All Quotes

When compassion wakes up in us, we find ourselves more willing to become vulnerable, to take the risk of entering the pain of others.
‐‐ Sue Monk Kidd

When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.
‐‐ John Milton

When completed, the budget must provide the services we have promised to our constituents.
‐‐ Jane D. Hull

When computers came along, I felt for the first time that I had the proper tools for the kind of theoretical work I wanted to do. So I moved over to that, and that got me into psychology.
‐‐ Herbert A. Simon

When conducted with proper preparation, and in a focused and professional manner, oversight of executive branch actions can reveal serious shortcomings by government officials and help prevent recurrence; the 'Waco hearings,' conducted over a two-week period in 1995, stand as an example of such an undertaking.
‐‐ Bob Barr

When conflicts end non-violently, it's more likely that the result will be longer-lasting, democratic societies.
‐‐ Julia Bacha

When confronted with the facts of foreign atrocities, the experience is often consigned to the realm of the unimaginable. Fiction makes the unimaginable imaginable.
‐‐ Anthony Marra

When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.
‐‐ Yamamoto Tsunetomo

When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
‐‐ Samantha Power

When Congress exercises the powers delegated to it by the Constitution, it may impose affirmative obligations on executive and judicial officers of state and local governments as well as ordinary citizens.
‐‐ David Souter

When Congress legislates in haste, it often causes more problems than it solves. But Congress rarely reconsiders its mistakes.
‐‐ David Malpass

When Congress passed the Help America Vote Act in 2002, I was thrilled to learn that the federal government would offer resources to all states to assist them in enhancing the voting process in America.
‐‐ DeForest Soaries

When Congress puts party labels aside, like we did on VA reform, we can accomplish some great things for the American people. But those occasions were far too rare.
‐‐ Pete Gallego

When conservatives talk to one another, pay attention: they say what they want to do, and mean it. And will do just about anything to get there - even, or especially, claiming that they don't want to do the thing they want to do, until the time is ripe, and they can do it.
‐‐ Rick Perlstein

When considering a career move, consider the most important assumptions that have to prove true and how you can swiftly and inexpensively test if they are valid. Also, remain realistic about the path ahead of you.
‐‐ Clayton Christensen

When consumers do not take full advantage of efficiency gains, it is because they are weighing other factors that influence their decision making. When the federal government arbitrarily places one of those factors over others, it makes consumers worse off.
‐‐ Gina McCarthy

When consumers purchase a Toyota, they are not simply purchasing a car, truck or van. They are placing their trust in our company.
‐‐ Akio Toyoda

When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment.
‐‐ Kenneth Scott Latourette

When controversial speech can be taken offline through pressures on private intermediaries without any kind of due process, that is something we need to be concerned about.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon

When Corporate America finds a Jayson Blair in its midst, the standard operating procedure is to circle the wagons and deny that any form of liability extends up the chain of command.
‐‐ Gary Weiss

When counting on learning from innovation, there are great successes but also failures. The Wright Brothers invented the aircraft and started an amazing process of innovation, where we now have planes that carry 500 passengers. Along the way there were some silly looking vehicles that crashed early on.
‐‐ Sheldon Whitehouse

When countries commit to protecting vulnerable lives, they should receive support from those who can provide it in order to make their programs a success.
‐‐ Liya Kebede

When Courtney's mother and I first separated I tried to be Disney Dad, showering her with gifts, trips and then I snapped out of it. You don't have to try to impress your kids. If they're not getting what they need from you, they will let you know.
‐‐ Al Roker

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.
‐‐ Eric Hoffer

When creating an album, one of the first things you have to think about is what you want your production style to be.
‐‐ Laura Bell Bundy

When credit is cheaper to use and easier to arrange, people do use more of it.
‐‐ Virginia Postrel

When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.
‐‐ John Crowe Ransom

When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.
‐‐ Chuck Jones

When cubism began to take a social form, Metzinger was especially talked about. He explained cubism, while Picasso never explained anything. It took a few years to see that not talking was better than talking too much.
‐‐ Marcel Duchamp

When cultural change succeeds, it succeeds because it's so embedded in what we do that we don't have to think about.
‐‐ Harvey V. Fineberg

When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.
‐‐ Boy George

When cutting staff at the Pentagon, don't eliminate the thin layer that assures civilian control.
‐‐ Donald Rumsfeld

When cyclones tear up Oklahoma and hurricanes swamp Alabama and wildfires scorch Texas, you come to us, the rest of the country, for billions of dollars to recover. And the damage that your polluters and deniers are doing doesn't just hit Oklahoma and Alabama and Texas. It hits Rhode Island with floods and storms.
‐‐ Sheldon Whitehouse

When Czar Ivan III took a liking to the Judaizers, they were invited to Moscow, where they managed to convert so much of the court nobility in the last decades of the fifteenth century that traditionalists felt the need to counter the trend through selective burnings at the stake.
‐‐ Tom Reiss

When Dad died in 1998, it really hit my confidence - he'd helped me write and he thought I was really funny, but since he'd died I didn't feel right. And it felt like no one but me even remembered him.
‐‐ Dolly Wells

When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type, most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
‐‐ John Burroughs

When David Arquette and I got engaged we started therapy together. I'd heard that the first year of marriage is the hardest, so we decided to work through all that stuff early.
‐‐ Courteney Cox

When David Fincher called me up a few years ago and said, 'Hey, I'd like you to score this film 'The Social Network,' I said, 'I'm flattered, but I really don't have any real experience scoring films, and I'd rather not screw it up on a high-profile project. And I like you and I don't want to compromise our friendship.'
‐‐ Trent Reznor

When David left me I became totally brokenhearted.
‐‐ Isabella Rossellini

When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation; he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.
‐‐ Marvin Minsky

When dealing in the technology, it becomes a question of whether you overuse something. I think that's worse than having something technologically available to you and not using it.
‐‐ Al Michaels

When dealing with a subject who is dead, you have this feeling of being God. You know who they're going to marry, when they're going to die. It's strange to feel so omniscient.
‐‐ Claire Tomalin

When dealing with American politics, you try to follow the money, and that's where it leads you. It doesn't take you to the electoral college or to Princeton. It takes you down the darker alleys of American life.
‐‐ Roger Morris

When dealing with illegal immigration, the answer is simple; enforce Constitutional mandates, and you will protect Floridians and the American people.
‐‐ Allen West

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
‐‐ Dale Carnegie

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
‐‐ Hermann Hesse

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
‐‐ George Eliot

When death comes, it is not enough to have been charitable; and it is not right to touch the body or lay it out for a couple of hours; for the soul should be given time to fight for itself, and to go up to judgment.
‐‐ Lady Gregory

When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.
‐‐ Friedrich Durrenmatt

When death is imminent and dying patients find their suffering unbearable, then the physician's role should shift from healing to relieving suffering in accord with the patient's wishes.
‐‐ Marcia Angell