Preceding Quotes

78 quotes by 73 authors

Plants grow most in the darkest hours preceding dawn; so do human souls. Nature always pays for a brave fight. Sometimes she pays in strengthened… — William George Jordan
Let Pascal say that man is a thinking reed. He is wrong; man is a thinking erratum. Each period in life is a new edition… — Machado de Assis
The Corporation would like to apologize for the preceding pages. Of course, it's not all right for girls to behave this way. Sexuality is not… — Libba Bray
If he had smiled why would he have smiled? To reflect that each one who enters imagines himself to be the first to enter whereas… — James Joyce
The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it. Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe… — James Robertson
The avalanche of time sweeps everything before it. Every individual instant hurtles into oblivion, drowning out the obliteration of the instant immediately preceding it, and… — David Gerrold
The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture. — Marshall McLuhan
Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that… — Niccolo Machiavelli
In school, I was a genius of the year preceding the year I was in, every year. — Sean Penn
The 21st century will be quite unlike the preceding two centuries, in which power was located in Europe and the U.S., and the rest of… — Martin Jacques
No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs. — Willis Polk
In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear. — Paul Harris
In the twelve months immediately preceding the outbreak; of war, the quantity of spirits, both domestic and imported released for sale in Canada, amounted to… — William Lyon Mackenzie King
If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses… — George Ripley
It's one of nature's ways that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us. — Igor Stravinsky

Who Wrote These Preceding Quotes

73 authors contributed a total of 78 Preceding Quotes, led by these top contributors: