All Quotes

When the federal government invests in education, it should support quality education and career readiness rather than institutions that make empty promises.
‐‐ Sherrod Brown

When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.
‐‐ Ron Paul

When the 'Fight Club' movie was going into production, I quit my job so I could write full-time.
‐‐ Chuck Palahniuk

When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.
‐‐ George Carey

When the first big paycheque with 'Dumb And Dumber' hit, I went: 'Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?' But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.
‐‐ Jim Carrey

When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment.
‐‐ Frank Press

When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.
‐‐ Donald Johanson

When the first 'Hellboy' series came out, in the same batch of fan mail I got a letter from somebody from the Church of Satan, and I got a letter from a minister, and they both liked it. And I thought, 'What am I doing that I'm making both these guys happy?'
‐‐ Mike Mignola

When the first record came out, I'd go down to radio stations pretty much every day to get the record played, and I would walk in and they'd tell us how much they loved the record, but they weren't sure how much they could play it because they were already playing a girl.
‐‐ Pat Benatar

When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable.
‐‐ Alice Morse Earle

When the fishbowl gets too small, it's time to pack up and leave and jump into the lake or ocean.
‐‐ Travie McCoy

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
‐‐ Ramakrishna

When the flower blossoms, the bee will come.
‐‐ Srikumar Rao

When the former Fed chairman was in, Alan Greenspan was in, there was a saying back in those days that you called the 'Greenspan put.' Any time the treasury secretary - for the Fed chairman - said something, the market saw that as good news, and it took off.
‐‐ Scott Garrett

When the Founding Fathers arrived here in Philadelphia to forge a new nation, they didn't come as Democrats or Republicans or to nominate a presidential candidate. They came as patriots who feared party politics.
‐‐ Michael Bloomberg

When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.
‐‐ Gordon Sinclair

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
‐‐ Edith Hamilton

When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.
‐‐ Lytton Strachey

When the game is on, I want to be on the field, but I'm willing to catch, walk, run. I just want to be there. I'll even be water boy.
‐‐ Xavier Becerra

When the game is over it is really just beginning.
‐‐ Jerry Kramer

When the gate drops, it's time to try and execute the best you can.
‐‐ Nate Holland

When the generation after me started getting on the cut, a lot of them would call me over to hang out or go jam and scratch and they were always separate from each other.
‐‐ Eric San

When the Georgian army started this assault against the sleeping city of Tskhinvali, the Georgian peacekeepers, serving in one contingent with their Russian friends, joined the army and started killing the Russian comrades in arms.
‐‐ Sergei Lavrov

When the 'godfather of punk' thing started floatin' around, it was, I was really, really embarrassed. I thought I should have a great, big rig and a cape and everything, and it was very embarrassing. And then after a while, you learn that if people call you anything, this is a great gift.
‐‐ Iggy Pop

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde

When the going gets tough, I'm not always sure what you do. I'm not saying that I know how to fix everything when the going gets tough, but I do know this: when the going goes tough, you don't quit. And you don't fold up. And you don't go in the other direction.
‐‐ John Madden

When the going gets tough in Washington, presidents appoint 'blue ribbon' commissions.
‐‐ Christopher Buckley

When the going gets tough, let the tough get going.
‐‐ Frank Leahy

When the going gets tough, the prospect of delegating half your responsibilities to a willing volunteer, either to play a supporting role or take over the breadwinning, certainly holds allure.
‐‐ Mariella Frostrup

When the going gets tough, the tough get empirical.
‐‐ Jon Carroll

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
‐‐ Joseph P. Kennedy

When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap.
‐‐ Tom Hodgkinson

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
‐‐ Hunter S. Thompson

When the going got tough, I really had to draw on many of the same competitive instincts I did when I was skating. I really had to put my head down and stay positive. I had to fight.
‐‐ Peggy Fleming

When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home.
‐‐ Rick Perry

When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it's picking the winners in the competition.
‐‐ Robert McChesney

When the government gets involved in pricing, I don't think it's the right way to look at a business.
‐‐ Jamie Dimon

When the government is handed over to the Iraqi Council on 30 June, many have declared, oh, the Americans must never leave because civil unrest may erupt. Well, I agree, we cannot abruptly depart, but Iraq needs to step up to the plate on 30 June.
‐‐ Howard Coble

When the government mandates that everyone must buy a product, its sellers can, and will, increase its price, potentially without limit.
‐‐ Robert Zubrin

When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, it was picking the winners of the competition; it wasn't setting the terms of the competition.
‐‐ Robert McChesney

When the government runs out of lenders, it can do something that households are forbidden to do: print money.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

When the government undertakes or approves a major project such as a dam or highway project, it must make sure the project's impacts, environmental and otherwise, are considered. In many cases, NEPA gives the public its only opportunity to be heard about the project's impact on their community.
‐‐ Frances Beinecke

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.
‐‐ Marquis de Lafayette

When the grandmothers of today hear the word 'Chippendales', they don't necessary think of chairs.
‐‐ Jean Kerr

When the Grateful Dead needed a quality sound system to deliver our sonic payload, I learned electronics and speaker design.
‐‐ Mickey Hart

When the Great Fire of London destroyed most of the medieval city in 1666, Christopher Wren was invited to design a new one. Within days, he had drawn up an elegant grid of broad boulevards leading to majestic squares, but it came to nothing - the existing landowners wanted things as they had been.
‐‐ Norman Foster

When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents.
‐‐ Allan Sherman

When the great jazz and blues clubs closed - joints where the cash register rang loudly and there wasn't ESPN on TV over the bandstand, and people smoked cigarettes and drank whiskey and hollered 'Play on!' - When those places closed, I was pretty much done.
‐‐ James McBride

When the great promise of the Spirit was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost, it was fulfilled not in reference to the apostles only.
‐‐ Charles Hodge