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After Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
- I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
- Our society is so abnormal that the normal man never dreams of having the normal occupation of looking after his own property. When he chooses…
- At least five times, with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Christian Faith has to all…
- Every man is important if he loses his life;and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.
- A man running after a hat is not half so ridiculous as a man running after a woman.
- People accuse journalism of being too personal; but to me it has always seemed far too impersonal. It is charged with tearing away the veils…
- Why do all the clerks and navvies in the railway trains look so sad and tired, so very sad and tired? I will tell you.…
- The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today.
- A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
- In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.
- The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt;…
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- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the… — Richard Armitage
- Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time. — Arthur Ashe
- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
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- A word after a word after a word is power. — Margaret Atwood
- Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences… — Margaret Atwood