I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“In the race for wealth, a neighbor tries to outdo his neighbor, but this strife is good for men. For the potter envies potter, and the carpenter the carpenter, and the beggar rivals the beggar, and the singer the singer.”
“In the race of faith, stay focused upon Christ, not the other runners, nor the spectators.”
“In the race of life, it is not about those who are first to leave the starting line but those who reach the final mark in record time. Learn to be meticulous with how you use your time.”
Source: The Precious Gift of Time: Inspirational Quotes and Sayings
“In the race of life, what matters is to complete your race.”
“In the race of life, you need self confidence, courage and faith in your abilities to win the race.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“In the race of men is much greed and envy; but of truth, little.”
Source: Taran Wanderer: The Chronicles of Prydain
“In the race to scale a startup, overlooking financial planning is like building a skyscraper on shaky ground. True growth stems from decisions rooted in accurate forecasts and smart resource allocation.”
Source: The 6 Startup Stages: How Non-technical Founders Create Scalable, Profitable Companies
“In the race to scale a startup, overlooking financial planning is like to building a skyscraper on shaky ground. True growth stems from decisions rooted in accurate forecasts and smart resource allocation.”
Source: The 6 Startup Stages: How Non-technical Founders Create Scalable, Profitable Companies
“In the radiance of His light the world is not commonplace. The very floor we stand on is a miracle of atoms whizzing about in space. The darkness of sin is clarified, and its burden shouldered. Death is robbed of its finality, trampled down by Christ's death. In a world where everything that seems to be present is immediately past, everything in Christ is able to participate in the eternal present of God.”
Source: For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy
“In the Radiation Laboratory we count it a privilege to do everything we can to assist our medical colleagues in the application of these new tools to the problems of human suffering.”
“In the railroads, some people read clearly printed departure signs and then proceed to ask several times what they say. On airplanes, they demand things they know they cannot have. In their cars, they load up, drive away and then suddenly realize they don't know where they're going.”
“In the rainy season, sometimes to get to the first lesson we had to run really quick, because we had to cross the river to school and we'd have to go up and down the bank to find a place to cross because there is no bridge.”
“In the Ramtops village where they dance the real Morris dance, for example, they believe that no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away - until the clock he wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.”
“In the range of inorganic nature. I doubt if any object can be found more perfectly beautiful than a fresh, deep snowdrift, seen under warm light.”
Source: Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin
“In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences.”
“In the range of my character at any given moment, I have acted in the only way it seemed to me I could have acted. This in no way means that I have done what was right; only what was possible for me. Sometimes I have done what I knew was wrong, and have rationalized. But rationalization is a form of desperation. It takes kindness to forgive oneself for one's life.”
Source: Daybook: The Journal of an Artist
“In the range of things toddlers have to learn and endlessly review--why you can't put bottles with certain labels in your mouth, why you have to sit on the potty, why you can't take whatever you want in the store, why you don't hit your friends--by the time we got to why you can't drop your peas, well, I was dropping a few myself.”
Source: American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie
“In the ranks of the movement [National Socialist movement], the most devout Protestant could sit beside the most devout Catholic, without coming into the slightest conflict with his religious convictions. The mighty common struggle which both carried on against the destroyer of Aryan humanity had, on the contrary, taught them mutually to respect and esteem one another.”
Source: Mein Kampf
“In the rare cases where it occurs, a failure to increase one's visible consumption when the means for an increase are at hand is felt in popular apprehension to call for explanation, and unworthy motives of miserliness are imputed.”
Source: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Premium Collection: 25+ Titles in One Volume: The Theory of Business Enterprise, The Higher Learning in America, The Vested Interests and the Common Man, On the Nature of Capital…: The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Beginning of Ownership, The Preconceptions of Economic Science, The Industrial System and the Captains of Industry, The Socialist Economics of Karl Marx…
“In the rare event that the Supreme Court refuses to play along [...] there is always a perfectly legal, extra-constitutional, quasi-legislative, quasi-executive, quasi-judicial, "independent" regulatory commission or executive agency to kill off or override constitutional protections.”
