Precede Quotes
80 quotes by 73 authors
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Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and…
— Elie Wiesel
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Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for…
— Flannery O'Connor
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Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature
— Julio Cortazar
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They say that in the hour before an earthquake the clouds hang leaden in the sky, the winds slows to a hot breath, and the…
— Chris Cleave
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But the question to precede all others, which finally determines the course of our lives is What do I really want? Was it to love…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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Life, faculties, production-in other words, individuality, liberty, property-this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God…
— Frederic Bastiat
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What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.
— Erin Morgenstern
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The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is…
— Erin Morgenstern
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The loved object is simply one that has shared an experience at the same moment of time, narcissistically; and the desire to be near the…
— Lawrence Durrell
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Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back…
— George William Curtis
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The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Accuse American businessmen of being responsible for radicalism and they would indignantly deny the accusation. Yet, in one fundamental sense, they are responsible. They are…
— B. C. Forbes
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In science, mistakes always precede the truth
— Horace Walpole
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Strong convictions precede great actions.
— James Freeman Clarke
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All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong…
— James Freeman Clarke
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Notice carefully that sound judgment must precede the exercise of initiative
— Charles Gow
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Celebrate endings - for they precede new beginnings.
— Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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You control the direction of your life. Only your self-concept limits you from achieving your fullest capacity. Since changes in behavior generally precede changes in…
— Nate
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Your awareness of any fearful disturbance must precede your freedom from it; this is theone True Order upon which self rescue is founded.
— Senoraroy
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