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Before Quotes by Harper Lee
- Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they're…
- I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is no ideal to me, it…
- Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
- They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children weep. Good night.
- Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.
- Maycomb was a tired old town, even in 1932 when I first knew it. Somehow, it was hotter then. Men's stiff collars wilted by nine…
- There's just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to 'em. Even then, they ain't worth the bullet it…
- Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.
- If this thing's hushed up it'll be a simple denial to Jem of the way I've tried to raise him. Sometimes I think I'm a…
- Ladies bathed before noon, after their three o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.
- ...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.
- I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.
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