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Before Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot
- But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before; though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where. Men…
- Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like a dish of cream.
- A good deal of confusion could be avoided, if we refrained from setting before the group, what can be the aim only of the individual;…
- Art serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more than we knew…
- You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster.
- That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented…
- Men have left GOD not for other gods, they say, but for no God; and this has never happened before.
- Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of…
- And indeed there will be time for the yellow smoke that slides along the street rubbing its back upon the window-panes; there will be time…
- And the end and the beginning where always there, before the beginning and after the end.
- Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment.
- With Cats, some say, one rule is true: Don’t speak till you are spoken to. Myself, I do not hold with that — I say,…
- Before a Cat will condescend To treat you as a trusted friend, Some little token of esteem Is needed, like a dish of cream; And…
- It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is…
- A rat crept softly through the vegetation Dragging its slimy belly on the bank While I was fishing in the dullcanal On a winter evening…
- DORIS: Here's the two of spades. DUSTY: The two of spades! THAT'S THE COFFIN!! DORIS: THAT'S THE COFFIN? Oh good heavens what'll I do? Just…
More Before Quotes
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was… — Bella Abzug
- If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it? — Arthur Ashe
- Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot… — Rowan Atkinson
- Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. — David Attenborough
- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood