All Quotes

As time passed on, got to hear some players who were straight up funky, not just jazz. Nat Adderley, for instance - he's a funky trumpet player, so he was my man.
‐‐ Cynthia Robinson

As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering.
‐‐ Patrick Stewart

As time went on, I got envious and wanted to do a lot of stunts myself.
‐‐ Lloyd Bridges

As times change, so do the way each generation see the world. It is rather like the way our generation came to see our grandparents' views on the Empire and colonies as outdated.
‐‐ Douglas Alexander

As to a media personality, well that just happened in large measure because people found me amusing, and I did lots and lots of T.V. news interview shows.
‐‐ Ben Stein

As to Bell's talking telegraph, it only creates interest in scientific circles... its commercial values will be limited.
‐‐ Elisha Gray

As to each of us, the knowledge that we are here but briefly and a nonnegotiable limit is set to our expected time may even be necessary as the incentive to number our days and make them count.
‐‐ Hans Jonas

As to gods, I have no way of knowing either that they exist or do not exist, or what they are like.
‐‐ Protagoras

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.
‐‐ Anthony Trollope

As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.
‐‐ Joseph Conrad

As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so.
‐‐ Emily Greene Balch

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.
‐‐ Goldwin Smith

As to Magyar, I think that my speech was incorrect, inappropriate.
‐‐ Bela Kun

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
‐‐ Socrates

As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me, and are mostly very attentive to my instructions, and seem willing to be taught further.
‐‐ David Brainerd

As to my Title, I know not yet whether it will be honourable or dishonourable, the issue of the War must Settle it. Perhaps our Congress will be Exalted on a high Gallows.
‐‐ Abraham Clark

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.
‐‐ Anthony Trollope

As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.
‐‐ Giacomo Casanova

As to the effect of the wave on the air, we will suppose the water to be quite flat and the air motionless, a heavy undulation comes on the scene, it has to pass, so it pushes the air up with its face, letting it fall again as its back glides onwards.
‐‐ Lawrence Hargrave

As to the euro zone avant-garde, it must go towards more solidarity and integration: a common budget, a common borrowing capability, and fiscal convergence.
‐‐ Emmanuel Macron

As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.
‐‐ Jeremy Bentham

As to the first, I do not know that I have done very much myself to promote fraternity between nations but I do know that there can be no more important purpose for any man's activity or interests.
‐‐ Lester B. Pearson

As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.
‐‐ Stephen Ambrose

As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.
‐‐ L. Neil Smith

As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.
‐‐ Avicenna

As to the number of novels I've abandoned... I shudder to think. I have thrown away five completed novels, and that's a gruesome enough figure. But not necessarily a waste of effort.
‐‐ Mark Haddon

As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.
‐‐ Lady Gregory

As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it.
‐‐ Martin Van Buren

As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.
‐‐ Augustus Hare

As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
‐‐ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

As to the question of elected or not elected, each member of the European Commission has been appointed jointly by the governments of the 15 member states, and undergone individual scrutiny and a vote of confidence from the European Parliament.
‐‐ Mario Monti

As to the 'St. Michael,' the subject is very fine, but very difficult, so I doubt that I shall find easily amongst my pupils one capable of carrying it out satisfactorily even after my own drawing. In any case, it will be necessary for me to touch it up carefully with my own hand.
‐‐ Peter Paul Rubens

As to the war, while it is always thought rash to have any strong military convictions, I have always believed that if they would go straight to Sebastopol early in the season they would take it with little difficulty.
‐‐ Francis W. Newman

As to the war with Japan, the President had already received my memorandum in general as to the possibility of getting a substantial unconditional surrender from Japan which I had written before leaving Washington and which he had approved.
‐‐ Henry L. Stimson

As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.
‐‐ Kin Hubbard

As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived.
‐‐ Daniel Morgan

As to whether the people who were supposedly to put up the money and did put it up or whether it was Arthur's own money is something which I shall never know.
‐‐ Peter Porter

As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible.
‐‐ Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.
‐‐ Neale Donald Walsch

As Tony Blair has made clear, our fundamental challenge is how to make Europe work better.
‐‐ John Hutton

As touch-screens have become more popular, they have retrained how we interact with images we see on many surfaces.
‐‐ Jan Chipchase

As tough as I've been on anybody, as hard as I've ever been on anybody, I have been harder on myself. By far.
‐‐ Charlie Trotter

As tradition, the female element clings to the old art and opposes anything new - precisely because each new art moves further away from the natural appearance of things.
‐‐ Piet Mondrian

As traditions of mourning wane, women's role as designated mourners has also vanished. In consequence, the woman elegist must summon her own resources as an artist.
‐‐ Susan Stewart

As Trotsky didn't exactly say, you may not be interested in electronic snoops, but snoops are interested in you, whether or not you keep Coke's secret recipe on your iPhone.
‐‐ Barton Gellman

As Turkish entrepreneurs perform well in Iraq, the Iraqis will have more confidence in Turkish contractors than in some European company they do not know.
‐‐ Husnu Ozyegin

As ugly an admission as this is, I met my wife at a party, and if I had been to the same party and she were dressed in different clothes, I might never have talked to her. She might have projected something that I found distasteful, even if she otherwise looked exactly the same - a beautiful woman to me.
‐‐ James Gray

As unhealthy as I am, I'm weirdly aware of exactly how my body functions.
‐‐ Patton Oswalt

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.
‐‐ Brene Brown