Then Quotes

My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary.

I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn't really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up.

Rest until you feel like playing, then play until you feel like resting, period. Never do anything else.

I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.

Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.

When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.

There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't.

I always say, 'People first, then money, then things.'

I have to trust what I do and then do it.

If Ottawa giveth, then Ottawa can taketh away.

Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.

I tried to make myself as pretty as possible and even then I thought I was ugly. I found it madly difficult to go out, to show myself.

If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.

Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end.

If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.

I remember in particular my first victory when I achieved a very fast time in what were perfect conditions but since then the wind has always been a factor against me.

First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.

If heaven is understood more as God's space on earth than as an ethereal region apart from the essential reality we know, then what happens on earth matters even more than we think, for the Christian life becomes a continuation of the unfolding work of Jesus, who will one day return to set the world to rights.

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.

In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.

You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.

If you're happy, if you're feeling good, then nothing else matters.

You know, everybody has a slogan, and once you beat people over the head with it so much, then that's what you'll eventually be called once you retire from the sport or whatever.

Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.

So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva.