All Quotes

When oil and gas prices went up dramatically and filled up the state treasury, I sent a large share of that revenue back where it belonged - directly to the people of Alaska.
‐‐ Sarah Palin

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.
‐‐ Chinua Achebe

When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most ape-like skull he had ever beheld.
‐‐ Charles Lyell

When on the set of a film, you have to play natural for entire scenes in a very unnatural environment. You have to express emotions and interact with other actors and also use your voice.
‐‐ Helena Christensen

When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
‐‐ Simone Weil

When once an Indian sees that his food is secure, he does not care what the chief or any one else says.
‐‐ George Crook

When once I got to America I fell in love with hippie culture, and I've always wanted to live in the country and grow organic vegetables.
‐‐ Jamaica Kincaid

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.
‐‐ Samuel Lover

When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of the intensity of this envy of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, as well as of breasts and of the act of suckling.
‐‐ Karen Horney

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
‐‐ James A. Baldwin

When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.
‐‐ Dylan Thomas

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!
‐‐ Anna Letitia Barbauld

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.
‐‐ Marianne Moore

When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.
‐‐ Charles Horton Cooley

When one cow was found with BSE in 2003, many of our trading partners closed their borders to our beef.
‐‐ Mike Johanns

When one deals with stars, he is dealing with intelligent people. If they weren't intelligent, they wouldn't have arrived at the star pinnacle.
‐‐ George Cukor

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.
‐‐ Friedrich Nietzsche

When one doesn't want the limelight, but is also creative in developing whatever it is they are, then you can have two equal people that aren't competing against each other. I think when you are in the same field, it's difficult to leave it outside and not compete. Then when the doors are closed; that pervades everything.
‐‐ Tori Amos

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
‐‐ Alexander Graham Bell

When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.
‐‐ Bob Marley

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.
‐‐ Ron Paul

When one gets old and they are sick, there are not many things they can count on but they should be able to count on Social Security. Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.
‐‐ Barbara Mikulski

When one guy undermines the other, it only causes trouble, and the team isn't successful. It's very important for both of us to accept our role and help the team. One guy can get hot, and if that's Alex, I'll support him and help any way I can.
‐‐ Ed Belfour

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
‐‐ Friedrich Nietzsche

When one has been married over thirty years, of course it would be absurd not to admit there have been some difficulties, at some times. But the important thing is that we have weathered them.
‐‐ Louis Jourdan

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.
‐‐ Friedrich Nietzsche

When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.
‐‐ Ramakrishna

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
‐‐ Friedrich Nietzsche

When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.
‐‐ Chuck Schumer

When one has taken root, one puts out branches.
‐‐ Jules Verne

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.
‐‐ Buddha

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.
‐‐ Ludwig Wittgenstein

When one is giving service for the advancement of humanity, when one is working without money and without price, with no hope of earthly reward, there comes a real, genuine joy into the human heart.
‐‐ Heber J. Grant

When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire before the magnitude of the task, and the majority of men also.
‐‐ John Chrysostom

When one is the type of writer who cares about the meaning of the historically specific setting, the history itself is not something that I would call backdrop. It's not window dressing for a timeless relationship about love and betrayal. For me, the setting and the specific history are active co-agents with me in trying to form the novel.
‐‐ Rachel Kushner

When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
‐‐ Zora Neale Hurston

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
‐‐ Henry Miller

When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.
‐‐ Daphne du Maurier

When one is young, aspiring to play for the country, doing well, any hindrance, like injury or being out of form, can be frustrating and a cause of annoyance or even anger. But once you have a close encounter with death, you realise the real value of life.
‐‐ Yuvraj Singh

When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
‐‐ D. H. Lawrence

When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on the bricks, don't you think?
‐‐ Margery Allingham

When one knows at an early age that their gift, talent and direction is musical, one tends to focus on that and let nothing interfere or impede the forward motion toward the end of that rainbow. And after 50-something years of rockin' out, you still realise there is no end to that distant rainbow until one's last sunset.
‐‐ Randy Bachman

When one lives in a society where people can no longer rely on the institutions to tell them the truth, the truth must come from culture and art.
‐‐ John Trudell

When one looks at Nature through the glass walls of the Farnsworth House, it takes on a deeper significance than when one stands outside. More of Nature is thus expressed - it becomes part of a greater whole.
‐‐ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.
‐‐ O. Henry

When one loves somebody everything is clear - where to go, what to do - it all takes care of itself and one doesn't have to ask anybody about anything.
‐‐ Maxim Gorky

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.
‐‐ Vladimir Lenin

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
‐‐ John Donne

When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.
‐‐ Jacques Yves Cousteau