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Before Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert
- When we are mindful of every nuance of our natural world, we finally get the picture: that we are only given one dazzling moment of…
- I was a writer before 'Eat, Pray, Love,' and I'll be a writer after it's over. It's what I want to do for the rest…
- As somebody who, in my second marriage, insisted on a prenuptial agreement, I can also testify that sometimes it is an act of love to…
- In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the…
- Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit.
- I have my own set of survival techniques. I am patient. I know how to pack light. But my one might travel talent is that…
- It was like time would stop, and the dancer would sort of step through some kind of portal and he wasn't doing anything different than…
- Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in this exasperated line from the Greek…
- Offer it up personally,then. Right now. I thought of how many people go to their graves unforgiven and unforgiving. I thought of how many people…
- If I'd had any way of knowing that things were- as Lily Tomlin once said- going to get a whole lot worse before they got…
- Richard didn't even have time to ask if I thought I'd ever amount to anything in this life before I looked him eye to eye…
- The sound universe is also spectacular around here. In the evenings there's a cricket orchestra with frogs providing the bass line. In the dead of…
- He looks at you like you're someone he's never met before, much less someone he once loved with high passion. The irony is, you can…
- I'm so excited about school. I'm such a shameless student. I laid my clothes out last night, just like I did before my first day…
- There’s a part of me which has always wanted to hear a man say, "Let me take care of you forever," and I have never…
- I won the argument against the knife that night, but barely. I had some other good ideas around that time--about how jumping off a building…
- There's a wonderful old Italian joke about a poor man who goes to church every day and prays before the statue of a great saint,'Dear…
- I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along.
- Astonishingly, at some point, a sputtering torch was thrust into her hands. Alma did not see who gave it to her. She had never before…
More Before Quotes
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- 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'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was… — Bella Abzug
- If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it? — Arthur Ashe
- Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot… — Rowan Atkinson
- Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. — David Attenborough
- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood