All Quotes

The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.
‐‐ Dorothy Thompson

The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects.
‐‐ Joseph Lancaster

The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.
‐‐ Horatio Alger

The institution of marriage holds society together. We can't replace the family.
‐‐ Tim Huelskamp

The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.
‐‐ Theodore Zeldin

The institution of marriage should be re-examined because of its overwhelming claustrophobia. The odds are stacked against spontaneity and effervescence. It's an institution that was brought about for the sake of family and children, but biologically, it's very unnatural. It's masochism and torture the way it's been organized.
‐‐ Peter Beard

The institution of marriage works better when there's a spiritual connection. If you're marrying just for the sake of the woman, then you may lose interest in each other very soon. When we marry in the interest of the Holy Spirit with the intention of serving God and humanity, then it gives a much larger perspective.
‐‐ A. R. Rahman

The institution of the family has very few friends in Washington. There are lobbyists in Washington for every possible entity, from the possum-growers of America to every kind of crazy thing. There's somebody in Washington paid to advance the cause of that particular business, but there's not a lot of support for the family.
‐‐ James Dobson

The institution of the presidency was profoundly affected by Watergate.
‐‐ Robert Dallek

The institutional investor remains the bigger influence on individual trades simply because the institutional investor has more money to support the order and that will have more of an impact on the stock.
‐‐ Maria Bartiromo

The institutionalization of Black Studies, Feminist Studies, all of these things, led to a sense that the struggle was over for a lot of people and that one did not have to continue the personal consciousness-raising and changing of one's viewpoint.
‐‐ Bell Hooks

The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing large spectacles of mass entertainment. The fundamental absurdity of that notion requires the promulgation of the various deceits necessary to carry it out.
‐‐ Charlie Pierce

The institutions of the European Union, and the states that belong to this union, each and every one, are paying the price of our failures, hesitations and contradictions. We should each ask ourselves how personally responsible we are.
‐‐ Giorgio Napolitano

The institutions that we've built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don't apply to the private sector. The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations. The Freedom of Information Act doesn't apply to Silicon Valley. And you can't impeach Google if it breaks its 'Don't be evil' campaign pledge.
‐‐ Al Franken

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
‐‐ Voltaire

The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.
‐‐ Lady Gaga

The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had.
‐‐ Rita Levi-Montalcini

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.
‐‐ Cyrano de Bergerac

The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.
‐‐ Goldwin Smith

The insurance companies aren't covering that. Should Monsanto be liable for these losses? Should the state government? Who's going to cover the losses? The fact is, here's an industry with no long-term liability in place.
‐‐ Jeremy Rifkin

The insurance industry communicates through codes and check-off boxes. If there's no check-off box for you, you don't exist.
‐‐ Jack Anderson

The insurance of working with a big, already successful franchise just gives you the chance to do other things on a more personal level.
‐‐ Jason Statham

The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.
‐‐ Ike Skelton

The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of the parts of speech and the integration of the sentence.
‐‐ John Wesley Powell

The integral part of being a star is having the will to win. All the champions have it.
‐‐ Betty Cuthbert

The integrated automotive group of Volkswagen and Porsche is a certainty.
‐‐ Martin Winterkorn

The integration of a headgear in professional boxing would do so much to make it safer for young men. They could go into the sport, make a lot of money and then come out and be good grandfathers.
‐‐ George Foreman

The integration of exponentially growing technologies is beginning to empower the patient, enable the doctor, enhance wellness and begin to cure the well before they get sick.
‐‐ Daniel Kraft

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.
‐‐ Junius

The integrity of our government, our Republic, fundamentally relies on the principle that no person, not even the president or the nation's chief law enforcement officer, is above our laws.
‐‐ Paul Gosar

The integrity of the game is everything.
‐‐ Peter Ueberroth

The integrity of the game is the umpires. Nobody else. The entire integrity of the game is the umpires.
‐‐ Doug Harvey

The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.
‐‐ Ernest Holmes

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
‐‐ Augustus Hare

The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.
‐‐ Jay Chiat

The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.
‐‐ Christopher Lasch

The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.
‐‐ Edward Thorndike

The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models.
‐‐ Rem Koolhaas

The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.
‐‐ Louise Bogan

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
‐‐ George Orwell

The intellectual power is never at rest; it is never satisfied with any comprehended truth, but ever proceeds on and on towards that truth which is not comprehended. So also the will, which follows the apprehension; we see that it is never satisfied with anything finite.
‐‐ Giordano Bruno

The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.
‐‐ Eric Allman

The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.
‐‐ Daniel Bell

The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself.
‐‐ Tahar Ben Jelloun

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

The intellectual who wants to do her work properly must today go back to the starting point: the woman whom she knows, and first of all to herself. It is at that level, and at no other, that she ought to begin to think about the world situation.
‐‐ Jacques Ellul

The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.
‐‐ Georg Simmel

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.
‐‐ Jacques Barzun