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, the record companies have the power to control the quality that is served online. Online service has been problematic in that it actively or discreetly promotes trading and duplication of music. It is not offensive to me that the MP3-quaility sound is traded around. It is, in my opinion, the new radio and serves a great purpose: making music lovers away of the content tat is out there to buy. If the consumers want it, let tham take it, whatever quality they prefer. Ultimately, nothing can stop absolute quality from making a big comeback. The stage is well set. I believe in what I am trying to do and that good Karma will come from it.
It is just a matter of time.”
“In the end the red weed succumbed almost as quickly as it had spread. A cankering disease, due, it is believed, to the action of certain bacteria, presently seized upon it. Now, by the action of natural selection, all terrestrial plants have acquired a resisting power against bacterial diseases—they never succumb without a severe struggle, but the red weed rotted like a thing already dead. The fronds became bleached, and then shriveled and brittle. They broke off at the least touch, and the waters that had stimulated their early growth carried their last vestiges out to sea.”
Source: The War of the Worlds
“In the end, the route of the journey does not matter.
So long as you have the will to arrive, you have enough for everything and will arrive when you're supposed to.
Learn and enjoy your journey.”
“In the end the soul is itself the longing of the soulless for salvation.”
“In the end, the term 'circularity' may just be one way to make us aware that we need a more encompassing, integrated and restorative sustainability path that includes people as much as technology and nature.”
Source: A Sustainist Lexicon
“In the end, the train stood 2 hours motionless in the middle of nowhere.
Every minute seemed like an eternity.
Time felt crept by slowly, with clear malice towards me. All I could do was grip my teeth and try to hold back my tears...
Akari... Please, don't wait for me...
If you'd just go home.”
Source: 5 Centimeters per Second
“In the end, the truth ultimately wins over lies and evil.”
“In The End The Words Are The All And The Nothing.”
“In the end, the world returns to a grain.”
Source: Circling: 1978-1987
“In the end, their story wasn’t about saving humanity—it was about reminding humanity what it means to truly live.”
Source: a three body solution: A Daringly Subversive & Juicy Tale of Love, Evolution, & Humanity's Last Hope
“In the end theologians are jealous of science, for they are aware that it has greater authority than do their own ways of finding "truth": dogma, authority, and revelation. Science does find truth, faith does not.”
“In the end there are only those who eat and those who bleed. - Countess Lisavet Bathory”
Source: House of Hunger
“In the end there doesn't have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to.”
“In the end there is a choice. And my choice is to be against the occupation, and not only the occupation but the whole system of discrimination and dispossession.”
“In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.”
Source: May We Borrow Your Husband ?: And Other Comedies of Sexual Life
“In the end, there is no silver bullet, no substitute for actually knowing one's subject and one's organization, which is partly a matter of experience and partly a matter of unquantifiable skill. Many matters of importance are too subject to judgement and interpretation to be solved by standardized metrics. Ultimately, the issue is not one of metrics versus judgment, but metrics as informing judgement, which includes knowing how much weight to give to metrics, recognizing their characteristic distortions, and appreciating what can't be measured. In recent decades, too many politicians, business leaders, policymakers, and academic officials have lost sight of that.”
Source: The Tyranny of Metrics
“In the end there is nothing to be done but to state clearly what has been done, without shame or regret, and say: Here I am, and this is what I am. Now deal with me as you see fit. That is your right. Mine is to stand by the act, and pay the price. You do what you must do, and pay for it. So in the end all things are simple.”
Source: Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles
“In the end there is only light and dark. And the two are not so far apart.”
Source: Waking Up at Rembrandt's
“In the end there is only Matisse.”
Source: Pablo Picasso: a vision
“In the end,
there really is no time
for anything but kindness.”
“In the end, there wasn’t a right thing to say, only a right thing to do. So I sat further up on the bed and put my hand on Manuelle’s cheek and our mouths did the rest, finding each other even though our eyes were closed. I ceased to care about anything that wasn’t her body or mine as we wrapped ourselves around each other on the flower patterned quilt and I was closer to her than I’d ever been before. It wasn’t that we left the
rest of the world behind; it was the opposite. I could feel the world turning underneath us, I could hear birds outside and people laughing, and I felt that I was
part of it at last. With no part of my skin not touching Manuelle’s, I was part of the world at last. Or maybe I’m romanticizing, and we were just two kids doing everything two kids can do in a cramped room at the back of a caravan.”
Source: Sacré Noir
“In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?”
“In the end, they miss the chance to make their world better because they only see the worst in it”
Source: The Guard
“In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.”
