I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“in the morning we found the rabbits
intent on a meticulous and general campaign of copulation”
Source: The periodic table
“In the morning we look forward to evenings,
Then we look forward to mornings again,
Its insane! Humans remain unfulfilled for not being total in the now.
Drop the struggle to bring fulfilment anyhow.
Be involved in every moment...
Let your fulfilment be instantized... get #Mickeymized!”
“In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of meat in it, in the evening we had a very thin meat soup with some potatoes in it.”
“In the morning when he opened his eyes and when his glance fell upon the yellow linen of the curtain by the window, it seemed to him that its yellowness was suffused with the crimson of dark desire and that there was some strange and eerie tenseness in it. It seemed that the sun was insistently and fervently concentrating its burning and bitter rays towards this linen pierced by a golden color and summoning and demanding, and disturbing. And in reply to this fascinating external tension of gold and crimson the veins of the Youth were filled with a fiery agitation. His muscles were suffused with a resilient strength and his heart became like a spring of ardent fires. Sweetly pierced by millions of exciting, burning and arousing needles he leapt up from the bed and with a childlike gleeful laugh he began to leap and dance around the room without dressing.
("The Poison Garden")”
Source: Silver Age of Russian Culture
“In the morning, when I am gone.
Don’t sit ‘round and mourn.
Just simply look up to the sun.
I’ll be looking right back at you.
You will all be okay without me, soon.
It’s not the end; it’s the start of a new bloom.
You will have better times than now.
Don’t reflect on the sad times, avow.
Think of the happy times, the years and vow.
I don’t want a bunch standing around my grave.
Straighten up and think of the happy days.
I’ll only allow tears of joy, be brave.
I will be right there with you.
I will keep an eye on you.
You teenagers better behave, I’ll be seeing your every move.
Every move you make on those nights, out late.
So, anyway, when I am gone in the morning, date.
Don’t be sad or mad, don’t hate.
Just look up to the sun, nigh
I’ll be looking back at you, wry
It was just my time to fly.
It was simply my time, goodbye.”
Source: Yesterday's Coffee
“In the morning when I rise give me Jesus.”
“In the morning, when she walked to the consulate, carefully watching her sandals on the pavement, she glanced up and saw a Negro wearing a stack of panama hats. Maybe twelve. She never forgot the bandoeon of brims, the perfect stutter of hat.”
Source: Heartbreak
“In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?”
Source: Meditations
“In the morning, wonder and be generous like the sun. In the evening, meditate and be kind like the moon.”
“In the morning you were never violently sorry-- you made no resolutions, but if you had overdone it and your heart was slightly out of order, you went on the wagon for a few days without saying anything about it, and waited until an accumulation of nervous boredom projected you into another party.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.”
“In the morning, I reach for the sports page.”
“In the morning, I wake up at about 6 a.m. and I run for about 45 minutes, then more sprinting. Then I go back home, I eat and I sleep. When I wake up, I train - I do about three hours in the gym...”
“In the morning, I work on my core stability and do some work with the exercise bands. Sometimes I do some upper body and a little bit of leg weights to get warm and ready for training. And then I'm out on the pitch.”
“In the morning, instead of saying to yourself, ‘I got to wake up’ say ‘I get to wake up!’”
“In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you've lost, what can you say about that?”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
“In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'”
“In the morning, you tear up the pages of your fever, but every word naturally leads you back to its color, its night.”
Source: The Book of Questions: Volume II [Yaël; Elya; Aely; El, Or the Last Book]
“In the mornings he would walk…. At the start of a walk, alone or moving, the sun at his back or cold rain down his collar, he was more himself than under any other circumstance, until he had walked so far he was not himself, not a self, but joined to the world. Invisibly joined. Had a religion been founded on this, purely this, he would have converted….. Proof of God? Proof was in the world, and the way you visited the world was on foot…. Your walking was a devotion.”
Source: Bowlaway
“In the mornings I used to say goodbye to my wife like someone going to work. I'd leave the house, walk around a few blocks, and come back like a person arriving at the office.”
“In the mornings, my pain was magnified by about a thousand. In the morning there weren’t only those sad facts about my life. Now there was also the additional fact that I was a pile of shit.”
Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
“In the mornings when they were in the city, they had breakfast on a card table in Jeffrey's study”
Source: So Little Time: A Novel
“In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis; indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it has become, to use the phrase of Bunyan 'the captain of the men of death.'”
“In the most advanced state of love we don't love for any reason or purpose. We don't even direct our love necessarily to an object.”
“In the most basic terms it was about how when we experience art without critical awareness we consent to the ideas being promoted, either intentionally or unintentionally, by the filmmaker. For instance, if you watch a racist comedian and laugh at his jokes, you are consenting to the prejudices inherent within them. Similarly, if you watch a movie which perpetuates conventional ideas about race, gender, etc., you are consenting to them and not affecting change in any way.”
Source: Nerd Do Well
“In the most basic way, writers are defined not by the stories they tell, or their politics, or their gender, or their race, but by the words they use. Writing begins with language, and it is in that initial choosing, as one sifts through the wayward lushness of our wonderful mongrel English, that choice of vocabulary and grammar and tone, the selection on the palette, that determines who's sitting at that desk. Language creates the writer's attitude toward the particular story he's decided to tell.”
