All Quotes

When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.
‐‐ Roy E. Disney

When your voice contradicts reality and truth, the only way to create space for it is to discredit reality and truth.
‐‐ John Yarmuth

When your whole system, your whole civilized system goes down, this is pretty much what you get left with. We have no communications, no running water, no electricity, no real help.
‐‐ Kathleen Blanco

When your wife calls, you have to take it, no matter what you're doing.
‐‐ Ashton Kutcher

When your will power is gone, you are helpless.
‐‐ El DeBarge

When your work is nonfiction about low-income communities, pretty much anything that's not nonfiction about low-income communities feels like a guilty pleasure.
‐‐ Katherine Boo

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
‐‐ Henry J. Kaiser

When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.
‐‐ Owen Wister

When Zionism becomes co-extensive with Jewishness, Jewishness is pitted against the diversity that defines democracy, and if I may say so, betrays one of the most important ethical dimensions of the diasporic Jewish tradition: namely, the obligation of co-habitation with those different from ourselves.
‐‐ Judith Butler

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.
‐‐ Max Planck

Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.
‐‐ Gottfried Leibniz

Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it.
‐‐ Isaac Barrow

Whence, then, did the cathedral derive its power? Clearly here: It took back the family into the confidences of religion. It taught man and woman how the human and the divine love could go hand in hand.
‐‐ Jenkin Lloyd Jones

Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie.
‐‐ Harold Ramis

Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
‐‐ Hippocrates

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.
‐‐ Harry S Truman

Whenever a female takes a strong stand for herself, the majority of the time they have to really, really narrow it down to being feminine and wearing dresses and just being lipstick chic.
‐‐ Michelle Rodriguez

Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.
‐‐ Naomi Watts

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
‐‐ Gore Vidal

Whenever a gentle pressure is used to make a slight change in leg posture, the neck muscles react immediately. Conversely, when the therapist helps one to 'release' the neck muscles, it is amazing to see quite pronounced movements for instance of the toes, even when one is lying on a couch.
‐‐ Nikolaas Tinbergen

Whenever a Gujarati or Sikh businessman comes to a Republican event, it begins with an appeal to Jesus Christ. While the Democrats are really good at making the outsider feel at home, the Republicans make little or no effort.
‐‐ Dinesh D'Souza

Whenever a high-profile leader dies, people immediately attempt to summarize that person's life in a sentence. Often, critics and commentators get caught up looking at the leader's style, or which political or philosophical camp they represented.
‐‐ John C. Maxwell

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
‐‐ H. L. Mencken

Whenever a Kurd wants to measure the depth of some foreign leader's commitment to Kurdish autonomy, he listens for one particular word. That word is 'federal.' Anyone who will say he favors Kurdish federalism can be counted a friend of the Kurds.
‐‐ Timothy Noah

Whenever a liberal begins a statement with 'I don't know which is more frightening', you know the answer is going to be pretty clear.
‐‐ Ann Coulter

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde

Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.
‐‐ George Jean Nathan

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
‐‐ Thomas Jefferson

Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.
‐‐ Aeschylus

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
‐‐ Victor Hugo

Whenever a new technology is introduced into society, there must be a counterbalancing human response - that is, high touch - or the technology is rejected... We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human nature.
‐‐ John Naisbitt

Whenever a political regime or religious establishment refuses to tolerate criticism, it advertises itself as repressive, backward, and insecure.
‐‐ Mark Knopfler

Whenever a president nominates somebody to a high-profile post, there is always the risk that some skeleton, real or imagined, will emerge from the nominee's closet and doom the whole enterprise.
‐‐ Timothy Noah

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
‐‐ Edmund Burke

Whenever a situation develops to its extreme, it is bound to turn around and become its opposite.
‐‐ Frank Capra

Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.
‐‐ Howard Rheingold

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.
‐‐ Karl Popper

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
‐‐ Emily Dickinson

Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.
‐‐ J. J. Abrams

Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it.
‐‐ Simon Newcomb

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
‐‐ James Madison

Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else. I'll never forget the wrenching days I spent in Haiti last year for Save the Children just weeks after the earthquake.
‐‐ Anne M. Mulcahy

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
‐‐ Thomas J. Watson

Whenever any actor comes into a producer session, they have so many questions, and we still can't really tell them that much until they get the job.
‐‐ Maurissa Tancharoen

Whenever any great song or album gets lost in the ether, someone is deprived of the joy of hearing it, and the great effort of those who created and recorded the work is damaged.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

Whenever anybody comes to me with a way that I can give something back, it would be ungrateful at this point in my life to not say yes.
‐‐ Paul Stanley

Whenever anybody gets involved in politics, its always exciting for me because we take for granted our freedoms and our abilities to effect change through political activism.
‐‐ Emily Saliers

Whenever anyone asked me what I'd do if I wasn't a singer, I'd say, 'Oh, I'd have a cooking show.'
‐‐ Kimberly Schlapman

Whenever anyone asks me if I'm from a TV show, I say yes - no matter whether I've ever been on it. It just makes the conversation that much easier.
‐‐ Michael Ian Black