“In the rare hopeful hour, I tell myself this darkness has a purpose: to help me recognize light if I ever find it again.”
Source: Shark Heart
“In the rather informal survey I have taken over the years on intensity of interest in food by profession, lawyers rank only a few trades below concert pianists....”
Source: The Tummy Trilogy: American Fried; Alice, Let's Eat; Third Helpings
“In the Rather/Bush incident, it was totally unfair. CBS was trying him and convicting him and trying to execute him on national television. They had made up their minds. CBS made the fatal error of trying to become the political opposition to George Bush. And, when they did that, they put themselves in an arena where they can get knocked on their fanny.”
“In the ratio, as autism rates are understood to be increasing, the autistic 1 stays the same; it is rather the non-autistic population that seems to be getting smaller. . . The ratio works, in effect, to structure a rivalry or competition—a kind of Foucaultian 'agon' or contest—between constructed oppositions: autism/nonautism, pathology/health, underdevelopment/development, cost/benefit.”
Source: War on Autism: On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence
“In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who's never been in one, being mindful of what these veterans have actually gone through, you find that the biggest concern is that you don't look at war as a geopolitical endeavor.”
“In the reading and writing life, delight, for me, is where the mystery lies. Easy enough to figure out how scenes of violence or tragedy or titillation or grossness or even sentimentality can move us, but how the written word elicits delight - what Nabokov calls that shiver in the spine - is much harder to calculate and define.”
“In the real estate business you learn more about people, and you learn more about community issues, you learn more about life, you learn more about the impact of government, probably than any other profession that I know of.”
“In the real journey of life, it is not what you do; it is what you don't do that matters the most.”
“In the real life-process, willing, feeling, and thinking are only different aspects.”
Source: Introduction to the Human Sciences
“In the real world as in dreams nothing is quite what it seems. -The Book of Counted Sorrows”
“In the real world in which we live, you always have to choose between evils. And in choosing between evils, you have to have moral criteria for how to make those choices.”
“In the real world of competition, the players want to compete and they want to compete at the very highest level.”
“In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it?”
Source: Through the Bible, Through the Year: Daily Reflections from Genesis to Revelation
“In the real world of research, conventional tests of [statistical] significance seem almost worthless.”
“In the real world there are many tones, from white at one extreme, through a large number of medium tones to black at the other extreme. To achieve a three-dimensional effect on paper you need just three - white, black and medium gray.”
“In the real world there is no nature vs. nurture argument, only an infinitely complex and moment-by-moment interaction between genetic and environmental effects”
“In the real world there's an after-effect of disappointment if you lose an argument. But if, to begin with, you're set up not to have this particular autonomy, then you're not disappointed.”
“In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around.”
Source: Empress of a Thousand Skies
“In the real world, banks hang onto their money for fear of making bad loans, no matter how many bailouts or stimulus packages Washington passes.”
“In the real world, children love me.”
“In the real world, equal respect for all cultures doesn't translate into a rich mosaic of colorful and proud peoples interacting peacefully while maintaining a delightful diversity of food and craftwork. It translates into closed pockets of oppression, ignorance, and abuse.”
Source: Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations
“In the real world, I see conservatives volunteering at adoption agencies, at churches, at bake sales and the local American Legion Post while the only charity a progressive sends is a smug sermon on fair share and what fairness is.”
“In the real world, illiquid assets carry a discount.”
“In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.”
“In the real world, it is hard to be taken seriously as a woman. Use your brain and be smart about your choices. There's nothing wrong with being a good girl - it's actually very attractive and sexy.”
“In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.”
“In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don't make mistakes.”
“In the real world, those of us who are most productive, successful, and satisfied focus not on fixing feelings or manipulating thoughts, but on what needs to be done-and then doing it-no matter what thoughts or feelings arise.”
Source: Living on Purpose: Straight Answers to Universal Questions
“In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills that have nothing to do with IQ. Also, the idea that intelligence can be gauged by an IQ test is erroneous.”
“In the real world, you can make your own miracles.”
Source: Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection