I Quotes
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“In Vitrag-Vignan [science of vitraag lords, the enlightened ones] there cannot be the slightest of the [wrong] insistence; moreover, there can be no insistence on one’s own opinion.”
“In vocal choreography you had to give a lot of consideration to the fact that you were working with singers and not dancers. But you had to make singers look like they were dancers, and to make the movements as natural as possible, and there to be an association with the movement, uh, somewhat to what the lyric was saying.”
“In vocal prayer we go to God on foot. In meditation we go to God on horseback. In contemplation we go to God in a jet.”
“In vocal prayer we speak to God; in mental prayer he speaks to us. It is then that God pours Himself into us.”
Source: No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition
“In voiceover, all you have to worry about is your voice and practicing with your voice and then being able to understand what the situation and whatnot is happening. And you have endless amounts of film to perfect the character.”
“In voicing so much is left to your imagination to create the world around you like that. It's really the essence of what's so fun for, I think, many people when they first start to want to be an actor, is that they realise they enjoy making up a world around them to exist in, a whole situation and a whole way of being. And even more so than theatre, animation requires that because there's just nothing to go on. It's in your head and your heart or it's not there at all.”
“In volleyball there are many reasons for errors but not a single excuse.”
“In volume and velocity, the new media are making available testimony on a previously unimaginable scale. I'm neither as romantic about the new media landscape, nor cynical. But what's indisputable is the experimental energy that digital forms are unleashing. Among my students and among up-and-coming artists, I find myself startled by the creative responses to the technological, environmental, and political upheavals of our time.”
“In volume terms, the Tasmanian wine industry is as tiny as its potential is large.”
“In volunteer politics, a builder can build faster than a destroyer can destroy.”
“In vowing ourselves to one another, we are entitled to stand before the Almighty and ask Him for His grace and His blessing.”
“In vrede sterven is immers een mensenrecht.”
Source: Van binnen is alles stuk
“In vulgar usage, progress has come to mean limitless movement in space and time, accompanied, necessarily, by an equally limitless command of energy: culminating in limitless destruction.”
Source: The Pentagon of Power
“In Wahrheit ist es das Leben, das dem Leben gibt – während ihr, die ihr euch als Gebende fühlt, nichts anderes seid als Zeugen.”
“In waiting for the glorious moment of that first book contract, writers must have giant reservoirs of patience. Yet they must persevere because they don't know the destiny that is being worked out for them. They creep humbly along the ground, without the spacious aerial vision of their lives that would show them the destiny in store for them.”
Source: In Search of a Voice
“In waiting I learn to live with the anticipations of loss—”
Source: Heaven
“In waking a tiger, use a long stick.”
“In Wales it's brilliant. I go to the pub and see everybody who I went to school with. And everybody goes 'So what you doing now?' And I go, 'Oh, I'm doing a film with Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins.' And they go, 'Ooh, good.' And that's it.”
“In Wales, it's eight different weathers in a day.”
“In Wales, singing and storytelling are party skills, not professions.”
“In walking, far from any vehicle or machine, from any mediation, I am replaying the earthly human condition, embodying once again man’s inborn, essential destitution. That is why humility is not humiliating: it just makes vain pretensions fall away, and thus nudges us towards authenticity.”
Source: A Philosophy of Walking
“In walking, he unleashed the past that he had spent twenty years seeking to avoid, and now it chattered and played through his head with a wild energy that was its own.”
Source: The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry
“In walking the streets of Mexico City you are immersed in a symphony of sounds. From the recordings of the tamale vendors to the whistles of knife sharpeners, the camote vendor with his oven that sounds like a train, the melodies of organilleros, the sounds of birds and church bells that fill the morning air – each note adds to the beautiful chaos of the city.”
“In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make. He can choose the fair and open path, the path which sound ethics, sound democracy, and the common law prescribe, or choose the secret way by which he can get the better of his fellow man.”
Source: All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography
“In walking with God it’s not about knowing the facts. Rather, it’s about knowing the God Who knows the facts.”
“In Wall Street now, you have to hide what you're doing. It's more fun when you don't have to do that. But I don't think its sense of purpose has changed at all.”
“In Wall Street, the only thing that's hard to explain is next week.”
“In wanting freedom we discover that it depends entirely on the freedom of others, and that the freedom of others depends on ours. . . I am obliged to want others to have freedom at the same time that I want my own freedom. I can take freedom as my goal only if I take that of others as a goal as well.”
Source: The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism
“In Waquant's words: "Racial division was a consequence, not a precondition of slavery, but once it was instituted it became detached from its initial function and acquired a social potency all its own." After the death of slavery, the idea of race lived on/”
Source: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
“In war, a person does what he is against; since that day, I always say this: war is the thing that makes a person do what he doesn't want to do.”
Source: Ernesto'nun Dağları
“In war and in peace, in prosperity and times of economic hardship, America has no better friend or more dependable ally than the United Kingdom.”
“In war and other difficult enterprises in life, one can expect that people who possess useful skills will also display their share of eccentric habits, cruel behavioral traits, and bombastic personas. We can either shun such people or accept other people’s unusual behavioral actions in a nourishing perspective.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.”
Source: Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait
“In war as in love, to bring matters to a close, you must get close together.”
“In war everybody is a prisoner.”
Source: The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin
“In war everything is simple, but it's the simple things that are difficult.”
“In war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother”
“In war is it who's right, or who's left?”
“In war it does not matter who is right, but who is left.”
“In war it is necessary to kill as many people as possible -- such is the cynical logic of war. Brutality in a fight is unavoidable; have you seen how cruelly children fight in the streets?”
“In war it is not men, but the man who counts.”
“In War more than anywhere else in the world things happen differently to what we had expected, and look differently when near, to what they did at a distance.”
“In war more than anywhere else, things do not turn out as we expect.”
Source: On War
“In war nothing is impossible, provided you use audacity.”
“In war one must lean on an obstacle in order to overcome it.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“In war personal revenge maintains its silence.”
“In war stories, nobody gets to play the part they want, and no war story ever has a happy ending.”
Source: Lair Of The Monster
“In war the chief incalculable is the human will, which manifests itself in resistance, which in turn lies in the province of tactics. Strategy has not to overcome resistance, except from nature. Its purpose is to diminish the possibility of resistance, and it seeks to fulfil this purpose by exploiting the elements of movement and surprise.”
“In war the first casualty is the truth.”
“In war, the first casualty is truth.”
Source: I Am Pilgrim