Quotation Explorer - 'Before'

Run your purpose on the toes of your feet before people can type your success stories with the fingers of their hands. - Israelmore Ayivor
I could smell the food fill up my hunger before the order was even placed. - Phindiwe Nkosi
My first thought, as a child, was that the artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and that he does it without destroying something else. A kind of refutation of the conservation of matter. That still seems to me its central magic, its core of joy. - John Updike
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth. - Albert Einstein
Inspiration usually comes during work rather than before it. - Madeleine L'Engle
You must always see your loneliness as an opportunity to meet something good unexpected, something new unknown before, something interesting not happened yet! - Mehmet Murat ildan
when you change the way you think, you'll begin to see things that were not seen before, and this is the path of wisdom .عندما تغير طريقة تفكيرك سوف ترى أشياء لم تكن تراها من قبل، وهذا هو طريق الحكمة - Hicham LM Kamelionaire
The halcyon days of childhood, a time when everything lay open before him, when the most minor episodes could be construed as events and every chance encounter gave rise to fresh insights. - Ivan Klíma
Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? - William Shakespeare
If I should go before the rest of youBreak not a flower nor inscribe a stone, Nor when I'm gone speak in a Sunday voice But be the usual selves that I have known. Weep if you must, Parting is hell, But life goes on, So sing as well. - Joyce Grenfell
The magic of life hides in the dusty corners of chaos and you must sweep out the cobwebs of confusion before you reach the calm & euphorically moments; your soul believed, existed all along. - Nikki Rowe
It's Sunday, yesterday was Saturday, before Saturday was Friday 3.18.2016 - I'm 16 and soon I will be 17, the times flies. We can't stop it, but we can be wise and use it in clever way! - Deyth Banger
More than commitment, dedication, character, discipline, patience, determination, perseverance and prayer, you need faith because you must first belief before you can witness a pragmatic change in your life. - Sesan Kareem
I went to Maui to stay a week and remained five. I never spent so pleasant a month before, or bade any place goodbye so regretfully. I have not once thought of business, or care or human toil or trouble or sorrow or weariness, and the memory of it will remain with me always. - Mark Twain
i loved you once but not sure the second will get me back. We know our mistakes and know our past, but we don't know which to blame. these are the last words i will say before we continue our life. Find another lover before you try to love me back. - Anthony Castillo
How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed! - Walt Whitman
She wasn't entirely sure how she felt, All she knew was that he entered her world And she felt more alive than she had before, secretly wishing he was feeling the same. - Nikki Rowe
Before I start a project, I always ask myself the following question. Why is this book worth a year of my life? There needs to be something about the theme, the technique, or the research that makes the time spent on it worthwhile. - David Morrell
We'd become Japs, Jews, Niggers. We weren't before. - HM Naqvi
Achievement of divine consciousness means innumerable people will give him this divine consciousness. Innumerable people will come and say, ‘We are you.’ So, when these people are announcing this before me, then only I am getting divine consciousness. At the same time they are also achieving it. - Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond
Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing. - Laurence J. Peter
Before one can walk as Christ walked,and talk as He talked,he must first begin to think as Christ thought. - A.A. Allen
A dead man’s vanity: his ashes full of life that cannot be deceased before a living being’s pride. - Munia Khan
Before You Begin Writing Your Book, Ask Yourself A Very Important Question: What Kind of Results Do I Plan To Receive From Writing This Book? If You Say Money, Then Don't Bother Even Writing The Book. - Chris Mentillo
At the end of the day, it isn’t where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I’m going and never have been before. - Warsan Shire
Before judging a person you have to know the story of his life. - Christian Orlandi
Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. - Jim Beggs
One can know a man from a laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.
A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both. - Milton Friedman
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change. - Earl Nightingale
The better we become, the higher we climb. The higher we climb, the bigger our ego. The bigger the ego, the harder it is for us to look at others the same way we did before as we can get so full of ourselves we lose our true self. Always be humble. Even if you're good. Always. - Lik Hock Yap Ivan
You know you’ve reached the end of a relationship: when your lover now demands that your jokes be funny before they laugh. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Before hurting others, feel the pain you will inflict on others. - Debasish Mridha
The sea waves stirred before methey dashed against the rocksLike a mermaid rising from its depthscurled white sea foam were her locks... - Giselle V. Steele
Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.
Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors? - Edith Wharton
Those who face that which is actually before them, unburdened by the past, undistracted by the future, these are they who live, who make the best use of their lives; these are those who have found the secret of contentment. - Alban Goodier
Before a man can wake up and find himself famous he has to wake up and find himself.
Whenever you come to a 'Y' in the road always remember that you have a third choice of path: And that is right down the middle, where no one has gone before.
Successful people achieve because they think beforehand when it works & think afterwards when it doesn't work. - Orrin Woodward
There is no pain greater than this; not the cut of a jagged-edged dagger nor the fire of a dragon's breath. Nothing burns in your heart like the emptiness of losing something, someone, before you truly have learned of its value.
Please let me know if I am not hereLet me know if I fail to find you thereFor before the dawn I leave the night behind meAnd before my heart I let you leave me behind. - Munia Khan
He loved her for being so beautiful, and he hated her for it. He loved how she put shiny stuff on her lips for him, and he also reviled her for it. He wanted her to walk home alone, and he wanted to run after her and grab her up before she could take another step. - Ann Brashares
When you aspire to inspire before you expire, you conspire to inspire even after you pause to respire. Keep pushing it! - Israelmore Ayivor
Don’t know if it’s good or bad that a Google search on Big Bang Theory lists the sitcom before the origin of the Universe - Neil deGrasse Tyson
We have to change our thoughts before things can change. - Debasish Mridha
She was a coquette; he was sure she had a spirit of her own; but in her bright, sweet, superficial little visage there was no mockery, no irony. Before long it became obvious that she was much disposed towards conversation. - Henry James
Before a war, military science seems a real science, like astronomy. After a war it seems more like astrology.
When in life you are destined great, but fated to a humble background, it always gets really worse before it gets really better. - Darmie Orem
I loved you before all of this. When there was nothing. When there was only a single atom in the night sky. - Dominic Riccitello
True faith is when you see the harvest before you plant the seed. - Matshona Dhliwayo
If you want to hurt somebody and you want to know where his vulnerable spot is you have to know him, before you can put in the right dig, that's very important. - Heinz Kohut
Rags-to-riches story? I've heard that gospel before, no thanks. I find no greater inspiration than the riches-to-rags story of redemption, the story of God leaving His golden throne to pursue a wretch like me. - T. William Watts
The trick about falling is to catch yourself before you hit the dirt. - William Ritter
Life before consciousness was like blank paper, so be it. - Santosh Kalwar
A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it. - Eric Schmidt
Her grandfather's books [...] opened before Ada, a world whose colours were so dazzling that reality paled in comparison and faded away. Boris Godunov, Satan, Athalia, King Lear: they all spoke words charged with meaning; every syllable was inexpressively precious - Irène Némirovsky
Before aligning the mind, body and soul ... first one has to straighten their mind out. - Stephen Richards
There is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, 'See, this is new?' it had been already of old time, which was before us. - Compton Gage
Immature citizens in several sizes were massed before a large factorylike structure where advanced techniques transformed them into true-thinking right-acting members of the three social classes, lower, middle, and upper middle. - Donald Barthelme
We grow before we even know what growth means. We just know, I see things differently now. - Girl Meets World
How old must you be before words can no longer fool you? - Marty Rubin
You have to recognize your inability to love before you can love the way God loves. His version of love is unfamiliar to the natural world; It is sacrificial and selfless and the most beautiful love you could experience. - Shannon L. Alder
You can't wait for the race to start to get ready. That's a loss. You must get your mind right before you get to the starting line. Mindset is everything! - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
For those who believe in resurrection, death is inconsequential. It's not an ending but rather a new beginning. A second chance, a reunion. The very idea of resurrection is so seductive a concept it's easy to forget, before you can rise from the dead you have to spend a few days in hell. - Emily Thorne
Bite them before they Bite you. - Annomynous
The difference between real life and a story is that life has significance, while a story must have meaning.The former is not always apparent, while the latter always has to be, before the end. - Vera Nazarian
Prayer is not a court hearing, so when you pray don't aim to prove before God how others wronged you; because He knows every heart already. - Gugu Mona
Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better. - Kate Winslet
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. - Kurt Vonnegut
Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits, After friendship is formed you must trust, but before that you must judge. - Seneca
The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal. - C.S. Lewis
Relationship are like glasses, once it's broken it never be like before, as broken glass remain with the broken piece stains ever... - Debolina Bhawal
Before you choose whom to love, take a look at yourself, choose your own word, think about how and reassess your time when you have given life to love, Know your ready or not and make sure you are not there to hurt making regrets on your door and paint the word I wish on your window. - Auliq Ice
If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it. - Joyce Carol Oates
If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you started.
Where did they put pictures, comic strips, and coupons before they invented the refrigerator door?
There are only so many times that you can utter ‘It does not hurt’ before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt. You become enlightened of the feeling of feeling hurt, which is worse, I am certain, than the existent hurt. - Jonathan Safran Foer
Sometimes it takes more than shouting it to show your pride. It takes more than a sign, a fabulous outfit, or a month of parades. Pride has to resonate from within; shine out to everyone around you. It has mean something to you and only you first before you announce it to the world. - Solange nicole
Ayame: "Yuki, let's deepen the bond between us brothers!"Yuki: "Before you can do that I'll drown you in the deepest part of that lake."Ayame: "As long as we spend time together."Yuki: "On second thought, go drown yourself. - Natsuki Takaya
Sweetie, if love could take away sadness, I'd be the happiest woman on earth. Sometimes the sadness is so deep, we have to sift through all the layers before we can find it and send it packing. That's what I'm trying to do in this place. Find my sadness. - April Young Fritz
Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse. - Lily Tomlin
Before my term has ended, we shall have to test anew whether a nation organized and governed such as ours can endure. The outcome is by no means certain. - John F. Kennedy
God is the creator of love. He demonstrated His love to you through the sacrificial death of His Son. The closer you draw to God the more you will demonstrate your love for others by becoming a living sacrifice by putting others before yourself. - DeWayne Owens
Fear no one nor kneel before themFor many seek to be your god and masterAnd you sacrificial lamb in their fevered plansAnd insane ambitionsKhoiSan Book of Wisdom - rassool jibraeel snyman
Before you can make your dreams work, you have to get out of bed!! - Stephen Richards
Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous. - Sir Thomas Browne
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. - Isaac Newton
The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary. - Vidal Sassoon
Truth will screw with you every which way, before it lets you to be anywhere near itself. - Fakeer Ishavardas
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. - Robert G. Ingersoll
Cut off from the land that bore us,Betrayed by the land we find,Where the brightest have gone before us,And the dullest are most behind - Stand, stand to your glasses, steady!'T is all we have left to prize:One cup to the dead already - Hurrah for the next that dies! Bartholomew Dowling - http://www.charlieipcar.com/lyrics/re...
It's inevitable. When you meet the one who makes you smile as you've never smiled before, cry as you've never cried before...there is nothing to do but fall. - Renee Ahdieh
You'll spend every Saturday night on the bathroom floor with no recollection of the night before You're a train wreck and everything that's in between Being alone doesn't seem so bad to me - Real Friends
Think twice before you try to convince someone by killing the truth. - Mohith Agadi
I dream of being there,Where the skies lie below,Clouds flow like the endless river,Where all the divinity is before me, with me,And in the shadows yet above all,Above all who choose to hide,I run along the stars,Wake up the ever-glowing sky,And sleep to the sound of the universes beating heart... - Mrinalini Mitra
Before you were conceived, I wanted you. Before you were born, I loved you. Before you were an hour, I would die for you. This is the miracle of love. - Maureen Hawkins
Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall. - Jodi Picoult
I’m now requesting you refrain from calling me this early in the morning, before I’ve had a chance to steel my defenses against hearing you utter the word ‘lizard.’-- spoken by Dr. Jeri Asheer... to Chris Dixon. - Richard Finney
Being married definitely took work. When we fought, I felt like I wanted to float away and drown, whereas before I knew I could walk away without any strings attached. - Brenda Perlin
Fix this sentence: He put the horse before the cart.
If one knows how to ‘digest’ an insult after attaining Self-realization, he will become a ‘Gnani’ [the enlightened one]. And if he ‘digests’ an insult before attaining Self-realization, he will become shameless (impudent). - Dada Bhagwan
Stop holding on to the broken pieces of that mirror even after you are bleeding so badly, I agree that the reflections you had imagined or saw once before were beautiful but sometimes holding on to them with a hope will just continue to hurt you even more and it will never get any better. - Akshay Vasu
Sometimes the hardest one to see . . .is the one standing right before you. - Lenore Wolfe
When I joined the military it was illegal to be homosexual, then it became optional, and now it's legal. I'm getting out before the Democrats make it mandatory. - Sgt. Harry Berres, USMC
Children I implore youget out of the burning house nowthree carts wait outsideto save you from a homeless liferelax in the village squarebefore the sky everything's emptyno direction is better or worseeast is just as good as westthose who know the meaning of thisare free to go where they want - Han-shan
In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued."(From a speech read on video on August 31, 1995 before the NGO Forum on Women, Beijing, China) - Aung San Suu Kyi
Before believing something, check the facts. False beliefs can infect and affect the mind. - Debasish Mridha
Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us. - Winston S. Churchill
POSITIVITY is one of the most attractive scents you can wear ! If you've been running around all day today - perspiring lots from all your challenging work - be sure to spray on some Positivity Scent (spritz, spritz!) before you head on home! - Angie karan
Most people think confidence lies in an excessive rehearsal. It’s true that man has to prepare, plan and practice before projecting his purposes. But a time must definitely arrive when man has to put an end to learning and rehearsal and start practicing what he spent time learning. - Israelmore Ayivor
Empowered Women 101: The moment you ignore bad behavior, in order to win a person's affection you have not won anything, but a person that has behavioral problems. If you couldn't fix their behavior before you won him, why could you fix him now? - Shannon L. Alder
The game never changes, you must be in the secret before you are shown to the public. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Fear not of men because men must die. Mind over matter and soul before flesh. - Mos Def
We desire to keep the dying and the newly dead close before our eyes so as to give them full need of pity. Our Lord was brought down to be pitied, on the Cross He was too far away. - Barry Unsworth
The dog leash was still tied tight around the oak tree in the back, stretched worn and limp across the green grass as if trying to escape to freedom; and he buried his wife without a tombstone. Where before, she sat most times in his home, licking her wounds. - Anthony Liccione
Let wisdom take a sit before you, otherwise, remain standing. - Gaberiel, Oris Smith
You need to be buried deep in the dirt before you can find your bloom. - Roz Inga
When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life. - Gabrielle Zevin
As the hand held before the eye conceals the greatest mountain, so the little earthly life hides from the glance the enormous lights and mysteries of which the world is full, and he who can draw it away from before his eyes, as one draws away a hand, beholds the great shining of the inner worlds. - Rabbi Nachman de Bratslav
I do not put much stock in "believing in God." The grammar of "belief" invites a far too rationalistic account of what it means to be a Christian. "Belief" implies propositions about which you get to make up your mind before you know the work they are meant to do. - Stanley Hauerwas
It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.
All things are difficult before they are easy. - Dr. Thomas Fuller
You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject. - Henri Matisse
That settles it, no more books about vampire before bedtime. - Amanda Ashley
I could go to a dozen houses, scrape away the dirt, and find his footprints, but my own prints evaporated before I ever looked back. - Brenda Sutton Rose
This is how I disappear in pieces.This is how I leave without moving from my place.This is how I dance away.This is how I'm gone before you wake. - Emma Brynstein
If I went back to college again, I'd concentrate on two areas learning to write and to speak before an audience. Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively. - Gerald R. Ford
He enables [his children] to walk before him; he holds their hand in difficulties; he himself carries them along in hardships that he sees as being otherwise unbearable to them. - Francis de Sales
Before you can win, you must begin. - Connie R. Clay
Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning. - George Bernard Shaw
No young lady can be jastified in flling in love before the gentleman's love is declared - abhishek vicky
Some of us die long before our last breath. We perish in the fire of love, reduced to ashes in the consuming blaze. No, we do not die when our hearts cease to beat, but when they start beating the first timefor someone else. - Shakieb Orgunwall
Change must come before it's too late, the nature destroyed forever we shall not find. - Auliq Ice
I think falling in love is like discovering the magic of books. You think to yourself, 'how was I living before this? - Kamand Kojouri
Things are always darkest just before they go pitch black.
Sustainability before ambition. Okal Rel. - Lynda Williams
Before thinking about what you are going to say, think about what I am saying. - Alireza Salehi Nejad
The only place where ‪‎success‬ comes before ‪work‬ is in a dictionary. - Vidal Sasoon
Everything comes at the right time, but if the right time is too late to be patient, go earlier before it becomes too late. - Michael Bassey Johnson
What all life has faced and experienced before you, you still have to face and experience yourself. - Marty Rubin
In order to become great we must allows others to become great before us, and not be envious of their greatness but rather rejoice in it. So that when we become great, there will be others who shall rejoice in ours. - George Mercado
When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately. - Oscar Wilde
Kyo Sohma: angrily pointing at Yuki Just like I'll beat you one of these days Yuki: looking bored Wait wait I think I've heard this one before - Natsuki Takaya
Never restart a journey and use the same road that failed you before. - Dennis E. Adonis
Waves in an ocean remind us that just as they come and go, we too will. What matters is did we make a good splash before leaving? - RVM
Act, not for the results, but for the action.Lead, not for the mission, but for the vision. See, not through your beliefs, but through the eyes.Trust, not because of your beliefs, but because of truth. Think before you do and do because it is right. - Debasish Mridha
Nonsense. Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older, and then before you know it, they're grown. - J.M. Barrie
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. - Louis D. Brandeis
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. - Lewis Carroll
To be knowledgeable, sit before scholars; to be wise, sit before life. - Matshona Dhliwayo
If a person starts always analyzing everything before saying to the people so that the thoughts are pleasant, then most probably s/he would not be able to say ever anything excellent. - Anuj Somany
Exactly what good are our eyes if they are not willing to see what's right before us? - Mark W. Boyer
I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward. - Kahlil Gibran
I don't know how many years it was before I arrived at a formulated philosophy that the happiest thing to do, always, when visiting an individual or a country, is to admit, by word or manner, how much I'm finding there that my life had lacked hitherto - Clara E. Laughlin
To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed. - Samuel Johnson
A great artist paints a picture on the canvas of his mind using the colors of his love and imagination before transferring the image onto a real canvas. - Debasish Mridha
Be fair before being generous, be human before being fair. - Fernán Caballero
The mint from your breath, the milk from your breast, the best of your mind, now in its worst state of condition. From the womb to the tomb, as a mild flower, you break your petals upon blossom, and seize death openly. Leaving your fragrance to spin and dance, one last time before being blown away. - Anthony Liccione
Before proving it to someone else, I had to be able to prove it to myself. - Tyconis D. Allison Ty
Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day. - French Proverb
What would the world do without tea? - how did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea. - Sydney Smith
A little stupid is like a little forest fire. If you happen upon some stupid, please stomp it out before it spreads. - Quentin R. Bufogle
You don't have to own something for it to be you. Haven't you ever gone into a gallery and seen a painting and said 'that's me'. Or had a piece of music capture something deep down you didn't even know was there? You realize it's always been part of youl you've just never heard it before. - James L. Rubart
Imagine no limitations; decide what's right and desirable before you decide what's possible. - Brian Tracy
History make us smarter. Learn it before being to late. - Ricardo Freire
We must delight in each other, make others conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, our community as members of the same body. - John Winthrop
Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death. - Eckhart Tolle
If you write in the Old World, and against it, your work must die, go missing, be veiled, before it can live the life for which it was destined in the New World. - Patrick Nowell-Smith
If you should die before me, ask if you can bring a friend.
I must write now and quickly, before I begin to prefer the perfect version that lives in my head. - Lettie Prell
If you’re going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the ideas will come. You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow. - Louis L’Amour
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. - T.S. Eliot
When it feels like all is lost,And there's no guide that's left to prove it,Take a look inside,Cherish your life & live before you lose it.You're all waiting for the answers,Keep on searching, strength in numbers. - Of Mice & Men
Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them. - Robert Graves
The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting. - Sun-tzu
Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you. - Calvin Coolidge
The journey to the cross began long before. As the echo of the crunching of the fruit was still sounding in the garden, Jesus was leaving for Calvary.
Swans sing before they die— 't were no bad thing Should certain persons die before they sing. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. - James Thurber
If you want your lie to be believed then you need to speak thousand truths before you lie. - Amit Kalantri
Try to control your anger before it burns your life. - Debasish Mridha
..the senses do not give us a picture of the world directly; rather they provide evidence for checking hypotheses about what lies before us. Indeed we may say that a perceived object is a hypothesis, suggested and tested by sensory data. - Richard Langton Gregory
I aspire to inspire before I expire. - Pravinee Hurbungs
If a religion asks one to kill another just because he or she follows not this ism, nor agrees with it; then, it's a hell-hole, worse than a prison. Run away, and far from it. As though your butt is on fire. And before you, yourself are imprisoned. - Fakeer Ishavardas
She'd not known grief would come in waves, brought on by the smallest of things. Nor had she realized that ordinary acts of living would continue even after the loss of a love and that it would remain possible to get caught up in the moment of a simple pleasure before remembering. - Tess Thompson
Ninja Mom's are graced to finish the raise set before them! - Anna M. Aquino
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. - George Washington
The good psychic would pick up the phone before it rang. Of course it is possible there was noone on the other line. Once she said "God Bless you" I said, "I didn't sneeze" She looked deep into my eyes and said, "You will, eventually." And damn it if she wasn't right. Two days later I sneezed. - Ellen DeGeneres
The way we can replenish our memories is to look back at textual information that we have either written or read before. If that method is accomplished, we can comprehend and complete tasks that require us to use more critical thinking. - Saaif Alam
To gain the spiritual ascendancy over ourselves, and the influences with which we are surrounded, through a rigid course of self-discipline, is our first consideration, it is our first labor, before we can pave the way for our children to grow up without sin unto salvation. - Brigham Young
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history? - Marcus Tullius Cicero
In politics, the fruit always turns sour before it can turn ripe. - Marty Rubin
Just like the way you date in relationship and become convinced before you give a partner your heart, you got to date your PASTOR to know he can be your MENTOR before you give him your ears! Test the Spirits...and don't be a religious fanatic! - Israelmore Ayivor
Cut your big mountain into smaller hills, and then start to climb. Before you know it, you're done! - Miranda A. Uyeh
Before the battle they had been discussing whether there might be life after death, and Windham and Rochester had made a pact that if there was, the first to die would come back and tell the other. But, said Rochester, he [Windham] never did. - Jenny Uglow
The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Before embarking on important undertakings, sit quietly, calm your senses and thoughts, and meditate deeply. You will then be guided by the great creative power of Spirit. After that you should utilize all necessary material means to achieve your goal. - Paramahansa Yogananda
Our past is the forge upon which we are hardened and tempered, to prepare us for the present. We are like a fine blade that must be hammered into shape before it can be ready to make its finest cuts. - Larry Atchley Jr.
