I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“In the beginning the gods did not at all reveal all things clearly to mortals, but by searching men in the course of time find them out better.”
“In the beginning the Gods made man, and fashioned the sky and the sea, And the earth's fair face for man's dwelling-place, and this was the Gods' decree: "Lo, We have given to man five wits: he discerneth folly and sin; He is swift to deride all the world outside, and blind to the world within: So that man may make sport and amuse Us, in battling for phrases or pelf, Now that each may know what forebodeth woe to his neighbor, and not to himself.”
Source: The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection
“In the beginning the organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems.”
“In the beginning the Poets and Philosophers taught the world to see. Then after that any form of education was no longer free.”
“In the beginning,
The truth is,
No one is Hindu,
No one is Muslim,
No one is Christian,
No one is Jew,
Every human is made out of clay,
In which the soul is from God,
I don't have any name of my own,
I don't have any sign of my own,
Then why I (ego) make a noise,
Then why a human is egoistic?”
“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
“In the beginning, there’s a blank mind. Then that mind gets an idea in it, and the trouble begins, because the mind mistakes the idea for the world.”
Source: The Braindead Megaphone
“In the beginning there was a Cause, and the Cause gave birth to an Effect.
Within this initial Cause-Effect reaction, exists a series of cause-effect relationships, where each initial cause produces an effect that determines the following chain of cause/effect relationships over time.
Which is why each moment is an important one. It is, after all, pregnant with the future.”
“In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And because the road was once a river it was always hungry.”
“In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.”
Source: Night
“In the beginning there was Isis: Oldest of the Old, She was the Goddess from whom all Becoming Arose. She was the Great Lady, Mistress of the two Lands of Egypt, Mistress of Shelter, Mistress of Heaven, Mistress of the House of Life, Mistress of the word of God. She was the Unique. In all Her great and wonderful works She was a wiser magician and more excellent than any other God.”
Source: When God Was A Woman
“In the beginning there was light — but a single forbidden wish was enough to break it.”
“In the beginning there was Love it has continued to this point and there is still Love in the end which will come sometime very distant there will be Love and so it is.”
“In the beginning, there was no pattern to the sacrifice, merely one more thing to clean up after a long, hard day—no reason to believe that I’d brought this upon myself. (Repent)”
Source: Spontaneous Human Combustion
“In the beginning there was not even talking. In movies, there was no need for that. Because it was more evident if there was no talking. Only in sports does there remain this fervor, which can even become violent. There's this desire to see something big.”
“In the beginning, there was nothing. And then BOOM! Universe.”
“In the beginning there was nothing, and then god created "me".”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”
“In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.”
“In the beginning there was only a small amount of injustice abroad in the world, but everyone who came afterwards added their portion, always thinking it was very small and unimportant, and look where we have ended up today.”
“In the beginning, there was the earth, formless and empty. Darkness hung over the surface of the deep. And then there was light. It spilled over the waters, vast and powerful, and its creation severed the unity that had come before. This light was a separate entity from the darkness. Something novel and cruelly different. The spirits called it “day.” Its opposite was called “night.” Between them was evening and morning—the First Day. This division marked the end of peace in the universe. Everything has been pretty much fucked up since then.”
Source: Paradise Damned
“In the beginning, there was the internet: the physical infrastructure of wires and servers that lets computers, and the people in front of them, talk to each other. The U.S. government’s Arpanet sent its first message in 1969, but the web as we know it today didn’t emerge until 1991, when HTML and URLs made it possible for users to navigate between static pages. Consider this the read-only web, or Web1.
In the early 2000s, things started to change. For one, the internet was becoming more interactive; it was an era of user-generated content, or the read/write web. Social media was a key feature of Web2 (or Web 2.0, as you may know it), and Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr came to define the experience of being online. YouTube, Wikipedia, and Google, along with the ability to comment on content, expanded our ability to watch, learn, search, and communicate.
The Web2 era has also been one of centralization. Network effects and economies of scale have led to clear winners, and those companies (many of which I mentioned above) have produced mind-boggling wealth for themselves and their shareholders by scraping users’ data and selling targeted ads against it. This has allowed services to be offered for “free,” though users initially didn’t understand the implications of that bargain. Web2 also created new ways for regular people to make money, such as through the sharing economy and the sometimes-lucrative job of being an influencer.”
