Before Him Quotes

224 quotes by 187 authors

Thanks, Dad," she whispered in his ear. Then recovering her composure, she knelt before him and said, "I give thanks, my Father. May your decision… — Stuart Hill
And he absolutely had to find her at once to tell her that he adored her, but the large audience before him separated him from… — Vladimir Nabokov
There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far… — Jean-Paul Sartre
From being quite sure of himself and his future he becomes not at all sure. If he be an imaginative boy a door is torn… — Sherwood Anderson
I scorn your idea of love,' I could not help saying, as I rose up and stood before him, leaning my back against the rock.… — Charlotte Bronte
Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash… — Bruce Lee
The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the… — Leo Tolstoy
Who shall blame him? Who will not secretly rejoice when the hero puts his armour off, and halts by the window and gazes at his… — Virginia Woolf
He was like someone sleeping who woke suddenly and found the world...all the beauty of it, and the sadness too. The hunger and the thirst.… — Daphne du Maurier
She stood before him and surrendered herself to him and sky, forest, and brook all came toward him in new and resplendent colors, belonged to… — Hermann Hesse
The prospect of his future life stretched before him like a sentence; not a prison sentence but a long-winded sentence with a lot of unnecessary… — Margaret Atwood
Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow, do not be… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
She wished she hadn't succumbed to irritation. Because she wanted to know about his inner feelings. She always thought people were like pieces of art… — Christina Dodd
Nico strode forward. The enemy army fell back before him like he radiated death, which of course he did. Through the face guard of his… — Rick Riordan
You know nothing... And suppose the vampire who made you knew nothing, and the vampire who made that vampire knew nothing, and the vampire before… — Anne Rice
For a moment Ethan simply stares. Before him is the monster of his nightmares: his sister's murderer, the beast who robbed him of his greatest… — Marianne Curley
Whatever exists, he said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. He looked about at the dark forest in which they… — Cormac McCarthy
I thought if only I had a keen, shapely bone structure to my face or could discuss politics shrewdly or was a famous writer Constantin… — Sylvia Plath
If he wants to be an asshole, it's a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice. — Margaret Atwood
Through the damp fabric of my coverall, bundled in my blanket, I feel naked. Raw. He sees more than I want, more than I can… — Ann Aguirre

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