Moments Before Quotes
26 Moments Before quotes by 26 unique authors
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"Hit it with the back of your left hand" was the first swing thought I ever heard, brusquely bu not unlovingly put to me by…
— John Updike
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I like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven
— Gary Oldman
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All successful individuals have become such by hard work; by improving moments before they pass into hours, and hours that other people may occupy in…
— Mary Baker Eddy
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People would cheer throw confetti and then go about breaking the resolutions they had made only moments before.
— Neal Shusterman
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I was on the second helicopter and arrived moments before Marine One touched down at Brenton Point in Newport, R.I. I bet one of the…
— Pete Souza
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Photography is much more about elimination than inclusion. The images we make with a lens typically eliminate ninety percent of our field of view and…
— John Paul Caponigro
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I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time…
— Florence Welch
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Unoka went into an inner room and soon returned with a small wooden disc containing a kola nut, some alligator pepper and a lump of…
— Chinua Achebe
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Moments before sleep are when she feels most alive, leaping across fragments of the day, bringing each moment into the bed with her like a…
— Michael Ondaatje
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[...] and as I walked, I tried to see the funny side. It wasn't easy, and I'm still not sure that I managed it properly,…
— Hugh Laurie
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Will smiled the way Lucifer might have smiled, moments before he fell from Heaven.
— Cassandra Clare
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When you wake up from a dream you have only a few precious moments before the details of the dream begin to dissipate and the…
— Vera Nazarian
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Little solace comes to those who grieve when thoughts keep drifting as walls keep shifting and this great blue world of ours seems a house…
— Mark Z. Danielewski
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I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the…
— Ann Voskamp
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I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of my past. Every…
— Isabel Allende
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Personally, I always wondered about authors and celebrities who loudly declared there was no God. It was usually when they were healthy and popular and…
— Mitch Albom
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And I think back over my own life and I realize that my own nature-the core me-essentially hasn’t changed all these years. When I wake…
— Douglas Coupland
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Those moments before a poem comes, when the heightened awareness comes over you, and you realize a poem is buried there somewhere, you prepare yourself.…
— Anne Sexton
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Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before…
— Terence McKenna
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...When a man first awakens, it sometimes takes several moments before he starts thinking clearly." "And here I thought it took several years, perhaps a…
— Karen Marie Moning
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When I wake, I have a brief, delicious feeling of happiness that is somehow connected with Peeta. Happiness, of course, is a complete absurdity at…
— Suzanne Collins
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That night we push our cots just a little closer together, and look into each other's eyes in the moments before we fall asleep. When…
— Veronica Roth
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There have been low moments before, but Christianity is an incredibly adaptable organism, using different parts of its repertoire to mutate into new ecological niches,…
— Francis Spufford
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Its too painful when the person you love acts weird and behaves as in we are strangers and met few moments before
— Superman
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When time resets, we all become zero. Decimals apart, take us back to the start. Tear down the walls, that were built to divide. Can…
— Unknown Author
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