Before Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Before Quotes from famous persons: Dave Grohl, Arthur Erickson, Quentin Tarantino, Whitney Wolfe Herd, Robert Wilson. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Before Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

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It was that famous joke: What's the last thing the drum

It was that famous joke: What’s the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band? ‘Hey, I wrote a song.’
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Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.
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I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I’m attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn’t quite what I’m seeingtaking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I’ve never seen before.
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I was 24 when I was embroiled in a high-profile lawsuit. This was 2014, long before, en masse and on social media, we said #MeToo and #TimesUp. At the time, I felt completely alone. Visceral, hateful online harassment from strangers left me paranoid and anxious for years afterward.
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If you slow things down, you notice things you hadn’t seen before.
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Others have said it before me. If you don’t have a seat at the table, you’re probably on the menu. And so it is important that we have women in the United States Senatestrong women, women who are there to help advance an agenda that is important to women.
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A humorist has to be taken seriously before he’s considered a real writer.
Art Buchwald
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That’s politics. After six o’clock, we can be friends, but before six, it’s politics.
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It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
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A smart girl leaves before she is left.
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I dress how I feel. I just go off emotion. I can’t prepare my outfit a day before. Everything I wear is spontaneous.
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You should make something. You should bring something into the world that wasn’t in the world before. It doesn’t matter what it is. It doesn’t matter if it’s a table or a film or gardening-everyone should create. You should do something, then sit back and say, ‘I did that.’
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I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.
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Sober up, and you see and hear everything you’d been able to avoid hearing before.
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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
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When you’re 50 you start thinking about things you haven‘t thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity – but actually it’s about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.
Eugene O’Neill
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I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.
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I’ve always said, ‘Before you see the rainbow, it has to storm.’
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There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.
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Whatever be the challenges, whatever be the obstacles before us, I say to you as I say to everybody else that we will overcome.
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I wrote ‘Love Foolish,’ and when I heard the music for the first time, it felt like this was a song that Twice hadn’t done before. I thought the song and music had a very mature tone, so I wrote the lyrics to match. I was inspired by the music directly.
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Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
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One thing you might want to learn before you attend the world’s largest ukulele lesson is how to say ukulele.
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I love video games. I’m also slightly in awe of them. I’m in awe of their power in terms of imagination, in terms of technology, in terms of concept. But I think, above all, I’m in awe at their power to motivate, to compel us, to transfix us, like really nothing else we’ve ever invented has quite done before.
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What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
Henrik Ibsen
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If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
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Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.
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Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
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I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It’s like having a mental workshop.
Jack Youngblood
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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I was a healthy young man, and I thought I was invincible before I was diagnosed with kidney disease.
Sean Elliott
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Most people give Kennedy a passing grade, a good grade on the Cuban Missile Crisis handling, but what they don’t realize, if he had had strength, if he had showed strength before, there would never have been a Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Writing is a solitary experience. I’m extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It’s so intimate, I can’t even share it with my wife.
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Look twice before you leap.
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I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.
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There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
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Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.
Chuck Noll
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I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.
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Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.
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I am the type where I don’t worry about anything else but how to top what I did yesterday. My main goal is to top what I did before.
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Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.
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I’ve had many ups and downs before, and I think it’s always darkest before dawn.
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The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
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I hate homework. I hate it more now than I did when I was the one lugging textbooks and binders back and forth from school. The hour my children are seated at the kitchen table, their books spread out before them, the crumbs of their after-school snack littering the table, is without a doubt the worst hour of my day.
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Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.
Bernard Law Montgomery
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Everything we do in our growing up has been done before. But it needs recognition and validation each time for each one of us – public, private, and secret.
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Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That’s all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.
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I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?
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Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger’s skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.
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Before I put another notch in my lipstick case, you better make sure you put me in my place.
Pat Benatar
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Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
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The financial crisis of 2008 was not caused by investment banks betting against the housing market in 2007. It was caused by the fact that too few investorsincluding all of the big investment banks – bet too heavily on the housing market in the years before 2007.
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The height of my goals will not hold me in awe, though I may stumble often before they are reached.
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I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems, before I could play an instrument. I was writing about things when I was eight or 10 years old that I hadn’t lived long enough to experience. That’s why I also believe in reincarnation, that we were put here with ideas to pass around.
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I’m most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the pagesunrise over the desert and masses of… a whole essay before you get to the dialogue.
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Books are sharks… because sharks have been around for a very long time. There were sharks before there were dinosaurs, and the reason sharks are still in the ocean is that nothing is better at being a shark than a shark.
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I’ve really come to realize you have to love yourself before you can expect someone else to.
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The night before I began my career as a presidential campaign reporter, in September 2007, I finished Theodore White’s ‘The Making of the President,’ the classic account of the 1960 race, which opened up a new era of campaign reporting.
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I hope I die before I get old.
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Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
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I couldn’t live a week without a private libraryindeed, 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.
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Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an act to cause a difference. However, repentance is different. Repentance is an admission of, hatred of, and turning away from sin before God.
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We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.
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Every scientific truth goes through three states: 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
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When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.
Abraham Kuyper
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The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.
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I think I’m incredibly stoic. If I have a bad headache, it takes a while before I reach for a tablet.
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Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
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I love the sunrise, as I am definitely a morning person! It’s a great time to get up and have a coffee in the garden by myself before everybody wakes up.
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The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.
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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
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Being the Manchester United goalkeeper is one of the most difficult jobs in football when you look at the size of the club and the goalkeepers who have been here before. There is a lot of pressure on you, but I have worked hard to cope with that.
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Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.
Edward Weston
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It is proper to take photographs or other kinds of pictures of persons to put them before us for sight or remembrance. But it is improper to make pictures and images of God and to take his likenesses therefrom to his great distortion.
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Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
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There are many women who came before me who didn’t really have the same opportunities that I have had. That’s why I always wanted to be a great ambassador – not only today‘s generation – but for the women who really didn’t have a voice, but who paved the way for me.
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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
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If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the ‘right’ thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It’s like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.
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Before you get a dog, you can’t quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can’t imagine living any other way.
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Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
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T’was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
Clement Clarke Moore
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The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures.
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I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
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Whenever I had been racially vilified before it had been by peers or drunk men. It’s more shocking when it’s a 13-year-old child. No 13-year-old is racist.
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Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man’s attitude may be, that problem is hers – and before it can be his, it is hers alone.
Margaret Sanger
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Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.
