Afterwards Quotes

621 Afterwards quotes by 515 unique authors

One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him. — Immanuel Kant
Hen nights should be banned. You're honour-bound to behave atrociously, then feel terribly ashamed afterwards. (This Charming Man) — Marian Keyes
Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not… — Joss Whedon
Sometimes you walk past a pretty girl on the street there's something beyond beauty in her face, something warm and smart and inviting, and in… — Jonathan Tropper
When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a… — Margaret Atwood
At college, and perhaps for a year afterwards, they had believed in literature, had believed in Beauty and in personal expression as an absolute end.… — Nathanael West
Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the… — Mahatma Gandhi
I believe it is customary to get one's washing over first in baths and bask afterwards; personally, I bask first. I have discovered that the… — Dodie Smith
...in my dreams the world would come alive, becoming so captivatingly majestic, free and ethereal, that afterwards it would be oppressive to breathe the dust… — Vladimir Nabokov
I mean, we're all going to die. We know that on an intellectual level. We figure it out when we're still fairly young, and it… — Jim Butcher
A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards. — Karl Kraus
When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves… — Isak Dinesen
You took a walk on a Sunday afternoon and came to a nice neighborhood, very refined. You saw a small one of these trees through… — Betty Smith
It was called a tribute before a battle and a ransom afterwards. — T.H. White
Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery… — John Keats
At times our need for a sympathetic gesture is so great that we care not what exactly it signifies or how much we may have… — E. M. Forster
The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you’ve got to go somewhere afterwards where you can remember them, you see?… — Terry Pratchett
Love leaped out in front of us like a murderer in an alley leaping out of nowhere, and struck us both at once. As lightning… — Mikhail Bulgakov
I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards. — John Henry Newman
Do it first and feel about it afterwards.' - Dagny Taggart — Ayn Rand
Father may have been wanting in some things, but here he was masterful. Night upon night, I marveled at his power to hold listeners in… — Seth Grahame-Smith
when she thought it over afterwards it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed… — Lewis Carroll
Emma dropped the paper. Her first impression was of a weak feeling in her stomach and in her knees; then of blind guilt, of unreality,… — Jorge Luis Borges
I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I'm dead, and then more afterwards. — Russell Brand
You must learn to know the difference between tales and the truth, my Liza, she would say. Fairy tales have a habit of ending too… — Kate Morton

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