All Quotes

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.
‐‐ Malcolm Forbes

When things are difficult, awful, stressful, the thing that always gets you through is a sense of humour. I don't mean - well, maybe I do - laugh at the hangman as he puts the noose around your neck. But an eye, an ear, for the ridiculous, the absurd in life, can get you through a lot.
‐‐ Paul Merton

When things are difficult, you have to be sure of who you are and what you want to achieve.
‐‐ Gordon Brown

When things are going good they just keep going good.
‐‐ Fuzzy Zoeller

When things are going good, you've got to enjoy it, right?
‐‐ Marco Scutaro

When things are going well, I can't write fast enough to keep up with my mind. Writing walks, speech runs and talk flies. Other times, though, it's like fishing.
‐‐ Dylan Moran

When things are good, you should be thanking God. I don't do enough of that. But if you get things, you should thank Him, not just take, take, take. He really listens.
‐‐ Micky Ward

When things are perfect, that's when you need to worry most.
‐‐ Drew Barrymore

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood

When things are really good, really easy it's not cool for me.
‐‐ Romario

When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.
‐‐ Peter Mullan

When things are too easy I lose interest in them so I find ways to complicate them to get myself interested.
‐‐ Richard Marx

When things aren't working out for people, the end of the world seems like an easy way to wipe the slate clean.
‐‐ Evan Glodell

When things aren't working out, we have a tendency to say, 'Go do other things,' but you shouldn't do other things. You need to stay at your desk and continue to try to write. You need to insist on it.
‐‐ Jacques Audiard

When things become peculiar, frustrating and strange, I think it's a good time to start painting.
‐‐ James Rosenquist

When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.
‐‐ Douglas Rushkoff

When things begin to go bad, the perception of people makes it worse.
‐‐ James Mirrlees

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.
‐‐ Susanna Moodie

When things could've gone really bad, rugby caught my interest and I really stuck with it. The sport brought me, maybe off the streets where we'd be fighting, into putting in a good effort in the rugby field where you're kind of rewarded for that rough behaviour instead of in trouble with the law.
‐‐ Daniel Cudmore

When things did go wrong for the IRA, when civilians were killed, I tried to put it in context, not defend it.
‐‐ Peter T. King

When things don't come so naturally to you, you want to persevere, you want to keep pushing yourself to overcome obstacles that prevent you from having the kind of life that you want to have.
‐‐ Daniel Tammet

When things don't go our way, we get to choose how we will respond. We get to choose our perspective. Will you focus on what you didn't get, or what you did get?
‐‐ Victoria Osteen

When things don't go well, it helps to think of yourself as a genius and the rest of the world as a bunch of idiots.
‐‐ Tom Perrotta

When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you can do.
‐‐ Leonard Cohen

When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke.
‐‐ David Byrne

When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.
‐‐ Jimi Hendrix

When things go badly, individuals look for scapegoats. I just do not believe that barbed-wire fences or guns on our border will solve any of our problems.
‐‐ Ron Paul

When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy.
‐‐ Steven Soderbergh

When things go wrong or don't turn out the way you pictured them in your head, you just have to go with the best intentions defense. I have a lot of good intentions.
‐‐ Blake Shelton

When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.
‐‐ Ozwald Boateng

When things have gone really wrong in my life, I've cried like a child. I have really, really cried. I cry it out. Two-three days I cry, and then I'm like, enough, time to deal with reality and figure a way out. This is the way I have dealt with everything.
‐‐ Bipasha Basu

When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.
‐‐ Lyndon B. Johnson

When things take a long time, I just get really stubborn.
‐‐ Britney Spears

When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.
‐‐ Tasha Smith

When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over the past centuries, humanity's lot has improved dramatically - in the developed world, where it is rather obvious, but also in the developing world, where life expectancy has more than doubled in the past 100 years.
‐‐ Bjorn Lomborg

When thinking through who to bring together to generate new ideas, it is more effective to combine specialists from very different and unrelated disciplines rather than a variety of people with different skills sets in the same field.
‐‐ Simon Mainwaring

When this genre of music started in America, Metallica was up north in California, we were in Southern California, Anthrax was on the East Coast. We each developed our own metal music, and after 30 years, we're still playing our metal music.
‐‐ Tom Araya

When this sad war is over we will all return to our homes, and feel that we can ask no higher honor than the proud consciousness that we belonged to the Army of the Potomac.
‐‐ George B. McClellan

When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.
‐‐ Umberto Guidoni

When Thomas and John Knoll launched Photoshop 1.0 in 1990, the software couldn't even handle color images. But their offerings got the startup noticed by Apple and Adobe, both of whom became key to the fledgling company's later success.
‐‐ Jay Samit

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.
‐‐ George Carlin

When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, declaring that all men were created equal, he owned slaves. Women couldn't vote. But, throughout history, our abolitionists, suffragettes, and civil rights leaders called on our nation, in reality, to live up to the nation's professed ideals in that Declaration.
‐‐ Marvin Ammori

When those of Jewish blood exhibit moral or intellectual superiority, genius or special talent, we feel pride in them, even if they have abjured the faith like Spinoza, Marx, Disraeli or Heine. Despite the meditations of pundits or the decrees of council, our own instincts and acts, and those of others, have defined for us the term 'Jew.'
‐‐ Louis D. Brandeis

When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper.
‐‐ Andy Rooney

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
‐‐ Marcus Aurelius

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
‐‐ Miguel de Cervantes

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

When thousands of men and women work full time but need food stamps to put food on their tables, when they can't get health benefits, when they can't get paid sick days, then we must do whatever we can to stand up for them.
‐‐ Charles B. Rangel

When through the power of sight we see white, that which comes about in the soul through the act of seeing is a modification. And on the basis of this modification, we are able to say that the white which is affecting us exists.
‐‐ Chrysippus