I Quotes
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“In this world, perfection is an illusion. Reagrdless of all those who utter the contrary, this is the reality. Obviously mediocre fools will forever lust for perfection and seek it out. However, what meaning is there in perfection? None. Not a bit. ...After perfection there exists nothing higher. Not even room for creation which means there is no room for wisdom or talent either. Understand? To scientists like ourselves, perfection is despair. - Kurotsuchi Mayuri (Bleach 306)”
“In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.”
Source: Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)
“In this world, the greatest courage is to drop the mind aside. The bravest man is who can see the world without the barrier of the mind, just as it is. It is tremendously different, utterly beautiful. There is nobody who is inferior and there is nobody who is superior - there are no distinctions.”
“In this world, the greatest rewards of success, wealth and happiness are usually obtained not through the exercise of special powers such a genius or intellect but through one's energetic use of simple means and ordinary qualities.”
“In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are positive. Even when they are wrong they are positive, and that is the way of achievement, correction, improvement, and success. Educated, eye-open optimism pays.”
“In this world, the spots where the present seems to overlap the past are the most important. These are the points when one becomes aware that the direction of the world can change.”
“In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time. The first is as rigid and metallic as a massive pendulum of iron that swings back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. The second squirms and wriggles like a bluefish in a bay. The first is unyielding, predetermined. The second makes up its mind as it goes along.”
Source: Einstein's Dreams
“In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time." "They do not keep clocks in their houses. Instead, they listen to their heartbeats. They feel the rhythms of their moods and desires." "Then there are those who think their bodies don't exist. They live by mechanical time. They rise at seven o'clock in the morning. They eat their lunch at noon and their supper at six. They arrive at their appointments on time, precisely by the clock.”
“In this world, there is a fine line between enlightenment and brain damage.”
Source: Antsy Does Time
“In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.”
Source: Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition
“In this world, there is life and death; he who misses the life shall never die anymore, because he is already a dead!”
“In this world, there is no clarity. There is only love and action.”
“In this world, there is nothing softer or thinner than water. But to compel the hard and unyielding, it has no equal. That the weak overcomes the strong, that the hard gives way to the gentle - this everyone knows. Yet no one asks accordingly.”
“In this world, there must be a certain degree of honor just as there must be a certain amount of light. When there are many men without honor, there will always be some others who bear in themselves the honor of many men.”
“In this world, there was nothing scarier than trusting someone. But there was also nothing more rewarding.”
Source: The Inner Circle: The Culper Ring Trilogy 1
“In this world, there's even room for quality.”
“In this world, time has three dimensions, like space. Just as an object may move in three perpendicular directions, corresponding to horizontal, vertical, and longitudinal, so an object may participate in three perpendicular futures. Each future moves in a different direction of time. Each future is real. At every point of decision, the world splits into three worlds, each with the same people, but different fates for those people. In time, there are an infinity of worlds.”
Source: Einstein's Dreams
“In this world, unity is achievable only by learning to unite in spite of differences, rather than insisting on unity without differences. For their total eradication is an impossibility. The secret of attaining peace in life is tolerance of disturbance of the peace. (p. 99)”
“In this world, whenever there is light, there are also shadows. As long as the concept of winners exist, there must also be losers. The selfish desire of wanting to maintain peace causes wars and hatred is born to protect love.”
“In this world, where everything happens so fast, it's hard to sit back, take the time and contemplate.”
“In this world, where we find ourselves, we need compassion more than anything, I think, or we are all alone.”
“In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.”
Source: Les Misérables
“In this world, who can do a thing, will not; And who would do it, cannot, I perceive: Yet the will's somewhat — somewhat, too, the power — And thus we half-men struggle.”
Source: The Works of Robert Browning
“In this world, you get what you pay for.”
Source: Cat's Cradle: A Novel
“In this world, you must be a bit too kind to be kind enough.”
“In this world, you only get what you grab for.”
Source: The Decameron
“In this world, you've a soul for a compass and a heart for a pair of wings.”
“In this world,” Franny once observed, “just as you’re trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that that they have met you.”
Source: The Hotel New Hampshire
“In this worldly life, man is a prisoner of everything. He is a prisoner of the mind, a prisoner of the intellect, a prisoner of the chit, a prisoner of the anger-pride-deceit-greed; how can a prisoner of all these ever become free?”
Source: Harmony in Marriage
“In this worldly life where there is no ownership, where there is nothing, one has come here as a guest. And so one has to go back. Those with attachment or non-attachment, everyone will go back. Do not waste even a single ‘minute’ in this. Indeed we would understand if one was going to live ten or fifteen thousand years!”
