While Quotes
3600 quotes by 2887 authors
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I like to work for a while, and then do nothing for some period.
— Peter Boyle
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I haven't been out in the marketplace in a while. I'm thinking about going back into it. I've got some things set up over the…
— Michael Nesmith
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I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years.
— Steve Buscemi
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My life is extremely full and wretchedly busy, and I feel that while my life drains energy from my work, my work in turn drains…
— Jan Karon
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I'll read anything. In fact, I'll read while I'm doing other things, which is not a good idea.
— Jamaica Kincaid
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While many applauded Oprah for opening her heart to young girls in South Africa, some criticized her for not investing in the youth of America.
— Kitty Kelley
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I worked on 'USA Today' as a topic for while. I tried to do something on hand chairs, chairs that look like hands. I really…
— Jim Gaffigan
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While prosperity is in some ways related to money, it is not caused by money.
— Shakti Gawain
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While no amount of financial wealth can guarantee an experience of prosperity, it is possible to experience prosperity at almost any level of income, except…
— Shakti Gawain
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Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.
— Johannes Tauler
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While I was writing I assumed it would be published under a pseudonym, and that liberated me: what I wrote was exactly what I wanted…
— Nicholson Baker
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While I was serving, I worked as an adventure training officer, teaching soldiers how to ski, canoe and climb.
— Ranulph Fiennes
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Rivalry is one of the factors pushing me. While my back was turned, the Norwegians managed to achieve the first Arctic crossing in winter. I…
— Ranulph Fiennes
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The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective.
— Barry Commoner
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Aristotle said time is a measure of change, and this movie is about changing in time, through time, while remaining the same person. That's a…
— Robert McKee
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While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in.
— Dean Rusk
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In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the…
— Breyten Breytenbach
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Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the…
— Elihu Root
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The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while…
— Elihu Root
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The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects…
— Asa Gray
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