I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“In their day, Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin represented the aspirations and demands of the exploited working masses, and the cause of socialism was inseparably linked with their names.”
“In their death as in their life the Latins are more socially disposed than we, and the graves in their cemeteries almost always touch each other, they are so closely crowded together.”
Source: Willa Cather in Europe: Her Own Story of the First Journey
“In their desire to make their point, presenters miss the point.”
Source: Let's Stop Meeting Like This: Tools to Save Time and Get More Done
“In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.”
Source: The Consolations of Philosophy
“In their disfigured semibaldness, something private had been stolen, melding them into a indistinguishable collection, like animals in a herd.”
“In their early passions women are in love with the lover, later they are in love with love.”
“In their effort to avoid conflicts, they have avoided intimacy. They can feel numb to a spouse’s needs. Messages become jumbled and can eventually almost stop being taken in by the AVP.”
Source: Hiding In The Light: Understanding Avoidant Personality Disorder
“In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to play in the street.”
“In their efforts to provide a sufficiency of water where there was not one, men have resorted to every expedient from prayer to dynamite. The story of their efforts is, on the whole, one of pathos and tragedy, of a few successes and many failures”
“In their emancipation women are losing what has always made them emotionally superior to men, their tenderness and essential warmth of heart. It’s happening, Jill girl. And men are getting so they don’t care, and when that attitude comes to full flower we’ll maybe have another Roman holiday on our hands, and another age of glory lost under a pall of ashes—”
Source: The Viking Stranger
“In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory - there is just the simple expression of being here as though they had been here doing this forever, and nothing else.”
Source: Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches
“In their faces--plenty of them were handsome, but ruined--I've seen the remnants of who they almost succeeded in being but failed to be, before becoming themselves.”
Source: Canada
“In their field they [mathematicians] do what we ought to be doing in ours. Therein lies the significant lesson ... of their existence. They are an analogy for the intellectual of the future.”
Source: Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses
“In their figurative game of chess, Anthony Rawlings had Claire in check. Every move she made, he countered.”
Source: Truth
“In their fragmentary and miscellaneous way, the Hawthornden manuscripts provide information about the re-shaping of a British Marian myth after 1603, a complex process that involved re-negotiating older national narratives and that drew together the factious material written in the 1580s with more sombre recollections fit for the commemoration of a national figure. In a narrower sense, Fowler's papers offer material evidence of the nature and extent of circulation of Marian 'literary curiousities' among the London Jacobean elites in the first decade of Stuart rule; the loosely defined circles within which this material can be detected include people from different backgrounds, nationalities and social extractions, as a testament to the permeability of both Marian material and early seventeenth-century literary networks. By the end of the first decade of James's English reign, when much of Fowler's material was arguably collected, Mary's problematic memory had been finally tamed and the Queen of Scots had become a figure of misfortune rather than dissent.”
Source: Scottish Literary Review, Spring/Summer 2025
“In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda.”
“In their hearts, the family knew this venture was all for naught, but such a sweet lie made watery soups and stale bread go down better than a bitter truth.”
Source: The Sailor & The Porteña
“In their hearts, they know that we are all created equal in the eyes of God and the universe. Whoever thinks otherwise will never be happy.”
Source: America's Daughter
“In their hearts women think that it is men's business to earn money and theirs to spend it.”
Source: Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer
“In their hearts women think that it is the men’s business to earn money and theirs to spend it – if possible during their husband’s life, but, at any rate, after his death”
Source: On Women
“In their heyday, the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties, dressing up to sing really weird pop songs about lust and loneliness in the big city. They're low-pro now, not retro-worshipped in the manner of Depeche Mode, New Order, or The Cure, but you can hear the reason why - these guys are too sad.”
“In their huge bedroom that night, Tyr said to Thor, "I hope you know what you are doing."
"Of course I do," said Thor. But he didn't. He was just doing whatever he felt like doing. That was what Thor did best.”
Source: Norse Mythology
“In their images they had thought to find some small immortality but oblivion cannot be appeased.”
Source: The Crossing
“In their innocence, they failed to grasp the labor of losing a partner, how the tasks of simple existence would become logistical feats and one person's burden.”
Source: Shark Heart
“In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.”
