I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“In the end it is the musician who actually plays the notes. The impresario - or the project leader - is only there to make sure that happens. That is a very different type of management mind-set.”
“in the end
it is words
poetry. sunsets
someone’s deep blue
silk voice.
mountain scents.
someone’s smile.
eyes. that we have
no defenses against.”
“In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.”
“In the end, it is your responsibility to read the small print, whether it is for gig contracts, record contracts, investors, management, booking agents, or anything else. You can blame everyone else for your mistakes, but when you make them, you end up being the one who has to pay.”
“In the end it may well be that Britain will be honored by the historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.”
“In the end, it really doesn't matter what others think of me. All for Jesus, my Audience of One.”
Source: Feeling Loved: Connecting with God in the Minutes You Have
“In the end, it’s fear, greed and stupidity that will destroy us.”
“In the end, it's not going to matter how many breaths you took,
but how many moments took your breath away.”
“In the end, it's not the market or technology that decides what has real value, but society. If we want this century to be one in which all of us get richer, then we'll need to free ourselves of the dogma that all work is meaningful. And, while we're at it, let's also get rid of the fallacy that a higher salary is automatically a reflection of societal value.”
Source: Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
“In the end, it’s not what our worst enemy, death, takes from us but what we do with what we have left in our hearts and minds. We owe it to the dead to preserve their memories and respect their wishes, for we hope for a better tomorrow where our last enemy, death, will be defeated for all eternity. Until then, let’s make this short, meaningful life worth living and radiate love, for those who love us will always miss us.”
“In the end, it's not your Nobel Prize you're thinking of, it's not your three National Book Awards, and all that. It's your sins of the heart (real or imagined), it's your wives, your children, and how things went with them.”
Source: Inside Story
“In the end it's only words, my dear.”
“In the end it seems we're just toys,easy to break and hard to mend”
Source: Prince of Thorns
“In the end, it was all light and dark, loud and soft. I knew nothing but the memory of those I loved.”
“In the end, it was always so easy to kill her heart. It didn't matter that they looked like boys. That they were nothing, nothing like the monsters she had once known. In this war of racial totality, none of that mattered. If they were Mugenese, that meant they were crickets and that meant when she crushed them under her heel, the universe hardly registered their loss.”
Source: The Poppy War
“In the end, it was four words that changed the course of our lives and the history of the world. Perhaps it wasn’t really so surprising. They were, after all, the most important words in any language.
‘What are you reading?”
Source: The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door
“In the end it was my blood that was spilled on the sheets.
I won't forget the girl I was before you, and the girl I became after.”
“In the end it was only Peter who had something he could say from the heart.
"Am I the only one here who sees something of himself in the man who's lying inside this box?"
No one had an answer for him, either yes or no.”
Source: Shadow Puppets
“In the end it was Shadowhunting they had bonded over—a shared love of sharp-edged weapons, gleaming seraph blades, the painful pleasure of burning Marks, the thought-numbing swiftness of battle. When Alec had wanted to go out hunting alone with Jace, leaving Izzy behind, Jace had spoken up for her: “We need her with us; she’s the best there is. Aside from me, of course.” She had loved him just for that.”
Source: City of Lost Souls
“In the end it was Tabby who cast the deciding vote, as she so often has at crucial moments in my life. I'd like to think I've done the same for her from time to time, because it seems to me that one of the things marriage is about is casting the tiebreaking vote when you just can't decide what you should do next.”
Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft
“In the end, it wasn't so much that there was an alternative narrative--there always was--but it came down to belief: Which one did you want to believe. Which one suited you best? Or, perhaps more to the point: Which one told the story you were already telling yourself?”
Source: The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World's Greatest Piece of Cheese
“In the end it will be your “Actions” “Convictions” & “Thoughts” which will determine how you shaped your life.”
Source: The Reflection "Success or Stress"Choose Wisely
“In the end
It will not matter
That I was a woman. I am sure of it.
The body is a source. Nothing more.
There is a time for it. There is a certainty
About the way it seeks its own dissolution.”
