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Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Steven Wright

Curiosity, Cat, Suspect

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.
Albert Schweitzer

Wise, Person, Light

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
George Eliot

Good, Beautiful, Give

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
Ernest Hemingway

Girl, Bad, Someone

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.
Ayn Rand

Themselves, Unique, Himself

You are the music while the music lasts.
T. S. Eliot

While we are postponing, life speeds by.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
Frederick Douglass

Life, Honest, Nation

So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.
Barack Obama

Fight, Job, Done

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.
Barack Obama

Failure, America, Far

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

Best, Hard, May

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
Thomas A. Edison

Everything, Him, Waits

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
Voltaire

So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Love, Long, Friend

No man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Friend, Useless

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Dreams, Live, True

You do the work and you want people to see it; but, um while I'm doing the work, the result doesn't matter at all to me. Ultimately, I don't, I don't care whether the film is - you know - some big giant box-office bonanza and I don't care if its a complete flop. To me, when a film gets made and it's actually finished it's a success. They're all a success in their own way.
Johnny Depp

Success, Work, Care

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
Kin Hubbard

Change, Weather, Start

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Long, Friend, Others

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
William Butler Yeats

Best, Worst, Full

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.
Woody Allen

Good, Bad, Enjoy

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
Robert A. Heinlein

Science, Between, Difference

I had to stop driving my car for a while... the tires got dizzy.
Steven Wright

Car, Stop, Driving

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Government, Democracy, Means

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
Lord Byron

Friend, Friends, Mistress

Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
Walt Whitman

Life, Live, Powerful

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don't want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you're not performing at your best.
Clint Eastwood

Best, Long, Until

The obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.
Ron Paul

Liberty, Economic, Protect

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.
Gilda Radner

Life, Die, Creativity

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Love, Crazy, Children

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