We spend so much of our life in activity…we almost feel uncomfortable just being but that is huge restorative break in the wild swirl of activity around us it’s like pulling back the bow in archery like taking that big deep breath in before you dive into your day. - davidji
A bitter awareness that everything is a sensation of mine and at the same time something external, something not in my power to change. Ah, how often my own dreams have raised up before me as things, not to replace reality but to declare themselves its equal - Pessoa
We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged - Heinrich Heine
Before you speak... I have already heard. Before you see... I had seen a million times. Before you reach... I came and departed, so is the way and life of a versatile soul. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Death cannot be struggled against, brother. It ever arrives, defiant of every hiding place, of every frantic attempt to escape. Death is every mortal's shadow, his true shadow, and time is its servant, spinning that shadow slowly round, until what stretched before one now stretched before him. - Steven Erikson
On Pilgrim's Progress: I could not have believed beforehand that Calvinism could be painted in such exquisitely delightful colors. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nothing is said that has not been said before. - Terence
Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.
I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think we are dying; we’re actually turning into a supernova. And then when we look at ourselves again, we see that we’re suddenly more beautiful than we ever were before! - C. JoyBell C.
After his failed political career, Lincoln often pondered the question of the purpose of the meaning of life. In 1850 [ten years before he was elected President], Lincoln told Herdon [his law partner] "How hard, oh how hard it is to die and leave one's country no better than if one had never lived. - Ronald C. White Jr.
Sometimes we need to be destroyed by a situation, before we understand how bad it was for us. - Karon Waddell
Looking for a wife is like fishing; before you go, make sure you don't have a hole in your net. - Matshona Dhliwayo
In other words, we may, by fixing our attention almost fiercely on the facts actually before us, force them to turn into adventures; force them to give up their meaning and fulfill their mysterious purpose. - G.K. Chesterton
Scatter the names of all those who have ever lived over the surface of the knowable cosmos, and it would remain, for all purposes, as unnamed as it was before the small, anomalous flicker of human life appeared on this small, wildly atypical planet. - Marilynne Robinson
Who are you to judge the life i livei know i'm not perfect and i don't live to be.but before you start pointing fingersmake sure your hands are clean. - Jimi Hendrix
It is for this reason that we find that co-existence, which could neither be intime alone, for time has no contiguity, nor in space alone, forspace has no before, after, or now, - Arthur Schopenhauer
Someone who loves you will reveal beautiful things within yourself... things you had never noticed before... things nobody else cared to. - Steve Maraboli
In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it. - Rose Tremain
Make your destiny before your destiny makes you... - Kuldeep kandasi
I knew I loved you before I met youI think I dreamed you into lifeI knew I loved you before I met youI have been waiting all my life - Savage Garden
Don't worry much about the after-life, Just like you don't worry about your before-Life. Worry (and be grateful) about THIS life. This one DOES count - Pablo
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom. - Aristotle
Before getting upset, always ask yourself: Will this even matter in six months, in a year, or in five years? if the answer is no, then let it go. - Robin Dabhi
There is always a comma to check whether are we going to do the same mistake which we have done before?" But proble is that we never use this comma. - Vaibhav Soni
Don’t stop before your miracle happens ~ - Levon Poe
Ultimately, intellectual work of this sort is its own reward, because it is focused on the only One whose recognition is important, the One before whom all hearts are open. - Mark A. Noll
Music, oh, how faint, how weak,Language fades before thy spell!Why should Feeling ever speak,When thou canst breathe her soul so well? - Thomas Moore
Most people who lose their lives because life might be down for them only refuse to know what a tuber of yam that is put into the soil goes through before it comes up as a fresh green creeping plant to bear yet another bigger tuber - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
30 cents, two transfers, loveThinking hard about you I got on the bus and paid 30 cents car fare and asked the driver for two transfers before discovering that I was alone. - Richard Brautigan
A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him. - Edna St. Vincent Millay
The first time you see something that you have never seen before, you almost always know right away if you should eat it or run away from it. - Scott Adams
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Winston S. Churchill
Before you step out into the world today, remember that you will encounter people whose struggles you do not know. Remember the way a pair of eyes light up when greeted with kindness. - D. Antoinette Foy
But pain's like water. It finds a way to push through any seal. There's no way to stop it. Sometimes you have to let yourself sink inside of it before you can learn how to swim to the surface. - Katie Kacvinsky
Sometimes you just need some reassurance about your Choice before you take any decision. - Auliq Ice
I don't know why red fades before blue it just does.
All the answers i seek lie within me, but inner quietude is mandatory before those become loud and clear. - Pooja Ruprell
We are not even going to throw the challenge of changing a whole generation before the modern day church. This generation of believers don’t even know what that means - Sunday Adelaja
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death. - Mary Renault
We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand... and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late. - Marie Beyon Ray
Success doesn’t happen by accident. You make it happen. But before you reach that road to victory, some things about yourself have to be changed. - Kevin J. Donaldson
Do you love me, Rain?""More than I knew it was possible to love. All the stars will fall from the heavens before I ever stop. - C.L. Wilson
There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself. As if the Good Lord had nothing better to do than exist! - C.S. Lewis
Living in the shadows is cold... know this before you go living there. - Deyth Banger
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little. - Mark Twain
The planet's tyrant, dotard Death, had held his gray mirror before them for a moment and shown them the image of things to come. - Dorothy L. Sayers
Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun. - Leonardo da Vinci
It's bad to grow old before your time. It's worse to not grow at all within your mind, - Stabley Victor Paskavich
When I wake I ask myself, how much longer before they will just let me die?" - Tier, Clutch - J.A. Huss
Always ask, ‘Do you love me?’ before saying, ‘I love you. - Vinita Kinra
Before you act, think.Before you speak, listen.Before you take, give.Before you scorn, empathize.Before you condemn, forgive.Before you wound, love. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Your teacher might be a child who takes you by the hand and asks you a question that you hadn't considered before, and your answer to the child is your answer to yourself. - Wayne W. Dyer
Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower. - Jean Paul Richter
I am loving before I am patriotic: I am human before I am American.
Before letting someone hold your heart in their hands, make sure their hands are clean. - Matshona Dhliwayo
If you allow coldness to engulf you before winter, season is helpless to help you. - Munia Khan
Most probably your belief system is screwed up. And so were your ancestors, before you. And now, maybe so are you. Overcome it, you! - Fakeer Ishavardas
Those who do not know the danger of wielding power will, before long, be ruled by it. - Twilight Princess
Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thinking before writing how I feel. That's how I'm able to write all the lies and wrongs. How else can one write something like a fake smile ? - Muhammad Faizan Khan.
A cluttered mind can make the difference between a nightmare and a dream. Meditate and clear your thoughts before you sleep. - Jenna Alatari
I always see the crack in the glass before I see the window. - Richard Wentworth
A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only he himself can damage that. His reputations what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity
America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up. - Oscar Wilde
There is a difference between speaking the truth in love and judging someone hypocritically...make sure you know the difference before you speak! - Pauline Seaport
Karma: I know I've seen this man someplace before.Artie (as McGuffey): Considering some of the places I frequent lady that's a comprising remark! Season 1Night of the Flaming Ghost - Wild Wild West TV
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell that ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. - Isaac Newton
The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach. - C.G. Jung
Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before. - W.H. Auden
A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom. - Jean-Paul Sartre
I would have died, before a literary agent ever committed to my book. This is why I chose to empower myself by self publishing. - Mary Sage Nguyen
Okay, now I know your yanking my chain. Pigs will fly before Blake would ask for our help." Rhoan"Better start ducking those flying piggies then, bro, because I'm totally serious." Riley - Keri Arthur
I had never before considered leaving my religion, my family, my customs, and my beliefs behind. It was all that I had ever known. Would it be worth it to give it all up? I had no way of knowing. It was frightening even to contemplate a life beyond - Carolyn Jessop
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the beginning of the universe. - Jalaluddin Rumi
Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories. - John Wilmot
Before you get bored of yourself try creativity in your life. - Amit Kalantri
The past, which as always did not know the future, acted in ways that ask tobe imagined before they are condemned. Or even simplified. - Paul Fussell
Having less worries is what allows me to talk to beggars in the street or tell jokes at waitresses and try to make them smile. I couldn't do that before, when I had a job and was always worried about money. - Robin Sacredfire
Spring is the season you can feel blossom inside of you before you ever see it blossom outside. - Toni Sorenson
Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, you will be a mile away from him, and you will have his shoes. - Anonymous
One day you will just wake up and you will do not want to remember that it was real fact, what has happened before you fell asleep. - Pēteris Bitāns
We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy. - George Bernard Shaw
And did with sighs their fate deplore,Since I must shelter them no more;And if before my joys were such,In having heard, and seen too much,My grief must be as great and high,When all abandoned I shall be,Doomed to a silent destiny. - Aphra Behn
When you feel big and powerful, stand before a mountain; when you feel small and weak, stand before an ant. - Vinita Kinra
When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred. - Thomas Jefferson
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. - Isaac Newton
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it. - Aldous Huxley
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's. - Joseph Campbell
If you feel like giving up, give up on that feeling and give into the realization there are endless possibilities waiting to be discovered before you. - Tom Althouse
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. - Mark Twain
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. - William Shakespeare
The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority. - Lord Acton
There is deep darkness before the dawn of light. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Before Elvis, there was nothing. - John Lennon
Promise yourself that you will not leave this world before accomplishing what is important to you and what matters for the world. - Debasish Mridha
A stranger is a friend you have not met before. - Quince
A mistake is the most beautiful thing in the world.It is the only way you can get to some place you’venever been before. I try to make as many as I can.Making a mistake is the only way that you cangrow. - E.W. Wainwright
time does stop sometimes, you see everyone passing by, following their destiny and the destination it is leading, and you conclude its better where you are then moving again....often history repeats itself before it changes..... - Prashant
It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.
Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act. - Sallust
Drop out of school before your mind rots from our mediocre educational system. - Frank Zappa
Before the entire universe realizes how special you are, you yourself have to realize it. So that even if they never find out, you will always know. - Vanshika Dhyani
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday. - Napoleon Hill
i choose to focus my energy on what I believe deserves my time, life passes us by so quickly and before we know it; were looking back at our story, make sure the choices you decide on; will give you a movie worth watching. - Nikki Rowe
People rely too much on their lifelong instincts. Their perception is divided by necessary obedience, which they themselves have become too weak to liberate themselves from. I'd let the Devil read me the bible, before I trusted the Words of God or the Mind of Man. - Lionel Suggs
Imagine the big rating agencies as three competitive saloons standing side by side, with each free to set its own drinking age. Before long, nine-year-olds would be downing bourbon - Roger Lowenstein
The devil depends on a dark secret chance, but God does it now before your own eyes. - Michael Bassey Johnson
The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it's gone. - Jalaluddin Rumi
Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way. - Kingsley Amis
My thoughts are wing'd with hopes,My hopes with love.Thoughts, hopes and love return to me no more,Until Cynthia shine as she hath done before. - Eve Edwards
What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie?I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky.The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing;Rush in and die, dogs—I was a man before I was a king. - Robert E. Howard
Before you ever clasped your hands to pray God was already within your heart to stay. - Stanley Victor Paskavich
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast. - Gabriel García Márquez
It is easy to lead from the front when there are no obstacles before you, the true colors of a leader are exposed when placed under fire. - Mark W. Boyer
I love the way he says my name. With the elegance and utmost respect of a King, just before he bows to his Queen. - M.J. Abraham
I was taught to deceive by a great deceiver. Jenny will embrace me as a good man. Just as you did...before tonight. - Ken Cruickshank
A deed done to others, but for yourself is not a worthy one at all. Instead, place another before you; in this way, you can be sure your moral compass always points North. - Jason W. Blair
Having been an English literary graduate, I've been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity. I think media are at their most interesting before anybody's thought of calling them art, when people still think they're just a load of junk. - Douglas Adams
Book sense makes sense because someone has gone through it before and able to share it with you. Your job is to listen and discern. - Germany Kent
...Love Christ and put nothing before His Love. He is joy, He is life, He is light. Christ is Everything. He is the ultimate desire, He is everything. Everything beautiful is in Christ. - Elder Porphyrios
I had lived my life before in accordance with the poverty and itinerancy of my childhood, sliding in and out of other people’s leases, never expecting to stay very long and tolerating circumstances that strike me now as completely absurd. - Kathleen Alcott
Falling down ain't falling down,If you don't cry when you hit the floor,It's called the past cause I'm getting past,And I ain't nothing like I was before,You ought to see me now - Alicia Keys
You will know who wants you to succeed by the way they see the good in you before they ever see your flaws. - Adam Smith
And I knew that in spite of all the roses and kisses and restaurant dinners a man showered on a woman before he married her, what he secretly wanted was for her to flatten out underneath his feet like Mrs. Willard's kitchen mat. - Sylvia Plath
God cares only for what is his, busies himself with only himself, thinks only of himself, and has only himself before his eyes...He serves no higher person, and satisfies only himself. His cause is--A purely egoistic cause. - Max Stirner
One day you will just wake up and you will do not want to remember that it was a real fact, what has happened before you fell asleep. - Pēteris Bitāns
Chew before you swallow. - George W. Bush
Among leaders who have made the greatest impact through ages, I would consider Muhammad before Jesus Christ. - James Gavin
Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber. - Kurt Vonnegut
Before you are beginning your first step, let's pray first. - Marya Sy
What a great and happy place the world was! But you had to be big and grown-up before you could do just what you liked. - Neil M Gunn
Berlin's getting dark before it's getting late. - Charlotte Eriksson
This is the new year the new you. You can pass through another year, coasting on cruise control. Or you can step out of your comfort zone, trying things you have never done before, & make 2012 as the year that you elevate from where you are & soar high. Make it happen! - Pablo
The years thunder by.The dreams of youth grow dimwhere they liecaked in dust on the shelves of patience.Before we know it, the tomb is sealed.Where, then lies the answer?In choice.Which shall it be:Bankruptcy of Purseor Bankruptcy of Life? - Sterling Hayden
Earth should suspect a man who has no tears of compassion and eject into the outer space until he learns humility. Outer space and death might be of the same origin, where one chances upon egolessness just before lifelessness. Earth only asks for egolessness. - Adam Kovacevic
Friendships don't last forever, but make sure you make the most of them before it's gone. - Crystal
If you truly feel that self esteem and motivation have to happen first before you can make changes in your life, then we’ll probably be sharing walkers at a retirement home as we talk over what might have been. - Shannon L. Alder
The ribbon on my wrist says: Do not open before Christmas. - Fall Out Boy
When you read my stories, I want you to see the world through my eyes; as if I based my work on you. Come away with me, and I'll show you a world that you've never seen before or ever want to leave. - Nila N. Brown
With the magnificence of eternity before us, let time, with all its fluctuations, dwindle into its own littleness. - Thomas Chalmers
People often make very bad mistakes because people often don’t ask very simple crucial questions before their actions! - Mehmet Murat ildan
That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. - Cesare Pavese
Before the battle begins and the outcome has been decided, let the adversary know that you are a fearless competitor, worthy of a second opinion. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
Ignorance need not remove the crown on the head of a king before making him a slave - Osho Samuel Adetunji
Don't fall before you're pushed. - English Proverb
The literature [Nobel] laureate of this year has said that an author can do anything as long as his readers believe him.A scientist cannot do anything that is not checked and rechecked by scientists of this network before it is accepted. - Sune Bergström
Life is amazing beautiful when your vision flows through your heart before your eyes. - Christine Marie Bryant
This is how I disappear in pieces.This is how I leave while not moving from my seat.This is how I dance away.This is how I'm gone before you wake. - Sarah Kay
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast. - Harry S Truman
Do we fear death or that of arriving at its door before we are ready? - James R. Paddock
She persisted when I resisted. And thank God for that. Because the number of storms I needed to go through before appreciating the way the wind whipped through her hair was one to many. Now, I'd move mountains to make her mine. Rain or shine. - J. Raymond
To embrace the message of Christmas is to throw off my hedonistic rebellion and bow before the chafing reality that I can't save myself, and in that very act to be suddenly taken aback in that I've stumbled upon the very freedom I've longed for in the very place I'd least expected it. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill, take it andpush it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before,push it to the wildest edge of edges, then you force it into the realm ofmagic. - Tom Robbins
I think about and consider God's feelings before the people's or even my own. - Delano Johnson
Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out. - Michael Burke
Judge, criticize, object before you decide to believe something; but once you believe, you're but an idiot if you need to be scrupulous any more. - Raheel Farooq
Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. - Rita Rudner
Walk in the light before the dawn of darkness. - Lailah Gifty Akita
People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately. - Oscar Wilde
I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street - Stephen Hawking
You are. Before you are whatever you are labeled. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Step ahead immediately and do what you have to do before it's too late. - Moutasem Algharati
Anything invented before your fifteenth birthday is the order of nature. That's how it should be. Anything invented between your 15th and 35th birthday is new and exciting, and you might get a career there. Anything invented after that day, however, is against nature and should be prohibited. - Douglas Adams
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. - C. S. Lewis
Faith is receiving a blessing before you have seen it.Wisdom is taking care of the blessing once you have received it. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Before passing judgementon someone’s choices,stop and look at the questionsthey were trying to answer. - Domonique Bertolucci
Like all fancies, fancied gods too do not last. All a 'One' is - this the Ultimate Reality does. Get 'It'. Before you breathe your last. - Fakeer Ishavardas
I don't believe in love at first sight because my mother started loving me before seeing me. - Luffina Lourduraj
This nation will never go back to the false comforts of the world before 911. We are engaging the enemy as we must, in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, so we will not have to face them here at home.
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes. - Steve Martin
Live before the Journey is over, Live before it is too late. LIVE because you deserve to. - RVM
First time I ever put pen to paper, I had one goal to build something no one had ever thought of before. - Carla H. Krueger
My wish before I die, to keep the faith. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Like many others before him, Abbott discovers, once married, that marriage is a battle—clinically, a negotiation—over the possession of the Bad Mood. - Chris Bachelder
To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. - Edward Weston
No one knows who they are more than someone who changes their identity (before I became a farmer, I was a leadership coach). - M.C. Humphreys
I'm not an ambulance chaser. I'm usually there before the ambulance.
It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life. - Terry Pratchett
She turned back to the door fishing her key out of her purse. Once the key was in the lock, the door flew open revealing darkness. All she had time for was a squeak before she was abruptly pulled in the house by her shirt. The door slammed shut and locked behind her with a clank of sliding metal. - Nicole Rae
One Fails Before One Perception...! - Rishi Sethi
I say, "You a kind girl," and she nod, repeat it back to me. But before I can do another one, she get up and chase that poor dog around the yard and laugh and that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, ever day? - Kathyrn Stockett
And make no mistake, my friend, your pointless life will end; but before you go, can you look at the truth? - Morrissey
the source of a river is narrow. If you could jump over it in a twinkle of an eye at the source, be sure to ponder before you jump over it at its mid or its estuary. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
You have to expect things of yourself before you do them. - Michael Jordan
He often paused before he spoke. She thought this exquisite; it was as though he had such regard for his listener that he wanted his words strung together in the best possible way. - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Before you expect anything, try to give something. - Debasish Mridha
I before E except after C. Weird?By rebelling against the rules the word itself denotes its very meaning: of strange or extraordinary character, odd, fantastic.I think all writers are weird. - Day Parker
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Never trust anyone who tells you how people come to trust them. - Katherine Boo
The fanatic emphasis on ‘Plan B’ that professionals talk about is not a coward’s fall-back system. It serves a purpose, a purpose that a strategist has envisioned and planned before the need for an alternate solution surfaces. - Andy Paula
I have confidence that my prayers are answered because I sought God's will before I asked. - Davin Whitehurst
My journey has begunand the direction is upwards. I am shooting for the stars and will come back with a shine like never before. I am blessed beyond measure. - Positive Attitude
Remember sixteen - when all the world was new and your life stretched before you like fresh snow waiting for your footprints. - Peggy Toney Horton
It just happens that a lot of us have been through too much that is even too less than our age..and what happens is we cannot but remember it and all we think about is how to make now and after better than before. - Temitayo A
Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight. - Henry David Thoreau
There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed. - W. Somerset Maugham
"Luck" is a very good word if you put a P before it.
Before a diamond shows its brilliancy and prismatic colors it has to stand a good deal of cutting and smoothing.