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Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity.
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.
Amy Lowell
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Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
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We took this challenge before our Lord and our conscience, and it must be done, because this man, Hitler, he is the ultimate evil.
Claus von Stauffenberg
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What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?
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It’s always the small people who change things. It’s never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall? It was all the people in the streets. The specialists didn’t have a clue the day before.
Luc Besson
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Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better.
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Before 1915, space and time were thought of as a fixed arena in which events took place, but which was not affected by what happened in it. Space and time are now dynamic quantities… space and time not only affect but are also affected by everything that happens in the universe.
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I think music can really affect people’s emotions and, when I am about to get into a race car, I definitely listen to music with a good beat – that’s when you’ve got the adrenalin pumping. And the time before you go into a race weekend, you have a lot of emotion and adrenalin, and a lot of focus.
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All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
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Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.
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Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
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Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you’ve got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn’t your biggest problem. Maybe you should get rid of the body before you do the wash.
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I’m a boss by nature. I’m bossy. I’m not imperious, but I don’t really want people to curtsy low before me and back out of rooms, but I do like to run things.
Helen Hayes
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Drama is what I did before ‘Blossom.’
108
When I was 16, I’d been cast in ‘Fast Food Nation.’ And while I was playing in a charity baseball game, I ended up breaking my arm about a week before filming was starting.
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Education broadens our horizons and enables us to confront realities we’d never before anticipated.
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Wagner manages to convey emotion with music better than anyone, before or since.
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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.
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To prejudge other men’s notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.
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It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.
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Before being humans with morals, people are mostly animals, fighting for domination and survival.
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Slavery existed before the formation of this Union. It derived from the Constitution that recognition which it would not have enjoyed without the confederation. If the States had not united together, there would have been no obligation on adjoining States to regard any species of property unknown to themselves.
Jefferson Davis
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This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
Leonard Bernstein
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You come to America, and, if you do a big TV show, then you can be overexposed, or old, before you’re new.
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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.
Solon
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The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.
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The night before my mastectomy, I had done my best to keep my mind off of the impending procedure. My family and I went to the Tampa Bay Lightning hockey game, where I binged on pizza and ice cream and took full advantage of the doctor‘s advice to eat up the night before since I had to begin fasting at midnight.
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Death can come at any time to anyone. Everybody is equal before death.
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Before we went on any protest, whether it was sit-ins or the freedom rides or any march, we prepared ourselves, and we were disciplined. We were committed to the way of peace – the way of non-violence – the way of love – the way of life as the way of living.
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During my days of deepest grief, in all of my shock, sorrow and struggle, I sat at the feet of God. I literally spent hours each day reading God’s word, meditating on scripture and praying. I intentionally spent a significant amount of time being still before God.
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I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.
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A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
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There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
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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.
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You give before you get.
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I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit – your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, don’t accept your limitations, jump before you’re pushed, leap before you look.
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Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.
131
Coming to Australia, it was just really magical for me. It just had the wow factor of a different sort of place and, more so, just being with a family that wanted to love me and to have me, because I knew back then, before coming to Australia, there was no way of getting back home or finding my real family.
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A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
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Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.
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It seems like everything that we see perceived in the brain before we actually use our own eyes, that everything we see is coming through computers or machines and then is being input in our brain cells. So that really worries me.
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I’ve never taken drugs. My drug, I suppose, is drink. I never drink before I sing, but I do make up for it when I come off!
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Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people; and behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him.
Pontius Pilate
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I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re doing something.
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Change before you have to.
139
We were friends for a year before we started playing music together. We both think it’s pretty important. Tyler‘s my friend before he’s a guy in my band, and when we talk to each other about things, it comes from a friend standpoint, not just a business standpoint.
Josh Dun
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I’m trying to get to Mars before everyone else.
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It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.
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Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.
Yousuf Karsh
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Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.
Madeleine L’Engle
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Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.
William Wycherley
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All men are equal before fish.
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Before you can do something you must first be something.
John Gielgud
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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.
Pericles
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Today’s policies and political activity treat people like pawns. More than ever before, attempts will be made to use people like cogs in a wheel. People will be handled like puppets on a string, and everyone will think that this reflects the greatest progress imaginable.
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Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.
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Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to ‘gamble‘ on an unknown.
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What I really am is a homebody. I was a homebody even before I had a family. My days are filled with home stuff.
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Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
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I am mortal. I want the nation to get used to freedom before I die.
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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.
Auguste Rodin
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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
156
Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.
John Betjeman
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A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.
Arthur Symons
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Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
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Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
160
There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.
Charles Mackay
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Kids always act up the most before they go to sleep.
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When you believe in something, fight for it. And when you see injustice, fight harder than you’ve ever fought before.
Brad Meltzer
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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.
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Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
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Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.
166
In the game of life, before you get anything out, you must put something in!
167
I have this sense of independent heartbreak, of annulling romances before they get their feet off the ground.
168
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
169
No man has ceased to believe in God before having decided that he should not exist; no book would produce atheism, and no book can restore faith.
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The golden age is before us, not behind us.
Simon the Zealot
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People don’t realize I make records eight or nine months before they come out. I’m directing the videos; I have a lot of work to do. I’m very involved in all that stuff creatively.
172
The problem with car dealerships is you’ve already decided what you want to buy before you even go there, and you’re really just going there to talk through some annoying negotiation.
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My plan is just to love harder than I’ve ever loved before, hide nothing, and embrace that I’m an imperfect human being. Oh, and sadness – sadness is everything.
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Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.
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I’m 100% Norwegian. Three generations removed and all continuous inbreeding of Norwegian of Minnesota and Iowa, so I traveled to Norway before.
Eric Christian Olsen
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I don’t think that 60-70 percent of working-class white voters would have supported a Muslim ban before Donald Trump said something about a Muslim ban.
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Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.
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I was the only child born to Josephine Perry that survived. Mama had six other children before me, and all had passed very quickly and very young, all succumbing to a combination of illness and disease and the lack of strength to fight off both.
Isabel Sanford
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Before I start, I search the internet for hours looking for inspiration – I look at horror movies, special effects, everything. Then, I take a bunch of screenshots, and pile them together in Photoshop to create a story for myself. I plan it out in my head, but I don’t ever practice beforehand.
NikkieTutorials
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There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.
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True love, to me, is when she’s the first thought that goes through your head when you wake up and the last thought that goes through your head before you go to sleep.
