Top 715 Before Quotes

Slavery existed before the formation of this Union. It derived from the Constitution that recognition which it would not have enjoyed without the confederation. If the States had not united together, there would have been no obligation on adjoining States to regard any species of property unknown to themselves.

I remember Glenn Miller coming to me once, before he had his own band, saying, How do you do it? How do you get started? It’s so difficult. I told him, I don’t know but whatever you do don’t stop. Just keep on going.

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

The spread of information technology and the long-term decline in the cost of computing power have created opportunities that simply did not exist before. Airbnb, for example, could not have existed before the Internet.

It’s like simulating earthquakes: we can over and over study a bubble, crash, bubble, crash. Then we can see mathematically if there’s some regular pattern and what’s going on in people’s brains when prices are going up and before the crash is happening.

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

As I have said before, the daily machinations of the stock market are like a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

It’s always hard to deal with injuries mentally, but I like to think about it as a new beginning. I can’t change what happened, so the focus needs to go toward healing and coming back stronger than before.

The question is: how bad do things have to get before you will do something about it? Where is your line in the sand? If you don’t enforce the constitutional limitations on your government very soon, you are likely to find out what World War III will be like.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement.

You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.

The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words of them, the words alone.

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.

I try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don’t follow the nuances of government like I do, because they’re too busy earning a real living, can understand the issues before me. None of this stuff is brain surgery.

I believe in hard work, but I believe in vindication as well. You have a few nightmares, I imagine, before you reach your dream.

Being the Manchester United goalkeeper is one of the most difficult jobs in football when you look at the size of the club and the goalkeepers who have been here before. There is a lot of pressure on you, but I have worked hard to cope with that.

I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.

Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.

The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures.

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

I think I’m incredibly stoic. If I have a bad headache, it takes a while before I reach for a tablet.

Someone said that life is a party. You join in after it’s started and leave before it’s finished.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

It seems like everything that we see perceived in the brain before we actually use our own eyes, that everything we see is coming through computers or machines and then is being input in our brain cells. So that really worries me.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you’re inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you’ve never seen before. If they do, I’m still looking for it.

Before I put another notch in my lipstick case, you better make sure you put me in my place.

Know how to garnish food so that it is more appealing to the eye and even more flavorful than before.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

No one can reap the fruit before planting the trees.

A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.

I’m doing a film called ‘Black Mass’ where I play James Bulger. The reason to play him is obvious to me. He’s a fascinating character. It’s not like anything I’ve done before on that level. I’m very excited to slide into that skin for a little bit.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Wagner manages to convey emotion with music better than anyone, before or since.

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

For years, I believed that anything worth doing was worth doing early. In graduate school, I submitted my dissertation two years in advance. In college, I wrote my papers weeks early and finished my thesis four months before the due date. My roommates joked that I had a productive form of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

In science, if you don’t do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn’t compose the ‘Ninth Symphony,’ no one else before or after is going to compose the ‘Ninth Symphony’ that he composed; no one else is going to paint ‘Starry Night’ by van Gogh.

I was a healthy young man, and I thought I was invincible before I was diagnosed with kidney disease.

The red car, even before I knew it was called Ferrari, was my obsession.

There’s an excellent movie we have on TCM called ‘It Happened on Fifth Avenue,’ which was originally going to be directed by Frank Capra… but just before he was going to start working on it, he came across this story called ‘The Greatest Gift.’ And that turned into ‘It’s a Wonderful Life.’

My feet are definitely more grounded than before. And I know that I’m not holding onto a dream. I’m holding onto my life.

The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don’t have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.

In the past, before phones and the Internet, all communication was face-to-face. Now, most of it is digital, via emails and messaging services. If people were to start using virtual reality, it would almost come full circle.

I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, ‘If wet, in the library.’ Who could say that this is bad?

A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.

I couldn’t live a week without a private library – indeed, I’d part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I’d let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.

There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.