Before Quotes
21465 Before quotes by 9797 unique authors
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With the kinds of progress we're seeing in Africa, we have people who have a very high expectation, and often people think that, you know,…
— John Dramani Mahama
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Listen to these wounds of pain put in the form of questions to me by a young woman who had had two abortions: "I wonder…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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Of course, there is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was seen sublimely in the refusal of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego to…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It's best to make your peace with change, before it makes pieces of you.
— Irwin Corey
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There are only so many hours you can sit on the bus and watch TV or play basketball or whatever we do to pass the…
— Kenny Chesney
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If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.
— Shmuel Yosef Agnon
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I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk.…
— Sanaa Lathan
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Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.
— Alex Kapranos
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Baptism is bowing before the Father and letting him do his work.
— Max Lucado
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One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write…
— John Thorn
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Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the sky is not…
— John Thorn
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That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball…
— Willie Mays
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The true start-up of a business is what happens before you start-up.
— Michael Gerber
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My advice was to start a policy of making reversible decisions before anyone left the meeting or the office. In a startup, it doesn't matter…
— Steve Blank
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The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year.
— Jane Fonda
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Some people reach the age of sixty before others.
— Unknown Author
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For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.
— E. W. Howe
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If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal. For a canal spreads abroad water as it…
— Bernard of Clairvaux
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Wretched men cringe before tyrants who have no power, the victims of their trivial hopes and fears. They do not realise that anger is hopeless,…
— Boethius
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The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a…
— Burl Ives
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You learn about gratitude by giving. You learn about humility by receiving, and in the pecking order of human qualities, I'd probably put humility somewhere…
— Jean Harris
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Why should I stretch? Does a cheetah stretch before it chases its prey?
— Ken Griffey, Jr.
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Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds, eras,…
— Ben Okri
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I couldn't remember what life was like before I started walking.
— Teju Cole
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The world around us is alive, he would have said, with our emotions and thoughts, and the space between any two people are charged with…
— Dinaw Mengestu
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