I Quotes
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“In two worlds," said Alan quietly, "there is nothing I love half as much as you.”
Source: The Demon's Covenant
“In two years, I'll be making more than Michael Schumacher.”
“In two years, there were 22 military coups d'etat, essentially in Africa and the third world. The coup d'etat of Algiers, in 1965, is what opened the path.”
“In tyranny lies only failure. Empower every man and you will gain strength.”
“In tyranny, my sword belongs not in a scabbard.”
“In U.S. elections, the term "October surprise" has come to mean an event in the closing weeks or days of a presidential campaign that could affect or even alter the outcome.”
“In U.S. history, war has served as an important diversionary tactic, causing the people at large to shift their attention away from the state's own criminality and toward real or fictitious devils abroad. Wars have therefore proved to be extremely useful in propping up the political class and preserving it from the public resistance and rebellion that might otherwise have arisen.”
“In U.S. politics, 'compassion' means giving money and privileges to well organized interest groups at everyone else's expense.”
“In Uganda, I wrote a questionaire that I had my research assistants give; on it, I asked about the embalasassa, a speckled lizard said to be poisonous and to have been sent by Prime minsister Milton Obote to kill Baganda in the late 1960s. It is not poisonous and was no more common in the 1960s than it had been in previous decades, as Makerere University science professors announced on the radio and stated in print… I wrote the question, What is the difference between basimamoto and embalasassa? Anyone who knows anything about the Bantu language—myself included—would know the answer was contained in the question: humans and reptiles are different living things and belong to different noun classes… A few of my informants corrected my ignorance… but many, many more ignored the translation in my question and moved beyond it to address the history of the constructs of firemen and poisonous lizards without the slightest hesitation. They disregarded language to engage in a discussion of events… My point is not about the truth of the embalasassa story… but rather that the labeling of one thing as ‘true’ and the other as ‘fictive’ or ‘metaphorical’—all the usual polite academic terms for false—may eclipse all the intricate ways in which people use social truths to talk about the past. Moreover, chronological contradictions may foreground the fuzziness of certain ideas and policies, and that fuzziness may be more accurate than any exact historical reconstruction… Whether the story of the poisionous embalasassa was real was hardly the issue; there was a real, harmless lizard and there was a real time when people in and around Kampala feared the embalasassa. They feared it in part because of beliefs about lizards, but mainly what frightened people was their fear of their government and the lengths to which it would go to harm them. The confusions and the misunderstandings show what is important; knowledge about the actual lizard would not.”
Source: Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa (Studies on the History of Society and Culture)
“In Ugandan society a girl who had reached puberty was eligible for a family-arranged marriage. The groom would bring wealth to the bride’s family in the form of cattle, goats, or land. My experience at the hands of Joseph Kony’s murderers and rapists had made a mockery of this custom. I hated the idea, and my father understood.”
Source: Under the Skin
“In un altro tempo io ero il falco e vivevo di giorno: della vita vedevo le luci. Lui era il lupo e viveva di notte: della vita vedeva le ombre. Io ero sempre in ritardo, mentre lui correva alla velocità del suono. Com’è logico supporre, non ci saremmo mai potuti incontrare, se non si fosse creato uno squarcio nel tempo per cui ci trovammo nello stesso luogo nell’istante in cui io non ero ancora un falco, e lui aveva già smesso di essere un lupo. Per ventiquattro ore appena sovvertimmo l’ordine del tempo, finché il giorno divenne notte e la notte divenne giorno, e il falco vide attraverso le ombre, senza esserne aggredito, e il lupo guardò verso la luce, senza esserne accecato. Poi io mi rituffai nella lentezza dei miei giorni, e lui riprese a correre nella frenesia delle sue notti. E ora vorrei non desiderare di ricondurlo dentro al mondo insieme a me. Vorrei non osservare ogni suo gesto segreto cercando di capire se posso accettare quella segretezza dentro la mia vita, e conoscere già la risposta. Vorrei non provare vergogna di me stessa al pensiero che lui non mi avrebbe ancora chiesto niente di tutto questo. Mi fa rabbia la sua lucida follia, che sottintende un coraggio più grande del mio. Ci vuole coraggio per essere pazzi, perché il mondo non ce lo permette.”
Source: I Dissidenti
“In un certo senso la destra ha ragione quando s'identifica con la tranquillità e con l'ordine: è l'ordine della quotidiana umiliazione della maggioranza, ma è pur sempre un ordine; è la tranquillità dell'ingiustizia che continua a essere ingiusta e della fame affamata.”
