I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Instead, I watch myself get shot on television.”
Source: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay
“Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.”
“Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.”
Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
“Instead, most colleges are studies in obsolescence.”
“Instead, our system of "corrections" is about arm's-length revenge and retribution, all day and all night. Then its overseers wonder why people leave prison more broken than when they went in.”
“Instead, over the past thirty years, in the world of action and adventure sports, in situations where asses really were on the line, the bounds of the possible have been pushed further and faster than ever before in history. We've seen near-exponential growth in ultimate human performance, which is both hyperbolic paradox and considerable mystery. Somehow, a generation's worth of iconoclastic misfits have rewritten the rules of the feasible, not just raising the bar but often obliterating it altogether. And this brings up one final question: Where-if anywhere-do our actual limits lie?”
Source: The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance
“Instead, the terrorists see just what they were hoping for, our unity gone, our resolve shaken, our leaders distracted. In short, they see weakness and opportunity.”
“Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can throw the rascals out at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy.”
“Instead, to be financially free, we need to learn how to make mistakes and manage risk.”
“Instead, we have found ourselves gasping for air in a sea of corruption, dysfunction, environmental degradation, waste, disenchantment and inequality—and the harder we compete, the more unequal we become.”
Source: A Bigger Prize: How We Can Do Better than the Competition
“Instead, we just sat there, together but really apart, watching a show about a stranger and all her secrets, while keeping our own to ourselves, as always.”
“Instead, we linger over a luxury that costs nothing: Imagining what may be.”
“Instead, we were given a publication called the Weekly Reader, which was like a newspaper for four-foot illiterates.”
Source: Eating the Dinosaur
“Instead, what I was beginning to understand was that however things unfolded from here on, whatever the next chapter was, my life could never be the sum of one circumstance. It would be determined, as it had always been, by my willingness to put one foot in front of the other, moving forward, come what may.”
“Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.”
“Instill within yourself the ability to generate passion in whatever you do, as this is the only driving force that will motivate you to achieve.
No one else can motivate you or make you successful. Ensure you have self-integrity and honour towards others set in a framework of guiding principles, and little tolerance for those who don’t.”
“Instilling a lifelong learning mindset is about more than continuous courses. It's about nurturing a curiosity that drives individuals to seek knowledge, both formally and informally.”
Source: Rapid Learning: Unleash the Genius in You
“Instilling a sense of self-discipline and focus when the kids are younger makes it so much easier by the time they get into high school.”
“Instilling values of faith at an early age is important.”
“Instilling values of faith at an early age is important. Listening them through adolescence comes more important than teaching because if you haven't instilled in them at early ages now it's time to listen and get your report card and let them find their way and then as an adult let them stand aside.”
“Instinct ensures animals to have society. Reason ensures society to have animals”
“Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.”
Source: The irresistible Diderot
“Instinct is a funny thing, a whisper of trouble that we can never quite name, never quite define, that allows us to locate danger. Women are taught from a young age to ignore theirs.”
Source: The Lies I Tell: A Novel
“Instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward on instinct.”
Source: Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“Instinct is a makeshift, an admission of helplessness before the problem of reality.”
Source: Kulturgeschichte Afrikas
“Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.”
“Instinct is all of our humanity being deliberately honest with all of life.”
“Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.”
Source: Essays and tales, collected and ed., with a memoir, by J.C. Hare
“Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.”
Source: The structure and dynamics of the psyche
“Instinct is never intention.”
“Instinct is the direct connection with truth.”
“Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I making a judgment?' ... If you have no experience, then your instincts aren't any good.”
“Instinct is the great director in the formation of all relationships.”
Source: Together
“Instinct is the most powerful thing you have, and you have to trust it.”
“Instinct is the nose of the mind.”
“INSTINCT IS THE ONLY SALVATION TO ALL YOUR PROFANITY”
“instinct leads me to another flow”
“Instinct leads, logic does but follow.”
“Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it.”
“Instinct's aware of reflex when mind ain't yet.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Instinct seeks satisfaction. Love is free of all demands.”
“Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.”
“Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.”
“Instinct tells me to close my eyes and I plunge myself back into the darkness, back to my world of being seen but not heard.”
Source: Sometimes I Lie
“Instinct tells me to go to Hannah's, but she doesn't live there anymore and that's when I realize the major difference between my mother and Hannah. My mother deserted me at the 7-Eleven, hundred of kilometers away from home. Hannah, however, did the unforgivable. She deserted me in our own backyard.”
“Instinct told me it was dangerous. I could handle dangerous. Dangerous and me went back a long way. We did lunch when dangerous was in town.”
Source: Magic to the Bone
“Instinct told Neil what to do. Training taught him how to do it. Calculated motion. Full awareness of the unman and his surroundings. No immediate threat to bystanders.”
Source: Lethal Impulse
“Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.”
Source: Letters to Alice
“Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“Instinctively, her fingers drifted to the four-leaf clover charm on the delicate chain at her throat, and she rubbed the little leaves. Long ago, her mother had told her that the four leaflets on the clover stood for faith, hope, love, and luck.
"Those four elements are the recipe for a charmed life, Georgia May," her mother had promised her.”
Source: Recipe for a Charmed Life