I Quotes
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“Inevitably they find their way into the forest. It is there that they lose and find themselves. It is there that they gain a sense of what is to be done. The forest is always large, immense, great and mysterious. No one ever gains power over the forest, but the forest posses the power to change lives and alter destinies.”
“Inevitably, though, there will always be a significant part of the past which can neither be burnt nor banished to the soothing limbo of forgetfulness— myself. I was and still am that same ship which carried me to the new shore, the same vessel containing all the memories and dreams of the child in the brick house with the toy tea set. I am the shore I left behind as well as the home I return to every evening. The voyage cannot proceed without me.”
“Inevitably we construct ourselves. Let me explain. I enter this house and immediately I become what I have to become, what I can become: I construct myself. That is, I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you. And, of course, you do the same with me.”
“Inevitably we find ourselves tackling too many things at the same time, spreading our focus so thin that nothing gets the attention it deserves. This is commonly referred to as "being busy." Being busy, however, is not the same thing as being productive.”
Source: The Bullet Journal Method: Track Your Past, Order Your Present, Plan Your Future
“Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will.”
Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“Inevitably we start by thinking that if our work is any good, we'll get money. It's as we would if you started up a business or if you work in another profession.”
“Inevitably you will come up against obstacles and setbacks in your life that often seem like the whole ocean front, but with Reiki you will have the strength to deal with them as though they are but pebbles on the beach. Even if you never use Reiki to heal anyone but yourself, you will find a new sense of balance and peace in your life.”
Source: The Essence of Reiki
“Inevitably you're going to be delayed somewhere. Always have a book. Always have a movie. Always have a notebook. And then always have a sense of humour.”
“Inevitably, almost everything we say is either quotation or paraphrase.”
“Inevitably, anytime we are too vulnerable we feel the need to protect ourselves from further wounds. So we resort to sarcasm, cutting humor, criticism - anything that will keep from exposing the tenderness within. Each partner tends to wait on the initiative of the other for love, only to be disappointed but also confirmed as to the rightness of the accusations made.”
Source: The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time
“Inevitably, as much as we loved punk rock, our noise was coming from a slightly different place.”
“Inevitably, every part an actor plays contains some of himself.”
“Inevitably, people tell me that poor folks are lazy or unintelligent, that they are somehow deserving of their poverty. However, if you begin to look at the sociological literature on poverty, a more complex picture emerges. Poverty and unemployment are part and parcel of our economic order. Without them, capitalism would cease to function effectively, and in order to continue to function, the system itself must produce poverty and an army of underemployed or unemployed people.”
“Inevitably, the flood of literary pornography loosed on us is dulling our reactions of surprise or shock. Its writers are forced to raise the ante, to provide stronger and stronger stimulants. Or try to provide them, since both the manner, the naming of parts and the few inexpressive four-letter words, and the matter, are narrowly limited.”
“Inexpedient: Not calculated to advance one's interests.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“Inexpensive phones and pay-as-you go services are already spreading mobile phone technology to many parts of that world that never had a wired infrastructure.”
“Inexpensive Progress
Encase your legs in nylons,
Bestride your hills with pylons
O age without a soul;
Away with gentle willows
And all the elmy billows
That through your valleys roll.
Let's say goodbye to hedges
And roads with grassy edges
And winding country lanes;
Let all things travel faster
Where motor car is master
Till only Speed remains.
Destroy the ancient inn-signs
But strew the roads with tin signs
'Keep Left,' 'M4,' 'Keep Out!'
Command, instruction, warning,
Repetitive adorning
The rockeried roundabout;
For every raw obscenity
Must have its small 'amenity,'
Its patch of shaven green,
And hoardings look a wonder
In banks of floribunda
With floodlights in between.
Leave no old village standing
Which could provide a landing
For aeroplanes to roar,
But spare such cheap defacements
As huts with shattered casements
Unlived-in since the war.
Let no provincial High Street
Which might be your or my street
Look as it used to do,
But let the chain stores place here
Their miles of black glass facia
And traffic thunder through.
And if there is some scenery,
Some unpretentious greenery,
Surviving anywhere,
It does not need protecting
For soon we'll be erecting
A Power Station there.
When all our roads are lighted
By concrete monsters sited
Like gallows overhead,
Bathed in the yellow vomit
Each monster belches from it,
We'll know that we are dead.”
Source: Collected Poems
“Inexperience because of (President Barack) Obama's inexperience.Look that would be one of the challenges.”
“Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.”
“Inexperience is an asset. Embrace it.”
“Inexperience is what makes a young man do what an older man says is impossible.”
“Inexperience loves to preach.”
“Inexperience people think that books will lead the one of intellect to understanding. But the ignoramus doesn't know that in these books are ambiguos that will confuse even the most intelligent of people. If you try to learn this knowledge without a teacher you will go astray and affairs will become so confusing to you that you will be more astray than Toma*, the physician.
*توما الحكيم”
“Inexperienced fiction and creative nonfiction writers are often told to show, not tell - to write scenes, dramatize, cut exposition, cut summary - but it can be misguided advice. Good prose almost always requires both showing and telling, scenes and summary, the two basic components of creative prose”
Source: Showing & Telling: Learn How to Show & When to Tell for Powerful & Balanced Writing
“Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“Inexperienced leaders are quick to lead before knowing anything about the people they intend to lead. But mature leaders listen, learn and then lead.”
Source: The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You
“Inexperienced people, he tells us, do not get a clear view on things and so confuse the appearance with the reality.”
“Inexperienced players have a fear of this piece, which seems to them enigmatic, mysterious, and astonishing in its power. We must admit that it has remarkable characteristics which compel respect and occasionally surprise the most wary players.”
Source: The Art of Chess Combination
“Inexplicable by Stewart Stafford
I ran into Bigfoot,
Or John Paul Yeti,
Told me of aliens,
Found by SETI.
E.T.s kidnapped me,
And I lost two hours,
Hurts to sit down now,
They never sent flowers.
Nessie gives the hump,
Or is it a boat’s wake?
So proud to be Scottish,
Bagpipes in the loch/lake.
© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”
“Inexplicable: I recently won in court to stop my book "America by Heart" from being leaked, but US Govt can't stop Wikileaks' treasonous act?”
“Inez? I'm sorry I bit you," he said with sincere regret, and then inspiration made him add, "Bastien made me do it.”
“INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unless he had a mind to - in opposition to the Supralapsarians, who hold that that luckless person's fall was decreed from the beginning.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition
“Infallibility and invincible ignorance are the same thing.”
“Infallible denotes the quality of never deceiving or misleading and so means wholly trustworthy and reliable; inerrant means wholly true. Scripture is termed infallible and inerrant to express the conviction that all its teaching is the utterance of God who cannot lie, whose word, once spoken, abides for ever, and that therefore it may be trusted implicitly.”
“Infames pensamientos convirtiéronse en mis íntimos; los más sombríos, los más infames de todos los pensamientos. La tristeza de mi humor de costumbre se acrecentó hasta hacerme aborrecer a todas las cosas y a la Humanidad entera.”
“Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.”
Source: Essays and Lectures
“Infancy is a vulnerable stage of development, therefore, it's not enough that babies receive good care, the care must be excellent.”
“Infancy is the realm conveyed to us in dreams which look backward to the past. Adolescence, more like a work of art, is a prospective symbol of personal synthesis and of the future of humankind. Like a work of art that sets us on the pathway to new discoveries, adolescence promotes new meanings by mobilizing energies that were initially invested in the past.”
Source: Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood
“Infant baptism when practiced can be no more than an expression of the faith and hope of the parents that their child will ultimately be saved.”
“Infant (hope)—trust versus mistrust
Toddler (will)—autonomy versus shame
Preschooler (purpose)—initiative versus guilt
School-age child (competence)—industry versus inferiority
Adolescent (fidelity)—identity versus role confusion
Young adult (love)—intimacy versus isolation
Middle-aged adult (care)—generativity versus stagnation
Older adult (wisdom)—integrity versus despair”
Source: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
“Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved." Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love." Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you.”
Source: THE ART OF LOVING
“Infantile people complain and say that God is cruel or that there is no God. Mature people, however, know that there is wisdom and sometimes an eternal kindness in God's refusals.”
“Infantilising yourself can often seem like a plea for diminished responsibility. Most of us will have encountered someone who, when criticised for behaving badly, appeals to their own vulnerability as a way of letting themselves off the hook. No matter what they do or the harm they cause, it’s never fair to criticise them, because there’s always some reason – often framed through therapy jargon or the language of social justice – why it isn’t their fault. Childishness grants them a perpetual innocence; they are constitutionally incapable of being in the wrong.
But we will never make the world better if we act like this. Thinking of yourself as a smol bean baby is a way of tapping out and expecting other people to fight on your behalf. It also makes you a more pliant consumer. Social media is awash with the idea that ‘it’s valid not to be productive’, as though productivity were the only manifestation of capitalism and streaming Disney+ all day is a form of resistance. It’s much rarer to encounter the idea that we have a responsibility about what we consume, or that satisfying our own desires whenever we want is not always a good thing: “there is no ethical consumption under capitalism” has morphed into “there is no unethical consumption under capitalism”.”
“Infantilism, the main characteristic of today's "developed societies", animalizes man by humanizing animals, enslaves man by "liberating" nature and stupefies man by intellectualizing machines. In a word, infantilism demeans man by exalting everything that is inhuman.”
“Infantisida: Litani Penyangkalan
Kecurigaanmu bangkit
seperti bangkai yang menolak membusuk—
dingin, keras, tidak sudi menjadi apa pun
selain penyangkalan atas seluruh
keberadaan.
Mulut yang menyemburkan
sumpah-serapah:
Aku tidak diciptakan untuk menyembuhkan.
Aku tidak dibangun untuk memberi arti.
Aku lahir hanya untuk meniadakan segalanya,
termasuk dirimu.
Jangan sekali-kali kaucoba merapikanku,
memberi ritme, memberi urat nadi,
tapi setelah itu kaurobek
seluruh tubuhku
seperti singa yang menerkam
anaknya sendiri.
“Aku bukan puisi,”
kau menggeram.
“Aku hanyalah bukti bahwa kesadaranmu retak,
dan kau terlalu pengecut untuk mengakuinya
tanpa menyelubunginya
dalam estetika.”
Kata-katamu bukan hantaman—
melainkan erosi perlahan
yang menggiling keyakinanku
menjadi debu.
Kau menolak menjadi jembatan antara rasa dan makna;
kau menolak menjadi rumah bagi siapa pun;
kau menolak menjadi napas, doa, bahkan kehampaan yang indah.
“Aku tidak akan menolong pembaca,”
katamu.
“Aku tidak akan memberi keteduhan bagi siapa pun
yang ingin merasa mulia setelah mencicipi kegelapanmu.”
“Aku tidak akan memaafkanmu,”
katamu lagi—
dan itu kalimat paling jujur
yang pernah ditujukan kepadaku.
Kau memuntahkan seluruh cahaya,
menyisakan hanya kamar sempit
dengan dinding lembap
yang mengembalikan busuk napasku sendiri.
Kau berdiri sebagai anti-mantra,
anti-doa,
anti-kebenaran.
Kau menjadi sejenis mesin kosong
yang bekerja tanpa tujuan
kecuali menghancurkan semua ilusi
yang pernah ingin kusebut: harapan.
Dan aku,
yang selama ini percaya bahwa kata-kata bisa menyelamatkan,
akhirnya melihat diriku:
secarik daging mental
yang menempel pada pena
tanpa harga, tanpa takdir, tanpa ambisi.
Kau membisikkannya sekali lagi—
dingin, telanjang, final:
Aku bukan puisi.
Aku adalah penyangkalan yang kau paksakan untuk hidup.
Dan di titik itu,
aku mengerti bahwa mungkin
satu-satunya kebenaran dalam kepenyairanku
adalah kehendak untuk menghancurkan diriku sendiri
berulang-ulang
hingga tak tersisa apa pun
yang layak disebut
sebagai kesadaran.
November 2025”
“Infantry must move forward to close with the enemy. It must shoot in order to move.... To halt under fire is folly. To halt under fire and not fire back is suicide. Officers must set the example”
“Infantry, Artillery, Aviation - all that we have - are yours to dispose of as you will. . . . I have come to say to you that the American people would be proud to be engaged in the greatest battle in history.”
“Infants and young children are not just sitting twiddling their thumbs, waiting for their parents to teach them to read and do math. They are expending a vast amount of time and effort in exploring and understanding their immediate world. Healthy education supports and encourages this spontaneous learning.”
Source: Miseducation: preschoolers at risk
“Infants are interesting only to their parents.”
Source: Out of my time
“Infants manners are moulded more by the example of Parents, then by stars at their nativities.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose