Before Quotes
21465 Before quotes by 9797 unique authors
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The conduct and manners of women, in fact, evidently prove that their minds are not in a healthy state; for, like the flowers which are…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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I had to get a close-hand view of the misery and unhappiness of a man made world, before I reached the point where I could…
— Emmeline Pankhurst
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I thought I had been a suffragist before I became a Poor Law Guardian, but now I began to think about the vote in women's…
— Emmeline Pankhurst
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Problems always start long before you really, really see them.
— Gillian Flynn
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Insight cannot be taken back. You cannot return to the moment you were in before.
— Hilary Mantel
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In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I find dreams…
— Doris Lessing
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You have to be able to make a real creative life for Yourself, before you can expect anyone Else to provide one ready-made for you.
— Sylvia Plath
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I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to…
— Roger Tory Peterson
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It is the only point of getting up every morning: to paint, to make something good, to make something even better than before, not to…
— Lucian Freud
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All the art of the past rises up before me, the art of all ages and all civilizations, everything becomes simultaneous, as if space had…
— Alberto Giacometti
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It is with all these qualities that we must stand before God and intervene on behalf of those who do not have them, as though clothed…
— Martin Luther
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Womenfolk raised me and I was full-grown before I knew I came from a broken home
— Gil Scott-Heron
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Long before many of us were even conscious of our own degradation, Marcus Garvey fought for African national and racial equality.
— Kwame Nkrumah
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Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without knowing what the…
— Assata Shakur
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People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom.
— Assata Shakur
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My life wasn't beautiful and creative before I became politically active. My life was totally changed when I began to struggle.
— Assata Shakur
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But before we die, how shall we live? I say with hope and dignity; and if premature death is the result, that death has a…
— Huey Newton
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Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as those which will…
— Ilya Ehrenburg
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I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line…
— Anna Akhmatova
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Quite honestly, ... there`s never been stunt driving before or after as spectacular or elaborate. That`s all real, no (computer trickery).
— John Landis
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Even before I was a Democrat, I was a Zionist.
— Howard Berman
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I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son (W A Mozart)is the greatest composer known to me by person and repute,…
— Joseph Haydn
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Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.
— Franz Liszt
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Before you embark on it you ask the question: Does this path have a heart? If the answer is no, you will know it, and…
— Carlos Castaneda
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