I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“In the modern world, we Americans are the old inhabitants. We first had political freedom, high industrial production, an economy of abundance.”
Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society
“In the modern-day world, where time is premium and battle for subsistence is unimaginably tough, the hapless common man simply gives in and pays the bribe just to get on with life.”
“In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence.”
“In the moment a person is broken by terror, she is more easily seduced into muffling others. You will move up in the world if you only follow orders. If you sell out your sister. If you muzzle her. . . This is what most rape victims do. They muffle themselves. . . This time, I will not be muffled. I will lacerate the ear of God. I will wail wildly: 'How could You let this happen?!”
Source: Denial: A Memoir of Terror
“In the moment, an anticipated rush of sugar, or of dopamine, or sinking into a couch to be entertained by a screen, can seem like the best thing in the world. But it is not those moments that we remember, and it is not those moments that we treasure. They are not rich with meaning. Fleeting, easy satisfaction does not a meaningful life make.
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Consider how you know about speed, for instance. When driving on a warm Spring day with the windows open, you can understand how fast you are going by feeling the wind in and around the car; by recognizing the road’s surface and cant and your car’s responsiveness to it; by observing other vehicles and how they are moving, and how they respond to you. Or you can read the number on the speedometer. The first provides an understanding of speed that is embodied and holistic; the second way of knowing how fast you are going, in contrast, is a much thinner kind of knowledge. That number that you glean from a glance at the speedometer tells you something, but it is both far less meaningful than having an embodied sense of speed, and far easier to communicate when you get pulled over.”
“In the moment before I crossed over, I knew that the priests and magicians of Egypt were fools and charlatans for promising to prolong the beauties of life beyond the world we are give. Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. All of life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.”
“In the moment between sleep and wake
I kiss my blanket
Kissing you goodbye”
Source: Finding Identity
“In the moment I faced dying, I finally knew my reason for living.”
Source: Neverfall
“In the moment of acting you don't feel like anything, you feel like the person, as much as you can.”
“In the moment of appreciation we live again the moment when the creator saw and held the hidden likeness.”
Source: Science and Human Values
“In the moment of decision, may you hear the voice of the Creator saying, ‘This is right road, travel on it.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“In the moment of deep creativity you disappear, God again starts functioning.”
“In the moment of hardship, we ask why some things happen. In those moments of suffering, questioning prayers that do not ask for explanations but beg the Lord to accompany us are the most useful”
“In the moment of making films, I want to share my observations of life, not of other films.”
“In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression.”
Source: Guesses at Truth
“In the moment of quietness, my strength re-energized”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“In the moment of reading, the writer comes up to the surface and the reader comes up to the surface and they kiss, like two fish. That actually does happen.”
“In the moment of stillness, you make your deepest confessions as you speak from your heart, for you are egoless, artless, and have truly opened yourself. That's when this universe hears you.”
“In the moment of surrender, you are free.”
“In the moment, there wasn’t much time to appreciate the irony of a fire that had essentially been caused by a fire alarm.”
Source: Charlesgate Confidential
“In the moment we're born, we're drawn to form a union with others. An abiding drive to connect, to love, to belong. In a perfect union, we find the strength we cannot find in ourselves. But the strength of the union cannot be known until it is tested.”
“In the moment when he died at my hand he had his own heart's desire—not the actual future, but a hope for the best possible future, one that he could not himself imagine.”
Source: The Dream of Perpetual Motion
“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.”
Source: Ender's Game
“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.”
Source: Ender's Game
“In the moment when the eyes of the two men met, Javert, without having moved or made the least gesture, became hideous. No human emotion can wear an aspect so terrible as that of jubilation. He had the face of a fiend who has found the victim he thought he had lost.”
Source: Les Misérables
“In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change.”
“In the moment when you are hurt…
Sit with yourself, let yourself feel the hurt,
acknowledge the shames it touched and
accept them.
Hug yourself, let yourself cry. Let yourself
Shout. Let it all out. No it's not lame.
Embrace your shames. But do not go
and sink with them.
You are a fighter, turn them around.
You will grow through it, if you Let yourself.
And once you have gone past it all,
don't forget to look back and appreciate
the growth.
Thank the pain and always keep Gratitude above Hurtitude.”
“In the moment when you feel it - whatever it is - that emotion is valid and has worth. If you acknowledge that, nothing has the power to silence you.”
Source: The Day We Meet Again
“In the moment you ask, and believe and know you already have it in the unseen, the entire Universe shifts to bring it into the seen.”
Source: The Secret
“In the moment you can influence the present and the future by changing the perspective of your past”
“In the moment, you most likely won't know how valuable such detours will prove to be, but life has a way of revealing the hidden magic in these moments down the road at the appropriate time.”
“In the moments after she spoke I remember thinking that if she was in some way correct she was, however, not right. That of course life is random, a series of coincidences, etc., but that to live you must attempt to make sense of it, and that's what narrative's for. I believe this, people of a certain sensibility believe this. Mostly it's harmless. Though perhaps sometimes you find yourself doing things because you think the narrative arc calls for it, or because you've grown bored with your own plot, things you shouldn't do because they will, these things, hurt the other characters in your story, who are not characters after all, but people. But then people do evil often and with less elaborate justifications.”
Source: Topics of Conversation
“In the moments I get it right, every step I take seems to be matched by a universal mystery, which obligingly, incredibly, creates what I can't.”
