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, drama is successful if you care about the people.”
“In the end, each life is no more than the sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of flukes, of random events that divulge nothing but their own lack of purpose.”
Source: The locked room
“In the end, every hypochondriac is his own prophet.”
Source: Notebook 1967-68
“In the end, every scheme and every science is justified by itself or it is not justified at all.”
Source: The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World
“In the end, everyone loses everyone.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
“In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that, and so I felt, that night, like the turtle that everything else in the universe was on top of.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
“In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
“In the end, everything came down to money. It came down to what a person actually did, as opposed to who they thought they were.”
“In the end, everything is a gag.”
“In the end, everything is found to be wanting.”
Source: The Sadness of Antonioni
“In the end, everything is simple.”
“In the end, excellence in education means excellence in teaching, and if this country would give the status to first grade teachers that we give to full professors, this one act alone would revitalize the nation's schools.”
Source: Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995
“In the end, failing to plan and planning to fail aren't so different.”
“In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.”
Source: The Monsters of Templeton
“In the end, for all our differences and conflicts, most women and men share the same food, work, shelter, bed, life, joy, anguish, and fate. We need each other.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“In the end, for congenial sympathy, for poetry, for work, for original feeling and expression, for perfect companionship with one's friends--give me the country.”
Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence
“In the end, for me, the sole single goal is to write the best novel that I can. Whether or not it gets made or gets purchased.”
“In the end, forever, you and I will be in Heaven or Hell. Period.”
“In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.”
Source: Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are
“In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“In the end, he was nobody to Adam, he was nobody to Ronan. Adam spit his words back at him and Ronan squandered however many second chances he gave him. Gansey was just a guy with a lot of stuff and a hole inside him that chewed away more of his heart every year.”
“In the end, history, especially British history with its succession of thrilling illuminations, should be, as all her most accomplished narrators have promised, not just instruction but pleasure.”
Source: A History of Britain: At the edge of the world? 3000 BC-AD 1603
“In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions.”
“In the end, I always act from the heart, even if I also value reason and tradition. I wish I could explain why, but I don't know.”
“In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing. I don't talk about the anguish I suffer in creating. I do not have a fear of the blank page, writer's block, all those things that we hear about writers.”
“In the end, I believe that the most important influence on my aesthetic has been the photographs I have taken.”
“In the end, I cared about him so much that I just thought he deserved someone who loved him more than I did.”
Source: Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You
“In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom produces art. It's that imbalance which impels us. I often think that all I want to do now is to avoid suicide, accidental or otherwise. Other than that, I think living on the edge is what drives my work and me beyond a certain point. The artist lives with anxiety. When you finally reach a plateau of achievement, there comes a new anxiety - the hunger to push on still further. That angst is what makes you go forward.”
“In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom produces art. It's that imbalance which impels us... The artist lives with anxiety.”
“In the end, I find my influences or inspirations where I can.”
“In the end, I get a really good song, and in the end, I get the hits. Yeah, I'm that good.”
“In the end, I had to call myself a faggot, which really annoyed me, because 1. I don't think that word should ever be used by anyone, let alone me, and 2. As it happens, I am not gay, and furthermore, 3. Chuck Parson made it out like calling yourself a faggot was the ultimate humiliation, even though there's nothing at all embarrassing about being gay.”
Source: Paper Towns
“In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.”
“In the end, I must proclaim that no good can be achieved of false means. For the substance of our existence is not in the achievement, but in the method.”
Source: The Way of Kings
“In the end, I play a lot of friends and I really think it's about time that some ethnic girls get out there in the lead part. So we're developing something.”
“In the end, I take my shoes off and stick my feet in, letting the lukewarm water lick at my ankles. It feels good, and not just because I’m stoned. I make a mental note to add this to Dulcie’s list of things worth living for. For some reason, I keep seeing her rolling her eyes at me, that big, goofy grin stretching her face like Silly Putty. On my private list, I add her smile. She doesn’t have to know.”
Source: Going Bovine
“In the end, I think it would be lovely if we stopped this whole notion of pets altogether.”
“In the end, I think musicians know that getting up in the morning and making music you love doesn't necessarily mean that you deserve billions of dollars or worship from anybody.”
“In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.”
“In the end, I think the relationships that survive in this world are the ones where two people can finish each other's sentences. Forget drama and torrid sex and the clash of opposites. Give me banter any day of the week.”
“In the end, I think, the state's rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.”
“In the end, I want to be able to say, 'My life was what I made it.”
“In the end, I wonder if the true movement of the world might not be a voice raised in song.”
“In the end, I worry that my arrogance shall destroy us all.”
Source: Mistborn: The Final Empire
“In the end, I would love [the audience] to be more open to the understanding of different types of personalities, you know?”
“In the end, I'd loved him enough to let go. From afar, I would love him forever.”
Source: Tantalize
“In the end, I'll put my good acts up against those of anybody in this country. Anybody.”
“In the end, I'm convinced we will all benefit if suspicion is replaced by discussion, innuendo by dialogue; if the emphasis in our debate turns from a search for talismanic criteria and neat but simplistic answers to an honest - more intelligent - attempt at describing the role religion has in our public affairs, and the limits placed on that role.”
Source: Public Papers of Governor Mario M. Cuomo, 1984
“In the end, I've found, people like the direct approach. It's much more valuable to them to have a leader who's absolutely clear and open than to have one who soft-soaps or talks in circles.”
Source: HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership Lessons from Sports (featuring interviews with Sir Alex Ferguson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Andre Agassi)
“In the end, in England, when you want to find out how people are feeling, you always go to the pubs.”
Source: The View From The Ground