Then Quotes

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up.

My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled.

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

I've been involved with violent movies, and then I've also said at a certain point, 'I can't take it anymore. Please cut it.' You know, you've got to respect the filmmaker, and it's a really tough issue.

A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.

Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

When you know that you can overcome challenges, you do gain that self-respect, and then you won't end up in a situation that you regret later on.

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.

Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap.

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

It's almost like when you're young, your friends take on the romance role, and then guys take on the role of your friends later.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

I went backwards and forwards over it until I was 22. And then in the past few years I began to say to myself, OK, look, I'm not messing around. This is something I want to attack, instead of thinking, I'll just see what happens with it.

I'm not defined by where I came from. I never took part in the rules and hatred that sometimes go along with religion. But if my parents are happy with what they believe, then I'm happy to stay out of their way. We agree to disagree.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.

I've never been one for doing remixes. Then I've gotta decide which version am I gonna be tonight: country Carrie or pop Carrie? I'd rather just make country music that anybody can get into no matter what they listen to.

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.

I think when you know what you are going to wear, it fits and it's great material, then you feel confident in it.

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

You can tell someone who doesn't have love in their life, then someone who is in love.

People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange.

I'm predicting that we'll finally have a computer will search my e-mail automatically and delete every message that begins with 'thought you'd be interested,' and then give an electrical shock to the sender to remind him or her to stop send that kind of message.