I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for New Orleans that could make it safe from water, and let the state and city pick the plan that works best for Louisiana.”
“Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy.”
Source: The Works of Hesiod, Callimachus, and Theognis
“Invite the reader to participate by deciphering. Chaos can attract and engage.”
“Invite the Sacred to participate in your joy in little things, as well as in your agony over the great ones. There are as many miracles to be seen through a microscope as through a telescope. Start with little things seen through the magnifying glass of wonder, and just as a magnifying glass can focus the sunlight into a burning beam that can set a leaf aflame, so can your focused wonder set you ablaze with insight. Find the light in each other and just fan it.”
“Invite them all in. Nip out the back door. Phone the police and tell them your house is being burgled.”
“Invite Tranquility
The sea,--
Something to look at
When we are angry.”
“Invite your customer to take risks in the pursuit of inspired innovation, and be your customer’s net when they step onto that high wire.”
Source: Inside Your Customer's Imagination: 5 Secrets for Creating Breakthrough Products, Services, and Solutions
“Invite your friend to a feast, but leave your enemy alone; and especially invite the one who lives near you.”
“Invite your friend to dinner; have nothing to do with your enemy.”
Source: My Brother's Killer
“Invited or not, God is present.”
“Invitemos a nuestros hijos a que prueben a hacer actividades que no se les den tan bien. Eso les hará darse cuenta de que no son perfectos, que también fallan y que no pasa nada, que todo el mundo los quiere igual.”
Source: Lo que dice la ciencia sobre educación y crianza
“Inviting an invasion by foreigners and instigating one against them are two sides of the same neoconservative coin.”
“Inviting angels into your life builds a stronger connection between you and God.”
Source: Angel Practitioner Handbook: A Foundation Guide
“Inviting audiences to open up and hear things differently is an important part of what I do. But I still love to sing songs with words, too.”
“Inviting compassion into the bloodstream of an institution’s agenda or a scholar’s purpose is more than productive, more than civilizing, more than ethical, more than humane; it’s humanizing.”
Source: The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
“Inviting people to inquiry is much more powerful to me than describing my experience... When people hear me tell the story, they often say, "Oh my goodness, I get it. I get it!" But it's not enough.”
“Inviting people to laugh with you while you are laughing at yourself is a good thing to do. You may be a fool but you're the fool in charge.”
Source: My Anecdotal Life: A Memoir
“Inviting someone to work for pay is a sacred privilege and a trust. It must be regarded a high honor to be able to give another person work, and neither employer nor employee should abuse this relationship”
“Invoca toda la fuerza que le queda o que debe fingir tener al salir del taxi y observa el lugar que solía ser su hogar, y ahora solo será un recuerdo incómodo y vergonzoso, un pasado al que ha debido volver para poder hacer las maletas para el presente sin ninguna idea de lo que le depara el futuro.”
Source: Una Novia Solitaria
“Invoke often! Inflame thyself with prayer!”
“Invoke the Mercy of God and as milk returns not to the udder go not back to your wrongdoing." "Have compassion on yourself and on others and Infinite Compassion will be given to you." "In the name of Allah, All-Merciful, All Compassionate, bestow on me a Mercy that shall put me beyond the need of mercy from any other than Thee.”
“Invoked or not invoked, the god is present.”
“Invoking brings the heart closer to the hereafter and keeps the world away from the heart, even though the world is around it. Invoking warns the heedless heart to abandon its pleasures and deceptions.”
“Invoking removes darkness and brings forth radiant lights.”
“Invoking the letters of God's Name without presence of mind is invocation of the tongue; invoking with presence of mind is invocation of the heart; and invoking with an absence of self-awareness because of absorption in the Invoked is the invocation of the Self - this is the hidden invocation!”
“Invoking the moral high ground somehow makes you lose it. Using a secret as a weapon makes you almost as bad as the transgressor.”
Source: Are We There Yet?
