Before Quotes · Page 43

Strong religious identities survive and thrive. But more than ever before, even in their most conservative iterations, they are chosen.

— Krista Tippett

I'm not the biggest fan of airports. I try to arrive a few minutes before check-in closes.

— Antoine Arnault

God is whoever raised Jesus from the dead, having before raised Israel from Egypt. There is no God but this God.

— Stanley Hauerwas

We will wait to see if it is a doozy before we decide how to cover it, and what it all means.

— Gwen Ifill

I like to present something that the people haven't seen or haven't heard before. Otherwise they might as well just stay home…

— Herbie Hancock

We only have so much life left. Before I do die, I want to do something good for people.

— Michael Huffington

I learned how to lend money by cleaning up the messes of others who had made loans before me.

— John Stumpf

I understand why people achieve a level of fame and disappear, I never understood it before, but it's an attractive prospect to…

— John Hawkes

There's no such thing as the contemporary novel. Before I seem the complete reactionary, let me add that I've happily joined in…

— Graham Swift

At 16, I dropped out of school and spent five years working as a bicycle mechanic and volunteering in a Trauma Centre…

— Philipp Meyer

I think there, there also had been just before I got to Honduras a rather spectacular capture of an arms shipment that…

— John Negroponte

Make it easier to do things that increase your wellbeing before you have to make a choice because a lot of our…

— Tom Rath

To young people born under the weird planet of the SAT, intelligence was equated with agility, with raw acuity. It produced a…

— Walter Kirn

I think the whole business of people emigrating was that no one ever told them, although everyone knew, especially if it was…

— Colm Toibin

Kennedy had been assassinated a month or so before. So we walked to the grave of John Kennedy and ended our walking…

— Satish Kumar

It'll be basically a live album, but it will also include songs, Judas Priest songs, the audience have never heard before, because…

— Glenn Tipton

I was in the independent scene for two years before I got the call from the WWE.

— Sasha Banks

I started out fighting before I was acting, actually, then got hurt and got into the acting.

— Mickey Rourke

The future art historians are going to be software guys who are going to go into the depths of the code to…

— Bill Viola

You don't eat before your troops eat, and you don't ask your troops to do anything you won't do, too.

— Robert Mueller

I have been sexist before. I have called girls names. I have gone with the misogynist flow.

— Whitney Wolfe Herd

I've been through these stretches before where the points just aren't there, and you stick with it and it'll eventually come around.

— Johnny Gaudreau

What I've said before, only half in joke, is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or, maybe better, say everybody is familiar.

— Seamus Heaney

My dreams are to unify the world light-heavyweight titles like Roy Jones did and then at cruiserweight before then possibly the heavyweight…

— Anthony Yarde

Antiabortion activists and Republican lawmakers have been gearing up for a nationwide ban since before Roe was overturned.

— Jonathan Capehart

I was raised on Marvin Gaye. Before I knew Babyface or anyone else, I knew Marvin Gaye. My mother played Marvin Gaye.

— Luke James

Right before I go on stage, I'm absolutely terrified. My mind darts at many directions, but the center of me is going…

— Sarah Brightman

These scenes deal with what happened before Hannibal Lecter was captured for the first time.

— Dino De Laurentiis

Before I started a company, I was an employee with a bad attitude. I was always felt like, bosses are stupid, and…

— Mitch Kapor

I had a great life even before 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter' took off. I really enjoy teaching.

— Kim Edwards

My father was one of 11. He was an attorney. My mother worked for the Syracuse newspaper as a columnist before she…

— Siobhan Fallon Hogan

My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week…

— Anonymous

Immigration reform is a must, an amnesty. So that's my position. I've been pushing that one since before it was popular.

— Dick Mountjoy

Be humble, be gracious, and make peace with inner fears before stepping out into the limelight and allowing yourself to be subjected…

— Maximillian Degenerez

There were a lot of offers before 'Vicky Donor,' but I wanted to wait for the right opportunity.

— Yami Gautam

I want to get to know a woman before I take them out on a date or anything like that.

— Ryan Lochte

I talk fast because I'm asthmatic, and I'm desperately hoping the words get out before my breath fails.

— Sid Waddell

It was about 5 years after I was baptized before the pull of sin finally stopped.

— Phil Robertson

Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman came to see our show, We all had a drink before they set off on their travels,…

— Kelly Jones

Because it's cheaper and easier to fly than ever before, air travel is becoming democratized.

— Peter Diamandis