All Quotes

When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the American people to kindle about that crucible of race relationships the fires of American faith.
‐‐ Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man.
‐‐ Albert Murray

When the new becomes commonplace, people become accustomed to it. That's a tribute to our sense of adventure.
‐‐ John Glenn

When the new ownership came in, they made some decisions I wasn't pleased with. And when they changed the whole aspect of it, I just totally lost interest.
‐‐ Alonzo Mourning

When the new wave of terrorism came on the modern world, which is the late 1960s, early 1970s, I think we spent about a decade, the United States and our allies, trying to figure out how to deal with it.
‐‐ Paul Bremer

When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
‐‐ Barton Gellman

When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
‐‐ Iain Duncan Smith

When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
‐‐ Aaron McGruder

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.
‐‐ Amartya Sen

When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely path to follow.
‐‐ Aung San Suu Kyi

When the Normandy Invasion was planned, a very specific strategic objective was given, and that strategic objective was the basis upon which the plan for the Normandy Invasion was derived.
‐‐ Norman Schwarzkopf

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
‐‐ Thomas Carlyle

When the Obama administration announced its 'reset' of relations with Russia in 2009, Americans never expected that it would include making Vladimir Putin the de facto U.S. ambassador to Syria in 2013.
‐‐ John Barrasso

When the object that is produced, the photographic image has the ability to make tears come to your eyes; to inspire you to the point where you have to catch your breath, then nothing else matters.
‐‐ John Sexton

When the Olympics and World Cups come around, that's when you see the real outpouring of support that there really is for female football.
‐‐ Hope Solo

When the only people in mainstream discourse who care about the working class are Wall Street investors, it really is time to ask where our politics went wrong.
‐‐ Timothy Noah

When the opportunities come, we may not want to buy another nickel asset, but if something comes cheap enough, we're all about return on equity.
‐‐ Ivan Glasenberg

When the opportunity to choreograph came up, it was nothing more in my head but an opportunity. Then it suddenly became a career very quickly.
‐‐ Adam Shankman

When the other girls had given up their Barbies, I was still playing with mine in secret.
‐‐ Cheri Oteri

When the OutKast sound changed and I started producing my own records, I would mirror what I thought that character doing that music would look like. As the sound got a little wilder, freakier and funkier, so did the clothes. Then when the sound got more sophisticated, the clothes changed again.
‐‐ Andre Benjamin

When 'The Pacific' came around, I had to audition the old-fashioned way. It was the casting director and then the producer and then another producer and another producer and then Spielberg and Hanks.
‐‐ Joseph Mazzello

When the painting is hanging on your wall for a long time, you don't notice it. You get tired of it, even if it's a Picasso. When the next generation inherits the painting, they sell it. I don't want to be sold.
‐‐ Julio Iglesias

When the party gives me a responsibility, I must do it with complete dedication. God has given me the ability, which I utilise to its optimum.
‐‐ Narendra Modi

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
‐‐ Alexis de Tocqueville

When the pastor's up there, they do this thing called looping. They are literally riffing and spitting in the key of the organ. When looping, you're in key, you're in a rhythm, you're in a pocket, and that's where James Brown was pulling from, and so that's where I'm pulling from. The only difference is I'm coming at it under hip-hop.
‐‐ Anderson Paak

When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.
‐‐ Pierre Corneille

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.
‐‐ Bill Gates

When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
‐‐ Karl Marlantes

When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens.
‐‐ Gary Bauer

When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.
‐‐ Arnold Schwarzenegger

When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.
‐‐ George Savile

When the people's representatives have to go on record and vote, it transforms our country. It is a full recognition that we are in a state of war.
‐‐ Chris Gibson

When the people share everything in the state, then will we truly reach the goal of the Min Sheng Principle, which is Confucius' hope of a 'great commonwealth.'
‐‐ Sun Yat-sen

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.
‐‐ Brene Brown

When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.
‐‐ Eartha Kitt

When the people you love are gone, you're alone.
‐‐ Keanu Reeves

When the period arrives - come when it may - that this government will be compelled to resort to internal taxes for its support in time of peace, it will mark one of the most difficult and dangerous stages through which it is destined to pass.
‐‐ John C. Calhoun

When the person you love has cancer, they are, in a sense, living on Planet Cancer. They are in a place where you are not. And you can't follow them.
‐‐ Michel Faber

When the phone started ringing too many times, I had to take it back to what I can handle. I take my chances on a job or a person as opposed to a situation. I don't like to have a situation placed over my head.
‐‐ Bill Murray

When the phonies are expelled from their leadership roles and the Republican Party backs a moderate gubernatorial candidate acceptable to the rank and file with proper financing and the intestinal fortitude to fight the good fight, the rank and file will rejoin the fold.
‐‐ Carl Paladino

When the photographer is nearby, I like to say, 'Quick, get a photo of me looking into the camera,' because I'm never looking into the camera. Christopher Nolan looks into the camera, but I think most directors don't, so whenever you see a picture of a director looking at the camera, it's fake.
‐‐ Nicholas Stoller

When the picture was finished, they took me into the sound room and then I screamed more for about five minutes just steady screaming, and then they'd cut that in and add it.
‐‐ Fay Wray

When the Pixar people call, you jump at the opportunity.
‐‐ Bonnie Hunt

When the plane is delayed, it's not the fault of the girl at the desk. I'm resigned to the fact that everything is out of my control and that air travel nowadays is barbaric.
‐‐ Tom Conti

When the players go home, I can't tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don't want to think, 'What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?'
‐‐ Jurgen Klopp

When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.
‐‐ Umberto Eco

When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.
‐‐ John Drinkwater

When the policy is controversial, you have to go out and defend it.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

When the poor know that their children will survive, when they educate their daughters, when they access family planning, they have fewer children.
‐‐ Nicholas Kristof