I Quotes
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“In the city of flesh I travel without maps, a worried tourist: and Ottilie was a very Venice. I stumbled lost in the blue shade of her pavements. Here was a dreamy stillness, a swaying, the splash of an oar. Then, when I least expected it, suddenly I stepped out into the great square, the sunlight, and she was a flock of birds scattering with soft cries in my arms.”
Source: The Newton Letter
“In the City of God there will be a great thunder,
Two brothers torn apart by Chaos,
while the fortress endures,
the great leader will succumb,
The third big war will begin when the big city is burning”
“In the City of Ishq,
Very few are scorched by hatred
And many stars are broken by Love.”
“In the City of Light, the stars are blind. Our constellations do not reside in the skies.”
“In the city one clings to nostalgic and unreal signs of community, takes forced refuge in codes, badges and coteries; the city's life, of surfaces and locomotion, usually seems too dangerous and demanding to live through with any confidence.”
“In the city, one is alone because the world is made up of strangers, and to be a stranger surrounded by strangers, to walk along silently bearing one's secrets and imagining those of the people one passes, is among the starkest of luxuries. This uncharted identity with its illiminable possibilities is one of the distinctive qualities of urban living, a liberatory state for those who come to emansipate themselves from family and community expectation, to experiment with subculture and identity. It is an observer's state, cool, withdrawn, with senses sharpened, a good state for anybody who needs to reflect or create. In small doses melancholy, alienation, and introspection are among life's most refined pleasures.”
Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking
“In the city, people often feel lonely amongst so many people, but country towns, being more codependent, tend to be more connected.”
“In the city, strangers seldom meet beyond daily functions. Instead, they brush by with a haste and preoccupation that so defines a century of 'too little time'.”
Source: Us vs Them: A Case for Social Empathy
“In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time.”
“In the city, I wake bolt upright in the small hours, convinced that intruders are marauding through our apartment despite Swiss bank-style security arrangements.”
“In the city, nudity means something; in the wild, it just exists.”
“In the civil society, the individual is recognized and accepted as more than an abstract statistic or faceless member of some group; rather, he is a unique, spiritual being with a soul and a conscience. He is free to discover his own potential and pursue his own legitimate interests, tempered, however, by a moral order that has its foundation in faith and guides his life and all human life through the prudent exercise of judgment.”
Source: Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto
“In the civil society, the individual is recognized and accepted as more than an abstract statistic or faceless member of some group; rather, he is a unique, spiritual being with a soul and a conscience.”
“In the clairvoyance of this despair he had seen how much his folly had already damaged both of them.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“In the classic Indian epic, the Mahabharata, there is a ceremony for when a new king is crowned. There is a warning to “Be like the garland-maker, O King, and not like a charcoal burner.” Here, the garland symbolized social harmony, where many flowers of many colors and forms are strung harmoniously, creating a stunning effect. The charcoal-burner represents raw force reduction of diversity into homogeneity, where all life is rendered to a similar ash quality”
Source: Beyond the Fringe: My Experience with Extended Intelligence
“In the classic old business cycle, there would be a diminution in sales; it would take a little while for this information to reach corporate headquarters. And there would be an inventory pileup. And then - bam - businesses would react, sometimes violently, by cutting production.”
“In the classical spiritual definition, a soul mate is someone that you have reincarnated with many times. You find each other in many lifetimes.”
“In the Classical tradition, deriving from ancient Greece and Rome, beauty was perceived as the means by which the artist captured the viewer's eye in order to engage the viewer with truth and so inspire goodness.”
“In the classics section, she had picked up a copy of The Magic Mountain and recalled the summer between her junior and senior years of high school, when she read it, how she lay in bed hours after she should have gotten up, the sheet growing warmer against her skin as the sun rose higher in the sky, her mother poking her head in now and then to see if she'd gotten up yet, but never suggesting that she should: Eleanor didn't have many rules about child rearing, but one of them was this: Never interrupt reading.”
Source: Home Safe: A Novel
“In the classroom of hatred we learn pain, but love teaches us to forgive.”
“In the classroom of life, we take the tests before we learn the lessons. And success is when every day we are moving forward wiser, rather than restlessly striving to correct mistakes of days gone by.”
“In the clay, there is a tiger and the problem is neither in the question nor is in the text, it is in interpretation. You can listen or read the answer in folk literature and Sufi music. To belong is to have a grammar and in grammar there are exceptions. You can never belong fully except to the gravity of the universe. We belong anyways.”
Source: Tiger and Clay: Syria Fragments
“In the clear mind of virtue treason can find no hiding-place.”
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“In the clearing stands the boxer, and a fighter by his trade.
And he carries a reminder of every glove that laid him down...
or cut him till he cried out in his anger and his shame
"I am leaving! I am leaving" but the fighter still remains.”
“In the clearness of this Himalayan air, mountains draw near, and in such splendor, tears come quietly to my eyes and cool on my sunburned cheeks. this is not mere soft-mindedness, nor am I all that silly with the altitude. My head has cleared in these weeks free of intrusions- mail, telephones, people and their needs- and I respond to things spontaneously, without defensive or self-conscious screens. Still, all this feeling is astonishing: not so long ago I could say truthfully that I had not shed a tear in twenty years.”
