I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Instead of working to undo POTUS exec action, we need to workcollaboratively to achieve comprehensive immigration reform.”
“Instead of working too hard, if the person had taken good care of his health and lived a long life, he would certainly have served his purpose better.”
“Instead of worry, you believe
Instead of fear, be sure you can
Instead of run away ,take the action
And All powers of Universe
Will create for you,what you want”
“Instead of worrying about evil, worry about losing the power to do good!”
Source: The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis
“Instead of worrying about the question of suffering in the world, spend your time alleviating it!”
Source: The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis
“Instead of worrying about what could go wrong, change your thoughts to what could go right. When you change the negative thought into a positive one, it eliminates the negative one.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“Instead of worrying about what could go wrong get up off your ass and do it.”
“Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.”
“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, focus your energy on what you can create.”
“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“Instead of worrying or scaring
Take the Laws of the Universe,
Take the method or technique you know;
If for some reason this method
does not work for you,
Learn another one fit for you
AND FIX THAT”
“Instead of worrying vainly about being liked, loved, or respected, individuals should concern themselves with what others expect of them. Expectations rule the future of relationships.”
Source: The Age of Manipulation: The Con in Confidence, The Sin in Sincere
“Instead of worrying what others think of you, concentrate on what you care about instead.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow”
Source: Loving Summer
“Instead of worship or ignorance of the past, we must make our own tools, our own stories, and our own legends.”
Source: Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs
“Instead of writing epitaph on your grave ; more beautiful and memorable is to leave some hand written letters to your wife, sons and daughters and grandchildren.”
“Instead of writing it wrong six times and then writing it right, I think it wrong six times and then write it right the seventh time.”
“Instead of writing my rules, I followed his. And that’s when I knew it all went wrong.”
“Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.”
“Instead of yelling and spanking, which dont work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise.”
“Instead of yelling at a TV set, I get to talk.”
“Instead of yelling your opinion, or telling people to shut up, or engaging in this clickbait-internet culture, have a dialogue with someone and ask people questions and listen to what they have to say.”
“Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.”
Source: The Story of My Life
“Instead of you pouring out your life and giving out your life and exchanging it for a porridge called salary, instead of selling out your life bit by bit until you are old and empty and until you become so old that they send you off to die in retirement, you should come to the realization that you could actually multiply and reproduce your life through the power of time conversion.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“Instead of you to be at the mercy of whatever they have made you into, rebuild your life into what it should be.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“Instead of your ego directing you and making countless mistakes, allow yourself to be guided by the invisible principles of the universe within your action.”
Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
“Instead of your life just disappearing or being wasted or spent, you are racing to make sure that it is being converted, making sure that it is being actually invested.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you.”
Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“Instead, she curled up into ball and stared at the pink wallpaper where a potrait of her as a child stared back at her.That girl was smiling and happy.She had a family.
Now she had none.”
Source: Disney Frozen: Let It Go
“Instead she has on a sweater that looks soft, the kind when I was a kid I would stop and pet whenever my mom forced me to go shopping.”
Source: What to Say Next
“Instead she looked very hard at the woman's chin. On it was a single white hair - visible even in the heavy dusk - that closely resembled a piece of thread hanging off a scrap of fabric.
The woman forgot about Rusty for a moment. "I call her Hephzibah," she said with pride. "It's taken years for her to grow.”
Source: The Curse of Cackling Meadows
“Instead,
she's as still
as a leaf-littered pond,
dark water evaporating,
waiting desperately for rain.”
Source: Cinnamon Rain
“Instead she wants to know every detail of the menu I have planned for her party, relishing everything in advance. She is brimming with suggestions. Brandade trufée, vol-au-vents aux trois champignons, cooked in wine and cream with wild chanterelles as a garnish, grilled langoustines with arugula salad, five different types of chocolate cake, all her favorites, homemade chocolate ice cream...”
Source: Chocolat
“Instead, the top five jobs of Everyday Millionaires came out like this:
Engineer
Accountant
Teacher
Management
Attorney
It's interesting to note that medical doctors did not make the top five and neither did banker.”
“Instead, their only daughter was only going to Kerala, just a dodgy neighbouring state, doing one of those five-year integrated MA degrees that held no charm, required no intellectual prowess, and did not even further one’s job prospects. ‘Everyone from Kerala comes here to study, but our unique daughter decides to go there. What can I do?’ My father’s intermittent grumbling was amplified by my mother who spoke non-stop about sex-rackets, ganja, alcoholism and foreign tourists, making Kerala – a demure land of lagoons and forty rivers – appear more and more like Goa.”
Source: When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife
“Instead they choose to accept their fallibilities. They recognised the simplicity and power of using a checklist.”
Source: The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
“Instead, they drew dragons. Big dragons, tiny dragons. Dragons destroying skyscrapers and dragons swimming with whales and dragons dancing on the head of a pin and dragons skidding down one arm of the Milky Way. Dragons in school desks. Dragons in cars. Dragons doing dishes. Dragons downing missiles. Dragons laying waste to armies or governments or home economics classrooms. There were no words. No explanations. No statements of intent. Just dragons.”
Source: When Women Were Dragons
“Instead, they face a bizarre new world of frustrating duties and counterintuitive ideas: sit still, learn math, find a job, move away from friends, ignore kin, drive cars, leave kids in day care, and grow burdensome in old age.”
Source: Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior
“instead, they sought to improve themselves so that they might become masters of their world.”
Source: Omphalos
“Instead, view them as brothers in Christ and choose to love them in ways that genuinely bring God glory.”
Source: Love Defined: Embracing God's Vision for Lasting Love and Satisfying Relationships
“Instead, we'd do what we always did, the only thing we'd ever been dependably stellar at: we'd read.”
Source: The Weird Sisters
“Instead, we should delicately and subtly undermine the idea that truth and facts are possible in the first place. Once the people have become doubtful about the truth of anything, all kinds of things will be open to us.”
“Instead, California is one of only 10 states that provides in-state college and university tuition to illegal immigrants. That's grossly unfair to a legal high school student who moves out of California for a year, then returns to attend college.”
“Instead, he sat in the parlor of his family's Fifth Avenue mansion, growing older by the minute just like everybody else.”
“Instead, he would make death his final project, the center point of his days. Since everyone was going to die, he could be of great value, right? He could be research. A human textbook. Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“Instead, I cut him. Not deep, but there was enough of a sting in the wound to remind him of what I'd done to the dwarven mobsters in the parking lot - and that I wasn't just some chick with a knife who looked good in black.”
Source: Spider's Revenge
“Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.”
“Instead, I quietly excused myself and went to the bar, to commune with spirits I know how to relate to.”
Source: Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife
“Instead, I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law and weakened the institution. We have tried to deal with relationships with no-fault divorce, with child custody, with so many other avenues; and it has not helped.”
“Instead, I try to adjust to the dawn, letting the tears fall where they may, because it is morning; it is morning and there is so much to see.”
Source: The Sweet Far Thing
“Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question.”