“In the end it will not matter to us whether we wrote well or ill; whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter to us greatly on what side we fought.”
“In the end it's about the work, not an award you get for the work.”
“In the end it's the big picture which changes nations and whatever our opponents may say, Australia's changed inexorably for good, for the better.”
“In the end it’s all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don’t.”
“In the end leaders are leaders. They get the credit and they get the blame.”
“In the end, life is about collecting experiences and looking for the lesson and blessing in each one. Yet we are never to carry these experiences on our backs, only in our hearts. One will hold us back, while the other will keep us moving forward.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“In the end, life isn't about what people think. It's about having a family that sticks by my side. It's about having a horse that brings me to tears because of the pride I feel about the partnership we created. That trust that can't be bought, that has to be built.
It isn't the victories that count. For me, it's holding onto my memories and continually chasing my dreams. It's the pain of saying goodbye and closing a chapter, knowing there is a new one waiting to be written, but having no idea where it will lead. That's what makes me feel alive.”
Source: Chasing Dreams: The True Story of the Youngest Female Tevis Cup Champion
“In the end love is the only thing left and when everything is over, what are you left with? Time flies.”
Source: Just Business
“In the end, love kills and love saves lives.”
“In the end, man is an event which cannot judge itself, but, for better or worse, is left to the judgment of others”
“In the end, man will become his own worst enemy.”
“In the end maybe what marriage offered was the determination of one's burial site.”
“In the end men love better that for which they have made sacrifices than that through which they have enjoyed pleasures.”
“In the end, millions of people would die from this drastic decision, made by the president, in an attempt to erase a problem he could not handle.
Yet, the Fox Serum Virus was still out there claiming victims. It was far from over.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“In the end mortals always expired before faeries. They were such finite creatures. Their first heartbeat and breath were but a blink from death. To add the weight of nourishing his insatiable court in a time of peace was to hasten that unconscionably.”
“In the end, my cock was all I had.”
Source: Soumission
“In the end, my mind might not recognize him, but my heart certainly, does.”
Source: Wake Up, Darling
“In the end, my mom, who was my sister at the time, and I decided the coin represented two sides of one lesson, neither good nor bad, just two different experiences to learn from. Even more importantly, the coin symbolized that since we’re two sides of the same coin, nothing can truly divide us—there’s no coin with one side!”
Source: Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side
“In the end, my own works, my own abilities, my own goodness were like the wax wings of Icarus - in the end, they were insufficient. Despite all my efforts to do good, despite all my struggle, despite our every attempt to try and be good without God, we fall short. We fall, and it is in that moment of failure, in that moment where our wax wings are burning and falling away that we realise the great trap of evil. It is in that moment that we realise the sting of sin.
Sin whispers in our ear, tells us that all we will ever need is ourselves. It tells us that we are all-sufficient. Yet even this will not be fulfilled in the end. Sin tells us to serve ourselves, but it cannot save us.”
Source: More than Answers
“In the end Navidson is left with one page and one match. For a long time he waits in darkness and cold, postponing this final bit of illumination. At last though, he grips the match by the neck and after locating the friction strip sparks to life a final ball of light.
First, he reads a few lines by match light and then as the heat bites his fingertips he applies the flame to the page. Here then is one end: a final act of reading, a final act of consumption. And as the fire rapidly devours the paper, Navidson's eyes frantically sweep down over the text, keeping just ahead of the necessary immolation, until as he reaches the last few words, flames lick around his hands, ash peels off into the surrounding emptiness, and then as the fire retreats, dimming, its light suddenly spent, the book is gone leaving nothing behind but invisible traces already dismantled in the dark.”
Source: House of Leaves
“In the end, no evil shall triumph over what is good.”
“In the end, no one can seek God unless he has already begun to find him.”
“In the end, no one cares how rich you were, only how well you treated the poor.”
“In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.”
“In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can.”
“In the end, Nora, there’s only time. All we have is time…and even if this wasn’t happening, we still don’t ever have much…no one does. We only have the moment we’re in. We have right now.”
Source: Saturday Night To Infinity
“In the end, nothing else matters except the love we have shared.”