Top 100 Initiated Quotes
#1. If you are eagerly looking for salvation, and if you believe in God, you may ... become acquainted with the Christ of God, and, after being initiated [a reference to baptism], live a happy life.
Justin Martyr
#2. Who aspires to remain leader must keep in advance of his column. His fear must not play traitor to his occasions. The instant he falls into line with his followers, a bolder spirit may throw himself at the head of the movement initiated, and in that moment his leadership is gone.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#3. Resignation is to equate with the hope to give up; a possible renewal process is initiated, which do things clean at its roots.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#4. Program was initiated by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA). IARPA is run by the US Director of National Intelligence. The
Anonymous
#5. In modern times, nationalism is the most copious and durable source of mass enthusiasm, and that nationalist fervor must be tapped if the drastic changes projected and initiated by revolutionary enthusiasm are to be consummated.
Eric Hoffer
#6. The killjoys initiated automobile crash standards so rigorous that we can't buy a car that hasn't been dropped from the top of a phone pole with our whole family strapped inside.
P. J. O'Rourke
#7. With an absurd oversimplification, the 'invention' of the calculus is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. In reality, the calculus is the product of a long evolution that was neither initiated nor terminated by Newton and Leibniz, but in which both played a decisive part.
Richard Courant
#8. Gaelic football...may seem like a primitive, violent, mindless exercise in unspeakable brutality. However, to the initiated enthusiast, it is all this and more.
Arthur Mathews
#9. Break ups are painful, but if initiated at the right time can fuel one's sense of optimism.
Dov Davidoff
#10. I personally regard all of the houses of the Lord as the work of Jehovah, initiated by him, built by him, designed by him, and dedicated to him and his program.
Spencer W. Kimball
#11. Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.
N.K. Jemisin
#12. I think the Montgomery bus boycott initiated an era of self-determination.
Joseph Lowery
#13. Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations.
Pierre Loti
#14. But I couldn't quite believe that sex was the motivating force behind all human behavior, and that I was left out of the great cultural conversation because I had not been initiated into the mystery.
Carlene Bauer
#15. Congressional Republicans are dismantling the limited environmental protections initiated by Richard Nixon, who would be something of a dangerous radical in today's political scene.
Noam Chomsky
#16. We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.
Janet Reno
#17. Forgiveness must be initiated before life can begin.
Asa Don Brown
#18. Bourgeois society is not fundamentally opposed to the bourgeois women's movement, which is proven by the fact that in various states reforms of private and public laws concerning women have been initiated.
Clara Zetkin
#19. We call ourselves a "capacity building" organization; self-motivated and self-initiated capacity building. For example, in 30 years, I don't think I have signed a check for the company.
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
#20. The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life.
Gloria Swanson
#21. I never initiated nor did the FBI ever initiate any conversation or correspondence with me.
John Sherman Cooper
#22. Writing a poem doubles, triples the experience or connection that initiated it.
Frances Mayes
#23. Well, it's not a pleasant experience. And it's a terribly political process, because that thing was initiated by the Congress and by, you know, our adversaries in the Congress.
Bruce Babbitt
#24. I'm an old school actor in the sense. More and more now, I play myself as I get older. Even as a writer, I never got typecast. I've always bounced from project to project or initiated my own things.
Jim Piddock
#25. QBLH(qabbalah) which means to receive. The Qabbalah is not handed down from generation to generation but something which requires receptivity in those who are initiated into the mysteries.
Paul Foster Case
#26. Post-war filmmakers gave us the documentary, Rob Reiner gave us the mockumentary and Moore initiated a third genre, the crockumentary.
Michael Moore
#27. Changing life is a change of character. If you build characteristics transformation will be initiated instinctively
Keerthi Singhe
#29. One of the best holidays ever initiated especially in USA is THANKSGIVING. Giving thanks is the sacrifice that honors the LORD and HE blesses those who does.
James C. Uwandu
#30. I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#31. He wasn't sure which one of them initiated the kiss, but it started soft and then went sweet and then went tender and then went tinder, and then went out-of-control blaze.
Amy Lane
#32. Before Any Fall, The Original Plan Is Already Initiated For His Purpose
Sunday Adelaja
#33. Once you've been initiated into the Elderly, the world doesn't want you back.
David Mitchell
#34. I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty
G.H. Hardy
#35. Salvation is an act of God. It is initiated by God, wrought by God, and sustained by God.
Billy Graham
#36. Grandmotherhood initiated me into a world of play, where all things became fresh, alive, and honest again through my grandchildren's eyes. Mostly, it retaught me love.
Sue Monk Kidd
#37. What I feel is the momentary shock of realizing that most of the wood, metal and plastic fixtures, the sinks, lampshades, the shower stall, and even the drinking cups will all outlive me if my body follows the same progression that this tiny invisible-to-the-eye virus has initiated.
David Wojnarowicz
#38. Hobos' (a slang term that combines the words 'hope' and 'bowl of beans given to me for free by a woman who then initiated intercourse')
Patton Oswalt
#39. Guns neither initiated nor enabled larger changes. Economic, political, and social development preceded and laid the foundation for the invention and use of the gun, not the other way around.
Peter A. Lorge
#40. The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.
Henry Miller
#41. Since we think we understand when we know the explanation, and there are four types of explanation (one, what it is to be a thing; one, that if certain things hold it is necessary that this does; another, what initiated the change; and fourth, the aim), all these are proved through the middle term.
Aristotle.
#42. It is not true that some doctors are only for the initiated. There is NOTHING in Scripture which is ashamed of the light.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#43. All things that ever were, that are, or that will be, having; their record upon the astral light, or tablet of the unseen universe, the initiated adept, by using the vision of his own spirit, can know all that has been known or can be known.
H. P. Blavatsky
#44. In Russia, less than one percent of trials end with an acquittal. With trials that were initiated for political reasons those chances are zero.
Lyudmila Alexeyeva
#45. When the FDA announced its intentions to join other countries and ban quinolone use on U.S. chicken farms, the drug manufacturer Bayer initiated legal action that successfully delayed the process for five years.
Michael Greger
#46. All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individual or the state, for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals, even if it's supposed to be for the benefit of another individual or group of individuals.
Ron Paul
#47. After briefly considering whether to study biology or medicine, I opted for medicine and initiated my studies at the University of Bonn. The first two years were particularly hard, since I simultaneously decided to attend lectures and courses in biology as well.
Harald Zur Hausen
#48. Kind and lovely thought originate from God while evil and revengeful thoughts are initiated by the devil.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#49. dialysis is therapy has been initiated, the average expected remaining life span is approximately 8 years.
Marie Stephens
#50. Now, some have said I blame too many problems on my predecessor, but let's not forget that's a practice that was initiated by George W. Bush.
Barack Obama
#51. Once Hamilton was initiated into the cause of American liberty, his life acquired an even more headlong pace that never slackened.
Ron Chernow
#52. Imams must ridicule Caliphate fantasies. Exchange programmes between Muslim-only schools and non-Muslim-majority schools should be initiated. Community-based debates around these themes must no longer be shut down from fear of offence.
Maajid Nawaz
#53. Those things which are sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred persons; and it is not lawful to import them to the profane until they have been initiated in the mysteries of the science.
Hippocrates
#54. I was initiated as a Buddhist monk at the age of 19, but I think that initiation is simply a starting point.
Frederick Lenz
#55. It is a terrible commentary on Christian civilization that the longest period of slave-raiding known to history was initiated by the action of Spain, Portugal, France, Holland and Britain, after the Christian faith had for more than a thousand years been the established religion of Europe.
H.A.L. Fisher
#57. Guest roles are how you get initiated into the industry. It's fun. Over the course of a few years you realise you've done many shows. You get a chance to prove yourself, and that's how you get jobs because of people who have worked with you in the past and trust you.
Sasha Roiz
#58. We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.
Camille Paglia
#59. And as for the matter of the alleged uncleanliness of our business, ye shall soon be initiated into certain facts hitherto pretty generally unknown, and which, upon the whole, will triumphantly plant the sperm whale-ship at least among the cleanliest things of this tidy earth.
Herman Melville
#60. The famous University of Chicago Great Books program and the reorganization of the University structure along Aristotelian lines and the establishment of the "College," in which a reading of classics was initiated in fifteen-year-old students, were some of the results.
Robert M. Pirsig
#61. Rules are to be initiated for the allotment of scarce raw materials etc; and their use and processing for other than war, or otherwise absolutely vital, goods is prohibited.
Hjalmar Schacht
#62. Serious drama in a significant degree began at Harvard in the 1880s. In 1881, the Cercle Francais initiated the annual French play, and shortly afterwards the German and Spanish clubs added their productions.
J. Anthony Lukas
#64. People who have been initiated "broke through in what felt like breaking down".
Richard Rohr
#65. When you're a boy your life can be measured out as a series of uncomfortable conversations reluctantly initiated by adults in an effort to tell you things that you either already know or really don't want to know.
Ben Aaronovitch
#66. We speak for those who cannot speak. We have a duty to tell the stories for those who do not have the advantages that we have to tell stories. We must not speak falsely. The stories that we are entrusted to tell are stories of our tribes, or the tribes into which we have been initiated.
Billy Marshall Stoneking
#67. There is no justification for the common claim that Christianity was responsible for the abolition of slavery. The Negro slave trade - a far more infamous practice than slavery in the ancient world - was initiated, carried on and defended by Christian men in Christian countries.
Margaret E. Knight
#68. I think I might be the very first person who initiated the AutoQuotery (as in, AutoBiography) practice!
Ibrahim Ibrahim
#69. The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint.
William Osler
#70. Every great cause was initiated by someone whose heart was broken.
Mark Driscoll
#71. It's easy to measure success by the number of dollars spent or by the number of programs initiated, without having too much regard for what was bought and how useful it was to the people who need it - the war fighter and the analyst.
Stephen Cambone
#72. All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
George Bernard Shaw
#73. Always remember that renunciation is the root idea. Unless one is initiated into this idea, not even Brahma and the World - gods have the power to attain Mukti
Swami Vivekananda
#74. Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts.
Seneca The Younger
#75. It wasn't a potential atonement actuated by the sinner, it was an actual atonement initiated by the savior.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#76. Virtually every advancement made by our species since civilization first peeked out of its nest of stone has been initiated by lone individuals, mavericks who more often than not were ignored, mocked, or viciously persecuted by society and its institutions.
Tom Robbins
#77. Unfortunately, JNI seems to be a dark art reserved for the initiated.
Karim Yaghmour
#78. Johnny Duncan was one of the first opening acts I hired for my show, and he is the one who initiated me into astrology. I got hooked. It made a lot of sense to me.
Charley Pride
#79. If after accepting the spiritual master and being initiated one does not follow the rules and regulations of devotional service, then he is again fallen.
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
#80. If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.
Carl Rogers
#81. Friends are discovered rather than made; there are people who are in their own nature friends, only they don't know each other; but certain things, like poetry, music, and paintings are like the Freemason's sign, they reveal the initiated to each other.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#82. True success in any endeavor can only come when the Father has initiated the activity and invited our participation.
Priscilla Shirer
#83. The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide.
Samuel Eliot Morison
#84. A secret to which truth has always initiated her lovers, and through which they have learned that it is in hiding that she offers to them most truly.
Jacques Lacan
#85. The physical world is the point of departure from whence the magician works and upon which every human being, initiated or not, live and moves through his senses, his spirit, his soul and his physical body.
Franz Bardon
#86. I was among one of the first entrepreneurs to start building their own private enterprise when Perestroika began in Russia and the state initiated its first market-oriented reforms.
Yelena Baturina
#87. The uprising in Egypt was initiated by the young generation. The uprising achieved two things. One is it made the lives of dictators impossible. Today, if you are looking for a safe job, don't become a dictator.
Shimon Peres
#88. In the comfort of his embrace I lifted my mouth to his and initiated a kiss. Although calling it a kiss was like calling tyrannosaurus rex a small pet.
Blakely Bennett
#89. Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed; and external changes over which no one has control.
Margaret J. Wheatley
#90. I am sure that all complaints regarding me were initiated from Ukraine.
Yulia Tymoshenko
#91. Carson's writing initiated a transformation in the relationship between humans and the natural world and stirred an awakening of public environmental consciousness. It
Rachel Carson
#92. Joseph Smith, and this is not always fully appreciated within the tradition he initiated, did not feel that direct communication from God, gifts of seership, and an open, continuously expanding canon in any way obviated the need for theology.
Terryl L. Givens
#93. A constitutional amendment for congressional term limits could never achieve the blessing of Congress; it could be initiated only by the states.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#94. I think our lack of intimacy with the land has initiated a lack of intimacy with each other. What we perceive as non- human, outside of us, is actually in direct relationship with us.
Terry Tempest Williams
#95. In the liquid amber within the ivory porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius, the piquancy of Laotse, and the ethereal aroma of Sakyamuni himself.
Okakura Kakuzo
#96. The Syrian civil war is a "crime initiated by the United States and the Zionist regime, Israel."
Ali Khamenei
#97. It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch-antirevolutionaries.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#98. Vietnam had never been a true civil war. It was a war of conquest, initiated and perpetuated for more than two decades by the United States, fueled by presidential secrecy and lies. It was no catastrophic accident. As Ellsberg wrote, it was simply "a crime.
Andy Greenberg
#99. In the worship of Bacchus, we have sacrificed too freely ... Why not consecrate ourselves to the queen of the Camelias, and revel in the warm stream of sympathy that flows from her altar? In the liquid amber within the ivory-porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius ...
Okakura Kakuzo
#100. Humans have a propensity to oppose things when it is not their idea and they had no input, or simply because it was initiated by those whom they dislike.
GE Paulus
