All Quotes

While a handful of countries and a small number of people are leading ample life, dozens of countries and billions of people in Africa, Asia and Latin America are being left in absolute poverty.
‐‐ Tran Duc Luong

While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community.
‐‐ Burton Richter

While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift has been occurring. It's not a movement - movements are more sure of themselves. It's a change of mood or expectation, a desire for art to be more than showy effects, big numbers, and gamesmanship.
‐‐ Jerry Saltz

While a lot of what is on Facebook is a better amalgam of what AOL, Yahoo, Amazon, and other Web pioneers introduced long ago, with a nice dash of connection and really identified community, this kind of thing is not a new idea.
‐‐ Kara Swisher

While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.
‐‐ Jose Rizal

While a reverse mortgage can indeed be a viable way to generate income, it is very important to understand that after you take out a reverse mortgage, you will still be responsible for paying the property tax, the insurance premium, and all the maintenance costs for your home.
‐‐ Suze Orman

While a strong presence on our southern border is imperative, the border cannot be secured unless we enforce our internal laws and stop ignoring the open complicity of U.S. companies and foreign nations to promote illegal activities.
‐‐ Elton Gallegly

While abolishing judgeships and lower federal courts is a blunt tool and one whose use is warranted only in the most extreme of circumstances... it is one of many possibilities to check and balance the judiciary.
‐‐ Newt Gingrich

While academic abilities remain integral, it is the work ethics that form the soul of the business.
‐‐ Jamshyd Godrej

While actors are great and awesome, writers literally create new worlds from scratch. What is sexier than that? Personally, I don't know why every last person out there isn't dating a writer.
‐‐ Rachel Bloom

While actors play with guns for make-believe, the guns themselves are by no means make-believe; they're real. Even when the actor is using blanks, there are all kinds of safety protocols to follow when shooting one at someone. Pulling the trigger is the easy part.
‐‐ Trieste Kelly Dunn

While admirers of capitalism, we also to a certain extent believe it has limitations that require government intervention in markets to make them work.
‐‐ Janet Yellen

While admiring the pleasing evidence of wealth, we become complicit in - or, at the very least, recognize the extent to which we, too, are beneficiaries of - an economic system we routinely deplore.
‐‐ Geoff Dyer

While advances in scientific research have led to some new and exciting treatments that have enlarged and enhanced the quality and length of human life, we must not lose sight as to what we are trying to accomplish.
‐‐ Nathan Deal

While all Alawites fear vengeance against their entire community should Assad fall, there are varying degrees of loyalty to the Assads.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.
‐‐ Sissela Bok

While all democratic systems are works in progress, ours started rather late and therefore has a longer distance to cover. But democratic transformation for us is not mimicking some facets of Western governance. The focus has been on building institutions of democratic governance.
‐‐ Meles Zenawi

While all doctors treat diseases, neurosurgeons' work is the crucible of identity. Every operation on the brain is, by necessity, a manipulation of the substance of our selves.
‐‐ Paul Kalanithi

While all of these are important and significant events, it is the United States' foreign policy that furthers the advancement of freedoms and rights for women that is the most striking for me.
‐‐ Ginny Brown-Waite

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.
‐‐ John Adams

While all Republicans acknowledge that there were mistakes made during the Bush Administration, again the continuous pointing a finger at President Bush has gotten tiresome.
‐‐ Marsha Blackburn

While all the other kids were out playing ball and stuff, I used to stay in my room and imagine that there was a camera in the wall. And I used to really believe that I was putting on a television show and that it was going out to somewhere in the world.
‐‐ Andy Kaufman

While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice.
‐‐ Andrew Motion

While America has always been and always will be a safe harbor for those being persecuted by tyrannical governments we must be vigilant to ensure those individuals are not taking advantage of America's generosity and good will.
‐‐ Bill Shuster

While America's infrastructure needs are substantial, there is no reason to delay completion of the highway bill. Every day of delay means jobs lost, investment opportunities missed and growth sacrificed.
‐‐ John Engler

While American football is very structured and linear and static - where everyone lines up, and there's a burst, and it happens - soccer is like the cosmos. It's like constellations. It's bodies moving in space. It's a very spherical game.
‐‐ Gabriel Luna

While American intellectual property deserves protection, that protection must be won and defended in a manner that does not stifle innovation, erode due process under the law, and weaken the protection of political and civil rights on the Internet.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon

While American taxes pay for much of the research and development that goes into creating the new, life-saving drugs, American consumers continue to subsidize the cost of the drugs for consumers across the world.
‐‐ Michael K. Simpson

While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction.
‐‐ Nicholas D. Kristof

While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.
‐‐ Michael Mandelbaum

While apartheid was in operation, the set-up was a gift for writers if you were looking for a big theme.
‐‐ Damon Galgut

While approximately one in every 400 children and adolescents have Type I diabetes; recent Government reports indicate that one in every three children born in 2000 will suffer from obesity, which as noted is a predominant Type II precursor.
‐‐ Tim Holden

While Argentina, Brazil, and Chile - what in textbooks used to be called the ABC countries - seem settled into democratic politics and free market economics, the Andean countries are in disarray.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.
‐‐ Anne Tyler

While at a biological disadvantage in competitions, women - who even make trips to restaurant bathrooms in pairs - are at a clear advantage when it comes to grouping together and the activities that accompany it: gossiping, sharing, bonding, assisting, scrapbooking, and building networks.
‐‐ Sandra Tsing Loh

While at Cal Tech I talked a lot with Jon Mathews, then a junior faculty member; he taught me how to use the Institute's computer; we also went on hikes together.
‐‐ Kenneth G. Wilson

While at Chicago my interest in the new field of particle physics was stimulated by a course given by Gell- Mann, who was developing his ideas about Strangeness at the time.
‐‐ James Cronin

While at college, I did my first lead on a network TV show, Medic.
‐‐ Robert Vaughn

While at Oxford in 1999, I met Jonathan Fortier, who is a Montreal-born Canadian. Despite the challenges of a transatlantic relationship, we remained keen on each other and eventually married in 2002.
‐‐ Anne Fortier

While at Parsons, I interned at Marc Jacobs, which was great. When I graduated, I went to work at J. Crew; that was also really great.
‐‐ Chris Benz

While at The Evergreen State College, I met Doranne Crable, and she was so dynamic and adventurous that I decided on the spot to take whatever she taught.
‐‐ Bre Pettis

While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships.
‐‐ Tom Brokaw

While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously.
‐‐ Tim Allen

While 'Babel' is a foreign-language film in some countries, in others, it is a local film.
‐‐ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

While being called beautiful is extremely flattering, I would much rather be noticed for my work as an actress.
‐‐ Halle Berry

While being in the right seat at the right game might create short-term reassurance, I can't get over the idea that really what people feel is that their club is being run by a group of guys who know the history, study the heritage and view Villa as a proud Victorian club in its third century.
‐‐ Randy Lerner

While being the husband of uberstylist Rachel Zoe lets me waltz confidently into fashion shows with Rachel by my side, the VIP treatment usually stops there.
‐‐ Rodger Berman

While big business gain subsidies and political access, small businesses drown in red tape, and individuals now risk being classified as terrorists for complaining about it. Economic globalisation is about homogenising differences in the worlds' markets, cultures, tastes and traditions. It's about giving big business access to a global market.
‐‐ Zac Goldsmith

While books expand horizons by exposing us to worlds outside our own, children also need to see themselves, their experiences and their cultures reflected in books they read. Unfortunately, for too many children, this is not the norm.
‐‐ Randi Weingarten