While Quotes
3600 quotes by 2887 authors
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting…
— Bill Bowerman
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After I've been in America for a while, I get homesick for Scotland.
— Billy Boyd
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Music has to be written while people are still excited about a particular melodic or rhythmic sequence. The idea doesn't come out the same if…
— Brandon Boyd
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I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I can't do a lot of…
— Terry Bradshaw
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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,…
— David Brainerd
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Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.
— David Brainerd
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I can honestly say I've never sold any arms to a repressive foreign regime while reassuring everyone at home that the weapons will be used…
— Jo Brand
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Regular panelists on shows can be terrifying. They own that space, and many guest comics suspect they are favoured in the edit, while their own…
— Jo Brand
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While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool…
— Garth Brooks
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I think that my biggest role models are people that have maybe struggled for a while and then finally gotten to their destination.
— Jonathan Brandis
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It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.
— Richard Brautigan
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While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters with the appropriate…
— John O. Brennan
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I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced…
— Vera Brittain
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If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be…
— Charlotte Bronte
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While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in me is too inhibited by…
— Geraldine Brooks
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It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn…
— Phillips Brooks
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You don't want flame to hit your food. Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot and it makes deposits of…
— Alton Brown
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While cats can be infuriating, little old women in fur coats, they make me laugh. Of course, dogs, horses and my highly social chickens are…
— Rita Mae Brown
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