Before Quotes
21465 Before quotes by 9797 unique authors
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The traditional flowers of courtship are the traditional flowers of the grave, delivered to the victim before the kill. The cadaver is dressed up and…
— Andrea Dworkin
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There is no formula to it because writing every song, for me, is a little journey. The first note has to lift you and make…
— Unknown Author
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Peter Watts delivers-solid, inventive hard sf about the deep sea, but as we've never seen before. This moves like the wind.
— Gregory Benford
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All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted…
— Vernor Vinge
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Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
— Robert Graves
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What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.
— David Brooks
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If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for…
— James Q. Wilson
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I had to watch government fail for 25 years doing consumer reporting before I really saw it because intuitively, the reaction is problem, bring government…
— John Stossel
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Is the American tradition of self-reliance disappearing? That's a painful question for conservatives to ponder. After all, we're dedicated to reducing the role of government…
— Edwin Feulner
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Never before in the history of the planet have so many people, on their own, had the ability to find so much information about so…
— Thomas Friedman
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Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
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You have to go down before you can come out — that’s how these things always work.
— Tad Williams
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I always considered myself a dancer before anything else.
— Annette Funicello
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You can be miserable before you have a cookie and you can be miserable after you eat a cookie but you can't be miserable while…
— Ina Garten
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I always worked in institutions, I never had a restaurant of my own before, but I have opened over 30 hotels, restaurants and casinos. I…
— Robert Irvine
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During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas…
— Eddie Bernice Johnson
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We must recognize the full human equality of all our people - before God, before the law, and in the councils of government. We must…
— Robert Kennedy
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When you get to the end zone, act like you've been there before.
— Earl Campbell
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We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and at the…
— Brooks Atkinson
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Trusting your intuition is like learning to ride a bike. Everything takes practice before it becomes second nature.
— James Van Praagh
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Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering.
— Desiderius Erasmus
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Don't give your advice before you are called upon.
— Desiderius Erasmus
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Coach Bryant, before you start hugging me, you ought to know that my boys are fixing to get after y’all’s ass,
— Pat Dye
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You know, I've been attending so many banquets that I know what they're going to serve before I get there.
— Knute Rockne
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Village cricket spread fast through the land. In those days before it became scientific, cricket was the best game in the world to watch, with…
— G. M. Trevelyan
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