These detective series on TV always end at precisely the right moment-after the criminal is arrested and before the court turns him loose. - Robert Orben
No prince, no success filled her dreams: only time spread out before her to spend as she chose, a time of contemplation which offered her refuge. - Delphine de Vigan
During rough time in a Business, a Leader should act like a ship captain. His first and foremost priority should be to put his employees to security before thinking of his own welfare. - Indy Bissessur
sometimes you gotta Run before you can Walk. - Tony Stark
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle. - Albert Einstein
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. - Orison Swett Marden
Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest amount of stress to your life, ask yourself: What is my truest intention? Give yourself time to let a yes resound within you. When it's right, I guarantee that your entire body will feel it. - Oprah Winfrey
Spiritual maturity is not measured by the years that you have spent in church, rather by your attitude before people different from you. - Paul Gitwaza
Billions of years before twelve step groups, God committed shotgun suicide. Today wall scrapings share His gratitude stories. - Brian Spellman
My wishes before I die, to fulfill my mission on earth; The writing of my life stories to inspired present and future generations. - Lailah Gifty Akita
It is absolutely certain that we must act to protect nature much more efficiently than ever before. Tomorrow when mankind will step forward to a totally uncertain future will be too late. - Eraldo Banovac
Everything takes place at a right time. It’s your anxiety to achieve everything before time or grab things more than you required, add misery to your life. - Roshan Sharma
Nothing is impossible no matter how improbable, all things can be done before the rising sun! - Misti Renea Neely
I truly beleive that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us. - Gillian Anderson
Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods. - Seneca
The only place where democracy comes before work is in the dictionary. - Ralph Nader
If everyone waited to become an expert before starting, no one would become an expert. To become an EXPERT, you must have EXPERIENCE. To get EXPERIENCE, you must EXPERIMENT! Stop waiting. Start stuff. - Richie Norton
It is vital that parents have the courage to speak up and intervene before Satan succeeds. President Boyd K. Packer has taught that when morality is involved, we have both the right and the obligation to raise a warning voice. - Larry R. Lawrence
You cannot get before you give. Wood cannot give you warmth before you start the fires. - Debasish Mridha
Before we ask where the leaders are, we should look in a mirror and ask the person we see Why are you not leading? - Carlos Wallace
Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting. - Dejan Stojanovic
I appear at times merry and in good heart, talk, too, before others quite reasonably, and it looks as if I felt, too, God knows how well within my skin. Yet the soul maintains its deathly sleep and the heart bleeds from a thousand wounds. - Hugo Wolf
Never before have the tools of value creation been so great and the potential artisans so busy watching the Kardashians. - Ryan Lilly
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists. - Charles Dickens
A popular Harvard business professor urged his students to read the obituaries in the New York Times before they read anything else, in order to learn from the lives of great men. - Georges F. Doriot
I have always put love before money, that is the reason why I am a man that is rich with love, and my heart is content with that. - Delano Johnson
Before complaining about your burden of life, you must first try to see what other people's burden of life is! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Before she cut her birthday cake, she cast a wish, then blew the candles out from his eyes. - Anthony Liccione
There is no better example for our children,then the one we set before them every day - Davin Whitehurst
A man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking. - Saul Bellow
Private Latimer had become a monster, and he must have guessed this was so. Did a girl love him before? Could she continue to? - Ian McEwan
What you give meaning to is what causes your emotion. Before you react know why you are giving something so much energy or fear. When you begin to understand why you give things meaning you can begin to change how you react and why you do what you do. - Shannon L. Alder
The artist has the master picture in his mind, before he begins to paint. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Dance before the music is over. Live before your Life is over. - - RVM
With every morn my life afresh must breakThe crust of self, gathered about me fresh;That thy wind-spirit may rush in and shakeThe darkness out of me, and rend the meshThe spider-devils spin out of the flesh-Eager to net the soul before it wake,That it may slumberous lie, and listen to the snake. - George MacDonald
She put others before herself and yet you hate her. What did she do to you? - Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz
Police Officer Angry Aggression Theory (POAAT) is why you need to video record the police before they shoot you. Always start the video camera at the first contact, as it can go sour at any time and without warning. - Steven Magee
Go where imagination takes you-- not where others have gone before. - Debasish Mridha
The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.
If at first you don't succeed, tweak it before you toss it. - Todd Stocker
It does seem - well, difficult - to be at the mercy of some gross, unshaven stranger before you can begin to be yourself. - James Baldwin
Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unus'd. - William Shakespeare
Life is like an Hourglass. The grains of sand drop one by one and then it’s all over. Live before you die. - RVM
Think twice before you pull your trouser and rape a woman; she may be your mother, sister or friend, and you know the consequences that follows. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Powerful words, a soft embrace, & facial expression that can warm your heart. Growth shows you to appreciate what you didn't before. - April Mae Monterrosa
You write once and you can call yourself a writer, but it takes three novels before you can call yourself a novelist. The first two could have just been lucky. One day, I will finish my third, and one day, I will be a novelist. - Michael Kroft
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. - George Santayana
Anxiety is interest paid on trouble before it is due.
You are what resides before, beyond and between what you think so do not be consumed by thought. It is only a fragment of your magic. - Rasheed Ogunlaru
Back then, he'd have to leave at the end of August for the start of school, so the week before Labor Day became it's own tiny season of gloom, like a hundred Sunday nights crowded together. - Charles Frazier
This will be our reply to violence:to make music more intensely,more beautifully,more devotedly than ever before. - Leonard Bernstein
Life is happening at this very moment; it is not behind us or before us. The past is full of memories and future is full of expectations. - Debasish Mridha
Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening. - Art Buchwald
I've broken an arm before, but no one wanted to shoot me!' Suzie says. 'I mean, when you go to the emergency room I hope to God the doctors don't decide it might cost too much to care for.' -Suzie Schwab co-owner of East Maui Animal Refuge - Toni Polancy
That's what college is for - getting as many bad decisions as possible out of the way before you're forced into the real world. I keep a checklist of 'em on the wall in my room. - Jeph Jacques
Discipline is to present us before grace, it does not produce grace to make sense. - Richard J. Foster
If you are facing a new challenge or being asked to do something that you have never done before don’t be afraid to step out. You have more capability than you think you do but you will never see it unless you place a demand on yourself for more. - Joyce Meyer
Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day. - Stephen Jay Gould
Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. - Bible
It had been a month before then that I'd sat on the bathroom floor and now it was back, the feeling that I was watching life through a thick pane of glass and that, whatever was out there, I wasn't designed for it. - T.R. Richmond
Emily swore and he was impressed; he'd never thought to string cocksuckingsonofabitch together in one sentence. He couldn't help himself; the snort of laughter escaped before he could hold it in. - C.H. Admirand
Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy. - Mahatma Gandhi
My knees will not tremble at the sight of a King but I will kneel down before a man of humility. - Princess Maleiha Bajunaid Candao
You should always say goodbye to the people you love before you walk away. Hug them and hold them tight like it is the last moment you have, because it just might be. - Jenna Alatari
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. - Kurt Vonnegut
I'm keenly aware of the Pride coming before the Fall . . . but I really do like what I've been able to do here. - Wil Wheaton
Before comparing yourself or your life to others, take a good look at your fingers. - Peprah Boasiako
Never keep your brain so full that people’s opinions take up every pew in your mind, and truth has to be born again before it is believed. - Shannon L. Alder
The greatest impact of the Darwinian revolution...was that it completed the liberation from superstition and fear that began in the physical sciences a few centuries before. Man, too, is a natural phenomenon. [in "The evolutionary concept of man", 1972, p. 35.] - George Gaylord Simpson
Before believing—think. Before accepting—feel. - Debasish Mridha
I’ll promise to think twice before I take any important step you seriously disapprove of. - Anne Brontë
He leaned forward and opened his door, politely standing aside to let me by before following me in. There are some advantages to dating a guy from another era, I thought. Though I am a big believer in gender equality, chivalry scores high in my book. - Amy Plum
I don't fear death, I fear I haven't done enough before it happens - Aryan Xebat‎
You will never know everything. Knowledge unfolds as we move forward. Sitting back and waiting to know everything before we do anything is a waste of life.~ I Am Another You - Priya Kumar
Who are you to judge the life I live?I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers...make sure you hands are clean! - Bob Marley
Doctor Sleep - book (By Stephen King) is the best choice before going to bed! - Deyth Banger
A radical shift in attitude happens in small steps. It’s a transformation. A butterfly does a lot of walking and eating and growing before it finally forms a chrysalis and emerges with wings. It’s not an instant transformation. - Rohvannyn Shaw
We too can repair our cracks with goldAnd glow again.Crazed by life,More beautiful than ever before. - Scott Hastie
I wish every day could be Halloween. We could all wear masks all the time. Then we could walk around and get to know each other before we got to see what we looked like under the masks. - R.J. Palacio
By always thinking unto them. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait till the first dawnings open little by little into the full light.
An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before. - Mark Twain
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. - Cicero
Ever felt like you are more than flesh and bones and blood that decay back into cosmic dirt? You are. Your existence did not begin with your birth and it will not end with your death. Your soul lived before and will live on and on and on...so what you do now matters later. Choose wisely. - Toni Sorenson
Dream big dreams! Imagine that you have no limitations and then decide what's right before you decide what's possible. - Brian Tracy
the church was an international institution long before globalization. - Shane Claiborne
Can't you see? Before you knew the truth, we were happy. What's the god in ferreting out the truth all that time? It's always unpleasant.""Is it only lies that are Pleasant?""Usually. That's why people tell them. To make life bearable. - Penelope Mortimer
Reading is the multiplier of success. Reading instantly gives you access to a treasure trove of wisdom and experience laid out by those who have gone before you, especially those who have already walked the road you’re walking on right now. - Kevin J. Donaldson
This is how deeply rooted stories are, folks. We crave them before we can walk, and we start telling them before we can talk. - Patrick Rothfuss
Law enforcement is hired to enforce the law. You call them in to deal with situations you cannot deal with or do not want to deal with. When they arrive let them do their job. You know who you called them for before they got there. Enough said. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
A man has to be very understanding and put his wife first before himself. - Abdulazeez Henry Musa
I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office."(Washington DC, 12 May, 2008) - George W. Bush
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to. - Franklin P. Jones
It is well enough that the people of this nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. - Henry Ford
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Never trust anyone who tells you how people come to trust him. - Katherine Boo
Just being a human being, I’ve realized that before every big problem you create for yourself, before every huge mess you have to clean up, there was a crucial moment where you could’ve just said no. - Taylor Swift
I don't live to work. I work to live. Before I die I know I lived. - Jill Telford
The truth is, Everyone was taken before, What hurts is that, sometimes they are imprisoned with their past. - Bradley B. Dalina
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me. - Erma Bombeck
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one. - Thomas Jefferson
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before. - Mark Twain
The stone that was rolled before Christ's tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher's stone because its removal gave not only the pharisees but, now for 1800 years, the philosophers so much to think about. - Søren Kierkegaard
Morality often manifests itself as cruelty, So be very kind before you are moral. - Debasish Mridha
Before aligning the body to the future, the mind has to straighten out from the impairment or religion. - David L. Lloyd
Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to write at least 100 pages that go into the trashcan before it finally begins to work. It's discouraging, but necessary to write those pages. I try to consider them pages -100 to zero of the novel. - Barbara Kingsolver
Reality is harsh. It can be cruel and ugly. Yet no matter how much we grieve over our environment and circumstances nothing will change. What is important is not to be defeated, to forge ahead bravely. If we do this, a path will open before us. - Daisaku Ikeda
Before you start any business, you need to get your target audience down pat. Who do you want to serve? Who will your product/service benefit the most? Don’t worry about the rest. - Kevin J. Donaldson
Don't force to become the top, but loosen up to be the top....(as in don't try hard when people are before you but be glad... instead of working up your energy for the highest honor) - Florie Jo Alicer
You must be willing to play with Failure before you reach Success.- - RVM
Before we can change our condition, we have to change our thoughts. - Debasish Mridha M.D.
I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son (W A Mozart)is the greatest composer known to me by person and repute, he has taste and what is more the greatest skill in composition. - Joseph Haydn
Is there life before death? - Graffito
He touched my soul long before I knew what his hands felt like. - Nikki Rowe
Prereading is a game changer. It changed my life...Everyone is smarter when they have seen the material before. You will be too. - Peter Rogers
On any journey, we must find out where we are before we can plan the first step. - Kathy Boevink
To be Outstanding is to do the same thing others have done in a different way.But to STAND-OUT is to do what no one has ever done before.Being outstanding is good, but STANDING-OUT is better.So Dream, Explore, Discover, and Stand Out!!! - Olaotan Fawehinmi
My will shall shape the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force. I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice, my responsibility. Win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny. - Elaine Maxwell
Winners see the victory before the contest begins and before they cross the finish line. Get yourself ready. SEE THE VICTORY. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
I hear many people share with me that they just 'have to do this thing' before they can relax and slow down.The truth is that taking the time to be still and reflective actually increases productivity and gives more joy to what you're doing when it's time to take action again. - Maria Erving
If a man tells you he's an asshole & that you deserve better, believe him...it's a warning. It's best you listen before he proves it to you. - April Mae Monterrosa
Before you, nothing.Now you, and everything - Kamand Kojouri
slow down, oh sweet tearsflowing nectar...down my lashes' tipssomedaysomeone will kiss you away,even before you can reach my lips. - Sanober Khan
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. - Oscar Wilde
It's always darkest before you're blinded by the light - Josh Stern
Last words of his mother to his father: "Keep eternity before the children. - Dallas Willard
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come. - William Shakespeare
Before your greatest victories, you will always fight your greatest battles. Stay in the Fight. - Joe Joe Dawson
Before joining the bandwagon to vouch support for the ‘Women Empowerment’, let’s all make sure that our laws are free from flaws so that the men are not implicated in the fabricated cases. - Anuj Somany
Empowered Women 101: Happiness is something that you establish before a relationship. It is not the relationship that establishes it first. - Shannon L. Alder
Before you cut down the tree, think of the birds that take refuge on it - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
You can only shove shit under your bed for so long before it starts moving around and wanting to get out. You can only cope for so long before everything breaks. - Lili St. Crow
Before leaving the world, leave a profound positive mark of love upon the world. - Debasish Mridha
One can,' said Ernest 'remain unmoved before a cloud as before an automatic ticket machine. I don't like poetry, I don't like flowers, I don't like machines, I don't like sugar, I don't like pepper, I don't like what you like.' This was addressed to whoever attacked Ernest. - Robert Desnos
The middle [those rough patches that come before the completion of our milestones] is only a temporal place, never settle there or cut corners to get out! - Dionna L. Hayden
Repeatedly I have been impressed to learn that to reach a goal never before attained, one must do things never before done. - Richard G. Scott
Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks. - Euripides
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
A woman is always beutiful to the one who has fallen in love with her, nothing can dampen her image before his eyes. - Paul Bamikole
Grace is not a little prayer you say before you eat. It is a way of life. Eph 2:8,9 - John Paul Warren
To be CREATIVE, you have to be CRAZY, not because you're CRAZY or want others to become CRAZY, but because you must be CRAZY, before others become CRAZY for you. - Michael Bassey Johnson
If you can confess before a friend, you don't need a priest. - Amit Kalantri
This is the great world, and I am only Kim. Who is Kim?' He considered his own identity, a thing he had never done before, till his head swam. He was one insignificant person in all this roaring whirl of India, going southward to he knew not what fate. - Rudyard Kipling
And He watched over me before I knew Him and before I learned sense or even distinguished between good and evil. - St. Patrick
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. - Jean Paul Richter
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think of yourself.
After I see a painting, I go into a room, I close my eyes and I slowly escape into the beauty of the painting. I reflect on the painting, the nuances of the artwork, it's theme, mood and highlights -until the magic of the painting flashes before me. - Srinidhi.R
Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Belief is a shelter, so before believing, always find out the truth. - Debasish Mridha
Champions are made in the dark before they are revealed in light. - Matshona Dhliwayo
I see the game now. You can't write with ink, and you can't write with your own heart's blood, but you can write with the heart's blood of some one else. You have to be a cad before you can be an artist. O’Henry 'The Plutonian Fire' (1905) - O. Henry
When you face a new challenge, remember the skills, talent, guts and resources that got you through before. - Lynn A. Robinson
So much of a novelist’s writing takes place in the unconscious: in those depths the last word is written before the word appears on paper. We remember the details of our story, we do not invent them. - Graham Greene
Like I’ve told you before, Beverly, I don’t care where we live as long as we’re together. Vance... "The Elder Effect - D.L. Given
Before anything else, preparation is the key to success. - Alexander Graham Bell
I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars of which the light, it can be proved, must take two million years to reach the earth.[Having identified Uranus (1781), the first planet discovered since antiquity.] - William Herschel
Keep your mind open; challenge yourself before you challenge others. - Debasish Mridha
Personally, I wouldn’t wait around for someone to tell you you’re good enough before you make your own comics. Just make them, always try to improve and care about what you’re doing. Be relentless and never give up. - Troy Little
A time when sky blue love bids farewell to the day and before dusk falls, the sunset ignites the smouldering embers of the moonlit soul... - Virginia Alison
Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof. - Thomas Fuller
When the situation demands action, know the end of the action before you start the action - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Oh dear…then they must already be on the march! We have to hurry and get to the Hamblings…before nightfall!’ - Phillip Celeste from Curse of Ancient Shadows - Rod Tyson
Even the proud in all their boasting, must fall silent before the wise. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau
Memories are strange things. Without being something I can hold in my hand, they wield a beguiling power over me. Like a mirage in the noontime heat of summer they dance before my inner eyes and beckon me to find water where there is no water. - Joy Sikorski
Learn how to learn before you learn; then learn to love before you love - Munia Khan
THE FIRST PRINCIPLE OF GASTRONOMY There's a rule for proper dosesin the dinner-eaters lore:one should stop the filling processwhile one still has room for more. And if someone at the tablehad reminded me before -Hallelujah! I'd be ableto absorb a little more. - Piet Hein
Darkness scares us. We yearn for the comfort of light as it provides shape and form, allowing us to recognize and define what's before us. But what is it we're afraid of really? Not the darkness itself, but the truth we know hides within. - Emily Thorne
‎"Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights. - John Wooden
My knight, I said jokingly before I had a chance to stop myself. Too late I realized. ~Charlie~ - J.L.Clayton
With God, a mountain before me is soon to be a memory behind me. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Twas the night before Thanksgiving. All the food's in the oven. And I'm in the bedroom performin' self lovin'. - Craig Ferguson
This assignment could damn well project all the words across my face and the ink stain my hands a gory mess before I finished it. - Jazz Feylynn
You learn more from your mistakes and failures than from any degree of success. Success can only be grasped for a moment before it becomes a distant oasis not to be found again unless you thirst for the knowledge found in the well fed by your mistakes and failures. - Brian Michael Good
You have to Learn to know yourself, before you can know what you need to Learn. - Frank E. Armstrong
My problem is I say what I'm thinking before I think what I'm saying. - Laurence J. Peter
I don't know how I ever really lived before my husband came into my life. - Kim Yannayon
Don't stop yourself from greatness before you've begun from fear or from self-doubt. You were put here on this planet to do great things, to pioneer change by way of your own personal uniqueness, and to express yourself and share your happiness with others. - Kaiden Blake
God always gives grace to the person who knows how to humble himself before Him and who sets his hopes on Him. God only gives grace to humble people. - Pastor Adelaja Sunday
The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. - Boris Pasternak
The kiss grew into so much more than anything that had come before, unfettered by a time that strived to contain passion, born from perceived loss and glorious gain. - Susan Catalano
Before you go out and occupy Wall Street, occupy your own brain! - Tai Lopez
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong. - Bill Vaughan
Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself. - Peter da Silva
Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good. - Elizabeth Edwards
Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective. - Miguel Syjuco
The month of May is the pleasant time; its face is beautiful; the blackbird sings his full song, the living wood is his holding, the cuckoos are singing and ever singing; there is a welcome before the brightness of the summer. Lady Gregory, Finn, Son of Cumhal - Lady Gregory, “Finn, Son of Cumhal”
Order is what exists before you start arranging things. - Marty Rubin
Discussions should always be held just before going to bed, your rear protected by sleep. How painful, after an intellectual conversation, to have to go about with your mind so stirred up. - Thomas Mann
There is nothing more powerful than this moment your living, now, more powerful than your convictions and truths, spend time with what your heart desires and souls screams for. Life ends a day before we know it, it's so important to chase everything that matters to you. - Nikki Rowe
Empowering Women 101-- A strong women knows that cheating isn't a mistake; it's a choice. The choice was made long before you found out. - Shannon L. Alder
The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this because I want you to know that if you see something worthwhile in what I am doing, it is not by accident but because of real direction and purpose. - Vincent van Gogh
The idea that the president has the power to craft a new strategy both overstates his power and understates the power of reality crafted by those who came before him. We are all trapped in circumstances into which we were born and choices that were made for us. - George Friedman
How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the whole day and consider exactly what has been good and bad. Then without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day. - Anne Frank
I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them. - Mae West
A lie is like a cat: you need to stop it before it gets out the door or it’s really hard to catch. - Charles M. Blow
Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me. - Sigmund Freud
It is inevitable that I will leave a legacy simply because I cannot walk through life without leaving footprints as I walk. Therefore, I would be wise to consider the path before I make the prints. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
The only good thing about that decision, Gatt, is that I'll get tea before you. - Graham Gooch
Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good. - Saadi سعدی
Nothing is free in this world. That which comes before you is your very own. - Dada Bhagwan
Screw you, cowboy! she yelled after him, saying the word exactly as she had before. And that horse you rode in on.And—Whoops!—now everyone in the diner had turned to look at them.Zane turned around to her with amusement on his face. Very original, princess. - Kimberly Lewis
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. - Benjamin Franklin
You do not know what is better before you have tried what is worse. - Thomas Rathsach Strange
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all. - Thomas Szasz
Before you were conceived I wanted you. Before you were born I loved you. Before you were here an hour I would die for you. This is the miracle of life.
We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power. - Eric Schmidt
The only true forms of equality are equality at the Last Judgment and equality before a just court of law; all other attempts at levelling must lead, at best, to social stagnation. - Russel Kirk
I challenge a man to a duel before allowing him near me, and then I take an arrow, dip it in poison, and drive it straight through his heart...But that's on a good day...when I purr and feel delightfully amorous. No need to mention what I'd do on a bad one. - Donna Lynn Hope
Did I not feel that the time has come for the questions of women's wrongs to be laid before the public? Did I not believe that women herself must do this work, for women alone understand the height, the depth, the breadth of her degradation. - Seneca Falls Convention, 1848 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I've said it before, history repeats itself for those who don't learn from the past. Can we please learn from all this? Please? Or is everyone waiting for yet another savior to come along and charm them Hollywood style if freedom is still around for America's next election? - L.M. Fields
Some of us will be long forgotten before we are even dead. Most will never be remembered at all, not even by family. - Paul Bamikole
Death moved in the night, in search for blood, and when it found Life, it passed on by, like a cloud that moves by the face of the moon. When he found those dead without the red, he took the life before them born first, and the mourning emptied itself till the morning. - Anthony Liccione
Not until just before dawn do people sleep best; not until people get old do they become wise. - Chinese Proverb
My parents taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge-and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time. - Steven Spielberg
I like to think of innovation as upgrading your current self. This upgrade helps you to more effectively deal with changes happening around you and to be able to think in a more complex manner than before. - Daniel Willey
No one in this world can starve n die.. One who does, had died much before then... Never give money to beggars and specially children on street... By giving them money, Either u would be killing them or helping them in dieing (indirectly)... - honeya
Sing before the spirits and dance with the earth deitiesAnd you will be able to compose your own tune.Then you and I, united, will clap hands joyously,Singing 'tum-tiddly-um tum-tiddly-um-tum. - Hongzhi Zhengjue
The is no better example for our children,then the one we set before them every day - Davin Whitehurst
Description before prescription is the trait of a leader!!! - Santosh Adbhut Kumar
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of ancestors' by the records of history? - Cicerone Marco Tulliio
You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us. - Robert Louis Stevenson
SHEShe makes me smileDeep deep insideBefore you can see it on my faceBefore I met herShe can make me smile in my past - José N Harris
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. - Harper Lee
Ask yourself the three things you must always ask yourself before you say anything. 1) Does this need to be said 2) Does this need to be said by me? 3) Does this need to be said by me now? - Craig Ferguson
Hackers find more success with organizations where employees are under appreciated, over worked and under paid. Why would anyone in an organization like that care enough to think twice before clicking on a phishing email? - James Scott
So Jesus confronts us with himself, sets before us a radical choice between obedience and disobedience, and calls us to an unconditional commitment of mind, will and life to his teaching. - John R.W. Stott
Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges. - H.L. Mencken
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. - Vidal Sassoon
I was the first face you saw when you were born, you were bald as my hair ran black. Now yours the last face I saw before I died, your hair ran black, as I was bald. - Anthony Liccione
Now, where had I heard drinking and brawling before? Oh right, Ashley’s father. Well, I wasn’t doing that again. - Kathy Bryson, Fighting Mad
You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light. - Friedrich Nietzsche
A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street. - Laurence J. Peter
Courage is not beating up the bully or letting the bully beat you up, it is standing strong before the bully and seeing him for what he truly is: a child of God in need of an attitude adjustment. - Toni Sorenson
Wherever you are lacking, your obedience in working on that before your mate comes is vital. - Angelo M. Swinson
I just want to hear something I haven't heard before - John Peel
Tread the path one has walked, before stoning them! - Deeba Salim Irfan
Sometimes I accidentally walk into the places where I and you had spoken before, existed before, which still have the smell ofyour memories, all of a sudden it starts feeling like I have entered a dark room without a door anywhere. Where I can always hear that song I used to love once before. - Akshay Vasu
Most men will not swim before they are able to. - Hermann Hesse
Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy. - Saadi سعدی
Strangely incurious, her lovers from before. She has worlds within I'm longing to explore. - John Mark Green
People who are adept in healthy self-expression exercise front-end consideration before speaking. - Laurie Buchanan, PhD
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to get to the good stuff, you need to slow down. - Laurie Helgoe
If I had said that I didn’t want to know if Christianity was true, David would not have pursued our conversations any further. He had long before realized that people who want to avoid the truth usually succeeded. - Nabeel Qureshi
I find I need to put things into words before I can believe that they are entirely real. - Frederick Buechner
—And you completely blow me away and rip my world up and everything else, and then you go back to ignoring me. I blew you away? I squeak out before I can stop myself. He stares at me steadily. You blew everything away. - Lauren Oliver
Dance before the music is over. Live before your Life is over. - RVM
Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law...or, in a word justice. - Max Nordau
In politics, the fruit always turns sour before it turns ripe. - Marty Rubin
Live for the present, and the future will be known before it ever happens. - Avinash Rao
Birthing is never easy or without pain, be it a universe, a child, or a fresh start in life. Contraction precedes expansion. Darkness comes before dawn. Joy follows pain. This is the way of things. - John Mark Green
For if you try to forget yourself, force your heart and thoughts to become indifferent to the sight before you and take share of that entity which seems like one of the courses of the meal. - Auliq Ice
Long ago, before I had ever seen a diamond, I read about them and I tried to imagine what they would be like ... When I saw a real diamond in a lady's ring one day I was so disappointed I cried. Of course, it was very lovely but it wasn't my idea of a diamond. - L.M. Montgomery
It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself. - Betty Friedan
Whoever you are, go out into the evening,leaving your room, of which you know every bit;your house is the last before the infinite,whoever you are. - Rainer Maria Rilke
Those who are skilled in combat do not become angered, those who are skilled at winning do not become afraid. Thus the wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win.
With confidence, you have won before you have started. - Marcus Garvey
How often do I stand in abject terror and raw trepidation before the impossible peaks that soar to impossible heights in front me, when God turns to me and calmly says what mountains? - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death. - Tom Robbins
Rock and roll was my favorite, but before long I grew to enjoy Shinamoto's brand of classical music. This was music from another world, which had its appeal, but more than that I loved it because she was a part of that world. - Haruki Murakami
I could tell he was just as scared to love as I, But we still both carelessly climbed into eachothers arms and before we knew it, love had found us. - Nikki Rowe
To me art means power to sway people not with my words but with a mere picture. Art means expression, not my own but of the subjects. Art means truth; because when you see a picture you see all that is real. Art is exposure, showing things in a way they haven’t been seen before. - CV
Now that I think I know what I'm doing, I'm scared. Before this, I just didn't know any better. - Lee Marvin
How was I able to live alone before, my little everything? Without you I lack self-confidence, passion for work, and enjoyment of life--in short, without you, my life is no life.[Written to his wife, Mileva] - Albert Einstein
Humility and brokenness before God is the key for Him to dwell in us. - Sunday Adelaja
The sun rises each morning to shed light on the things we may have overlooked the day before. - Tyler J. Hebert
Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas. (No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars.)
It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours. - John F. Kennedy
I'm the wave pushed by the wind, always receding before reaching the shore. - H.U.
Before speaking, consult your inner-truth barometer, and resist the temptation to tell people only what they want to hear. - Wayne W. Dyer
There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable. - G.K. Chesterton
He continued along the route that he had reconnoitered the morning before. And the morning before that. He needed to change his route some to see if he was actually being followed. His instincts said he was clear, but his training ordered him to make sure. - J.T. Patten
When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing. - Rabindranath Tagore
A self-leader is the positively influence you have on yourself and on others without any influence with your titles and positions. You must be able to lead yourself before you can lead others. - Israelmore Ayivor
Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering. - Desiderius Erasmus
The world is dyed with the color of blood. It will never be able to go back to the way it was before. - Matsuri Hino
The headline reads, "Docs say patients make them prescribe useless antibiotics." This puts a physician in roughly the same predicament as a serial killer. The latter says, "Stop me before I kill again, while the former says, "Stop me before I prescribe again."
Come clean about your true nature before the day the body ceases. Hard not to cling to duality as the excuse, but every brain is manifesting duality as if it is some internal feature projected outward for the attention of others. - James Emlund
Understanding is a word that I cherish. Understanding is what helps us to love before we judge. Understanding helps us to know more of ourselves and do the same to others. - D'Andre Lampkin
You don't buy all the clothes in the market. You choose slowly and carefully, asking the prices for each before buying. The same way you choose your friends, by looking into their lives carefully, before taking any as a companion, then dropping those that are not relevant. - Michael Bassey Johnson
When an animal comes between the lion and its prey, the animal first becomes the prey before the main prey. - Uzoma Nnadi
There were more than a dozen extinction level events before even the dinosaurs got theirs! - Captain America - The Avengers...The Age of Ultron
When I was very young, before I could read, I remember being very interested in comic books. - Nathan Fillion
We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police. - Jeff Marder
The only truly logical explanation that gives credence to the fact that information does not come from non-information, is that some outside force some uncaused cause existed before us and formed us in His image. If there is a creation there must be a creator. - J.W. Lord
And on this night, the last of its kind before we get married to each other at the stroke of 8 tomorrow in the evening, as I walk towards my bed to call the day off, the last puff of wind brought from a fairy-tale land urges me to write this letter as your girlfriend, for one last time. - Debalina Haldar
Try to understand, analyze and find the truth before believing. - Debasish Mridha
One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged. - Heinrich Heine
The ball laughs, radiant, in the air. He brings her down, puts her to sleep, showers her with compliments, dances with her, and seeing such things never before seen his admirers pity their unborn grandchildren who will never see them. - Eduardo Galeano
She was Black before it was fashionable to be Black. - Gil Scot-Herron
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
I don't need a baby growing inside me for nine months. For one thing, there's morning sickness. If I'm going to feel nauseous and achy when I wake up, I want to achieve that state the old fashioned way: getting good and drunk the night before. - Ellen DeGeneres
Wondering why a person who puts always own benefits first in a job before the company’s interest, often spends the tenure longest and enjoy the time fullest as an employee in an organisation. - Anuj Somany
As I watched the sky morph shades of amber and amethyst, of fiery orange and smoldering pink, I always wondered if colors and images like these once inspired the greats before us to construct their beauty and masterpieces. - Hubert Martin
When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled. - Charles Darwin
Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar. - Abraham Lincoln
By handling each sentimental item and deciding what to discard, you process your past. If you just stow these things away in a drawer or cardboard box, before you realise it, your past will become a weight that holds you back and keeps you from living in the here and now. Pg.116-117 - Marie Kondō
A conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.
What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen? - Evelyn Waugh
We're all playing melody against each other. our aim is to get so far away from the original line that your playing something that's never been heard before.
If you think you would need to change the world, think of your death and the size of your casket before starting to believe in your thoughts or else you are a loser. - Auliq Ice
The acquiring of intelligence doesn't require an institution if you got the heart to seek knowledge, and the balls to use it as wisely as those who came before you. - James Emlund
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. - Rebecca West
I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice? - C.S. Lewis
Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer. - Piet Hein
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law. - Aristotle
Turn off the computer. Often, an open computer screen distracts us from other activities. Our eye catches a glimpse of something and before you know it, we’re back at the desk and surfing away. - James Chartrand
The notion of children being "kindergarten ready" is a bizarre oxymoron. It's like saying you have to know how to play the piano before you can learn how to play the piano. - Peter Campbell
You've got nothing that lasts, you know. That's not the first town that ever stood there. There was one before that, and one before that, and one before that one, on back for 900 years. But this tree has stood here all along. What do you make of that, boy? - Natalie Babbitt
Do not judge the offender before you return back to him his beloved one and his small dreams. - jihad eltabey
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace, that pursuit must go on.[Address before the United Nations, September 20 1963] - John F. Kennedy
Before you can change your life for the better, change your thoughts for the better. - Debasish Mridha
And it seemed at last that there were two musics progressing at one time before the seat of Ilúvatar, and they were utterly at variance. The one was deep and wide ad beautiful, but slow and blended with an immeasurable sorrow from which its beauty chiefly came. - J.R.R. Tolkien
I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke. - Rush Limbaugh
It was like the first time I visited Versailles. There was an eerieness, like I'd been there before. I don't know if I was Louis XIV or Marie Antoinette or a lowly groundskeeper, but I lived there. - Maurice Minnifield
Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends. - Richard Bach
Before, I wanted to say: "I found love!" But now, I want to say: "I found a person. And he belongs to me and I belong to him. - C. JoyBell C.
As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think. - Toni Morrison
Tried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bored before I even began. - Morrissey
If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society. - Piaget
Time is a curious thing. When you have it before you, it's something you take for granted and it moves slowly. Then, as you get older, it accelerates. When I look back, it seems such a long distance travelled, so long ago, so dream-like. - Bernard Sumner
There is more reason to say grace before beginning a book than there is to say it before beginning to dine. - Charles Lamb
People before Profit. - Mac Canoza
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. - Kahlil Gibran
Personal Responsibility of each citizen before the nation, is usually well defined in all developed nations. - Sunday Adelaja
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down. - Robert Benchley
Each decision you make today has the potential to unlock and open doors of profitable benefits or close the doors to great opportunities. Think before you act and make your decisions wisely today. - DeWayne Owens
... as we travel again between life and death, Waking and dream, blinking, while layers within layers,None better, none worse, unravel and knit up before us . . . - Jay Woodman
Depression exist without you knowing it, even denying it. It is not an illusion. You don't even know you're in it. It takes awhile before you realize it. If you deny it, it means your still in there or else you won't talk about your misery and the dramas in your life. - Ann Marie Aguilar
Not the intense momentIsolated, with no before and after,But a lifetime burning in every moment. - T.S. Eliot
Grief is like a journey one must take on a winding mountainside, often seeing the same scenery many times, a road which eventually leads to somewhere we've never been before. - Gladys M. Hunt
Sometimes you have to love people from a distance and give them the space and time to get their minds right before you let them back into your life. - Robert Tew
Most scars are destined long before they are experienced. Healing is however, a choice. - Shilpa Menon
I am a first generation immigrant and a woman, but I don't really write about that because I feel like I'm a human being. There are universal human experiences. When you don't put your picture online, they can see your soul before they have preconceived notions. - Evelyn Rodriguez
More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that is why we have the United Nations. - Kofi Annan
Define yourself before someone does it for you. - Debasish Mridha
You can't always expect people to apply your wisdom when they didn't use wisdom before they found themselves knee deep in their version of justice. - Shannon L. Alder
Strength of character isn't always about how much you can handle before you break, it's also about how much you can handle after you've broken. - Robert Tew
It’s not about the elimination of fear. Rather it’s about the elimination of the feeling that the elimination of fear is necessary before we take the next step. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
I am ready for the most exhilarating time of my life, discovery before me, negativity behind me, through the road to ruin, I will find within me, my most unshakeable truth. - Nikki Rowe
Be selfish; love yourself before loving anyone else. - Debasish Mridha
Before you're given what you want, you'll first be tested with what you don't really want. - Constance Friday
Before we can change the world, we have to change ourselves. We can do it by focusing, concentrating, meditating, and self-realizing. - Debasish Mridha
Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Next they say it has been discovered before. Lastly they say they always believed it. - Louis Agassiz
Pay the hired worker his wages before his sweat dries - Hazrat Muhammad P.B.U.H
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. - George Washington
Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance. - Henry James
Just remember: If you make unfounded assumptions before choosing a path, you’re blindly sauntering along. - Auliq Ice
your morse code interferes with my heart beat. I had a steady heart before you, I replied upon it, it had seen active service and grown strong. Now you alter its pace with your own rhythm you play upon me, drumming me taught. - Jeanette Winterson
Sometimes, all you can dois lie in bed,and hope to fall asleep beforeyou fall apart. - William C. Hannan
Most people thought that we would remain in the ghetto until the end of the war, until the arrival of the Red Army. Afterward everything would be as before. The ghetto was ruled by neither German nor Jew; it was ruled by delusion. - Elie Wiesel
An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself. - Charles Dickens
Before aligning the body to the future, the mind has to straighten out from the impairment of religion. - David L. Lloyd
We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the educatability of man -- the perfectibility of man. We have never addressed ourselves to this problem before.
Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.
When trees fall on trees, the topmost tree must first be removed before others. Don't be too concerned about the problems of the past. What matters most is the challenge at hand now! - Israelmore Ayivor
Things take the time they take.Don't worry.How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine? - Mary Oliver
Try your best, before any rest. Life gets its beauty from the best. - Debasish Mridha
The more you recover your authentic self, the more your destiny will unfold before your eyes. Just keep doing your inner work - that's the most essential thing. - Robin Sharma
Everybody has been young before, but not everybody has been old before. - African Proverb
The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in meOlder and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean. - Robinson Jeffers
Before you start your full day of watching Equestrian Square Dancing, Soccer Balling, Hoop Dreaming, Cricket Batting, Rugby Punching, Volleyball Chopping, Skateboard Falling, Martial Arts Bowing, Bicycle Peddlers, and College Football Hecklers, maybe we have time to learn somethingScientifically. - James Hauenstein
She hadn't seen a doctor cry before, they usually don't, that makes itharder.- Anita - Nilesh Sakpal
In life it is difficult to find a way of life, but later is much more difficult to stay on that road... So before any decisions think carefully. - Nikolic Mihajlo
Great people do things before they’re ready. They do things before they know they can do it. - Amy Poehler
Know that we have met before and that we will meet again. I will find my way to you in the next life, and every life after that. - Mia Hollow
I did not want to appear before the world as pathetic, deprssed, and psychologically ill. So I erected a barrier of words and wit around myself, so that nobody could see how needy I really was. - Karen Armstrong
At points of clarity, I realize that my life on earth is meaningless, and that I am merely a pawn in a bigger game. A game I cannot possible understand or have control of. Thankfully, before depression sets in, I drift back into my cloudy, bewildered daily routine.
The process of creating new, democratic organs of government power is beginning, and, as never before, the greatest responsibility rests with the broadcast media.
You must love yourself before you can love others. - Dr. Asoka Jinadasa
Some people will never know how close they really were to success because they threw in the towel right before their big break. - Dawn Gluskin
Having to explain to a child of today, who has learned to swipe before they can speak, that certain aspects of a person’s life must remain private for the preservation of one’s sanity is almost frivolous. - Aysha Taryam
before the gate --my walking stick's made a riverof melting snow - Kobayashi Issa
Don’t let them fool you and tell you goals has to be unified before any partnership agreement. Be carefully concerned about unifying your values and principles, after that all will run smoothly. - Sameh Elsayed
The free animalhas its dying always behind itand God in front of it, and its wayis the eternal way, as the spring flowing.Never, not for a moment, do we havepure space before us, where the flowersendlessly open. - Rainer Maria Rilke
The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children. - André Breton
The eyes of the Armenians speak long before the lips move and long after they cease to. - Arshile Gorky
You have to know your own mind inside out before you can know the minds of others. - Carla H. Krueger
You have a great name .. They must kill your name before they can kill you , cuz name is your idea , and ideas are bulletproofs :)) - Hamza wolf
This day before dawn I ascended a hill and looked at the crowded heaven. - Walt Whitman
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process. - Salma Hayek
Worry is interest paid on trouble before is falls due.
You'd be surprised how difficult it is to ask alms of a stranger when you've never done it before, what a psychological barrier separates the honest man from the panhandler. ("Dusk To Dawn") - Cornell Woolrich
Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. - George Crane
This is the true measure of love: when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The challenge is never based on the size of the obstacle that stands before me. Rather, it is dictated by the degree of faith that rests within me. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Thoughts are powerful; before you were born, you were one. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself. - Aldous Huxley
There is something incredibly beautiful about a woman, who knows herself, she can't break, she just falls but in every fall she rises, past who she was before. - Nikki Rowe
Thirty-nine years of my life had passed before I understood that clouds were not my enemy; that they were beautiful, and that I needed them. I suppose this, for me, marked the beginning of wisdom. Life is short. - Iimani David
If you cannot see where you are going, ask someone who has been there before. - J. Loren Norris
In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth. - Jacques Lacan
The solution is so obvious, but for so many of us we would travel a hundred miles out of the way to avoid it, gather a thousand opinions on the way and take a pit stop in fear to check our map before we proceed through hell. Heaven was always a direct flight with no layovers. - Shannon L. Alder
Confidence is something you feel before you truly understand the situation - Julie E Czerneda
Make your bargain before beginning to plow. - Arab Proverb
No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.
Like President Reagan, President Bush has not shied from calling evil by its name or declaring his intention to defeat its latest incarnation, terrorism, just as free men and women of all political persuasions, here and abroad, defeated fascism and communism before.
We dream of the future, to distract ourselves from the present, in order to forget the past.Heal the past, live in the present and don’t rush to the future. Life is a journey and it will all be over before you know it. - L.J. Vanier
A writer should not run around with a mirror for his countrymen; he should tell his society and his times things no one ever thought before. - Stanisław Lem
Fries Before Guys - Juliet Quill
Manifestation is like a flower, you must put so much intent into its energy before you can sight its beauty. - Nikki Rowe
The fundamental fact about all of us is that we’re alive for a while but will die before long. This fact is the real root cause of all our anger and pain and despair. And you can either run from this fact or, by way of love, you can embrace it. - Jonathan Franzen
Some tragic mistakes are often made by those who acquire the reins of control before their maturity is adequate to handle it. - James C. Dobson
Before you rush off trying to see everything you can, educate yourself. - Jonathan Safran Foer
The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters. - Genghis Khan
Check the history, more people died for freedom than love, people need freedom before they need love. - Amit Kalantri
To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage. - Henri Matisse
It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before.
Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you. - Helen Rowland
We kept our secrets because we don't want to reveal what we were before - Syrone Dalawis
He hadn't realized that life speaks with a voice to you, a voice that brings you answers for the questions you continually ask of it, had never consciously detected it or recognized its tones until it now said something it had never said to him before, which was "yes". - Douglas Adams
you have to be the prude or the slut, and if you pick one, other people hate you for it, and you can’t trust anyone anymore, because they’re all after the same thing, and you see that you can never go back to how was before… - Ned Vizzini
Before the Plan, there is an Idea. Before the Idea, there is a Purpose. Before the Purpose, there is Your Spirit...aching to express Itself - Paresh Shah
The children are intrigued by these invitation, and it's only a matter of minutes before they find themselves engaged in a new world of possibilities. - Rachelle Doorley
It’s hillbilly urine; we had better get home before they come to eat us. Kevin said pointing towards home proving if there was ever any doubt that he had no acting ability at all. (The Children of Ankh series) - Kim Cormack
The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after. - Tallulah Bankhead
If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend.
