Already 2008 has proved a tumultuous year in terms of global perceptions of China, and there are still 59 days to go until the Beijing Olympics. The tragedy of the Sichuan earthquake followed hard on...

I stayed a virgin until I was 23. I didn’t do drugs or drink or smoke.

In China, we don’t consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what’s underneath the skin.

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

Maybe I was 7 – I probably am exaggerating a little – and immediately was plunged into the fact that there was an official place to put your fantasies. Up until then I didn’t know...

It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be...

I was in Paris, Milan and London from ’89 until ’91, and I did mostly runway modeling. I know there’s so many people out there looking for pictures, but this was way before the age...

That satisfied me until I began to figure that if God loved all his children equally, why did he bother about my red hat and let other people lose their fathers and mothers for always?

I was probably a B student in high school, but it wasn’t until I got to college that I said, ‘Oh! This is what it’s all about.’ And then I became an A student. I...

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

A Congressional Budget Office report released as recent as June 2004 says the system will be able to pay full benefits until 2052, and 80 percent after that.

Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse.

I love TV now, and ‘Modern Family,’ but what draws me back to theater is that initial instinct of wanting to be a theater actor. I love the challenge of starting a play and not...

Until I started doing standup, there were some very bleak days.

We treat them in the same way. Those who kill our women and innocent, we kill their women and innocent, until they refrain.

The best compliment I ever had is, one day I was in Nashville, some disc jockey said, Hey, that sounds like a Tom T. Hall song. Up until then there hadn’t been any such thing.

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.

We remained at our encampment of this day until the morning of the 7th, when we descended ten miles lower down and encamped on a spot of ground where several thousand Indians had wintered during...

I was an only child until I was 11 years old, which is when my sister was born. So for 11 years, it was just me.

It wasn’t until I left that I realised it’s not weird to grow up in certain cities and, by the age of 27 or 28, for all of your friends to still be alive. I...

Until and unless we could disband these militias, this country won’t be able to function properly.

I’m the sort of person that starts digging a hole and doesn’t stop until it’s finished.

I was married awfully young and I felt trapped. My wife had been divorced and all the time we were married we were out of the Church. It wasn’t until we were divorced that we...

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn’t something I wanted to do until high school, when I started taking theater and really liked it....

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

I worked for Microsoft until 1996, till I had a different angle to view life. I wanted to be an entrepreneur and control my own destiny.

I wasn’t really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.

You can’t do anything sensible until you know what the situation is that you’re in.

My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don’t switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.

I was once hired to write a column for ‘The Guardian’ and then got fired before I’d submitted my first one. That was unusual. Most newspapers wait until I’ve written at least one piece for...

I was raised in the Baptist church… but I didn’t really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest...

My dictum has always been: ‘This show is happening just here, just tonight, with these people who are in this hall, and nobody knows what’s going to happen until it’s done.’