Before Quotes
21465 quotes by 9797 authors
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As long as men inquire, they will find opportunities to know more upon these topics than those who have gone before them, so inexhaustibly rich…
— Louis Agassiz
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Indeed one's faith in one's plans and methods is truly tested when the horizon before one is the blackest.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything. Yet we apply ourselves to dissecting and destroying everything that is good in…
— Eugene Delacroix
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Unfortunately, nature is very much a now-you-see-it, now-you-don't affair. A fish flashes, then dissolves in the water before my eyes like so much salt. Deer…
— Annie Dillard
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Madame Curie didn't stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an…
— B. C. Forbes
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For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of people if they…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Beauty is composed of many things and never stands alone. It is part of horizons, blue in the distance, great primeval silences, knowledge of all…
— Sigurd F. Olson
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A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Have I a secret about playing the piano? It's a very simple one. I sit down on the piano stool and make myself comfortable -…
— Artur Schnabel
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Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. She could take no food except iced oysters…
— Isadora Duncan
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The key to teaching anything is to remember what it was like not to understand that thing. That's a very hard thing to do. Every…
— David Goodstein
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In the first weeks I had occasionally worn clothes in the morning before the sun began its ascent, but very soon I abandoned this habit,…
— Lucy Irvine
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That's what's gonna make me come up with new stuff, if you get a good break or a good beat, you get a certain energy,…
— Roxrite
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You have to be a man before you can be a gentleman.
— John Wayne
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It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and hide the hearts…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to be beaten into our ears,…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I just want to be clear before we decide to do this together: I'm gay. My music is gay. My show is gay. And I…
— Lady Gaga
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Loads of my friends are gay, I don't see myself in any sense as being opposed to gay rights, but I did express a view…
— Lucinda Creighton
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He set the example for all of us to humble ourselves before our Heavenly Father.
— Robert D. Hales
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