A Quotes
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“And while everybody was busy laughing, what was I doing? I was laying the foundation to what I have in place now.”
“And while everyone was wondering how he will take that blow,
They were blown away with his smile..!”
“and while faith based on theological reasoning is today universally engaged in a bitter struggle with doubt and resistance from the prevailing brand of rationalism, it does seem that the naked fundamental experience itself, that primal seizure of mystic insight, stripped of religious concepts, perhaps no longer to be regarded as a religious experience at all, has undergone an immense expansion and now forms the soul of that complex irrationalism that haunts our era like a night bird lost in the dawn.”
“And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.”
Source: The Christian in Complete Armour: Or, A Treatise on the Saints' War with the Devil ...
“And while good books - even so-so books - serve both functions, if you ever have to choose one over the other, keep in mind that a book that entertains without enlightening can still be a guilty pleasure, but a book that enlightens without entertaining is algebra.”
“And while he mused over the last few weeks, the thought kept bothering him that, without his knowledge, of course, the whole company had been part of a cruel experiment, and they were sacrificed so insights on the structure of warfare could be gathered, which, in other words, meant that no one was to blame for what happened to the soldiers and commander... an army bureaucrat had had the bright idea that the time was ripe for a study of the impact on soldiers of a sudden shift in the enemy's standing (in other words, when friend becomes foe, or vice versa). What happened presumed not a reality-based result--the outcome of earlier events in this same reality--but instead a faux reality, .a strategy game like Battleship...”
Source: Checkpoint
“And while he sat there on the end of the jetty, he’d let the sound of the waves fill his ears, watch the clouds and schools of tiny sweetfish, take pebbles he’d pocketed on the way and throw them out into the deep. Then when dusk began to settle he would retrace his steps, back to his own world. And on the way home, a loneliness would always claim his heart. He could never quite get a grip on what it was. It just seemed that whatever lay waiting “out there” was all too vast, too overwhelming for him to possibly ever make a dent in.”
“And while he was busy to impress the person he didn't like, he had become the person himself.”
“And while he was doing those things, he thought about Allie and the love that was missing from both their lives.”
Source: The Notebook
“And while her kiss might have transformed the little emerald green frog into a dashing and charming mortal prince; his kiss, in return, turned her into a real-life princess, as well. Thus far, they were even.”
Source: The Emerald Prince
“And while I agree - and who wouldn’t? - that being in Love is the optimum, I have learned that what we call love, or at least what I called love, was often only a ferocious physical attraction.”
Source: My Home Sweet Rome: Living (and loving) in Italy's Eternal City
“And while I am talking to you mothers and fathers, I give you one more assurance. I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.”
“And while I at length debate and beate the bush, There shall steppe in other men and catch the burdes.”
Source: The Proverbs of John Heywood: Being the
“And while I certainly remember those days with fondness, I have to admit they’re over, however much I wish they weren’t…”
Source: The Companions
“And while I didn't think he was my friend, it didn't mean I couldn't be his.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“And while I initially resisted, the thought of touching her, of her wanting me to touch her . . . Well, damn, I just wasn't strong enough to abstain from that.”
Source: The Promise of Amazing
“And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground.”
“And while I might not survive if I stay, I'm not sure I can live with myself if I leave.”
“And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.”
Source: Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
“And while I tell him all my thoughts, I don't always share my secrets.”
Source: White Horse
“And while I was going to meet
the flowers and sculptures of Montreux,
I smelled Lord Byron’s ink
sweating an amazing darkness out
from the medieval body of Chillon Castle
From the poem - Along the Shore”
Source: Fireclay
“And while I was not an admirer of people in the specific, I liked them in the abstract. It is only the execution of the idea that disappoints.”
Source: The Giant's House
“And while I was talking, the idea of actually losing Peeta hit me again and I realized how much I don't want him to die. And it's not about the sponsors. And it's not about what will happen when we get home. And it's not just that I don't want to be alone. It's him. I do not want to lose the boy with the bread.”
“And while I'm on the subject, let me say something about Harry Potter. [Gravels her voice.] Warlocks are enemies of God!! [Back to normal screech.] And I don't care what kind of hero they are, they're an enemy of God. And had it been in the Old Testament, Harry Potter woulda been put to death! [Applause.] You don't make heroes out of warlocks. This is the generation that's gonna stand for purity, an' righteousnesss, an' holiness, an' you're gonna serve the lord all the days of your life.”
“And while I'm sure you feel that your particular mistake is extraordinarily big, insurmountable even, contrary to what you might think, these types of things can always be undone, and oftentimes aren't nearily as lethal as we think—or, should I say, as we allow them to be.”
“And while intellectually I knew that both things could be true--that the love and regret did not necessarily cancel each other out--it was difficult for me to contemplate because a function of that love meant wanting me to make different choices, and might this also imply that she considered them mistakes?”
Source: Thirst for Salt
“And while it has not pleased the Almighty to bless us with a return of peace, we can but press on, guided by the best light He gives, trusting that in His own good time, and wise way, all will yet be well.”
Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln
“And while it is hard enough to take away something that makes a person happy it's even more difficult when it seems like it's the only thing.”
Source: Just Listen
“And while it is true that I got the best woman in the world, I don't think love saves you.”
Source: Conversations with Dorothy Allison
“And while it may be normal to feel guilty, it's also important to remember that guilt is simply an emotion, and like all emotions, it will eventually pass. Unless you choose to hold on to it.”
Source: The Return
“And while it’s nice of you to want to call us ‘modern’ or ‘moderate,’ we’ll do without the redundancy. Islam is by definition moderate, so the more strictly we adhere to its fundamentals — the more moderate we’ll be. And Islam is by nature timeless and universal, so if we’re truly Islamic — we’ll always be modern.
We’re not ‘Progressives’; we’re not ‘Conservatives’. We’re not ‘neo-Salafi’; we’re not ‘Islamists’. We’re not ‘Traditionalists’; we’re not ‘Wahabis’. We’re not ‘Immigrants’ and we’re not ‘Indigenous’. Thanks, but we’ll do without your prefix.
We’re just Muslim.”
Source: Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles
“and while love
is still our greatest
benchmark it puts us
in a grueling bout
against ourselves”
Source: Memory
“And while Luce dreamed below of the most glorious wings unfurling-the likes of which she'd never seen before-two angels in the rafters shook hands.”
Source: Fallen: Angels in the Dark
“And while Marianne was looking at herself with all those staring eyes of ice, all original feelings insider her died.
She was lying there, pretending to be sick; she was lying there, pretending to be unhappy, pretending to be in love, pretending to be vengeful.
She was all of that, and yet it was only pretend. Everything turned to pretense and unreality under the eyes of ice that were watching her, while they in turn were watched by a pair behind them, who were watched by another pair in an infinite perspective.”
Source: Gösta Berling's Saga
“And while my mind is telling me I'm flirting with her just to prove a point, my body wants to play "you show me your perky privates and I'll show you mine.”
Source: Rules of Attraction
“And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist groups around the planet.”
“And while one is brought up with luxury and caresses, and is thrown bewildered and despairing into a dark pit, another is lifted from the pit and raised to a throne where a jeweled crown is placed on his head. The world has no shame in doing this; it is prompt to hand out both pleasure and pain and has no need of us an our doings.”
Source: Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings
“And while other passions in your life may at some point begin to bank their fires, the shared happiness of good homemade food can last as long as we do.”
“And while Protestant reformers broke with Rome on a variety of counts, their treatment of their fellow human beings was no less disgraceful. Public executions were more popular than ever: heretics were still reduced to ash, scholars were tortured and killed for impertinent displays of reason, and fornicators were murdered without a qualm.”
Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
“And while seeing Trent in his tighty-whities would make my decade, I’d found out long ago that I couldn’t stay mad at a man wearing nothing but underwear. They looked so charmingly vulnerable.”
“And while some healing does happen, it isn't a healing of redemption or epiphany. It's more like the slow absorption of a bruise.”
Source: The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order
“And while the cruelties of the white man toward the black man are among the heaviest counts of the indictment against humanity, colour prejudice is not our original fault, but only one aspect of the atrophy of the imagination that prevents us from seeing ourselves in every creature that breathes under the sun.”
Source: African Stories
“And while the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it's seems, It would be easier sometimes to change the past.”
“And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first northern winter had set.”
Source: Invisible Man
“And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.”
“And while the U.S. can never be 100 percent safe from a future strike, our government is working around the clock on measures to protect the American people.”
“And while there is life there is always the chance that something might happen.”
“And while there's so much wisdom that I don't know, I know that evil doesn't happen for a cosmic reason, a 'balance of good' bullshit. Evil happens because it can, because circumstances allow it to take place. And you build your own sanctuary against it to keep yourself sane, to keep yourself fighting it.”
Source: Mirror of My Soul
“And while these pounds were being shed, while the physiological miracles were occurring with the heart and muscle and metabolism, psychological marvels were taking place as well. Just so, the world over, bodies, minds, and souls are constantly being born again, during miles on the road.”
“And while they're being told, stories create the energy that makes this world go. They keep our stars in place. They make our grass grow.”
Source: The Hazel Wood