Top 100 Inform Quotes
#1. Which drew from Bloch nothing more instructive than "Sir, I am absolutely incapable of telling you whether it has rained. I live so resolutely apart from physical contingencies that my senses no longer trouble to inform me of them." "My
Marcel Proust
#2. You are not here to verify,/ Instruct yourself, or inform curiosity/ Or carry report. You are here to kneel/ Where prayer has been valid. And prayer is more/ Than an order of words, the conscious occupation/ Of the praying mind, or the sound of the voice praying.
T. S. Eliot
#3. Comfort his family with a telegram, we regret to inform you we lost a man, but we gave him the highest medal of the land.
Phil Ochs
#4. Romances, in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination than to inform the judgment.
Samuel Richardson
#5. The lessons learned as we try to build ever more sophisticated nanomachines will almost certainly inform our understanding of the origins of life.
Paul McEuen
#6. Sarah Palin may have chosen to not answer the call for the presidency, but make no mistake, the principles that garnered her the unique support she enjoyed continue to inform and drive the base that lifted her.
Tammy Bruce
#8. Differences don't just threaten and divide us. They also inform, enrich, and enliven us.
Harriet Lerner
#10. She had a turn for narrative, I for analysis; she liked to inform, I to question; so we got on swimmingly together, deriving much entertainment, if not much improvement, from our mutual intercourse.
Charlotte Bronte
#11. History - the non-fiction version - must inform the fiction to make it truthful; too much of it and your genres are colliding.
Jon Weisman
#12. while theology should inform a Christian's relationship with God, it should never take its place.
Henry T. Blackaby
#13. I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.
Bill Nighy
#14. I believe that it's an author's job to cast his imagination into the far spaces. Your life should - and I think it's inescapable that it will - inform your work. I'm all for using anything that can make your art better, but your intuition should be an equal partner.
Brent Weeks
#15. Remember, the goal of structured futures thinking is to come up with a picture of possible futures that will help to inform strategic decisions.
Jamais Cascio
#16. We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to see and make.
Sam Abell
#17. I think any kind of hiatus one takes in an artistic journey is going to make a huge difference. The pause will inform the choices that you make.
Mel Gibson
#18. The extent to which we take everyday objects for granted is the precise extent to which they govern and inform our lives.
Margaret Visser
#19. I recognize that every role I play, I'm not going to play someone that has a ministry or that is a Christian, and I don't think that's what God has called me to do. The gift and talent that He's given me as an actor, director, producer is to entertain, sometimes to inform, most times to inspire.
Kim Fields
#20. If an angel should fly from heaven and inform the saint personally of the Saviour's love to him, the evidence would not be one whit more satisfactory than that which is borne in the heart by the Holy Ghost.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#21. Good morning, Ms. Daniels. I'm calling to inform you that Julie has left our premises." Not again. Curran's arms closed around me and he hugged me to him. I leaned back against him. "How?" "She mailed herself.
Ilona Andrews
#22. As an artist, I've always felt most comfortable outside of the art supply store. So domestic materials are the ones that most help inform what I'm trying to talk about and our familiarity as a whole - kind of the collective us, I guess.
Rashid Johnson
#23. Things get done only if the data we gather can inform and inspire those in a position to make difference.
Mike Schmoker
#24. The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.
Ted Turner
#25. It was not his job at square leg to inform the batsman what I was doing. I did nothing for which I need to apologise.
Mike Gatting
#26. A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
Dean Acheson
#28. Values and ideals rooted deeply in the Love Paradigm will profoundly affect, inform and direct in the midst of any context.
Michael M. Rose
#29. If our mushrooms make you hallucinate, please inform us immediately so we can overcharge you.
Scott Adams
#30. The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
A.J. Liebling
#31. I am sorry to have to inform you that I do not believe in the Bible as a divine revelation, & therefore not in Jesus Christ as the Son of God.
Charles Darwin
#32. Don't try to get involved with people on the Internet because it can be very dangerous. The whole point of 'Trust' is to inform people about this issue.
Liana Liberato
#33. Religion and politics are inseparable because the values of our faith should inform what we value in our politics. They both seek to answer questions about the good life.
Jim DeMint
#34. People don't have to put you in a box. You can have the confidence to move across, and combine and learn from each different practice. They inform each other.
David Toop
#35. Is a lifelong student of the world's wisdom literature, it is my duty to inform students that ridding the world of evil is a goal very different from any recommended by Jesus, Buddha or Muhammad, though not so different from some recommended by Joseph Stalin, Joseph McCarthy and Mao Tse Tung.
David James Duncan
#36. Schinkel's aesthetic was not a crudely materialistic "truth to material" affair ... but rather an attempt to inform iron and other industrial materials with an appropriate beauty through the direct collaboration of the artist in the manufacturing process.