Source: The Snow Leopard
“In the Cleveland area, I have been instrumental in helping to save or create thousands of jobs. People know me there as a person who gets involved.”
“In the closed circle of the war cabinet, pounded by terrible report after terrible report, there had been uncertainty about whether he could fend off the drift to exploring a deal with Hitler. The determination of the larger group trumped the tentativeness of the smaller, and Churchill fulfilled his role as leader by disentangling himself from defeatism--one of his singular achievements at the end of May 1940.”
Source: Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship
“In the closed world of the gynaeceum, despite the gardens and parkland extending beyong the horizon, despite the insurmountable walls separating pavillions and palaces, the tangled web of our fate was inescapable. Why did these women love each other to the point of madness? Why did they loathe one another so vehemently, and why did sworn enemies feel such horror and fascination for one another? Why should furious hate become obsession, then intoxication and the very reason to live?Because love and hate were the two heads of the demon.”
“In the closet’ gays will never tell you about their sexuality. They have a long history of getting married, having children and giving the appearance of being straight, when they are having secret gay affairs.”
“In the closing seconds of every game, I want the ball in my hands for the last shot - not in anybody else's, not in anybody else's in the world.”
“In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and their point of view.”
“In the clubs, it's all out and you can say whatever as the character. TV has standards.”
“In the clubs, the entertainment and the restaurant business are at war with each other. You get crowds that are not the greatest, and it becomes like a babysitting job, rather than doing what you want to do. I have a more deliberate pacing in my act, and having a half interested audience is death. They have to hear what I'm saying for it to pay off.”
“In the clutches of the animus, no woman is able to give up whatever power she may have, or her conviction that it is right and necessary and valuable. The convictions a woman has lived by spring from inferior masculine thinking; the less she herself is able to evaluate them, the more passionately she clings to them. This is a reason for the persistence of the animus possession. Unfortunately such a woman never thinks that anything could be wrong with herself and is convinced that the fault lies with others.”
Source: The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Revised Edition
“In the cocoon, there is no idea of light at all, until we experience some longing for openness, some longing for something other than the smell of our own sweat. When we examine that comfortable darkness - look at it, smell it, feel it - we find it is claustrophobic.”
Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings
“In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force.”
Source: Satyagraha (non-violent Resistance)
“In the cold, cold winter, we long for a hot summer; in the hot, hot summer, we long for a cold winter. This cycle of seasons, this 'partnership', portrays in part our eternal human condition.”
“In the cold dark days of the winter, dream about the flowers to get warmed up!”
“In the cold morning the rested street stands up
To greet the clerk who saunters down the world.”
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
“In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.”
Source: Move On
“In the collaborative process, you create a real intimacy; everybody ends up sharing personal stories and personal observations and their philosophies, their psychological side. By the time you get to set, it just creates such a sense of trust and intimacy between the director and the actors. It's really, really great.”
“In the collective psyche it is being understood... that we can cultivate wisdom and compassion.”
“In the colonial context the settler only ends his work of breaking in the native when the latter admits loudly and intelligibly the supremacy of the white man's values.”
Source: Damnés de la terre
“In the colored fairy books of Andrew Lang (The Red Fairy Book, The Blue Fairy Book, etc.), there is a figure who has always intrigued me: the Hen Wife, related to the witch, the seer, and the herbalist, but different from them too: a distinct and potent archetype of her own, an enchanted figure beneath a humble white apron. We find her dispensing wisdom and magic in the folk tales of the British Isles and far beyond (all the way to Russia and China): a woman who is part of the community, not separate from it like the classic "witch in the woods"; a woman who is married, domesticated like her animal familiars, and yet conversant with women's mysteries, sexuality, and magic.”
“In the colored reflection we have Life.”
“In the combined and conscious picture of People, Planet and Profit, WE ARE ALL SHAREHOLDERS!”
“In the comedies I've been lucky enough to be a part of a world like Judd Apatow's, where I believe comedy comes from real people.”
“In the comic-book world, there tends to be an overblown sense of tradition. Bad habits die hard. There are ways I think the form could work more effectively if we lost the bad habits that were created before we were born.”
“In the coming days and weeks, Laila would scramble frantically to commit it all to memory, what happened next. Like an art lover running out of a burning museum, she would grab whatever she could--a look, a whisper, a moan--to salvage from perishing to preserve. But time is the most unforgiving of fires, and she couldn't, in the end, save it all.”
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
“In the coming days, there's a question I want you to ask yourselves: "If not me, then who?"
If not me, then who will stand for people whose voices aren't being heard?
If not me, then who will stand for the right of all people to lead lives of joy and dignity?
If not me, then who will stand for facts and reason and learning and truth?
If not me, then who will stand for kindness?
If not me, then who will stand for honesty?
If not me, then who will stand for generosity?
If not me, then who will stand for equality and justice?”
Source: Hope Nation