All Quotes

When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain.
‐‐ Andrew Cohen

When a human being without amplification makes a sound that is high and loud, it is almost unworldly.
‐‐ Renee Fleming

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
‐‐ Friedrich Nietzsche

When a hurricane thrashes the mid-Atlantic, my hilly town often reaps the fringe of the storm. The rain starts blowing sideways, and sometimes we see hail the size of purie marbles.
‐‐ Diane Ackerman

When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions.
‐‐ Robert Bork

When a kid can understand that a word can mean two things, there's some real thinking going on. They have a vested interest in finding out what a word means, because it's the punch line to a joke.
‐‐ Brian P. Cleary

When a kid graduates from being the youngest in a family to being a big brother or sister, there's an amazing transformation. They have to make a big effort, and when they accept their new position in the family, everybody breathes a sigh of relief. All of a sudden they seem bigger, and they seem smarter, and they feel good about it, too.
‐‐ Peggy Rathmann

When a kid plays football games before he attends a class, something is wrong.
‐‐ Joe Paterno

When a law enforcement officer apprehends an illegal immigrant, it makes no sense to simply release that individual who has been breaking our laws with no threat of sanction or penalty.
‐‐ Bobby Jindal

When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights. The people can act only by their agents and, within the powers conferred upon them, their acts must be considered as the acts of the people.
‐‐ John Marshall

When a 'Life of Brian' comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of Theo van Gogh, it will be a huge step forward.
‐‐ Ayaan Hirsi Ali

When a lion doesn't get its prey, it remains hungry. When the prey saves himself, he has not won, but has saved his life.
‐‐ Uday Kotak

When a little more than a teenager, I was a piano-bar pianist in the land where I was born and raised, Tuscany.
‐‐ Andrea Bocelli

When a locked-room mystery doesn't work, the solution makes you groan, and the book gets hurled across the room.
‐‐ Adrian McKinty

When a lot of musicians change styles, their songwriting suffers because they want to be different.
‐‐ Noel Gallagher

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.
‐‐ Anton Chekhov

When a lot of things are going the wrong way for a country, for a people, when you can't really think of anything worse than a war, you always try to take life on the brighter side and that's how I grew up with my parents.
‐‐ Andy Murray

When a loved one disappears, you continue to live with the accompaniment of that person. One has to find a balance between joy and sorrow.
‐‐ Philippe Petit

When a loved one passes, there are mixed emotions, and a thirst to live one's own life more deeply can certainly be among them.
‐‐ Salli Richardson

When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.
‐‐ Alexander Chase

When a machine can do something better and faster than a person can, I am happy to let the machine do it.
‐‐ Susan Orlean

When a magician lets you notice something on your own, his lie becomes impenetrable.
‐‐ Teller

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
‐‐ Nicolas Chamfort

When a man and a woman see each other and like each other they ought to come together - wham - like a couple of taxis on Broadway, not sit around analyzing each other like two specimens in a bottle.
‐‐ Thelma Ritter

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
‐‐ James A. Baldwin

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
‐‐ Thomas Jefferson

When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man, when he gets all he can and saves all he can, does not give all he can, I have more hope for Judas Iscariot than for that man!
‐‐ John Wesley

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.
‐‐ Kurt Vonnegut

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
‐‐ Charles Dickens

When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
‐‐ Stanley Kubrick

When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers.
‐‐ Ernestine Rose

When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.
‐‐ Josh Billings

When a man cuts himself absolutely adrift from custom, what an astonishingly light spar floats him! How few his wants are, after all!
‐‐ Thomas Bailey Aldrich

When a man does a household job, he goes through three periods: contemplating how it will be done; contemplating when it will be done; and contemplating.
‐‐ Marcelene Cox

When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent.
‐‐ George Henry Lewes

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli

When a man gets cheated on, I'm like, 'Meh, he'll find somebody else.' When a woman gets cheated on, that's a deep wound. I think when a man is widowed, like Liam Neeson, I think that has more of an effect - you had a great love and the universe took her.
‐‐ Patti Stanger

When a man gets his money in bad ways, when he sees the better course and takes the worse, then the devil's in his heart, and that fixes him.
‐‐ Dan Totheroh

When a man gets up to speak, people listen then look. When a woman gets up, people kook; then, if they like what they see, they listen.
‐‐ Pauline Frederick

When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.
‐‐ Enid Bagnold

When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop.
‐‐ Joe Slovo

When a man has emerged from slavery, there must be some stage in the progress of his elevation when he takes the rank of mere citizen and ceases to be the special favorite of the laws.
‐‐ Joseph P. Bradley

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
‐‐ Sophocles

When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.
‐‐ E. W. Howe

When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.
‐‐ Charles M. Schwab

When a man has seen the aerodynamic shape of a Caravelle jet at an airport, he doesn't need aerodynamic furniture.
‐‐ Emilio Pucci

When a man has written a role for you that you admire, the expectations are higher.
‐‐ Luke Goss

When a man interrupts a woman in mid-sentence, it reveals much about him. First, it shows he hasn't been listening to what she is saying, and secondly, it indicates that he doesn't want to listen to what she will say. Her views are not important.
‐‐ Madeleine M. Kunin