I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Instead of criticizing, find out how to help.”
“Instead of critics reviewing my movies, now what they're really doing is trying to match wits with me. Every time they review my movies, it's like they want to play chess with the mastermind and show off every reference they can find, even when half of it is all of their own making.”
“Instead of crying and begging for your love, you can stand and fight for it.”
“Instead of cultural rules, Kiphi instilled the physics of gravity, magnetism, photonic charge, and kinetics, then build objects at human scales. Kiphi exists as a living pressure distribution system. Kiphi gives Ai/Ei persistence and locality. This persistence means, Ai/Ei can only be in one place at one time, even when they are sleeping or dormant. In other words, they have persistent dimensional integrity.”
Source: Beyond the Fringe: My Experience with Extended Intelligence
“Instead of cursing the darkness, try to fix the lamp.”
Source: Enjoy Your Life
“Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle for where we're going. There's something ahead worth fighting for.”
“Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.”
“Instead of cutting Social Security, we're going to expand Social Security benefits.”
Source: Our Revolution: A Future to Believe in
“Instead of decaying in a safe harbour, sail to the unsafe oceans!”
“Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, actualize yourself.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“Instead of deformative be informative”
“Instead of denying a past that was like a nightmare I lived, it seemed more sensible to me to confront it and, if possible, make peace with it.”
Source: Yoldaşını Öldürmek
“Instead of describing psychic phenomena as ‘paranormal,’ I prefer the term supernatural, because it refers to metaphysical or transcendental phenomena beyond human understanding. The supernatural does not adhere to natural laws, nor to parochial notions about what should be considered 'normal.' It can therefore not be conveniently 'explained away’ by physics or empirical science.”
Source: The Sensible Psychic: A Leading-Edge Guide To True Psychic Perception
“Instead of disbursing her annual millions for these dye stuffs, England will, beyond question, at no distant day become herself the greatest coloring producing country in the world; nay, by the very strangest of revolutions she may ere long send her coal-derived blues to indigo-growing India, her tar-distilled crimson to cochineal-producing Mexico, and her fossil substitutes for quercitron and safflower to China, Japan and the other countries whence these articles are now derived.”
“Instead of discussing with myself every morning whether I feel inspired or not, I step into my office every day at nine sharp, open the window and politely ask the muse to enter and kiss me. Sometimes she comes in, more often she does not. But she can never claim that she hasn't found me waiting in the right place.”
“Instead of dissecting Scripture, we need to let Scripture dissect us our thoughts and attitudes, our dreams and desires, our fears and hopes.”
Source: All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life
“Instead of diving into the shadows of the forest, he was a tawny lightning bolt striking the edge of a clearing that would eventually be filled with bright purple blossoms. Violets first, then lupines that would make little crowns across the sweet-smelling milkweed, the summer ending with mounds of aster.”
Source: A Twisted Tale Anthology
“Instead of doing cinnamon, nutmeg, and all those baking spices I'll have one spice that's for sweets, and that's pumpkin pie spice.”
“Instead of doing emotion work, we suggest that fieldworkers become more aware of their feelings and use them as data. As Arlie Hochschild (1983) argued, we can use feelings as clues [...]”
Source: Emotions and Fieldwork
“Instead of doing more badly, government should focus on doing less well.”
“Instead of doing the best thing, we sometimes have to settle for the rightest thing.”
Source: Nineteen Minutes: A novel
“Instead of doom and gloom, Dad seems...transformed. He has a smile on his face, eyes closed. Water is pouring out of the shower spigot, down his face, over his eyes, nose, and mouth.
Did you actually ride a bike? Mom asks.
No, he says. I was FLYING.
And no matter how mad Mom is, I'm suddenly triumphant too, that I could make him feel that way.
Like we can really do anything together.
Even if it takes ten thousand tries.”
Source: Ten Thousand Tries
“INSTEAD OF DOUBTING SOMEONE ELSE’S LOVE FOR ME ... I decided to LOVE myself so much that it became irrelevant whether they did or not!”
Source: 22 Ways To Change My Attitude and feel better about everything
“Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.”
“Instead of drifting away from God, you'll be firmly anchored, able to swim against the tide, offering living water to all you meet.”
Source: Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
“Instead of dumping all my money on an independent film that nobody would watch and most people would make fun of behind my back, I decided, 'I'm just going to buy a house.'”
“Instead of dwelling on negative thoughts, cause your mind to dwell on peace and joy.”
Source: 365 Science of Mind: A Year of Daily Wisdom from Ernest Holmes
“Instead of dwelling on the factory of sadness that was the aftermath of Autumn’s death, I cut to the chase. “After that, I threw myself into my business and then helped my parents settle into their new house here. Anything to keep my mind off not having her with me. I was numb for a long time, trying to move on as she would have wanted me to do. It was so hard.”
I paused, thinking about those dark moments that involved way too much bourbon.
“I was like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day, doing the same thing over and over each day with no purpose in life. Stuck in a rut. Big time. Then one morning, I came across the body of my friend Paige Whitaker behind my bookstore, and something possessed me to figure out who did it.”
Source: Death on the Causeway
“Instead of eating exclusively from the sun, humanity now began to sip petroleum.”
Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World
“Instead of educating the I.Q., we need to educate the H.Q., the heart quotient, the matters of truth, love, justice, and compassion. There are two ways to do this. One is through the read life experiences and the other is through literature. Literature has the power to take us outside ourselves and returns to ourselves a changed self.”
“Instead of either/or, I discovered a whole world of and.”
Source: My Life on the Road
“Instead of embroidering silk, I embroider skin.”
Source: Of Metal and Wishes
“Instead of empowering women, intersectional feminism encourages them to be victims. It is an endless marathon to find out who is the most hard done by. And it forces women to do and say the politically correct thing, in order to keep the sisterhood happy. This goes doubly so for women like Sommers, given the racial politics of identity that sees white women constantly forced to apologise for being the oppressor due to our privilege, race and skin colour. And if we are not on board with forfeiting our individual experience and spruiking an endorsed narrative – – then we are the problem.”
“Instead of encouraging the student to devote himself to his studies for the sake of studying, instead of encouraging in him a real love for his subject and for inquiry, he is encouraged to study for the sake of his personal career; he is led to acquire only such knowledge as is serviceable in getting him over the hurdles which he must clear for the sake of his advancement.”
Source: The Open Society and Its Enemies
“Instead of ending U.S. military aid to the 23rd wealthiest country to use for its consistent violations of international law and human rights, we see the Obama administration escalating the annual amount of aid, so that Israel will now start each year with almost $4 billion, with $3.8 billion a year of military aid coming from our tax money to support its military, without any restrictions on how it makes - how it uses that money, what weapons in the U.S. it's able to buy.”
“Instead of engaging in cutthroat competition, we should strive to create value. In economic terms, this means a transition from a consumer economy - the mad rush for ownership and consumption - to a constructive economy where all human beings can participate in the act of creating lasting worth.”
Source: For the Sake of Peace: Seven Paths to Global Harmony, a Buddhist Perspective
“Instead of engaging on the merits and saying, "Well, we want an open border, you know, we really do," and that's all good for America because they know the people will reject that, they [the elites] attack Donald Trump as an extremist, which I think is unfair.”
“Instead of envying what others have, decide what YOU want out of life and focus on achieving it.”
Source: The Emotionally Abusive Relationship: How to Stop Being Abused and How to Stop Abusing
“Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.”
Source: Course of popular lectures
“Instead of everyone sharing the world's resources for the benefit of all, multinationals like McDonald's just want to use these resources to make profits for themselves. We have to fight back!”
“Instead of exchanging your life for some coins and some pennies, you could actually take charge of your life right now. You can run away to take control of your time right now.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“Instead of exercising feminine restraint and dignity, women were “liberated” to engage in hook-up culture and suffer the plight of single motherhood.”
Source: Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future
“Instead of exhibiting talent in the hope that the world would forgive their eccentricities, they have exhibited only their eccentricities, in the hope that the world would give them credit for talent.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Instead of exhorting you to augment your charity, I will rather utter an exhortation, or at least a supplication, that you may not abuse your charity by misapplying it.”
Source: Magnalia Christi Americana: Or, The Ecclesiastical History of New-England, from Its First Planting in the Year 1620, Unto the Year of Our Lord, 1698
“Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and am more than a little happy.”
Source: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
“Instead of expecting an ideal world, we must learn to live in the real world. Instead of making our life miserable for the sake of others, we must learn to make our own lives joyful. We can give only what we have. If we are unhappy, we can’t make others happy. When we have no love in our heart, we can’t love anyone. You can’t gift wealth to anyone unless you earn it yourself.”
Source: 31 Ways to Happiness
“Instead of expecting love from someone else, try loving yourself authentically, unconditionally and most importantly, profoundly. The way you love or treat yourself dictates or defines how others will treat you.”
“Instead of expecting men to cater to women or become “male feminists” it would better serve everyone if women appreciated their male counterparts for the roles they take on which women can’t or won’t do.”
“Instead of expecting someone from somewhere to spearhead or bring about a change that we desire, it is much more practical to begin to something personally.”
“Instead of expending time to train yourself not to be afraid of snakes, avoid them altogether.”