All Quotes

Instead, we did take our eye off the ball. We decided, instead of finishing the job in Afghanistan, to go into Iraq. And today, unfortunately, if you look at the situation on the ground, it is a mess.
‐‐ Chris Van Hollen

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.
‐‐ Amy Chua

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.
‐‐ John Sterling

Instinct is the nose of the mind.
‐‐ Delphine de Girardin

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.
‐‐ Henri Matisse

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
‐‐ Henri Bergson

Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.
‐‐ Jimmy Buffett

Institutional memory is important in any organization, but so are fresh ideas.
‐‐ Marianne Williamson

Institutionalized discrimination is bad for people and for societies. Widespread discrimination is also bad for economies. There is clear evidence that when societies enact laws that prevent productive people from fully participating in the workforce, economies suffer.
‐‐ Jim Yong Kim

Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are.
‐‐ Chuck Hagel

Institutions develop because people put a lot of trust in them, they meet real needs, they represent important aspirations, whether it's monasteries, media, or banks, people begin by trusting these institutions, and gradually the suspicion develops that actually they're working for themselves, not for the community.
‐‐ Rowan Williams

Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.
‐‐ Charles Horton Cooley

Institutions like mutual funds often worry that if they disclose their plans to buy a stock, copycats will move quickly and drive up the stock before the purchase is completed.
‐‐ Alex Berenson

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
‐‐ James Anthony Froude

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.
‐‐ Frederick William Robertson

'Instructions Not Included' is proving that there is a huge Latin market that needs a special project. They love seeing their own people; they want to see themselves onscreen. In my case, I know them pretty well. I know what they laugh at. I think it's going to open a lot of doors, this movie.
‐‐ Eugenio Derbez

Instrumental music can be about anything. It's about a mood, and I usually title my instrumental songs long after they're written. Sometimes I figure out the titles when I'm doing the CD package, and that's very common for a lot of people who write instrumental music.
‐‐ Jenny Scheinman

Instrumental music can spread the international language.
‐‐ Herb Alpert

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.
‐‐ David Sanborn

Instrumental music is nonverbal and thus radically ambiguous. It doesn't lend itself to what might be called content-oriented analysis, though plenty of intellectuals have tried to analyze it in precisely that way.
‐‐ Terry Teachout

Instruments are a phenomenal investment, especially violins and violas and celli, because the value really doesn't go down, and it just rises up at incredible speed and has done, and I believe will continue to do so, because these rare instruments are not getting more. They are getting less and less through the years.
‐‐ Aleksey Igudesman

Instruments sound interesting, not because of their sound, but because of the relationship a player has with them. Instrumentalists build a rapport with their instruments, which is what you like and respond to.
‐‐ Brian Eno

Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.
‐‐ Suzanne Fields

Insulting the electorate and accusing it of spiritual weakness and sinfulness are not the ways to get yourself the job of president.
‐‐ John Podhoretz

Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.
‐‐ Edouard Manet

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
‐‐ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Insults are the business of the court.
‐‐ Naguib Mahfouz

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

Insurance and funding traditionally drive capital investment. But in a world based on access, not ownership, the duration, value, cost and extent of financial services is distinctly different.
‐‐ Lisa Gansky

Insurance companies as they exist today are going to be eliminated.
‐‐ Neal Patterson

Insurance companies can no longer refuse to cover Americans with pre-existing conditions.
‐‐ Kathleen Sebelius

Insurance companies don't make anything.
‐‐ James Dyson

Insurance companies pay big bucks for procedures but next to nothing for patient consultations and preventive medicine, which is what most medicine is.
‐‐ Alex Gibney

Insurance companies want to make sure that you stay on your medicine.
‐‐ Rick Smolan

Insurance companies, whether private or government owned, must be compelled to pay for health-promoting measures. In turn, this will encourage physicians to offer such treatments in earnest.
‐‐ Andrew Weil

Insurance firms have always carefully studied real-world data to figure out what, precisely, constitutes a risky activity.
‐‐ Clive Thompson

Insurgencies are easy to make and hard to stop. Only a few ingredients need to combine to create an insurgency; like oxygen and fire, they're very common and mix all too often. The recipe is, simply, a legitimate grievance against a state, a state that refuses to compromise, a quorum of angry people, and access to weapons.
‐‐ Richard Engel

Insurgents have capitalized on popular resentment and anger towards the United States and the Iraqi government to build their own political, financial and military support, and the faith of Iraqi citizens in their new government has been severely undermined.
‐‐ Tom Lantos

Insurgents throughout Iraq continue to threaten our efforts and pose a danger to stability in the region. They fight not for their country, but rather against ours.
‐‐ Paul Gillmor

Insurrection by means of guerrilla bands is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke. It is invincible, indestructible.
‐‐ Giuseppe Mazzini

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
‐‐ Leon Trotsky

Integral to the orb is our low cost long-range wireless radio data system and a protocol that allows us to send this data over 90% of the US population every 15 minutes throughout the day.
‐‐ David Rose

Integrate purpose into your for-profit business model through a long term commitment to a cause that is aligned with your core values and those of your community.
‐‐ Simon Mainwaring

Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.
‐‐ Meryl Streep

Integrated schools help students achieve academic success in the present and personal success in the future.
‐‐ Donna Brazile

Integrating breakthrough technology into everyday products is always a challenge; at the same time, this is exactly how design makes tech products easily adoptable in life.
‐‐ Yves Behar

Integrating in the society is a fundamental scriptural Christian trait. This integration is a must - moderate constructive integration. All of us, as Egyptians, have to participate.
‐‐ Pope Theodoros II

Integration is a man's ability to want to move in there by himself. If someone wants to live in a white neighborhood and he is black, that is his choice. It should be his rights. It is not because white people will not allow him.
‐‐ Stokely Carmichael

Integration is the most important asset Europe has, and the key component to European integration is the euro.
‐‐ Anibal Cavaco Silva