I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“In the meantime, look. He is holding an orchid just for us, which, if we take it from him quickly, he won’t eat first.”
“In the meantime, please try to remember that there is a difference between hiding by choice and hiding from fear. You should never be afraid of who you are." -Della Vacker”
Source: Neverseen
“In the meantime, she is the one today among us
most able to bear the idea of her own beauty,
and when we see it, what we do is natural:
we take our burned hands
out of our pockets,
and clap.”
“In the meantime the big corporations are fleeing America for tax havens and places like Ireland, Luxembourg and the Grand Cayman Islands; the rich are finding more tax loopholes to expect; so when are the people going to basically roll up their sleeves and say, we've had enough, we're going to recapture Congress.”
“In the meantime, the porter's gone. How much time until we reach our next stop?'
I glanced at my wristwatch, an absurd fluttery feeling in my stomach. 'Nearly an hour.'
'Excellent,' he said, lowering his mouth again to mine. 'Let's make the most of it.'
And so we did.”
Source: Murder at the Brightwell
“In the meantime, there is not an hour to lose. I am about to visit the public library.”
Source: Journey to the Center of the Earth
“In the meantime, there was nothing to do but exist and persist.”
Source: The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict
“In the meantime, try to be happy, even if it’s hard. Live your life in the most beautiful way you can. I want you to live out all the adventures we planned, and one day, when we’re home again, we will have many stories to tell.” - Logan”
“In the meantime, we'll continue on, making new pathc through the woods to see what we might find hiding there. Someday, deep in the unknown wilderness of the distant future, the Sun will expand, the Earth will die, and the cosmos itself will come to an end. In the meantime, we have the entire universe to explore, pushing our creativity to its limits to find new ways of knowing our cosmic home. We can learn and create extraordinary things, and we can share them with each other. And as long as we are thinking creatures, we will never stop asking: "What comes next?”
Source: The End of Everything
“In the meantime, without realising it, I had learned a valuable lesson - in the need for an author to have a total belief in their characters if they are to come alive!”
Source: The Mystery on Lighthouse Island
“In the meantime, you should head home. People have seen you with us now. And if we go down, I don't want to take you with us."
Tammy looked at her for a moment, then gave a grudging snort. "You're a brave toy," she said. "I'll give you that." She paused, then added, "Just be careful, all right? A lot of people underestimate Christmas Town. But nightmares can lie in the dreamiest of places."
"Well, that's good," Sally declared, flashing Jack a look. "Because it just so happens we have a lot of experience with nightmares.”
Source: Sally's Lament
“In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases.”
“In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and sleep as if I were dead”
Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America
“In the meantime, I just have to create those realistic goals about the fact that I don't have a ton of options as an actor who's been on a science fiction show for 8 years.”
“In the meantime, I would drink, rest, and ponder the meaning of this mob.”
Source: The Rum Diary: Film Tie-in Edition
“In the meantime, it just makes it a little harder to smile. But so does the world.”
Source: Breaking the Sound Barrier
“In the meantime, most noble Sir, you have assigned this question to the geometry of position, but I am ignorant as to what this new discipline involves, and as to which types of problem Leibniz and Wolff expected to see expressed in this way.”
“In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of random mutations plus natural selection -quite unaware of the fact that random mutations turned out to be irrelevant and natural selection tautology.”
“In the meantime, we have just incredible economic disparities and economic despair in this country and an entire generation that is basically held hostage in debt without the jobs to get out of it. And this is not a world that's working for us, and the climate is going up in flames right now, and the wars are expanding, and we've got 2,000 nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert. This is not a good picture, and I think the American people are discovering that.”
“In the meantime, we see there are charities that spend much of their scarce resources that should be going directly to the children to overcome this gulf that separates them from both the donors and the needy.”
“In the meantime, what is lost is any sense that the Palestinian resistance to Israeli colonial rule is waged from a situation of occupation or expulsion, that there is a military order that controls the boundaries of what would be a sovereign Palestinian state, that the land on which that state is now thinkable has been radically diminished by an ongoing practice of land confiscation and appropriation.”
