All Quotes

In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first to be colonized.
‐‐ Hervey Allen

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
‐‐ Buddha

In a cornball way, I think being a celebrity is about making a difference, too.
‐‐ David Hasselhoff

In a corporation, there can only be one guy in the end: the CEO.
‐‐ Lee Iacocca

In a country as large and diverse as America, compromise is how we get things done. It isn't always pretty, but we have to find solutions to our problems that, at the end of the day, most people can live with.
‐‐ Mark Udall

In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?
‐‐ Manuel Puig

In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.
‐‐ Felix Adler

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
‐‐ Confucius

In a country where Americans sense, quite genuinely, that their freedoms have been taken away by the government - as in the U.S. Patriot Act, as in NSA surveillance - people feel powerless.
‐‐ Jay Parini

In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.
‐‐ Harriet Harman

In a country with an overabundance of food, no one should go hungry because of a lack of funds or technical and professional knowledge. We have the food, and we have the networks; we now need to support the providers.
‐‐ Jose Serrano

In a couple of years, the Chinese will be seen as regular participants in international industry. Their companies have to report to shareholders as well as to the Chinese authorities. They need to make money, they have to be efficient.
‐‐ Daniel Yergin

In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family.
‐‐ Monica Bellucci

In a crazy way, writing is a lot like any kind of very complex game - like chess, where you have the knowledge as you're composing all of the ramifications of each move, of each choice you make.
‐‐ Adam Ross

In a crazy world where he would get nominated, I'd like to see Obama run against Herman Cain. That would be fantastic. If Herman Cain became president, there'd be a certain sort of morbid curiosity for me.
‐‐ Tim Heidecker

In a creative business, if you're happy, it will come out in your work. I don't see how you can be happy if you don't like the people you're working with and if they aren't a joy to have fun with.
‐‐ Christian Louboutin

In a cricket career, your life is in some ways controlled for you. You have no control over schedules, you have no control about where you want to play, you don't have control over that as a cricketer.
‐‐ Rahul Dravid

In a crime novel, if you are going to have a big revelation in chapter 30, you have to plant the information in chapters three and 11.
‐‐ Sophie Hannah

In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.
‐‐ Bill James

In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They're going to find you anyway.
‐‐ Paul Bryant

In a crisis, markets always look to see who is the next-worst off and proactively begin shying away from them.
‐‐ Jose Ferreira

In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.
‐‐ Seth Godin

In a cult intervention information is presented about the group that the member is most often not aware of.
‐‐ Rick Ross

In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying for readers.
‐‐ Maggie Stiefvater

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.
‐‐ Cavett Robert

In a day and age when there are so many culinary competitions - ranging from contests of taste to those of technique - The World Food Championships will be the ultimate food competition.
‐‐ Adam Richman

In a day when, if you insulted a man it might cost you your life, you were probably more civil.
‐‐ Patrick O'Brian

In a daydream sort of way, I think it would be pretty cool to direct a movie. But I have been on movie and TV sets and know it is hard work. I like directing it in my mind. It is easier.
‐‐ Michael Connelly

In a deal, you give and take. You compromise. Then you grab the cash and catch the next train out of town.
‐‐ Irving Paul Lazar

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
‐‐ Ernst Fischer

In a deep metaphysical sense, all that is conditioned is illusory. All phenomena are literally 'appearances,' the outer masks in which the One Reality shows itself forth in our changing universe. The more 'material' and solid the appearance, the further is it from reality, and therefore the more illusory it is.
‐‐ Annie Besant

In a deeply tribal sense, we love our monsters, and I think that is the key to it right there. It is monsters; it is learning about them: it is both thrill and safety. You can think of them without being desperately afraid because they are not going to come into your living room and eat you. That is 'Jaws.'
‐‐ Peter Benchley

In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
‐‐ Narendra Modi

In a democracy, citizens pass judgment on their government, and if they are kept in the dark about what their government is doing, they cannot be in a position to make well-grounded decisions.
‐‐ Peter Singer

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
‐‐ J. William Fulbright

In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.
‐‐ Chris Patten

In a democracy, in a functioning democracy, what would be happening is that popular organizations, unions, political groupings, others would be developing their programs, putting them forth, insisting that their representatives implement those programs.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

In a democracy one must have the right to express oneself and that's what I do, even if it displeases.
‐‐ Brigitte Bardot

In a democracy, power is not permanent.
‐‐ Lalu Prasad Yadav

In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power the better our choices should be and the better, in theory, our democracy should be.
‐‐ Robert Caro

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
‐‐ Edmund Burke

In a democracy, the one thing that cannot be done is to destroy its trust, its hope, its idealism.
‐‐ Teresa Heinz

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
‐‐ Aristotle

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.
‐‐ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

In a democracy there are only two types of power: there's organized people and organized money, and organized money only wins when people aren't organized.
‐‐ Benjamin Todd Jealous

In a democracy, when you get 20 million people in the street, you resign.
‐‐ Mohamed ElBaradei

In a democracy, you don't need anyone's permission to form a new political party, publish a politically charged article, or organize a 'tea party.' And in open markets, individuals are free to buy and invest as they see fit.
‐‐ Gary Hamel

In a democracy, you have to find a market niche, make sure a novel is 'interesting' and 'spectacular.' That may be the toughest censorship of all.
‐‐ Imre Kertesz

In a democracy, you need to have a strong judicial system. You need freedom of speech, you need art, and you need a free press.
‐‐ Tzipi Livni

In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.
‐‐ Pankaj Mishra