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Before Quotes by William Faulkner
- Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
- People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is…
- By artist I mean of course everyone who has tried to create something which was not here before him, with no other tools and material…
- Good art can come out of thieves, bootleggers, or horse swipes. People really are afraid to find out just how much hardship and poverty they…
- Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
- a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got. He'll cling to trouble…
- When something is new and hard and bright, there ought to be something a little better for it than just being safe, since the safe…
- ...thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out…
- Memory believes before knowing remembers. [Light in August]
- It is as though the space between us were time: an irrevocable quality. It is as though time, no longer running straight before us in…
- I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to…
- In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And before you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied…
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