I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Instead of trying to see things my way, I try to see things her [wife's] way, and if it honestly makes sense then I will submit to her instead of being a tyrant and a dictator.”
“Instead of trying to “shield” yourself as an empath, try to create boundaries instead -- this is a much more healthy, sustainable, and long term practice.”
Source: Awakened Empath: The Ultimate Guide to Emotional, Psychological and Spiritual Healing
“Instead of trying to specify a system in full detail, specify it only somewhat. You can then ride on the dynamics of the system in the direction you want to go.”
“Instead of trying to understand agriculture in its own terms, acknowledge that agriculture ultimately comes out of nature. Right now agriculture is the No. 1 threat to biodiversity on the planet.”
“Instead of tug o' war, let's play hug o' war.”
“Instead of turning away from them (war conditions) in instinctive horror, as people seem to expect, the child may turn towards them with primitive excitement. The real danger is not that the child, caught up all innocently in the whirlpool of war, will be shocked into illness. The danger lies in the fact that the destruction ranging in the outer world may meet the very real aggressiveness ranging in the inside of the child”
Source: War and Children
“Instead of understanding Maula Ali, we understood participation in the grief and sorrow of Imam Ali as wilayat e Ali”
Source: The silence of 25 Years
“Instead of understanding my problems, he used them against me and that’s when I knew we weren’t quite right.”
“Instead of us to rely on the strength and ability God has given us we hope for favor and help from God and people then do nothing.”
“Instead of using brushes all the time, try a palette knife to paint.”
“Instead of using medicine, better fast today.”
“Instead of using technology or wearing technology constantly, we will start becoming technology.”
“Instead of using the white feminist wrecking ball, we should build towards a world without sexual violence. This is not about forgiveness, empathy or being ‘nice’ – it is about the fact that we cannot end violence by doing violence. Even – no, especially – if that violence manifests as tears.”
Source: Me, Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism
“Instead of using their vastly increased material and technical resources to build a wonder-city, they built slums; and they thought it right and advisable to build slums because slums, on the test of private enterprise, "paid", whereas the wonder-city would, they thought, have been an act of foolish extravagance, which would, in the imbecile idiom of the financial fashion, have "mortgaged the future"; though how the construction to-day of great and glorious works can impoverish the future, no man can see until his mind is beset by false analogies from an irrelevant accountancy.”
Source: Universal Man: The Lives of John Maynard Keynes
“Instead of using therapy to try and reduce their fear and anger, people now celebrated these destructive emotions, labeling themselves as politically active rather than emotionally dysfunctional.”
Source: The Meditating Psychiatrist Who Tried to Kill Himself
“Instead of using this space to pretend the newly released CIA 'torture' report confirms that the United States is the most evil nation in the history of the universe, I'm going to address Jonathan Gruber's confirmation that he believes we're all stupid.”
Source: The Left's Assault on the American Idea
“Instead of using your thoughts, become your thoughts”
“Instead of vacillating, we need to value, acknowledge and trust our intuition for what it is, a sense of truth.”
Source: Sixth Sense: Unlocking Your Ultimate Mind Power
“Instead of viewing an emotion like anger or fear as an enemy to suppress, consider what useful message it carries.”
Source: The Council of Gods
“Instead of viewing God as one who helps me accomplish my purposes, it is now my joy to help God accomplish the divine purpose - seeking the best for others and seeking the growth of the beloved, which is to say everyone.”
“Instead of visualizing the price of failure try visualizing the rewards of success. You'll make it.”
“Instead of waiting for a leader you can believe in, try this: Become a leader you can believe in.”
“Instead of waiting for a system to coalesce into consistency, the successful actor must learn to operate in complex, uncertain, and ever-changing environments.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption
“Instead of waiting for opportunities to be handed to us, we need to create them. We need to advocate for ourselves.”
“Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you've got, and fix it as you go.”
“Instead of waiting for the right moment, BE the right moment. You won't be ready for anything if you aren't ready to be you.”
Source: Before Ever After
“Instead of waiting to be rescued, start creating opportunities for yourself. You owe yourself everything you expect from others.”
“Instead of waiting to start big, start small so that you can grow big”
“Instead of waiting until crisis problems develop which result in panic praying for others, we need to trust God to protect them as we pray Spirit-led, thoughtful, caring prayers before the problems overwhelm them, and they are unable to cope. We need to engage in major battles, not just minor skirmishes, moving from surface praying to in-depth praying. We need to pray both defensively and offensively.”
“Instead of waiting until the holiday season - when mail solicitations flood in from worthy organizations - and making a flurry of gifts because this is the time of year to give, sit down and take stock. Identify your passion, learn about it, and direct your time, mind, and dollars to aligned causes and organizations.”
“Instead of walking like you're limping, talking yang about me
why don't you take your monkey ass and get a college degree?”
“Instead of wanting to win, we expected to win. There's a lifetime between wanting something and expecting something. When you expect something, it means you've prepared, done the work, and EXPECT TO WIN!!”
“Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me.”
“Instead of warning pregnant women not to drink,I think female alcoholics ought to be told not to fuck”
“Instead of wasting so much time trying to break the negative, why not automatically join the positive right away? Why waste time in trying to push away bad deeds (bad karmas)?”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“Instead of wasting time and resources on trying to prove mythologies as historical fact, cultivate some civilized sense befitting your looks, and apply your concerns to solve real-life issues.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“Instead of watching DVDs at home, I prefer going to the cinema to get the experience.”
“Instead of watching the bird as it flies above our heads, we chase his shadow along the ground; and, finding we cannot grasp it, we conclude it to be nothing.”
Source: Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed
“Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow the pattern of our feathered friends.”
“Instead of wiping away your tears, wipe the people who make you cry.”
“Instead of wisdom -- experience, bare,
That does not slake thirst, is not wet.
Youth's gone -- like a Sunday prayer.
Is it mine to forget?
On how many desert roads have searched I
With him who wasn't dear for me,
How many bows gave in church I
For him, who had well loved me.
I've become more oblivious than inviting,
Quietly years swim.
Lips unkissed, eyes unsmiling --
Nothing will give me back him.”
“Instead of wishing things would change, I'm asking God for His strength to make a change.”
“Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement they have only tried to be "men" and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men.”
Source: Ever Yours, Florence Nightingale: Selected Letters
“Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.”
Source: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
“Instead of wondering WHY this is happening to you, consider why this is happening to YOU.”
“Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest - then we can all die laughing.”
“Instead of working for white man and helping him hold up a government that continues to suppress us socially and, and exploit us economically and oppress us politically, let us go and enter our own territory and use our own talents to uplift ourselves by our own bootstraps. And then he will recognize us for what we are.”
“Instead of working hard to keep their share of a shrinking pie, or working even harder to make sure the industry stays as is, I think the most essential thing legacy book industry players can do is set up independent ventures with great people and little interference and work really hard to put themselves out of business by starting at the bottom, not by reinforcing the top.”
“Instead of working out three times a week, I do something physical, like a one-hour walk everyday.”
“Instead of working so hard to prove the skeptics wrong, it makes a lot more sense to delight the true believers.
They deserve it, after all, and they're the ones that are going to spread the word for you.”