Top 100 When Is Quotes
#1. When is truth pleasing? It is only when we clothe it's nakedness with rags of imagination, or sweeten it with fiction, that it can please.
H. Rider Haggard
#2. Where's Eminem, when is Em coming out, Em this, Em that, 50 this, 50 that ... What about Obie?
Obie Trice
#3. My main priority in any job is when is the soonest I can get back to the three people I love most in the world.
Martin Freeman
#4. When is it too late to say it's still early for the Cubs? Try now. Their magic number is 1998, at least until it becomes 1999, but in lieu of a present, they offer you a future.
Bob Verdi
#5. And if he were ever animated enough to be in love, must have long outlived every sensation of the kind. It is too ridiculous! When is a man to be safe from such wit, if age and infirmity will not protect him?
Jane Austen
#6. wonderful bit of Chinese wisdom that asks, "When is the best time to plant a tree?" The answer is "20 years ago, but the next best time is right now.
Paul S. Boynton
#7. I think the idea that giant profitable corporations should pay their workers enough so that they don't need food stamps - since when is that left-wing? How did that become 'leftie?' That doesn't seem leftie to me. That seems common sense.
Nick Hanauer
#8. Embarrassed journalists ask me embarrassing questions, and they get embarrassing answers, and then hand out embarrassing stories to the embarrassing editors, who put them to the front pages of newspapers. When is this going to end?
Yao Ming
#9. I'm a filmmaker, so I always think: When is the breaking point? Sometimes you've got to go beyond the breaking point, and then you catch it. When is long enough? It's one of those things you have to look at, walk away, and go home and find out what it is.
Steven Rodney McQueen
#10. We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressing. When is the last time you you saw a wonderful musical or a fabulous fantasy?
Edith Head
#11. Reth looked exasperated. "When is something ever not wrong in your life?"
I frowned. "That's my line.
Kiersten White
#12. It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.
Daniel Okrent
#13. When is the last time government admitted it might have made a mistake and canceled a program?
Thomas Bray
#14. And when is it ever convincing, the belief others have in your abilities? You know perfectly well they can't see the mess inside you.
Elizabeth Hay
#15. When is one considered to be in the awareness of 'one's own Self'? It is when all the desires become mild (when desires lessens).
Dada Bhagwan
#16. I'm assuming you're as mystified by this as the rest of us, Rasputin.
No. I'm not. I have been planning to destroy the Breakworld since I was a child.
[silence]
This is why I don't make so many jokes. I never know when is good.
Joss Whedon
#17. Since when is the intelligence agency supposed to be an air force of drones that goes around killing people? I believe that it's a job for the Department of Defense.
John McCain
#18. Time, time, time. It's always the wrong time. When is now the time?
Anne McCaffrey
#19. James Altucher reminds me for Stephen King... when is about Stephen King his 2 sons, probably the one or no,no both they look like him.
Deyth Banger
#20. When is nothing special the most important thing? When it's the only thing. Where we come from, beauty is so ordinary that we don't even know we are beautiful.
Bennett Madison
#22. But when is a rule really just a suggestion? And when do suggestions morph into rules?
Tina Seelig
#23. People always ask me: 'When is the new Pele going to be born?' Never. My father and mother have closed the factory.
Pele
#24. When is it enough?" he asked. "We're told to let go of the ones that don't want help. How long do we try before we step back and let them do what they want? Before it's hurting everyone else around you to keep that person around?
C.L.Stone
#26. And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?
Tillie Olsen
#27. Let me ask you, sir, when is the time for brave men to exert themselves in the cause of liberty and their country, if this is not?
George Washington
#28. All mankind is sitting on Death Row. How we die or when is not the main issue, but where [we] go after death.
Billy Graham
#29. The decision to trigger Article 50 is in the hands of the next prime minister. If that is me, I will make a judgement as to when is right for Britain, and I won't be hurried or hassled by anyone into pressing that button or triggering that article until I believe it is right for this country.
Michael Gove
#31. When is the night over? Is it the start of sunrise or the end of it? Is it when you finally go to sleep or simply when you realize that you have to?
Rachel Cohn
#32. The bad times I can handle. It's the good times that drive me crazy. When is the other shoe going going to drop?
Erma Bombeck
#33. When is bliss of the self (Samadhi) experienced? It is when one does not want anything, when all the tubers of one's greed goes away, then the bliss of the self (Samadhi) is experienced. Give away, how much you give (your things to others), that much (happiness) will be yours !
Dada Bhagwan
#34. When is a pilgrim like a photograph? When the blend of acids and sentiment is just right.
Anne Carson
#35. When is your birthday?" ( ... )
Wide silver-gold eyes swung to him. "You don't know?"
"No."
Pouting, she twirled a strand of her hair. "How can you not know?"
"Do you know mine?" he asked.
"Of course I do. It's the day you met me.
Gena Showalter
#36. When is man strong until he feels alone? Colombe's Birthday
Robert Browning
#37. And since when is stealing people's possessions the call of God? you are all hypocrites who have suddenly come into power, and you don't know how to handle it
Dalia Sofer
#38. How many times have I asked myself: when is the world going to start making sense? Yet the answer is out there. It is rushing towards me over the uneven ground.
Martin Amis
#40. Honey, five-years-olds say what they think. Knowing what to say and when is called being an adult.
Lindsay J. Pryor
#41. You work with some people, you see a spark in them and you can't help praising them. But everyone has their own destiny. No one can make anyone. Who reaches where and when, is all written.
Rani Mukerji
#42. I work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When is the next one coming out?
George R R Martin
#44. We come from God. As the tree from the root and the stream from the spring; that's why we should always be in contact with Him, as the trunk from the root. Because the stream dries up when it is separated from the spring and the tree dies when is uprooted.
Pythagoras
#45. She stumbled then and Geryon caught her other arm, it was like a handful of autumn. He felt huge and wrong. When is it polite to let go someone's arm after you grab it?
Anne Carson
#46. When is a game more than a game? So often, we pay lip service to the uplifting power of sports, the teamwork, the camaraderie, the lessons in taming one's own ego for the sake of the group. But you have to wonder, how often is that still really true?
Michel Martin
#47. Every day is Thanksgiving for me, man. Yeah, I still have an audience, and they ask the local promoter, "When is Al coming back?" .
Al Jarreau
#48. Here's a riddle: When is a croquet mallet like a billy club? I'll tell you: Whenever you want it to be!
Cheshire Cat
#49. Exactly. When is comes to anything halfway important, you just don't get it. It's amazing to me that you can put a piece of fiction together'
'Yeah, well, that's a whole different thing.'
(from Honey Pie)
Haruki Murakami
#51. When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.
Billy Sunday
#52. Since when is being a rotten drunkard a symbol of freedom?
Elif Shafak
#54. I planted a tree. You'd think my neighbors would be happy for the shade it would provide them, but no, they said I planted it too close to their house. Since when is six inches too close?
Jarod Kintz
#55. Anything that happens that's good, they think, Oh, it's an accident, when is the roof caving in? You've got to get them out of that mental framework.
Dick Butkus
#56. Someone asked me when is my birthday?
The poet inside me replied,
My birthday is on the last day of the year,
It's 31st December my dear!
Anamika Mishra
#58. When is one considered a vitarag (free of attachment)? It is when he has no fear of anything in this world.
Dada Bhagwan
#59. Taking "Christ" out of "Christmas" just reads "Mas" which is Spanish for "More." Seems Americans just want "mas," "mas," "mas." But when is more ever enough without Christ in it? More Christ?
Kilburn Hall
#60. When is population going to become an accepted part of the food debate? If it's fine to encourage people to think about halving their meat consumption, can we really not cope with a conversation about how many children we have?
Tristram Stuart
#61. My family had all kinds of complications in relationships. I would like to meet the person who did not. Since when is being absolutely perfect what being a human is? What do we gain from that?
Anthony Edwards
#62. When is there some discharge when. There never is.
Gertrude Stein
#63. A question: when is a bed not a bed? When it is angled lie-flat. My back hurts, my legs ache and my clothes are all rumpled - and all because the airline, which claimed to have a bed, actually offered up a torture machine which I prefer to call a slide.
Richard Quest
#64. When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator - so decrees.
Jessica Mitford
#65. Mind Your Language in the Presence of Patriachs
Q. When is rape not rape?
A. When it is your father or stepfather.
S. Caroline Taylor
#66. I figured, 'When is that ever going to happen again?'. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I set out with a budget first. I said, 'What can I do well for $40,000?'.
John Sayles
#67. When is cake ever for hunger? It's for flavor and, in this case, comfort.
Menna Van Praag
#68. When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?
Benjamin Harrison
#69. When is a horror one horror too many? When have you had enough?
Nick Cole
#70. Adrien, people get killed all the time. Since when is it your job to find out what happened to them?"
"I'm not usually suspected of murdering them."
"You have been as long as I've known you.
Josh Lanyon
#71. When I started 'This American Life', one of the reactions I got was, 'When is the adult going to show up who will host the show?' At some point, people just got used to it.
Ira Glass
#72. The fans are very, very loyal. They're always saying, 'When is the next album?' They know when I finish in the studio it's got to be a few years before the next album.
Enya
#74. If everything always went perfectly, I would feel like, When is the ball going to drop? Because good things don't always last. Maybe I'm a pessimistic person. When something just seems too good, I can't believe it.
January Jones
#75. When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it.
Caitlyn Siehl
#76. When is the Democratic Party going to apologize for being the biggest slave-holding-supporting institution on the planet and sticking with racism for the century after the abolition of slavery?
Mark Steyn
#77. When is the answer ever less cheese?
Rob Thomas
#78. When we analyze this war in a materialistic way and ask when is it going to end and who will be the winner and the loser, it means that we do not see the endgame.
Bashar Al-Assad
#79. The most important question in American cinema, I've learned, is 'When is lunch?'
Tommy Lee Jones
#80. Writers on etiquette receive a continuous flow of questions on subjects such as 'When is it too early in the season to wear white accessories?' and 'What is the proper gift to send to a family in mourning?'
Letitia Baldrige
#81. When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
#82. when,' is not something you ask someone when the bodies of their aunt. uncle. friends. first love. cannot be found.
Nayyirah Waheed
#83. everyone who comes to California brings a little of his own state with him. His own old state, regardless of where or when, is always lurking in the back of his memory for comparison with what he finds here.
Max Miller
#84. When is black America going to forgive white America for slavery?
Mark Steyn
#85. When is the last time you got angry at someone treating you with respect?
Joseph Shrand MD
#86. Has a man the right to kill himself? Yes, if his death harms no one and if life is an evil to him. When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#87. An awe so quiet I don't know when it began.
A gratitude had begun to sing in me.
Was there some moment dividing song from no song?
When does dewfall begin?
When does night fold its arms over our hearts to cherish them?
When is daybreak?
Denise Levertov
#88. When is the last time your computer restarted you? Don't forget about nature. Recreation means to re-create yourself.
Bryant McGill
#89. When is the army getting here?" "Never," he said. "Well . . . One riot, one Ranger." "Sure. Unless you're the one Ranger.
Philipp Meyer
#90. His mother asked, "And when is a marriage successful?" He had the feeling she was about to provide the answer, the very answer that people the world over were searching for. And he was right. "When the wife loves the husband," Nadira told him. "Not just loves him, but is crazy about him! Only then.
Anat Talshir
#91. Where's my food? When is it coming? What did I order, anyway?
Lawrence Tierney
#92. And Elinor, in quitting Norland and Edward, cried not as I did. Even now her self-command is invariable. When is she dejected or melancholy? When does she try to avoid society, or appear restless and dissatisfied in it?
Jane Austen
#93. When is it safe to invest?' there are two answers ...
1. Never!
2. Always!
'Never for' the crowd... 'Always' for the reasonable man; for it all depends upon what you call 'safe,' in a world peopled by fallible human beings.
Kenneth L. Fisher
#95. When is there ever a right time to fully give your heart to another? There are always going to be obstacles. You just have to decide which ones are worth it.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#98. When, President Obama, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end to that unbridled audacity of yours swaggering about as it does now?
Ted Cruz
#99. When is a game not a game? When the game is afoot.
Evelyn Cullet
#100. Where is God to be found? In suffering or in rebellion? When is a man most truly a man? When he submits or when he refuses? Where does suffering lead him? To purification or to bestiality?
Elie Wiesel