Source: Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
“In un’epoca in cui altri media velocissimi e di estesissimo raggio trionfano, e rischiano d’appiattire ogni comunicazione in una crosta uniforme e omogenea, la funzione della letteratura è la comunicazione tra ciò che è diverso in quanto è diverso, non ottundendone bensì esaltandone la differenza, secondo la vocazione propria del linguaggio scritto.”
Source: Six Memos for the Next Millennium
“In un milionesimo di secondo un nuovo sole si accese nel cielo, in un bagliore bianco, abbagliante.
Fu cento volte più incandescente del sole nel firmamento.
E questa palla di fuoco irradiò milioni di gradi di calore contro la città di Hiroscima.
In questo secondo 86.000 persone arsero vive.
In questo secondo 72.000 persone subirono gravi ferite.
In questo secondo 6.820 case furono sbriciolate e scagliate in aria dal risucchio di un vuoto d’aria, per chilometri d’altezza nel cielo, sotto forma di una colossale nube di polvere.
In questo secondo crollarono 3.750 edifici, le cui macerie si incendiarono.
In questo solo secondo raggi mortali di neutroni e raggi gamma bombardarono il luogo dell’esplosione per un chilometro e mezzo.
In questo secondo, l’uomo aveva compiuto, con l’aiuto della scienza, il primo tentativo di annientare se stesso.
Il tentativo era riuscito.”
Source: Il gran sole di Hiroscima
“In un mondo sempre più fitto di nessi comunicativi e di processi di globalizzazione non vi sono molte proposte alternative: o si continua a credere pervicacemente nelle proprie forme identitarie (costi quel che costi) o si procede quanto meno ad alleggerirle, così da renderle più disponibili alla comunicazione e agli scambi, alle intese e ai suggerimenti, alle ibridazioni e ai mescolamenti. Non è detto che tale maggiore disponibilità sia la via che ci salva; ma è abbastanza certo che l'atteggiamento opposto (l'ossessione della purezza e dell'identità) è quello che ha prodotto, qui come altrove, le maggiori rovine.”
Source: Contro l'identità
“In un mondo transumano, avrebbe ancora senso credere in una divinità? O si diventerebbe noi stessi delle divinità? La blasfemia percepita nel movimento transumanista, a mio avviso, risiede tutta in questo interrogativo centrale: se potessimo uccidere la morte, dovremmo farlo?”
Source: Hotel Distribution 2050. (Pre)visioni sul futuro di hotel marketing e distribuzione alberghiera
“In un paese dove ognuno poteva essere felice, volere diversamente era una trasgressione, agire diversamente un delitto.”
Source: Blokken
“In una parola, ero troppo codardo per fare quello che sapevo essere giusto, così come ero stato troppo codardo per evitare di fare quello che sapevo sbagliato. A quel tempo, non avevo avuto nessuna esperienza del mondo e non imitavo nessuno dei suoi molti abitanti che agiscono in questo modo. Genio assolutamente naturale, scoprii questa linea di condotta tutto da solo.”
Source: Great Expectations
“In una società ricca, la gente non è costretta a lavorare manualmente e si dedica all'attività intellettuale. Aumentano le università e aumentano gli studenti. Per potersi laurerare, bisogna trovare argomenti per le tesi di laurea. Gli argomenti sono una quantità infinita perché è possibile scrivere tesi su ogni cosa al mondo. Risme su risme di fogli scritti si accumulano negli archivi, che sono più tristi dei cimiteri, perché non ci entra nessuno nemmeno il giorno dei morti. La cultura scompare nell'abbondanza della sovrapproduzione, nella valanga dei segni, nella follia della quantità. Ecco perché ti dico che un libro vietato nel tuo vecchio paese significa infinitamente di più dei miliardi di parole vomitati dalle nostre università.”
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“In unanimity there may well be either cowardice or uncritical thinking.”
“In uncertain times, it's okay to feel
scared and upset. Let those emotions be real.
The Universe reminds us we can't control it all,
but trust in the journey, for it won't let you fall.”
Source: Luna Heartstrong & the Whimsical Wormhole
“In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layer of frailty men want to be good and want be loved. Indeed most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love.”
Source: East of Eden
“In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most of their vices are attempted shortcuts to love.”
“In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.”
Source: East of Eden
“In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love. When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.”
Source: East of Eden
“In uncharted territory, we need new thinking, new ways of processing intense emotions, and new behavioral choices.”
Source: The Five Gifts: Discovering Hope, Healing and Strength When Disaster Strikes
“In undemocratic societies, democratic thought fashion is, for prominent figures, a great way to make an "honest penny".”
“In undergrad, I started to care more about my relationship--well, one in particular--and people thought I wasn't reaching my potential. I never liked how that was framed, as if it's a trade-off between love and work. Love enhances everything.”
