Preceded Quotes

123 quotes by 113 authors

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. — Mary Catherine Bateson
I am going to take something I learned over in Israel. Their Independence Day is preceded the 24 hours before with Memorial Day, so it… — Glenn Beck
Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship. — Joseph Addison
We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will… — H. P. Blavatsky
By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves. — William Hazlitt
The reformation was preceded by the discovery of America, as if the Almighty graciously meant to open a sanctuary to the persecuted in future years,… — Thomas Paine
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by a great deal… — Mark Twain
Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have preceded relapse, attack… — Florence Nightingale
Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory. — Vernon Howard
I think there will come a time when civilized people will look back in horror on our generation and the ones that have preceded it;… — Dennis Weaver
[Theodore Roosevelt] was a naturalist on the broadest grounds, uniting much technical knowledge with knowledge of the daily lives and habits of all forms of… — John Burroughs
Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it. — Arthur Balfour
Man is the summit, the crown of nature's development, and must comprehend everything that has preceded him, even as the fruit includes within itself all… — Lorenz Oken
All great soul-winners have been men of much and mighty prayer, and all great revivals have been preceded and carried out by persevering, prevailing knee-work… — Samuel Logan Brengle
All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence...Silence is the general consecration of the Universe. Silence is the invisible laying… — Herman Melville
The answer to the mystery of existence is the love you shared sometimes so imperfectly, and when the loss wakes you to the deeper beauty… — Dean Koontz
Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters. — M.F.K. Fisher
In spite of what moralists say, the, animals are scarcely less wicked or less unhappy than we are ourselves. The arrogance of the strong, the… — Georges Cuvier
In quitting this strange world he has once again preceded me by a little. That doesn't mean anything. For those of us who believe in… — Albert Einstein
Every action is an idea before it is an action, and perhaps a feeling before it is an idea, and every idea rests upon other… — Wallace Stegner

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