Top 100 While Quotes
#1. We have glamorized vice and minimized virtue. We have played down gentleness, manners, and morals - while we have played up rudeness, savagery, and vice ... and the philosophy of might is right.
Billy Graham
#2. I have no social life. There is no time for one. Once in a while I may go to dinner with a friend but that is it. However I am much happier travelling and being busy competing in both my sports than having time off.
Liz Halliday
#3. Economically, legally, and politically powerless throughout much of western history, women have been linked to nature and the unknowable through metaphors of the body while the masculine has signified culture and mental activity.
Whitney Chadwick
#4. You would have us encourage our sons to prove all things by their own experience, while our daughters must not even profit by the experience of others.
Anne Bronte
#5. Real age, as I came to see from the genuine pieces that passed through my hands, was variable, crooked, capricious, singing here and sullen there, warm asymmetrical streaks on a rosewood cabinet from where a slant of sun had struck it while the other side was as dark as the day it was cut.
Donna Tartt
#6. While perspective is a handy device to construct imagined spaces, it is not useful, and possibly detrimental, to sketching existing environments.
Paul Laseau
#7. For me, motivation is this horrible, scary game where I try to make myself do something while I actively avoid doing it.
Allie Brosh
#8. You are not just shackled to your life while living it, you continue to be stuck with it after you're gone. Or,
Philip Roth
#9. Nearly two weeks have passed since Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Gulf Coast, and while we are still dealing with the tremendous devastation - and will be for quite some time - we are also seeing increased signs of recovery and help in our region.
Jo Bonner
#10. I've known Timbaland for a while. We developed a friendship. He always said he would come back for me when he was ready, and he did. We've been rocking and rolling since we got together a couple of years ago. I'm blessed to be under his mentorship, and grateful he's opened so many doors for me.
V. Bozeman
#11. I knit for Caps for Good - a charity that gives hats to Third World babies - while I watch movies with friends.
Isabelle Fuhrman
#12. Pursue money while you're alive, so that poverty will not pursue you when you're old.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#13. I interned at the NFL Network while I was in college, but I have not had an internship or another job other than football in a very long time.
Clay Matthews III
#14. My first three-sisters novel in a while, 'Sandcastles' tells the story of the Sullivan family - two passionate artists and their three wildly different daughters. There's also a renegade nun and a mystery man, but I don't want to give too much away!
Luanne Rice
#15. While von Clausewitz said, 'War is the continuation of policy (politics) by other means,' when considering the welfare of our men and women in uniform, their families, our veterans and survivors, don't let politics drive your decisions.
Joe Heck
#16. If you wish to speak to Allah, then do dikhr. If you are eager to meet him, then sms while you drive
Wakas Mir
#17. I'd like to see him go out and bat one day with a stump. I tell you that's what he's been doing all this while
Greg Chappell
#18. There's a manner of speaking you use while lawyering. A manner as affected and rife with artifice as your average campaign speech, with a similar fear of offending.
Sergio De La Pava
#19. Finding your look isn't complicated if you go in without being frightened. Notice what people are complimenting you on. Experiment with new things once in a while, but have your tried-and-true pieces that work.
Lauren Hutton
#20. After going through years of litigation to get royalties due to him, the guy who coined the term 'happily ever after' lived reasonably well for a while.
Demetri Martin
#21. Finally coming to terms with Fathers Day. I blow as a Dad. I get it. No, I'm not an evil, abusive Father, it's just that while all my intentions and thoughts have been out of love for my kids, my actions and behaviour never measured up.
Geoffrey Hill
#22. There is one great beauty in idealized romance: reading it can make no one worse than he is, while it may help thousands to a cleaner life and higher inspiration than they ever before have known.
Gene Stratton-Porter
#23. I waded out of the sea while loving it still, even as I had earlier dropped from the stars while loving them; and in truth there is no place in Briah that is not lovely when it no longer holds the threat of death, save for the places men have made so.
Gene Wolfe
#24. While the Baroque rules of Chess could only have been created by humans, the rules of Go are so elegant, organic, and rigorously logical that if intelligent life forms exist elsewhere in the universe, they almost certainly play Go.
Emanuel Lasker
#25. It's not terrible, I guess, but if Ricky Gervais was half as talented as me, maybe the show would actually be funny once in a while.
Zach Braff
#26. Heroes may be less than heroic, while the common man saves the day.
Barbara Kingsolver
#27. Just sitting around waiting for my life to begin, while it was all just slipping away.
Bruce Springsteen
#28. While economics is about how people make choice, sociology is about how they don't have any choice to make.
Bertrand Russell
#29. Every once in a while, it pays to listen to those annoying characters who are just waiting to tell you how to do your job.
Joe McNally
#30. In God's dimension, so to speak, you find a being who is three Persons while remaining one Being, just as a cube is six squares while remaining one cube.
C.S. Lewis
#31. Our spending priorities are clearly in question when we are increasing bond indebtedness on pet projects such as museums while our infrastructure is allegedly failing. Mississippians are spending more on basic needs than ever. They don't need their state government making that worse.
Chris McDaniel
#32. Friendship closes its eye rather than see the moon eclipsed; while malice denies that it is ever at the full.
Augustus Hare
#33. Fear masquerades as a "just cause" while devouring all forms of freedom and dignity.
Katy Tackes
#34. Hey, not while I'm at my devotions, no so fast, the fat man said, inside the shithouse you're communing with God, and outside you find that all hell's broken loose.
Herta Muller
#35. Women were considered the snare of the Devil, while at the same time the cult of the Virgin made one woman the central object of love and adoration.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#36. For 70 years there's been a consensus among scholars and the American people on a reading to the Constitution that protects the right of privacy, the autonomy of individuals, while at the same time empowering the federal government to protect the less powerful.
Joe Biden
#37. While he was alive Peter Jennings did considerable damage to the cause of civilization and human deceny [sic] by his sympathy for Jew-hating terrorists and their supporters.
Paul Waldman
#39. While Michael Angelo's Sistine roof,
His "Morning" and his "Night" disclose
How sinew that has been pulled tight,
Or it may be loosened in repose,
Can rule by supernatural right
Yet be but sinew.
William Butler Yeats
#40. I would like to explore some side roads in life while I am still in good health and good spirits.
Charles Kuralt
#41. Chinese people as consumers, while they've always valued food and beverage for the health food qualities, they are also now wanting it in terms of other values: 'Does this speak about my position in society? Am I now middle-class, and does this matter to me?'
Jenny Shipley
#42. The longer and longer I played in the NFL, I kind of said, 'Well, I'm not going to go out and get a 9 to 5 job at any point soon, so what can I do?' So I started hosting radio and TV shows while I was still playing.
Matt Willig
#43. Though the funny thing about never being asked for anything is that after a while you start to feel like maybe you don't have anything worth giving.
Lev Grossman
#44. I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.
Harry Houdini
#45. Wonder blasts the soul - that is, the spiritual - and the skeleton, the body - the material. Wonder interprets life through the eyes of eternity while enjoying the moment, but never lets the moment's revision exhaust the eternal.
Ravi Zacharias
#46. Often, this has only meant a change in tyranny. In other words, one ruling class is replaced by another - sometimes by one that is more efficient and therefore still more capable of maintaining itself - while the poor and downtrodden remain poor and downtrodden or become even worse off.
Isaac Asimov
#48. I'm starting to realize that being born into this social world is a little like being born into clean air. You take it in as soon as you breathe, and pretty soon you don't even realize that while you can walk around with clear lungs, other people are wearing oxygen masks just to survive.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
#49. Lift up your two hands; remember one is for helping others while the other is for helping you. Give a helping hand to whoever needs help. I believe you need help too; give help to yourself!
Israelmore Ayivor
#50. Investing now in safe-guarding people by helping them to adapt to climate change, will help save money and lives while building resilience.
Michael Franti
#51. While it sounds interesting, it was really only a headache pressed between covers.