“Involtini: Meat, seafood, or veg wrapped around a filling like cheese, cured meats, or nuts.”
Source: Didn't You Use to Be Queenie B?
“Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how to improve commitment, but how to abolish it”
“Involution always precedes evolution.”
“Involve children in their own upbringing, instead of dictating to them ‘who’ and ‘what’ they should be. Be a good role model. Teach them well. Allow them to be true to who they are and encourage them to be their ‘authentic self.’” —Sepideh Irvani, PsyD”
“Involve people in the problem and work out the solution together.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families
“Involve yourself every day. Work hard and figure out how to love acting all day, every day. It's getting into a made-up situation and making it good and making it real and just playing, just practicing and playing. Like the musicians that I played piano with: they never expect to be rich or famous, but they, for the sheer joy of it, play every day, all day.”
“Involved in my own entrails and a crust Turning a pitted surface towards a space, I am a world that watches through a sky And is persuaded by mirrors To regard its being as an external shell, One of a universe of stars and faces.”
Source: New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender
“Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity”
“Involvement in public life provides the opportunity to shape our manners in accordance with civil justice.”
“Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce”
“Involvement in the life of the community was a vital part of every citizen's daily life; preparing the next generation for such a civic life was the schools' primary mission.”
“involving into an iterative process of simplifying the 'complexity', and then transforming this 'simplicity into newer complexity' while integrating the unsolved domain for an unprecedented success.”
“Invulnerable to time, dedicated to the messianic happiness of thinking for us, knowing that we knew that he would not take any decision for us that did not have our measure, for he had not survived everything because of his inconceivable courage or his infinite prudence but because he was the only one among us who knew the real size of our destiny.”
“Inward holiness will produce outward holiness, but the outward appearance of holiness is worthless without inward holiness. For example, a modest spirit will produce modest dress, but modest dress is of little value if it conceals a lustful heart.”
Source: Practical Holiness a Second Look
“Inward is not a direction. Inward is a dimension.”
“Inward solitude has outward manifestations. There is the freedom to be alone, not in order to be away from people but in order to hear the divine Whisper better.”
Source: Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline
“Inward spiritual practices such as meditation, breathing techniques and self-analysis generate insights and enhance abilities, but none are so useful as learning to live harmoniously in a committed relationship, being a skillful parent, or juggling the demands of daily life.”
“Inwardly - nobody knows why - the passengers on one train always envy slightly the passengers on another train; it is something that's true but a little difficult to explain. Maybe it's because, even though they don't realize it very clearly, a third-class passenger would always be glad to change places with another, even if the other were third-class too. ― Camilo José Cela, Journey to the Alcarria: Travels Through the Spanish Countryside”
Source: Journey to the Alcarria: Travels through the Spanish Countryside
“Inwardly the sun also has an energy field, it has an aura, so does the earth, so does the moon, and so do all the planets. We're affected by those auras. It's not something that you really want to reason out.”
“Inwardly you are God, outwardly you are a person. Instead of thinking you are just a person, that appearance, you can awake to the power behind you, the safety within you, the source of inspiration and guidance at the heart of your human life. This enables you to be yourself even more so.”
“Inwardly, I gouged my eyes out.”
Source: Crescendo
“Inwardness is the characteristic feature of the vegetable rather than the animal approach to existence. The animals move, migrate and swarm, while plants hold fast. Plants live in a dimension characterised by solid state, the fixed and the enduring. If there is movement in the consciousness of plants then it must be the movement of spirit and attention in the domain of vegetal imagination. (...) This is the truth that the shamans have always known and practiced. Awareness of the green side of mind was called Veriditas by the twelfth century visionary Hildegard Von Bingen.”
“INXS never had that groupie thing. No, no we really never did. Not in a sexual way - well, alright, then, maybe years ago. I've done a few stupid things in my time, but you've got to have respect for yourself, otherwise you end up getting used”
“INXS’ touring days could never last forever. We wanted it to end on a high. And it has.”