Before Them Quotes

147 quotes by 125 authors

Every generation blames the generation before them. — Mutabaruka
Today, our brave military men and women, just as those who have gone before them, stand on alert, securing freedom at home and guarding the… — Conrad Burns
I hope this brings someone else the courage they need to face whatever challenge is before them. — Julianne Moore
Amongst democratic nations men easily attain a certain equality of conditions: they can never attain the equality they desire. It perpetually retires from before them,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The beauty of ideas is that they are like waves in the ocean and they connect with things that came before them, and I think… — Jim Jarmusch
As for the United States' future in Afghanistan, it will be fire and hell and total defeat, God willing, as it was for their predecessors… — Mohammed Omar
To introduce children to literature is to instal them in a very rich and glorious kingdom, to bring a continual holiday to their doors, to… — Charlotte Mason
I hate to hear people say this Judge will vote so and so, because he is a Democrat -- and this one so and so… — Mark Twain
Either the men of Galilee were men of superlative wisdom, and extensive knowledge and experience, and of deeper skill in the arts of deception than… — Simon Greenleaf
He was sailing over a boundless expanse of sea, with a blood-red sky above, and the angry waters, lashed into fury beneath, boiling and eddying… — Charles Dickens
Ardent desire for knowledge, in fact, is the one motive attracting and supporting investigators in their efforts; and just this knowledge, really grasped and yet… — Claude Bernard
Most people traffic in abstractions and generalizations because they are grossly incompetent at culturing their intuition or powers of evidency, refining it to grasp the… — Kenny Smith
We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the hopes… — William Hazlitt
A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels,… — Samuel Johnson
I believe it is important for comedians to know who came before them. — Shelley Berman
Would-be novelists need to bring equal parts arrogance and ignorance to the task before them. The arrogance is almost self-explanatory. Walk into any bookstore or… — Laura Lippman
And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. The rude shocks and uncomfortably constraining influences of… — Marquis de Custine
When I wrote 'The Alexandria Link,' I discovered that we are only aware of about 10 percent of the knowledge of the ancient world. In… — Steve Berry

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