I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“In what grade do we stop believing in ourselves? I asked. In what grade do we stop believing, period? I mean, SOMEONE has to be a Nobel Peace Prize winner. SOMEONE has to be a ballerina. Why not us?”
“In what happiness of festivity was the flag on the motor fluttering?”
“In what he suffered, as in all true suffering and in true joy, there was the quality of eternity. He could not believe it would ever end.”
Source: The White Witch
“In what I do for a living, trust and confidence are key. Inevitably, you can't make brave choices and do your best work, if you don't have those, because it's such a subjective art form, and you don't have eyes on yourself.”
“In what I like to call the Great Asymmetry, every spectacular incident of evil will be balanced by 10,000 acts of kindness, too often unnoted and invisible.”
Source: I Have Landed
“In what I think is the most serious problem the world faces, which is the population explosion, we will come I think to a time when measures that are not even dreamt of now will become necessary.”
“In what is necessary, unity; in what is not necessary, liberty and in all things charity.”
“In what is perhaps the strangest turn in the President's efforts to rally support, he agreed that Iraq is just like Vietnam, but in a good way.”
“In what is seen, there should be just the seen; In what is heard, there should be just the heard; In what is sensed, there should be just the sensed; In what is thought, there should be just the thought. He should not kill a living being, nor cause it to be killed, nor should he incite another to kill. Do not injure any being, either strong or weak in the world.”
“In what language does rain fall over tormented cities?”
Source: Libro de Las Preguntas
“In what life can I trust anything out of your mouth ever again?”
Source: King's Cage
“In what light soever we regard the Bible, whether with reference to revelation, to history, or to morality, it is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue.”
Source: Letters of John Quincy Adams, to His Son, on the Bible and Its Teachings
“In what may as well be starkly labelled smug satisfaction, an amazing 94% [of college instructors] rate themselves as above average teachers, and 68% rank themselves in the top quarter of teaching performances.”
“In what might be a motto of those who sought the presidency and lost, Ted Kennedy once said, "Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is."”
“In what other business can a guy my age drink martinis, smoke cigars and sing? I think all people who retire ought to go into show business. I've been retired all my life.”
“In what other sport do you get a 15-second break every hour?”
“In what pagan nation was Moloch ever propitiated by such an unbroken and swift-moving procession of victims as are offered to this Moloch of Christendom, intemperance.”
Source: Two Lectures on Intemperance: The effects of intemperance on the poor and ignorant. The effects of intemperance on the rich and educated. I.. II.
“In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will never weary?”
Source: Moby-Dick
“In what region of the earth ever so remote from us, in what corner of creation ever so far out of the range of our communication, does not some burden lightened, some bond loosened, some yoke lifted, some labor better remunerated, some new hope for despairing hearts, some new light or new liberty for the benighted or the oppressed, bear witness this day, and trace itself, directly or indirectly, back to the impulse given to the world by the successful establishment and operation of free institutions on this American continent?”
Source: Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions: 1869-1879 [i.e. 1878
“In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we should treat them with the same consideration and kindness as we show to other humans; and as we recognize human rights, so too should we recognize the rights of the great apes? Yes.”
“In what touches their social convictions, most persons do not think. The threat of change, with all it suggests to them in the loss of social and economic privilege, alarms so deeply that they are incapable of unprejudiced thought. They seem to themselves to be thinking, with lucidity and fairness, but since they start from the conviction that change must undoubtedly be for the worse or from settled grief at the thought of losing what is old and lovely, they are doing no more than following a logical sequence of ideas from a false premise.”
“In what twisted universe would a girl who's just been dumped still want to be friends with the boy who dumped her?”
Source: Take Me There
“In what universe would it be okay for someone to take a redneck dip in a hotel fountain?”
Source: Creating a Concierge
“In what was recognizably a Lowcountry sunset, trees and swamp and flowers blended together by watercolors. Rather than detailing the scene, this piece evoked emotion---with literal drips of color blending past with present, the seen with the unseen. Twilight filled the sky, but the dimming sun flooded the piece with unexpected color and illuminated two figures dancing.”
