Before Quotes
21465 Before quotes by 9797 unique authors
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A day will come when the civilized world will deny its God, when the Church will doubt as Peter doubted. She will be tempted to…
— Pope Pius XII
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The day the Church abandons Her universal tongue will be the day before She returns to the Catecombs.
— Pope Pius XII
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I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and…
— Clifford Geertz
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The winter will be short, the summer long, The autumn amber-hued, sunny and hot, Tasting of cider and of scuppernong; All seasons sweet, but autumn…
— Elinor Wylie
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How long will it be before the cry goes up: Let's kill all the judges?
— Michael Foot
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As far as I know, we have never before decided to fight a war with borrowed money and ask generations that come after us to…
— Byron Dorgan
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Anytime we think the problem is 'out there,' that thought is the problem. We empower what's out there to control us. The change paradigm is…
— Stephen Covey
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The 'Inside-Out' approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of…
— Stephen Covey
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Before something can become a habit it must first be practiced as a discipline.
— Ken Blanchard
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For every crime that comes before him, a judge is required to complete a perfect syllogism in which the major premise must be the general…
— Cesare Beccaria
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Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.
— Anne Michaels
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The shadow-past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst. A biography of longing. It steers us…
— Anne Michaels
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I don't know whether it was his (Charlie Christian's) melodic lines, his sound or his approach, but I hadn't heard anything like that before. He…
— Wes Montgomery
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We're all in the game. We all drive cars, and we're all hooked on oil. The question is how we can get unhooked before we…
— Ross Macdonald
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To worry before the common people worries; To enjoy only after the people can enjoy.
— Unknown Author
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Climbing for speed records will probably become more popular, a mania which has just begun. Climbers climb not just to see how fast and efficiently…
— Yvon Chouinard
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Virtually every company will be going out and empowering their workers with a certain set of tools, and the big difference in how much value…
— Bill Gates
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Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
— Lily Tomlin
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I've never met a woman who is not strong, but sometimes they don't let it out. Then there's a tragedy, and then all of a…
— Diane von Furstenberg
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... Andres Segovia literally created the genre of classical guitar, which hadn't existed before around 1910. There was flamenco, which he borrowed from, but he…
— Roger McGuinn
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It's the opportunity to play something completely different, responding to what happened just before you started to play, and I love that.
— Larry Carlton
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... shortly before she died Janis Joplin gave me the Gibson Hummingbird she recorded "Me and Bobbby McGee" on ... Janis was a good guitar…
— Sam Andrew
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I had been to São Paulo the year before and became pretty well acquainted with the music of composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, I had already…
— Charlie Byrd
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... I don't like to go into the studio with all the songs worked out and planned before hand ... you've got to give the…
— Keith Richards
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... I played 'Eruption' two times for the record, and we kept the one that seemed to flow ... there's a mistake at the top…
— Eddie Van Halen
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