| impatient | If Gregor had only been allowed to turn round he would have been back in his room straight away, but he was afraid that if he took the time to do that his father would become impatient, and there was the threat of a lethal blow to his back or head from the stick in his father's hand any moment. |
| imperceptible | Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.
Henry Adams
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| imperfection | It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
Joseph Addison
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| inadequate | When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
Ansel Adams
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| inclination | Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform we use, or a priest. You know, anywhere you lecture and pontificate to people.
Rowan Atkinson
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| independent | Many foster children have had difficulty making the transition to independent living. Several are homeless, become single parents, commit crimes, or live in poverty. They are also frequent targets of crime.
Charles Foster Bass
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| individual | The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality.
Erich Auerbach
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| individual | When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.
Simone de Beauvoir
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| individual | Meanwhile the day had become much lighter; part of the endless, grey-black building on the other side of the street - which was a hospital - could be seen quite clearly with the austere and regular line of windows piercing its façade; the rain was still falling, now throwing down large, individual droplets which hit the ground one at a time. |
| influential | An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
Walter Bagehot
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| insecure | Life has become terribly insecure. It's on the vortex of civil war. It's difficult to know how America will bring it back from the brink and build up good will.
Jon Lee Anderson
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| inspire | If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams
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| instrument | The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution.
Hannah Arendt
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| insurgents | A British soldier shot dead by insurgents in a fire fight in southern Afghanistan was soon to become a father. |
| intelligent | Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.
Russell Banks
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| intents | Renfield had become, to all intents, as sane as he ever was. |
| interview | Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
Francesca Annis
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| investing | How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.
Robert G. Allen
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| investors | Individual investors have become far more powerful than anyone gives them credit for. Today, 85 million Americans invest in stocks. Collectively, that kind of buying and selling power can move markets.
Maria Bartiromo
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| investors | While it's wonderful that investors have access to all the data now available to them, it has become a full-time job to sift through it and separate out the valuable news from the useless noise.
Maria Bartiromo
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