Before Him Quotes
224 quotes by 187 authors
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Death cannot be struggled against, brother. It ever arrives, defiant of every hiding place, of every frantic attempt to escape. Death is every mortal's shadow,…
— Steven Erikson
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Every promise of Scripture is a writing of God, which may be pleaded before Him with this reasonable request, 'Do as Thou hast said.' The…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Leicester stared fixedly at the image before him, the color bleached from his face by its brilliance. Seph sensed the headmaster's mind questing out, trying…
— Cinda Williams Chima
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I love you," he said. "You're more dear to my heart than I ever knew anyone else can be. And I've made you cry; and…
— Kristin Cashore
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I don't know what you mean when you say 'the whole world' or 'generations before him.'I thought there was only us. I thought there was…
— Lois Lowry
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I saw him open his mouth wide. . . as though he had wanted to swallow all the air, all the earth, all the men…
— Joseph Conrad
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Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but…
— Tom Wolfe
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When [beauty pornography is] aimed at men, its effect is to keep them from finding peace in sexual love. The fleeting chimera of the airbrushed…
— Naomi Wolf
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And without further argument he unsheathed the sword and cleaved Miss Foxe's head from her neck. He knew what was supposed to happen. He knew…
— Helen Oyeyemi
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As the Roman Empire came to its close, all the old gods of the pagan world were seen as demons by the Christians who rose.…
— Anne Rice
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Stuart rose from the ditch, climbed into his car, and started up the road that led toward the north...As he peeked ahead into the great…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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Happy Birthday." Adrian came to a sudden halt. The words were soft and small, spoken tentatively, but easily discerned by vampire ears. Slowly, he turned…
— Richelle Mead
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People thought he was a glutton for punishment, that he liked getting dumped. But it wasn't like that. He could just never see anything coming,…
— John Green
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The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.
— John Green
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Colin Singleton’s distance from his glasses made him realize the problem: myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.
— John Green
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It was certainly not this mummified and outrageously painted old woman he was seeing before him, but the entire "female species," as it was his…
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to…
— Louisa May Alcott
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For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeteers, musicians…
— George S. Patton
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We must lay before him what is in us; not what ought to be in us.
— C.S. Lewis
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Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither memory nor history. But man - let me offer you a…
— Graham Swift
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