I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Increased interest and participation by labor in the affairs of government should make for economic and political stability in the future. Labor has a constitutional and statutory right to participate.”
“Increased knowledge clearly implies increased responsibility.”
“Increased knowledge of heredity means increased power of control over the living thing, and as we come to understand more and more the architecture of the plant or animal we realize what can and what cannot be done towards modification or improvement.”
“Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.”
“Increased physical activity enhances positive energy”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Increased revenues, meaning higher taxes, will be a central element of any successful long-term budget plan, and President Obama is right to insist that the wealthy - the slice of America that has come through the recession in by far the best financial health - should provide those funds.”
“Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.”
“Increases in cyclicality result in increases in efficiency which result in increases in productivity which result in increases in profits.”
“Increases in interest rates normally worsen inequality, at least partly by reducing employment and wage growth.”
“Increases in money supply are what constitute inflation, and a general rise in prices is the symptom.”
“Increasing access to federal student loans has been a bipartisan effort in Washington, one that I have supported. But it has created what many experts believe is a bubble in higher education, not unlike the housing bubble that preceded the financial crisis.”
Source: American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone
“Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.”
“Increasing church membership is not the ultimate goal of Christians”
“Increasing consciousness = increasing complexity.”
Source: Integral Life Practice: A 21st-Century Blueprint for Physical Health, Emotional Balance, Mental Clarity, and Spiritual Awakening
“Increasing food production to feed an increased population results in yet another increase in population.”
Source: Ishmael: A Novel
“Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.”
“Increasing knowledge lessens the sphere of the supernatural.”
Source: The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas
“Increasing meaning and joy on the planet is the ultimate goal because within that space all evil is cast out.”
“Increasing numbers of developmental researchers observe that when parents read stories on e-books with their children, their interactions frequently center on the more mechanical and more gamelike aspects of e-books, rather than the content and the words and ideas in the stories. Most parents are simply better at fostering language and helping to clarify concepts when they read physical books to their preschool children.”
Source: Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
“Increasing numbers of Pagans are identifying themselves as animists or naming their worldview as animism. Some Pagans use the term animism to refer to one strand within their Paganism, while others identify it as the most appropriate label for everything they do.”
“Increasing openness about sex wasn’t the same as increasing openness about how it was used by the powerful to oppress the weak.”
Source: Bloody Brilliant Women: Pioneers, Revolutionaries & Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention
“Increasing our vibration. Building the foundation. Of love, in a scared nation. Our time, in separation - Soul Conversation”
Source: Coming Home
“Increasing policing and government programs an teaching women how to be safe is not going to correct this situation. Only understanding and a commitment to telling the truth about the cruelty inflicted on our women in the name of settling this country would help change peoples’ perceptions, end their complacency, and stop the continued brutalization and dehumanization of our women.”
Source: Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada
“Increasing pressure on students to subject themselves to ever more tests, whittling themselves down to rows and rows of tight black integers upon a transcript, all ready to goose-step straight into a computer.”
Source: Heart, You Bully, You Punk
“Increasing prosperity for the capitalists has everywhere brought with it increasing prosperity for the proletariat, instead of the increasing misery which Marx foretold. The most advanced capitalist countries are also those where the working class has the highest standard of life.”
Source: The Communist Manifesto
“Increasing public awareness of risks of nuclear conflict is the core element of any successful nuclear-weapons-free world strategy.”
Source: Nuclear Weapons Free World - Peace on the Earth
“Increasing public safety almost always means restricting liberties.”
“Increasing recycling in Delaware is an idea whose time has come and, if put off, may not come again.”
“Increasing technologies, globalisation, and wealth, along with sedentary jobs, have led to a much less active lifestyle for many humans, with consequences for general health and increasing rates of overweight and obesity. This lack of exercise coupled with malnutrition, specifically referring here to poor-quality, obesogenic diets, are thought to be responsible for epidemics of Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), hypertension, and cardiovascular diseases (CVDs).”
Source: Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach
“Increasing the minimum wagewill put billions annually into the Social Security trust fund.”
“Increasing the power of the state in response to the Soviet menace would not defeat socialism in Russia but bring it to the United States.”
“Increasing the size of your heart should be more important than decreasing the size of your arse.”
