Before Us Quotes

363 quotes by 290 authors

I do not know what the future holds. I do not wish to sound negative, but I wish to remind you of the warnings of… — Gordon B. Hinckley
I have my fears. Yet, notwithstanding the complicated difficulties that rise before us, there is no receding; and I should blush if in any instance… — Mercy Otis Warren
The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over… — Hannah More
We have a mighty task before us. The earth needs our assistance. — Laurens van der Post
In vain do we seek tranquility in the desert; temptations are always with us; our passions, represented by the demons, never let us alone: those… — Baron de Montesquieu
Ask me if Christianity (my version of it, yours, the Pope's, whoever's) is orthodox, meaning true, and here's my honest answer: a little, but not… — Brian D. McLaren
The question before us is, whether people of African ancestry compose a portion of this people, and are constituent members of this sovereignty? We think… — Roger Brooke Taney
I have no misgivings about, or lack of confidence in the cause in which I am engaged, and my courage does not falter. I know… — Sullivan Ballou
Where is the book in which the teacher can read about what teaching is? The children themselves are this book. We should not learn to… — Rudolf Steiner
Humanity needs this technology as much as it needs all other technologies that have now connected us and set before us the terrifying and wondrous… — Krista Tippett
We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Philosophy just puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything.-Since everything lies open to view there is nothing to explain — Ludwig Wittgenstein
I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm the Martin Luther King, or all the… — R. Kelly
World federalists hold before us the vision of a unified mankind living in peace under a just world order... The heart of their program-a world… — U Thant
Everything which we loved is lost. We are in a desert .... Before us is nothing but a black square on a white background! — Kazimir Malevich
The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself. They are in a lose/lose situation. If you are… — Martin Van Creveld
Today our duty is to destroy the myth of evolution, considered as a simple, understood, and explained phenomenon which keeps rapidly unfolding before us. Biologists… — Louis Agassiz
We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us — Ruth St. Denis
The purpose of human existence is to learn and to understand as much as we can of what came before us, so we can further… — Erik Naggum

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