Source: The Getaway Car: A Donald Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany
“In THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MOMENT IN LIFE PT.2's first half, while "INTRO: Never Mind" deals with BTS's attitude in changing circumstances, "RUN" deals with how this attitude would be put into practice, and "Butterfly" is about BTS's internal anxiety and sadness, which existed both in the real world and within their music videos.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“In the most civilized and progressive countries freedom of discussion is recognized as a fundamental principle.”
“In the most common fantasy of ideal love, [...], a woman can only unleash her desire in the hands of a man whom she imagines to be more powerful, who does not depend upon her for his strength. [...] The boundedness and limits within which one can surrender, and in which one can experience abandonment and creativity, are sought in the ideal lover. (p. 120)”
Source: The Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and the Problem of Domination
“In the most commonplace, tiresome, ridiculous, malicious, coarse, crude, or even crooked people or events I had to seek out rare things, good things, comic things, and I did so.”
Source: He flies through the air with the greatest of ease: a William Saroyan reader
“In the most complete friendship there is always a little empty space, like the space in an egg.”
Source: The journal of Jules Renard
“In the most dangerous of times, those who escape and survive generally know people whom they can trust. Having old friends is the politics of last resort. And making new ones is the first step toward change.”
Source: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
“In the most devilishly wicked learning environments, experience will reinforce the exact wrong lessons. Hogarth noted a famous New York City physician renowned for his skill as a diagnostician. The man’s particular specialty was typhoid fever, and he examined patients for it by feeling around their tongues with his hands. Again and again, his testing yielded a positive diagnosis before the patient displayed a single symptom. And over and over, his diagnosis turned out to be correct. As another physician later pointed out, “He was a more productive carrier, using only his hands, than Typhoid Mary.” Repetitive success, it turned out, taught him the worst possible lesson.”
Source: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
“In the most difficult circumstances of life, there is often only one source of peace. The Prince of Peace, Jesus Christ, extends His grace with the invitation, 'Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest' (Matthew 11:28).”
“In the most dismal place, at the longest point of night - just before sunrise - the morning star shines its glimmer of hope.”
Source: Sleep, Pray, Heal: A Path to Wholeness & Well-Being
“In the most dysfunctional organizations, signaling that work is being done becomes a better strategy for career advancement than actually doing work (if this describes your company, you should quit now).”
Source: Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
“In the most egregious instances, women will effectively be punished for being, and claiming to be, the victims of misogyny. They will then be systematically disbelieved and maligned, notwithstanding strong evidence of the wrongdoing they have suffered.
In 2009, for example, a young woman in Washington State who told police she had been raped at knifepoint was fined $500 for supposedly filing a false report—a report that, it later turned out, had been accurate. This came to light in 2011 because the rapist, who had a distinctive egg-shaped birthmark on his calf, was subsequently accused of rape by another female victim in a nearby district.”
Source: Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
“In the most forgotten parts of the world, you can find the things you will remember the most in your life!”
“In the most general terms, the Enlightenment goes back to Plato's belief that truth and beauty and goodness are connected; that truth and beauty, disseminated widely, will sooner or later lead to goodness. (While we're making at effort at truth and goodness, beauty reminds us what we're hold out for.)”
“In the most important sense a creationist is a person who believes in creation, and that includes people who believe that Genesis is a myth and that creation involved a process called evolution and consumed billions of years.”
“In the most innovative companies there is a significantly higher volume of thank yous than in companies of low innovation.”
“In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature.”
“In the most modern theories of physics probability seems to have replaced aether as "the nominative of the verb 'to undulate'."”
Source: New Pathways in Science: Messenger Lectures (1934)
“In the most profound of Sufi teachings, we discover that the goal of Sufi practice is to create a kind of twin. In other words, for every apparently living human being, through profound exercises, the Sufi creates a spiritual counterpart (a twin) in the spirit realms. In addition, for every spirit dwelling in the spiritual realms, there exists a physical counterpart in the apparent world. This is precisely why Sufis pray at the Shrines (tombs) of Sufi saints who have made the transition, because these saints are very much alive and puissant in the physical or apparent world.”
Source: The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis
“In the most rigorous [Roman] laws, a wife was condemned to support a gamester, a drunkard, or a libertine, unless he were guilty of homicide, poison, or sacrilege, in which cases the marriage, as it should seem, might have been dissolved by the hand of the executioner.”
Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“In the most unlikely moments, I would catch glimpses of the person I used to be: the child who shrieked with delight as her dress swirled about her like a balloon, the girl who used to see the glass as half full, the young woman who used to laugh at the absurdity of life. All of those previous versions of myself had existed, yet I couldn’t have imagined what the future versions would be like.”
Source: Rewriting My Happily Ever After: A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery
“In the motive lies the good or ill.”
“In the mountain climbing process, you will learn some timeless lessons. Mountains impart wisdom with their steadfast presence.”
Source: Coming to Grips with the Mountains and Valleys of This World
“In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth.”
Source: Poems
“In the mountains it's cold.
Always been cold, not just this year.
Jagged scarps forever snowed in
Woods in the dark ravines spitting mist.
Grass is still sprouting at the end of June,
Leaves begin to fall in early August.
And here I am, high on mountains,
Peering and peering, but I can't even see the sky.”
Source: Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems