Beforehand Quotes

143 quotes by 130 authors

Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed… — Frederic Bastiat
Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it… — Saul Bellow
I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place. — Winston Churchill
A warrior should not say something fainthearted, even casually. He should set his mind to this beforehand. Even in trifling matters the depths of one's… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them — Wilkie Collins
With regard to precipitous heights, if you are beforehand with your adversary, you should occupy the raised and sunny spots, and there wait for him… — Sun Tzu
The military has no constant form, just as water has no constant shape - adapt as you face the enemy, without letting them know beforehand… — Sun Tzu
Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty. — John Selden
He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Recognize in this bread what hung on the cross, and in this chalice what flowed from His side... whatever was in many and varied ways… — Saint Augustine
Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand. — Alexis de Tocqueville
I wanted to create something that people could relate to without having read a book about it beforehand. — Cindy Sherman
I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We… — William Hazlitt
Nothing is sudden in nature: whereas the slightest storms are forecasted several days in advance, the destruction of the world must have been announced several… — Nicolas Antoine Boulanger
The general who wins a battle makes many calculations in his temple ere the battle is fought. The general who loses a battle makes but… — Sun Tzu
That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work out its form… — Judith Wright
He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To ... not prepare is the greatest of crimes; to be prepared beforehand for any contingency is the greatest of virtues. — Sun Tzu
When you say Yes to God unconditionally, you have no idea how far this Yes is going to take you. Certainly farther than you can… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
All disease, at some period or other of its course, is more or less a reparative process, not necessarily accompanied with suffering: an effort of… — Florence Nightingale

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