After Quotes
18332 After quotes by 9184 unique authors
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That first pregnancy is a long sea journey to a country where you don't know the language, where land is in sight for such a…
— Emily Perkins
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We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds.
— Otto Lilienthal
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After about 30 minutes I puked all over my airplane. I said to my self, "Man, you made a big mistake."
— Chuck Yeager
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Pilots are a rare kind of human. They leave the ordinary surface of the word, to purify their soul in the sky, and they come…
— Unknown Author
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Then it was intoxicating. The smooth takeoff, and the free feeling of having the world drop away. Soon after leaving the ground, they were crossing…
— James Salter
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He knew that we gave constant lip service to the dictates of safety and howled like Christians condemned to the arena if any compromise were…
— Ernest K. Gann
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It is appearances, characteristics and performance that make a man love an airplane, and they, are what put emotion into one. You love a lot…
— Ernest Hemingway
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The job has its grandeurs, yes. There is the exultation of arriving safely after a storm, the joy of gliding down out of the darkness…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I realize now that people are not thinking about you and me or caring what is said about us. They are thinking about themselves-before breakfast,…
— Dale Carnegie
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It isn't easy to live after death. It takes a lifetime.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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I was taught that the world had a lot of problems; that I could struggle and change them; that intellectual and material gifts brought the…
— Marian Wright Edelman
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[I]t is more convenient to prevent the passage of a law, than to declare it void after it has passed.
— James Madison
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I was sleeping in the woods one night after a gig we'd played somewhere, when I saw this girl appear before me. That girl was…
— Syd Barrett
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The business being thus closed . . . dined together and took a cordial leave of each other After which I returned to my lodgings,…
— George Washington
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You can't write a song out of thin air. You have to feel and know what you are writing about. ... Talent is only a…
— Irving Berlin
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The preservation of the Jew was certainly not casual. He has endured through the power of a certain ideal, based on the recognition of a…
— Cecil Roth
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When, after having examined in detail the organization of the Supreme Court, one comes to consider in sum the prerogatives that have been given it,…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many…
— Ernest Hemingway
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It is on great occasions only, and after time has been given for cool and deliberate reflection, that the real voice of the people can…
— George Washington
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Everyone can access the parts of themselves that are great. I'm just a girl from New York City who decided to do this, after all.…
— Lady Gaga
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Everyone must be clear that business as usual is not an option. Most of us live in buildings erected long before we were born and…
— Margaret Beckett
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Playing the game for money produces the proper professional attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail state of mind that shows up for work despite rain or…
— Steven Pressfield
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It's time we did something to assert ourselves. After all, we do comprise 10% of the population.
— Allen Ginsberg
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Fear is never an actuality; it is either before or after the active present. When there is fear in the active present, is it fear?…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give.
— Sparky Anderson
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