Source: Web3: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review
“In the beginning there was the Word. Then we broke it.”
Source: The New Land
“In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.”
“In the beginning, there was Word... and autocorrect ruined it.”
Source: Quote: +/-
“In the beginning there were only probabilities. The universe could only come into existence if someone observed it. It does not matter that the observers turned up several billion years later. The universe exists because we are aware of it.”
“In the beginning there were two primal spirits,Twins spontaneously active,These are the Good and the Evil, in thought, and in word, and in deed.”
“In the beginning, they step into our lives, seeing nothing but us. Slowly, step by step, they weave beautiful reasons to drift away, to fade into the background. And one day, they vanish completely, leaving behind only the echo of their absence, as if they were never truly there.”
“In the beginning they would do anything to see you. This was the lovebombing stage.”
“In the beginning this is bound to happen. You have been sitting on the lid that covers your repressions, and you have been riding on that lid a long time, trying continuously to hold down everything beneath it. To become a witness means that you have finally jumped off the lid; now you will only stand aside and will not do anything. Now you will no longer repress, now you will just witness. So everything suppressed will arise, all the repressions will catch fire; you will find flames leaping where there were only ashes.”
“In the beginning this was just an idea. Then it was a short story. Then it was a script. Each step was pretty exciting to see people come on board to support the project. It's gratifying to know that more people are seeing my work in this form than my work as a playwright. And it's been fun to hear people's response to seeing it. I've been having some deep conversations with strangers and friends about how much it has made them think about slavery and its impact today.”
“In the beginning war looks and feels like love. But unlike love it gives nothing in return but an ever-deepening dependence, like all narcotics, on the road to self-destruction. It does not affirm but places upon us greater and greater demands. It destroys the outside world until it is hard to live outside war's grip. It takes a higher and higher dose to achieve any thrill. Finally, one ingests war only to remain numb.”
Source: War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
“In the beginning was belief, foolish belief, and faith, empty faith, and illusion, the terrible illusion. ... We believed in God, had faith in man, and lived with the illusion that in each one of us is a sacred spark from the fire of the shekinah, that each one carried in his eyes and in his soul the sign of God. This was the source—if not the cause—of all our misfortune.”
“In the beginning was love, and love was with God, and love was God.”
“In the beginning was love.
Curiosity.
Imagination.”
Source: Murmurations
“In the beginning was Scream
Who begat Blood
Who begat Eye
Who begat Fear
Who begat Wing
Who begat Bone
Who begat Granite
Who begat Violet
Who begat Guitar
Who begat Sweat
Who begat Adam
Who begat Mary
Who begat God
Who begat Nothing
Who begat Never
Never Never Never
Who begat Crow
Screaming for Blood
Grubs, crusts
Anything
Trembling featherless elbows in the nest's filth”
Source: Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow
“In the beginning was simplicity.”
Source: The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition
“In the beginning was the dog the real name of Jehovah is Rover. Adam's rib is buried in the garden”
“In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.”
“In the beginning was the image.”
Source: Asger Jorn: the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
“In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false.”
Source: The green stick
“In the beginning was the myth.”
Source: Peter Camenzind: A Novel
“In the beginning was the myth. God, in his search for self-expression, invested the souls of Hindus, Greeks, and Germans with poetic shapes and continues to invest each child's soul with poetry every day.”
“In the beginning was the night,
But the light spoke wisdom into the world.
Let us see, O’ Brother.
Let us hear, O’ Brother.”
Source: The Travelers: An Ancient Adventure of Gold, Magic and Forgotten Worlds
“In the beginning was the relationship.”
“In the beginning was the secret brain.
The brain was celled and soldered in the thought”
Source: The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas: The Original Edition
“In the beginning was the thing. And one thing led to another.”
Source: Half Asleep In Frog Pyjamas
“In the beginning was the word and the word was love and love was imagination. When love takes us through the sun-dappled garden of our imagination, no stalking horses can perturb the rainbow in our mind or fade out its bright colors reflecting in the blue sky of our memory. ("Alpha and Omega")”
“In the beginning was the word and the word was with God, and the word was God”
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God; all things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”