Source: Aptavani-1
“In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds.”
Source: William Lilly's History of His Life and Times from the Year 1602 to 1681
“In this Year of Faith, let us remember that faith is not something we possess, but something we share. Every Christian is an apostle.”
“In this Year of Faith, we pray to the Lord that the Church may always be a true family that brings God’s love to everyone.”
“In this year of riots I am called to duty
Through this year of angers I have gripped a meaning
In this year of lies and angers burning out of control I went out and met history on its own terms
And I have come back to tell you what I saw:
Uprisings everywhere—they'll riot anytime—anything goes that'll feed a flame;
Warnings unheeded—stopwatches hurtling—direct lies expected and received—
Fires burning out of control in the streets
"WHO'S THAT OUT THERE IN THAT STRANGE RED LIGHT?"
"We call you to answer for your indiscretions, Mr. Johnson."
The time has come for me to have it out with America on the battlefields of my ancestry.
In my short lifetime I have seen America lose faith in her own greatness—
This year of riots and angers burning out of control announces one great covenant broken: The summit once reached and past, the terror begins.”
Source: Panic Grass
“In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against Indian humanity.”
Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects
“In this, our age of infamy Man's choice is but to be A tyrant, traitor, prisoner: No other choice has he.”
“In this, photography is the same thing as love. When my gaze, diving into the sea as my subject, converges with the act of photography, hot sparks fly at the point of intersection.”
“In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me?”
“In those blank pages is my story, Nothing ever written that wasn’t erased, Every thought was already a waste, And time preserves its own memory, A memory of me fading into time…
I carry the weight of my emptiness, And see the world through eyes of needs, These needs breeds more habits, And these habits preserve my loneliness…
So don’t confuse immortality with life, For life belongs to those who can live, We are infected with non-existence, And there was never a cure, We are the immortal clones of repetition…
Four walls is what remains of my kingdom now, As history repeats itself, We all just change names, And the story remains the same, You took birth inside my head, For you are my imagination, And I am your reality…
But reality expired long back in childhood, A memory of ‘would be could be’ life we carry now, But we still gift ourselves expectations, And hope engulfs every illusion, We just live on to pleasure our senses again…
--- Trans-Sexual Adolescence”
Source: Narcissistic Romanticism
“In those countries where income taxes are lower than in the United States, the ability to defer the payment of U.S. tax by retaining income in the subsidiary companies provides a tax advantage for companies operating through overseas subsidiaries that is not available to companies operating solely in the United States. Many American investors properly made use of this deferral in the conduct of their foreign investment.”
“In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect.”
“In those cultures lacking unfamiliar challenges, external or internal, where fundamental change is unneeded, novel ideas need not be encouraged. Indeed, heresies can be declared dangerous; thinking can be rigidified; and sanctions against impermissible ideas can be enforced -- all without much harm. But under varied and changing environmental or biological circumstances, simply copying the old ways no longer works. Then, a premium awaits those who, instead of blandly following tradition, or trying to foist their preferences on to the physical or social Universe, are open to what the Universe teaches.”
Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“In those cultures lacking unfamiliar challenges, external or internal, where fundamental change is unneeded, novel ideas need not be encouraged. Indeed, heresies can be declared dangerous; thinking can be rigidified; and sanctions against impermissible ideas can be enforced -- all without much harm. But under varied and changing environmental or biological or political circumstances, simply copying the old ways no longer works. Then, a premium awaits those who, instead of blandly following tradition, or trying to foist their preferences on to the physical or social Universe, are open to what the Universe teaches.”
Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human.”
“In those days [1935] I would read what the opposition papers got out, and I'd say to myself, 'What I'm doing just isn't good enough.'”
“In those days [1955], affirmative action was for whites only. I might still be working for the grocery store in the small Texas town where I grew up were it not for affirmative action for Southern white boys.”
“In those days [batch processing] programmers never even documented their programs, because it was assumed that nobody else would ever use them. Now, however, time-sharing had made exchanging software trivial: you just stored one copy in the public repository and therby effectively gave it to the world. Immediately people began to document their programs and to think of them as being usable by others. They started to build on each other's work.”
“In those days [the 1790s],the students paid their professors directly for the lectures-typically about three guineas a class (a guinea was worth slightly more than a pound).”
“In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can to education today is to teach few subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.”
“In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience and of course big stadiums didn't enable you to do that. It wasn't my style.”