While Quotes

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Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside… — Patrick Rothfuss
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Mr. Obama plans to boost federal spending 25 percent while nearly tripling the national debt over 10 years. Americans know that this kind of spending… — Karl Rove
I did live over in the U.K. for a while, so I guess I'm just naturally a Brit at heart. — Kelly Rowland
I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I know I want to have children while my parents are still young enough to take care of them. — Rita Rudner
Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you. — John Ruskin
I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was… — John Ruskin
Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep… — Bertrand Russell
One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where… — Nolan Ryan
It took me a while to figure that out and to realize what a gift that I had been given. And when I finally did,… — Nolan Ryan
While President Obama shirks his responsibility to advance solutions to our fiscal challenges, he can no longer hide from the merciless math of the balance… — Paul Ryan
Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to… — Gil Scott-Heron
Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become… — Gil Scott-Heron
Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition. This… — Jonathan Sacks
While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that. — Jonathan Sacks
While everyone else is thinking about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of the euro, do the opposite, even if it's hard. Invest… — Jonathan Sacks
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with… — Carl Sagan
While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things. — Saint Francis de Sales
Only an artist as preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd as Richard Artschwager, would be able to lay out the whole… — Jerry Saltz

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