Top 144 Prior Quotes

Prior to an individual’s encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another, more fundamental and archetypal encounter, which belongs to the conditions of possibility of the appearance of divine love to man.
Hans Urs von Balthasar
Especially since I started studying acting, I feel like I’m always super-aware of my emotions and my feelings and what’s going on with me at every moment. I definitely think I wasn’t very present prior to that.
Mariah Carey
Then the early punk rock period with Television and the Ramones. That’s what I loved- that’s what I was listening to immediately prior to when I started to play.
Arto Lindsay
Prior to having babies, I thought – I thought I was so busy, and now I realize just how ignorant I was.
Kerri Walsh Jennings
Indeed, bull markets are fueled by successive waves of prior skeptics finally capitulating as their fears fade. Eventually, fear turns to euphoria, and that’s the stuff of bubbles.
Kenneth Fisher
Anybody who has been following me right from the get-go, even prior to being on ‘Drag Race,’ has known that my platform has always been about spreading love and spreading light and celebrating identity. It’s always been very positive because I feel like we need that.
BeBe Zahara Benet
The big thing that Sakakibara has going for him besides experience is that he has relationships prior with the paid television stations and that is a massive component to being able to put your product into try and become successful in Japan.
Josh Barnett
First, I’m trying to edit down about 7 hours of material which I made prior to the Cop days and find some way to get it out. This stuff is pretty out there, mostly sonic collages and tape manipulations.
Jim Coleman
You can’t substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example.
Fred Thompson
Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated.
Grace Napolitano
Richard Nixon is very much a self-made man in the six years prior to his emergence as a national figure. Between the moment he’s elected to Congress in 1946 and the moment he’s inaugurated as Vice President in 1953, he conducts nothing less than a kind of prodigy of American political self-advancement.
Roger Morris
As the U.S. ambassador to Japan, I see this challenge of our younger generations not knowing each other as well as the prior generations.
John Roos
I’d never done television prior to ‘Boardwalk.’
Shea Whigham
If Obama was fundamentally different from prior presidents, Trump seems to violate every tenet of what Americans have long sought as our national image.
Joy Reid
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
Bob Dylan
Prior to the App Store, the chances of that happening, of somebody really young forming a company and in a period of no time really becoming a global provider of a game or something else, it really didn’t happen. Now there are these success stories popping up everywhere.
Tim Cook
If I were to continue to work in an established mode, it stands to reason the work would be limited by this – that it would never surpass the prior work in quality.
Patrick deWitt
The day after Britain voted to leave the European Union, I woke up determined to make a success of Brexit. I was surprised by how quickly I went to acceptance of the result, without passing through any of the prior stages of grief.
Jo Johnson
But the funny thing is, I broke my finger not on set doing kung fu. I broke my finger when I fell down the stairs prior to going on set.
Jaime King
Prior to that I testified before the Senate subcommittee addressing mountaintop removal.
Kevin Richardson
At the height of my career, prior to the injuries, I never thought I could break the barrier of Federer, Nadal, Djokovic and Murray, and now I did it with everything that happened.
Juan Martin del Potro
For many years prior to landing my big break with WWE, I learned a lot about uphill battles. I had to scratch and claw day after day for a really big dream that, at many times, seemed totally impossible.
Natalya Neidhart
Most inventions are based on some prior history.
Ralph H. Baer
More important than your obligation to follow your conscience, or at least prior to it, is your obligation to form your conscience correctly.
Antonin Scalia
I don’t do a lot of rehearsal. I don’t like rehearsals. I rehearse the day or morning. I spend one hour and a half with all the actors, and we go over the scenes, and we change it and change the dialogue, and we do a lot of things to it, but prior to shooting, I don’t really rehearse.
Susanne Bier
The Ghost Machine album was actually written when I was going through spiritual depression, as that was written right after Motograter and just prior to Five Finger Death Punch.
Ivan Moody
Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed.
Earl Warren
I was at a party three weeks prior to the murders at Ro

I was at a party three weeks prior to the murders at Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate’s house.
Nancy Sinatra
We must give up Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem and return to the core of the territory that is the State of Israel prior to 1967, with minor corrections dictated by the reality created since then.
Ehud Olmert
In our equities business, 49 of the 50 most important Lehman clients are back doing business with us. The flows are 75 to 80 per cent of what they were prior to the bankruptcy. The issues which damaged Lehman were around commercial mortgages and illiquid private equity assets.
Bob Diamond
I wasn’t instructed to do any special training for ‘Hawkgirl,’ but I had started boxing a few weeks prior and stuck with that for several months leading up to the start of production.
Ciara Renee
I started messing around in my teen years but didn’t really begin training properly until the age of 21. I did a lot of reading prior to that – Mike Mentzer, Arthur Jones and all other notable bodybuilding authors – and just came up with a routine that worked for me.
Dorian Yates
Yes, William E. Dodd was the – became the – America’s first ambassador to Nazi Germany. Prior to that, he was a professor of history at the University of Chicago – mild-mannered guy.
Erik Larson
Prior to the Cruiserweight Classic, I had a tryout with WWE in 2013 and was told that I wasn’t what they were looking for at the moment.
Mustafa Ali
Prior to working for Fox, I worked for ABC and NBC, spent a lot of time at CNN, and almost ended up at CBS. I worked for a bunch of local stations in Los Angeles and had a talk-radio show at KABC for six years. In other words, I’m fortunate enough to have been around, and Fox News is the best place I’ve ever worked.
Susan Estrich
I went from being pretty fit to 230 lbs., which isn’t, like, the biggest for being 6-feet-tall, but I had been 165 lbs. just three months prior. That taught me a lot about how people treat you differently when you’re fit and when you’re bigger.
Jonathan Van Ness
Funny enough, apart from when I was at school, I’ve always gone out with younger men – I was even married briefly to one prior to Angus.
Arlene Phillips
I found out when I did the Oprah Winfrey show that there was a cookie jar of me. So she gave it to me. I had no idea prior to that that it even existed.
Carrie Fisher
Prior to 2009, when publishers scoffed at the ebook market, they offered writers contracts which gave us half of the money they made off ebook sales.
Michael A. Stackpole
I felt self-conscious going out in the street prior to ever even being in a movie. That’s just me.
Jesse Eisenberg
In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.
David Mamet
I’m a fan of Genesis prior to Phil Collins. I don’t really like Phil.
David Draiman
Prior to passage of Obamacare, Americans spoke out against the individual mandate; they didn’t want to change the health care they had; they didn’t want a 3,000-page bill that empowered 15 Washington bureaucrats to decide the future of the doctor-patient relationship.
Fred Upton
Much prior to my marriage, I loved donning homely-girl roles and perhaps now I can tread taking up best of that sort.
Sangeetha Krish
I have to have sound in my ears for 10 minutes prior. I come to the theater early, two hours, just to calm down and warm up.
Jason Butler Harner
We tend to accept information that confirms our prior beliefs and ignore or discredit information that does not. This confirmation bias settles over our eyes like distorting spectacles for everything we look at.
Kyle Hill
No matter how famous and established they were or however blessed they were with great songs or long careers, if they lived alone, they lived alone. That’s not the way I wanted to live prior to the tour or after.
Edie Brickell