While Quotes

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.

For a while it was hard for me to say no to work.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.

Once you've done one style, you leave it for a while.

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.

And I also have a camera, a Web cam, and I have one at home, so I can hook up and talk to the girls, and they can see me while we're on the bus in the middle of nowhere.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.

Leave the table while you still feel you could eat a little more.

While trying to protect the republic, the conspirators in Julius Caesar enable Mark Antony to triumph. In Rose Rage, the more Henry VI tries to fix things, the more they go wrong.

Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

My biggest regret in life is that I didn't hit John Denver in the mouth while I has the chance.

I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.

We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.

Sometimes I take a while to get ready to go out. It's not excessive, but it takes me some time to find clean clothes that match.

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

When we awaken, we cannot account for the time spent. We simply don't remember. About the only evidence we have of experiences while we were asleep is when we happen to remember a dream.

For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.

The 55% of American households that make less than $40,000 will get a tax break of only $7 while the households that make more than $1 million will receive an average tax break of $32,000.

The Sierra Club is a very good and a very powerful force for conservation and, as a matter of fact, has grown faster since I left than it was growing while I was there! It must be doing something right.

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

Generally I finish a first draft in 2-6 months, then I set it aside for a while so that when I come back to it I can read it with fresh eyes and figure out how to improve it.