While Quotes

While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in.

I did every sport under the sun while growing up.

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

I'm the one who has to look in the mirror, and after a while it begins to eat at you.

It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole art thing. They just wanted me to concentrate on the music. But they respect it now.

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

While there's life, there's hope.

A handful of men, inured to war, proceed to certain victory, while on the contrary, numerous armies of raw and undisciplined troops are but multitudes of men dragged to the slaughter.

Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives.

Then they held my mouth shut for a while and hit me in the face, and with a whip across chest and back. I then collapsed, rolled on the floor, always keeping face down and no longer replied to any of their questions.

I had short hair for a while, but I ended up loving it.

I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck.

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

Instead of saying that globalization is a fact, that it's inevitable, we've also got to demonstrate that while the growing interdependence of the world economy is indeed a fact, it's not uncontrollable.

If Broadway shows charge preview prices while the cast is in dress rehearsal, why should restaurants charge full price when their dining room and kitchen staffs are still practicing?

And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground.

Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?

The reason most people sweat is so they will not catch fire while they are making love.

The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.

How can you be in hell while you are in my heart?

I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles.

Punishing abuse in Iraq should not return the U.S. to Sept. 10, 2001, in the way it fights al Qaeda, while Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants remain at large and continue to plan attacks.

While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.

I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.

My daughter is a preschooler but I have only known her for a while. She is adopted.

While it is important to maintain a balanced approach to solving our nation's energy problems, we must commit ourselves to recognize some areas as 'off limits,' and the Artic National Wildlife Reserve is a national symbol of that commitment.

I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.