When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
‐‐ George Eliot
When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.
‐‐ Camilo Jose Cela
When December comes, can 'The Nutcracker' be far behind? No, it can't - not in America, anyway.
‐‐ Robert Gottlieb
When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.
‐‐ James Dyson
When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
‐‐ Abbie Hoffman
When deeds speak, words are nothing.
‐‐ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
‐‐ Napoleon Hill
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
‐‐ Quintilian
When Delaware State University was founded in 1890, it was not by choice, but by social reality.
‐‐ Michael N. Castle
When Demetrie got sick, we knew it was our responsibility to take care of her and pay her medical bills. And we embraced that. But the tricky part is, like so many families in the South, we also expected her to use a separate bathroom, to use separate utensils.
‐‐ Kathryn Stockett
When Democrats kind of cavalierly attack the religious right or go after Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell, our candidates have sent the signal to a lot of religious people, 'Well, I guess they are not interested in me.' And I think this includes a lot of people who would fit very naturally within the Democratic Party.
‐‐ Tim Kaine
When Democrats lose, they're pathetic. When Republicans lose, they're bitter and mean.
‐‐ Timothy Noah
When Department of Health and Human Services administrators decided to base 30 percent of hospitals' Medicare reimbursement on patient satisfaction survey scores, they likely figured that transparency and accountability would improve healthcare.
‐‐ Alexandra Robbins
When 'designed in Europe' is combined with 'made in China' and when European technologies are applied to the Chinese market, there will be amazing results.
‐‐ Li Keqiang
When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer technology.
‐‐ Howard Rheingold
When designing a kitchen, always keep in mind the social aspect.
‐‐ Michael Mina
When desire dies, fear is born.
‐‐ Baltasar Gracian
When 'Desperate Housewives' ends, I think my girls will be about the kindergarten age. I will be so happy to be there for them through that huge transition.
‐‐ Marcia Cross
When Destiny's Child released their first record, I don't think I even noticed. I was still at school, and I had my own life in Houston.
‐‐ Solange Knowles
When 'Destroyer' was first released, we got a strong backlash from our hardcore fans. After six months, the album was dead in the water. The critics didn't think much of it, either.
‐‐ Peter Criss
When determining appropriate levels of compensation, management must determine if the employee turnover rate is too low, too high, or just right. If turnover rate is high enough to adversely impact the entity's performance, then employee compensation is probably too low.
‐‐ Jason Chaffetz
When developing an idea, I remind myself not to start with compromise. I envision the ideal manifestation of the idea, as if I had no limits in resources, materials, or permission.
‐‐ Janet Echelman
When diamonds' role in fuelling violent conflict in Africa gained worldwide attention, the diamond industry established the Kimberley process in order to keep "blood diamonds" out of international trade.
‐‐ Peter Singer
When Dick Avedon died, I was so upset that I just started painting.
‐‐ China Machado
When Dickens arrives in the United States in November of 1867, he's already in questionable health. So by the end of the trip, he was really in failing condition, and really, he would never recover completely after this point, and you could sort of draw a straight line to his ultimate decline and death.
‐‐ Matthew Pearl
When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.
‐‐ Samantha Power
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
‐‐ Victor Hugo
When did 'Ask not what your country can do for you' become 'Ask only what your country will give you'?
‐‐ Allen West
When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.
‐‐ LeBron James
When did I learn the Bible? When I was four or five years old. It's still the pull of my childhood, a fascination with the vanished world, and I can find everything except that world.
‐‐ Elie Wiesel
When did I start comedy? I came out of the womb and did 10 minutes.
‐‐ Andy Kindler
When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?
‐‐ Glenn Beck
When did it something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?
‐‐ Glenn Beck
When did it - When did it become okay for someone to hit home runs and forget how to play the rest of the game?
‐‐ Ryne Sandberg
When did Jimmy Stewart not play Jimmy Stewart? When did John Wayne not play John Wayne? But that's what we like about them. When you talk about acting, you really have to respond to somebody's personality.
‐‐ John Mellencamp
When did one man ever civilize a people?
‐‐ John Lothrop Motley
When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?
‐‐ Chuck Palahniuk
When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?
‐‐ Julie Burchill
When did you last have fun being dignified?
‐‐ Kate Reardon
When differences of view emerge, as they are bound to do from time to time, they should be resolved privately and whenever appropriately, collectively.
‐‐ Nigel Lawson
When digital culture first came along, it was supposed to create more time, by allowing us to shift time around. Somehow instead we've strapped devices to ourselves that ping us all the time.
‐‐ Douglas Rushkoff
When digital technology started becoming the norm, you've got 50, 60, 70 years of recordings on tapes that are just deteriorating. Like, a two-inch reel of recording tape won't last forever. It dissolves. It will disappear.
‐‐ Dave Grohl
When discs form around stars, there is interaction of angular momentum between disc, planets and parent star, and this interaction affects the rotation of the parent star, and that will affect the lithium abundance.
‐‐ Garik Israelian
When discussing overall impacts on employment, it is important not to overlook the new technologies and industries that can be driven by pollution control standards.
‐‐ Gina McCarthy
When Disney was creating Elsa, they based a lot of her movements on that of a ballerina, which was interesting for me to find out because I actually did ballet years ago. That definitely informed some of the ways I made her walk and move.
‐‐ Georgina Haig
When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that disarmament would not affect military security at all.
‐‐ Ludwig Quidde
When do you know it's time to say, 'OK, that's it?' That is the most difficult part of any decision like that because you don't want to throw the 'R' word out there. I've mentioned it a couple times, but not in the sense that I'm doing it. That word is very fragile. We'll see.
‐‐ Jim Thome
When do you know you're insane? And when do you known you're sane? I think I treat a fine line between the two. It's a battle to function, but somehow I manage.
‐‐ Siobhan Fahey
When documents were analog, they were protected by government laws against unreasonable search and seizure. When they live in the cloud... the ground is shifting.
‐‐ John Battelle
When does an object become a symbol? All I know is you cannot force it.
‐‐ Jami Attenberg