Before Him Quotes
224 quotes by 191 authors
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Polite Conversation 'Tis happy for him, that his father was before him.
— Jonathan Swift
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A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Genuine trust involves allowing another to matter and have an impact in our lives. For that reason, many who hate and do battle with God…
— Dan B. Allender
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The simple person lives the way he breathes, with no more effort or glory, with no more affectation and without shame Simplicity is freedom, buoyancy,…
— Andre Comte-Sponville
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Building on exhaustive research and probing into such diverse enterprises as textbook production and marketing, public education, and state-level politics, Adam R. Shapiro has situated…
— Randall Balmer
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You look at Vladimir Radmanovic, this guy is cut from stone. As if Michelangelo was reading and a lightening bolt flashed before him.
— Bill Walton
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Lenny Kravitz was the biggest gentleman on set. He always helped the ladies, like by pulling out the chair for them. If we were both…
— Willow Shields
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At that moment, in the sunset on Watership Down, there was offered to General Woundwort the opportunity to show whether he was really the leader…
— Richard Adams
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The photographer's most important and likewise most difficult task is not learning to manage his camera, or to develop, or to print. It is learning…
— Edward Weston
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For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.
— Virginia Woolf
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I'm before him on my knees, and he kisses me He assumes I lose my reason and I do. Men are stupid, men are vain,…
— Stephen Sondheim
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A traveller must have the back of an ass to bear all, a tongue like the tail of a dog to flatter all, the mouth…
— Thomas Nashe
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The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to…
— Akhenaton
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The face of the angel of history is turned toward the past. Where we perceived a chain of events, he sees a single catastrophe which…
— Walter Benjamin
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Fruit of all the kinds that the country produced were laid before him; he ate very little, but from time to time a liquor prepared…
— Bernal Diaz del Castillo
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It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as those which will…
— Ilya Ehrenburg
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Cynthia came in quietly and set a cup of tea before him. He kissed her hand, inexpressibly grateful, and she went back into the kitchen.…
— Jan Karon
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For every crime that comes before him, a judge is required to complete a perfect syllogism in which the major premise must be the general…
— Cesare Beccaria
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I look forward to seeing Christ and bowing down before Him in praise and gratitude for all He has done for us, and for using…
— Billy Graham
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength of the contemplative…
— Samuel Johnson
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