Sometimes I live so much in my mind that I forget what is right before my eyes. - Anna Quindlen
For what it's worth, I think perfect love stories have perfect disasters hidden somewhere. If a genuine relationship comes out of two people screwing before they saw the potential of the 'relationship'? Its perfect, beautiful, a work of art in fact.. Normal is overrated. - Nike Thaddeus
We never know when our last day on earth will be. So, love with full sincerity, believe with true faith, and hope with all of your might. Better to have lived in truth and discovered life, than to have lived half heartedly and died long before you ever ceased breathing. - Cristina Marrero
Sometimes God asks us to take a step before he confirms the course. - Todd Stocker
If you fall, you fall," Elodin shrugged. "Sometimes falling teaches us things too." In dreams you often fall before you wake. - Patrick Rothfuss
Clean your home first before complaining about others. - Debasish Mridha
Anybody who thinks of going to bed before 12 o'clock is a scoundrel. - Samuel Johnson
A great artist is always before his time or behind it. - George Moore
Focus on what you like and forget about what you don't like, before it drains all your energy.Full equipment on the hands of an empty mind is useless, I prefer a full mind with empty hands. - Cyc Jouzy
Do you suffer when you write? I don't at all. Suffer like a bastard when don't write, or just before, and feel empty and fucked out afterwards. But never feel as good as while writing. - Ernest Hemingway
Wo Hunger herrscht, ist auf die Dauer kein Friede.("Where there is hunger, there cannot be lasting peace.)Speech before the United Nations General Assembly, September 26, 1973 - Willy Brandt
Nescire autem quid antequam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. (To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.) - Marcus Tullius Cicero
Read as widely and as deeply as you can. You have to be a reader before you can be a writer. - Y.S. Lee
Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.
The only place you will find love before sacrifice is in the dictionary. - Matshona Dhliwayo
To inspire is revealing the unpolished bits before perfection. - Gloria D. Gonsalves
What I like best is to notice something I never noticed before. - Marty Rubin
You might be an introvert if you were ready to go home before you left the house. - Criss Jami
The shell must break before the bird can fly. - Alfred Tennyson
Die before you Die - Holy Prophet Muhammad(pbuh)
Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power. - Gloria Steinem
The girl was a gypsy before an illness took control of her legs, now she watches in awe the world pass by whilst stillness teaches her about inner strength. - Nikki Rowe
Try it before you doubt it, because it might just be for you - Rayvon L. Browne
My every text gets wet before it reaches you. - Prathamesh Patil
Have a Blast; Life won’t last! Make the Best of the Journey before it is over! - - RVM
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. - Konrad Lorenz
Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself. - Sir Arthur Eddington
All these words we use, anybody can be a genius now. It used to be you had to have a thought no one ever had before or you had to invent a number. Now, it's like, "Hey, I've got a cup in case we need another cup." "Dude, you're a genius!" - Louis C. K.
I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well, remembering that she has seen dark times before, indeed with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students. - Felix Bloch
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another. - Napoleon Hill
Hey, be patient you'll have to kiss a few frogs before you find one that's your prince - Mya Waechtler
Let us try to heal the mind first before we heal the body. - Debasish Mridha
To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us. - Alexis Carrel
Before success in any man's life he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do. - Napoleon Hill
Before marriage, a man will lay down his life for you; after marriage he won't even lay down his newspaper. - Helen Rowland
Keep playing games. Make time to play games with your friends and family, because it's surprisingly heartbreaking to wipe a thin layer of dust off a game you love, before you put it back on the shelf because the real world is calling you. - Wil Wheaton
It’s highly virtuous to say we’ll be good, but wecan’t do it all at once, and it takes a long pull, a strongpull, and a pull all together before some of us even get ourfeet set in the right way. - Louisa May Alcott
What does this mean? Simply that to make DNA, you have to have DNA in the first place! You have to have the DNA code within the cell before you can make more DNA code. Without the complete code in the first place, there is no way to make the code necessary for every living cell! - Lawrence O. Richards
Before believing, find the truth; before accepting, try to understand. - Debasish Mridha
Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read. - Frank Zappa
Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can. - Elsa Maxwell
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose. - G. K. Chesterton
With you, it's different. I can see the rest of my life before my eyes and that scares me a little. Men don't tame my wild heart but somehow I crossed your path and have never been the same since. - Nikki Rowe
A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others; a loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows. - Sydney J. Harris
It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones. - Ray Bradbury
Sitting makes us think of standingOur current stance keeps on demanding We wish to fly without the wings Puppets move before pulling the strings - Munia Khan
I wondered why I hadn't realized before that art was hard because you had to recreate not merely the scene but the way it soared into your soul and changed you. - Edeet Ravel
That is how it is with lies. If you can have enough people believe your lies, before you know it, even the one you have lied against will be confused. The lie will make itself at home and the truth will be knocking outside its own door. - Yvette Christiansë
Confound those who have said our remarks before us.
Music lives in three tenses at once. Developing what comes before it in the past, it engages us in the present, and inspires our hopes for its future. - Warren Benson
There cannot exist in the future an economy which is still mercantile but which isn't capitalist anymore. Before capitalism there were economies which were partially mercantile, but capitalism is the last of this genre. - Amadeo Bordiga
I will erase this world of yours with such magnificence of my presence that your vision will remain no more, your eyes fading to darkness and your soul barren before me, in my grasp that I shall corrupt to a slave of mine. - Saim Cheeda
Sometimes life holds more than people allow themselves to see. Such individuals may continue to live as though they are blind for eternities before realizing they were merely clamping their eyes shut. - Emily Herr
Leaders must see the dream in their mind before they will accomplish the dream with their team. - Orrin Woodward
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it. - Alfred North Whitehead
The greatest legacy a father can leave for his children before he departs is PEACE, otherwise his properties will go in PIECES sooner that he dies. - Israelmore Ayivor
You must confront your past. At some time or other you must confront your past. It doesn't flash before your eyes, I knew that, but it's always there. We are our past. There is nothing else, and none of it can be undone. - The Fall
Michael Powell knows what I am going to say even before I say it maybe even before I have thought it and that is very rare. You are lucky if you meet someone like that once in your life. - Emeric Pressburger
Tomorrow go out and do one good deed something you would'nt normally do, then make it a habit and add another each and every time you've owned and mastered the one before and then even you can turn Iron into Gold - Lateef Abader
Be gone, before you do. - Fakeer Ishavardas
Adversity tries You Before it tries the rest - Irfan ishaq
The inspector had interviewed boys before, boys from the poorest parts of town. He had the habit of not specifying "mam" or "dad" or even "parents." They were things he knew not every child possessed and so he was careful. - Sylvia Waugh
To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats- we know it not. - Eric Hoffer
Getting loved by yourself is the best thing that can happen to you. After all your heart is a part of you. Before being someone else's. - Minhal Mehdi
When I was a girl I would look out my bedroom window at the caterpillars; I envied them so much. No matter what they were before, no matter what happened to them, they could just hide away and turn into these beautiful creatures that could fly away completely untouched. - Patch Adams
Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles. - Paul A. Samuelson
I'm convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon. - Wernher von Braun
All men are equal before fish. - Herbert Hoover
Look before you leap. - Aesop
No one benefits from an empty jar; fill yourself first before pouring out to others. - Matshona Dhliwayo
You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you’ll be dead. - Chuck Palahniuk
Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know.--After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned - Dave Eggers
Whiteness is the color of death, you know, not black. Wetness is life, the breeder and shaper of life. In the beginning the sun was black. So all light was absorbed before it had a chance to return. And our dreams, then, were empty. - Jim Carroll
I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son is the greatest composer known to me by person and repute, he has taste and what is more the greatest skill in composition." (Said to Leopold Mozart) - Joseph Haydn
A traveler must have the back of an ass to bear all, a tongue like the tail of a dog to flatter all, the mouth of a hog to eat what is set before him, the ear of a merchant to hear all and say nothing.
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. - Robert Frost
Love is anything but safe, it's wild and raw and will rip at your heart strings but once you've tasted it for the very first time it becomes like an addiction feeling nostalgia when seperated for another beating heart & before them you question where you called home. - Nikki Rowe
Ah, you big Nancy, there’s nothing to be afraid of. Seen it many times before. They come and go, boy, never change. It’s the same type from the very beginning. Nothing’s changed except the clothes and technology. - William Elias
Her eyes were like the sea before a storm on the Carolina coast. - Kami Garcia
Be free to do what you want to... before the time is through. - RSCruz
Preparation, application and determination are three of the most important factors that enable you to regain your sparkle and shine like never before. - Donald Pillai
A child's education should begin at least 100 years before he was born. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
You can only fit so many words in a postcard, only so many in a phone call, only so many into space before you forget that words are sometimes used for things other than filling emptiness. - Sarah Kay
Love yourself as much you can before loving others. If you don't have something, you can't give it to anyone. - Debasish Mridha
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. - Edith Wharton
We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living - Confucius
If you want to wait till your black hairs turn grey and your teeth start pulling out before you become a leader, you are either too fast to prove your ignorance, or you are too late to know who you are made of. - Israelmore Ayivor
The situation come back again but you will not act like before again. - Saily Badsha
The villagers marked the time in two ways: before the swamp and after. What came before was good. And all that came after was not. - Melanie Crowder
We incessantly vacillate between what’s behind us and what’s before us depending on the current barometer of our courage and the ambivalent nature of our vision. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
I loved a woman whose beauty Like the moon moved all the humming heavens to music till the stars with their tiny teeth burst into song and I fell on the ground before her while the sky hardened and she laughed and turned me down softly, I was so young. - Peter Meinke
People talk about escapism as if it's a bad thing... Once you've escaped, once you come back, the world is not the same as when you left it. You come back to it with skills, weapons, knowledge you didn't have before. Then you are better equipped to deal with your current reality. - Neil Gaiman
If you want to see and feel magic first hand, read a book to your kid before bedtime. - Richard Due
With even the slightest upset, detachment soon followed. I didn’t lose sleep over men, and I was too restless to be tied down. The grass didn’t even have time to grow around my feet before I was planning my next escape whether it was to another state or out of someone’s life. - M.B. Dallocchio
You must see within your mind first before anyone else can see it with you. - Katrina Rose
Let's be friends before lovers, don't ask to be my friend after you've broken my heart. - Jasmine Sandozz
The time before was slow, as much as I grow as much the time don't forgive. As most people will say if you fuck the past, the past fucks you! - Deyth Banger
Mindfulness is the awareness of what is going on in us and around us in the present moment. It requires stopping, looking deeply, and recognizing both the uniqueness of the moment and its connection to everything that has gone on before and will go on in the future. - Thich Nhat Hanh
The groom should not see you in the dress just before the wedding, that’s bad luck. You know what’s worst luck? Is getting married, itself. I’ve read studies. It’s like 2 out of 3 of those end in divorce, sometimes more. 3 out of 2, some. - Hank Moody
Never such innocence,Never before or since,As changed itself to pastWithout a word--the menLeaving the gardens tidy,The thousands of marriagesLasting a little while longer:Never such innocence again. - Philip Larkin
God is gracious to always give a warning before He sends judgment. - Jim George
You loved me before seeing me;You love me in all my mistakes;You will love me for what I am. - Luffina Lourduraj
If God really valued loyalty, He would have blessed every single believer before He even considered blessing a single nonbeliever. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Know that tomorrow will bring clarity where before was only fog. In the final summation, it is not other's expectations that slay us, but our over compensatory reactions in regard - C.B. Smith
All life is a rhythm, she said as I sat up. All death is a rhythm suspended, a syncopation before liferesumes. - Samuel R. Delany
I look back now with amazement at the small accidents that put certain books before me. - Vince Passaro
When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand. - C.S. Lewis
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. - Robert Benchley
Music is the language of the universe. Music was there even before the concept of life. Music is one of the most powerful catalysts of evolution. - Debasish Mridha
Every word I write is like a drop of my blood. If it's flowed passionately and long, I need time to recover from the emotion spent before I begin a new story. My characters are aspects of my life. I have to respectfully and carefully move between them. - Red Haircrow
Think before you act. Reason before you react. - Kemi Sogunle
An intelligent person positively accepts criticism, repeatedly thinks before giving any statement, and is capable of motivating himself/herself to be successful in the terrible situations in the way of life journey. - Md. Mujib Ullah
Imaginative mind is the seed of every dream and every vision. It always starts from our minds before the manifestation. - Euginia Herlihy
With thousands of roads before us that lead nowhere, going in circles. There really are only two roads we will either travel, one going to heaven, or the other to hell. - Anthony Liccione
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber. - Kurt Vonnegut
Before hurting an animal, feel her pain and see her tears. Then question your conscience. - Debasish Mridha
The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is. - Joss Whedon
I must exchange whispers with God before shouts with the world. - Lysa TerKeurst
I’ve been here before, dreaming myselfbackwards, among grappling hooks of light.True to the seasons, I’ve lived every wordspoken. Did I walk into someone’s nightmare? - Yusef Komunyakaa
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked. - Pearl S. Buck
Courage was not something one picked out of the air. It was something like a bank account. You could withdraw only so much before it was necessary to stop, to take the time to make new deposits. - Tom Clancy
We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die. - Douglas Coupland
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men. - Jean Rostand
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity. - Ezra Pound
One Fails Before One's Perception...! - Rishi Sethi
Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another. - W.H. Auden
Substitute the word gay for straight and she's the exact same pain in the neck kid sister she was before she told us. - Amy Kaufman Burk
... From want of foresight men make changes which relishing well at first do not betray their hidden venom, as I have already observed respecting hectic fever. Nevertheless, the ruler is not truly wise who cannot discern evils before they develop themselves, and this is a faculty given to few. - Niccolò Machiavelli
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it. - Mark Twain
Sometimes you are in the middle of your destiny before you even know it has begun. - Sarah Holman
It was the first time I was ever in love, and I learned a lot. Before that I'd never even thought about killing myself. - Steven Wright
Before marriage, you lose your virginity. After marriage, you get to give it away. Which would you rather experience? - Todd Stocker
Before man ventures into daydreams about his futuristic society, he shouldfirst immerse himself in the nothingness of his being, and finally restore life to what it is all about: a working hypothesis. - Tomislav Sunić
Coincidentally, a good age for a Japanese girl is younger than twenty five, because that's when she turns into a 'Christmas Cake'. Christmas cakes, as everyone knows, are desirable before the twenty fifth but afterward quickly become stale and are put on the shelf. - Andrew Davidson
IF YOU CHOKE YOUR POTENTIAL BEFORE IT HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME A POSSIBILITY YOU WILL NEVER REACH YOUR DESTINY - Mo Stegall
How much fame, money, and power does a woman have to achieve on her own before you can punch her in the face?
If you have no confidence in [yourself] you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won before you have started.
I wish, when I was first born, the first thing I said was "Quote" so the last thing I said before I died would be "Unquote. - Steven Wright
Unless you have great parents or some inspirational teacher from a movie that pushes you to follow your dreams, you can't expect a kid to be smart enough to realize they can do what they want with their life before they've been pushed through the school system into having an average life. - Dan Howell
Before you call the Kettle black, Make sure you are stainless steel. - Andrea L'Artiste
Always set your mind to think thoughts of victory even before the battle begins, this way you will experience limitless possibilities. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred. - Thomas Jefferson
Strength is not defined by the load you bear, it’s defined by the amount you can bend before breaking. - Blake Mays
Humble yourself, before you are. - Fakeer Ishavardas
All of us are born with a set of instinctive fears - of falling, of the dark, of lobsters, of falling on lobsters in the dark, of speaking before a Rotary Club, and of the words "Some Assembly Required". - Dave Barry
As a physician, I try to heal the mind before healing the body. That’s why most of my patients get better even before they start any medication. - Debasish Mridha
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun. - Sir Thomas Browne
He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before. - Homer
America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself. - Georg W. Hegel
I was going into shock. The pain wasn’t getting any better, and I thought that I would probably black out before I found out how this was going to end. Just as well—I was never particularly good at finishing things. - Joe Schreiber
There is nothing like being told to go fuck yourself by the same person who was, only days before, praying on your behalf. - Henry Rollins
Never pretend to be who you are not. It doesn't take long before the truth gets revealed and you'll be left hurt with the results. - Kemi Sogunle
In kindergarten we all stand before a choice - Do we accept the accepted to be accepted or do we stay logical and keep thinking? - L.H.
I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don’t remember what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose. - P.G. Wodehouse
My father said this to me: "Israelmore, if you don't make any impact on earth, you will die before you die. But if you impress hearts with what you do, you still live even after you are gone - Israelmore Ayivor
When we seek to understand what makes each of us different before we seek to be understood, we learn. Understanding fosters mutual respect for one another. - D'Andre Lampkin
Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more enchanting objects appear before you and invite you on. - Mary Wortley Montagu
Just because as human beings, what we can't have is what we reply in our head over and over again before we go to sleep. - Taylor Swift
It is always better to look at a matter positively before ruling negatively on it. - Nabil N. Jamal
Be sure to taste your words before you spit them out. - Auliq Ice
Suddenly, the double doors of the parlor whooshed open. A large fleshy woman stood before me in full regalia. Her eyes were all made up, earrings and bracelets jangling. The sign in the window said Miss Sadie was a medium. From the look of her, I'd say that was a bit wishful. - Clare Vanderpool
Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart. - Rainer Maria Rilke
In our family histories, the frontier between fact and fiction is vague, especially in the record of events that took place before we were born, or when we were too young to record them accurately; there are few maps to these remote regions, and only the occasional sign to guide the explorer. - Adam Sisman
A person can choose to stand against adversity, but most people will run from it before they come to terms with who they truly are, a wise person watches through adversity and follows the signs when it is their turn to stand. - Faith Brashear
This is when I became myself. The girl before this time is a shadow, like a soul who is practicing how not to become. She is the background, the hole in the fabric from which the real shape is cut. - Gabriel Weston
A glorious death would be in myfinal breath to take before I die, to hearone final time on my belovèd's mouththe sound of her eternal sigh. - Roman Payne
It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is - W.B. Yeats
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation. - George Bernard Shaw
I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. - Marie Curie
Ghost towns filled with sad people who settled for what life offered them. The road unfurls before us. Everything is possible. I feel sick to my stomach. - Pete Wentz
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. - George Bernard Shaw
Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. - David Foster Wallace
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us - Henry Stanley Haskins
All my days were written in Your book and planned before a single one of them began.Psalm 139:16 - S.L. Rubart
We need to learn ourselves before we can understand what really annoys us! - Auliq Ice
You do not necessarily have to get before you do but when you do, you shall get - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Being HIV positive doesn’t necessarily mean that you are going to die before each and every person who is HIV negative. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Worry:Interest paid on trouble before it falls due. - Dean Ing
Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat. - Jimmy Carter
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself. - Margaret Cho
How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon? - Dr. Seuss
Tobak Davenport, who is a cross between some Sugar Puffs and Lynn Faulds-Wood, was squatting there before being removed by the local constabulary after he went round to complain about Luther Blisset’s pet turkey fouling the communal herb garden. - St John Morris
As she cried, I could feel growing there, as had once before, a presence between us: the tiny perfect form of Sherry nestled between her parents' bodies. Our bodies were shaped by her absence, by the almost unbearable weight of her loss. - Robert J. Wiersema
The secret to being a good traveler is liking a place before you get there. - Marty Rubin
We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before. - Herbert Hoover
A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity. - Voltaire
Mirrors should think longer before they reflect. - Jean Cocteau
I feel at ease and, in an indefinable way, at home, when dolphins are around. I now know when they are nearby before they appear. I dream after they leave. - Virginia Coyle
To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times? - Cicero
I always have my own opinion before my boss says his. - Gerry Geek
Did every step feel like the running leap a bird takes before flight? - Jesmyn Ward
I am the girlyou fool around with,before you meetthe love of your life. - Sade Andria Zabala
Too many people spend too much time trying to perfect something before they actually do it. Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you go, and fix it along the way… - Paul Arden
We were sent to Afghanistan to carry out hugely dangerous missions. But we were also told that we could not shoot that camel drover before he blew up all of us, because he might be an unarmed civilian just taking his dynamite for a walk. - Marcus Luttrell
Today I am a lens, a pen, a gun."--p. 1 ...Before My Eyes...look for it on 2.11.14 - Caroline Bock
Unfortunately...I missed out on the California Gold Rush a century before...I'll be dammed if I miss out on this one. - Timothy Pina
The fundamental premise that all are equal under and before the law and all are entitled to the equal protection and the equal benefit of the law and when that is put in place, the law enforcement becomes manageable because just laws foster compliance, do not require coercion. - George Stamatis
Let God grow in you. Hear his voice in your need. Let Jesus resurrect you right now, in this life, even before you’re done dying. Let him put your spirit back in your hungry body. - Adam S. Miller
The narrator, I think, must succeed in frightening himself before he can think of frightening his reader… - E.F. Benson
I almost thought that marriage was a cure to loneliness, alas! so many are lonely inside marriage. Then I realized it's not marriage that takes the loneliness away, but when both within marriage honour God and the vows made before Him. - Gugu Mona
The Lord has to break us down at the strongest part of our self-life before He can have His own way of blessing us. - James H. McConkey
If you see many paths before you, don't be afraid; if you see only one path before you, then be afraid because choice means freedom and no choice means slavery! - Mehmet Murat ildan
I realized that the legal system was corrupt when I went to court and the judge imposed a very short time limit on my evidence submission before removing my legal rights to free speech. - Steven Magee
People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt. - Otto von Bismarck
Sometimes I feel like my whole life before she died was a dream. - Ann Dee Ellis
The greatest weight a bird has to drop before it can fly is fear. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once. - Evan Esar
There's something fundamental you have to understand about yourself before you can change your life for good. - Ali Vincent
Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility. - Dejan Stojanovic
I find it funny that you could pass the same person on the street, in a store, or even in your neighborhood many times before actually meeting, thinking you’ve never seen them before, but when you are finally introduced, they seem to pop up everywhere. - Courtney Giardina
He realized without being aware of it that he had had the possibility to know her, before had he known her? but now that had changed. The possibility was gone. Now no one would know her unless she herself willed it. And there was nothing quite like the will he sensed in her now. - Amanda Coplin
When you're involved in the work of the Lord, the power behind you is always greater than the obstacles before you. - Dallin H. Oaks
Worship is giving God the best that He has given you. Be careful what you do with the best you have, Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love gift. Take time to meditate before God and offer the blessing back to Him in a deliberate act of worship. - Oswald Chambers
Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights. - John Wooden
In a woman's lifetime, She will kiss a couple of clowns before she gets to the King. - Andrea L'Artiste
in a relationship that is successful, communication has to be totally open and honest, without judgement or anger. and before you end a relationship that is very important to you, you have to be able to say to yourself that you seeked every avenue to make it work. - Anonymous
If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly in hand before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer. - Anne Frank
He started hammering the ground with all his might and the sky opened up, raining heavily on him. He looked at the sky, heard that thunder and saw that lightning. He laughed maniacally before raising the hammer again. - Akshay Vasu
You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them. - Michael Jordan
Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Those moments before a poem comes, when the heightened awareness comes over you, and you realize a poem is buried there somewhere, you prepare yourself. I run around, you know, kind of skipping around the house, marvelous elation. It’s as though I could fly. - Anne Sexton
Discipline yourself so that all expectations, and inspiration, begin with your core values before relying on someone else's to better your life. - Steven Cuoco
The legacy I leave will be unimaginably enhanced by the legacies I received. Therefore, I must be wise enough to embrace the history of those who have gone before me so that I can shape the future of those who will go ahead of me. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.
If you enjoy peace now, remember it is out of the toils of those who were gone before you. The question is "will you leave peace behind you when you are gone"? - Israelmore Ayivor
Gratitude was never meant to be an excuse for giving up on the obstacles God has put before you. Some of the most magical things he can bring us require faith and a lot of planning. - Shannon L. Alder
I shall be up before you are awake; I shall be afield before you are up; and I shall have breakfasted before you are afield. In short, I shall astonish you all. - Thomas Hardy
Love everyone before judging them. - Debasish Mridha
I have never known the mind of a wolf hunting a deer, but I imagine it must feel a little like this: the twisted excitement of seeing the weak and wounded cowering before you, the knowledge that, in this instant, you have the power to end its life or grant it mercy. In this moment, I am a god. - Marie Lu
There may be a day when you find yourself standing at the precipice, looking down into the abyss of hopelessness and waiting, pleading, begging for someone who has been in this place before to come alongside you and show you the way back to hope. - J. Loren Norris
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity. - Arthur Schopenhauer
In this abundant earth no doubtIs little room for things worn out:Disdain them, break them, throw them by!And if before the days grew roughWe once were lov'd, us'd -- well enough,I think, we've far'd, my heart and I. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is much better policy to prophesy after the event has taken place. - Sir Winston Churchill
Catch your dreams before they slip awayDying all the timeLose your dreamsAnd you will lose your mind - Rolling Stones
- Why'd you even think I'd read your diploma before, during, or after buying 10 copies of it in an all-you-can-drink online bar? - If I could drink what I read, I'd probably still be drunk on Joyce's Ulysses. I should've chased it with a racer.- and Jarod Kintz - Stefan D
There is no point of relaying statistics on rape because for every figure given there are thousands missing, unreported. It is a shameful state we have created where a victim chooses to endure the pain and suffering, silenced by fear that judgment will come before justice. - Aysha Taryam
What lies behind us & what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. - - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden? - Alfred A. Montapert
The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before the man does.
It's very strange when the life you never had flashes before your eyes. - Terri Minsky
When a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
Before you talk to the world, talk to yourself. And, before you listen to the world, listen to yourself. - Sharad Vivek Sagar
Spike (to Giles) : Oh, poor Watcher. Did your life pass before your eyes 'Cuppa tea, cuppa tea... almost got shagged... cuppa tea'? - Marti Noxon, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Before I go out to take a picture of someone, I just stop at the city desk and say, 'Do you want him gazing out toward the sunset or picking his nose?' - Calvin Trillin
The only time anyone's admitted they were a Christian before was when they were busy telling me why they're better than me. - Randy K. Milholland
Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it. - Ray Bradbury
Maybe we have shoes so we can learn to walk in another's oath before judging their footsteps? - Nikki Rowe
I am quite sure that our views on evolution would be very different had biologists studied genetics and natural selection before and not after most of them were convinced that evolution had occurred. - J.B.S. Haldane
More times than I can remember I look around and I ask why the hole I’m in looks so strangely familiar. Probably because it looks a whole lot like all the other ones I dug before I got around to digging this one. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Life works with balance. If you give and receive out of giving, you create a balance with life. You serve life, before you expect life to serve you. - Roshan Sharma
Respect fails before love - Grant Walker
Intentional living is the art of making our own choices before others' choices make us. - Richie Norton
‎True love isn't expressed in passionately whispered words an intimate kiss or a embrace; before two people are married, love is expressed in self-control, patience, even words left unsaid. - Joshua Harris
Do you realize why is it I'm so driven to operate within the Establishment? It's vengeance. 'Hope I die before I get old' is something I still have to live with, but not for the reason many people think. I have to be very, very vigilant not to become one of those people I despised. - Pete Townshend
If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong. - Leo Rosten
mYou learn more from your mistakes and failures than from any degree of success. Success can only be grasped for a moment before it becomes a distant oasis not to be found again unless you thirst for the knowledge found in the well fed by your mistakes and failures. - Brian Michael Good
Night-time is being brushed aside like so much cobweb. The day is wound up and begins even before the last haunted dreams, the last of the fog, those spectral and evanescent residues, have faded away. - Gregory Maguire
We stand before a burning bush whenever other human beings share with us something of their relationship with God or something of the movements of their hearts. In such moments may we always realize that we stand on holy ground - Margaret Silf
There’s only so many times you can fight before the only person you fight for is yourself. - S.R. Crawford
If death shows up before my last breathe, I swear I'll kill death. - Uchenna Durugo
Before giving up, try hard. - Debasish Mridha
The world is full of all sorts of brilliant stuff and I haven't found out all about it yet, so I don't want anyone messing it about or endin' it before I've had the chance to find out about it.-Adam to DEATH & the 4 horsepeople of the Apocalypse - Neil Gaiman
I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life. - Mahatma Gandhi
New Year, new month, new day, new moment, all places we have never been before. Enjoy each experience with relish & spice... tasty times ahead. - Michael Levy
Even if a person unravels everything before everyone to say the real facts: ‘This is This’ & ‘That is That’, the probability is very high is that the majority of people may say ‘This is That’ & ‘That is This’. - Anuj Somany
there are times when life's ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we can proceed - Richard Wright
Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after. - Homer
Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son. - Lois McMaster Bujold
Before God does anything, before he makes anything for us to be sustained by, God says, "More than food, more than water, more than shelter, more than other people, they are going to need me. - Wesley Miller
...how crazy things have to get before I ended up drooling all over a strait jacket with my name on it at Happyville Manor. - Gayla Drummond
Fools rush in where fools have been before. - Unknown
Eat before shopping. If you go to the store hungry, you are likely to make unnecessary purchases. - American Heart Association Cookbook
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. - George Bernard Shaw
A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his senses and his reason has deserted him. - Plato
The world teaches us to be self-sufficient, self-reliant, self-motivating. But anytime we put self before Savior, we’re in trouble - Toni Sorenson
The purpose of life is to live for others. The moment you start living for yourself, you die before you time. - Chidiebere Prosper Agbugba
God determines the goals of the prosperity before giving prosperity to His children. - Sunday Adelaja
Be content to love, to dazzle in the light,If only for moments…And then be gone,With gladness in your heart,Before the creeping shadowsClaim too much your sadness at leaving. - Scott Hastie
Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that who cares? He's a mile away and you've got his shoes! - Billy Connolly
The Dictionary defines Soul Mate as: A person who is perfectly suited to another in temperament. Before I met mine, I didn't know I was bonkers! - James Hauenstein
Why are we afraid of the silence that ensues after our death? Wasn’t it the same silence we endured before birth? Isn’t it the same silence we revel in when we are completely immersed in the present moment? Let us not be afraid. - Kamand Kojouri
Apparently these new rulers of the world did not indulge in any drinking or smoking to soften their moods when they met, which Menelaus knew to be a big mistake. The Congress of the United States, back before the Disunion, always met sober, and look at what had come of that. - John C. Wright
Don’t blame if people are too harsh on you, maybe they have been hurt badly before. - M.F. Moonzajer
Wanting him to come back before anyone notices part of the world has not moved since he left. - Brian Andreas
Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.
That's the thing about being a former fat camp champ: when asked if I'd change my past if I could, I always answer no. The pain of being an overweight kid, the humiliation, make you think twice before ever cutting anyone else down. - Stephanie Klein
We are not free, separate, and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. - Thomas Mann
Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting his consonants, did so in yells of awe and anger at his tragic state, at his own self-awareness and at his own helplessness before the void. - Barnett Newman
On the whole I try to keep Modesty and Willie in timeless settings, which is why I avoid all the latest slang and in-words. It won't be long before 'brill' sounds as dated as 'super' does now. [Uncle Happy, 1990] - Peter O'Donnell
It was a prayer that he had never said before, because it was a prayer without words or pleas. - Paulo Coelho
To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. It is the sole standard by which you have a right to judge me--the sole ground on which I accept your judgment. - Charlotte Brontë
We are the living whole of the fragments from the things we've experienced and people we've encountered. Each interaction changes us in a subtle or massive way. The masterpiece we are sheds it's weathered skin, becoming even more than it was before. - Hubert Martin
When we were together before, the world was small to us, but as you grew bigger to life and the world became desirous to living, we became smaller to each other. - Anthony Liccione
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. - Norman Vincent Peale
Even before you start regretting it, it is already in the past. - Harshvardhan Malpani
To think about your life is to create it. You have to take ownership of where you are right now and know where you want to go before you can get there. Keep collecting evidence for your success. You can believe it, and you can be it. - Ali Vincent
True kindness isn't something we're born with. It's something we have to work at. Not everyone has it. But I think everyone has the potential. Sometimes you just have to look really close before you can tell it's there."-Kyoko - Natsuki Takaya
He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. - Horace
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. - John Quincy Adams
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb. - Winston S. Churchill
Remember that existence comes before the happiness and thus to exist is more important than to be happy! - Mehmet Murat ildan
you brought other people close. look at me, i am still the same i was before ; having just two best friends in my case.and you are not happy with me. you hold grudges. So then free yourself. Remove this tag of best friend and feel free. - shivangi lavaniya
Don't feel better than anybody, because you feel like something. Always have it at the back of your mind that you were nothing before you became something, and that thing you supposed to be is absolutely nothing. - Michael Bassey Johnson
It takes three or four years before the present day sinks in to you as a novelist. It has not just to be accepted in the mind but travel down your spine and fill your body and you can’t respond immediately to immediate events, there is this incubation period.Source: Martin Amis - http://www.euronews.com/2013/06/25/ma...
Lawyers are always confident before the verdict. It's only after that they share their doubts. - Julian Fellowes
Sometimes the body gets out of bed an hour before the brain. - Peter James West
Allow yourself the Freedom to Fail before you see Success Sail!- - RVM
I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before. - Michael Collins
Behavior speaks… Before you even open your mouth, your actions have told me who you are and what you’re about. - Steve Maraboli
Practice the pause. Pause before judging. Pause before assuming. Pause before accusing. Pause whenever you're about to react harshly and you'll avoid doing and saying things you'll later regret. - Lori Deschene
A life which has never been laid open in penitence and faith before God has little permanence in eternity. - R.K. Harrison
You have to know you don’t know before you can know. - Clifford Cohen
You travelamong the starswhilst I grovelupon this earth.Deep down I knew,it would takeseveral more lifetimesbefore I couldreach you. - Xue Yun
Put duties aside at least an hour before bed and perform soothing, quiet activities that will help you relax. - Dianne Hales
Sometimes before it gets betterthe darkness gets bigger. The person that you'd take a bullet foris behind the trigger. - Fall Out Boy
Because you never know when the day before ... Is the day before. Prepare for tomorrow. - Bobby Akart
Before my diagnosis.I used to be a collection of other people.An Actress,Now I'm finding out who I actually am.It's been a journey, but I have made it. - Tina J. Richardson
Kurt pick his way around testing for heat before taking each step and avoiding places where the ash was heaps up. - Nick Hastings
I used to measure the skies, now I measure the shadows of Earth.Although my mind was sky-bound, the shadow of my body lies here.[Epitaph he composed for himself a few months before he died] - Johannes Kepler
It is about time to see within us a real change and let it happen as we have made before we start. - Auliq Ice
Fiction is an urgent business. It is the Dying Us telling stories to the Dying Us, trying to crack the nonsense in our heads open with a big hammer pronto, before Death arrives. - George Saunders
Liberty will not descend to a people. A people must raisethemselves to liberty. It is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed. - Charles Caleb Colton
Before one may scare the plain people one must first have a firm understanding of the bugaboos that most facilely alarm them. One must study the schemes that have served to do it in the past, and one must study very carefully the technic of the chief current professionals. - H.L. Mencken
Love isn't the most expensive emotion. Hate is. Because hate will eat you up inside and destroy you, long before it kills you.
Neither cast ye your pearls before swine. - Bible
Every seed dies before It grows. - Switchfoot
If you think you can stand to know what you’re made of, try kneeling before God. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Time has witnessed events even before it's own birth without energy. - Vishwanath S J
Don’t wait until your energy runs out before you take a much needed step back to assess the situation. - Auliq Ice
Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one. - Scottish Proverb
The man who follows the crowd will get no farther than the crowd. A man who walks alone is likely to get places no one has ever been before.
Think before you eat. - Kevin J. Donaldson
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. - Anatole France
So if the ties that bind ever do come looseTie them in a knot like a hangman's nooseCause I'll go to heaven or I'll go to hellBefore I'll see you with someone else. - The Band Perry
She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it. - Jean Rhys
Keep chasing your dreams before guilt of doing nothing touches your back - Martin M Stupak
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean lay all undiscovered before me.
Shine forth your light before all beings. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
To be the thing you see, stop thinking! To be wild waves, you must quit thinking, you must leave all the thoughts before the wild waves! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The less gear you use, the more you grow as a photographer. Although there are fewer options available, you'll find more creative ways to capture what you feel! In a way, all your technical options before turn into creative solutions that improve your photography even more. - Marius Vieth
I need you because I know I deserve you but let me fall in love with you one last time before I let go. So I can remember the beautiful imperfection that rattled my bones. - Robert M. Drake
Before saying anything further about culture, I consider the world is hungry and does not care about culture, and people artificially want to turn these thoughts away from hunger and direct them towards culture. - Antonin Artaud
When starting any business the first thing you must do is Learn before you can Earn. The "L" always come first - PLP
Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd.
I know death is coming, and I do not fear it. I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. I am grateful for the gifts of intelligence, love, wonder and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting. - Roger Ebert
Mankind must put an end to war - or war will put an end to mankind.[Address before the United Nations, September 25 1961] - John F. Kennedy
Before reacting to any conflicting situation in life. Ask yourself a simple question: "You want to be happy or you want to be right? - Aditya Ajmera
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing. - Phyllis Diller
Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You must not wait to be elected into office, before you begin to serve. Begin to serve every where you are; in the home, community, school, university, work, hospital, church, market, society, nation and among many other places. - Lailah Gifty Akita
I am, now as before, of the opinion that I did the best that I could do for my nation. I therefore do not regret my conduct and will bear the consequences that result from my conduct. - Sophie Scholl
For the innocent, the past may hold a reward, but for the treacherous it's only a matter of time before the past delivers what they truly deserve. - Emily Thorne
During any experience placed before us, we can stay in alignment with positivity, truth, and goodness by asking the question: What would honor and love do here? - Molly Friedenfeld
We have to serve ourself many years before we gain our own confidence. - Henry S. Haskins
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. - George Washington
I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light. - Isaac Newton
Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you. - Erma Bombeck
No matter the difficulty, no matter the danger. He inspire them like no other since or before. - Arthur Flowers
i let you love me.i let you take care of me.i let you do things to meno one was allowed to do before. - Ava
He’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet. - Michelle Obama
The thing about books was, the more you read and liked them, the more you wanted to have on hand to read. Before you knew it you needed more bookshelves, and then all of the sudden they filled your house. - Sui Ishida
I head a bitterness that hadn't been there before. Something was changing inside him. He'd had enough of following the rules. - Alice Hoffman
Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel. - George Santayana
The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before. - Thorstein Veblen
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you. - Agatha Christie
Everytime I plant a seed,he say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow. - Bob Marley
Stairs are your teacher; they teach you to be stronger. Love your teacher and every time life puts some stairs before you, accept them as a present! - Mehmet Murat ildan
To resist the social pressure now put even on one's leisure time, requires a tougher upbringing and a more obstinate willfulness about going one's own way, than ever before. - Robert Graves
Hurry up, because I'm not sure how much more of your sarcasm I can take before I write a book about it. - Taylor Magnuson
You can't let terrible things to happen before you realize the things you could have done. - Jayson Engay
There are persons who always find a hair in their plate or soup for the simple reason that, when they sit down before it, they shake their heads until one falls in. - Christian Friedrich Hebbel
How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you? - Robert Frost
Telling one lie almost always requires another, and before the storyteller knows it, they will be caught inside of their own web. - Jenna Alatari
Praise the one who speaks ill of you. Before long he will become a friend - Radhe Maa
Some of us have resolved to escape into drunkenness before the sleep takes us. - Neil Gaiman
The only bearable thing about being human is that you can change, the second you feel like. Get it through your head that you changes, and cut yourself some slack before you fucking choke to death from all the apologies in your throat. - C.M. McKenna
No original thought still exists. People are original, each one of them. The same ideas that others had before you are waiting for you to bring them back to life in a new way. The part of who you are that is left behind within these old ideas is what makes them original all over again. - Ashly Lorenzana
Before her birth was she an idea? Before her birth was she dead? And after her birth she would die? What a thin slice of watermelon. - Clarice Lispector
When a photo of a person looks deep into your spirit and tells you thousand stories….. Stories from your past even before you existed, then the photo is way above any description. - Sameh Elsayed
A true friend is someone who knows what you want before you ask for it. - Vinita Kinra
I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess. - H.P. Lovecraft
HAVING NEVER taken a decent holiday before, I decided on a trip to Thailand, booked a flight and flew out the following week. Mate, I loved it. The friendly people, the food, the females! - Simon Palmer
Every day you have to be open to like things you’ve never liked before. Every day you have to realize you can’t get too comfortable. - Jonathan W. Anderson
I'm convinced my heart knew who it belonged to, long before I met her. - Karla Campos
A brother is like gold and a friend is like diamond. If gold cracks you can melt it and make it just like it was before. If a diamond cracks, it can never be like it was before. - Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
The goals directs you in a place that you never been before, Create one. - Dariush Youkhaneh
love, I've come to understand is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. - Nicholas Sparks
Before you make a decision, ask yourself this question: will you regret the results or rejoice in them? - Rob Liano
Before hurting anyone, especially those who cannot protect themselves, feel their pain with your heart. Take care of them as your little child. - Debasish Mridha
It is not you as the ego who moves through life, but that life flows before you, and you are the immutable awareness containing it all. - Enza Vita
David looked at her and smiled. "I think you have to feel comfortable being alone with yourself before you truly know who you are and can feel comfortable being yourself with others. - Steven Manchesterchester
Before the Gulf War started, the Iraqi Army was the the fourth largest in the world. Now, its the second largest army in Iraq.
Hell, we spent $200 Billion to get a scared guy who needed a shave out of a fox-hole! And he may even die of prostate cancer before we even get a chance to try him, dammit! - Ted Turner
He said he was going to fix everything and I believed him. But I believed him before and again some. And I guess I got lost in the resentment of disbelief. - Dominic Riccitello
To only see ‘death’ in death is to somehow assume that death itself is a barrier so abrupt that God Himself is halted by it. To see ‘life’ in death is to understand that death is a sprawling horizon to a new beginning that God created long before death ever thought to show up. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
A wise human’s life contains several journeys among several experiences, each of them takes him/her to a new level of wisdom in which makes him/her refuses to return to how he/she was before that experience. - Sameh Elsayed
1 Corinthians 2:7 (CEB)We talk about God's Wisdom, which has been hidden as a secret. God determined this wisdom in advance, before time began for our glory. - Anonymous
I’ve never met a woman who is not strong, but sometimes they don’t let it out. Then there’s a tragedy, and then all of a sudden that strength comes. My message is let the strength come out before the tragedy. - Diane Von Furstenberg
Before aligning the body to the future, the mind has to straighten out from the impairment of religion. - David Lion el Lloyd
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. - Albert Einstein
It is a far, far better thing that I do now, then I have ever done before... it is a far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known before. - Charles Dickens
Before you make a decision, ask yourself this question: will it result in regret or joy in the future? - Rob Liano
Before the war. Adults must use this phrase a zillion times a day. - Eva Gray
Abba, Father, I adore You, I exalt You, I glorify You, I bow down before You. I worship You O God! I can't live without You. Jesus, Daddy, I You with all my heart. - Pazaria Smith
Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another. - Emma Goldman
Before you go to bed think about what you left behind in the wake of the day… - Nanette L. Avery
A fish cannot be aware of the ocean, before jumping up out of water. - Rixa White
Oh, they knew it was something, but it couldn't be that -- not that. That was imagination, that was superstition, there was no such thing as that. And before science had caught up with the legend, the legend had swallowed science and everything. - Richard Matheson
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. - Willa Cather
Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me. - Franz Kafka
Before I speak, I have something important to say. - Groucho Marx
Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath. - William Shakespeare
Dear soul, don't set a high value on someone before they deserve it; You either lose them or ruin yourself...! - Jalaluddin Rumi
Man is more miserable, more restless and unsatisfied than ever before, simply because half his nature--the spiritual--is starving for true food, and the other half--the material--is fed with bad food. - Paul Brunton
Commitment shows up before results do! - John Di Lemme
Before your awake, all you do is seeWhen your awake, all you do is feel. - Nikki Rowe
I promise to pay you before you die - but you have to promise not to die. - Jim Baen
Before meeting you, I didn't know what it was like to feel lonely. I never even considered myself to be alone. That's because when you feel lonely, it means that there is someone for you to miss. - Yuuki Obata
Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening. - Dorothy Sarnoff
Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late. - Marie Beynon Ray
Some look at life, for their entire life, before they actually see. - Nikki Rowe
An ancient sage held that in different ages, humans held the senses in different ratios, according to the media by which they communicated and expressed themselves. Hence before writing, the ear was the royal sense. After writing, the eye. - Karl Schroeder
Judgement is always based on experience and sometimes you will battle a person's history first, before commonsense will ever win the war. - Shannon L. Alder
My Dad has been a feminist, way before I learnt how to spell the word. - Shahla Khan
If therefore you shall be remembered for what you did with what you had more than what you had, use what you have to do something distinctive now and leave a notable footprint before you go - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I pray, before I die, that I receive the power to believe in fairytales again, Oh' how I would love to laugh and know that God laughed with me. - Tonny K. Brown
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin. - Stanislaw J. Lec
People want to know how much you care before they care how much you know.
How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries? - Edith Wharton
In the autumn of your years don't make it so that what you look back on is regret. Live your life now so that whatever you do gives some sunshine before you head into the winter of your life. - Stephen Richards
Having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind... The body encloses the mind in a fortress; before long the mind is besieged on all sides, and in the end the mind has to give itself up. - Marcel Proust
-I would die for you-You lie -If I lie, why do I stand here before you and beg on my knees to get you back? -Because you're feeling alone -If need your love-You don't need me, you only need a person-And you're that person-No I'm not-But I love you-That what I do - M
Before and after you do your best, know it that you must rely on God. Your best - no matter how great - is nothing if you minus God from the equation. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
We cross paths with certain people in our tangled lives for a reason. It's not by chance, not an accident but it's on a purpose. You were made to be part of someone's life for it was written long before you were born."- Elizabeth's Quotes - Elizabeth E. Castillo
When you're full and done with your meal, you can leave the table but clean up your mess before you walk away. - Aireen C. Pontillo
The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. - Bertrand Russell
Whoever lives wins. Don't feel guilty about having survived. If you have time to be feeling guilty, work on living a day longer, a minute longer. And once in a while, remember the ones that died before you. That's good enough."Vol 1 Chap 4 - Atsuko Asano
Before knowledge comes understanding, before understanding comes wisdom. - Steven Chopade
It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening. - H.G. Wells
...before the dawn I leave the night behind meand before my heart I let you leave me behind.- from the poem 'Behind - Munia Khan
You gotta know that People will say a million negative things about you before they mention 1 good thing, don't be surprise if they never said that 1 good thing about you. - Werley Nortreus
I knew her before she was a virgin. - Oscar Levant
One day, everything will be like before again. And it is not like it. - Raymond Chandler
I’d do anything for you. And she knew he meant it. Even before you healed me, you gave my life back, a reason for living. I adore you, I worship you. I love you beyond all reason. - Ava Gray
A step ahead means a risk ahead... Count your steps before a mistake is made.. - Debolina Bhawal
I can't blame modern technology for my predilection for distraction, not after all the hours I've spent watching lost balloons disappear into the clouds. I did it before the Internet, and I'll do it after the apocalypse, assuming we still have helium and weak-gripped children. - Colson Whitehead
There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own. - Berenice Abbott
I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. - Isaac Newton
Mr.Nobody everyone should watch this film - Everything is about choices - Remember that before you watch the film. - Deyth Banger
Judge the spirit of the prophecy before you judge the truth of the word. - Graham Cooke
It’s easy to get sidetracked with thoughts that involve much money and precious things, but before you launch into that mode, reason well. - Auliq Ice
Set your peace freebefore your caged mind catchesyou again in another dream trapwhere you may loathe to be your own menace awaiting in hope of a war-less world ! - Munia Khan
A title from the1966 movie"The Russians Are Coming,The Russians Are Coming," gives a new meaning toa phrase: "wait a minute, we've seen this movie before - Steven Ivy Attorney Entrepreneur
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization. - Sigmund Freud
The spiritual journey is an adventure of exploration that gradually starts to open up before us when we are ready to begin asking the questions, Who am I? and Who are you? - Mac MacKenzie
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. - Mae West
A gentleman would have announced himself! I told him, pressing against the side of the tub. And a scoundrel would have joined you.-- Kit Marlowe to the witch Gillian (shortly before joining her in the tub!) - Karen Chance
Oh. My. God.’ she said, pointing out of the window. ‘Do you know what that is?’I nodded and said, ‘I think I may have seen it before.’‘That,’ said Florida, ‘is the Moonyouidiot. - Frank Cottrell Boyce
The stars will go out before I forget you, Mark Blackthorn. - Cassandra Clare
I Might never find that love my heart has always desired, but I know I will succeed before I die. - Jonathan Anthony Burkett
In a relationship with God, our most secret places once thickly cloaked and meticulously hidden away now stand before us utterly and entirely exposed. And it may be that this dreaded fear is the single thing that keeps us an arm’s length from God, and forever a single step away from His blessings. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Your heart is where your inner light resides. It is part of every sacred journey to reconnect with your inner light, step into your divinity, spread the light of love before you, return to the essence of love, and inspire others to do the same. - Molly Friedenfeld
Do you think people have evolved too far, because I do; oh their ability to heal is indeed a wonder and I do praise them for that, but in many other things I think evolution has been a bit rushed, like getting to the bus stop before the wheel was invented. - conversations with a pigeon
It shall greatly help ye to understand the Scriptures if thou mark not only what is spoken or written, but of whom and to whom, with what words, at what time, where, to what intent, with what circumstances, considering what goeth before and what followeth after. - Miles Coverdale
People seek light in the external darkness Not knowing that the Light is within.Close your physical eyes and see with your inner vision.Open your eyes and see what before was invisible to you. - Raphael Zernoff
The report card just told me, my teacher, my parents where my mind was at maybe 3 weeks before when they gave me a test. IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH MY POTENTIAL. - Bob Proctor
'Taint't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes. - Sarah Orne Jewett
Most of us will perish before knowing who we are and why we came here. - Debasish Mridha
Most people have to get to a point where they don't have a choice before they'll change something. - Alex Marwood
I might’ve found a way to cure them. Crystal said in a jumble of words. Cure them? Permanently? Yes sir. He thought about this a moment before speaking, You’ve got two weeks, can you do it by then? That’s plenty of time sir, thank you. - Julia Barkey
I feel there's a funny little hole in me that wasn't there before, like a splinter in your finger, but this is somewhere above my stomach. - Louise Fitzhugh
Life is rather a short walk through eternity. Be they seeds, pups or infants, on the trek they all pick up weight, sensitivity and awareness. Then, much before the end of the run, they deteriorate, lead, legs and lungs. The tragicomedy of existence: the long walk of slow decay. - Dagobert D. Runes
Stand aside for a while and leave room for learning, observe carefully what children do, and then, if you have understood well, perhaps teaching will be different from before. - Loris Malaguzzi
My task is set before me, girl My mission clear and true There’ll be black knights and dragons, girl But I will always come for you… - Emme Rollins
It all comes down to that one person you always think about before you fall asleep at night. And text "Good Morning" as soon as you wake up. - Jonathan Anthony Burkett
If words allow themselves to be handled, it is with the help of infinite carefulness. One has to welcome them, listen to the, before asking any service of them. Words are living things closely involved with human life. - Paul Nougé
The true test of one's mettle is how many times you will try before you give up. - Stephen Richards
MESMERISM, n. Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage and asked Incredulity to dinner. - Ambrose Bierce
[The superior man] acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions. - Confucius
Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. - Confucius
The world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before. - Samuel Johnson
Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. The sun might shine, or the clouds might lour: but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before. - Mary Shelley
True love isn't expressed in passionately whispered words or in an intimate kiss or a embrace; before two people are married, love is expressed in self-control, patience, even words left unsaid. - Auliq Ice
A sure way to go broke is to spend your outer riches before you have saved enough of your inner ones. - Charles F. Glassman
Only a fool lies brooding over his problems. When the morning comes he's tired out and his problems are the same as before. - Robert Lyndon
Shape yourself before the world shapes you. - Mahyar Mottahed
Hmmm.. We are like children in a bus with faulty brakes on a hill, eventually we will meet our collusion point. Well blindly some of us may think of sacking out all the good out of the bus before it meets it's end, but what is really there to sack out. Some places are hard to to get out of. - Allan Amanyire
Don’t believe you’ve reached the end before you’ve even reached the beginning. - Charles F. Glassman
Love is one of the strongest feelings one can ever have. It comes over you all of a sudden and totally absorbs before you manage to realize the fact. - Auliq Ice
A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity. - James Russell Lowell
You have to pretend like you know what you’re doing before you know what you’re doing. - Cody McLain
There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you. - Seamus Heaney
You can try and read my lyrics off of this paper before I lay 'emBut you won't take the sting out these words before I say 'em - Eminem
If you can't see the sun then too many things stand in your way. Sometimes, you have to climb to the top of all your fears to see any horizon, such is life. God needs to you rise higher before you will ever "see" something different. - Shannon L. Alder
Do you believe that our stories were written from before that we are but actors performing on the stage called life with neither rehearsals nor retakes, the dialogues of our own and a fleeting audience or are you someone who pens down his own story? - Chirag Tulsiani
The Boy looked at him for a long time before responding. Well, as long as you’re my friend, I’ll never ignore you, he said with conviction. I know what it’s like to be invisible to other people. - Mike Resnick
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
We are all born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society. - Judith Martin
Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light. - Madeleine L'engle
I have taken all my good deeds and all my bad deeds, and cast them in a heap before the Lord, and fled from both, and betaken myself to the Lord Jesus Christ, and in him I have sweet peace! - David Dickson
You must sit down to speak this language,It is so heavy you can't be polite or chatter in it.For once you have begun a sentence, the whole course of your life is laid out before you"-quoted in "The Geography of Bliss - Bill Holm
The Arts are not drugs. They are not guaranteed to act when taken. Something as mysterious and capricious as the creative impulse has to be released before they can act. - E.M. Forster
Life is like an Hourglass. The grains of sand drop one by one and then it’s all over. Live before you die. - - RVM
Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, before we too into the dust descend.
Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does. - Evan Esar
We need to clean our own yards before we go looking for -shit- in someone else's. - Andrea L'Artiste
Dying Speech of an Old PhilosopherI strove with none, for none was worth my strife.Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art:I warm'd both hands before the fire of life;It sinks; and I am ready to depart. - Walter Savage Landor
Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.
Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out. - Berkeley Breathed
You must embrace change before change erases you. - Rob Liano
do something good...rape your self before your lifes next attempt....! - Rahul Ghosh
Sometimes Old Nan would tell the same story she'd told before, but we never minded, if it was a good story. Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time. - George R.R. Martin
In business, ruthlessness is righteousness.Seldom are there those, whom are ruthlessly righteous.Listen to these people, before the Earth repents of mankind. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau
It's good netiquette to get to know someone in social media before giving out your phone number. NetworkEtiquette.net - David Chiles
Why do people assume? If I hate you, I'll tell you. In this case, it's not hate. It's hurt. I'll lick my wounds, which only oozed because I gave a damn, and be over it before the sun rises. - Donna Lynn Hope
I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief. - Edgar Allan Poe
I guess I haven’t mentioned it before but I was, I am and I think I might always remain in love with you, he said with such passion that I froze in surprise. He went on. And just so you know, I am prepared to fight for you, regardless of whether or not you share my sentiments. - Farrah Naseem
Paradigm shift: does that come before swing shift or after? - The Covert Comic
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all. - Jean de La Bruyere
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. - Robert Lynd
Before we find world peace, we gotta find peace in the war on the streets. - Tupac Shakur
Before a marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you`ve said; after marriage, he`ll fall asleep before you finish saying it. - Helen Rowland
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error before an afflicted truth - Jeremy Taylor
May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows your dead - unknown
What did my hands do before they held you? - Sylvia Plath
A diamond is proof that you sometimes have to go through a great deal of pressure before you can shine. - Matshona Dhliwayo
There is a fine line between any contradictory matters. When our souls fail to spot it before our minds, we lose track of both reality and vision in which lead to a one way ticket for an unknown path - Rola Mahmoud
How beautiful would history have been if it could be written beforehand and then acted out like drama! - Aihebholo-oria Okonoboh
I know that life is a doorway to eternity, and yet my heart so often gets lost in petty anxieties. It forgets the great way home that lies before it. - Sophie Scholl
There are no coincidences, only synchronicities: mini miracles placed before us by the Angels with love to inspire the mind and expand the heart. - Molly Friedenfeld
denAExThose to have left before us are "Gone, but only until we get there. - Jo Royston
The Sun-Dial at Wells CollegeThe shadow by my finger castDivides the future from the past:Before it, sleeps the unborn hourIn darkness, and beyond thy power:Behind its unreturning line,The vanished hour, no longer thine:One hour alone is in thy hands,--The NOW on which the shadow stands. - Henry Van Dyke
The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one. - James Goldsmith
The hardest part is setting the camera on the tripod, or making the decision to bring the camera out of the car, or just raising the camera to your face, believing, by those actions, that whatever you find before you, whatever you find there, is going to be good. - Sally Mann
The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. work is the key to success, and hard work can help you accomplish anything. - Vince Lombardi Jr.
How different every hour is from the one before! - Marty Rubin
Make peace with yourself before you move forward. Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. - Roy T. Bennett
Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live. - Ambrose Bierce
Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet. - Horace
The lot of the brideto be wed before beddesired until rotten.The lot of the authorto be read before bedadmired then forgotten. - Roman Payne
We're eye doctors.""What's something about the eye that most people don't realize?""The eye doesn't see. The brain sees. The eye just transmits. So what we see isn't only determined by what comes through the eyes. What we see is affected by our memories, our feelings, and by what we've seen before. - Brandon Stanton
Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated. - Henry Rollins
Before I met you, I never knew what it was like to be able to look at someone and smile for no reason. - ZAKIYA AND MAJID
Pride is the common forerunner of a fall. It was the devil's sin, and the devil's ruin; and has been, ever since, the devil's stratagem, who, like as expert wrestler, usually gives a man a lift before he gives a throw.
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
...myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. - Jules Renard
You heard me cry long before I knew my voice. - A.D. Posey
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind usis a part of ourselves. We must die to one life before we can enter another - Anatole France
I, like you, was not depraved or defected before birth but created to be magnificent, a wonderful and freeing realization - simple but explosive. - David W. Earle
That means, in turn, that this is an experience which shatters time and liberates people from the confinement of time by at once recalling all that has gone before and anticipating all that is to come. - William Stringfellow
Everything is hard before it is easy - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before. - Willa Cather
You can dance in the storm. Don't wait for the rain to be over before because it might take too long. You can can do it now. Wherever you are, right now, you can start, right now; this very moment. - Israelmore Ayivor
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.
You endure what is supposedly unbearable, and before you know it, you would have done the impossible by bearing the unbearable. - Donovan
It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to. - Elon Musk
Leaders inspire accountability through their ability to accept responsibility before they place blame. - Courtney Lynch
Baseless victimhood is usually the last stage before outright aggression. - Stefan Molyneux
Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea. - T.S. Eliot
I’d love to have the kind of friend who would visit me before visiting a man. Otherwise I know where I’m ranked, which is below him. - Donna Lynn Hope
And the Wolf howled to the Moon for one last time before entering the forest's storm: ' Don’t you worry that I will get lost... I wouldn't settle with anything less... Because I deserve the best... My soul's mirror... You ' K.K - Konstantinos Kyriakou.K.K
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. - George Orwell
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion... or you shall learn nothing. - Thomas H. Huxley
In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones. - Joseph Priestley
The only time success comes before work is in the dictionary. - Harvey Specter
To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes? - Anaximenes
Ma had been very fashionable, before she married Pa, and a dressmaker had made her clothes. - Laura Ingalls Wilder
Death is never swift... No matter how those left behind would like to comfort themselves with the thought. -Before Ever After - Samantha Sotto
As I empty my head, I feel wonderful and alive. Sometimes my creation is as beautiful as the feeling it produces, but most often it has to go through many changes before it is considered good enough for public consumption. - Faye E. Robinson
Practice unfettered living from the heart, abandoning all self-imposed limitations to emerge a new, creativity unleashed, giving of yourself like never before. - Pooja Ruprell
Saturday 12 July 1823 [Halifax]Could not sleep last night. Dozing, hot & disturbed ... a violent longing for a female companion came over me. Never remember feeling it so painfully before ... It was absolute pain to me. - Anne Lister
Many a petal has yet to fall before the last one falls. - Marty Rubin
How long does one have to live before one can no longer be fooled by words? - Marty Rubin
Die before you die and find that there is no death. - Eckhart Tolle
Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense. - Austin O'Malley
Dig the well before you are thirsty. - Chinese Proverb
You have to think before you can feel. You have to conceive before you can perceive. - Debasish Mridha
If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come. - C.S. Lewis
Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had. - Sir Francis Bacon
Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before. - Steven Wright
In the dark I rest,unready for the light which dawnsday after day,eager to be shared.Black silk, shelter me.I needmore of the night before I openeyes and heartto illumination. I must stillgrow in the dark like a rootnot ready, not ready at all. - Denise Levertov
Careful preparation is necessary before people can perceive something which is there all the time. - Idries Shah
Education does not take place when you learn something you did not know before. Education is your ability to use what you have learned to be better today than you were yesterday. - Iyanla Vanzant
The evidence of death is before my eyes constantly. Moving from me outward. My death always a step in advance. The world is a mirror of myself dying. The world not dying anymore than I die. I more alive a hundred years from now. Than at this very moment. - Lydia Lunch
If my generation is remembered for anything, it will be as the last one that remembers the world before the Internet. - Lev Grossman
A noble and resolute people can safely tread a dark and fearsome path if they always shine before them the lamps of wisdom and valor. - Aleksandra Layland
Life is a dream from which we must wake before we can dream again.
Before you can successfully make friends with others, first you have to become your own friend. - Stephen Richards
I began missing you even before we met. - Kamand Kojouri
My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me. Men have tried to breach it before, but I've learned to defend it vigorously, for I am only safe with my innermost thoughts. - Christopher Paolini
Before civilization, artists painted for the living. Today, most paint for a living. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
May our eyes focus rightly on Christ ... before the need to please others, before church, and before the busyness of Christian life. Those things will surely have their place, but they will be most valuable if put in their proper position. - Traci LaRussa
We fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noises. - Cyril Connolly
You have a valid complaint, and I do recognize it ... but you are reading into things a little bit. Just the same, I will do my best to make horrible things happen to a bunch of white people before something else so graphic hits a minority character. - Robert Kirkman
A person must first learn how to walk on their own before you can guide them in the right direction. - Craig Mercier
If a person wants to be a part of your life,they will make an obvious effort to do so.Think twice before reserving a space in your heartfor people who do not make an effort to stay. - Sham Hinduja
Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upwardTo what they were before. - William Shakespeare
The report card just told me, my teacher, my parents maybe 3 weeks before when they gave me a test HE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH MY POTENTIAL. - Bob Proctor
The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in. - James Baldwin
If you count sheep before you go to sleep, are you barrrrr'd from dreams? - Benny Bellamacina
Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg before it is broken. - M.F.K. Fisher
Dora and I are now married, but just as happy as we were before. - Bertrand Russell
Behind weight gain are the larger hurts and questions that have to be explored, probed, and understood before weight loss and maintenance is a possibility. It's a bigger issue than just calories in, calories out. - Ali Vincent
Destroy yourself. Be on the edge of it all, and right before that weird place tells you to let it go completely; let the energy go in all directions. Falling on your face will never be fun, or purposeful. You don't own energy; you own the inertia! - James Emlund
Do not wait to know you are dying before you start living. - Lailah Gifty Akita
It was an earthshattering kiss, one that stole breaths, stopped hearts, and scared the shit out of me because it surfaced feelings I’d never felt before, ones that rendered me helpless. - Jessica Sorensen
Sometimes, I miss so much the person that I was before the world tore me up in so many places. If only "they" could have just let me stay that way. - C. JoyBell C.
The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work. - Vince Lombardi
... first learn to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; ... - Friedrich Nietzsche
After your death, you will be what you were before your birth. - Arthur Schopenhauer
We can only get to God through God. Every other possible avenue is a dead-end before it even starts. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Don't you just hate that, you meet a girl she seems pretty nice, you tell all your friends and before you know it she turns out to be a vampire, don't you just hate it when that happens? - L.J. Smith
People should get their information from the source with facts before sharing it. Rumors can be lots of different opinions, based on what other people think. This is where lies begin to build and develop into things that are harmful to others. - Ellen J. Barrier
You NEED to learn how to fly before you learn how to land and you MUST learn how to land before you start flying. - Samer Chidiac
Before the fruits of prosperity can come, the storms of life need to first bring the required rains of testing, which mixes with the seeds of wisdom to produce a mature harvest. - Lincoln Patz
The pursuit of knowledge and the skills that come with it must be done strategically. We must put the society we live in into serious consideration before we embark on this journey.We can't isolate our skills from the need of the society we live in - Emi Iyalla
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not. - John Keats
It was one of those ridiculous arrangements that couples make when they are separating, but before they are divorced - when they still imagine that children and property can be shared with more magnanimity than recrimination. - John Irving
Before you give up, let the hope shine again. - Debasish Mridha
First impression is not the last reflection of a true friend, so if you are head over heels for someone who just bought you a cake, you'd better think twice before devouring your misery. - Michael Bassey Johnson
In the middle of the night, I saw chaos bleeding out of darkness and peace. Everything that was said and seen before seemed like a paradox. I saw the graves of lies breaking open and the truth crawling out silently into the cold hearts. - Akshay Vasu
A diplomat must always think twice before he says nothing. - Irish Proverb
I love the night! It's not uncommon for me to see the light of a new day before closing my eyes on the old one. - Peggy Toney Horton
Sometimes you have to go a little crazy before you can find sanity. I think I'm close. - Tawny Lara
Trust your eyes, Trust your tummy, Trust yourself. That's how you know who to listen to. - Land Before Time
I do not believe in equality of results. I believe in "equal opportunity" and "equality before the law". - A.E. Samaan
When you slip up and let yourself back into old, toxic patterns of thinking, forgive yourself before you try to fix yourself. - Vironika Tugaleva
Like never before the trajectories of wealth, business, and poverty can be altered in unexpected ways by women. The field of dreams is being reconstructed by technology and the knowledge economy so that the gates, ceilings, doors, and portals are wide open for all who want to play. - Lillian Gregory
Create peace in your heart before you can express it in words. - Debasish Mridha
Never spend your money before you have it. - Thomas Jefferson
Dreamers can find their way by moonlight and their only punishment is that they see the dawn before the rest of the world. - Oscar Wilde
My life closed twice before its' close- It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me. So huge, so hopeless to concieve As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell. - Emily Dickinson
The ink in your pen never reshapes your thoughts, you must replace the ink before the ink can be inked properly. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Before creation I alone was, there was no other existence of the nature of cause and effect different from Me. After the creative cycle ends also, I alone exist. For, this universe is also Myself, and when everything is dissolved in its cause in Pralaya, what remains is only Myself. - Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
What a more beautiful world this would be if we didn't wait til people were dead before we honored their spirit. - Kellie Elmore
Though we tremble before uncertain futuresmay we meet illness, death and adversity with strengthmay we dance in the face of our fears. - Gloria E. Anzaldúa
As a rule, Americans are big on that word choice and some souls can be captured simply by dangling before the creature a continual, lifelong supply of things from which to choose. - Geoffrey Wood
Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln. - Bruce Barton
Do not count your chickens before they are hatched. - Aesop
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance. - Lois McMaster Bujold
Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal. - Terence McKenna
She gave thee beauty—blush of fire, That bids the flames of war retire! Woman! be fair, we must adore thee; Smile, and a world is weak before thee! - Anacreon - 485 BC
Before she can stop herself, she thinks about desire, how it lives within you and yet is separate, surfacing when it chooses, without permission, in the harsh afternoon light, at the moment when you least expect to find it. - Alice Hoffman
There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? I appeal as a human being to human beings; remember your humanity, and forget the rest. - Bertrand Russell
His hand cupped her cheek as he lowered his head to hers. Just before their lips touched, a light knock sounded on the door. - Lia Davis
Open your mind before your mouth - Aristophanes
Write before the sun comes up. - A.D. Posey
It's very important that we start creating new content again. We can only build on nostalgia so much before we have nothing left to build on. - Joss Whedon
I never encountered any crisis in life, because I solved my problems before they turned into crisis. - Amit Kalantri
Upon first glance I felt a sense of familiarity with you. Like we had been down this road a thousand times before, why I felt this with a complete stranger I am yet to know but I trust further down the road our chance meeting will make perfect sense. - Nikki Rowe
I think it is the duty of all human beings, as intelligent and communicative beings, to learn all the ideas thought up before ours and use them as a means to think up new ones. - Jonathan Culver
The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance. - Oswald Chambers
All of us must cross the line between ignorance and insight many times before we truly understand. - David Hawkins
Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene. - John Barth
I believe this nation should commit itself, to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. - John F. Kennedy
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. - Jean Paul Richter
Adjusting to life’s changes may be difficult and something you may not be looking forward to experiencing. Be gentle with yourself and you will find clarity on all levels of encouragement in places and by people you least expect. Remember as it has been said before: This too shall pass! - Steven Cuoco
If e-book readers were invented before print books, (petty things such as) the smell of ink would have been some people’s only reason for not abandoning e-books. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I see using my other senses. I can smell the rain before it drops, but I can’t watch it fall. I can feel the sun on my face, but I can’t see it rise or set. I want to see the world like everyone else, to see the sun, the rain, the music. Oh I bet music looks beautiful. - Sydney Wells
Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date. World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker said it all when he remarked, "I can give you a six-word formula for success: Thnk things through-then follow through. - John C. Maxwell
I don't live to work. I work to live. Before I die, I know I lived. - Jill Telford
Do what is right and what is good." -- Bryeison to Alasdair before going to his death on the battlefield. - Michelle Franklin
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward. - Baltasar Gracian
Speaker calls the Christian counselor to look at each person as soul embodied with unique challenges that move us. This is not, he says, the first step before we get on to important business but vital in and of itself. - Edward T. Welch
The average buyer in bookshop spends 8 seconds on the front cover and 15 seconds on the back cover before deciding whether to purchase the book or not. On average, he does not get past page 18. See? The odds are stacked against us writers! - Ashwin Sanghi
To earn respect, you must earn your own self respect before you can expect others, to respect you. - Auliq Ice
We have more choice than ever before about where and how we buy and read books. - Sara Sheridan
Beware of the man who knows the answer before he understands the question.
If you have the creative urge, it isn't going to go away. But sometimes it takes a while before you accept the fact. - Hugh Macleod
To be a righteous woman during the winding up scenes on this earth, before the second coming of our Savior, is an especially noble calling... She has been placed here to help to enrich, to protect, and to guard the home--which is society's basic and most noble institution. - Spencer W. Kimball
think of the condition of Europe for twenty years before, where people were fighting, not by thousands, but by millions; each one of whom as he struck his enemy wounded horribly some other innocent heart far away. - William Makepeace Thackeray
your mother is the longest magic show you will ever seeno one knows how her face is target practice for her partner and a shield for her childrenhow she makes a mouthful of blood disappearerases bruiseshardens teethhow she wakes up and dresses her children beforedressing her wounds - Nia Afyah
A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before. - Brandi L. Bates
Before you look for dirt in people, look for treasure. - Matshona Dhliwayo
It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me. - J.R.R. Tolkien
You can reawaken your childhood ability to use a smartphone before you could read. - Dr. Asoka Jinadasa
The world's big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark. - John Muir
Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not - John Keats
Imagine you saw a colour in your dream, which you have never seen before. It doesn't consist of any colours or shades that you know. Trying to describe that colour would be as difficult as trying to belive that there is enough love & compassion in the world so every human can feel happiness. - Egor Kraft
Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us. - John R.W. Stott
Now, go, wirte it before them in a table and note it in a book, that it may be fore the time to come for ever and ever. Isiah 30:8 - Isiah from the bible
If anyone scolds you.,just receive it thankfully.Because,they wants you to become a best person than before. - Satyaankith
[S]tart at the turn of the last century, in 1901, with the celebration of Detroit’s bicentennial. That was the Detroit that came before--before all the racket that attended the making of the modern world, which happened here first and faster than anywhere else on this planet. - Jerry Herron
Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us. - Theodore Roosevelt
If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don’t look at where you stand on slavery today. Look at where you stand on animal rights. - Paul Watson
If pride really went before a fall, then, Lucifer is the inventor of pride. - Michael Bassey Johnson
A... and so it is... Beauty fades away but while you have it, use it well, wear it well. It is a treasure to be spent quickly before the magic spell is broken... Gloria Smith - www
Learn who you are before becoming what others want. - Sissy Silva
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
You are given a life, a death. Understand both while living, and before dying. Or you'd have wasted a life, a death. - Fakeer Ishavardas
The genesis of life, unfold before us, the mere essence of our being……tarnished.Mankind can no longer survive on its own. - Robin Alleyna
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards. - Karl Kraus
The speaker calls for a careful examination of Christ's principle of turning the other cheek before we use it as a demand or excuse for total personal pacifism. After all, when literally struck on the cheek, Jesus did question the legitimacy of the authority by which this was done. - John Thackway
What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done. - Ernest Hemingway
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. - Aristotle
We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society. - Judith Martin
In fact, nothing is said that has not been said before. - Terence
A smart girl leaves before she is left - Marilyn Monroe
The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender your will to change and experience life. But options are before you; choose one and dedicate yourself to it. The deeds will give you a new hope and purpose. ~ Eragon - Christopher Paolini
When you turn your back to the truth, the truth will soon appear before you! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Air freshener is man’s pitiful attempt to have his food smell as good, after digestion, as they did, before ingestion. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It's as if my footprints were already on the road before I even got there.I walk into them, my waiting footprints. - Jackie Kay
Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book. - Richelle E. Goodrich
My decisions determine my destination long before I ever get there. And once I do get there, I suddenly realize this is not the destination I had in mind because what I had in mind was the fantasy that my denial had created verses the reality my choices crafted. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
It would take a while before the postmodern Narcissus perceived the ruins of society behind the emptiness of his mirror. - Paul Verhaeghe
did time exist before we could count it - e.webb
Burning bridges behind you is understandable. It's the bridges before us that we burn, not realizing we may need to cross, that brings regret. - Anthony Liccione
When they throw the water on the witch, she says, Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness. That line inspired my life. I sometimes say it to myself before I go to sleep, like a prayer. - John Waters
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. - Andre Gide
Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win. - Harper Lee
Check thyself before thy wreck thyself. - Tyler Oakley
No business can continue to shrink. That can only go on for so long before irrelevancy sets in. - Jeff Bezos
This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before. - Maya Angelou
Be open to the realization that who you were before and who you are now are two different people, and that what may have made you happy then, may not be the same thing that will make you happy now. - Stephen Richards
Destiny lies before, should we choose to pursue it - Paul Klobusicky
Today’s living people are much more important than tomorrow’s yet unborn people! We need to help the people of today before helping the people of tomorrow! We cannot make our plans so as to save the people of distant future by ignoring today’s people! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Fly free spirits fly, for if you reach heaven before me, then at least I know to this world I have more love to apply. " ~ - Roy Hale
A night of crying has silenced me. This morning it seems the whole world is against me. I've never before felt so barren, so empty. I've never before thought the daylight to be ... my enemy. My enemy. - Shaun Hick
The last 30 minutes before you sleep is the time when the most fertile land of your subconscious is accessible! What you SOW is what you REAP! - Harrish Sairaman
The report card just told me, my teacher, my parents where my mind was at maybe 3 weeks before when they gave me a test HE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH MY POTENTIAL.― - Bob Proctor
Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won`t even lay down his newspaper to talk to you. - Helen Rowland
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times. - Rita Rudner
If the path set before her feet was to be narrow she knew that flowers of quiet happiness would bloom along it. The joy of sincere work and worthy aspiration and congenial friendship were to be hers; nothing could rob her of her birthright of fancy or her ideal world of dreams. - L. M. Montgomery
Before walking in someone else’s shoes, you have to remove your shoes first. - Dr. Asoka Jinadasa
Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things! - Andrew Murray
We knit alone our life, before seeing by it our shroud. (Nous tricotons notre vie seule, Avant d'y voir notre linceul) - Charles de Leusse
Put character and mental toughness before execution and you will get consistent execution. - William James Moore
To go where no one else has ever gone before is the secret of heroism. - Dejan Stojanovic
The Purpose of Philosophy is to fall in Love. To strip the world of all its clothes, and fall in Love with it as it stand before you completely naked. - Ilyas Kassam
You don’t want modesty, you want humility. Humility comes from inside out. It says someone was here before me and I’m here because I’ve been paid for. I have something to do and I will do that because I’m paying for someone else who has yet to come. - Maya Angelou
I never drew a picture of anything that was before me but always from fancy, a sure sign of the absence of artistic eyesight; and I illustrated my lack of real feeling for art by a very early speech: 'Mama,' said I, 'I have drawed a man. Shall I draw his soul now? - Robert Louis Stevenson
Worry is a dividend paid to disaster before it is due. - Ian Fleming
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
You must first get along with yourself before you can get along with others.
Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all. - Arthur C. Clarke
The question our century puts before us is: is it possible to regain the lost dimension, the encounter with the Holy, the dimension which cuts through the world of subjectivity and objectivity and goes down to that which is not world but is the Mystery of the Ground of Being. - Paul Tillich
Autumn is my favourite season of all. It is a transitory period that allows the earth to rest before it sees the harshness of winter and hears the promise of spring. - Kamand Kojouri
I do not think one can assess a writer’s motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be determined by the age he lives in ... but before he ever begins to write he will have acquired an emotional attitude from which he will never completely escape. - George Orwell
Solve the problem before the Problem dissolves You. - John J.N.
The history of human nature: How far can we get away with being complete and utter bastards, before we have to backtrack? - Paul MacAlindin
I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It is like having a mental workshop.
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories. - John Wilmot
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war. - E. B. White
I have not disregarded them... He knows the source of energy... He feels the warmth of the path... He acknowledges his destiny... He embraced his FAITH…THE ONE THE UNIVERSE DEFINED…LONG BEFORE THEY MET - Konstantinos Kyriakou.K.K
Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first. - Shannon L. Alder
Your blindness to my downfall,Has gone too far to be a joke,As I stand ablaze before you,And you tell me you smell smoke. - Erin Hanson
7 Principles of a Happy MarriageAlways listenBe thereCompromise is necessaryBuild up trustA kiss before sleep, a kiss after wakingNever keep scoreDo things together - Steven Aitchison
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. - Paul Dirac
When you are angry—stop, breath, relax, step back, think, and forgive before you react. - Debasish Mridha
Consult your dragon before you wager his hide.
The "highest" states of mind held up before mankind by christianity as of supreme value, are actually forms of convulsive epilepsy. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Always give your resume of good deeds when you run into someone that you wronged many years ago. They simply need to know today's version of you, before they judge you on yesterday's news. - Shannon L. Alder
My continuing passion is to explore strange industries, to acquire new knowledge and ask many questions, to boldly learn something I did not know before. - Boripat Lebel
This a a wonderful day. I've never seen this one before. - Maya Angelou
Learn to obey before you command. - Solon
No man should marry before he has studied anatomy and dissected the body of a woman. - Honore de Balzac
I write to taste life twice; to savour the flavour of sweet times gone by, or spit out the bitterness before it multiplies. - Aisha Mirza
Don’t stop before your miracle happens - Levon Peter Poe
Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour. - Kahlil Gibran
In love, as in life, one misheard word can be tremendously important. If you tell someone you love them, for instance, you must be absolutely certain that they have replied "I love you back" and not "I love your back" before you continue the conversation. - Lemony Snicket
Look twice before you leap. - Charlotte Bronte
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. - George Eliot
As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you speak. - Toni Morrison
...prose unfolds in time; and time contains both obstacles and revelations. Prose develops, the way characters and situations do. It requires a flow. A poem is an instant, lightning across the sky. Prose is before the storm, the storm, after the storm. - Molly Peacock
Why people become writers??It's logical, they don't have what to do and they are bored and they want to show people a new world. So they create it!Why people watch films??Because they want to feel the taste of the reality!Everything is logical, think before you ask! - Deyth Banger
To a man who was required to marry before he was allowed to have sex with his lover, marriage is a ‘righteous’ form of prostitution. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured. - Sri Aurobindo
Don't stop livingbefore you stop breathing. - Manoj Vaz
... if you find a person that you've never seen before getting in a crop duster that doesn't belong to you -- report it. - George W. Bush
I hope I die before I get old.
Strange star-like object over Oslo right before Obama arrives. A gift of a golden medal given by a group of wise men... Nah. - Craig Ferguson
But I will not repine. It cannot last long. He will be forgot, and we shall all be as we were before. - Jane Austen
Conquer self before you desire to defeat others. - Aditya Ajmera
Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his. - Franz Liszt
It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts.
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road. - Dag Hammarskjold
Some of us die long before our last breath. We perish in the fire of love, reduced to ashes in the consuming blaze. No, we do not die when our hearts cease to beat, but when they start beating the first timefor somebody else. - Shakieb Orgunwall
Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress because you want the water to touch you. You want to completely immerse yourself in the feeling of the water and to emerge anew. - Kamand Kojouri
Everything have a foundation, even your fame; It started as little support from your family and immediate friends; Don't forget that because they saw the raw talent before everyone saw the polished act. Stay True instead of being a fame fool. - Unarine Ramaru
Monsters always make more trouble before they die. - Melinda Gebbie
Always think extra hard before crossing over to a bad side, if you were weak enough to cross over, you may not be strong enough to cross back! - Victoria Addino
Positive attitude toward time management would accelerate our economic development as we have never seen before. - Sunday Adelaja
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it. - Thucydides
Tell the negative committee that meets inside your head that they have nothing to say you haven't heard before and it's about time they disbanded until they have something positive to say. - Karon Waddell
Before "THOUGHT" there is only YOU and your MIND. Thought, is what assigns meaning to things. Also implying that you are not your THOUGHTS; and with your mind, you have the POWER to assign new meanings to things. - Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana
Why do you think you deserve happily ever after? You were offered it before and tossed it away. - Donna Lynn Hope
It's so clear... there's no obstacle before determination. It sees it as an opportunity to shine. - Yaw O. Akomaning
Someday your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching. - Gerard Way
I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin. - Eddie Campbell
The end always passes judgement on what has gone before. - Publilius Syrus
And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. - Robert Frost
She closed her eyes and took a deep breath for one last time and let his hand go. She saw his boat drifting away they both looked at each other and waved one last time before she could not see him anymore. - Akshay Vasu
Every problem has a solution. You may not see it in front of you, but, sooner or later, a solution will appear before your eyes. - Ubaldina M. Gibbs
You can do anything…but before you can do anything, you have to do something. - Clifford Cohen
Kids need to find someone going the same direction by the same methodology and try not to fall in love beforehand. Toby Willis - The Willis Clan
Take it slow. We want to know what’s ahead before what’s ahead knows we’re here. - K. E. Douglas
Everyone deserv a chance maybe 2 or 3, but always this guy wants something and before he didn't made it don't mean that now again won't reach a conclusion. - Deyth Banger
Southern California, which is shaped somewhat like a coffin, is a giant sanatorium with flowers where people come to be cured of life itself in whatever way .... This is the last stop before the sun gives up and sinks into the black, black ocean, and night - usually starless here - comes down. - John Rechy
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action. - Confucius
Before I met my husband I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times. - Rita Rudner
Advancements in technology have provided us the wonderful freedom to procrastinate faster than ever before.
Suspicion of Abuse gets to your toes before you see it in your face. - Auliq Ice
I could never understand what was going on in my dreams I couldn’t control the happenings, it’s like I just stood there glued to the ground watching everything around me move and evolve into different scenarios. I was a ghost of myself watching life unravel before my own eyes... - JaszCab.
Life is not made up of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years, but of moments. You must experience each one before you can appreciate it. - Sarah Ban Breathnach
I shall be breakfasted before you are afield. In short, I shall astonish you all. - Thomas Hardy
Take control of your emotions before your emotions take control of you. - Scott Dye
Hate will cause you to "catch a case". Release yourself from your own personal jail before you are put in the real one for life! It ain't worth it!! - Anita R. Sneed-Carter
But pain is an impatient customer. It wouldn't be long before it demanded attention. - Jill Alexander Essbaum
Life happens because of choices we make, if you want a better outcome; think before you create. - Nikki Rowe
Attempts to wake before our time are often punished, especially by those who love us most. Because they, bless them, are asleep. They think anyone who wakes up, or who, still asleep, realizes that what is taken to be real is a ‘dream’ is going crazy. - R.D. Laing
Sister Maria Martinez whom I believe I've mentioned before has been giving me cooking classes. Today I learned how to bake mean banana bread. The secret apparently is half a cup of dark rum. - Adele Griffin
What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.
One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before. - Kin Hubbard
I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am a person who does those things. - Edward Gorey
You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened. - Jorge Luis Borges
The magic of life is its imprecision, the multiple narratives constantly unfolding before us. Every step we take, every decision we make, reshuffles the deck of our lives and sets a new trajectory of possibility in motion. - Jamie Metzl
I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A stirring dwarf we do allowance give before a sleeping giant. - William Shakespeare
Remember, before they promoted to the chair of CEO, they were the best employees of their companies. - Amit Kalantri
He turned the music up loud. So what if it would deafen him? It made him happy. Like it had so many times before. - Stuart McLean
my problem is that my body acts before my brain thinks... it sometimes brings me huge trouble, or also huge success. recently, my body and brain got come to an agreement. it may be far better to live this gambling life than living in boring average ...they at least make my art more interesting - Hiroko Sakai
The signs of sociopathy are usually there before we are abused; most of us just don’t know enough to recognize them - P. A. Speers
Not to know what happened before you were born is always to remain a child. For what is a man's life if it is not linked with the life of future generations by memories of the past.
People frequently say that so and so died 'died doing what they loved.' I hope that when I die it's right before I was about to do something that I hated to do so I could at least avoid doing it one more time.
Apathetic people sit back and wait for things to get better before they move. Radical people make things get better, by how they move. - Shannon L. Alder
The more you live, the more today you see, the more yesterday’s you left and the more tomorrow you say! Only those who have lived long can best tell the regrets of yesterday, the lessons in today and the real reasons to ponder before you say and think of tomorrow! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
If you haven't confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started. - Marcus Garvey
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. - Anne Frank
On this Mother's Day and every day before and after, I thank you God for the precious gift of my three children. I love them unconditionally. - Ana Monnar
Before I was ordained, when I was working for the council, I thought of the first three months of the year as January, February, March. Now I think of them as Epiphany, Candlemas and Ash Wednesday. - Adam Smallbone
My main task as an artist is to show you either what you have never seen before -- or to show you what you have seen countless times, in a way you've never seen it. - Mike Duron
I can't explain why your name seems so familiar to me, or why it feels like I've heard your voice a thousand times before, but I can explain this ~ your the type of chaos Id bleed for. - Nikki Rowe
As I see it, life is an effort to grip before they slip through one's fingers and slide into oblivion, the startling, the ghastly or the blindingly exquisite fish of the imagination before they whip away on the endless current and are lost for ever in oblivion's black ocean. - Mervyn Peake
Mind the ground, oh yes check the land before you build that mansion. It is only a fallacy to build a great mansion on a waterlogged land without first attending to the land. You shall only sleep in a mansion with problems! Mind the ground! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
As the legend goes, when the Phoenix resurrects from the flames, she is even more beautiful than before. - Danielle LaPorte
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.
I wiggle my shoulders, I shake my legs, I walk up and down the stage, I hop around on one foot. But I never bump and grind. Why, that's vulgar. I'd never do anything vulgar before an audience. My mother would never allow it. - Elvis Presley
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