I Quotes
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“Indeed, everything was a shock at the beginning. The wash machines, dryers, dishwashers, garbage disposal machines, juicers, toasters, and yes, the ATM machines. Watching money spilled out of a wall was simply amazing!”
“Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war in Afghanistan, unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.”
“Indeed, girls can be so in need of social approval that they confuse harassment for acceptance--thinking that any attention is better than none. Since many girls as well as boys buy the idea that sexual aggression and exploitation is normal masculine behavior, it may not even occur to them to demand to be treated as equals.”
“Indeed, God is always with us even when things look hopeless.”
“Indeed, good is not good if one does not suffer in doing it.”
“Indeed, happiness is nothing other than being encompassed, an after-image of the original shelter within the mother. But for this reason no one who is happy can know that he is so. To see happiness, he would have to pass out of it: to be as if already born. He who says he is happy lies, and in invoking happiness, sins against it. He alone keeps faith who says: I was happy.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.”
“Indeed, I am repeatedly astonished by the number of really good writers who understand human beings so well on paper but don't know how to deal with them in real life.”
“Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness.”
Source: Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community
“Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.”
Source: Emma: A Novel
“Indeed, I cannot think why the whole bed of the ocean is not one solid mass of oysters, so prolific the creatures seem. Ah, I am wandering! Strange how the brain controls the brain! What was I saying, Watson?”
Source: Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories
“Indeed, I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong.”
“Indeed, I did not truly "belong" to any school, order, intellectual camaraderie or clique; I did not apply for admission to any of them, let alone did much to deserve an invitation; nor would I be listed by any of them - at least listed unqualifiedly - as "one of us".”
“Indeed, I find it illuminating to consider to what extent our "classical conditions" for economic growth are satisfied in the current, monopolistic phase of capitalism.”
Source: Political Econ of Growth
“Indeed, I have been listed under Jesus' banner only for a few years, but I have enjoyed more solid pleasure in one moment's communion with my God than I should or could have enjoyed in the ways of sin, though I had continued to have gone on in them for thousands of years.”
Source: Sermons of George Whitefield
“Indeed, I suspect that the changes that have taken place during the last century in the average man's fundamental beliefs, in his philosophy, in his conception of religion, in his whole world outlook, are greater than the changes that occurred during the preceding four thousand years all put together.”
“Indeed, I think most Americans now know that in 1935 when Social Security was created, there were some 42 Americans working for every American collecting retirement benefits.”
“Indeed, I thought, slipping the silver into my purse, it is remarkable, remembering the bitterness of those days, what a change of temper a fixed income will bring about.”
Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton.”
Source: Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader
“Indeed, I was unable to find any evidence whatsoever of the occurrence of a drastic evolutionary acceleration and genetic reconstruction in widespread, populous species.”
Source: Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist
“Indeed, I would feel that an appreciation of the arts in a conscious, disciplined way might help one to do science better.”
“Indeed, if "biology is chemistry with history," as somebody has said, then nature writing is biology with love.”
Source: Tigers & Ice: Reflections on Nature and Life
“Indeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible? - The power to think right and left, before and without, with and above experience? then it does not take a deduction to prove the genealogical priority of language.”
“Indeed, if communist central planners could have organized the economy with as much detail, precision, and flexibility as a modern-day Toyota or Wal-Mart, communism would probably still exist.”
Source: Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism
“Indeed, if I understand this global-warming business correctly, the danger is that the waters will rise and drown the whole of Massachusetts, New York City, Long Island, the California coast and a few big cities on the Great Lakes - in other words, every Democratic enclave will be wiped out leaving only the solid Republican heartland. Politically speaking, for conservatives there's no downside to global warming.”
“Indeed, in general, healthy investment returns cannot be sustained in a weak economy, and of course it is difficult to save for retirement or other goals without the income from a job.”
“Indeed, in Russia there is a terrible poverty of facts, and a terrible abundance of reflections of all sorts.”
“Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaningful and fulfilling life would regard the church as an unlikely place to go for guidance.”
“Indeed, in US politics, 'poverty', along with 'welfare', 'unwed mothers' and 'crime', became code words for blacks.”
Source: Lessons for Our Struggle
“Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.”
Source: Iqbal centenary papers
“Indeed, intolerance is essential only to monotheism; an only God is by nature a jealous God who will not allow another to live. On the other hand, polytheistic gods are naturally tolerant, they live and let live.”
Source: Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays
“Indeed, it has affirmed my belief that our purpose as spiritual beings is to follow our bliss, seek our passions, and live our lives as inspirations to each other.”
Source: 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
“Indeed, it is a kind of quintessence of pride to hate and fear even the kind and legitimate approval of those who love us! I mean, to resent it as a humiliating patronage.”
Source: The Seven Storey Mountain
“Indeed, it is an indisputable fact that all the complex and horrendous questions confronting us at home and worldwide have their answer in that single book [the Bible].”
“Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.”
“Indeed, it is impossible to be neutral. In a world already moving in certain directions, where wealth and power are already distributed in certain ways, neutrality means accepting the way things are now. It is a world of clashing interests – war against peace, nationalism against internationalism, equality against greed, and democracy against elitism – and it seems to me both impossible and undesirable to be neutral in those conflicts.”
Source: Passionate Declarations: Essays on War and Justice
“Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.”
Source: Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man
“Indeed, it is sometimes almost as if the problem had to be forgotten to be solved.”
Source: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
“Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women”
Source: Women of a certain age: the midlife search for self
“Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women--the quality of shifting from child to woman, theseeming helplessness one moment and the utter self-reliance the next that baffle us, that seem most difficult to understand. These are the qualities that make her a mystery, the qualities that provoked Freud to complain, "What does a woman want?”
“Indeed, it may be laid down as a general principle, that the more extended the ancestry, the greater the amount of violence and vagabondism; for in ancient days those two amusements, combining a wholesome excitement with a promising means of repairing shattered fortunes, were at once the ennobling pursuit and the healthful recreation of the Quality of this land.”
Source: The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
“Indeed, it would be great if we could all be liberated through reason, but I think it only gets us part of the way. After all, someone may have a very logical view, but for other reasons we may still fail to hear what that person says, or we may turn their words around so that they are understood to say the opposite. The task is really to find ways of addressing deep-seated forms of fear and aggression that make it possible to hold to manifestly inconsistent views without quite acknowledging them.”
“Indeed, it's futile to try and use Holy Scripture to support any political position. I deeply distrust anyone who does. Just look at what an Islamic Republic is like.”
“Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.”
Source: On Writing
“Indeed, linear extrapolations make no large-scale sense in a universe that has spatial and temporal curvature.”
“Indeed, loft aspirations produce ideas.”
“Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?”
Source: The Red and the Black: Easyread Edition
“Indeed, man only exists insofar as he expresses himself. Music does it in musical ideas.”
Source: The path to the new music
“Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.”
“Indeed, many of the illegal crossers who have entered the country in the last two years after being detained have actually been either unaccompanied minors or families who request political asylum. The ability of the smugglers to attract large numbers of families and unaccompanied minors is a function of the inability of our immigration court system to process asylum claims in a timely fashion.”