An independent Scotland - like all countries - will face challenges, and we will have our ups and downs. But the decisions about how we use our wealth will be ours.
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon
An independent state does not pay too dear a price for its independence in accepting the sufferings of war when it cannot avoid them; a state which has lost its independence may find at least some compensation in the fact that its protector procures for it peace with its neighbours.
‐‐ Theodor Mommsen
An independent, strong, thriving and peaceful State of Israel is the vengeance of the dead.
‐‐ Ehud Barak
An index is a great leveller.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw
An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.
‐‐ Chief Joseph
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
‐‐ George Catlin
An Indian tribe is sovereign to the extent that the U.S. permits it to be sovereign.
‐‐ Russell Smith
An indictment is not a conviction.
‐‐ Howard Coble
An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare state creates at the stroke of the pen. Yet statistical tests of the effects of welfare spending on employment yield erratic results.
‐‐ Edmund Phelps
An indigo snake leaves a lasting impression.
‐‐ Padgett Powell
An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
‐‐ E. O. Wilson
An individual developer like me cares about writing the new code and making it as interesting and efficient as possible. But very few people want to do the testing.
‐‐ Linus Torvalds
An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members.
‐‐ Friedrich List
An individual's refusal to carry out the criminal acts of his government sets the stage, in the most effective way possible, for the attempt to demonstrate the criminal nature of these acts.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky
An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.
‐‐ Robert Baden-Powell
An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.
‐‐ Tahar Ben Jelloun
An industrious sinner I much prefer to a lazy saint.
‐‐ Sophie Kerr
An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.
‐‐ James Lovelock
An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.
‐‐ Konrad Adenauer
An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell.
‐‐ Hugo Chavez
An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.
‐‐ Aiden Wilson Tozer
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
‐‐ Thomas Jefferson
An injured lion still wants to roar.
‐‐ Randy Pausch
An injured Zlatan is a pretty serious thing for any team.
‐‐ Zlatan Ibrahimovic
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
‐‐ Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.
‐‐ Ludwig Wittgenstein
An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.
‐‐ Dean Kamen
An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they're already doing in their lives done better.
‐‐ Clayton M. Christensen
An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.
‐‐ Jose Marti
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
‐‐ Unknown
An inspiration - a long, deep breath of the pure air of thought - could alone give health to the heart.
‐‐ Richard Jefferies
An inspiring word for me is to think of myself as limitless.
‐‐ Rachael Taylor
An instant-read thermometer is your best bet for making sure that meat and fish are cooked to the proper temperature.
‐‐ Bobby Flay
An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.
‐‐ Hilaire Belloc
An institution is beyond any individual. It breathes and lives on its own and always will.
‐‐ Nita Ambani
An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.
‐‐ Clara Barton
An institution that borrows on a non-prioritized basis would never contemplate borrowing on a prioritized basis. Doing so would undermine its standing in the bond market and suggest that it is not worthy of its strong credit rating. This type of self-imposed downgrade would materially affect its financial prospects.
‐‐ John Delaney
An instructor once told me that when there's resistence in your body, it's only because of the resistence in your mind. It's about getting inside the pose. Being the breath.
‐‐ Lisa Bonet
An insult is mean or unkind. Milton Berle called me the Sultan of Insult, and I was called the King of Insult. But the guy that gave me the best title - and I use it to this day - was Johnny Carson. He called me Mr. Warmth.
‐‐ Don Rickles
An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible.
‐‐ Henry Morton Stanley
An intellectual challenge presents itself? I am in bliss. Instantly, it brings forth the notion of triumph.
‐‐ Philippe Petit
An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.
‐‐ Spiro T. Agnew
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
‐‐ Dwight D. Eisenhower
An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
‐‐ Aldous Huxley
An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt.
‐‐ Antonio Tabucchi
An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.
‐‐ Richard Reeves
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
‐‐ Albert Camus
An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician's interest is exclusively in the question of whether an idea's time has come.
‐‐ Michael Ignatieff
An intellectual's weapon is writing, but sometimes people react as if it were a firearm. A writer can do a lot to change the situation, but as far as I know, no dictatorship has fallen because of a sonnet.
‐‐ Mario Benedetti
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
‐‐ Charles Bukowski