Then Quotes

Live to learn, learn to live, then teach others.

There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.

I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.

There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

I think when you take away all, like, the premieres and press stuff and all the special effects, then you just come down to the fact that it's all about acting, and I think that has been the best bit for me.

When the mothers start to shatter, then everything just comes undone.

If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids.

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Making people laugh is magic. I feel like if you have humility, then you can do anything in comedy.

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don't just be mad at him or her.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

I wanted very much to do Traffic and at one point it looked like I was going to work on it. And then, of course, Catherine Zeta-Jones had her relationship with Michael Douglas and it suddenly didn't happen.

So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about.

When we go to play, you flip around and flash around and everything, and then they're not gonna see nothin' but what their eyes see. Forget about their ears.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

I don't feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you've got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don't buy too much.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society.