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, there probably isn't much difference between being in love and acting like you're in love.”
Source: Among the Missing
“In the end, there will be little else for us to do but shop.”
“In the end, there's only one thing you can believe. Bodies are honest; they don't lie.”
“In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level.”
“In the end, there's still the Word, everywhere... In Heaven and it's Angels, the Earth and Stars, even in the darkest part of the Human Soul It was there where it burned brightest. And for a moment, I was blinded.”
“In the end, therefore, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays a young man hardly envies anyone his gifts, his art, the love of a beautiful girl, or his fame; he only envies him his money. Give me money, he will say, and I am saved...He would die with nothing to reproach himself with, and under the impression that if only he had had the money he might really have lived and might even have achieved something great.”
“In the end, they traded their tired wings for the resignation that living brings. And exchanged love's bright and fragile glow for the glitter and the rouge, and in the moment they were swept before the deluge.”
“In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom.”
“In the end, this is a difficult story to sum up. The making of the atomic bomb is one of history's most amazing examples of teamwork and genius and poise under pressure. But it's also the story of how humans created a weapon capable of wiping our species off the planet. It's a story with no end in sight.
And, like it or not, you're in it.”
“In the end, this is your journey, live the life you imagined”
“In the end, this world will go under because of the stupidity of people.”
“In the end, though, I did not kill my sister. She did it all on her own. Or at least this is what I tell myself.”
Source: My Sister's Keeper: A Novel
“In the end, though, maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.”
Source: Lock and Key
“In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.”
Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
“In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered. The conversation went on and on, and when
we were finally through it was too late to return to New York.”
Source: The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger
“In the end, time is the best ally of poets. It clarifies their works and makes them accessible to an ever widening circle of readers.”
“In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.”
Source: I used to believe I had forever, now I'm not so sure
“In the end, trying to be perfect is the unconscious social effort to please ourselves by pleasing these others.”
“In the end, Tuesday's vote represented a repudiation of virtually every notion Democrats embraced in recent weeks as they tried to disregard the growing evidence that they were headed for a historic defeat. Now, the vote is in, and the voters' message can no longer be discounted.”
“In the end, we all are who we are, no matter how much we may appear to have changed.”
“In the end, we all have to decide what we're willing to give up for payback. We all have parents or grandparents or children who will need us. Agonizing decisions sometimes. You have to weigh the memories and debt against what's being taken from you.”
Source: An Eve Duncan Collection From Iris Johansen: Quicksand, Blood Game, Eight Days to Live, and Chasing the Night
“In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.”
Source: Richard Paul Evans: The Complete Walk Series eBook Boxed Set: The Walk, Miles to Go, Road to Grace, Step of Faith, Walking on Water
“In the end, we are not the roles we play. We are the light that animates every soul in the dance we call life.”
“In the end, we are only tiny frightened animals, doing our best to survive amid other tiny frightened animals.”
“In the end, we are our choices.”
“In the end, we decide if we're remembered for what happened to us or for what we did with it.”
“In the end, we get older, we kill everyone who loves us through the worries we give them, through the troubled tenderness we inspire in them, and the fears we ceaselessly cause.”
“In the end, we have nothing to lose by opening our hearts.”
“In the end, we know God as unknown.”
“In the end, we learn about the most basic philosophical questions - like "How to live?" - from a broad mixture of sources, including literature and philosophy, history and anthropology. These sources can guide our reflections on our own experiences, as we explore and reconsider. Mann contributed to such explorations in a distinctive way, and I hope my book brings that out.”
“In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.”
“In the end, we love people into belief. We do not argue them into belief.”
“In the end, we may be hurting the very people we should be concerned about - the inner-city poor, those who already have to live with many risks in their daily lives, those who do not have clout here in Washington.”
“In the end, we must restore a balance within ourselves between who we are and what we are doing. Each of us must take a greater personal responsibility for this deteriorating global environment; each of us must take a hard look at the habits of mind and action that reflect - and have led to - this grave crisis.”
Source: Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose
“In the end, we need two things to lead a balanced life - a sense of the world and a sense of ourselves; it's like breathing in and breathing out. And if you can only get to know the world by stepping out, and losing yourself in experience, you can only get to know the self by stepping back, and finding yourself in contemplation. One without the other leads to a kind of madness.”
“In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference.”
Source: I Am a Strange Loop
“In the end, we shall recognize our song and sing it well. You may feel a little warbly at the moment, but so have all the great singers. Just keep singing and you’ll find your way home.”
“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.”
“In the end, we would like not to be guilty while at the same time being dispensed of the effort of purifying ourselves. Not enough cynicism and not enough virtue.”
“In the end, we'll all become stories.”
“In the end, We're all the same.”
“In the end, we're just showmen. But, I think that it's an important factor. Not to be anything else but clear about that - for me, creativity is an important part of our evolution. Art has probably done more good for the world than war. But they're equally powerful. They both create revolutions.”
“In the end, what affects your life most deeply are things too simple to talk about.”
“In the end, what counts is what you do.”
“In the end, what makes a book valuable is not the paper it's printed on, but the thousands of hours of work by dozens of people who are dedicated to creating the best possible reading experience for you.”
“In the end, what matters most is that the people you work with share your values, so I've wanted people who value the meaningful work and meaningful relationships that always motivated me in building Bridgewater.”
“In the end, what really matters? Only kindness. Only making somebody a little happier for your presence.”
“In the end, what would you gain from everlasting remembrance? Absolutely nothing. So what is left worth living for? This alone: justice in thought, goodness in action, speech that cannot deceive, and a disposition glad of whatever comes, welcoming it as necessary, as familiar, as flowing from the same source and fountain as yourself.”
Source: The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations
“In the end, what you do isn't going to be nearly as interesting or important as who you do it with.”
“In the end, what your own troops do is more important than who they are marching against.”