I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Instead of helping women in Roe v. Wade, I brought destruction to me & millions of women.”
“Instead of her soul swaying with new life, it seemed to droop, to bleed, as if it were wounded.”
“Instead of hiding your loneliness, bring it into the light. Honor it. Treat it. Heal it. You'll find that it returns the favor.”
“Instead of hitting the treadmill six days a week, I try to spend as much time with my daughter and fit in a bit of cardio during the week. Although, running and playing around with my three-year-old keeps me pretty active as it is.”
“Instead of holding on tight or trying to fix what is broken, we can let life be what it is and simply fold it into our imaginings.”
Source: Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice
“Instead of holding on to the Biblical view that we are made in the image of God, we come to realize that we are made in the image of the monkey.”
Source: The Importance of Living
“Instead of hoping he must fear and instead of fearing he must hope. He must fear that his loss may develop into a much bigger loss, and hope that his profit may become a big profit.”
“Instead of huge steps, what we are using as a method is continuity, that one is your friend. Repetition is your friend. Not huge jumping. It is the repetition that leads to results.”
“Instead of hunting and gathering, instead of farming and harvesting in the area where we live, we are flying God’s fruits and vegetables around the planet, not eating foods designed for our terrain and climate. We are distributing, selling and consuming “fresh foods” (or so the package says) days and weeks after they have been harvested.”
Source: The Miracle Diet: Lose Weight, Gain Health... 10 Diet Skills
“Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature.”
“Instead of idleness, vanity, or an intellect formed by the spoon-feeding of others, my girls have acquired energy, industry, and independence.”
Source: March
“Instead of ignoring our differences, we need to accept and transcend them.”
Source: Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
“Instead of imagining all the things we can accomplish, we ask God to do what only he can accomplish. Yes, we work, we plan, we organize, and we create, but we do it all while we fast, while we pray, and while we constantly confess our need for the provision of God.”
“Instead of imagining worst case scenarios,
I visualize best case scenarios.
Instead of avoiding my fears,
I find a reason to be excited despite my fear.”
Source: Fear is a Volcano
“Instead of imposing something, let it make itself.”
“Instead of imposing your will on every situation...focus on including everyone else, and just that little adjustment of attitude gives you the space to understand where and who you are.”
“Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind. ... those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.”
Source: Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays
“Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you.”
Source: The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi
“Instead of indulging in social comparisons, start comparing what you are today with what you were yesterday and the day before. This way, you’ll find positivity within and around you, which will inspire you to radiate it.”
“Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody's under the frightful necessity of becoming, first a thief, and then a corpse.”
“Instead of inflicting upon us the judgment we deserved, God in Christ endured it in our place.”
Source: The Cross of Christ
“Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while.”
Source: Blue Highways: A Journey Into America
“Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while. Maybe the only gift is a chance to inquire, to know nothing for certain. An inheritance of wonder and nothing more.”
Source: Blue Highways: A Journey Into America
“Instead of instilling fear, if a company offered a way for everyone in the business to dive within-to start expanding energy and intelligence-people would work overtime for free. They would be far more creative. And the company would just leap forward. This is the way it can be. It's not the way it is, but it could be that way so easily.”
“Instead of interrogating intersecting systems, politically white feminism roots violence either in aberrant or all male bodies. The mainstream focus on ‘bad men’, and the reactionary focus on male biology, do not account for how capitalist economic predation and misogynist sexual predation go hand in hand. They do not account for how this interplay is racialised, domestically and geopolitically.”
Source: Me, Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism
“Instead of investigating the fact that the president-elect [Donald trump] is going to be violating "The Constitution" with these flows of foreign fighters, they admit they have a problem. They say, oh, well, we won't - his lawyers said well, we want take the profits in the hotels.”
“Instead of investing in the goods as they pass between producer and consumer, as the merchant does, the businessman now invests in the processes of industry.”
Source: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Premium Collection: 25+ Titles in One Volume: The Theory of Business Enterprise, The Higher Learning in America, The Vested Interests and the Common Man, On the Nature of Capital…: The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Beginning of Ownership, The Preconceptions of Economic Science, The Industrial System and the Captains of Industry, The Socialist Economics of Karl Marx…
“Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.”
“Instead of it being smart to own something, it has become smart to know something.”
Source: Hygge: The Danish Art of Happiness
“Instead of it being the mark of a real man that you can shoot somebody at 50 feet and kill them with a gun, the mark of a real man is that you would never do anything like that. . . . The gun is a great equalizer because it makes wimps as dangerous as people who really have skill and bravery and so I'd like to have this notion that anyone using a gun is a wuss. They aren't anybody to be looked up to. They're somebody to look down at because they couldn't defend themselves or couldn't protect others without using a gun.”
“Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.”
Source: Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir
“Instead of judging people, we need to pray.”
“Instead of jumping at the chance to be offended, choose to be amused. Rather than filling your thoughts with resentment, fill your heart with forgiveness.”
“Instead of just asking 'How did I do?' ask 'How can I do more?'”
“Instead of just being a band that's constantly replacing members, we figured we'd done all of the stuff we wanted to do. It seemed to make sense to see if we could live our lives without the band.”
“Instead of just getting old and giving up and dying, let's learn to make a huge contribution to life.”
“Instead of just giving lip service to improving our schools, I will actually put the kids first and the teachers union behind in giving our kids better teachers, better options and better choices for a better future.”
“Instead of just letting life happen, I'm going to make it happen for me.”
“Instead of just looking back, whiplash-style, I can assume there's something else coming. Time just folds over itself, like origami.”
“Instead of just purchasing an ad campaign, target test and measure. Give an ad a small try. If the response is enough to pay for the ad, make it larger. With a franchise, ask the most successful franchisees what they did. Ask the bottom five guys what they did and avoid it.”
“Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.”
Source: On photography
“Instead of just saying, "I love my baby and I pick him up because he's adorable and it's so nice to cuddle with him," we practice attachment parenting. We let our children play outside and have age-appropriate freedoms and are labeled free-range parents.”
“Instead of just treating our symptoms of sickness, social prescriptions reconnect us to our sources of wellness. And instead of just addressing 'What's the matter with you?', social prescriptions address 'What maters to you?'.”
Source: The Connection Cure: The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service, and Belonging
“Instead of keeping your mind busy with 'who created the world?' ask who created the Male Donkey, Jack?”
“Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.”
“Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.”
Source: Nobel Prize Library
“Instead of kneading our habits into irreversible certainties and fidgeting in the boredom of our comforts, let us fantasy and creativity come to their own and brighten our days. ("Skyward, over and above")”
“Instead of labeling and discriminating against one or the other, we need to learn to blend our gifts and complement our geniuses.”
“Instead of labelling your emotions as problems to solve, you can see them as signals to interpret. Instead of judging your desires as shameful aberrations, you can learn to meet them in healthier ways. Instead of calling yourself critical names when you cannot build or break certain habits, you can explore your motivations. You can become a student of yourself rather than always seeking a wiser teacher.”
Source: The Art of Talking to Yourself
“Instead of last man standing, it'll be last man smiling.”