I Quotes
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“Insiste, vuelve a intentar, convierte críticas en impulso y no te dejes menospreciar por aquellos que ya lo consiguieron”.”
“Insistence on having a sexual orientation in sex is about defending the status quo, maintaining sex differences and the sexual hierarchy; whereas resistance to sexual orientation, regimentation is more about where we need to be going.”
Source: Refusing to be a Man: Essays on Social Justice
“Insistence on one’s own opinion can never lead to attainment of Moksha [Ultimate Liberation]. Only those who are free of insistence will attain Liberation.”
“Insistence on truth can come into play when one party practices untruth or injustice. Only then can love be tested. True friendship is put to the test only when one party disregards the obligation of friendship.”
“Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil.”
Source: The Rest of My Life
“Insistent and stubborn waiting is nothing but the madness of patience!”
“Insistente, reunida en alegres torrenteras, empezó a llevarse toda la miseria de nuestros días, toda la crueldad, el hambre, el delirio, la sorda y mezquina furia de los guardias. Todo se lo fue llevando la lluvia hasta que fuimos quedando sin otra cosa que nos separara del aire viajero que corre por entre las complicadas construcciones de Lecumberri, que el agua transparente que caía de lo más alto del cielo, del rincón en donde nos esperaba la libertad como una loba rabiosa que busca sus hijos.”
Source: Diario de Lecumberri
“Insisting effort is a golden path to the glory!”
“Insisting on living in your past will kill your future. Let it go.”
“Insisting that architecture maintain such a profound lack of character without even the hint of any feeling is not a lack of position or an accidental design flaw but rather a commitment to a once progressive but now painfully outmoded position struggling to maintain its faded hegemony. What was once radical abstraction in pursuit of universality and utopia is today just banal accommodation in pursuit of free corporate expansion.”
Source: Kissing Architecture
“Insisting that life stay the same post-loss is essentially the same as saying, “Let’s just pretend this never happened.” That’s an incredible disservice to the person, place, or thing that you lost. Did you love what you lost? If you didn’t love it, was it important, significant, influential, or a large chunk of your life? Did you have hopes, dreams, or expectations attached to it? Then it’s worth grieving its loss. And that loss will change your identity on some level.”
Source: Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss
“Insisting that we must tax and take and demonize those who have already achieved the American Dream. That may turn out to be a good re-election strategy for President Obama, but is a demoralizing message for America.”
“Insisto, nunca ha sido más fácil ser multimillonario y tan difícil ser millonario. Puede resultar vano, o simplemente incorrecto, combatirlas o etiquetar a estas increíbles empresas como «malas». No lo sé. Sin embargo, estoy seguro de que entender cómo funcionan los Cuatro nos da un buen conocimiento de nuestra era digital y una mayor capacidad para crear seguridad económica para ti y para tu familia. Espero que este libro te ayude a hacer ambas cosas.”
Source: The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
“Insisto, persisto, persevero.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“Inskränkthet underblåser regression,
Regression föder diskriminering.
Trångsynthet underlättar fördomar,
Fördomar underlättar fragmentering.”
Source: Världsviking: Gudomlig Poesi
“Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern physics is that its experiments have been set apart from man, as it were, physics refuses to recognize nature in anything not shown by artificial instruments, and even uses this as a measure of its accomplishments.”
“Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette meant good breeding. She mistook mannerisms for manners.”
Source: The Truth: (Discworld Novel 25)
“Insofar as human beings flower on the ground of freedom, justice guards that ground. Insofar as human beings flower in the soil of community, justice tends that soil. Justice makes possible a social order that people can truly be said to share freely.”
“Insofar as I think about postmodernism at all, and it doesn't exactly keep me awake at nights, I think of it as something that happens to one, not a style one affects. We're postmoderns because we're not modernists. The modernist writersPound, Eliot, Joyce, Stevens, Yeats, Woolf, Williamsspoke with a kind of vatic authority: they were really the last of the Romantics, for whom authorship itself was like being a solitary prophet in the wasteland.”
“Insofar as I'm good at directing, it's because I've become a writer.”
“Insofar as it represents a genuine reconciliation of differences, a consensus is a fine thing; insofar as it represents a concealment of differences, it is a miscarriage of democratic procedure.”
“Insofar as mathematics is true, it does not describe the real world. Insofar as it describes the real world, it is not true.”
“Insofar as men gain time, ease, independence, or liberty from women's domestic labors, they lack incentive to change.”
“Insofar as one can talk of a Vionnet school, it comes mostly from my having been an enemy of fashion. There is something superficial and volatile about the seasonal and elusive whims of fashion which offends my sense of beauty.”
“Insofar as poetry has a social function it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock.”
Source: The poet in the world
“Insofar as she recognized at all that she was dreaming, she realized that she must be exploring her subconscious mind. She had heard it said that humans are supposed only to use about a tenth of their brains, and that no one was really clear what the other nine tenths were for, but she had certainly never heard it suggested that they were used for storing penguins.”
Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
“Insofar as the Buddha expressly repudiated bodily castigations and magical or eccentric acts, Zen can find support for its radical simplification of meditation practice in the founder of the Buddhist religion.”
Source: Zen Enlightenment: Origins And Meaning
“Insofar as the genocide embodied in residential schooling arises as an integral aspect of colonialism, then colonialism must be seen as constituting that source. To be in any way an apologist for colonialism is to be an active proponent of genocide.”
“Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the critical capacity of his work is thereby paralysed, and the impulses of negation and revolt, not to speak of those of social transformation, are increasingly perceived as vain and trivial in the face of the model itself.”
“Insofar as the universities are free and independent, they will also be "subversive," in the sense that dominant structures of power and their ideological support will be subjected to challenge and critique, a counterpart to attitudes that are fostered in the hard sciences wherever they are taken seriously.”
“Insofar as theology is an attempt to define and clarify intellectual positions, it is apt to lead to discussion, to differences of opinion, even to controversy, and hence to be divisive. And this has had a strong tendency to dampen serious discussion of theological issues in most groups, and hence to strengthen the general anti-intellectual bias.”
“Insofar as there shall always be a desire, there shall always be a want and there shall always be a need”
“Insofar as Trumpism was understood, it was seen as a side-effect of poverty, ignorance and educational failure. A cry from people who deserved sympathy, but who should never be allowed to set the terms of political debate.”
“Insofar as we may at all claim that slavery has been abolished today, we owe its abolition to the practical consequences of science”
Source: The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It
“Insofar as Zionism sought to solve the Jewish question, it must be reckoned not just a failure but a catastrophe: Israel is the main cause of anti-Semitism in the world today.”
“Insofar we are death-bound, existence is urgent and frightful. Insofar as are groundless, it is vertiginous and dreamlike. Insofar as we are insatiable, it is unquiet and tormented.”
Source: The Religion of the Future
“Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Insolence was spreading like butter across his red and pitted face.”
Source: This Strange and Precious Thing
“Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.”
“Insomma, esiste pure quel congegno che si chiama il cuore umano, e nessuno sa cos'è che lo fa battere.”
Source: Confessions of a Mask
“Insomma, la primavera è la stagione piú bella, con il suo carico di vita e speranza che rigenera corpo e spirito. Ma si porta dietro, ahimè, anche una serie infinita di fobie contro le quali diventa difficile difendersi. Allora forse è meglio l’inverno, la stagione piú abitudinaria; perché in fondo noi di quello abbiamo bisogno, delle nostre piccole e inutili certezze con cui ci illudiamo di avere tutto sotto controllo. D’estate regnano anarchia e imprevedibilità, siamo costretti ad allontanarci dalle nostre cose, anche dai medici e dai farmacisti (che se la godono alle nostre spalle), e semmai ci ritroviamo su un’isola meravigliosa, certo, ma il primo ospedale dista un’ora di elicottero.
Soffriamo l’estate, le stagioni di mezzo contribuiscono a risvegliare fastidiosi sintomi, resta l’inverno, come dicevo, il lungo inverno fatto di giornate buie e corte, di pioggia e serate in casa. Se sei meteoropatico, problemi tuoi, per un ipocondriaco fobico l’inverno rappresenta forse il giusto compromesso. A meno che non soffri anche di quionofobia, la paura dell’inverno e della neve, o di frigofobia, il terrore irrazionale di avere freddo.
Ognuno ha le sue paure, ci scherzo su, ma in verità rispetto tutti. E come potrei proprio io non farlo? È che il mondo è come te lo metti in testa. Sapete vero che le immagini della realtà ci arrivano dritte sulla retina, ma questa le capovolge? È il cervello ogni volta a dover intervenire per mettere a posto le cose, a ribaltare la visuale per mostrarci il mondo per ciò che in effetti è. È la ragione a instradarci, l’istinto (il corpo) invece sa benissimo che non c’è niente di dritto e niente di vero, non c’è un solo modo di vedere le cose, e ciò che ad alcuni sembra in equilibrio, altri lo ritengono storto, ciò che a molti appare normale, tanto normale per altri non è. Ci illudiamo di controllare la vita, di conoscere la strada, spesso siamo convinti di avere la verità in tasca, e che la nostra visione, la nostra esperienza, sia la verità assoluta, quando invece si tratta solamente di un’opinione. Siamo tutti prigionieri dentro una caverna, come ci ricorda Platone, e quello che ci è permesso vedere il piú delle volte è solo la proiezione della realtà, l’ombra della verità. Pochi riescono a uscire da questa visione limitata che rende schiavi, e questi pochi non sono poi creduti da tutti gli altri, che continuano beati a pensare di star guardando il reale. Siamo limitati, e poco inclini a un livello superiore di conoscenza, convinti che ciò che ci dice la testa sia la strada.
Ogni capa è nu’ tribunale, diceva un altro grande filosofo, mio nonno.”
Source: Inventario di un cuore in allarme
“Insomnia can be one of the first symptoms of hypoxia.”
Source: Magee’s Disease
“Insomnia haunted me like regret”
“Insomnia
I cannot get to sleep tonight.
I toss and turn and flop.
I try to count some fluffy sheep
while o'er a fence they hop.
I try to think of pleasant dreams
of places really cool.
I don't know why I cannot sleep -
I slept just fine at school.”
“Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.”
“Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.”
Source: Any Number Can Play
“Insomnia is a variant of Tourette's--the waking brain races, sampling the world after the world has turned away, touching it everywhere, refusing to settle, to join the collective nod. The insomniac brain is a sort of conspiracy theorist as well, believing too much in its own paranoiac importance--as though if it were to blink, then doze, the world might be overrun by some encroaching calamity, which its obsessive musings are somehow fending off.”
“Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.”
“Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places.”
“Insomnia is an increasing problem. I've become swayed that sleep disorders are conceivably the most unnoticed, ignored, underrated reason of health as well as performance problems in the place of work.”