Before Quotes
21465 Before quotes by 9797 unique authors
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Never make a defense or apology before you are accused.
— Charles I of England
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All Americans, not only in the states most heavily affected but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of…
— William J. Clinton
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The Commission agrees that the federal government should help alleviate these costs. The best way to do so is to reduce illegal immigration.... We recommend…
— Barbara Jordan
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And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to belong…
— Gloria Vanderbilt
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Day after day we looked for rain, and day after day we saw nothing but the sun. Lavender that we had planted in the spring…
— Peter Mayle
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Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.
— David Copperfield
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The belly comes before the soul.
— George Orwell
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You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on…
— Billie Holiday
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If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.
— William Penn
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The will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of the strong, is, like envy…
— Hannah Arendt
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Just as Darwin discovered the law of evolution in organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of evolution in human history; he discovered the simple…
— Friedrich Engels
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Someone had to embrace positive beginnings before anyone could celebrate successful conclusions or continuations.
— Aberjhani
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Man is not the most majestic of the creatures; long before the mammals even, the dinosaurs were far more splendid. But he has what no…
— Jacob Bronowski
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It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.
— Wernher von Braun
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I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I'm through.
— Paul Simon
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~Before, my career came first. All I had to think about was myself. Now my children prevail. It doesn't mean my career is less important;…
— Faith Hill
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Being single is about celebrating and appreciating your own space that you're in. I couldn't have lived alone before. I always needed someone to share…
— Kelly Rowland
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Don't be a salary slave! If you are going to do anything in this world, you must start before you are forty, before your period…
— Robert Cochrane
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In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I passed around a…
— Louis Agassiz
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The joyful news that He is risen does not change the contemporary world. Still before us lie work, discipline, sacrifice. But the fact of Easter…
— Henry Knox Sherrill
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Even if we were not sinful by nature, the sin of having private property would suffice to condemn us before God; for that which he…
— Huldrych Zwingli
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I've never done it before. Sometimes it's tough. I don't have any peripheral vision.
— Unknown Author
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We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise…
— Federica Montseny
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Before you write - remember that every speech has something of 'you' in the writing. Don't take that away when you write. Be yourself. Be…
— Phil Collins
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The water here in Cardiff is much easier than in London, so for us it is more relaxing paddling here. This race is for us…
— Unknown Author
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