All Quotes

When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.
‐‐ Percy Bysshe Shelley

When a thing is true, there is no need to use any arguments to substantiate it.
‐‐ Vinoba Bhave

When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.
‐‐ Arthur Ransome

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.
‐‐ Luc de Clapiers

When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.
‐‐ Thomas W. Higginson

When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
‐‐ Robert Louis Stevenson

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.
‐‐ Chinua Achebe

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.
‐‐ Corrie Ten Boom

When a trait is universal, evolutionary biologists look for a genetic explanation and wonder how that gene or genes might enhance survival or reproductive success.
‐‐ Robin Marantz Henig

When a translation is very good, it is fascinating to see how the book changes and yet stays the same. I think 'Out Stealing Horses' sounds more American for Americans than it does in Norway, and still, it is all there, everything that I wrote. It's amazing.
‐‐ Per Petterson

When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward.
‐‐ Joseph Monninger

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
‐‐ Jonathan Swift

When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached.
‐‐ Gottfried Leibniz

When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.
‐‐ Vaclav Havel

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‐‐ Jon Oringer

When a violent minority that crosses color lines comes to believe that killing those you know or do not know is a reasonable solution to problems, we are in need of another vision.
‐‐ Stanley Crouch

When a wall is slowly covered over by earth, the materials it's made from decay and become part of the soils around and above it, sometimes causing vegetation above and next to the wall to grow faster or slower. Satellite imagery helps archaeologists to pick up these subtle changes.
‐‐ Sarah Parcak

When a wave of love takes over a human being... such an exaltation takes him that he knows he has put his finger on the pulse of the great secret and the great answer.
‐‐ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

When a wolf doesn't want to do something, they look really cute.
‐‐ Michelle Paver

When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?
‐‐ Edith Evans

When a woman buys shoes, she takes them out of the box and looks at herself in the mirror. But she isn't really looking at her shoes - she's looking at herself. If she likes herself, then she likes the shoes.
‐‐ Christian Louboutin

When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.
‐‐ Marguerite Duras

When a woman earns a dollar, the payback is higher. She'll invest in her children, in their education, health care, and basic needs. The impact of a woman's role in the economy benefits society at large.
‐‐ Andrea Jung

When a woman falls in love with me, I feel guilty. I am convinced that it's pure obstinacy that keeps me from reciprocating her passion. As I explain to her that I'm gay, it sounds, even to me, like a silly excuse; I scarcely believe it myself.
‐‐ Edmund White

When a woman forsakes her vulnerability because she's been hurt or because she lives in a dangerous world or doesn't want to be used, she loses something essential about being a woman.
‐‐ John Eldredge

When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back. If you're an open book, there's no allure.
‐‐ Alexander McQueen

When a woman gets to 30, you ask her about having kids. I don't mind - all my friends are settled with kids, so I can understand people asking, and I even get it from relatives, but I'd be a fool to miss these work opportunities. And there's no time limit. One day I'll find my prince, but at the minute, I'm enjoying kissing a few frogs.
‐‐ Sheridan Smith

When a woman gives birth to a child, the child needs to be able to digest the mother's milk; but when this child is old enough to begin to eat other foods, there is some switching off of this ability to consume milk.
‐‐ Marvin Harris

When a woman has her first child in places like Africa, they're really young. They can be 12, 13,14, so their frames are really small, and they're usually malnourished.
‐‐ Liya Kebede

When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
‐‐ Tacitus

When a woman is frustrated, and it's your wife, you as the husband get that frustration.
‐‐ Magic Johnson

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
‐‐ Victor Hugo

When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.
‐‐ Leon Blum

When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.
‐‐ Minna Antrim

When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'
‐‐ Anton Chekhov

When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.
‐‐ Alice Duer Miller

When a woman puts on a heel, she has a different posture, a different attitude. She really stands up and has a consciousness of her body.
‐‐ Christian Louboutin

When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It doesn't give you a tremendous feeling of confidence and well-being.
‐‐ Lauren Bacall

When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.
‐‐ Herodotus

When a woman speaks to a man about the love she feels for another man, she is not liked.
‐‐ James Stephens

When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
‐‐ Adrienne Rich

When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
‐‐ Jean Cocteau

When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.
‐‐ Jean de la Bruyere

When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
‐‐ Mahmoud Darwish

When a writer dies you get a higher standard of obituary.
‐‐ Arthur Smith

When a writer is already stretching the bounds of reality by writing within a science fiction or fantasy setting, that writer must realize that excessive coincidence makes the fictional reality the writer is creating less 'real.'
‐‐ Jane Lindskold

When a writer makes something, it's theirs forever. That is the magic for me.
‐‐ Ellen Gallagher

When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.
‐‐ Alfred Kazin

When a writer tries to copy another writer, it's doomed to fail.
‐‐ Sophie Hannah