In ancient Greece, Socrates reportedly didn't fancy a literate society. He felt that people would lose the capacity to think for themselves, simply adopting the perspective of a handy written opinion, and that they would cease to remember what could be written down.
‐‐ Nick Harkaway
In ancient, prehistoric times, the temples of the spirit were outwardly visible, but today, when our life has become so unspiritual, they no longer exist where we can see them with our physical eyes. Yet spiritually they are still present everywhere, and whoever seeks can find them.
‐‐ Rudolf Steiner
In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
‐‐ Terry Pratchett
In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.
‐‐ Stephen Leacock
In and after 1964 when I began to concern myself with the biological issues, and particularly from 1967 onwards, the extent of the problems over which I felt uneasy increased to such a point that in 1968 I felt a compelling urge to make my views public.
‐‐ Andrei Sakharov
In and of itself, keeping the country safe for business is not a bad thing.
‐‐ Peter Schuyler
In 'Angels in America,' I got to fulfill a lifelong dream. I was in the air eight nights a week for two years, and I just loved it.
‐‐ Ellen McLaughlin
In Angola, I visited 'HeroRats' that have been trained to sniff out land mines (and, in some countries, diagnose tuberculosis). In a day, they can clear 20 times as much of a minefield as a human, and they work for bananas!
‐‐ Nicholas Kristof
In animation, no one gets to see your face, so you can really mess up with your voice like I did 'ParaNorman;' I was a bully in that, which was so much fun to do. In 'How to Train Your Dragon,' I'm a little Viking character. So, it's kind of exciting to play these roles that you normally wouldn't get to play in a live-action movie.
‐‐ Christopher Mintz-Plasse
In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing.
‐‐ John Lithgow
In another life - and as I like to say, another body - I used to teach aerobics.
‐‐ Megyn Kelly
In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.'
‐‐ Jeff Greenfield
In another life, I could be a personal shopper.
‐‐ Jane Rosenthal
In another life I would be a medievalist. I loved Chaucer, far more than Shakespeare.
‐‐ Susan Hill
In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.
‐‐ Fede Alvarez
In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
‐‐ Adam Weishaupt
In another time, another world, each studio made 200 movies a year and had 20 executives. Today, a studio makes less than 20 movies a year and has 500 executives. They own too many parking decks and too many billboard companies. They're awash in overhead, and it's pinning them down, and they know it.
‐‐ Mike Binder
In antihistory, time is an illusion.
‐‐ Jill Lepore
In antiquity, a woman might be an object of worship or desire, but never of love.
‐‐ Octavio Paz
In antiquity, agriculture and industry depended completely on human labor; but now, with the development of natural forces that human labor cannot match, agriculture and industry have fallen completely into the hands of the capitalists. The greater the amount of capital, the more abundant the resources that can be utilized.
‐‐ Sun Yat-sen
In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
‐‐ Xun Kuang
In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the only survivor of the Ilyrian languages. That is why it has always intrigued the great linguists of the past.
‐‐ Ismail Kadare
In any aircraft you fly, you always think about what can go wrong, and you plan for it in advance. You always have back-up plans.
‐‐ David Mackay
In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
‐‐ Michael Graves
In any area of human endeavour, there is going to be mediocrity. You're going to find people who get money that they shouldn't get.
‐‐ Bill Bryson
In any area of the U.N. we... have to agree on certain language that can represent the same spirit, but that can be accepted by everyone.
‐‐ Michelle Bachelet
In any art form, in Hollywood or in music, there is a handful of people who really, you know, move the envelope.
‐‐ Mikhail Baryshnikov
In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film.
‐‐ Norman McLaren
In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
‐‐ Aaron Siskind
In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.
‐‐ Jacques Barzun
In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true of Sovietism, of China and of Iran, and in our time it has happened a lot in Islam. The point is that it's worse when the authoritarianism is supported by something supernatural.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie
In any business opportunity, you'd be looking, probably, primarily at the risk and return. Some business can be very risky with a low return; what you want is the lowest risk with the biggest return.
‐‐ John Caudwell
In any business that grows big on one business model, transitions can throw everything in the air.
‐‐ Bing Gordon
In any business, the more you learn, the more sympathetic you can be to other people's positions.
‐‐ Peter Asher
In any business, you have to evolve.
‐‐ Ross Levinsohn
In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.
‐‐ Rudy Rucker
In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort.
‐‐ Bill Kristol
In any case, fighting will not settle whether the claims were just or unjust. It will only settle which nation can mobilize and handle its fighting forces and its economic forces the better.
‐‐ Rufus Jones
In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.
‐‐ Samuel E. Morison
In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained.
‐‐ James Henry Breasted
In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer.
‐‐ Elliott Carter
In any case, the fewer boundaries that exist hindering free movement between all forms of articulate human cognition, the better.
‐‐ Brian Ferneyhough
In any case, whenever technical progress opened a new window into the surrounding world, I felt the urge to look through this window, hoping to see something unexpected.
‐‐ Bruno Rossi
In any case, you can't turn back the clock.
‐‐ Michel Patini
In any character I ever play, whether she's good or bad or whatever, my most important thing is heart.
‐‐ Laura Prepon
In any city or town, you can find a good, rocking Italian place. The most unhealthy thing on the menu? I'll have two of those!
‐‐ Hunter Hayes
In any city with lots of skyscrapers, lots of skyline, the moon seems bigger than it is. It's called the moon illusion.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson
In any community there's a strong pull home. People want to return, see their community get better economically and socially. You can build those community-grown opportunities for the kids who've graduated from college to return home, to provide businesses and support things going on. It'll only happen through education.
‐‐ Denise Juneau
In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down.
‐‐ Katherine Boo