Before Quotes

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You must master a new way to think, before you can master a new way to be. — Marianne Williamson
I jest, of course; premature ejaculation isn't a laughing matter for anyone, except for your friends when you tell them about it on the phone… — Julie Burchill
One is born into a herd of buffaloes and must be glad if one is not trampled under foot before one's time. — Albert Einstein
But a man's best friend is the one who not only wishes him well but wishes it for his own sake (even though nobody will… — Aristotle
Standing before you as the advocate of the lower races, I declare what I believe cannot be gainsaid...that just so soon and so far as… — George Thorndike Angell
The repeated claim before the 'seizure of power' - that the NSDAP, as a national social-revolutionary movement, and not simply another political party... would create… — Ian Kershaw
Within the Nazi Party, the beginnings of a personality cult around Hitler go back to the year before the [Munich] putsch... Outside these small groups… — Ian Kershaw
Chamberlain's stubborn, fanatical insistence on giving Hitler what he wanted, his trips to Berchtesgaden and Godesberg and finally the fateful journey to Munich rescued Hitler… — William L. Shirer
I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because… — Matthew Henry
Let's go hand in hand, not one before another. — William Shakespeare
I choose to listen to the river for a while, thinking river thoughts, before joining the night and the stars. — Edward Abbey
Denmark is sadly a hellish place if you happen to be a pig, but the brioche and fruits that tower on the table before me… — Steven Morrissey
Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before sending your manuscript… — Arthur Quiller-Couch
Every morning between 9 and 12 I go to my room and sit before a piece of paper. Many times, I just sit for three… — Flannery O'Connor
My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet… — Ernest Hemingway
An author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated that he finds… — H. L. Mencken
Polite Conversation 'Tis happy for him, that his father was before him. — Jonathan Swift
Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk. — Edward Weston
When it gets difficult is often right before you succeed. — Jeffrey Walker
Yes, but I - you know, it's been such a long time, I'm sure that I've got cousins and uncles that I've never met before,… — Rafael Palmeiro

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