All Quotes

The initial attraction of a political convention was that often the outcome was not preordained. There was at least some element of surprise. But, now it's like tuning in to a movie where you already know the plot and the ending. It's just not that interesting.
‐‐ Mark McKinnon

The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man.
‐‐ Bruno Rossi

The initial organisation, we called ourselves the Network Working Group, consisted of 6 to 10 people. We then quickly grew to 30 people and then to 50 people.
‐‐ Steve Crocker

The initial plan for Rooster Teeth is really different from the initial plan for the group, because we started as a group that was making one show: 'Red vs. Blue.'
‐‐ Burnie Burns

The initial research will be very indiscriminate. I do a lot of reading, buy a stack of books and read and digest them, and then I start doing phone interviews and archival research and then the travelling.
‐‐ John Jeremiah Sullivan

The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing.
‐‐ Patrick deWitt

The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.
‐‐ Barbara Deming

The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.
‐‐ Malcolm Gladwell

The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.
‐‐ Aesop

The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.
‐‐ Steve Perry

The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.
‐‐ Junius

The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in our history, not only during the period of slavery but also in the Jim Crow era that followed.
‐‐ Jim Webb

The inner me was always under attack by authority, by the way my parents wanted me to be brought up, by these English schools I went to. So I've always felt this kind of anti-authoritarian strain in me, pushing to express itself despite the obstacles.
‐‐ Edward Said

The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.
‐‐ Hans Urs von Balthasar

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
‐‐ John Updike

The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action.
‐‐ Raymond Holliwell

The inner world is very potent for me - I don't ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha - I just have a sense of it and revere it along with the natural world and human consciousness.
‐‐ Annie Lennox

The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.
‐‐ Clint Eastwood

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.
‐‐ Nathaniel Parker Willis

The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.
‐‐ Elizabeth Bowen

The innocent mansion of a panther's heart!
‐‐ Allen Tate

The innovation and creativity that's so manifest in the rest of society needs to be turned on our school systems.
‐‐ Laurene Powell Jobs

The innovation is going to come, and that is good for everybody.
‐‐ Hilary Rosen

The innovative process is a fragile one, dependent on a complex, often messy interplay of imagination, competition, and exchange. Curbing new ideas hurts not only individual creators but the audience for which they create and the posterity that inherits their legacy.
‐‐ Virginia Postrel

The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.
‐‐ Arthur Erickson

The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption.
‐‐ Henry James Sumner Maine

The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.
‐‐ Alexander Hamilton

The insatiable need for heartless power and ruthless control is the telltale sign of an uninitiated man - the most irresponsible, incompetent and destructive force on earth.
‐‐ Michael Leunig

The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.
‐‐ Charles Baudelaire

The inside of a house or apartment after decluttering has much in common with a Shinto shrine... a place where there are no unnecessary things, and our thoughts become clear.
‐‐ Marie Kondo

The 'Inside' record definitely opened up a whole new audience.
‐‐ Paul Horn

The inside-the-beltway guys have no control over Donald Trump.
‐‐ Corey Lewandowski

The insidious aid culture has left African countries more debt-laden, more inflation-prone, more vulnerable to the vagaries of the currency markets and more unattractive to higher-quality investment.
‐‐ Dambisa Moyo

The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.
‐‐ Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

The insistence that the commercialisation of the body is a fit subject for political discussion and intervention is well overdue.
‐‐ Susie Orbach

The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.
‐‐ Hans Blix

The Inspector General issued six reviews and reports on actions taken based on provisions of the act. In those six reports, the IG found that not one violation of an individual's civil liberties - a total of zero - had taken place since the act was instituted.
‐‐ Jo Bonner

The inspiration came suddenly again to surrender to the Mother. It was quite unexpected: And so somehow I made a surrender to the Mother. Then I had an experience of overwhelming love. Waves of love sort of flowed into me.
‐‐ Bede Griffiths

The inspiration for my Vines comes from thinking about funny and relatable experiences from my daily life.
‐‐ Lele Pons

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.
‐‐ Robert Green Ingersoll

The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.
‐‐ Eric Brown

The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches.
‐‐ Joseph Franklin Rutherford

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
‐‐ Thomas Paine

The instant that movies became described as character driven was the instant when characters stopped mattering in movies. In other words, the birth of the notion of the character-driven movie coincided with the birth of movies in which characters were incidental to the very activities in which they engaged.
‐‐ Steve Erickson

The instant the Government was organized, at the very first Congress, the Northern States evinced a general desire and purpose to use it for their own benefit, and to pervert its powers for sectional advantage, and they have steadily pursued that policy to this day.
‐‐ Robert Toombs

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.
‐‐ Jean Cocteau

The instinct of self-preservation in human society, acting almost subconsciously, as do all drives in the human mind, is rebelling against the constantly refined methods of annihilation and against the destruction of humanity.
‐‐ Bertha von Suttner

The instinct of the Labour Party is if there's a problem, change the leader, then sit back, fold your arms and wait to be disappointed because they're sure it's not going to deliver.
‐‐ Johann Lamont

The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.
‐‐ George Pierce Baker