“In the measure of a day, I heard the music play, and from afar, I watched its beauty unfurl. Its burbling streams, I heard. Its crinkled leaves, I saw. Its salted air whirled against grasses’ virescent and tall, and from a distance, the birds carried a tune, of a dance I knew.”
“In the measure that we pay attention and take care to carry out what we hear, God will always enlighten us and make us understand His will.”
Source: Discourses and Sayings
“In the measure to which a man cuts off and humbles his own will, he proceeds toward success. But insofar as he stubbornly guards his own will, so much does he brings harm to himself.”
“In the measurement world, you set a goal and strive for it. In the universe of possibility, you set the context and let life unfold.”
Source: The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life
“In the measurement world, we set a goal and strive to achieve it. In the universe of possibility, we set the context and let life unfold.”
“In the media universe we're in, where there are people screaming on one end, there is no problem at all with having a little bit of extra politeness.”
“In the media's eyes Bannon made Trump. Trump is too dumb to have made himself. Trump is too rough around the edges. Trump is not a deep enough thinker, and he's not nearly a brilliant strategist. Trump couldn't have gotten himself elected. That's what they all think. Bannon did that.”
“In the media, a reviewer has his personal vision but it's passed along to a million readers or whatever. He might think that this particular song sounds like Jo Blow. Or like a Bo Diddley record that he heard six years ago. But the artist who made the record may never have even heard the Bo Diddley song. We all respond differently.”
“In the media, traditional media like print, we had boundaries. You know, we had spaces that ads didn't leave. They stayed where they were on the page. They didn't float around over the text. And we're kind of lost on the internet. We don't have any barriers. We have a demand for growth that is insistent.”
“In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.”
“In the medical profession, COVID-19 most resembles high altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE). It is fluid filled lungs. The treatment for HAPE is to administer oxygen and descend to sea level. Long Covid resembles acute mountain sickness (AMS).”
Source: Magee’s Disease
“In the Medieval poem, we are surrounded by Winter, but I always imagined the Green Chapel and the castle of Lord and Lady Bercilak in all seasons. I was quite convinced (and still am) that Gawain did not return to Camelot immediately after his initiatory encounter with the Green Knight. That's where 'The Green Knight's Apprentice' began, I think, in my imaginings of what Gawain would learn and experience after his initiation was complete”
“In the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the flesh– whatever pleasures we know are doomed to perish– thus, his paintings manage to evoke at once the process of decay and the ongoing struggle for life. They hold within them a secret poetry, stained with blood and rust.”
“In the meditation, of course, the question is repeated and repeated until you run out of answers - or so I hear.”
“In the Mediterranean of my childhood, there were no large groupers, sharks, or whales. All I saw was seaweed and a few fish, smaller than my little diving mask. All the large animals were gone, simply because we had eaten them.”
“In the Mediterranean world, deception is a legitimate strategy at the service of honor; it is a means value. Those who excel in deception are cheered by the crowd, even as those they have "taken in" smart from the shame and plot retaliation.”
“In the medium and long term. Spain is solvent and able to pay its high debts. In the short-term, we have the capacity to meet our obligations.”
“In the melting pot that is America, inclusive trumps exclusive. Whether it's single women, young adults, or minorities, alienating the rapidly growing voting blocs is not smart politics.”
“In the Members' Dining Room, the Conservatives eat at one end, the Labour Party at the other, while the Liberals wait at table.”
“In the memories we Survive”
“In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.”
Source: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)
“In the men I love heroes, in the work I love heroism”
“In the mental calmness of a spiritual life, I have found that the answers to the whys in our lives are able to come to you. In my music I find the same thing.”
“In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.”
Source: The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950
“In the menu, there should be a climax and a culmination. Come to it gently. One will suffice.”
Source: Aromas and Flavors of Past and Present
“In the mercy of God, the little thing done with humility will enable us to be found in the same place as the saints who have labored much and been true servants of God.”
Source: Discourses and Sayings
“In the mere concept of one thing it cannot be found any character of its existence.”
“In the mere observation of yourself, you begin the process of healing and transformation.”
Source: Power, Freedom, and Grace: Living from the Source of Lasting Happiness
“In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.”