“In their last four Blackburn have lost 3-0, 3-1, 5-3 and 3-2. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out that's 12 goals conceded”
“In their leaders, advisers, and experts, people much prefer overconfidence, total certainty, to any kind of doubt.”
“In their meditations, the high priests and priestesses of Atlantis had seen that the Atlantean civilization was going to end cataclysmically.”
Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
“In their minds, it seems as though people don't often have the same answers, but in their hearts, they do very frequently have the same questions.”
Source: Healology
“In their minds, the murderers and accomplices of Germany, and Poland, and Hungary, and so many, many other places didn't do something evil. They convinced themselves it was the right thing to do, the thing they had to do. That's what people do. And that should truly frighten us.”
“In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)
“In their overestimation of the role of civilization, the humanists misunderstand the primary forces of the world of primitive human drives with their untamable violence. With their optimistic view of the role of culture, they (the humanists) trivialize the terrifying, hardly solvable problems of mass hatred and of the great passionate psychoses of the human race.”
“In their own brief conversations, he had the distinct impression that she was toying with him, verbally challenging him to a duel that she was certain to win, for she established the rules and kept them a secret from him. As perplexing as this was, he found her game engaging, and he inexplicably wanted more of it.”
Source: One Thread Pulled: The Dance with Mr. Darcy
“In their palate alone is their reason of existence.
[Lat., In solo vivendi causa palata est.]”
“In their phones were antennas, and these antennas sniffed out an invisible world, as if by magic, a world that was all around them, and also nowhere, transporting them to places distant and near, and to places that had never been and would never be.”
Source: Exit West
“In their precise tracings-out and subtle causations, the strongest and fieriest emotions of life defy all analytical insight.”
“In their presence, there's no need for continuous conversation, but you find you're quite content in just having them nearby.”
“In their previous lives, poets were bats, and thinkers were owls.”
Source: Song of a Nature Lover
“In their public statements (but not necessarily in their private statements), scientists express a generally negative attitude towards the UFO problem, and it is interesting to try to understand this attitude. Most scientists have never had the occasion to confront evidence concerning the UFO phenomenon.”
“In their pure form, the martial arts demand the intense awareness of the meditative mind, and have nothing to do with anger or wanton aggression. A practitioner is taught from the outset that the skills must never be used for personal gain, but only in self-defence or in the protection of others -- and even then only enough force as is absolutely necessary should be used.”
“In their pursuit of the same supreme end, Matisse and Picasso stand side by side, Matisse representing color and Picasso form.”
Source: Concerning the spiritual in art
“In their quest for power and self-importance, to compensate for whatever feelings of social inadequacy or sexual insecurity, they (Politicians)are prepared to perpetrate something which is hard to distinguish from mass murder if they think they can get away with it.”
Source: Will this do?: the first fifty years of Auberon Waugh : an autobiography
“In their quest for wisdom, wise leaders surround themselves with wise advisors and they listen to wise counsel.”
Source: The Effective Leadership Prototype for a Modern Day Leader
“In their quest to hit cloud Nine, our young men and women in
their prime are gradually finding themselves on ground Zero,
emotionally battered, academically bankrupt and medically
paralyzed.”
Source: The Unseen Terrorist
“In their quest to reduce all economic values to financial values, economists equated money with wealth, making money with creating wealth, and growth in the market price of an asset with growth in real value. They defined people as financial beings rather than living beings and ignored critical distinctions between the accumulated financial assets of individuals and the health and well-being of living communities. They forgot that the only legitimate purpose of an economy is to support households in making a living—not corporations in making a killing.”
Source: When Corporations Rule the World
“In their recently aborted struggle to inject Genesis literalism into science classrooms, fundamentalist groups followed their usual opportunistic strategy of arguing two contradictory sides of a question when a supposed rhetorical advantage could be extracted from each.”
Source: Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History
“In their recollections dreams and life acquire an oddly merging egality.”
Source: The Passenger
“In their religion they are so uneven,
That each man goes his own byway to heaven.”
Source: The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel De Foe
“In their role as celestial servants to humans on earth, Angels act variously as guardians, guides, teachers, truth-givers and comforters, protectors of the righteous, punishers of the wicked, and more.”
“In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.”