Before Quotes
21465 Before quotes by 9797 unique authors
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But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
— Holly Golightly
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I got a job at Metro and went in to see Louis Mayer, who told me he wanted me to be a producer. I said…
— Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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Oh, how much mercy have I received the year past! How often has God caused His goodness to pass before me! And how poorly have…
— David Brainerd
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I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.
— David Brainerd
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I think that you have to seriously have fun, or taking serious things in a light way and obviously, for me, before all, music is…
— Jean Michel Jarre
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I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.
— Vanessa Mae
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Before money or anything else. Money cannot buy it...Because a man I do not trust could not get money from me on all the bonds…
— J. P. Morgan
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The most satisfied and enlightened people realize that successful and dynamic living starts from within. Before you can care for others, you must care for…
— Robin Sharma
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A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm of knowledge, while…
— Ron Chernow
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We often move away from pain, which is helpful only before being hurt. Once in pain, it seems the only way out is through. Like…
— Mark Nepo
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I'm very much to blame for not seeing it before, but who on earth goes about suspecting an impossible outlandish thing like murder? That's something…
— Mary Stewart
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I long for the simplicity of theatre. I want lessons learned, comeuppances delivered, people sorted out, all before your bladder gets distractingly full. That's what…
— John M. Ford
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Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-and-Chips sign' have been…
— Martin Gardner
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It seems to me nothing man has done or built on this land is an improvement over what was here before.
— Kent Haruf
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The first breath of autumn was in the air, a prodigal feeling, a feeling of wanting, taking, and keeping before it is too late.
— J. L. Carr
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It constantly remains a source of disappointment to me that my drawings are not yet what I want them to be. The difficulties are indeed…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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A primary reason for my success in the classroom was that I couldn't forget that schooling was changing me and separating me from the life…
— Richard Rodriguez
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I have sworn before a picture of the old and mourned comrade Stalin that I won’t rest until I see these capitalist octopuses annihilated.
— Che Guevara
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Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them.
— Eudora Welty
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Before I leave this Earth, I would like to know they have given women the same benefits and promotions as men.
— Martha Griffiths
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I played with a lot of great players before. They're all the same. They take a lot of responsibility for their own play, put a…
— Mark Messier
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Everything which we loved is lost. We are in a desert .... Before us is nothing but a black square on a white background!
— Kazimir Malevich
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Prince Asaka had joined the army only about ten days before its entry into Nanking and in view of the short time he was connected…
— Iwane Matsui
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But in 2000, the injuries really started to kick in and my elbow gave a lot of problems. At the end of the year I…
— Richard Krajicek
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I have noticed before that there is a category of acquaintanceship that is not friendship or business or romance, but speculation, fascination.
— Jane Smiley
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