Source: Paint and Nectar
“In what way am I any better? She is smug. I am cynical. She is puffed-up. I am punctured. I watch her gamely finding the energy to thrash about on life's greasy surface, while I lie paralysed, croaking about another life I think I can see.”
Source: The World and Other Places: Stories
“In what way can a revelation be made but by miracles? In none which we are able to conceive.”
“In what way could keeping me in ignorance be construed as protection?’ I straighten a piece of wire to add to the fire-starter. ‘God spare me from such protection, especially when it involves safeguarding my poor feminine sensibilities from life-saving information.”
Source: The Falconer
“In what way did your parents screw up to make you the woman you are today?”
Source: Vibrizzio
“In what way, or by what manner of working, God changes a soul from evil to good, how He impregnates the barren rock--the priceless gems and gold--is to the human mind an impenetrable mystery, in all cases alike.”
Source: Aids to Reflection
“In what we really understand, we reason but little.”
Source: Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt: With Notice of His Life
“In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other.”
“In what will survive me I am in harmony with my annihilation.”
“In what world did you think you could get away with this?" Jalal seethed. "To my cousin? To my family?" His gleaming hilt continued its punishing onslaught.”
Source: The Wrath and the Dawn
“In what world should you be afraid of me?”
Source: Golden Son
“In what world
To live?
What love
To give?
Is it worthy?
Or will it break
My heart?
Everyone
Seems to be
Secretly evil
And to try
To disguise
The truth
With lies;
It’s disappointing
But still
I see
Something different
In you;
I find hope
And I fall
In love”
Source: vViIrRuUsS: I Never Forget
“In what you say of another, apply the test of kindness, necessity and truth, and let nothing pass your lips without a 2/3 majority.”
“In whatever area in life one may meet the challenges of courage, whatever may be the sacrifices he faces if he follows his conscience - the loss of his friends, his fortune, his contentment, even the esteem of his fellow men - each man must decide for himself the course he will follow. The stories of past courage can define that ingredient - they can teach, they can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.”
“In whatever country you live, however young or inadequate you feel, or however aged or limited you see yourself as being, I testify you are individually loved of God, you are central to the meaning of His work, and you are cherished and prayed for by the presiding officers of His Church. The personal value, the sacred splendor of every one of you, is the very reason there is a plan for salvation and exaltation.”
“In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.”
“In whatever disease sleep is laborious, it is a deadly symptom; but if sleep does good, it is not deadly.”
Source: The Aphorisms of Hippocrates
“In whatever form and shape, hegemony neither builds the bridge of friendship nor a path of peace; it creates only hatred and terrorism.”
“In whatever form it takes, life sings because it has a song. The meaning is in the lyrics.”
“In whatever God does in the course of our lives, he gives us, through the experience, some power to help others.”
Source: God's Guidance: Finding His Will for Your Life
“In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably.”
Source: Unspoken Sermons
“In whatever manner God created the world, it would always have been regular and in a certain general order. God, however, has chosen the most perfect, that is to say, the one which is at the same time the simplest in hypothesis and the richest in phenomena.”
Source: Discourse on Metaphysics and the Monadology
“In whatever name or form they are offered, all these flowers are laid at God's feet, for He is the one Lord of all, the one Soul of all souls.”
“In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present - the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.”
Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom
“In whatever position you find yourself, determine first your objective.”
“In whatever sense this year is a new year for you, may the moment find you eager and unafraid, ready to take it by the hand with joy and gratitude.”
Source: Meditations of the Heart
“In whatever sport of field of endeavor you are interested, you should do whatever is necessary to compliment your God-given talent with proper mental preparation so as to do "the best you can." The criterion should be to fully exploit your potential rather than to win at any cost. What more could anyone ever ask of you than to be the best you possibly can?”