Before Quotes
If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.
Bram StokerBram Stoker Sometimes bad things have to happen before good things can.
Becca FitzpatrickBecca Fitzpatrick I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do – and not only for operating, but for everything.
Ben CarsonBen Carson A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
Anthony TrollopeAnthony Trollope Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons–throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.
Carson McCullersCarson McCullers I got love for Damon Dash as I did before. I don’t know if we can be around each other in that way because times have changed. He may be a totally different person.
Jay-ZJay-Z Health – what my friends are always drinking to before they fall down.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller Long before many of us were even conscious of our own degradation, these men [Marcus Garvey and W. E. B. DuBois] fought for African national and racial equality.
Kwame NkrumahKwame Nkrumah It will be proved that it extends everywhere, most fluid and simple, and nowhere presents obstacles as was formerly held, the circuits of the Planets being wholly free and without the labour and whirling round of any real spheres at all, being divinely governed under a given law.
Tycho BraheTycho Brahe If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it’s stalemate.
Aung San Suu KyiAung San Suu Kyi How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
William GoldingWilliam Golding We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.
Clement AttleeClement Attlee We must not pay attention just to reading and studying; rather, we should ask if we are open before the Lord. If we do not have an unveiled face, the glory of the Lord will not shine on us. If our heart is not open to God, God cannot give us any light.
Watchman NeeWatchman Nee How many more tragedies does it take before we do something?
Alan GottliebAlan Gottlieb After the planet becomes theirs, many millions of years will have to pass before a beetle particularly loved by God, at the end of its calculations will find written on a sheet of paper in letters of fire that energy is equal to the mass multiplied by the square of the velocity of light.
Primo LeviPrimo Levi