Patrick Rothfuss
#52. People who work crossword puzzles know that if they stop making progress, they should put the puzzle down for a while.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#53. Progressive metal is one of the hardest styles of music to pull off live, especially while providing a tasteful show.
Matty Mullins
#54. No chimpanzee husband would stand by while his wife lost all her coconuts.
Kurt Vonnegut
#55. She and her mom used to visit him on lunch breaks and, in later years, she did her homework in an empty interrogation room while eavesdropping on the dispatch.
Rob Thomas
#56. Why are we willing to accept a new mathematical formula we don't understand as the product of a brilliant mind, while rejecting a new art form we don't understand as the product of a deranged mind?
Sydney J. Harris
#57. We often praise 'the ability to multi-task.' While you can learn when you divide your attention, divided attention doesn't lead to aiding change in your brain maps [lasting changes].
Norman Doidge
#58. It's important to show that, while authorizing the demonstrations and promoting diversity of opinion, the Republic can't allow itself to be undermined from within.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
#59. The best friend of truth is time while the best friend of a leader is results.
Orrin Woodward
#60. Stand up for your principles, but be a decent human being while you're doing it.
Rick Santorum
#61. else would I search for you for weeks, turn over every stone in Zurich looking for you, while my heart wouldn't beat and my lungs could barely breathe?
Victoria Parker
#62. All religion teaches the virtues of love, altruism and patience, while showing us how to discipline and transform ourselves to achieve inner peace and a kind heart. Therefore, they are worthy of our respect.
Dalai Lama
#63. While shooting 'The Unit', I went to the Middle East twice to see the troops. I met some great men and women.
Max Martini
#64. Being born into this world involves taking on a conditioned view of identity - for a while at least. We are all conditioned from a very young age to believe that we are separate and incomplete, and that if we could only just get something additional then we will somehow become whole.
Dhyana Stanley
#65. While I think storytelling is a meaningful way to spend your life ... it does feel a little bit secondary or off-point.
David Simon
#66. Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.
Dana Scott
#67. To me ... she was spring. It was as if while imprisoned inside the dark cage of the inner family ... I had completely frozen into snow ... and then there she was
fresh, clear spring. It was almost inevitable that..I would fall in love with her. -Hatori
Natsuki Takaya
#68. I'm really fortunate that I am in continuous work and I love what I do. And I think that there's a reason that it keeps happening. So while that keeps happening, I will be thrilled - and feel lucky - to keep doing it.
Rose McIver
#69. I stuck a barette with a silver star into my black hair. If I was going to be popping my head in and out of bars like a wife who was looking for her husband who had just got paid and was squandering all the money, at least I was going to look unbelievably fantastic while I was doing it.
Heather O'Neill
#70. While it's true in tennis, love is zero. but zero is also where everything starts. nothing would ever be born if we didn't depart from there. nothing would be ever achieved.
Gosho Aoyama
#71. She knew herself the heart of a king buried in a sepulchre (in the land of his love) while the body of the king is elsewhere. My heart lies buried in there like Coeur de Lion (or whoever it was) who had his heart buried at Havre (or wherever it was) and the rest of him buried somewhere else.
H.D.
#72. I eat vegetarian. I am just drawn to clean eating, and although I do not deprive myself of sweets or French fries once in a while, my body just feels better if I give it good fuel to work with.
Tricia Helfer
#73. ...please remember that leaving your baby alone protesting for more fun with you while you get dressed is not the same things as abandonment. Similarly, leaving your baby alone protesting for more fun when she needs to sleep is not neglect.
Marc Weissbluth
#74. My truest passion is writing, so I continue to do that on my own while seeing what all the buzz is about being in front of the camera.
Dylan Penn
#75. In Two Parts You come and go so easily, your life is as you knew - while mine is split in two. How I envy so the half of me, who lived before love's due, who was yet to know of you.
Lang Leav
#76. That hard work, honesty, and integrity always paid off in the end, while skating by on your looks was somehow an offense. And like that day playing psychiatrist, I occasionally worried that she was right.
Emily Giffin
#77. While pity shows a lack of respect for other human beings, compassion has its roots in a deep respect for others. Pity is an emotion; compassion is a connection. Compassion sees the other as equal. Compassion happens when we care for another person enough to make his or her problems our own.
Matt Litton
#78. The Open is the one that we all want and strive for and to be able to hold this Claret Jug is an incredible feeling. To be three legs towards the career grand slam at the age of 25 is a pretty good achievement. It's not going to sink in for a while.
Rory McIlroy
#79. I have been directing and involved in producing and the creating of films for quite a while as well as acting. I always think in terms of what the director needs, and not just for this scene but for the film.
George Clooney
#80. Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee,
While the world's tide is bearing me along;
Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me,
Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.
Emily Bronte
#81. How to Find Your Joylah
1. Try new things
2. Be open to new friends
3. Visit new places
4. Listen to new ideas
5. Remember each day is a new day
6. And it's really no big deal if beads get mixed up every once in a while
Elizabeth Atkinson
#82. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavourable. Favourable conditions never come.
C.S. Lewis
#83. I'm only human, and I have no doubt Spock will outlive me by many years. I can only hope that, once in a while, when people look at Spock's visage, they might sometimes think of me.
Leonard Nimoy
#84. Unbelief squashes; faith teaches. Faith takes a boy aside, and tells him that this part of what he did was good, while that other part of what he did got in the way. And this is how to do it better next time.
Douglas Wilson
#85. After a while, the cocaine - I didn't have any friends. I was just alone and I didn't even like myself.
George Jung
#86. Justice of the world is in its creativity, in solving problems, in our activity and struggle. While I am alive there is the possibility to act, to strive for happiness, this is justice.
Simon Soloveychik
#87. Your unconscious mind takes the things you can't handle and plays with them while you sleep until some of the sharp corners are worn off.
Lawrence Block
#88. Neukom, the Giants' buttoned-down owner, finally found Ross and vigorously rubbed his bald head while screaming jibberish nobody could understand
Andrew Baggarly
#89. Dying, I learned, is a not a team sport. It's a solitary endeavor. Everyone I loved was standing on dry land, while I was alone on a boat as it slowly pulled away from the shore, and there's nothing anyone could do about it but watch it happen.
Emma Scott
#90. I know a profound pattern humans deny with words even while their actions affirm it. They say they seek security and quiet, conditions they call peace. Even as they speak, they create seeds of turmoil and violence.
Frank Herbert
#91. In this moment, looking into his eyes while he doing these things to me, I feel overwhelmed, scared it'll all be taken away, but most of all the beginning of what I think is freedom. Free to be me. Free to feel human and not my parents puppet.
N.E. Henderson
#92. While at Oxford in 1999, I met Jonathan Fortier, who is a Montreal-born Canadian. Despite the challenges of a transatlantic relationship, we remained keen on each other and eventually married in 2002.
Anne Fortier
#93. How is it that some people go through hell trying to get close to you, while you haven't the haziest notion and don't even give them a thought when two weeks go by and you haven't so much as exchanged a single word between you? Did he have any idea? Should I let him know?
Andre Aciman
#94. In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.
David Mamet
#95. People would say you look weak if you're not cursing the opposition and driving around in a big black car while always wearing a tie. Above all, to be 'strong' you're always supposed to be giving orders.
George Papandreou
#96. We lost family all the time, and we mourned them and buried them and remembered them. Wouldn't it be better to celebrate family while they are alive to a greater degree than when they are no longer with us?
David Baldacci
#97. I want to lay under the blanket of sky and laugh while the stars wink and we write our story.
A.D. Posey
#98. I think that while you're making the film it's important to just keep your eye on the ball and make the best movie you can, and then realize that it's out of your control.
Joseph Kosinski
#99. I was single for six years and during those six years I went back to college and got my degree in Social Work and then ... while I was single ... Barney came here to Portsmouth on vacation.
Betty Hill
#100. This contrasts sharply with the progressive view that markets must respect human dignity and serve the common good while pursuing profit.
George Lakoff
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