#while

The cooperation of navies from around the world promises high tactical value for the ships, aircraft, and divers involved; while demonstrating international resolve in defending maritime security against potential threats. ↗

— John C. Stennis

#aircraft #around #cooperation #defending #demonstrating

When I was first divorced, I started dating younger women, and it was really exciting. But after a while I was like, 'This is just dumb.' ↗

— Louis C. K.

#dating #divorced #dumb #exciting #first

Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#benches #facing #hall #held #perched

For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#few #infinitely #man #moods #poetry

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#avoiding #brevity #jargon #while

Adventure is worthwhile in itself. ↗

— Amelia Earhart

#itself #worthwhile

Especially while television I think is going through some growing pains or is in need of - I think current comedy is a bit, uh, not happening, you know? ↗

— Jenna Elfman

#comedy #current #especially #going #growing

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down. ↗

— George Eliot

#before #bray #down #good #may

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue. ↗

— Brian Eno

#because #become #being #community #consciousness

Is it honest for me to go and sit there on communion day and drink the wine and eat the bread while feeling it all to be mummery? ↗

— John Fiske

#communion #day #drink #eat #feeling