Long Before Quotes
370 quotes by 319 authors
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His eyes softened. I thought maybe he pitied me, but it was something else. "Ultimately, it will be your burden to bear. It's always the…
— Kami Garcia
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Indeed you did your best...I hope that it may be long before you find yourself in such a tight corner again between two such terrible…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I recognized him then; that is, I finally comprehended what I had known but had never been able to formulate: he had always been complete.…
— Aleksandar Hemon
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Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long…
— Virginia Woolf
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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words. But on the other hand…
— Virginia Woolf
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Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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maturity meant thinking about risk long before you pondered the reward, and that success and happiness in life were as much about avoiding mistakes as…
— Nicholas Sparks
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How long can we maintain? I wonder. How long before one of us starts raving and jabbering at this boy? What will he think then?…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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The desert could not be claimed or owned — it was a piece of cloth carried by winds, never held down by stones, and given…
— Michael Ondaatje
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To the Dark Lord, I know I will be dead long before you read this but I want you to know that it was I…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Time comes to us softly, slowly. It sits beside us for a while. Then, long before we are ready, it moves on.
— Jacqueline Woodson
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Mattie sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of her worried, hostile mind. It would have killed her long before, she…
— Anne Lamott
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Love is never easy. We begin by loving the things we can, according to our stature, but it is not long before we find that…
— Alison Croggon
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Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such…
— Kami Garcia
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It weren’t too loo long before I seen something in me, had changed. A bitter seed was planted inside of me. And I just didn’t…
— Kathryn Stockett
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The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche…
— Carl Jung
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When friends speak overmuch of times gone by, often it's because they sense their present time is turning them from friends to strangers. Long before…
— Frederick Buechner
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...A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.
— Brandon Sanderson
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I want you to break the spell. Finish it off.†"What do you mean?†"The spell you did on me and Dimitri.†"That spell is…
— Richelle Mead
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Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again.
— Veronica Roth
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