While Quotes

While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction.

After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

Everything is dead while it lives.

I animated 20 years at Terry Toons. It's important to know that animators like pizza and a raise once in a while, and you've got to treat them with love.

A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.

Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga.

The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. I solved the problem by sticking my finger in my mouth and popping it out.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

Transitioning to being an unemployed film actor is different, but it's fun and I've been looking forward to it for a while.

There's ways to amuse yourself while doing things and thats how I look at efficency.

I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while.

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.

We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.

Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.

Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed.

In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction. I subscribe to National Geographic, Scientific American, Discover, and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure and interest that an interesting 'What if?' will pop into my head.

Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.

It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside world. But we have practised within our own boundaries something that amounts to race imperialism.

Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first.

What's really interesting is the introduction of the tablet - not just the iPad, but the Nook and the Kindle. While they aren't going to solve all of our problems, I do think they make it easier for people to pause, linger, read and really process very important ideas.

At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that book.

To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.

Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last.

Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum.