Before Quotes
21465 Before quotes by 9797 unique authors
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I think the worst one [indian mascot] is the Cleveland Indians' Big Chief Wahoo. It's just a red face on a baseball with a big,…
— Wanda Sykes
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I've done sexual stuff before - onstage, which is even more emotionally difficult. With a TV crew around, you are stopping and starting; it becomes…
— Randy Harrison
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Photography in our time leaves us with a grave responsibility. While we are playing in our studios with broken flowerpots, oranges, nude studies and still…
— Brassai
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I have my fears. Yet, notwithstanding the complicated difficulties that rise before us, there is no receding; and I should blush if in any instance…
— Mercy Otis Warren
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Anyone who is observant, who discovers the person they have always dreamed of, knows that sexual energy comes into play before sex even takes place.…
— Paulo Coelho
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Independent record stores are like a casino where you put down your money and you always win. How amazing to discover gems you didn't know…
— KT Tunstall
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The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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I can never know beforehand how God’s image should appear in others. That image always manifests a completely new and unique form that comes solely…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle…
— Fernand Leger
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A person does not...stand motionless and clear before our eyes with his merits, his defects, his plans, his intentions with regard to ourself exposed on…
— Marcel Proust
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The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it....
— Marcel Proust
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If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them they could perceive what they have made of us.
— Albert Camus
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Before now, I've always taken my mixes out to the car and listened to them in the parking lot. I still do that, but more…
— Dr. Dre
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People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent - or habit…
— Octavia Butler
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Learn the ABC of science before you try to ascend to its summit.
— Ivan Pavlov
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Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before' has a certain ring to it, doesn't it?
— Charles Stross
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I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed
— Dan Simmons
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Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!
— John Brown
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I knew I had done something awful. I had killed love, before I even knew the enormity of what love meant.
— Edna O'Brien
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What I think it really means is: I'm a teacher. I am a teacher. I teach all the time, as you do and as all…
— Maya Angelou
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We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over…
— Hannah More
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I wish that all those, who on this night are not merry enough to speak before they think, may ever after be grave enough to…
— Ann Radcliffe
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Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.
— Juan Ramon Jimenez
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Why wilt thou be so sottish, such an enemy to thyself, as to prefer puddle-water, and that poisoned too and stolen, before pure living waters…
— Matthew Henry
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