Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.
Mason Cooley

And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.
Lester B. Pearson

During war, the laws are silent.
Quintus Tullius Cicero

As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.
Lester B. Pearson

If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.
Doug Coupland

It is my belief that it is not the fact that he traveled as much as he did during the past few months as much as what he said and how he said it that hurt him.
Robert Teeter

During the day I don't wear much makeup.
Denise Richards

Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.
Ida B. Wells

I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers.
Anita Roddick

The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
Barry Commoner

She had the kids during the day and I would have them at night. That way they were never alone. I would put the kids to bed, and then I had nothing to do and nobody to talk to, so I would write.
Clive Cussler

That was not what men and women fought for during the war.
Barbara Castle

During the past two decades, inflation has fallen to a low level in major industrial countries.
Toshihiko Fukui

God must have been on leave during the Holocaust.
Simon Wiesenthal

I wonder if those people shown protesting the deployment of nuclear weapons to western Europe during the Reagan era are feeling appropriately stupid today. 'Please don't take away our precious Soviet Union! - We demand the annihilation of all life on Earth!'
Craig Bruce

My main efforts focussed on trying to identify the rate controlling steps during the cell cycle. Crucial for this analysis were wee mutants that were advanced prematurely through the cell cycle and so divided at a reduced cell size.
Paul Nurse

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Jean Paul

Stock market corrections, although painful at the time, are actually a very healthy part of the whole mechanism, because there are always speculative excesses that develop, particularly during the long bull market.
Ron Chernow

I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski

I suppose that every time there is difficulty. I remember about Space Mountain: It took us ten years before we found the technology that would allow such a ride. And during these ten years, I had a model that I kept, waiting for the technology we needed.
John Hench