I Quotes
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“In Stalin's Russia racial persecution was often disguised as class warfare. More than 1.5 million members of ethnic minorities died as a result of forced resettlement.”
“In Stalinism the tragedy is that its origin is some kind of radical emancipatory project. In the origins you had a kind of workers' uprising; the true enigma is how this project of emancipation went so wrong.”
“In Stalinism, everybody was potentially a victim in a totally contingent way.”
“In stamping photography with the patent of realism, society does nothing but confirm itself in the tautological certainty that an image of reality that conforms to its own representation of objectivity is truly objective.”
“In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like.”
Source: The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou
“In stand up every joke is thought about so meticulously, and one word can completely change how the audience responds. You're up there with no safety net; you can't shirk responsibility. It's your thoughts; it's your voice. You can't blame it on the writing, you can't blame it on the editor. You are just up there completely naked.”
“In stand up, you get an awareness of how you come across, but in acting there is almost a hyper-awareness on how you might be physically perceived.”
“In stand-up it really helps to play yourself and talk about your own feelings. You cannot fail to be original if you're just talking about what you think about X, Y and Z. Unless you've got a twin brother who's also a stand-up.”
“In stand-up you can go either way. It's live. Somebody might say something in the crowd, you might respond to it. But in a movie you could be spontaneous too. But you pretty much have to stick to that story or that scene or that script, but in stand-up you can go wherever you want to. It's more freedom.”
“In standup, you don't have anything near you except a microphone.”
“In Stanton, Mott won a devoted convert. Elizabeth recalled: 'It seemed to me like meeting a being from some larger planet, to find a woman who dared to question the opinions of Popes, Kings, Synods, Parliaments, with the same freedom she would criticize an editorial in the London Times, recognizing no higher authority than the judgment of a pure-minded, educated woman. When I first heard from the lips of Lucretia Mott that I had the same right to think for myself that Luther, Calvin, and John Knox had, and the same right to be guided by my own convictions, and would no doubt live a higher, happier life than if guided by theirs, I felt at once a new-born sense of dignity and freedom; it was like suddenly coming into the rays of the noon-day sun, after wandering with a rushlight in the caves of the earth.”
Source: Lucretia Mott's Heresy: Abolition and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America
“In stark contrast to two nights ago, when I felt Peeta was a million miles away, I'm struck by his immediacy now. As we settle in, he pulls my head down to use his arm as a pillow; the other rests protectively over me even when he goes to sleep. No one has held me like this in such a long time. Since my father died and I stopped trusting my mother, no one else's arms have made me feel this safe.”
Source: The Hunger Games Trilogy
“In stark contrast with the views of the Greek philosophers and with those of the rest of western intellectuals to the present day, Chinese Taoist thought always defended individual liberty and laissez-faire while attacking the systematic and coercive use of violence typical of government.”
“In startups, if your flywheels aren't turning, you aint earning.”
“In state discourse about poverty, notions about 'charity', and about those with more 'helping' those with less, have become increasingly salient. In tandem with this, a slew of new specialized agencies, programs and schemes, and personnel have been constructed to deal with'the needy'. This way of framing the problem of poverty isolates it - detaches the issues and challenges faced by a small minority of the population from those faced by everyone else.
It dislodges the issue of poverty from the broader political economy in which it is produced. Importantly, it frames public intervention as 'charity', as 'help' - in other words, beyond public responsibility - and recipients as 'recipients' rather than as members of society with rights to certain basic levels of well-being and security.”
“In states where no regulation exists, anyone is permitted to perform medical imaging and radiation therapy procedures, sometimes after just a few weeks of on-the-job training.”
“In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“In statesmanship there are predicaments from which it is impossible to escape without some wrongdoing.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“In stating as fully as I could how things really were, it was often very difficult and I wrote awkwardly and the awkwardness is what they called my style. All mistakes and awkwardness are easy to see, and they called it style.”
“In stating that the idea of a separate state is not practical, I'm also stating that the idea of integration, forced integration, as they've been making an effort to do in this country for the past years, is also just as impractical.”
“In stating these matters, I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but that of humanity. To me, who have not only refused offers, because I thought them improper, but have declined rewards I might with reputation have accepted, it is no wonder that meanness and imposition appear disgustful. Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”
Source: Rights of Man
“In statistics, what disappears behind rows of numbers is death.”
