I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“In whatever system where the weight attached to the wheel should be the cause of motion of the wheel, without any doubt the center of the gravity of the weight will stop beneath the center of its axle. No instrument devised by human ingenuity, which turns with its wheel, can remedy this effect. Oh, speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest. Go and take you place with the seekers after gold.”
“In whatever way change comes, the important thing is to take responsibility for this moment. Then, life becomes cooperative.”
“In whatever way you can do so, according to the talents and gifts God has given you, you are to be salt, and light, and whatever part of the Body of Christ you were made to be. You need to tell us what's going on with you so the rest of the Body (of which you are a part) can work together with you.”
Source: God's Patient Pursuit of My Soul
“In whatever we do, we should be investing in ourselves and not our jobs. Everything I have ever pursued has been for the sole goal of who I was becoming in its achievement. I competed and fought because of the man I became. This is the only worthwhile victory. You cannot take the trophies with you.”
Source: The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
“In whatever work that you do in this world, the work has no value. You will be ‘binding responsibility’ for next life only if there is attachment and abhorrence involved in it. There is no responsibility if the attachment and abhorrence do not occur.”
Source: The Science Of Karma
“In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.”
Source: Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar
“In whatever you choose to do, do it because it's hard, not because it's easy. Math and physics and astrophysics are hard. For every hard thing you accomplish, fewer other people are out there doing the same thing as you. That's what doing something hard means. And in the limit of this, everyone beats a path to your door because you're the only one around who understands the impossible concept or who solves the unsolvable problem.”
“In whatever you do, if you leave a sense of incompleteness, then Creation cannot resent you, ghosts and spirits cannot harm you. If you insist on fulfillment in your work and perfection in achievement, you will become either inwardly deranged or outwardly unsettled.”
“In whatever you do, strive to be the best at it.”
“In whatsoever manner it be, let me turn to God and become fruitful in good works. Nothing higher exists than to approach God more than other people and from that to extend His glory among humanity.I will place all my confidence in your eternal goodness, O God! My soul shall rejoice in Thee, immutable Being. Be my rock, my light, forever my trust.”
“In wheelchair sports, people thought athletes with disabilities were courageous and inspirational. They never give them credit for simply being competitive.”
“In which language does "liberation" sound better? / In Arabic, tahrir, / or in English, rebirth?”
Source: To All the Yellow Flowers
“In which neighborhood?" I asked.
"The neighborhood of Mapstack-the Met's internal version of the Interpol's big data exchange system. It's usually worth a look, just for laughs. These people have no idea how the world works-how the little details connect up. They try to draw links between crimes, but they only work in straight lines so they miss it. They miss everything but fucking methodology. Like the real criminals-I mean, the ones who are so big you never even see them-can't vary their repertoire.”
Source: Vicious Circle
“In which religion you will be born in your next birth, is there any spiritual leaders around the world who can answer it?”
“In which year did a Harvard sculler last outrow an Oxford man at Henley?" Langdon had no idea, but he could imagine only one reason the question had been asked. "Surely such a travesty has never occurred.”
Source: The Da Vinci Code
“In White Boy Shuffle, I combined my seventh-grade teacher, Mr. Takemoto, who really saved me - I don't think I've ever told anyone this - and my first basketball coach, Mr. Shimizu, into one character. Something about the way they talked about things, and their attitudes, had a huge impact on me. Not that I necessarily agreed with them. It was important to me to just put them there to stay grounded.”
“In white neighborhoods, only 1 in 41 properties that could have received a nuisance citation actually did receive one. In black neighborhoods, 1 in 16 eligible properties received a citation. A woman reporting domestic violence was far more likely to land her landlord a nuisance citation if she lived in the inner city.
In the vast majority of cases (83 percent), landlords who received a nuisance citation for domestic violence responded by either evicting the tenants or by threatening to evict them for future police calls. Sometimes, this meant evicting a couple, but most of the time landlords evicted women abused by men who did not live with them.”
Source: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
“In White Summer, Joelle Biele exhibits a Roethke-like affinity with nature and natures creatures. At times a miniaturist, Biele constructs exquisite addresses to a heron, cicada, spider, catalpa tree, mockingbird, snail, cormorant, and others. These pitch-perfect poems are written with a delicate, meticulous attention to craft and music. Like the joy she takes in her subjects, this collection is a joy to read.”
“In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.”
Source: The Bible: Authorized King James Version with Apocrypha
“In whose delusional mind is democracy made 'better' by allowing wealthy people to control more of it?”
“In whose soul do I live? On whose lips am I mentioned? These things, I often wonder. And most importantly, he wondered with what interest the Fates watched over him.”
Source: The Incarnate
“In whose wonder do you get to participate today?”
“In Wicca, rituals are ceremonies which celebrate and strengthen our relationships with the Goddess, the God and the Earth.”
Source: Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner
“In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given.”
“In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.”
“In wilderness I sense the miracle of life.”
“In wilderness people can find the silence and the solitude and the noncivilized surroundings that can connect them once again to their evolutionary heritage, and through an experience of the eternal mystery, can give them a sense of the sacredness of all creation.”
“In wildlife photography,
Journey is more imp than photograph.
Because everyone will see photo,
But only you know the journey and struggle behind that...!!”
“In wildness is the preservation of the world," Thoreau once wrote; a century later, when many of the wild places are no more, Wendell Berry has proposed this necessary corollary: "In human culture is the preservation of wildness.”
Source: The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
“In wildness is the salvation of the world.”
Source: A Sand County almanac, and Sketches here and there: illus. by Charles W. Schwartz
“In Will's experience, when someone who ought to be afraid wasn't, the reason was rarely bravery. Usually it meant that they knew something you didn't.”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality.”
“In wine is truth, and the truth had all come out, "that is, all the uncleanness of his coarse and envious heart"!”
Source: Crime and Punishment
“In wine there is health (In vino sanitas)”
“In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.”
“In wine, there's truth.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)
“In winter. At the very beginning winter.”
Source: Julebord: The Holiday Party
“In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer quite the other way
I have to go to bed by day.”
“In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.
I have to go to bed and see
The birds still hopping on the tree,
Or hear the grown-up people's feet
Still going past me in the street.
And does it not seem hard to you,
When all the sky is clear and blue,
And I should like so much to play,
To have to go to bed by day?”
“In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for tourists, and in summer I hike up into the mountains at sunset, just as the village is settling down to dinner.”
“In winter I like sprawling novels, full of conflict and intrigue, and during the bleakest, coldest days of December I holed up with Nicola Griffith 's Hild, a book of love and sex and war and religious upheaval, and I recommend it even over the warmest pair of Sorels.”
“In winter', said Merowdis, lost in her thoughts, 'the wood is supposed to be asleep. That is what people say. But I don't think it's true. In spring and summer the trees and creatures are preoccupied. Everyone is busy. In winter there is silence.'
There was silence. But not an empty silence.
'In winter the wood is listening', said Merowdis.”
Source: The Wood at Midwinter
“In Winter the bare boughs that seem to sleep Work covertly, preparing for their Spring.”
“In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.”
Source: John Burroughs' America: Selections from the Writings of the Naturalist
“In winter the very ground seemed to reach up and grab the elderly, yanking them to earth as though hungry for them.”
Source: Bury Your Dead: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
“In winter there is no heat, no light, no noon, evening touches morning, there is fog, and mist, the window is frosted, and you cannot see clearly. The sky is but the mouth of a cave. The whole day is the cave.... Frightful season! Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.”
Source: Les Misérables: Fantine
“In winter this town is freezing. You step out your door in the morning and the whole place looks like one of those nature specials in which a guy brings a camcorder to the North Pole and then the camera cuts out and you hear on the news that he got eaten by a bear”
Source: The Boy Recession
“In winter we behold the charms of solemn majesty and naked grandeur.”
“in winter, we let our precious leaves go and seem to let go of all we are; then we find we are clothed with the sky itself, and instead of leaves we wear the stars.”
Source: Little Grey and the Great Mystery
“In winter we often go down to the cellar and contemplate the art gallery. When a blizzard is howling outside is the best time.”
Source: Green Mountain Farm