I Quotes
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“In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.”
“In returning I read a very different book, published by an honest Quaker , on that execrable sum of all villanies, commonly called the Slave-trade.”
Source: Journals
“In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do.”
“In Revelation 12, we see a pure, holy woman giving birth to a son - a corporate son who brings victory by the blood of Jesus, their testimony and sacrifice. My vision is to see that kind of church moving in the authority, the sacrifice and love of Jesus.”
“In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression.”
“In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.”
Source: Beyond Good and Evil
“In Revenge, as in life, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. In the end the guilty always fall.”
“In reverent pauses, when we slow down and think about the gift of life, we may briefly touch humility.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“In reversing underachievement, keeping motivation and ability high is crucial, especially for underachieving students with great potential.”
“In reviewing films, people get quite liberal about saying "the script" this and "the script" that, when they've never read the script any more than they've read the latest report on Norwegian herring landings.”
“In reviewing his own moral career, the stigmatized individual may single out and retrospectively elaborate experiences which serve for him to account for his coming to the beliefs and practices that he now has regarding his own kind and normals.”
“In reviewing my life, in tracing its course, I fill my cell with the pleasure of being what for want of a trifle I failed to be, recapturing, so that I may hurl myself into them as into dark pits, those moments when I strayed through the trap-ridden compartments of a subterranean sky”
Source: Our Lady of the Flowers
“In reviewing the history of the English Government, its wars and its taxes, a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor warped by interest, would declare that taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.”
Source: THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…
“In reviewing the history of the times through which we have passed, no portion of it gives greater satisfaction or reflection, than that which represents the efforts of the friends of religious freedom and the success with which they are crowned.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson
“In reviewing the most mysterious doctrines of revelation, the ultimate appeal is to reason, not to determine whether she could have discovered these truths; not to declare whether, considered in themselves, they appear probable; but to decide whether it is not more reasonable to believe what God speaks than to confide in our own crude and feeble conceptions. No doctrine can be a proper object of our faith, which is not more reasonable to believe than to reject.”
“In revision, your imagination becomes deeply engaged with your material. It's when you come to know your characters and begin to perceive their motivations and values.”
“In revival, God is not concerned about filling empty churches, He is concerned about filling empty hearts.”
“In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition.”
Source: TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE
“In revolution there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“In revolutionary times the rich are always the people who are most afraid.”
“In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.”
“In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.”
“In rich and captivating prose, Jessica DuLong kindly invites the rest of us on the journey of her lifetime: from a dot-com job to the fabled waters of the Hudson River, where she became a fireboat engineer. This is an unusual and fascinating book.”
“In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not mimic primitive ontology in order to challenge it. Better to dispose of the needless assumption altogether. This holds true for everything from Noah's flood to the Holocaust.”
“In riding a horse, we borrow freedom”
“In Riemann, Hilbert or in Banach space Let superscripts and subscripts go their ways. Our symptotes no longer out of phase, We shall encounter, counting, face to face.”
Source: The Cyberiad
“In right and service to their noble country.”
Source: The Works of Shakespeare: Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected
“In right-angled triangles the square on the side subtending the right angle is equal to the squares on the sides containing the right angle.”
Source: Elements of Geometry, Containing the First Six Books of Euclid
“In Rio Bravo when Duke makes love to Feathers, the scene dissolves to the next morning where we see him putting on his vest and almost humming. It was subtle, but you knew what happened. Give me a towel and some blankets any day!”
“In Rio de Janeiro, every cop has to make a choice. He either turns dirty, keeps his mouth shut, or goes to war.”
“In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination.”
“In rising sighs and falling tears.”
Source: The spectator
“In rivers and bad governments the lightest things swim at top.”
Source: Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom
“In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes: so with time present.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.”
Source: Notebooks
“In Riyadh, there's going to be a huge project that will house at least 12,000 units with inhabitants of approximately 150,000 people. It's like a city within a city.”
“In rock & roll heaven, there ARE drum solos, but only the drummers can hear them.”
“In rock 'n' roll it's really about being as vulnerable as possible and giving them what they want. But onstage it's about pausing, about internal life, it's about internal triggers - that's one of the reasons I'm really challenged to do a play.”
“In rock 'n' roll, as we all know, the image is that it's one big party. But many times the reality is that it's the furthest thing from the party. There's the alcoholism and drug abuse that come because you're looking for that elusive 'thing,' and you don't know what it is or where it is. But you've got the money and the connections, and the choices are not always the healthiest.”
“In rock stardom there's an absolute economic upside to self-destruction.”
“In rock, paper, scissors the key is, and this is the best piece of advice that I can give you, if you do think that you recognize the pattern from your opponent, it's good to try to throw a tie as opposed to a win. A tie will very often get you a tie or a win, whereas a win will get you a win or a loss. For example, if you think that someone might throw a rock, it's good to throw rock back at them. You should be going for ties. That's actually a really good strategy to win at rock, paper, scissors. There's my rock, paper, scissors advice for you.”
“In Rockford I decided that I had seen enough of the world.”
Source: My Story
“In romance books, the girl gets away with everything while the guys dote on her and affectionately stroke her hair. So not fair. Fiction is starting to annoy me with all its misleading inaccuracies.”
Source: Two Kingdoms & One Apocalypse
“In romance or friendship, what's important is how much you love the other person." - Gackt”
“In romance we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.”
“In romance, as in life, you only learn when you're losing.”
“In romance, I can’t stand this scenario: A woman is awakened to find a strange man in her bedroom—and then automatically finds him attractive. I’m sorry, but if I awoke to a strange man in my bedroom, I’d be reaching for a weapon—not admiring the view.”
“In romance, there's nothing more attractive to a man than a woman who has dignity and pride in who she is.”
Source: Why Men Marry Bitches: A Woman's Guide to Winning Her Man's Heart
“In Romania, I train on a bar that is bent. My gym has bad lighting and very little heat in the winters. Here in America, you have everything you need to train. It's not in the bar or the gym or the platform it's in you.”
“In Romanian society, I am not particularly well-liked. I don't often receive invitations.”