I Quotes
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“In politics, victory is never total.”
Source: The Last Tape (and Testament) of Richard M. Nixon
“In politics, what appears is.”
“In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.”
“In politics, when you`re explaining, you`re losing.”
“In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.”
Source: The substance of man
“In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic.”
“In politics, you have your word and your friends; go back on either and you're dead.”
“In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.”
“In Polmont, everyone was acting the hard man and giving it the large. I had to fight or cosh or do something to be accepted. I can tell you, it was better to be in a gang than being on your own, and I’d do anything in Polmont, no questions asked!”
Source: Lost in Care: The True Story of a Forgotten Child
“In poltitics you get what you deserve rather than what you want.”
“In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work?”
“In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.”
Source: Middlemarch
“In poorly structured code, the move from figuring things out to making changes feels like jumping off a cliff to avoid a tiger. You hesitate and hesitate. "Am I ready to do it? Well, I guess I have to.”
Source: Working Effectively with Legacy Code
“In pop culture news, Lady Gaga got married. And yes, she was wearing white meat.”
“In pop music, the public usually see the results - the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours - but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won't make it.”
“In pop music, you say, 'You can do what you want to me.' Rock 'n' roll says, 'I'm gonna do what I want to you.'”
“In pop or rock you can make a fast song or a slow one, but in disco there is really just the one rhythm.”
“In popular books and articles, information technology writer Carr has worried over the ways that algorithms like those employed by Google are reshaping the ways we think.”
“In popular government results worth while can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense.”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century
“In popular houses where visitors like to go again and again, there is always a happy combination of some attention on the part of the hostess and the perfect freedom of the guests to occupy their time as they choose.”
Source: Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home
“In popular Islam as most Iranians know it, various female saints are deeply revered, and spiritual women are well respected. Their powers, however, seem to be personal, not institutional. Female leaders are seen as inspirational, but not authoritative. Male clerics are generally accepted as the definers of religion, but probably most people’s actual values and world views are more shaped by their mothers or grandmothers. ... As in popular religion almost everywhere, loving care, personal aspiration, and moral decency are usually better respected than institutional authority.”
Source: Mother Persia: Women in Iran's History
“In populations experiencing trauma across a wide variety of settings, the portion of those experiencing ongoing PTSD is remarkably similar – one third. Ecclesiastes says woe to him who falls alone, but that the cord of THREE strands is not easily broken. Apparently deep in our human wiring is the resilience to be a buttress for those feeling overcome.”
Source: Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back
“In populous cities, which are the seat of commerce and manufactures, the middle ranks of inhabitants, who derive their subsistence from the dexterity or labour of their hands, are commonly the most prolific, the most useful, and, in that sense, the most respectable part of the community.”
Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“In portrait photography there is something more profound that we seek inside a person, while being painfully aware that a limitation of our medium is that the inside is recordable only insofar as it is apparent on the outside...Very often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.”
“In portraits, the grace and, we may add, the likeness consists more in taking the general air than in observing the exact similitude of every feature.”
Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds
“In Positano, I like the San Pietro Hotel, which is run by a friend whose family has owned the hotel for more than 100 years.”
“In positions of strategic manoeuvring (where time is not of decisive importance) seek the worst-placed piece. Activating that piece is often the most reliable way of improving your position as a whole.”
“In positive terms, we can state that psychological maturity entails finding greater satisfaction in giving than in receiving; having a capacity to form satisfying and permanent loyalties; being primarily a creative, contributing person; having learned to profit from experience; having a freedom from fear (anxiety) with a resulting true serenity and not a pseudo absence of tension; and accepting and making the most of unchangeable reality when it confronts one.”
“In post modern culture, people not only have their own views, they think they are entitled to their own facts.”
“In postcolonial Africa, single dwelling housing is the biggest perpetrator of urban segregation.”
Source: Dystopia: How The Tyranny of Specialists Fragment African Cities
“In postmodernism, human knowledge seemed to double at great rates, but it’s impossible to continue at that rate. It’s one thing to double one’s knowledge from two to four, or four to eight. It’s another to double from a trillion! Nevertheless, the “size” of our current bank of knowledge is extensive and overwhelming. It’s reasonable to suggest that humanity accumulated more knowledge in the last decade than in all recorded history combined. Take a moment to ponder that piece of information. What does it say to you? How does it affect Western Society, Western Christianity, and Western spirituality? How does it affect you? In turn, we must ask if we have become any smarter or wiser. What do you think?”
Source: Postmodern Spirituality in the Age of Entitlement
“In postmodernism, the truth can't hurt. If something is hurtful or doesn't promote social equality, it must not be true.”
Source: IDiots: How Identity Politics is Destroying the Left
“In poverty a man is alone. But with prosperity, He has many friends.”
“In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
“In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
“In poverty, friends are few; in prosperity, acquaintances are numerous; in affluence, associates are countless.”
“In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms”
Source: The Winter of our Discontent
“In poverty you may still preserve the nobility of your inborn feelings, but in destitution no one ever does.”
Source: Crime and Punishment
“In power, it is realism. - There are many quests at every Mass. (Au pouvoir, c'est le réalisme. - Il y a bien des quêtes à chaque messe.)”
“In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation.”
“In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.”
Source: Letters to Friend and Foe
“In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about Virtue, then, but we must endeavor to possess it, and to use it, or to take any other steps that may make.”
Source: The Nicomachean ethics
“In practical terms, the ego-shadow split is alleviated through the development of the feeling function, for it is feeling that determines the value of the opposites involved in any conflict situation.”
Source: The Secret Raven: Conflict and Transformation in the Life of Franz Kafka
“In practical terms the South Pointing Chariot was a simple direction finder. It could have been made to point in any direction - north, south, east or west.”
“In practical terms, you’re only responsible for what you say and do.
Beware frittering away this precious lifetime by trying to make it all about energy. You asked for a human life, and now you’ve got one.”
Source: Seeking Enlightenment in the Age of Awakening: Your Complete Program for Spiritual Awakening and More, In Just 20 Minutes a Day
“In practically every film you experience, you can see the director following the text. Illustrating the words first, making the pictures after, and, alas, so often not making pictures at all, but holding up the camera to do its mimetic worst.”
“In practice a photographer does not concern himself with philosophical issues while working; he makes photographs, working with subject matter that he thinks will make the pictures.”
“In practice, all ideas need to be viewed as merely hypotheses; testing and evaluation of the test results must precede across-the-board adoption.”
Source: Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation
“In practice, even in the simplest organizations, the industrial “speed” is not homogeneous across the enterprise.”
Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as