Before Him Quotes

224 quotes by 187 authors

A Murphy [Eddie Murphy] movie is like a Sidney Poitier comedy - he's that intensely good... He revolutionized acting. He's literally black Brando. Before Eddie… — Scott Raab
Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him… — Thomas A. Edison
Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him,… — Augustus Hare
As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe… — Mickey Mantle
I was very careful to send Mr. Roosevelt every few days a statement of our casualties. I tried to keep before him all the time… — George C. Marshall
As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the… — Margaret Mead
Back in 2008, candidate Obama called a $10 trillion national debt 'unpatriotic' - serious talk from what looked to be a serious reformer. Yet by… — Paul Ryan
Decades ago, Gerhard Richter found a painterly philosopher's stone. Like Jackson Pollock before him, he discovered something that had been in painting all along, always… — Jerry Saltz
Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and… — William Wilberforce
Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy â€” to be a man who is brisk about his food and… — Soren Kierkegaard
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
She knew that she belonged to this man, body and soul. Every trace of shame departed; it was burnt out by the fire that consumed… — Aleister Crowley
It had ceased raining in the night and he walked out on the road and called for the dog. He called and called. Standing in… — Cormac McCarthy
How else could he go on, except with merciful incomprehension held before him like a shield? How could anyone? — Stephen King
Before him he saw two roads, both equally straight; but he did see two; and that terrified him--he who had never in his life known… — Victor Hugo
In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom all the sanctities… — Victor Hugo
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy… — Jack London
He felt like a man who, after straining his eyes to peer into the remote distance, finds what he was seeking at his very feet.… — Leo Tolstoy
A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open… — James Joyce
His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to… — Edith Wharton

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