All Quotes

When we arrived in Japan in 1988, we were not prepared for the overwhelming support shown to us.
‐‐ Dennis Banks

When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make.
‐‐ James Weldon Johnson

When we as a society lose the ability to comment on what we see and to have an opinion on what we are exposed to, then we have all lost what makes us unique on this planet.
‐‐ Damian Loeb

When we, as humans, articulate, our tongues tend to hit the back of the teeth.
‐‐ Andy Serkis

When we ask American men and women in uniform to fight for this country and to defend this country's interest and then to send them overseas, there is no question we have an obligation to protect them and provide for their safety.
‐‐ Byron Dorgan

When we ask bureaucrats to identify who is responsible for fixing anything, they reassure us that there are 'procedures in place.'
‐‐ Michel Faber

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
‐‐ Saul Bellow

When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love.
‐‐ Mortimer Adler

When we asked people if they would rather have a best friend at work or a 10% pay raise, having a friend clearly won.
‐‐ Tom Rath

When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
‐‐ Ha-Joon Chang

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.
‐‐ George Washington

When we attach ourselves to national identities, then we enter into a cycle of conflict. I didn't choose where I was born or who to be or what people would call me.
‐‐ Ashraf Barhom

When we awaken, we cannot account for the time spent. We simply don't remember. About the only evidence we have of experiences while we were asleep is when we happen to remember a dream.
‐‐ Henry Reed

When we became sedentary, lived indoors, and started to raise livestock, we began to see wolves not as occasional fur-bearers or fellow hunters but as robbers.
‐‐ Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.
‐‐ Charles Kuralt

When we become immobilized by our own inability to deal directly with what is a commonly perceived truth and reality, we are in trouble as a nation.
‐‐ Lou Dobbs

When we began filming, these people had legs, but as we were filming, they had been injured and they were brought to the hospital to have their legs amputated, and that's where we found them and asked them to come and be part of the film.
‐‐ Mohsen Makhmalbaf

When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.
‐‐ Irwin M. Jacobs

When we began Starbucks, what I wanted to try to do was to create a set of values, guiding principles, and culture.
‐‐ Howard Schultz

When we begin to build walls of prejudice, hatred, pride, and self-indulgence around ourselves, we are more surely imprisoned than any prisoner behind concrete walls and iron bars.
‐‐ Mother Angelica

When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
‐‐ Orison Swett Marden

When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!
‐‐ Don Miguel Ruiz

When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. 'My husband doesn't respect me.' 'I should be thinner.' Those are stories. When there's no story, there's no suffering.
‐‐ Byron Katie

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.
‐‐ Eric Hoffer

When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, 'I don't believe they meant to hurt me.' 'Maybe they're having a bad day or don't feel well.' 'They probably don't even realize how they sound.'
‐‐ Joyce Meyer

When we bemoan the lost golden age of music, it's worth remembering that mainstream radio listeners of the '60s and '70s, particularly in Canada, missed out on an outpouring of brilliant R&B music.
‐‐ Dan Hill

When we benefit from CT scanners, M.R.I. devices, pacemakers and arterial stents, we can immediately appreciate how science affects the quality of our lives.
‐‐ Brian Greene

When we blaze trails, which is what Hulu is about, it takes time. That is not for the faint of heart, and we understand that.
‐‐ Jason Kilar

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
‐‐ Anais Nin

When we bought it, Spiegel was in a difficult situation; it made a loss at that time. We invested in it and then it turned around, and then we bought Eddie Bauer and Newport News.
‐‐ Michael Otto

When we breathe it in, soot can interfere with our lungs and increase the risk of asthma attacks, lung cancer and even premature death. The smallest particles can pass into the blood stream and cause heart disease, stroke and reproductive complications.
‐‐ Sheldon Whitehouse

When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of time; but one link in the chain of affection broken, and every thing seems altered.
‐‐ Marguerite Gardiner

When we build, let us think that we build for ever.
‐‐ John Ruskin

When we built Roomba, we explicitly designed it to not have a face. We didn't want to think it was cute; we wanted people to take it seriously, so we gave it more of an industrial look. People personified their Roomba anyway. Over 80 percent of people name their robot. We did nothing to encourage people to do that, but they do it anyway.
‐‐ Colin Angle

When we came into the studio I became more and more me, making the tracks and choosing the musicians, partly because a great deal of the time during Bridge, Artie wasn't there.
‐‐ Paul Simon

When we came off the tour for the last album, we started on this one. We've just been chipping away at it. We're not in that much of a hurry, because when we release a Blur album, that's a three year promotion and touring cycle.
‐‐ Dave Rowntree

When we came out from the Elysee palace, there was a gigantic limousine waiting for us and four police on motorcycles. It is probably one of the few times I have experienced my fame. I thought it was so fantastic that I laughed to the point of shouting.
‐‐ Ingmar Bergman

When we came out with 'Lazy Sunday,' the greatest compliment I heard was that Questlove had it on his iPod.
‐‐ Jorma Taccone

When we came then to the 1967 negotiations we had the problem of one market between two countries fully under the control of the American companies that owned the facilities on both sides of the border.
‐‐ Leonard Woodcock

When we came up with titles like Ready or Not, that's how we really felt.
‐‐ Pras Michel

When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
‐‐ Katherine Mansfield

When we can commit a crime, we can also trigger debate. Cases go to courts. Media start covering the cases. But once you build smart environments where, if you meet a certain probabilistic profile, you won't even be allowed to board a bus, let alone commit a crime, we're perpetuating existing laws so they face no challenges or revision.
‐‐ Evgeny Morozov

When we can communicate from the inside out, we're talking directly to the part of the brain that controls behavior, and then we allow people to rationalize it with the tangible things we say and do. This is where gut decisions come from.
‐‐ Simon Sinek

When we can demonstrate that we can take off horizontally and put something into orbit, then we can begin to talk about increasing the amount of payload. But to say, 'I'm going to do that and put people into orbit' is a real leap.
‐‐ Buzz Aldrin

When we can figure out a way to really tour and make a profit, then we'll do it again.
‐‐ Michael McKean

When we can find some humor in our upsets, they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did.
‐‐ Allen Klein

When we can get the incidence of HIV down enough to turn the trajectory of the pandemic, it will assume a momentum of its own in diminishing HIV.
‐‐ Anthony Fauci

When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.
‐‐ Margaret J. Wheatley

When we can see things as they are, without projecting our mental models and fears, we are being objective. When we can understand and consider another person's point of view, we are being objective.
‐‐ Elizabeth Thornton