Top 100 While You Quotes
#1. If you are trying to get from here to there, and you already are late, you know that you are late, and yet you are aligned with the present moment while you are stuck in a traffic jam. You are totally accepting of the moment.
Eckhart Tolle
#2. Maybe the midnight disease was like that, too. After a while you lost the ability to distinguish between your fictional and actual words; you confused yourself with your characters, and the random happenings of your life with the machinations of a plot.
Michael Chabon
#3. I do not think you should read about writing while you are writing.
Maxwell Perkins
#4. Uncle Sam took up the challenge in the year of '33 For the farmer and the factory and all of you and me. He said, "Roll along Columbia. You can ramble to the sea, But river while you're ramblin' you can do some work for me."
Woody Guthrie
#5. I always thought it would be classy to not kiss and tell . . . but after a while you just get sick of having other people trying to tell your story for you.
Holly Madison
#6. Really, I want you to finish this book feeling like we could become friends, if the timing was right. That's it. Oh, and by the way, you should drink while you're reading this book. If you want to play a drinking game, I suggest you take a shot when you feel like I am abusing commas.
Alida Nugent
#7. How lovely it is to dream while you are awake.
Andre Agassi
#8. Don't ever tell people on Twitter that you're tweeting while you're driving, because they'll come unglued. It's worse than saying you're cutting up kittens.
Rob Gokee
#9. Because pretending to be happy is almost like being happy. Until you remember that you're only pretending. Then you're sad. Really sad. Because wearing a mask every day of your life is the hardest thing to do. And after a while, you get a little scared because the mask becomes you.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#10. He met her eyes in the mirror. "I thought you weren't talking to me ever again."
"I'm not," she said ... "I'm talking to myself while you eavesdrop.
Suzanne Brockmann
#11. The major value of reaching goals is not to acquire it, but it's the person you become while you're working to acquire it.
Jim Rohn
#12. The road to life is rocky, and you may stumble too. So while you point your fingers, someone else is judging you.
Bob Marley
#13. Yes," said the skull. "Quit while you're a head, that's what I say.
Terry Pratchett
#14. If you create you will also wait, and while you're waiting you will want to be patient but not idle ... responses from the world often take a long time.
Eric Maisel
#15. Strengths are not activities you're good at, they're activities that strengthen you. A strength is an activity that before you're doing it you look forward to doing it; while you're doing it, time goes by quickly and you can concentrate; after you've done it, it seems to fulfill a need of yours.
Marcus Buckingham
#17. Mistakes are something that happen by accident. You didn't walk out the door one morning and fall into some guy's bed. You thought about it, for a while. You made that choice.
Jodi Picoult
#18. We commute to computers;
Spirits stay mute while you eagles spread rumors.
We survivalists, turned to consumers ...
Talib Kweli
#19. If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
Robert Henri
#20. Shaving was not an easy task, for his hand continued to shake very much; and shaving requires attention, even when you don't dance while you are at it.
But if he had cut the end of his nose off, he would have put a piece of sticking-plaster over it, and been quite satisfied.
Charles Dickens
#21. If anyone other than you had me fly halfway around the world just to keep me waiting while you were obviously lingering in bed, I'd have my driver run them over. Twice.
Jeaniene Frost
#22. Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
John Lennon
#23. Monogamy," he stated flatly. "While you're with me, I'm the only one. Anybody else touches you and I'll kill them."
"What if I accidently bump into someone?"
Gold flashed in his eyes. "Don't.
Ilona Andrews
#24. Giving out of your surplus does not make you generous, it makes your selfishness more tolerable! Giving while you are lacking is what pleases the Lord.
William Branks
#25. The thing is, you can cut off a couple passions and only focus on one, but after a while, you'll start to feel phantom limb pain.
Austin Kleon
#26. Can he rectify false weight whose own scales are uncertain? Can you enlighten your neighbor while you yourself have no light?
Ramakrishna
#27. Death doesn't happen instantly. For a little while, you hover around your body, confused. What you want more than anything is to go home, to be safe, to know you're okay. But my life was over.
Caroline Flohr
#28. The physical act of walking combined with the opportunity to look out at the world while you are sharing your thoughts and feelings is very comforting to me.
Amy Poehler
#29. So even though you have some difficulty in your practice, even though you have some waves while you are sitting, those waves themselves will help you.
Shunryu Suzuki
#30. I've been at stand-up for years: after a while, you get as jaded as the proverbial gynecologist who no longer enjoys drugging and violating his patients.
Emo Philips
#31. You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies.
Alice Hoffman
#32. So while you're imitating Al Capone,
I'll be Nina Simone,
And defacating on your microphone
Lauryn Hill
#33. Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
Clare Boothe Luce
#34. The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead.
Arundhati Roy
#35. [mannerism is when] you think you have all these great ideas, and none of them are good at the end of the day. But while you are pursuing those other things subconsciously happen.
Ryan Gosling
#36. He licked her shoulder and pulled her closer, into the shelter of his body. "No worries, nysr. I'll watch over you while you sleep. And I'm not going anywhere. Not ever.
Jennifer Kacey
#37. While you sit
Like a rain puddle in hell
Knitting the socks
Of your life.
Charles Simic
#38. I can't stay. I have to go train for a while. You can come with me if you want." He kisses my nose as I laugh up at him.
"Honey, I don't run. If you ever see me running, you'd better start running too 'cause that means that something is chasing me.
Kristen Proby
#39. I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.
Gavin DeGraw
#40. As a general rule, you won't find the love of your life while you're on your knees under a table.
Helios Dayspring
Belinda McBride
#41. If anything in your life is more important than writing - anything at all - you should walk away now while you still can. Forewarned is forearmed. For those who cannot or will not walk away, you need only to remember this. Writing is life. Breathe deeply of it.
Terry Brooks
#42. Staying alive is nice, but you can't do that forever. It's how you live the life you have while you have it.
Frank E. Peretti
#43. Do it while you're young. You may never have another chance to do anything this stupid again!
Tom Magliozzi
#45. don't lose a diamond while you're busy chasing glitter.
Unknown
#46. Take what you need from [films] and get out of the dark once in a while. You're going to have more of the dark than you can handle, sooner than you think. The thing about the dark is it can never get enough of you.
Patton Oswalt
#47. When you deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow Him, you die while you simultaneously truly live. That is when you experience the reality that "whoever loses his life for my sake will find it" (Matthew 16:25).
Tony Evans
#48. How can you be in hell while you are in my heart?
Orlando Bloom
#49. Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.
Bill Bryson
#50. While you let those scars affect what you do, you're allowing your punishment to continue. It's done. You need to move on. Shit, that was brilliant advice. I just wish I could follow it myself.
Barbara Elsborg
#51. You are the dream I live with; you are the wish I'd made, the name I always whisper in every prayer I pray ... now that you left me, while you forget me, I'll hold you in my dreams.
Rick Trevino
#52. Success works as a cycle - growth and contraction, balancing and unbalancing - all while you're encountering hurdles that get higher and higher over time.
Julien Smith
#53. HeyHey is my favourite app. It's like Instagram but for sound recordings, with little soundbites from people's days. We spend far too much time looking down at our phones, so it's nice to have your head up while you listen to what other people have uploaded.
Gael Garcia Bernal
#54. With all my heart, I plead with the Latter-day Saints to live honestly with the Lord in the payment of tithes and offerings. I plead with youth to establish this habit while you are still young and to resolve to continue with it all the days of your lives.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#56. When there has been a problem in your marriage, you cannot forever go on thinking, 'I am the most terrible person in the world and he is the most wonderful person.' You cannot live in a marriage that is unequal, because after a while, you are just worn out.
Kimberly Quinn
#58. While you may have made money doing something a certain way yesterday, there's no reason to believe you'll succeed at it tomorrow.
Seth Godin
#59. Do you want it always to cost me the blood of my humanity while you do not even shed a tear?
Blaise Pascal
#61. So while you're an athlete, and you have that platform, what you want to be able to do is make it work for you as much as possible, because there's going to be life after sports.
Stedman Graham
#62. I think one thing we went through was common to a lot of people: You work your whole life to achieve something, then you achieve it and find out that you still have good days and bad days. So you start thinking, 'Is that all there is?' After a while you calm down and get back to work.
Elliot Easton
#63. Even when the economy isn't doing so well, people will still need good products and services. When you build a business around products and services that people will always need, then find innovative ways to let it run on autopilot while you grow it, then that's a sure recipe for wealth.
Kevin J. Donaldson
#64. Your passion may determine what you can do, but your attitude redefines how far you can go while you do what you can. Your attitude leads you and you lead other people!
Israelmore Ayivor
#65. To step into tomorrow's possibilities you must let go of yesterday's realities. Be careful of your choices between what was, is and will be. It is very hard to fully step into your destiny while you are still holding on to your history.
Christine Caine
#67. Northwest adage that "the weather doesn't dictate what you do - it only dictates what you wear while you do it.
M.D. Grayson
#68. While you try to make peace on earth,
the inhabitants of heaven are still at war.
Toba Beta
#69. The hood ornament on your car is for telling you where you're going. The rear-view-mirror is for showing you how good you look while you're getting there.
David Lee
#70. If you think while you write, you will enjoy it more and your prose will be more muscular and engaging.
Elise Hancock
#71. I don't know what's waiting for me around the corner and I don't know what else I'm going to be doing in the future - but you've got to enjoy things while you're doing them. There are tough times and mountains to climb, but you've got to go for it.
Miley Cyrus
#72. I like doing very high action things. Running, boxing, a lot of free weights. They're not heavy. I eat what I want, really, because I think that while you're working out you can eat better.
Natasha Bedingfield
#73. Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and starts to fill you up, and after a while you don't have the strength to fight it.
George R R Martin
#74. Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.
Gil Scott-Heron
#75. The thought of not seeing your eyes when I wake up, or not hearing your heart next to me while you are asleep made me sick. With all of that, I decided no, I can't go another day without you. I don't want to go another day without you
Gail McHugh
#76. Every once in a while you just have to decide to do something very crazy and very right
just to dare yourself to live. I don't mean doing something stupid and destructive
just something fun and good and beautiful.
Regina Doman
#77. God help you if you are a phoenix and you dare to rise up from the ash
a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying past
Ani DiFranco
#78. Directing is much more psychological-it's a lot like being a general. And you have to be organized. While you're making a film, you have between two and 500 people asking you a billion questions.
Julie Taymor
#79. You can only waste time relative to some context or goal. While you are reading this book, you are wasting time relative to your goal of getting to the store before you have to pick up your kids. In fact, from some perspective, you are always wasting time.
Anonymous
#80. I tried to tell you. You said you didn't care, remember?"
A muscle ticked below his eye. "You should have told me anyway."
"While you had barbells within your reach? Please. I'm Disease, not Stupid.
Gena Showalter
#81. Learning never takes place while you're talking.
Andy Stanley
#82. War is just like bush-clearing-the moment you stop, the jungle comes back even thicker, but for a little while you can plant and grow a crop in the ground you have won at such a terrible cost.
Kenneth Kaunda
#83. While you're taking your minute to think, consider the possible outcomes. Immediately discard any that involve making the Bully back down and admit that you're right. You cannot be right and effective at the same time.
Albert J. Bernstein
#84. Pooper scooper? Yeah, I've done it a few times. Every once in a while, you have to.
Kobe Bryant
#85. The worst part was waiting around. Sometimes you are ready at 9 a.m. and you don't start until the afternoon. Occupying your time while you wait is the hardest part of the movie.
Colleen Haskell
#86. Soulful healing asks, while you are healing your body with herbs from Earth, that you look for the meaning in what is happening within your body as it relates to your whole being.
Robin Rose Bennett
#87. Beck, this is not a good idea, hon. Oh my God, that is one hot little piece of disaster right there. Walk away while you still can, Beck. Oh sh*t. It's already too late, isn't it?
Maris Black
#88. As a dancer, it's hard because there's such a perfectionist quality that you really have to let go of while you're acting, because nobody wants to a watch a perfect person on screen.
Kathryn McCormick
#89. Self-righteousness means you don't see yourself or the other person with accuracy. It means you see his or her speck as a log and your log as a speck. So you are condemning of him or her and excusing of yourself. You treat the other person with judgment while you respond to yourself with patience.
Paul David Tripp
#90. If you're gonna have your head split open, it might as well be while you're riding a wave, dude.
Meg Cabot
#91. Parenting is something that happens mostly while you're thinking of something else.
Barbara Kingsolver
#92. Which means, while you guys are off partying tomorrow, I'll be at home in my makeshift lab, playing with D's blood." I groaned. "You're even able to make a nice gesture sound appalling. How is that possible?" "Years of practice," he said, grinning.
Ada Adams
#93. You are not truly wealthy unless you earn money while you are sleeping
Aristotle Onassis
#94. It's a funny thing sensing someone else's sex drive. After a while, you get to mistaking it for your own.
Haruki Murakami
#95. Go, then, go while you can. Go to your hot stew and your loaves of thyme bread. There's never time to mourn the dead while the business of the living continues. ~ Conor
Lisa Ann Verge
#96. When you leave a good job to go off on your own and don't expect to make money for a while, you name the firm whatever your wife says you should.
David Einhorn
#97. So thoughtless awareness is the first beautiful state you have to achieve. That will give you peace and a witness state to enjoy the drama of life, to enjoy the different varieties of people, while you will be growing within yourself.
Nirmala Srivastava
#98. When you become an adult, you get to choose your path. You take all the things you learned while you were on everyone else's and use it to build your own, but it's about where you heart wants to go. It's all up to you.
Lisa De Jong
#99. If you think while you walk, you're not really walking.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#100. If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.
Warren Buffett
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