All Quotes

When National Guardsmen shot four unarmed students at Kent State, virtually the entire system of higher education shuddered and stopped.
‐‐ Nancy Gibbs

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.
‐‐ Christine Gregoire

When neighbours interact with each other, it is only natural that sometimes they will run into problems of some kind or another. As long as they respect each other, properly manage differences, and pursue mutual benefits, there will be harmonious sound instead of jarring noises.
‐‐ Li Keqiang

When neither party can give checkmate, the game is drawn.
‐‐ Howard Staunton

When Nelson Mandela walked free, the world sang with joy. Ever since, South Africa has stood as a beacon of hope for Africa.
‐‐ Ban Ki-moon

When Netscape failed, it didn't mean the Internet was over.
‐‐ Lynn Jurich

When 'Nevermind' came out, my roommate had the CD. At first, I actually thought, 'This is too polished and commercial.' It was a little off-putting. But then I was like, 'This is the best music ever.' It felt so close to what I wanted to do.
‐‐ Rivers Cuomo

When new cooks come to work for me, they obviously make mistakes at the beginning or there's some messiness to the presentation. What I always say to them is: 'If you were cooking this for your mother or your girlfriend, would you make those mistakes?'
‐‐ Joel Robuchon

When New Kids became really successful, I got a lot of offers to do parts in movies and TV shows, but I was really busy, so I pretty much turned everything down. But I always knew it was something that I would eventually put some energy into.
‐‐ Donnie Wahlberg

When New Labour came to power, we got a Right-wing Conservative government. I came to realise that voting Labour wasn't in Scotland's interests any more. Any doubt I had about that was cast aside for ever when I saw Gordon Brown cosying up to Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street.
‐‐ Jimmy Reid

When new technology in the classroom starts happening, some people get very excited and think of it as a panacea. It attracts very high amounts of money; it raises expectations, and those expectations aren't met.
‐‐ Mitch Kapor

When new things come along, some people always want the newest of the new - 'This is what I've been waiting for!' - and some people don't want or need the change - 'I like my old one.'
‐‐ Amy Heckerling

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
‐‐ Thomas Carlyle

When news comes out, it ought to be reported. There shouldn't be a moratorium based on legitimate news, just because it may or may not affect one candidate or the other. That's just absurd.
‐‐ Mark E. Hyman

When news of the crash came, probably a lot of people in small towns and farms across America felt a sense of grim satisfaction that the sinners had finally been punished for their wicked ways.
‐‐ Ron Chernow

When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies, I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget.
‐‐ Francis Ford Coppola

When 'night, Mother' opened, I did not know how long it would be before I would have another show on Broadway.
‐‐ Marsha Norman

When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?
‐‐ Naomi Klein

When Niki and I moved to Paris, there was also the challenge of Paris, an extremely daunting city.
‐‐ Harry Mathews

When Nina Simone first sings the title of 'Feeling Good,' her voice has been alone for thirty-nine seconds. The solitary singer: there's always something fiat lux about it. Resolute, the individual moves through the void. You know the accompaniment is coming, but the voice, all by itself, makes you care about it: form turns into feeling.
‐‐ Rowan Ricardo Phillips

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors - old friends, family.
‐‐ Dave Grohl

When Nixon opened the door to China in the early 1970s, Chinese artists got their first view of the West. Suddenly five centuries of Western art lay before them as a stylistic smorgasbord. Chinese artists could reinterpret it out of admiration or try to replace it. They choose the former.
‐‐ Arne Glimcher

When no one knows you, and you're just trying to break into stuff, it's so good because you can write whatever you want and just say it; it's just between you and the audience. There's no process or worrying about anyone else interfering with what you're doing.
‐‐ Chris Lilley

When no one's buying your records, it's easy to justify selling a song. But once you start selling records, you can't really justify having two songs in Cadillac commercials. It looks greedy. And it is greedy. This whole music thing should be about music.
‐‐ Patrick Carney

When no other schools in the Southeastern Conference or the former Southwestern Conference would award them athletic scholarships, African Americans had been recruited by and playing for Texas Western since the 1950s.
‐‐ Solomon Ortiz

When nobody is paying attention, anything is possible.
‐‐ Alan Grayson

When nobody read, dyslexia wasn't a problem. When most people had to hunt, a minor genetic variation in your ability to focus attention was hardly a problem, and may even have been an advantage. When most people have to make it through high school, the same variation can become a genuinely life-altering disease.
‐‐ Alison Gopnik

When nonprofits, companies and consumers work together, we believe we can make long term, positive change for the millions of people in America who struggle with hunger.
‐‐ Sylvia Mathews Burwell

When North Koreans cross the border into China, they are stunned to learn that the Chinese can afford to eat rice daily, sometimes for three meals daily.
‐‐ Barbara Demick

When not deeply engaged in creative activities, or numbed out by the TV, I felt empty. My heart hurt. I often felt hollow or as if I were some sort of wispy ghost, barely existing.
‐‐ Judith Wright

When not eating, I like shopping; although I'm afraid I've become a bit of a cliche.
‐‐ Arabella Weir

When not much is happening and there seems to be nothing you can do to change that, you do wonder. But I am an actor, like it or not. I stuck with it and took what was offered.
‐‐ Kathleen Quinlan

When not only gold but all commodities are available for the redemption of the paper currency, its volume is limited only by the value of all the wealth of the country, and it can never become insecure up to this limit.
‐‐ John Buchanan Robinson

When not working, I use a lot of treatments; from ancient casero - honey, avocado, stuff like that - other times, I buy ones you leave on for a few minutes. I don't blow dry my hair ever unless for work; I'd rather go for the natural look.
‐‐ Kate del Castillo

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.
‐‐ Margaret Drabble

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.
‐‐ Jacob Riis

When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.
‐‐ Philipp Meyer

When Obama came to power, there was a lot of talk about a post-racial America.
‐‐ Ezra Koenig

When Obama dispenses with that dread sobriquet 'professorial,' he does it by being, well, more professorial.
‐‐ Tina Brown

When Obama gutted Medicare by taking $717 billion out of it, the Romney plan does not do that. The Ryan plan mimicked part of the Obama package there, the Romney plan does not. That's a big difference.
‐‐ John Sununu

When Obama heralds another 'teachable moment,' it means he has already made an egregious rookie mistake.
‐‐ Tina Brown

When Obama took office, Republican appointees controlled ten of the thirteen circuit courts of appeals; Democratic appointees now constitute a majority in nine circuits. Because federal judges have life tenure, nearly all of Obama's judges will continue serving well after he leaves office.
‐‐ Jeffrey Toobin

When Obama was first proposed as a presidential candidate in 2007, the nation failed to have a meaningful debate concerning the serious constitutional issue of electing someone whose father was not a U.S. citizen.
‐‐ Aaron Klein

When Obama was inaugurated, he and his team had an insight - though whether the insight was conscious or not I don't know. But it was this: The TARP $700 billion price tag was a new kind of model.
‐‐ John Podhoretz

When Obamacare actually kicked in, just as we knew, if you liked your insurance, as I did - I had a health savings account - then I wasn't going to be able to keep it because it doesn't meet the requirements.
‐‐ Louie Gohmert

When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.
‐‐ Ezra Taft Benson

When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian; and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may.
‐‐ Joseph Lancaster

When Occupy Wall Street happened, I took my money out of Citibank. I already had problems with all the banks - Citibank, Bank of America - but I was kind of just too lazy to take my money out until I saw how Citibank responded to Occupy Wall Street.
‐‐ Talib Kweli