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Before Quotes by Cormac McCarthy
- It had ceased raining in the night and he walked out on the road and called for the dog. He called and called. Standing in…
- War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.
- Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of…
- If a dream can tell the future it can also thwart that future. For God will not permit that we shall know what is to…
- I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the…
- She looked up at him and her face was pale and austere in the uplight and her eyes lost in their darkly shadowed hollows save…
- Whatever exists, he said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. He looked about at the dark forest in which they…
- They rode like men invested with a purpose whose origins were antecedent to them, like blood legatees of an order both imperative and remote. For…
- Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the…
- It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was…
- The flames sawed in the wind and the embers paled and deepened and paled and deepened like the bloodbeat of some living thing eviscerate upon…
- See the hand that nursed the serpent. The fine hasped pipes of her fingerbones. The skin bewenned and speckled. The veins are milkblue and bulby.…
- Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.
More Before Quotes
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after the children.'… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is… — Richard Bach
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was… — Bella Abzug
- For all the noise and anger that too often surrounds the immigration debate, America has nothing to fear from today's immigrants. They… — Barack Obama
- If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling… — Rajneesh