While Quotes

I find it refreshing to unplug from it for a while. You kind of forget how deeply you get embedded in it.

It was good while it was good.

My coach, Liang Chow, had one rule while I was training for the 2008 Olympics: no skiing. I could do anything I wanted outside the gym, he said, except ski.

While the recent addition of the National Guard providing a support role manning computers and cameras has allowed more Border Patrol agents to work the field, more agents are still needed.

Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.

Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions. If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions.

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

And it raises a fundamental question: How long can we move the world in one direction while we move in another direction, and do we want to backslide into an era that we finally emerged from where we had a nuclear weapon for every tactical mission?

I think in general, romantic comedies tend to take one person's point of view, but every once in a while you get something that is balanced for two people.

I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while.

Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.

The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.

You know, to preserve our job-friendly climate the Texas legislature didn't raise taxes this last legislative session while balancing their budget and maintaining their reserves - and might I add that our budget leaves $6 billion dollars in a rainy day fund?

Third issue, and again I think it is important to note, anyone can make a mistake and any administration can make a mistake once in a while, but this is just a long train of abuses, an unbroken chain of following special interests rather than the health of the American people.

I like cast iron coated with enamel for longevity and forgiveness if I happen to take my eyes off the prize while pouring Chianti.

Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man.

We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.

Phish has run its course and that we should end it now while it's still on a high note.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

I wouldn't mind the rat race - if the rats would lose once in a while.

They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.

Every once in a while, I run into somebody who tells me that she met her husband in my campaign or a husband who says, I met my wife. I have to tell you, I caused a few divorces too.

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

If you call on God to improve the results of a shot while it is still in motion, you are using 'an outside agency' and subject to appropriate penalties under the rules of golf.

As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope... These things don't fit on a comedy stage and if you act you'll get to express them once in a while. Music is a place for the intensely personal.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.