“In stature arise those whose spirit moves to the melody, even the flow of time pauses for a glimpse when combine dance and life’s mysteries.”
Source: The Book of Dance
“In STEM education, where complexity meets curiosity, rapid learning techniques come handy. Grasping complex STEM concepts becomes quick and efficient through experiments, simulations, and project-based activities powered by rapid learning principles.”
“In steppe epic, a steed and a sister are your trustiest, most intelligent and indefatigable aid: the hero doesn't have to be heroic, but these do.”
Source: Against Walls
“In still moments by the sea life seems large-drawn and simple. It is there we can see into ourselves.”
“In stillness, I am speechless.”
“In stillness, mind and object merge in realization and go beyond enlightenment.”
Source: The Essential Dogen: Writings of the Great Zen Master
“In stillness the muddied water returns to clarity.”
“In stillness, we can hear the subtle whispers of the universe.”
Source: ENERGY OF THE SOUL: A JOURNEY FROM NOTHING TO BOUNDLESS HEALING
“In stillness, you will find serenity”
Source: A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being
“in stillness, I watched myselfget eaten by mosquitoes... the itch was maddening at first but eventually it just melded into a general burning feeling and i rode that heat to a mld euphoria. I allowed the pain to lose its specific associations and become pure sensation... and that eventually lifted me out of myself and into meditation.”
“In stillness, we find our peace. Knowing peace at home, we bring peace into the world.”
“In stilte bewonderde Meryem de natuur. Wat was de mens zwak vergeleken bij natuurkrachten.”
Source: Meryem
“In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.”
Source: The History of Tacitus
“In stocks as in romance, ease of divorce is not a sound basis for commitment.”
Source: Beating the Street
“In stories, a person can be terrible just because, but in real life, I don't think that is true. In real life, people are terrible because they are broken, or people are terrible because they are lonely, or people are terrible because they want or need something they can't have and they justify all sorts of crimes in order to get it. And sometimes, people are terrible because they are afraid.”
“In stories like Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, they always say the heroine is 'as good as she is beautiful.' I wondered if people just wanted that to be true, wanted the beautiful to be good. I wondered if they wanted the ugly to be bad because then they wouldn't have to feel bad for them.”
“In stories, when someone appears in a poof of green clouds and asks a girl to go away on an adventure, it’s because she’s special, because she’s smart and strong and can solve riddles and fight with swords and give really good speeches, and… I don’t know that I’m any of those things. I don’t even know that I’m as ill-tempered as all that… Maybe you meant to go to another girl’s house and let her ride on the Leopard. Maybe you didn’t mean to choose me at all, because I’m not like storybook girls…”
Source: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
“In stories, everything has to have clear consequences and everything has to focus to the end. Everything at the end will give meaning to everything that precedes. In my own life, the consequences of the choices I've made aren't always very clear. The most beautiful things are sometimes not totally truthful, and the end will not give more meaning to everything that precedes.”
“In storms look for rainbows; in sunshine prepare for storms.”
“In storytelling you kind of put your nightmares up there, you put your dreams up there and people can see them better because they can stand outside of it and look at it and recognize themselves inside it. So I feel that that in and of itself is a spiritual thing.”
“In storytelling, the audience actually wants to work for their meal, they just don't want to know that they're doing it.”
“In strange and uncertain times such as those we are living in, sometimes a reasonable person might despair. But hope is unreasonable and love is greater even than this. May we trust the inexpressible benevolence of the creative impulse.”
“In strange ways hard to know gods come to men.
Many a thing past hope they have fulfilled,
And what was asked for went another way.
A path we never thought to tread God found for us.
So this has come to pass.”
Source: The Greek Way
“In strange ways hard to know gods come to men.
Many a thing past hope they have fulfilled,
And what was looked for went another way.
A path we never thought to tread God found for us.
So this has come to pass.”
“In strategic affairs, clarity and consistency are very important.”
“In strategic decisions, I'd be really concerned about overconfidence.”
“In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance by compression, whereas an indirect approach loosens the defender's hold by upsetting his balance.”
“In strategy your spiritual bearing must not be any different from normal. Both in fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased.”
Source: The Book of Five Rings - The Bestselling, Classic Samurai Guide to Strategy