They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.
Black Elk

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
Thomas Hobbes

The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat.
Joe DiMaggio

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
Aleister Crowley

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.
Vladimir Nabokov

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
Joseph Conrad

Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.
Joseph Conrad

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
Baltasar Gracian

Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
Baltasar Gracian

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
Agatha Christie

For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going.
David Foster Wallace

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
Red Auerbach

Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend.
Homer

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

While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought.
Thomas Moore

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

While living I want to live well.
Geronimo

I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time.
Martha Stewart

While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.
Douglas Horton

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.
Douglas Horton