“In the moments of adversity, we engaged our minds on beautiful thoughts, our spirit on spirituality and our hands on inspiration writings. What a good trade of pain for peace of mind?”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“In the moments of your deepest need, despair and desperation, what you need more than any other thing, is calm and faith.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“In the moments we are awake to the wonder of simply being alive, gratitude flows, no matter our circumstances.”
Source: Attitudes of Gratitude, 10th Anniversary Edition: How to Give and Receive Joy Every Day of Your Life
“In the monastery of your heart, you have a temple where all Buddhas unite.”
“In the monastic mind, work is not for profit. In the monastic mentality work is for giving, not just for gaining. In monastic spirituality, other people have a claim on what we do. Work is not a private enterprise. Work is not to enable me to get ahead; the purpose of work is to enable me to get more human and to make my world more just.”
“In the monotheistic age, God was viewed as the one who causes and does everything, and hence humans were not entitled to make something, let alone a great deal, of themselves. In humanistic epochs, by contrast, man is considered the being responsible for causing and doing everything - but consequently no longer has the right to make little or nothing of himself. Whether people now make nothing or much of themselves, they commit - according to traditional forms of logic - an inexplicable and unpardonable error. There is always a surplus of differences that cannot be integrated into any of the prescribed systems of life-interpretation. In a world that belongs to God, human beings make too much of themselves as soon as they raise their heads; in a world that belongs to humans, they repeatedly make too little of themselves. The possibility that the inequality between humans might be due to their asceticisms, their different stances towards the challenges of the practising life - this idea has never been formulated in the history of investigations into the ultimate causes of difference between humans. If one follows this trail, it opens up perspectives that, being unthought-of, are literally unheard-of.”
Source: Du mußt dein Leben ändern
“In the month of October, the universal Church highlights her missionary vocation. Guided by the Holy Spirit she knows she is called to pursue the work of Jesus himself, proclaiming the Gospel of the Kingdom of God which is "righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit"”
“In the months after George W. Bush's reelection, a lot of liberals and environmentalists were ready to take a hard look at their political agenda, the Democratic Party, and the interest groups they supported.”
“In the months ahead, I will leave the Department of Justice, but I will never -- I will never -- leave the work. I will continue to serve and try to find ways to make our nation even more true to its founding ideals.”
“In the months and years following my participation in the completion of Oracle of Compassion: the Living Word of Kuan Yin, I did, in accordance with the deity’s former declaration—that she would continue sending important dreams, experience many dreams and visitations from Kuan Yin. It was after completing the transcription of some of the Kuan Yin quotes that I fell into a deep slumber. Just before awakening, I dreamt of Kuan Yin standing in my living room directly in front of the marble-tiled fireplace wherein Lena Lees and I would hold prayer circles.
So real was this vision that I could hear the deity’s sweet voice explain that there is a specific meditation for connecting with the Celestial Wisdom! Witnessing Kuan Yin lie face down on the Oriental Carpet with arms outstretched over Her head, I watched as Her thumb and forefinger formed a triangle—the dhyana mudra specifically designated to Kannon called the dhyana mudra displayed by the fourth Dhyani Buddha Amitabha, also known as Amitayus Kuan Yin. It was then that Kuan Yin further explained the significance of this specific mudra; that it acts similar to a capstone on an obelisk—drawing wisdom to one who has demonstrated intention to be a teacher of wisdom.
Aware that Kuan Yin was pointed in a northward direction, I surmised this particular alignment was also a significant aspect of the meditation—that this specific positioning was most ideal for receiving answers for prayers directed to the Her.
Later in the dream, it was confirmed that each person attracts from the universe, realities that are aligned with their specific beliefs and values.”
Source: Kuan Yin Buddhism:: The Kuan Yin Parables, Visitations and Teachings
“In the months before Mauna Loa erupted in 2022, my home was vibrating weekly and noticeably shaking about once per month from the earthquakes in Pahala on Hawaii island.”
“In the months before the repatriation her heart had hardened around her sister’s absence, letting her love Natasha in memory as she could never love her in reality.”
Source: A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
“In the months following James' death, on thought had returned time and again as she passed others in the street. What secrets did these people hold? What had they endured? She wondered how many people rushing in and out of shops, or on their way to their work, had lost a love, or known deep disappointment or grief, fear, or want, yet summoned the resilience to go on. Those lines across foreheads, those mouths downturned --- what were the ruts on life's road that wrought such marks, those signs of scars on the soul?”
Source: Journey to Munich
“In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.”
Source: Self-portrait
“In the months since leaving my husband’s home, I asked this question of myself almost every day. So many of the labels that I had accepted over the years described relationships: daughter, sister, wife, daughter-in-law, mother. In the in-between phase of separation, was I still a wife? Could I check the box for “married” even though I didn’t (and did not want to) share a house with my estranged spouse? If I stripped off the labels that did not fit, who or what would I be? I was still a daughter, a sister, and a mother. Why then did I feel so bereft?”
Source: Rewriting My Happily Ever After: A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery
“In the months that follow you bend to the work, because it feels like hope, like grace--and because you know in your lying cheater's heart that sometimes a start is all we ever get.”
Source: This Is How You Lose Her
“In the months that followed my mother's death, I managed to look like a normal person. I walked the street; I answered my phone; I brushed my teeth; most of the time. But I was not OK. I was in grief. Nothing seemed important. Daily tasks were exhausting. Dishes piled in the sink, knives crusted with strawberry jam. At one point I did not wash my hair for ten days. I felt that I had abruptly arrived at a terrible, insistent truth about the impermanence of everyday.”
Source: The Long Goodbye