Karl Friedrich Schinkel
#37. I swore an oath before the altar of God to protect this woman. And if you're tellin' me that ye consider your own authority to be greater than that of the Almighty, then I must inform ye that I'm not of that opinion, myself.
Diana Gabaldon
#38. The liberal arts inform and enlighten the independent citizen of a democracy in the use of his own resources ... They enlarge his capacity for self-knowledge and expand his opportunities for self-improvement ... They are the wellsprings of a free society.
Alfred Whitney Griswold
#39. You were in a mood to quarrel. Please inform me once the inclination passes.
Catherine The Great
#40. If you want to inform yourselves as to the nature of hell, don't hold your hand in a candle flame, just ponder the meanest, most desolate place in your soul.
Marilynne Robinson
#41. One constant has prevailed, though, throughout all theories. There must indeed be a mysterious Holy Spirit which has an exact and intimate relation to Christ, which can indwell in human minds, guide and inform them, and even express itself through those humans, even without their awareness.
Philip K. Dick
#42. If the state polls are right, then Mr. Obama will win the Electoral College. If you can't acknowledge that after a day when Mr. Obama leads 19 out of 20 swing-state polls, then you should abandon the pretense that your goal is to inform rather than entertain the public.
Nate Silver
#43. At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.
Minor White
#44. If we speak of things as inert or inanimate objects, we deny their ability to actively engage and interact with us - we foreclose their capacity to reciprocate our attentions, to draw us into silent dialogue, to inform and instruct us.
David Abram
#45. I think Australians are rightly suspicious of people who will try and use religion for another end. I don't think that's right and I don't think it should be done, but I think it should inform values, and it does.
Peter Costello
#46. If someone would have the goodness to inform me whether I am assisting at a tragedy or a farce I should be grateful,
Georgette Heyer
#47. Sometimes, going to see one opera is hard because you don't know the genre. Good opera is like good wine. There are so many varieties, and it helps to inform you about what you like when you see a lot.
Susanna Phillips
#48. Information Theory would inform a mechanical calculator in much the same way as, say, fluid dynamics would inform the hull of a ship.
Neal Stephenson
#49. We're all born lost, aren't we? We're all born separated from God - over and over life makes sure to inform us of this - and yet we're all real: we have names, we have lives. We mean something. We must.
Douglas Coupland
#50. The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced. In reality they are quaking bridges built out of yearning.
Peter Hoeg
#51. I don't have time to beat myself up over my fallible nature. Instead I use my energy to learn from my past and let it inform my future. It's time to own all of our glory, mistakes, mess and light and be gentle to ourselves. Let's be kind to our spirits and celebrate the truth of our hearts.
Grace Gealey
#52. Whatever terrific events may inform our lives, it always comes to that in the end; we just want to lie down.
Brian W. Aldiss
#53. Journalism's ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests.
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
#54. I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
G. Willow Wilson
#55. To be willing to live within the imagination is to commit oneself to the gathering together of the pieces that might begin to form a self. To avoid this territory is to avoid the encounters that might validate, inform, or enhance one's experience.
Deena Metzger
#56. I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
Thomas Jefferson
#57. My role as an advocate for Epidermolysis Bullosa related issues, my key responsibility, were to inform, educate, and promote understanding of what we go through as individuals and as a community.
Silvia Corradin
#58. I respect your right to hold your religious beliefs, and if they help you, I think that's great. I would, however, like to inform you that you are a raving kook.
Scott Dikkers
#59. By the new year of 1994, it had grown up into Inform 4 and could produce games twice as large.
Graham Nelson
#60. Emotional, physical, and spiritual estrangement and ontological and religious doubt inform my personality, my thoughts, and my characters, which are, more often than not, masks for my own being and my being in the world - a world that frightens me insofar as I don't understand it.
Norman Lock
#61. It's a symbiotic process, writing. What I am makes the books - not part of me, all of me - and then the books themselves inform the sense of what I am. So the more I can be, the better the books will be.
Jeanette Winterson
#62. I don't want to seem always to be criticizing your methods of voice production, Jeeves, I said, but I must inform you that that 'Well, sir' of yours is in many respects fully as unpleasant as your 'Indeed, sir?
P.G. Wodehouse
#63. Tiny, the next time that you try to set me up with a girl with a secret boyfriend can you at least INFORM me that she has a secret boyfriend? Also, if you don't call me back within five minutes, I'm going to assume you found a way back to Evanston. Furthermore, you are an asshat. That is all.
John Green
#64. Desire isn't appeased by its object, only irritated into something more than desire that can join with the stars to inform the chaotic heavens with sense.
Samuel R. Delany
#65. When it comes to wheat, my main goal is to inform people, including farmers, that the prevailing notion that cutting fat and eating whole grains will make you healthy is not only wrong, it's destructive.
William Davis
#66. I wanted to better inform the world.
Ted Turner
#67. On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary.
Whittaker Chambers
#68. The ban directly hampers the partys ability to spread its message and hamstrings voters seeking to inform themselves about the candidates and issues,
Thurgood Marshall
#69. Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves.
Judith Guest
#70. When you start to engage with your creative processes, it shakes up all your impulses, and they all kind of inform one another.
Jeff Bridges
#71. I want to inform them
that I am not silent
because I have nothing to say.
I am silent
because nobody is listening.
Kelsey Sutton
#72. Numbers are a lot like people. They each have a story. They interact with one another. They entertain. They inform. They deceive. They can create happiness or inflict enormous pain. You have to know how to get them to talk.
Lee Goldberg
#73. For the poets, my hope is that they will, quite simply, feel the obligation to be really informed about the situation in which we find ourselves, in terms of our imperiled planet. You should inform yourself so deeply that it becomes part of your nature, part of your voice.
Alison Hawthorne Deming
#74. If I write in my name to the agents of England and France residing in Asia and inform them that Japan is ready to make a commercial treaty with their countries, the number of steamers will be reduced from fifty to two or three.
Townsend Harris
#75. And if we ask what are the cultural resources that can inform and sustain a proper creaturely and stewardly awareness of the lives in a farmer's keeping, I believe that we will find them gathered under the heading of husbandry.
Wendell Berry
#76. Brother Cannon remarked that people wondered how many wives and children I had. He may inform them that I shall have wives and children by the million, and glory, and riches, and power, and dominion, and kingdom after kingdom, and reign triumphantly
Brigham Young
#77. The things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture, the sociological aspects of our climbing culture, our 'me' generation, our yuppie culture, our SUVs, or, you know, shopping culture, our war culture.
Gus Van Sant
#78. I'm not in the business of changing policies. I hope to inform, not form, decisions.
Dalia Mogahed
#79. The scientific effort to inform the public about landslide risks often runs head-on into powerful economic interests.
Bill Dedman
#80. This is the pain that will inform all other pains from now on. You have lost your mother. That is the primal pain, what we call it in German. There will never be another pain like this pain. You cannot ready yourself for it because it is unimaginable.
David Samuel Levinson
#81. But getting the sinner where justice deemed he belonged was the trick. It required a system. And the system demanded its rules, techniques, manpower, organizations, and loopholes. And the occasional seminar to educate and inform.
J.D. Robb
#82. The pioneers researched for this book take a simpler approach: Budgets are established only if some forecast is needed to inform an important decision.
Frederic Laloux
#83. Any fighter knows that regret that doesn't inform your future is wasted emotion. If you lose and dwell on the missed opportunity rather than the chances to come, you're finished.
Craig Lancaster
#84. The subjugation of news by entertainment seriously harms our democracy: It leads to dysfunctional journalism that fails to inform the people. And when the people are not informed, they cannot hold government accountable when it is incompetent, corrupt, or both.
Al Gore
#85. We have said the first step was to designate the land, inform the owners. And the second would be to get the responses from the owners. And this will be openly done.
Robert Mugabe
#86. Yet the effort to inform the public also encouraged responsible public discussion that succeeded in developing a consensus for the measured approach that many scientists supported.
Paul Berg
#87. We must love God with our minds, allowing our intellect to inform our emotions, rather than the other way around.
Jen Wilkin
#88. The word preached is not only to inform you but reform you;
Thomas Watson
#89. Chefs have a new opportunity - and perhaps even an obligation - to inform the public about what is good to eat, and why.
Rene Redzepi
#90. The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself.
A.W. Tozer
#91. Good questions inform, great questions transform
Ken Coleman
#92. I'm rather pleased with the new manuals. I see Inform now as a gauche young adult, having got past the stage of growing out of his shoes every few months.
Graham Nelson
#93. When I tweet, I try and accomplish three things. One, is to make you laugh. Two, is to inform you. Three, is to enlighten you. That's all I do.
Shaquille O'Neal
#94. Are you also going to inform me I need to be as swift as a fire so I may move mountains in the wind?" Yoshi
Renee Ahdieh
#95. There was no need to inform us of the protocol involved. We were from Chicago and knew all about cement.
Groucho Marx
#96. The guards then proceeded to inform the other prisoners that Abelard was a homosexual and a Communist - That is untrue! Abelard protested - but who is going to listen to a gay comunista?
Junot Diaz
#97. Once a good model gets inside you, it can inform and guide you throughout a lifetime.
Bob Anderson
#98. When my brother called to inform me, on the morning of May 22, 2003, that our mother Caroline Oates had died suddenly of a stroke, it was a shock from which, in a way, I have yet to recover.
Joyce Carol Oates
#99. Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously.
Francis Bacon
#100. I routinely inform people when I meet them that I am like a real life version of Dory the fish, as I am very forgetful and have problems tracking conversations.
Steven Magee
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