Beforehand Quotes

143 quotes by 130 authors

The best method for preventing destructive cult involvement is preventative education. If students and the public at large are more aware of destructive groups beforehand… — Rick Ross
I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory… — Clara Schumann
The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for… — Yves Tanguy
I wasn't ready for fame and all that brings to your life. It was an amazing experience, but so overwhelming, because no one can tell… — Iyanla Vanzant
There is a limit to the amount of misery and disarray you will put up with, for love, just as there is a limit to… — Alice Munro
The memory of that event has only just come back to me, now doubly painful: regret for a vanished past and, above all, remorse for… — Jean-Dominique Bauby
But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand. — Jerome K. Jerome
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there's no place… — Carl Sagan
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever… — Jane Austen
Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves… — Isak Dinesen
Vic nudged my elbow with his. "You and me are still friends, right? You guys get a joint custody in the divorce. Generous visitations rights."… — Claudia Gray
No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. ... I tried to make a real… — Ernest Hemingway
Many folk like to know beforehand what is to be set on the table; but those who have laboured to prepare the feast like to… — J.R.R. Tolkien
We are so afraid of the idea of having to dieâ€¦ that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were… — Jose Saramago
You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner… — Jose Saramago
That's what this war is all about, my friend. It's about which of us is the crazier.And clearly you British have an advantage.You were crazy… — Michael Morpurgo
God certainly knows of some happiness for us which He is going to bring out of the trouble, only we must have patience and not… — Johanna Spyri
The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations… — Sun Tzu
Our faith in freedom does not rest on the foreseeable results in particular circumstances, but on the belief that it will, on balance, release more… — Friedrich August von Hayek

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