Before Quotes
21465 Before quotes by 9797 unique authors
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Love is a powerful tool, and maybe, just maybe, before the last little town is corrupted and the last of the unroaded and undeveloped wildness…
— T. H. Watkins
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Before we can go on making workers, we must first make people.
— Martin Haberman
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As one California winemaker said, "We release no wine before the bank tells us that its ready."
— Kevin Zraly
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I kind of have to be a master of cleaning, extracting and trusting my data before I do anything with it.
— Scott Nicholson
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The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
— Socrates
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True piety admits no other rule than that whatsoever things have been faithfully received from our fathers the same are to be faithfully consigned to…
— Vincent of Lerins
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If I'd waited to know who I was or what I was about before I started "being creative," well, I'd still be sitting around trying…
— Austin Kleon
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Later, I learned that our forgetting of the parakeet had begun even before the species was extinct.
— Christopher Cokinos
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Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view…
— Herodotus
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Life is not made up of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years, but of moments. You must experience each one before you can appreciate…
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children…
— Socrates
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. . . hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are. Being one place and wanting to be somewhere else . .…
— Geneen Roth
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For many people during many centuries, mankind's history before the coming of Christianity was the history of the Jews and what they recounted of the…
— John Roberts
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When I finally realized that I didn't want to be a butch, I wanted to sleep with a butch, a whole new world opened up…
— Leslea Newman
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If there is one thing the psychic taught me, it's that people and events are rarely who and what we think they are. They are…
— Leslie Morgan Steiner
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I enjoy writing songs that could have been written before [my time]. When I feel like I'm tapping into a deep vein in the body…
— Ketch Secor
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The "Kumulipo" is an old Hawaiian prayer chant that poetically describes the creation of the world. The word literally means "beginning-in-deep-darkness." Here darkness doesn't connote…
— Rob Brezsny
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I write one step at a time, always finishing off the part I'm working on before even thinking about the next part. I need to…
— Zach Condon
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I wondered if I was just the sum of my brain scan, little dots clustered in my frontal lobe. Is that where the poems came…
— Betsy Lerner
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To share happiness, and to have done something good before leaving this life is sweet.
— Gautama Buddha
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In India, as we saw, the Sepoy Mutiny led to a vast reorganization of British colonialism in the area, sending out a viceroy from London…
— Webster Tarpley
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Stories are a kind of thing, too. Stories and objects share something, a patina. I thought I had this clear, two years ago before I…
— Edmund de Waal
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You have to live your story before being able to write your story.
— Amy Shearn
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That's what I always enjoyed about acting, the real adrenalin rush. My heart - still before I go on stage - crashing out of my…
— Billy Crudup
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You must take a year off, one of these days, before you’re old and tired and weighed down by responsibility. Go away somewhere, and read.…
— Unknown Author
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