While Quotes - page 3

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. (Carl Friedrich Gauss)
While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction. View quote
James Branch Cabell
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one. View quote
Charles Mackay
Experience is what you get while looking for something else. View quote
Federico Fellini
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life. View quote
Joseph Conrad
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. View quote
Thomas Edison
A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens. View quote
John Updike
I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin. View quote
Aaliyah
We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight. View quote
John Lennon
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic. (James Thurber)
Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. View quote
William Hazlitt
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully. View quote
Graham Greene
A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so. View quote
Eyvind Johnson
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down. View quote
George Eliot
While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection. View quote
Amartya Sen
We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it. View quote
Tennessee Williams
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies within us while we live. View quote
Norman Cousins
I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving. View quote
Robert E. Lee
We dance round in a ring and suppose, While the secret sits in the middle and knows. View quote
Robert Frost
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. (Samuel Johnson)
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own. View quote
Michael Korda
Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. View quote
Steve Jobs
A situation where people can grow old without having a job that rewards them individually while adding to the collective well-being is morally unacceptable. View quote
Franco Modigliani
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