Quotes with while

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  • Charlotte Brontë I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last.
    Jane Eyre (1847) ch. 6
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Antonio Tabucchi I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Ayaan Hirsi Ali I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.
    Ayaan Hirsi Ali
    Somali-born Dutch-American activist, feminist and author (1969 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Bruce Springsteen I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come for the very same reasons as they do when I'm with the band: to be moved, for something to happen to them.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Robert E. Lee I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.
    Robert E. Lee
    American legeraanvoerder (1807 - 1870)
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  • Samuel Beckett I just love the idea that people disappear into the story for a while.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Vera Brittain I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.
    Vera Brittain
    English nurse, writer, feminist, and pacifist (1893 - 1970)
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  • Anna Quindlen I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Michael Crichton I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood. [On why he gave up medicine]
    Michael Crichton
    American author of science fiction books and film screenplays (1942 - 2008)
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  • Alan Greenspan I think Bill Clinton was the best Republican president we've had in a while.
    Meet The Press (23 sept. 2007)
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • John McGahern I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.
    (2002)
    John McGahern
    Irish writer and novelist (1934 - 2006)
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  • Aaliyah I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.
    Aaliyah
    American singer, actress and model (1979 - 2001)
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  • Arianna Huffington I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!
    Arianna Huffington
    Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman (1950 - )
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  • Adrian Grenier I think winter wear is communal. You get some gloves and a scarf from a lost-and-found box, wash them, wear them for a while until you lose them. Then somebody else does the same thing.
    Adrian Grenier
    American actor, producer, director and musician (1976 - )
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  • Ansel Adams I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Humphrey Bogart I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.
    Humphrey Bogart
    American screen and stage actor (1899 - 1957)
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  • Busta Rhymes I will be so glad to take the picture and pose and look good for the picture. But when you catch me while I'm looking real sideways and the picture's ugly as hell, I don't want you to have the picture like that!
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbors about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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