I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“In the best classrooms, grades are only one of many types of feedback provided to students.”
Source: Leading Change in Your School: How to Conquer Myths, Build Commitment, and Get Results
“In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.”
“In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.”
“In the best interest of profession, a writer should sometimes refrain from writing.””
“In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.”
“In the best nonfiction, it seems to me, you're always made aware that you are being engaged with a supple mind at work. The story line or plot in nonfiction consists of the twists and turns of a thought process working itself out.”
Source: To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction
“In the best of all possible worlds, childbirth enriches a marriage. In the worst, it harms it. No matter how good their marriage is, most couples find that having a baby challenges their relationship.”
Source: Your Maternity Leave
“In the best of all possible worlds, directors would obsess about the quality of their storytelling, and not the details of their technical methods.”
“In the best of all worlds everyone in the Embassy is doing something to assist U.S. exports.”
“In the best of all worlds, the producers would take some responsibility for the kinds of things they're putting out. Unfortunately, they don't.”
“In the best of relationships you have two people who cannot think of anything that was not part of the deal.”
“In the best of times, our days are numbered anyway. So it would be a crime against nature for any generation to take the world crisis so solemnly that it put off enjoying those things for which we were designed in the first place: the opportunity to do good work, to enjoy friends, to fall in love, to hit a ball, and to bounce a baby.”
“In the best organizations, love is the real "pixie dust."”
“In the best possible scenario, whenever you get notes from people, they're good notes, and they see things that you wouldn't have seen otherwise, and they make you a better writer.”
“In the best travel books the word alone is implied on every exciting page, as subtle and ineradicable as a watermark.”
Source: The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road
“In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.”
Source: War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
“In the best-case scenario, the audience sees themselves in your shoes. The only way you can do that is if you try to play it as if it was happening to you.”
“In the Bgagavad Gita why should God ask us not to expect the results? Is He aware that the systems in nature, that is, the order of the world created by Him, do not have a fool proof provision for it? Then is it not a rational world ensuring justice to all the actions delivered by man? One wonders why God, the supreme creator of this universe, does not have a system in place for ensuring a matching reward for all our actions.”
Source: The Puzzles of Life
“In the Bhagavad Gita, there is no long discussion, nothing elaborate. The main reason for this is that everything stated in the Gita is meant to be tested in the life of every man; it is intended to be verified in practice.”
“In the Bhagavad-gītā (10.8) Kṛṣṇa says, ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavo mattaḥ sarvaṁ pravartate: "I am the source of all spiritual and material worlds. Everything emanates from Me." Unless we accept this statement from God, there is no conclusive explanation to the origin of material nature. God cannot be understood without accepting the existence of mystic power, but if you understand God scientifically, then you will understand everything.”
Source: LIFE COMES FROM LIFE
“In the Bhagavad-Gita Krishna says: Arjuna you cannot avoid action. Everyone is stuck in the world of action. The world of action is forever.”
“In the Bhagavad-Gita, a book that I revere and respect, it's indicated that even women, along with animals, are capable of attaining enlightenment.”
“In the Bhagavad-Gita, a dialogue ensues in the middle of a battlefield, symbolizing the battlefield of life which we are fighting through our illusions.”
“In the Bhagavat culture worship of the spiritual master plays a very important role in our life.”
“In the Bible (Hebrews, 6:19), hope is ‘an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil.’ Here [in Watts painting], Hope is blindfolded, seated on a globe and playing a lyre of which all but one of the strings are broken . . . Hope’s attempts to make music appear futile and several critics argued that the work might have been more appropriately titledDespair. Watts explained that ‘Hopeneed not mean expectancy. It suggests here, rather, the music which can come from the remaining cord’.”
“In the Bible, a woman was made from a man. In real life, a man is made from a woman.”
“In the Bible and Holy Qur'an, God shows us through the life of His prophets and messengers that none of them came into the world to do their work without severe opposition against them. That was with Abraham, Noah, Lot, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad, peace be upon them all and all the prophets and messengers in between. That is our role today.”