Source: Grand Inquisitor
“In the end they'll judge me anyway, so whatever.”
“In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.”
Source: The Essential Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil and The Genealogy of Morals
“In the end, this volume should be read a s a collection of love stories, Above all, they are tales of love, not the love with which so many stories end – the love of fidelity, kindness and fertility – but the other side of love, its cruelty, sterility and duplicity. In a way, the decadents did accept Nordau's idea of the artist as monster. But in nature, the glory and panacea of romanticism, they found nothing. Theirs is an aesthetic that disavows the natural and with it the body. The truly beautiful body is dead, because it is empty. Decadent work is always morbid, but its attraction to death is through art. What they refused was the condemnation of that monster. And yet despite the decadent celebration of artifice, these stories record art's failure in the struggle against natural horror. Nature fights back and wins, and decadent writing remains a remarkable account of that failure.”
Source: The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France
“In the end, time shall ask you the question, what have you really done with your life, more than just consuming oxygen, nutrition and water from Nature! And then my friend, you must have the capacity in your identity as an original human being, to tell time, that it's not you who shall answer its question, rather it is time itself that will by its own free will take up the responsibility to remind the millions of generations to come, who you are.”
Source: Saint of The Sapiens
“In the end to add to the sum of human knowledge is the only thing a man can be truly proud of.”
Source: Victoria
“In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure, death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality even where we will not. Between the wish and the thing, the world lies waiting.”
Source: All the Pretty Horses
“In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments.”
Source: All the Pretty Horses
“In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and reality, even where we will not. Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting. I've thought a great deal about my life and my country. I think there is little that can be truly known. My family has been fortunate. Others were less so. As they are often quick to point out.”
Source: All the Pretty Horses
“In the end, we all have to return to our homes. We have to embrace our past, no matter how bitter and dark it is.”
“In the end, we all yearn for those heart's which are deprived of sadness and are capable of love.”
“In the end, we always know better, don’t we?”
Source: Pen And Paper
“In the end we always wear out our worries. That’s what Wireman says.”
Source: Duma Key: A Novel
“In the end we are all caught in devices of our own making. I believe that. In the end we are all caught.”
Source: Full Dark, No Stars
“In the end we are all just clouds wandering around without fighting off the winds.”
Source: Red Sugar, No More
“In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.”
“In the end we are all separate: our stories, no matter how similar, come to a fork and diverge. We are drawn to each other because of our similarities, but it is our differences we must learn to respect.”
“In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.”
Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
“In the end, we are left with this painful conundrum: we only need DEI initiatives because we don’t truly have a society that values diversity, we don’t have equitable workplaces and communities, and we don’t practice inclusion in the deep sense of the word. The day we have them weaved into the fabric of our human awareness is the day the need for such initiatives will cease to exist. Yet, to forcefully do away with DEI is a way to forcefully govern, discipline, and put each marginalized body and group of people in their right place – a place of servitude – through a culture of fear and terror spread by the privileged white oligarchs at the top. This is precisely why silence and retreat are much costlier than resisting not only what is being done to DEI, but how DEI has been done all along.
[From "Understanding the DEI Dismantlement” published on Counterpunch on January 31, 2025]”
“In the end, we are never alone! We have friends all over the world, people that are coming on our life path if they are supposed to support us, teach us a lesson, or just walk with us for a while And while walking the Camino, it is very easy to see it all and to understand how blessed you are in this life.”
Source: THE UNSTOPPABLE THIRST : El Camino de Santiago de Compostela An Alchemic Path Towards The Inner Self
“In the end we are the sum total of our doings and we will be faced by those doings at the moment of our death. Or is it our death in every moment that we live that faces us with what we do?”
Source: Shadows in the Twilight: Conversations with a Shaman
“In the end we beat them with Levi's 501 jeans. Seventy-two years of communist indoctrination and propaganda was drowned out by a three-ounce Sony Walkman. A huge totalitarian system...has been brought to its knees because nobody wants to wear Bulgarian shoes. Now they're lunch, and we're number one on the planet.”
“In the end we can never be given knowledge by others; we can only be stimulated. We must develop our own knowledge.”
Source: Waking up: overcoming the obstacles to human potential
“In the end, we can only do the best we can with who we are, paying close attention to the ways pieces of ourselves matter to the work while never losing sight of the most important questions.”
Source: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
“In the end, we collect ourselves in the books we keep.”
“In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.”
“In the end, we forget the details of our lives that embarrass us or are too painful. We just lie back and allow ourselves to float along calmly over the deep waters, with our eyes closed.”
Source: So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood