Afterwards Quotes
621 Afterwards quotes by 515 unique authors
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It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. Unless a man starts on the strange assumption that he has never…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.
— Oscar Wilde
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The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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A man who raises himself by degrees to wealth and power, contracts, in the course of this protracted labor, habits of prudence and restraint which…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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I know I will never wear sandals now anywhere. I got in a fight in the back of a grocery store when I was really…
— Channing Tatum
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If you set your heart upon philosophy, you must straightway prepare yourself to be laughed at and mocked by many who will say Behold a…
— Epictetus
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The clever way death cuts us down, but makes it look like just a thinning-out. Generations never fall with one blow - that would be…
— Alphonse Daudet
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There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to see it. Afterwards…
— Umberto Eco
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All writers learn this, in time: don't show your work to other people until it's safely finished. Even discussing your unborn book in quite general…
— Lynne Truss
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I myself never make any notes. Usually, if I write something down, I can't read it afterwards.
— Roman Abramovich
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First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.
— Geoffrey Chaucer
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My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Should a man live underground, and there converse with the works of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up into the open day,…
— Aristotle
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They proved to me by convincing reasons that God does not exist; Afterwards I saw God, for he came and embraced me. And now what…
— Sri Aurobindo
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The Jew continues to monopolize money, and he loosens or strangles the throat of the state with the loosening or strengthening of his purse strings...He…
— Franz Liszt
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You can talk to one person for five minutes and be sick afterwards. You can be totally physically drained because their aura is so low.…
— Frederick Lenz
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People who have seen me read usually come up afterwards and invite me to be a part of something.
— Amber Tamblyn
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The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a…
— Edward Burnett Tylor
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It's all about the director for me; we have to click. It's a trust thing. I'll say I'm ready to let down my walls. I'll…
— Juno Temple
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I think in the wake of 9/11, like a lot of Americans, you know, we were all very traumatized by the attacks, traumatized in a…
— Amy Waldman
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Most of my choices come about through some kind of intuition or instinct, and if I need to, I'll post-rationalize them, intellectually, afterwards. But generally,…
— Joe Wright
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As a matter of fact, it was only through the dealer Fred Jahn that I succeeded in overcoming my reservation about the works on paper…
— Gerhard Richter
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Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.
— Thomas Secker
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