While Quotes

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

While it's really hard to do, at the same time, I'm escaping my body, which I really want to do. I'm living someone else's life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. I'm experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don't have in my physical life.

I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

The Iraq conflict, while not a cause of extremism, has become a cause for extremists.

While nothing is certain, I firmly believe our nation is on the verge of a nuclear energy renaissance.

Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.

Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

We will never be authentically angry or authentically fair while we are trying to be both at once.

Everyone is on the internet but they're not all talking with each other. There are groups upon groups out there, but they don't talk to one another. So while the internet brings everyone into a shared space, it does not necessarily bring them together.

While Free Choice Vouchers didn't fulfill my vision of a health care system in which every American would be empowered to hire and fire their insurance company, they were a foothold for choice and competition and a safety valve for Americans whose employers are already forcing them to bear more and more of their family's health insurance costs.

The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points.

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?