“In the Bible angels speak and humans speak back to them. This is the case with Mary in Luke 1. The angel speaks, Mary questions, and it goes back and forth. Abraham speaks with angels. So I would contend the Bible has enough evidence of angels speaking and humans speaking that speaking with an angel today would be reasonable. I've heard enough stories and read such that confirm that Christians today do speak with angels.”
“In the bible, everyone comes from a fucked up family.”
Source: The Color of Everything: A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within
“In the Bible God says, "Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.” God will listen. Not out of obligation. Not because you are a project. Not because you are a charity case. Not because God is checking a box. There’s none of that. The fact is, He created us to be heard by Him. Therefore, He can do nothing other than listen to us.”
“In the Bible God speaks to us; in prayer we speak to God. Both are essential.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“In the bible homosexuality is condemned, but along with divorce and greed and callousness toward poor people. So its elevation to a highest priority among some religious groups has been very disturbing to me.”
“In the Bible it says God has made everything good for man to eat and to wear their skins. Whenever we eat beef, we eat chicken, we have to kill to eat. But at the same time, hunting is a sport. I think it is a great sport... I would say most hunters are Christian men.”
“In the bible it says that God only created one man in his image and then one woman. It seems to me therefore that ever since that moment, humanity has been a product of humanity and thus owes less and less gratitude to its original creator.”
Source: The Mind Is Its Own Place
“In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said seventy times seven. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart.”
“In the bible it says you have to forgive seventy times seven. I want you all to know, I'm keeping a chart.”
“In the Bible of successful businesses, market research is the holy grail.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“In the Bible, one often confronts real antinomies (equal but opposing truths). But in life one never does and always has options in difficult situations ...however uncomfortable may be their consequences. Satisfice in the circumstances and get on with your life! ~ © gfp '42™”
“in the bible, only the angels have wings, the rest of us have to wait to be rescued”
Source: Sexing the Cherry
“In the Bible poverty is a scandalous condition inimical to human dignity and therefore contrary to the will of God.”
Source: A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation
“In the Bible the ignorant may learn all requisite knowledge, and the most knowing may learn to discern their ignorance.”
Source: Some considerations touching the style of the H. Scriptures; extracted from ... a discourse, concerning divers particulars belonging to the Bible ... The third edition
“In the Bible, the opposite of Sin, with a capital 'S,' is not virtue - it's faith: faith in a God who draws all to himself in his resurrection.”
Source: Between Noon & Three: Romance, Law & the Outrage of Grace
“In the Bible, the political issues—which are also religious—are about economic justice and fairness, peace and nonviolence.”
Source: Convictions: How I Learned What Matters Most
“In the Bible there are three distinctive meanings of grace; It means the mercy and active love of God; It means the winsome attractiveness of God; It means the strength of God to overcome.”
“In the Bible there is that which meets every need of man, which answers every mood, which speaks to every heart.”
Source: God Transcendent
“In the Bible we find everything we need to guide and energize our lives, to keep us on track so that we live out God’s plan.”
Source: Life Management for Busy Women: Living Out God's Plan with Passion and Purpose
“In the Bible, fate was often presented as the handmaiden of morality: sin was succeeded by misfortune, righteousness by prosperity, with reward and punishment instrumental in persuading man to obey divine commandments.”
Source: Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life
“In the Bible, God uses brothel owners, pagan kings, murderers and mercenaries as instruments of good; at one point God even speaks to a guy named Balaam through his donkey.”
“In the Bible, ordination - I don't see that in the Scripture. In the Bible, it's whether you're filled with the Holy Spirit, whether you're anointed by God, whether you're called by God, whether you're obedient to Him. I want to be those things, but I don't see any purpose for me in being ordained.”
“In the Bible, shalom means universal flourishing, wholeness, and delight--a rich state of affairs in which natural needs are satisfied and natural gifts fruitfully employed, a state of affairs that inspires joyful wonder as its Creator and Savior opens doors and welcomes the creatures in whom he delights. Shalom, in other words, is the way things ought to be.”