have strayed so far from living in sync with nature that integrating natural health measures into our lives can paradoxically feel unnatural.”
Source: The Other Medicine That Really Works: How Energy Medicine Can Help You Heal in Body, Mind, and Spirit
“In our modern society the image and mythic process has been taken over by corporations that directly control advertising and, indirectly, the entertainment industry. Powerful erotic images are used for the sole purpose of selling consumer products; the side effects of this commercialization have a profound impact on the sexual imagination and identity of vast numbers of people.”
“In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.”
“In our modern world, this elemental quality of storytelling is denied. We live today in a world in which everything has its place and function and nothing is left out of place. Storytelling is thus at a discount and like everything else in a world ruled by the laws of exchange value, literature is required to submit itself to the requirements of the market and must learn, like any other commodity, to adapt and serve needs that lie outside of itself and its concrete value. It is forced to stand not for itself but for an ideological cause of one sort or another, whether it be political, social or literary. It cannot exist for itself: like everything else it has to be justified. And for this very reason the power of storytelling is automatically devalued. Literature is reduced to the status of complimentary utilitarian functions: as a pastime to provide distraction and entertainment, or as a heightened activity that would claim to explore 'great truths' about the human condition.”
Source: Dedalus Book of Surrealism 2: The Myth of the World
“In our modern world today, we may seem like drowning men because of the loss of much of our spiritual tradition.”
Source: Yellowtail, Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief: An Autobiography
“In our modern world we have seen inaugurated the reign of a dull bourgeois rationalism, which finds some inadequate reason for all things in heaven and earth and makes a god of its own infallibility.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Buchan (Illustrated)
“In our modern world, we look unkindly on mistakes and imperfection. But this is far from the samurai ideal. Mistakes are part of the learning process and if you haven't made them then you are, indeed, dangerous because it means you have never learned anything. Mistakes, to a samurai, are the proof of your learning.”
Source: Instruction Manual for the 21st Century Samurai
“In our moments in the sun beware of casting dark shadows.”
Source: A Walk with Prudence
“In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.”
“In our more frustrated moments we turn to people say, “Why don’t you try walking a mile in my shoes!” But the question is, “Which pair and where did I leave them?”
“In our most difficult moments we are given an opportunity to reset & determine who we are or want to be. You alone shape your life.”
“In our most Puritan of society, gambling-like other pleasures-is either taxed, restricted to certain hours, or forbidden altogether. Yet the impulse to gamble remains an eternal aspect of the irrationality of man. It finds outlets in business, war, politics, in the formal overtures of the gambling casinos, and in the less ceremonious exchanges among individuals of differing opinions.”
“In our most vulnerable hour, it is helpful to remember our creative power.”
Source: Unbound
“In our multifunctional homes, we will need different types of light at different times of day for different moods or tasks. All spaces in the house should have different lighting options so that they can be adapted to fit your needs. This should include:
- Good general (or ambient) lighting to aid circulation around the house. This could be dimmable spotlighting so it can be bright for activities and dimmed later in the day.
- Task lighting, such as side lamps, standing lamps, and spotlights above or next to specific task areas.
- Mood or accent lighting for hosting or simply relaxing.”
Source: Design A Healthy Home: 100 ways to transform your space for physical and mental wellbeing
“In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?”
“In our nation a new and insidious form of religious hatred is developing. I believe there is an attempt to create hatred in the public mind toward orthodox Christians, Jews, and Catholics. It is being implemented by the mass media.”
Source: Who will rule the future?
“In our nation there are two classes of nobility: the law-abiding workers and the law-abiding employers who sustain each other.”
“In our Nation, approximately 22.5 million children ride school buses to and from school each day, which accounts for 54 percent of all students attending grade school.”
“In our national discourse and in pursuing our national agenda, we must never leave anyone behind. We must reach out to the many who may have been disaffected and left confused by political games, deceit and showmanship. The people first must transcend every level of society.”
“In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony originates in the glance and the shrug of the loser, the outsider, the despised minority. It is a nuance that comes most effortlessly to the oppressed.”
Source: Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere
“In our natural Adamic state, we are not on our sick beds. We are in the grave.”
“In our natural body every part has a necessary sympathy with every other; and all together form, by their harmonious conspiration, a healthy whole.”
“In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.”
Source: A Woman's Worth
“In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.”
Source: SAT Words from Literature - the Scarlet Letter
“In our need to be somebody, we often forget that we are somebody.”
“In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electronic button. Such a war will not last long and none will ever follow it. There will be no conquerors and no conquests, but only the charred bones of the dead on and uninhabited planet.”
Source: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
“In our new life it was the reading I missed the most. The daylight hours were spent working, and much of the evening also, mending clothes and tools and bits of this and that by firelight”
Source: Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
“In our new paradigm, your business must make people feel. The people who need to feel good about your brand are your customers, and your job is to make them happy. Customers are happy when they feel you understand their needs and are willing to sacrifice to make sure they’re met. This sacrifice can manifest itself in many forms—from working extra-hard to provide the goods or services you promised, or going above and beyond to fix something that went wrong. Whatever you do, when you meet the needs of your customers consistently and exceed their expectations with more care for their happiness than your bottom line, you become worthy of loyalty and trust. That loyalty and trust strengthens the connection that’s the bedrock of a great brand and a key component of unlocking your creative potential. That’s what it means for an organization to be emotionally generous.”
“In our not-yet-acknowledged secret garden lie the seeds of some of our best not-yet-written stories”
Source: How to Grow a Novel: The Most Common Mistakes Writers Make and How to Overcome Them
“In our notebooks , we press our past selves between the pages like diaphanous flowers, so that we can look back and remember who we used to be.”
Source: Little Stories of Your Life: Find Your Voice, Share Your World and Tell Your Story
“In our observances this Memorial Day, we honor the brave Americans who paid the highest price for their commitment to the ideals of peace, freedom, and justice. Our debt to them can be paid only by our own recommitment to preserving those same ideals.”
“In our obsessive wish to arrive, we often forget the most important thing, which is the journey.”
“In our office, we have a whiteboard with all of our ideas and things we want to write on it - great ideas we have that we haven't had the time to get around to yet.”
“In our old age my beloved companion said to me quietly one evening, "You have always given me wings to fly, and I have loved you for it.”
“In our online world there is no way for a regular civilian to keep their phone uninfected. And that includes everybody except skilled and resourceful programmers.”
Source: Vatican Virus: The Forbidden Fiction
“In our open society, we are inclined to give to the less fortunate for the pure goodness of giving. We open our home to those who are alone on this holiday to spread some warmth into the life of another.”
“In our opinion, Coke is great from a can, still good from a bottle, yet hard to get just right from the fountain. But oh, when they do get it right, it tastes good enough to be an eighth wonder of the world.”
Source: Wildflower
“In our opposed forms of loneliness and self-recognition and recognition of the other, we touched each other often as we spoke; and on shore in explorations of the past, we strolled with our arms linked...”
Source: Profane Friendship: A Novel
“in our ordinaryness we are most bizarre.”
“In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of the world...Once we no longer live beneath our mother's heart, it is the earth with which we form the same dependent relationship, relying...on its cycles and elements, helpless without its protective embrace.”
“In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.”
Source: The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis