#while

I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#always #amusing #coquette #echo #i

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. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#because #best #competition #department #ensures

You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming. ↗

— Emily Carr

#come #coming #even #go #going

I've never really worked on them. Just once in a while one hits me and makes me laugh. My Al Gore was sort of like a gay Gomer Pyle. ↗

— Dana Carvey

#al gore #gay #gore #hits #i

While there's time left, I want to do different kinds of things. ↗

— Robert Urich

#different kinds #i #kinds #left #things

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#feel #formerly #had #i #laugh

Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in the march, came up as soon as they could find their regiments, and took their places in line of battle, while it was battle, indeed. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

#came #carry #could #even #every

A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens. ↗

— John Updike

#author #because #been #choices #door

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#behave #dead #let us #little #shall

While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it was something more sinister. ↗

— Jung Chang

#economic #famine #i #mismanagement #more