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, money should serve something greater than just money. It should serve you, your family, the people you want to touch.”
“In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.”
“In the end, most women get the type of man they dress for.”
“In the end, Mothers are always right. No one else tells the truth.”
Source: The Murderer's Daughters
“In the end, my love for surfing helped me overcome my fear of sharks.”
“In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time.”
“In the end, my reasons for moving down the timeline and introducing a new cast have more to do with keeping myself entertained, on the assumption that if I get bored, my readers are going to be even more bored.”
“In the end, my story, in Iraq and afterward, is about more than just killing people or even fighting for my country. It's about being a man. And it's about love as well as hate.”
Source: American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
“In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.”
“In the end, no amount of American forces can solve the political differences that lie at the heart of somebody else's civil war.”
“In the end, no matter how much you love your work, your work will not love you back.”
“In the end, no matter how my records are panned or praised, if there are kids and communities in developing nations that have improved living conditions and are finally getting access to things we all have a basic right to (clean water, education, healthcare) because I am able to advocate, raise awareness or funds in some small way, then my life has achieved something that in the end means far more than having the track or album of the moment.”
“In the end, no single group will mean defeat for the Democrat and victory for the Republican in 2016. But President Obama's troubling legacy - a weakened coalition and growing ranks of alienated white voters - could mean a serious post-presidential hangover for Democrats.”
“In the end, no thought is unthinkable, no problem unshrinkable, no two strangers unlinkable.”
“In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.”
“In the end, of course, all novelists will be judged by their novels, but let's not forget that we will also need new ways of assessing the latter. There are people who will continue to write nineteenth-century novels in the early twenty-first, and even win major prizes for them, but that's not very interesting, intellectually or emotionally.”
“In the end, oh I know,
never, in my haggard passion,
have I ever been such a cadaver as now
as I take again in hand my tables of the present—
if reality's real, but after it's been
destroyed in the eternal and the moment by
the obsessive idea of a shining nothingness.”
Source: Poems
“In the end, one or the other will triumph - a funeral dirge will be sung over the Soviet republic or over world capitalism.”
“In the end, only God can see the heart of an individual and distinguish the difference between legalistic deadweight and the passion of holy solemnity.”
Source: Killosophy
“In the end, only Leif believed that you were still alive. He thought you might be hiding somewhere, playing a game. As the rest of us grieved, Leif searched the jungle for you day after day.” “When did he finally stop?” I asked. “Yesterday.”
Source: Magic Study
“In the end, our worship is more about what we do than what we say.”
Source: Wired: Student Edition of The Air I Breathe
“In the end, passion and hard work beats out natural talent.”
“In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.”
Source: Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently
“In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments-which, after all, is mostly nothing much plus some sleep. For human beings, life is meaningful because it is a story. A story has a sense of a whole, and its arc is determined by the significant moments, the ones where something happens. Measurements of people's minute-by-minute levels of pleasure and pain miss this fundamental aspect of human existence. A seemingly happy life maybe empty. A seemingly difficult life may be devoted to a great cause. We have purposes larger than ourselves.”
Source: Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End
“In the end, perhaps we should simply imagine a joke; a long joke that's continually retold in an accent too thick and strange to ever be completely understood. Life is that joke my friends. The soul is the punch line.”
“In the end, photography for me is just an excuse to get to know the world.”
“In the end, punk inevitably burned itself out and acted as a bridge across which the New Romantics could sashay in their chiffon and glossy hair.”
“In the end, raising money is basically a matter of going out there and asking. There are no shortcuts.”
“In the end, rational policy is always good.”
“In the end, reconciliation is a spiritual process, which requires more than just a legal framework. It has to happen in the hearts and minds of people.”
Source: Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom
“In the end, robots do things that people can do. So there is a cost above which you can hire somebody to do it, and that bounds the opportunity.”
“In the end, science as we know it has two basic types of practitioners. One is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail's eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ. The second kind of observer is the extreme reductionist who is so busy stripping things apart that the tremendous mystery has been reduced to a trifle, to intangibles not worth troubling one's head about.”
“In the end, science offers us the only way out of politics. And if we allow science to become politicized, then we are lost. We will enter the Internet version of the dark ages, an era of shifting fears and wild prejudices, transmitted to people who don't know any better.”
“In the end, self-indulgence is very much about your ego and your vanity and your own id. The more you can indulge in it, the more pleasurable it becomes. And then when it feeds out, it's able to penetrate the mind and create a reaction.”
“In the end, success is not about who you know, it's about you know who.”
“In the end, Ted Kennedy was a politician, plain and simple. Yet he embodied how politics and public service can be successfully intertwined. You cant be a good public servant without being a good politician. Kennedy was both.”
“In the end, that's a blind alley - we have to get back to being able to think on our feet and react.”
“In the end, that's what it comes down to with Mitt Romney. He's running as the non-Barack Obama.”
“In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?”
Source: Yes, We Can
“In the end, the actor's main power is the power to say, 'No.'”
“In the end, the aggressors always destroy themselves, making way for others who know how to cooperate and get along. Life is much less a competitive struggle for survival than a triumph of cooperation and creativity.”
Source: The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems
“In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor.”
“In the end, the art of hunger can be described as an existential art. It is a way of looking death in the face, and by death I mean death as we live it today: without God, without hope of salvation. Death as the abrupt and absurd end of life”
Source: Collected Prose
“In the end, the bedrock of existence is not made up of the family, or work, or what others say or think of you, but of moments like this when you are exalted by a transcendent power that is more serene than love. Life dispenses them parsimoniously; our feeble hearts could not stand more.”
“In the end, the best part of the whole book [The Nightingale ] to me was the research, reading about the courageous, ordinary French women who put their lives on the line to save others. It was really inspirational.”
“In the end, the best way to succeed is to go small. And when you go small, you say no - a lot. A lot more than you might have even considered before.”
“In the end, the British didn't vote to leave because of the euro. They're not even members of the currency union. Even the refugee crisis hardly affected the country.”
“In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures.”
Source: Dancing building
“In the end, the church will either declare the truth of God's Word, or it will find a way to run away from it.”
Source: We Cannot Be Silent: Speaking Truth to a Culture Redefining Sex, Marriage, and the Very Meaning of Right and Wrong
“In the end, the country is going the say, You know, whatever [Donald] Trump's weaknesses may be, he's a sincere guy trying very hard to get this country back on the right track.”