After Quotes
18332 After quotes by 9184 unique authors
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Conversation is not a search after knowledge, but an endeavor at effect.
— John Keats
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For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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It may be a blessing in disguise...Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. Haitians were…
— Pat Robertson
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Remembering that Peter denied his Lord with an oath, after most solemnly protesting that he never would, I will not swear I will make no…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Our German forefathers had a very kind religion. They believed that, after death, they would meet again all the good dogs that had been their…
— Otto von Bismarck
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That world beyond is a world of sanctity and radiance; therefore, it is necessary that in this world he should acquire these divine attributes. In…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live…
— Hector Hugh Munro
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Children, after being limbs of Satan in traditional theology and mystically illuminated angels in the minds of educational reformers, have reverted to being little devils;…
— Bertrand Russell
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A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must not feel under…
— Henri Matisse
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There will be no major solution to the suffering of humanity until we reach some understanding of who we are, what the purpose of creation…
— Woody Allen
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My young son asked me what happens after we die. I told him we get buried under a bunch of dirt and worms eat our…
— Jack Handey
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[Hermogenes] despises God's law in his painting, maintains repeated marriages [almost certainly a reference to remarrying after divorce or perhaps even widowhood, which Tertullian, who…
— Tertullian
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Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on…
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard…
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
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The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me.
— Martin Luther
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I have seen youths bright eyed and fair groping after bubbles in rapture, and conceiving them diamonds and the glitter of fine jewels, until their…
— Theodore Dreiser
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Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't deprive them of…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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A Zen master, when asked where he would go after he died, replied, 'To Hell, for that's where help is needed most.'
— Philip Kapleau
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To find the gifts we have been given, we must pray and fast. Often Patriarchal blessings tell us the gifts we have received and declare…
— Robert D. Hales
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With that locker room I could sleep there after games.
— LeBron James
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After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist.
— Edgar Bergen
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All the courage and competitiveness of Jackie Robinson affects me to this day. If I patterned my life after anyone it was him, not because…
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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In this business, you find the enemy, then go after and destroy him. Everything else is rubbish!
— Eddie Rickenbacker
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