182
I was a late bloomer, but I had a career as a contemporary dancer before that, so I had some kind of connection to this world. But I was always a little more in love with the drama of dancing than the aesthetics, so I thought, ‘Why don’t you give it a chance if you think you can do it a little different?’
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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
184
Before I was even famous, I was famous on Facebook.
185
I wish I could play little league now. I’d be way better than before.
186
I was fitting kitchens before I could afford not to – so I was still fitting kitchens whilst the first series of The Inbetweeners was coming out.
James Buckley
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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
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The hardest thing about winning is to continue to win, and I think human instinct says ‘OK, I’ve done this before. I got it, let’s just keep doing what we’re doing.’
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Dance was something that came to me before I could even walk or talk.
190
Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
191
In the heart of the Great Depression, millions of American workers did something they’d never done before: they joined a union. Emboldened by the passage of the Wagner Act, which made collective bargaining easier, unions organized industries across the country, remaking the economy.
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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.
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Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.
Bill Ackman
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Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun.
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We have before us the examples of the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. We must remember how long these required to achieve their union. When a solid foundation is laid, if the mason is able and his materials good, a strong house can be built.
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Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.
Deborah Bull
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Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before.
Loren Eiseley
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I conclude, therefore, that this star is not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor… but that it is a star shining in the firmament itself one that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world.
Tycho Brahe
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Critical thinking is the most important factor with chess. As it is in life, you need to think before you make decisions.
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One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
201
I’ve said it before: War brings out the patriotic bullies. In World War I, they went around kicking dachshunds on the grounds that dachshunds were ‘German dogs.’ They did not, however, go around kicking German shepherds.
202
I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don’t retire before I go senile, then I’ll do more damage than good at that point.
203
Medals are decided on the day, not before that.
Neeraj Chopra
204
You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.
Hank Williams
205
The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.
206
It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.
Sara Teasdale
207
I’d been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as Chechnya.
Scott Anderson
208
Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.
209
Noah came before the flood. I have come before the fire.
210
The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.
211
Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
Saadi
212
Computers will understand sarcasm before Americans do.
213
I’m so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.
214
My legacy doesn’t matter. It isn’t important that I be remembered. It’s important that when I stand before the Lord, he says, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant.’ I want to finish strong.
215
Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
216
The focus is what is right before you – to give it your best. It sows the seeds of tomorrow.
217
As a young actor, people were trying to define who I was before I really knew that for myself. But I still remember thinking, ‘This is what I love doing, and I hope I’m going to be able to do it forever.’
218
Never get out of bed before noon.
219
I don’t think it takes much for a cult to be a cult. Many parts of our society are cultish, and you only need a charismatic leader and some teachings, and before you know it, you have a cult.
Jerome Flynn
220
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
221
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
222
Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.
223
If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.
224
You’ve done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.
225
I love that moment just before the curtain goes up, whether I’m sitting in the audience or standing backstage. It’s full of expectation. It’s a thrill that’s unequaled anywhere.
226
I believe in hard work, but I believe in vindication as well. You have a few nightmares, I imagine, before you reach your dream.
227
Before we make love my husband takes a pain killer.
228
When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.
229
Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.
230
The thing about ‘On the Doll,’ I was doing ‘Nip/Tuck‘ at the time, and I was doing only 5 or 6 scenes an episode. So I had some free time, and I wanted to do something completely different than what I’ve ever done before.
231
You can die of the cure before you die of the illness.
Michael Landon
232
Let each dawn find us courageous, brought closer, heeding the lights before the fight is over.
233
Today is a most unusual day, because we have never lived it before; we will never live it again; it is the only day we have.
William Arthur Ward
234
Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are.
235
Before me, everything was black or navy blue or gray or brown or beige, things like that, for daytime. I began using shocking pink and ice blue and all kinds of bright colors. And I dyed furs.
236
There’s kind of a Zen aspect to bowling. The pins are either staying up or down before you even throw your arm back. It’s kind of a mind-set. You want to be in this perfect mind-set before you released the ball.
237
Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it’s business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don’t love what you’re doing and you can’t give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You’ll be an old man before you know it.
Al Lopez
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Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man.
239
Think before you act and act on what you believe.
240
In fact nothing is said that has not been said before.
Terence
241
Low-cost, high-grade coal, oil and natural gas – the backbone of the Industrial Revolution – will be a distant memory by 2050. Much higher-cost remnants will still be available, but they will not be able to drive our growth, our population and, most critically, our food supply as before.
242
I do believe women have different ways of taking risks, of ruminating a bit more before they jump to conclusions. And I think that as a result, particularly on the, on, you know, on the trading floor, in the financial markets in general, the approach would be different.
243
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 now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
244
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
245
You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who’s ready when the gong rings – not just before, not just after – but when it rings.
Jack Dempsey
246
No one can reap the fruit before planting the trees.
247
As I have said before, the daily machinations of the stock market are like a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
248
I can honestly say I love getting older. Then again, I never put my glasses on before looking in the mirror.
249
I have a lot of other stuff to accomplish before I get to kids. Whenever the time is right, I’ll just know. If I had a girl, she’d probably be really rebellious. She would be like a bundle of karma. I would love to bring them up in Barbados.
250
Caring for our seniors is perhaps the greatest responsibility we have. Those who walked before us have given so much and made possible the life we all enjoy.
251
Dig your well before you’re thirsty.
252
Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
253
I was very careful to send Mr. Roosevelt every few days a statement of our casualties. I tried to keep before him all the time the casualty results because you get hardened to these things and you have to be very careful to keep them always in the forefront of your mind.
George C. Marshall
254
As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.
255
We must be our own before we can be another’s.
256
Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
257
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
Otto von Bismarck
258
The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don’t have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.
259
How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?
260
I’d like to see Paris before I die… Philadelphia will do.
261
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
262
I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
Henrik Ibsen
263
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
264
Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.
265
Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
266
Modernism was born in part out of the need to find fresh ways of expression, to describe a new world that was unlike anything that had gone before.
267
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.
268
I rewrote the ending to ‘Farewell to Arms,’ the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied.
269
Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?
270
With confidence, you have won before you have started.
271
A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
James Callaghan
272
I paint; I draw and paint – I’ve been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy.
273
It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
274
At Girl Scouts, we are committed to raising awareness about the terrible effects of cyber bullying, and to teaching girls how to recognize the signs of bullying of any sort and extricate themselves or another from a bad situation before it spirals out of control and ends in tragedy.
Anna Maria Chavez
275
More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.
276
Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was playing in what I call social psychology, which is sort of an offshoot of anthropology/sociology – looking at a culture as a living organism, why it does what it does.
277
All things are difficult before they are easy.
278
In fact, I’m very grateful that we were given that time to invest in ourselves and our craft before we were exposed to the public.
279
Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
J. M. G. Le Clezio
280
The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.
281
When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I’ve never tried before.
282
If there’s something in your life that you know needs changing, make sure you change it before God’s got to change it. Because if God’s got to change it, you ain’t going to like it.
283
No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.
Quintus Ennius
284
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
Jules Renard
285
There are artists, true performers that have come before me who have been a big inspiration to me. I hope I do the same for others.
286
Virtual reality is inevitably going to become mainstream – it’s only a question of how good it needs to be before the mainstream is willing to use it.
287
Before agriculture was invented, land was not a resource. Before oil drilling and nuclear fission were invented, petroleum and uranium were not resources.
288
My scientific studies have afforded me great gratification; and I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work.
Gregor Mendel
289
Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein‘s general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.
290
Sometimes you have to burn yourself to the ground before you can rise like a phoenix from the ashes.
291
We’ve got to map all of our ancient history before it’s gone because, let’s face it, if we don’t have a common heritage to share, something to get excited about, then what are we living for?
292
Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
293
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
294
Let’s assume for the moment that the logic behind Presidents Day is actually sound for certain presidents. Why not have a separate holiday for Lincoln and one for Washington – as we used to do, before we became so concerned with the ‘Every President Gets a Trophyethos?
295
The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people’s eyes before you even put out an album.
296
We had not had time to establish ourselves as a double act before Ernie joined the Merchant Navy. I teamed up with the brother of the late Dave Morris.
Eric Morecambe
297
I threw up before every single football game I played, and I did so up through my NFL career. It was good pressure. It was pressure to be good. It was pressure to be the best. It was pressure to want to win.
298
I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.
299
Every morning, I would actually look at the obituaries before I had breakfast. And as a joke I said if I was not in it, I would have the breakfast.
300
The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.
301
When I was younger, I used to pray that I would die before my mom. That’s just how much my mom meant to me. I couldn’t imagine being in this world without her. But then seeing cancer – seeing what it can do to somebody – as strong and as tough as she was, there was nothing she could do. Cancer is a dirty, dirty deal.
302
We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
303
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
304
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
305
In prayer, we stand where angels bow with veiled faces. There, even there, the cherubim and seraphim adore before that selfsame throne to which our prayers ascend. And shall we come there with stunted requests and narrow, contracted faith?
306
Before all else, be armed.
307
If you win a Super Bowl before you’re fired, you’re a genius, and everyone listens to you. But a coach is just a guy whose best class in grammar school was recess and whose best class in high school was P.E. I never thought I was anything but a guy whose best class was P.E.
308
Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
309
Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
310
This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.
James Agee
311
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
312
God’s got you in the palm of His hand. You won’t leave one second before your time. If God wants you to be here, then you’re going to be here.
313
They talked about how it was our rights as human beings to register and vote. I never knew we could vote before. Nobody ever told us.
314
Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.
Edmund Husserl
315
Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.
316
OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.
James Nasmyth
317
Before you can become a millionaire, you must learn to think like one. You must learn how to motivate yourself to counter fear with courage. Making critical decisions about your career, business, investments and other resources conjures up fear, fear that is part of the process of becoming a financial success.
Thomas J. Stanley
318
I’m a storyteller; that’s what exploration really is all about. Going to places where others haven’t been and returning to tell a story they haven’t heard before.
319
I like people to really get a feel for the house before they do anything to it.
320
If you’ve heard this story before, don’t stop me, because I’d like to hear it again.
321
Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries eventually reflect popular choices. And the Internet is allowing more people to influence spelling than ever before.
322
I’ll die before I’m 25, and when I do I’ll have lived the way I wanted to.
Sid Vicious
323
To work is nothing; the king on his throne, the priest kneeling before the Holy Altar, all people in all places had to work, but no person at all need be a servant.
324
Rather than waiting for a crisis to erupt before intervening, the IMF should provide ‘forward guidance‘ on how it will tackle potential disruptions in international financial markets.
325
Before the tribunal of nature, a man has no more right to life than a rattlesnake; he has no more right to liberty than any wild beast; his right to the pursuit of happiness is nothing but a license to maintain the struggle for existence, if he can find within himself the powers with which to do it.
326
Before WeWork, I had a baby clothing company. When I started out, I had no real contacts in the garment business and no mentor to guide me on how things worked. I just had an idea to put pads on the baby clothes on to protect the baby’s knees.
327
The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before, it is sharp, cutting edge and sleek which are characteristics I try to apply when I’m out there on the basketball court.
328
Before you can win, you have to believe you are worthy.
329
You have to believe in yourself before anybody else believes in you.
330
If you so choose, each day can be filled with even more joy than the one before. If you so choose, even the most seemingly random events can work in your favor.
331
All the scars on my body, all the bumps and bruises, all the muscles – that is a story of everything I have done. And it’s not just my story. My ancestors who came before me gave me this vessel to sculpt and mold.
332
Everywhere I look, someone is telling me, ‘You’re not good enough,’ or, ‘You can’t do this or that.’ You can only hear that so many times before enough is enough.
333
The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don’t want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage.
334
Some prescient American collectors, including Vicki and Kent Logan and Mera and Donald Rubell, began collecting Chinese art before 2000 with a genuine passion, but as the auction prices exploded everyone was beating a path to the galleries and artist studios in China. It became the ‘China thing.’
335
You’ve got to love yourself first. You’ve got to be okay on your own before you can be okay with somebody else.
336
When one has finished building one’s house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way – before one began.
337
When I did ‘Happy Birthday,’ I wrote the treatment for the video before I wrote the record. And once I wrote the video, I had a clear understanding of what I wanted; I created the soundtrack to that video.
Joyner Lucas
338
I’ve found cinnamon to be very effective for lowering the glycemic response to meals. People have heard that before, but I didn’t realize how profound it could be until I did the actual testing with continuous glucose monitors. And I tested all different varieties and species of cinnamon from Ceylon to Saigon.
339
Be sure you positively identify your target before you pull the trigger.
Tom Flynn
340
The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call ‘Christian’ the true religion which existed before.
341
Every single day, I wake up and take a glimpse of where I am now compared to where I was before, and the work that we have all put in to be in this space. I think of that, and being able to express myself through my art and show up and be present – that’s activism, advocacy, and artistry in itself.
342
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
343
I have four sisters, three younger sisters, so I’ve been an older sibling to people before.
344
Before we can know God and understand his great plan it is first necessary for us to believe that he exists and that he rewards all who diligently seek him.
345
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
346
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it.
347
The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.
348
A child’s education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
349
In twenty years you’ll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.
350
We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.
John Newton
351
Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
352
If I look in the mirror when I get up or before going to bed at night, I see a man of average ugliness with stubble, an unruly mane of hair, a squint nose, slightly protruding ears, and bags under my eyes. But I also see a man who’s completely happy with the figure staring back at him.
353
The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.
354
The War Powers Act requires presidents to seek the consent of the American people, through their representatives, before sending our troops into war. It is the responsibility of Congress to deliberate and consult with the executive branch before involving ourselves in a military conflict.
355
An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
356
I think I was a feminist before being born. I had a feminist chromosome somewhere.
Agnes Varda
357
The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
Robert Burns
358
I grew up with plenty of smart people. They would beat me at chess; they could solve brain teasers before I could, but then they would struggle in algebra. These were incredibly smart people who simply did not have the foundation in math that I had.
359
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
360
I hope we’ll be able to solve these problems before we leave.
Paul Erdos
361
Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.
362
Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.
363
Bill Gates has always been a mentor and inspiration for me even before I knew him. Just growing up, I admired how Microsoft was mission-focused.
364
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
365
Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.
Leo Rosten
366
I was supposed to move into a new place and it fell through. So for five months before Sex Education, I was couch-surfing among all my friends. I didn’t have a home.
367
Before I speak, I have something important to say.
368
The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.
369
Never spend your money before you have earned it.
370
Before a show, you might have aches or pains, or it’s a bad rainy day, or it’s too humid. We all complain about stuff. But… how do I put this poetically? Once it’s the roar of the crowd and the smell of the greasepaint, forget it. Once the adrenaline kicks in and your chest expands, you forget about all that.
371
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
372
Change means that what was before wasn’t perfect. People want things to be better.
373
My grandparents had died in 1983, and suddenly my brother is out jogging before Mass, and he dies.
374
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
Arnold H. Glasow
375
The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.
Thorstein Veblen
376
The cinema is not a craft. It is an art. It does not mean teamwork. One is always alone on the set as before the blank page. And to be alone… means to ask questions. And to make films means to answer them.
377
Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn’t mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.
378
It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
Isaac D’Israeli
379
You’ve got to be before you can do and do before you can have.
380
You’re going to struggle. You’re going to do well. You can’t really let the past or the day before – whether you had a good day or bad daydictate the day you have that certain day.
381
Fear is a far more dominant force in human behaviour than euphoria – I would never have expected that or given it a moment’s thought before, but it shows up in the data in so many ways.
382
Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before.
383
Winning doesn’t always mean being first. Winning means you’re doing better than you’ve ever done before.
Bonnie Blair
384
Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.
385
There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.
386
I worked in a Starbucks that wasn’t very popular – before the big coffee boom in London. My boss didn’t take kindly to my incessant sitting. I was like, ‘Look, I’ve dusted everything, the stockroom is all figured out… I would rather sit now so I have the energy when a customer does come in.’
387
If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.
388
The prenup needs to be drawn up months before the wedding, not days – it’s not something you slap together and sign in the car on the way to the ceremony. A shotgun prenup might not hold up in court.
389
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
390
It’s always hard to deal with injuries mentally, but I like to think about it as a new beginning. I can’t change what happened, so the focus needs to go toward healing and coming back stronger than before.
391
It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
392
He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
393
Everybody faces a blank piece of paper, no matter what they’ve written or painted or composed before. I can’t imagine approaching every single new project with-without doubt.
394
Pleasure without God, without the sacred boundaries, will actually leave you emptier than before. And this is biblical truth, this is experiential truth. The loneliest people in the world are amongst the wealthiest and most famous who found no boundaries within which to live. That is a fact I’ve seen again and again.
395
You cannot allow your desire to be a winner to be diminished by achieving success before and I believe there is room for improvement in every sportsman.
396
It took me years to eat a lot of shellfish. I was probably 20 years old before I had even seen a shrimp cocktail. I like oysters, but fried.
397
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
Otto von Bismarck
398
From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one – absolutely no one – is above the law.
Leon Jaworski
399
If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don’t know about it.
400
I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
401
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’.
402
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
403
I will never tire of recommending the custom, practiced by the best architects, of preparing not only drawings and sketches, but also models of wood or any other material. These… enable us to examine… the work as a whole… and, before continuing any further, to estimate the likely trouble and expense.
Leon Battista Alberti
404
Just because you are a mom doesn’t mean whoever you were before is gone. You can bring it back.
405
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
Cesare Pavese
406
Do not plan for ventures before finishing what’s at hand.
407
People learn something every day, and a lot of times it’s that what they learned the day before was wrong.
Bill Vaughan
408
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
409
The army of the sea shall stand before the city, then shall go away for a passage that shall not be very long, as a great prey of citizens shall be holding the ground. The fleet returns. The great emblem recovered.
410
Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
411
There is a huge difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn’t work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up. True success comes from failing repeatedly and as quickly as possible, before your cash or your willpower runs out.
412
Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.
413
I’ve been compared to Drake before and Kid Cudi.
414
One thing I can’t prove, but I firmly believe is that two men were put on this earth – one threw a punch and a third guy came over and watched. And that happened before anybody ever threw or kicked a ball.
415
I’m not religious. In Spain all 22 players make the sign of the cross before they enter the pitch. If it works all matches must therefore end in a draw.
416
When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.
417
The trouble with the future is that it usually arrives before we’re ready for it.
Arnold H. Glasow
418
If you want to reach a goal, you must ‘see the reaching‘ in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
419
My feet are definitely more grounded than before. And I know that I’m not holding onto a dream. I’m holding onto my life.
420
There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.
421
Life in Somalia before the civil war was beautiful. When the war happened, I was 8 years old and at that stage of understanding the world in a different way.
422
See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil… I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life.
Moses
423
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
424
I have said this before. Donald Trump is very popular in Pennsylvania. We cannot afford to underestimate his popularity in our state. And I have emphasized that continuously.
425
We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.
426
You parents of the wilful and the wayward! Don’t give them up. Don’t cast them off. They are not utterly lost. The Shepherd will find his sheep. They were His before they were yours – long before He entrusted them to your care; and you cannot begin to love them as He loves them.
Orson F. Whitney
427
The era we live in we see child are more advanced then us. And that is why they need knowledge even on sex before they involve themselves in crime because of curiosity to know about sex.
428
I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.
429
If you’re paid before you walk on the court, what’s the point in playing as if your life depended on it?
Arthur Ashe
430
Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I’d be the chief minister.
431
One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
432
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, ‘I believe,’ three times.
433
‘Suffering should not make us bitter people,’ my mother once said, ‘it should make us better comforters.’ Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they’ll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.
434
There’s a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.
435
Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
436
It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.
437
I didn’t think I had time for fishing before I fished.
438
We’re running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere… can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.
439
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
440
Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.
441
You have to knock doors, make calls, and build a relationship with voters long before Election Day.
442
The more I learn about things, I realise how wrong I was before.
443
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.
444
Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
445
I made a choice before I lost my legs that I was going to live the best life possible and that I wasn’t going to let this slow me down – and that choice has kept me moving forward.
446
Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.
447
I’m actually quite a nice person. It’s to do with the way I look, an uncompromising sort of face, brusque delivery and voice, and I think the combination of all that. When I’m doing pantomime, children will scream the place down before I open my mouth. There’s obviously something that really gets them.
448
Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.
449
The groups I liked, you really looked forward to their albums and you rushed to get them the first day, because you knew it was going to be different than what they did before. The records told you what that group was into at that time.
Mick Jones
450
Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.
Robert Trout
451
The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.
Max Lerner
452
Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him.
453
Let’s build a country of opportunities, where everybody is equal before the law and where the rules of the game are honest and transparent, and the same for everyone.
454
Just before a fight, as the ring empties, you can feel it. There is danger and loneliness all around you. Soon it’s just the three of you in there: the referee, your opponent, and you. You’re in a very lonely moment then. But, strangely, that’s when I feel most comfortable. The ring becomes my office, and I go to work.
455
Climate change is the environmental challenge of this generation, and it is imperative that we act before it’s too late.
456
Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.
Ludwig von Mises
457
It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don’t regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn’t save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I’m not naive, and I don’t romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.
458
Before Hurricane Katrina, I always felt like I could come back home. And home was a real place, and also it had this mythical weight for me. Because of the way that Hurricane Katrina ripped everything away, it cast that idea in doubt.
459
Happy as we are, times may alter; we may be bitten with some impulse towards change, and many things may seem too wonderful for us to resist, too exciting not to catch at, if we do not know that they are but phases of what has been before and withal ruinous, deceitful, and sordid.
460
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
461
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
462
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.
463
A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before.
Frank Rizzo
464
No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.
465
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
466
It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
467
Before ‘Titanic,’ yes, I had done some things and, yes, I had been nominated for an Academy Award, but I had never been sort of world-famous. And I suppose, yes, I am really famous now. But I feel embarrassed to say that because it’s just a bit daft for me.
468
There are two major challenges before Indian agriculture today: ecological and economical. The conservation of our basic agricultural assets such as land, water, and biodiversity is a major challenge. How to make agriculture sustainable is the challenge.
469
The original home of the Aryan race appears to have been somewhere among the mountains and lofty table-lands of Central Asia. The word ‘Arya,’ meaning the high or the excellent, indicates their superiority over the neighboring races long before the beginning of history.
470
There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see, the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before.
471
You gotta have confidence in yourself first before anybody else will. I’ve always had that.
472
Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
Ian McKeever
473
Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.
474
We have all lost before and we will win again.
475
Things are more like today than they have ever been before.
476
I do not want war. I am not seeking revenge, even though I can see before my eyes the great sacrifices made by the Ukrainian people. I am seeking peace and will achieve Ukraine‘s unity.
477
Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.
Julio Cortazar
478
Before I turned vegetarian, I used to often cook seafood or my favourite breakfast of eggs and bacon. Now, I love making pulao or rice with lots of spices and vegetables.
Kangana Ran
aut
479
Before broadcasting for 50-some years, I did TV, played 10 years in the big leagues, won a world championship – and played a big part in that, too, letting the Cardinals inject me with hepatitis. Takes a big man to do that.
480
It’s the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they’re gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it’s my turn to leave.
481
Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.
482
Before ICE, we had Immigration and Naturalization Services, but it wasn’t until about 1999 that we chose to criminalize immigration at all. And then, once ICE was established, we really kind of militarized that enforcement to a degree that was previously unseen in the United States.
483
Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I’ve ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation.
484
I have celebrated Jamai Sasthi before marriage.
Kharaj Mukherjee
485
My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.
486
We live in an age of innovation, where digital technology is providing solutions to problems before we’ve even realised we needed them. We see it every day as we find new ways to travel, eat and shop.
487
Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, ‘I’m not stupid’. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.
488
As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that’s never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.
489
Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
490
There was a council house waiting for me when I had Ryan, there was a welfare state. I never put into the system before I took out, I was on income support before I’d even paid a penny of tax.
491
Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ’em I never knew existed before.
492
Death is such a strange thing. One minute you’re here and then just gone. You’d think there would be an anteroom, a place where you could be visited before you go.
493
I think the best thing I ever did was, years before I got the ‘Late Night’ show, when I first got out to Los Angeles to be a television writer, the first thing I did was I signed up to take improvisational classes… And I studied that for years, and I really loved it.
494
For each of us, life is a journey. Heavenly Father designed it for us out of love. Each of us has unique experiences and characteristics, but our journey began in the same place before we were born into this world.
495
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.
496
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
497
Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
498
The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.
499
Before the Civil War, there were no national cemeteries, no processes for identifying the dead in the battle. There weren’t any dog tags, and there was no next-of-kin notification. You didn’t necessarily even hear what the fate of your loved ones had been. It was up to their comrades to write and inform you.
500
Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
501
You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.
502
You have got to clean your own house first before you tell other people that they aren’t doing it right.
503
Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
504
Marx and Lenin were ahead of their time. Marx wrote before offshoring of jobs and the financialization of the economy. Lenin presided over a communist revolution that jumped the gun by taking place in a country in which feudal elements still predominated over capitalism.
505
My first big mission for UNICEF in Ethiopia was just to attract attention, before it was too late, to conditions which threatened the whole country. My role was to inform the world, to make sure that the people of Ethiopia were not forgotten.
506
I don’t envision a very long life for myself. I think my life will run out before my work does. I’ve designed it that way.
Townes Van Zandt
507
Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
508
The void, the concept of nothingness, is terrifying to most people on the planet. And I get anxiety attacks myself. I know the fear of that void. You have to learn to die before you die. You give up, surrender to the void, to nothingness.
509
My presence speaks volumes before I say a word.
510
I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement.
511
There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.
John Calvin
512
The more I can make a person comfortable in their environment by taking my ego’s hat off and leaving it at the door, then they can dive deep within themselves and we can pull out something interesting that people have never heard before. It’s the stuff that’s – that no one’s ever heard before is really interesting.
513
I’m a big believer in the emotion of design, and the message that’s sent before somebody begins to read, before they get the rest of the information; what is the emotional response they get to the product, to the story, to the painting – whatever it is.
514
He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.
Leopold Von Ranke
515
My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute.
516
The crowd, still shouting, gives way before us. We plough our way through. Women hold their aprons over their faces and go stumbling away. A roar of fury goes up. A wounded man is being carried off.
Erich Maria Remarque
517
I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it’s difficult for ‘poor people‘ – poor white people, brown people – to be treated fairly before the law in the same way that upper-class people are.
518
‘,Alivestems from emotional growth and contentment. Before writing the song, I was swimming in a pool of hurt, guilt and spiritual discomfort. Instead of drowning, I decided to embrace these feelings and express gratitude for the lessons learned. With this new-found sense of life, I am stronger and happier than ever.
519
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
520
There’s sadness to anyone that dies before their time, and specifically ones that seem to affect people in a positive way. It doesn’t matter if it’s Whitney Houston or a nameless, faceless person on the street. That’s just as big of a tragedy for me.
521
Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
522
You, too, will be driven away from your native land and ancient domains as leaves are driven before the wintry storms. Sleep not longer, O Choctaws and Chickasaws, in false security and delusive hopes. Our broad domains are fast escaping from our grasp.
Tecumseh
523
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
524
I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of ‘Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends’ as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn’t stop reading it.
525
I pray to God every day that he makes me the biggest superstar, but before that, I ask God to make me a good actor. Being a star is hard, but being an actor is even harder. I want to be both before I am done.
526
No man goes before his time – unless the boss leaves early.
527
Oh, 1994, April 27. There won’t be a day like that ever again. I mean, the sky was blue, with a blueness that had never been there before.
528
Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.
529
My mom kicked me out a couple of weeks before my 18th birthday. I had a job for about six, seven months at a supermarket, and they fired me for being late.
530
I hate all the old pictures of me before 2010 – and they are always the first ones to come up. That’s why I don’t Google myself, man.
531
If the newspapers cut me up so much that I shall not venture before the world again, I have resolved to become a house painter; that would be as easy as anything else, and I should, at any rate, still be an artist!
Frederic Chopin
532
I remember Glenn Miller coming to me once, before he had his own band, saying, How do you do it? How do you get started? It’s so difficult. I told him, I don’t know but whatever you do don’t stop. Just keep on going.
Benny Goodman
533
There’s an excellent movie we have on TCM called ‘It Happened on Fifth Avenue,’ which was originally going to be directed by Frank Capra… but just before he was going to start working on it, he came across this story called ‘The Greatest Gift.’ And that turned into ‘It’s a Wonderful Life.’
534
Know how to garnish food so that it is more appealing to the eye and even more flavorful than before.
535
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
536
A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
537
Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.
538
Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.
Enrico Fermi
539
The vote is precious. It’s almost sacred, so go out and vote like you never voted before.
540
People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.
541
A lot of people give up just before they’re about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one.
542
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
543
I’m doing a film called ‘Black Mass’ where I play James Bulger. The reason to play him is obvious to me. He’s a fascinating character. It’s not like anything I’ve done before on that level. I’m very excited to slide into that skin for a little bit.
544
I have always been very rebellious and gone against the grain. I’ve always challenged the standards set before me.
545
The mind is the most important part of achieving any fitness goal. Mental change always comes before physical change.
546
It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
547
Before I leave this earth, I’m going to help people have a better future.
548
I love dressing up. But I’m very low-maintenance; the week before an event, I’ll choose something as quickly as possible and that’s that. If I can do my own hair and make-up, even better. I like it to be fun.
549
I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before.
550
One of the best mental disciplines for people to implement is simply putting together a schedule or a task list and actually executing it. Write the list or the schedule the night before, and then do what you said you would do. Life becomes much better when you do that.
551
That first victory, before you get to it, it always seems so far ahead. You’re not sure whether you can make it or not. Once you do, obviously it’s a relief, but it also helps you to then deal better once you are in the lead of a race.
552
Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind – even if your voice shakes.
Maggie Kuhn
553
There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
554
I loved Japanese culture before even realizing it was, in fact, Japanese culture. The cartoons and anime I was watching as a child, my favorite video games, and even in pro wrestling – my favorite wrestlers and matches originated in Japan.
555
Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
556
Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
557
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
558
Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It’s equally humbling and uplifting.
559
Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.
Ralph Ransom
560
The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
561
Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
562
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
563
There are good examples of companiesCoca-Cola is one – that invested before there was a huge market in countries, and I think that ended up playing out to their benefit for decades to come.
564
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
565
Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human.
566
To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have to free our mind, imagine what has never happened before and write social fiction. We need to imagine things to make them happen. If you don’t imagine, it will never happen.
567
Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
568
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
569
I truly believe that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we want to live. I have seen it happen time and time again.
570
Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic – you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.
571
The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now.
572
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
Terence
573
I’ve never understood the ‘things to do before you die’ idea. If I was ill, I’d be in no mood to have a swim with a dolphin.
574
How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.
575
Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.
576
A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
577
Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.
578
A tempura batter has a lifespan of only moments before the flour becomes too saturated with water and a fresh batter must be made.
579
I was looking to become more proactive with my career because I wasn’t crazy with some of the scripts I was getting – this was before Blow and Hannibal – so I decided to start my own production company.
580
Before the 1970s, banks were banks. They did what banks were supposed to do in a state capitalist economy: they took unused funds from your bank account, for example, and transferred them to some potentially useful purpose like helping a family buy a home or send a kid to college.
581
An opera singer is like an athlete before a match. An athlete cannot overdo anything. In order to perform at the highest possible level, you need to refrain from activities so as to be able to express this power.
