Quotes 841 till 860 of 921.
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When a big company lays you off, they often give you a year's salary to 'go pursue a dream.' If you're stupid, you panic and get another job. If you're smart, you take the money and use the time to figure out what you want to do next.
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When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.
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When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract.
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When I am on court, I am so focused on what I am doing, that's all I think about - trying to win the next point.
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When I died last, and, Dear, I die as often as from thee I go though it be but an hour ago and lovers hours be full eternity.
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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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When I started out in 1960, I thought it might possibly last a couple of years. I never expected it to last 42. I take great satisfaction in that longevity.
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When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement - I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those.
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When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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When people tell you they saw your last picture - well, the way they say it sounds like they hope it was.
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When possible make the decisions now, even if action is in the future. A reviewed decision usually is better than one reached at the last moment.
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When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.
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When the world has got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to kill it. You beat it over the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and behold! the next day it is as healthy as ever.
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When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they ''don't understand'' one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
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When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've really and truly arrived. Parity at last!
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.
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When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
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When you are through improving yourself, you are out of the game. You learn until your last breath.
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When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
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