Source: Daddy's Little Girl: A Father's Prayer
“Increasing the strength of materials is the basis of nanoengineering.”
“Increasing the volume does not improve the quality of a bad song.”
“Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase.”
“Increasing your exposure will open you up to a host of possibilities and elevate your lifestyle.”
“Increasing your happiness will not increase the suffering of others, nor will increasing your suffering make them happier.”
“Increasing your repertoire has the advantage that you don't have to give up enjoying what you already like: it is always easier to add new behaviors than to deny your deepest desires.”
“Increasing your self-esteem is easy. Simply do good things and remember that you did them.”
“Increasingly, a new generation of artists were finding the creative projects which so excited them systematically rebuffed by the official art bodies. It was exasperating. Did the jury of the Salon, that ‘great event’ of the artistic world, never tire of the tedious repertoire of historical events and myths that had formed the mainstay of Salon paintings for so long? Did they not feel ridiculed being sold the blatant lie of highly finished paint surfaces, of bodies without a blemish, of landscapes stripped of all signs of modernity? Was contemporary life, the sweat and odour of real men and women, not deserving of a place on the Salon walls?
Young artists huddled around tables in Montmartre’s cafés, sharing their deepest frustrations, breathing life into their most keenly held ideas. Just a few streets away from the Cimetière de Montmartre, Édouard Manet, the enfant terrible of the contemporary art world, could be found at his regular table in the Café Guerbois surrounded by reverent confrères, who would in time become famous in their own right. When Manet spoke, his blue eyes sparkled, his body leant forwards persuasively, and an artistic revolution felt achievable. The atmosphere was electric, the conversation passionate – often heated, but always exciting. The discussions ‘kept our wits sharpened,’ Claude Monet later recalled, ‘they encouraged us with stores of enthusiasm that for weeks and weeks kept us up.’ And though the war caused many of the artists to leave the capital, it proved merely a temporary migration. At the time Madeleine and her daughters arrived in Montmartre, the artists had firmly marked their patch.”
Source: Renoir's Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon
“Increasingly as I've gotten older, I'm much more interested in what the reality of the shoot is going to be versus what the result of the shoot might be. I'm so bad at guessing what's going to be good and what's going to be bad - there doesn't seem to be any correlation between things that are within your control.”
“Increasingly both environmentalists and animal ethicists recognize the enormous destruction caused by animal agriculture.”
“Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization.”
Source: Law and the Modern Mind
“Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization. We must put question marks along many of our inherited legal dogmas, since they are dangerously out of line with social facts.”
Source: Law and the Modern Mind
“Increasingly developing countries are asking for aid to help deal with the consequences of climate change, which we don't want to give.”
“Increasingly economic historians can draw analogies between the development of the present crisis and the period between the two world wars, as well as the crisis of a century ago, which was associated with the so-called great depression of 1873-1895. The latter crisis resulted in the rise of monopoly capitalism and imperialism, but also the end of Pax Britannica, as Britain began its decline from world leadership in the face of challenges from Germany and the United States. The present world crisis seems to be spelling the beginning of the end of Pax Americana and may hold untold other major readjustments in the international division of labor and world power in store for the future.”
Source: Reflections on World Economic Crisis
“Increasingly gang violence and organized crime, together with climate change-driven natural disasters, are displacing more people as wars are fewer on the continent and political violence has decreased considerably, the NRC has decided to treat this as a humanitarian crisis.”
“Increasingly I felt as if I were entering a struggle that might even be more than life and death. It might be a struggle for my soul, my essence, or whatever part of me might have reference to the eternal. There are worse things than death, I suspected... so far the word demon had never been spoken among the scientists and doctors who were working with me...Alone at night I worried about the legendary cunning of demons ...At the very least I was going stark, raving mad.”
“Increasingly, I'm coming to believe that fear is at the heart of all sin and disaffection. Fear that God will not be enough for us; fear that the identity we've been given is somehow incomplete.”
Source: Prototype: What Happens When You Discover You're More Like Jesus Than You Think?
“Increasingly I think of myself as some strange and solitary conductor, introduced to a group of very dynamic musicians who happen to be my characters, and I have no idea how they are going to play together, and I have certainly no idea how I am going to put manners on them.”