Before Us Quotes
363 quotes by 300 authors
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This house isn't mine anymore, but the memories are; the memories can't be sold. The building that housed my once-upon-a-time dreams stands for someone else…
— Cecelia Ahern
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You may object that by speaking of simplicity and beauty I am introducing aesthetic criteria of truth, and I frankly admit that I am strongly…
— Werner Heisenberg
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In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have…
— Pico Iyer
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Science is supposedly the method by which we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. In computer science, we all are standing…
— Gerald J. Popek
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The alchemists of past centuries tried hard to make the elixir of life: ... Those efforts were in vain; it is not in our power…
— Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp
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Every being has its own interior, its self, its mystery, its numinous aspect. To deprive any being of this sacred quality is to disrupt the…
— Thomas Berry
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No matter how difficult the trial... we can take comfort in knowing that others before us have borne life's most grievous trials and tragedies by…
— M. Russell Ballard
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Since one cannot visually experience the presence of the Supersoul, He appears before us as a liberated devotee. Such a spiritual master is none other…
— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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Let us turn our thoughts today to Martin Luther King and recognize that there are ties between us, all men and women living on the…
— James Taylor
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Like so many pilgrims before us, we kneel in wonder and adoration before the ineffable mystery which. was accomplished here... In This Child - the…
— Pope John Paul II
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We're all looking at the people around us, the people who have gone before us who have succeeded in recovery and have long-term sobriety and…
— Scott Stevens
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Mourn not for the vanished ages with their grand, heroic men, who dwell in history's pages and live in the poets pen for the grandest…
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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As the saying goes, the Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones; we transitioned to better solutions. The same opportunity lies…
— Steven Chu
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If I knew that it was possible to save all the children of Germany by transporting them to England, and only half by transferring them…
— David Ben-Gurion
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Men, I am not a religious man and I don't know your feelings in this matter, but I am going to ask you to pray…
— Robert Lee Wolverton
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Perfection does not come in this life, but we exercise faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and keep our covenants. President Monson has promised, "Your…
— Neil L. Andersen
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We of the richer societies, who have had access to more energy than we have the experience to wield intelligently are making decisions we are…
— Alfred W. Crosby
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I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy, golden storm, yes many loved before…
— Leonard Cohen
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The Rosary mystically transports us to Mary's side as she is busy watching over the human growth of Christ in the home of Nazareth. This…
— Pope John Paul II
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To awaken a new longing for holiness: this is the great pastoral challenge that we have before us, if we want to be faithful to…
— Crescenzio Sepe
Who Wrote These Before Us Quotes
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