582
You should be falling asleep before your head hits the pillow because you worked so hard every moment of the day.
583
I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not.
584
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
Ethel Barrymore
585
It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.
586
Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
587
Don’t be dismayed by 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.
588
A novel ensures that we can look before and after, take action at whatever pace we choose, read again and again, skip and go back. The story in a book is humble and serviceable, available, friendly, is not switched on and off but taken up and put down, lasts a lifetime.
589
The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.
590
It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy.
591
I invented ‘It’s a good thing’ before you were even born.
592
I’m only going to stand before God and give an account for my life, not for somebody else’s life. If I have a bad attitude, then I need to say there’s no point in me blaming you for what’s wrong in my life.
593
I there represent that I sent notice of my method to Mr. Leibnitz before he sent notice of his method to me, and left him to make it appear that he had found his method before the date of my letter.
594
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
595
Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
596
When there’s doom and gloom, don’t forget there’s darkness before dawn.
597
We shall meet again before long to march to new triumphs.
Giuseppe Garibaldi
598
The year 1999, seventh month, from the sky will come a great King of Terror. To bring back to life the great King of the Mongols, before and after Mars to reign by good luck.
599
My goal is to just keep playing roles that are different from the roles I’ve played before.
Alicia Witt
600
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
601
I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
602
I’ve been offered political shows before, and I don’t know anything about politics and I feel uncomfortable making political opinions – there’s consequences to them. I often think I’m wrong, so I really don’t like getting in political or religious discussions because of the giant possibility that I might be wrong.
603
The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him – that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
604
Day and night cannot dwell together. The Red Man has ever fled the approach of the White Man, as the morning mist flees before the morning sun.
605
Habit allows us to go from ‘before’ to ‘after,’ to make life easier and better. Habit is notorious – and rightly so – for its ability to direct our actions, even against our will; but by mindfully shaping our habits, we can harness the power of mindlessness as a sweeping force for serenity, energy, and growth.
606
There’s only so far you can go before you say enough is enough.
607
At last, after completing year 12, I failed the great final examination, repeated the following year and failed again even more dismally than before. This was not an easy thing to do. My mates did the simple thing in the first place and mainly passed with honours and went on to have remarkably successful lives.
608
Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.
609
How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.
Claude Debussy
610
They always say, ‘Time heals.’ But it really doesn’t. You just get used to it. I live life with the mentality of ‘OK, I lost the only thing that has ever been important to me.’ So going forward, anything bad that happens can’t be nearly as bad as what happened before.
611
You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.
612
Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.
613
Swans sing before they die – ’twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
614
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
Florence Scovel Shinn
615
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
616
As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
617
A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.
618
It’s like simulating earthquakes: we can over and over study a bubble, crash, bubble, crash. Then we can see mathematically if there’s some regular pattern and what’s going on in people’s brains when prices are going up and before the crash is happening.
Colin Camerer
619
Before I came out, the thought of someone calling me gay, even when I knew very well that I was, was petrifying.
620
Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.
621
When I started on ‘Saturday Night Live,’ I had the choice of wearing contact lenses, which I had never worn before, or glasses, in order to be able to read the cue cards.
622
And some places you been before are so great that you don’t ever mind going back. Some places you been before you don’t ever want to go back, you know, like Montreal in the Winter.
623
Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
624
There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.
625
The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.
Roy L. Smith
626
In science, if you don’t do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn’t compose the ‘Ninth Symphony,’ no one else before or after is going to compose the ‘Ninth Symphony’ that he composed; no one else is going to paint ‘Starry Night’ by van Gogh.
627
Before I left China, I was educated that China was the richest, happiest country in the world. So when I arrived Australia, I thought, ‘Oh my God, everything is different from what I was told.’ Since then, I started to think differently.
628
Personally, I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.
629
The broken heart on my right finger represents me before I figured out who I was, and the full heart on my left is because I’m left-handed, I use that to write my music, and my music helped me obtain my direction in life.
630
The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.
631
Sometimes I wake up before dawn, and I love sitting up in the middle of the bed with all the lights off, pitch-black dark, and talking to the Father, with no interruptions and nothing that reminds me that there’s anything in life but me and Him.
632
I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing.
Ian Smith
633
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.
634
I don’t care what you have done before or what you are capable of: if you come up against a guy like me, you are in trouble.
635
When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
636
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
637
I got my story, my dream, from America. The hero I had is Forrest Gump… I like that guy. I’ve been watching that movie about 10 times. Every time I get frustrated, I watch the movie. I watched the movie before I came here again to New York. I watched the movie again telling me that no matter whatever changed, you are you.
638
The film is made in the editing room. The shooting of the film is about shopping, almost. It’s like going to get all the ingredients together, and you’ve got to make sure before you leave the store that you got all the ingredients. And then you take those ingredients and you can make a good cake – or not.
639
Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
640
I don’t care about my character here on earth. I don’t care about what other people think or say about me, all I care about is my standing before the Lord.
Brigham Young
641
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
642
Try to forget what objects you have before you – a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, ‘Here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow,’ and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives you your own impression of the scene before you.
643
I grew up with that farm-to-table dining before it was sweeping the nation. I do think there’s some value to really throwing yourself into food and embracing where it comes from.
644
Think well before selecting your leader, and when you have selected him, follow him. But in case you find his policy detrimental to your interests, kick him out.
645
I just change with the times. I really don’t have a say in what’s going on. Music was here before me.
646
What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I’ve no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house.
647
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
648
Before I’m a zombie nerd, before I’m a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd.
649
They might in the future more than ever before engage in hunting beavers.
Samuel de Champlain
650
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
B. C. Forbes
651
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
652
The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!
653
I’d look at one of my stonecutters hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I knew it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
Jacob Riis
654
When there is a Brazilian who is lighting things up, he is at Real Madrid before you know it!
655
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
Aristophanes
656
Learn to obey before you command.
Solon
657
I love challenging myself, doing different things, and exploring different areas that I haven’t been to or gone to before.
658
Tiger Woods, Larry Bird, Wayne Gretzky, a pitcher just before a game, I would imagine they all have nervous energy. But as you perform, the nervous energy dissipates and you start to relax and you start to do what you do best.
Randy Johnson
659
The year 1999, seventh month, from Heaven will come a great king of terror: to bring back to life the great King of Angolmois. Before and after Mars to reign by good luck.
660
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.