Source: The Love Proof
“In undergraduate classes, I often see writers who are still simply imitating. I mean, we all imitate - that's how we learn to speak or write in the first place - but they're writing a Dean Koontz novel or something.”
“In underground music, there seems to be this real inability for people to express themselves in any kind of heroic or mythological way. There's this idea that we're all normal joes, and that creating a persona onstage or having schtick is somehow false and misleading and evil.”
“In understanding the basics of digestion, you'll discover who's in charge. Here's a hint. It's not you.”
“In undeveloped social groups, we find very little formal teaching and training. Savage groups mainly rely for instilling needed dispositions into the young upon the same sort of association which keeps adults loyal to their group. They have no special devices, material, or institutions for teaching save in connection with initiation ceremonies by which the youth are inducted into full social membership. For the most part, they depend upon children learning the customs of the adults, acquiring their emotional set and stock of ideas, by sharing in what the elders are doing.”
Source: Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education
“In unfavorable circumstances, kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed) occur, and in favorable circumstances, more kashays occur. However, the kashays of favorable circumstances are cold. Those are raag kashays (attachment kashays) and they include greed and deceit. Whereas, in unfavorable circumstances, there are dwesh kashays (abhorrence kashays) such as anger and pride.”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“In uniform, I was invisible and valuable. Out of it, I was just a faggot with a file.”
Source: Don't Ask, Don't Die.
“In uniform patriotism can salute one flag only, embrace but the first circle of life - one's own land and tribe. In war that is necessary, in peace it is not enough.”
“In union there is strength.”
Source: Aesop's fables
“In unison, they recited an ancient rhyme.
"With one blue eye to rule the sky,
An eye of brown controls the ground;
Magic swirls within our souls,
Cryptic, mystic, spiritualistic,
To protect the weak from evil's effect,
Elements guide us, ever bind us.
A band of witches scattered wide
From Warlock Morpheus we must hide.”
Source: A Highlander's Passion
“In united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach but no one sleeps with empty stomach.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“In uniting yourself to God's will, you take on new life and gather great courage, willingly embracing the cross and kissing His hand even when it chastises you, a hand that reaches out to you in love and has no other intention but your greater spiritual well-being.”
“In unity lies strength, together we are stronger.”
“In Unity there is strength;
We can move mountains when we're united and enjoy life -
Without unity we are victims. Stay united.”
“In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity - or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity - by being opinionated rather than by being learned.”
“In university courses we do exercises. Term papers, quizzes, final examinations are not meant for publication. We move through a course on Dostoevsky or Poe as we move through a mildly good cocktail party, picking up the good bits of food or conversation, bearing with the rest, going home when it comes to seem the reasonable thing to do. Art, at those moments when it feels most like art -- when we feel most alive, most alert, most triumphant -- is less like a cocktail party than a tank full of sharks.”
Source: The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers
“In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.”
Source: Martha Quest: A Complete Novel
“In university, we are given a taught a lesson then given a test. Whereas in life, we are given a test that teaches us a lesson. #UniversityOfLife”
“In uno Stato autoritario viene considerato lecito alterare la verità, riscrivere retrospettivamente la Storia, distorcere le notizie, sopprimerne di vere, aggiungerne di false: all'informazione si sostituisce la propaganda. Infatti, in tale paese tu non sei un cittadino, detentore di diritti, bensí un suddito, e come tale sei debitore allo Stato (e al dittatore che lo impersona) di lealtà fanatica e di obbedienza supina.”
“In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also.”
“In unserer Zeit gibt es eine Vielzahl von technologischen Möglichkeiten, den Körper in eine gesellschaftlich ideale Form zu bringen, wenn die Technologien auf die patriar-chalen Ziele des Kapitals ausgerichtet werden.”
Source: Radikal verbunden: Über traumatisierende Herrschaft und den spirituellen Aktivismus als Brücke zwischen sozio-politischem Aufdecken und mitfühlender Bezogenheit
“In Untersuchungen, in denen die Versuchsteilnehmer gebeten werden, zu berichten, wie empathisch sie sind oder wie stark sie beim Anblick einer leidenden anderen Person mitfühlen, dominieren die Frauen erheblich. In Studien hingegen, in denen die körperliche Reaktion auf das Leid anderer untersucht wurde, reagieren beide Geschlechter gleich stark. Diese Beobachtung wird dahingehend gedeutet, dass Frauen eine größere Bereitschaft haben, von den empathischen Erfahrungen zu berichten als Männer (Eisenberg und Lennon 1983)”
Source: Die erste Bindung: Wie Eltern die Entwicklung des kindlichen Gehirns prägen
“In uplifting, get underneath.”
Source: Fables in Slang