Before 1915, space and time were thought of as a fixed arena in which events took place, but which was not affected by what happened in it. Space and time are now dynamic quantities… space and time not only affect but are also affected by everything that happens in the universe.
In the economy of the cuckoo people that populate central banks, everything is possible. What you have is gigantic bubbles, the NASDAQ in 2000, then the housing bubble and then commodities in 2008 when oil went from $78 to $147 before plunging to $32 within six months.
You have to listen to the people who have a negative opinion as well as those who have positive opinion. Just to make sure that you are blending all these opinions in your mind before a decision is made.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
Sometimes you have to burn yourself to the ground before you can rise like a phoenix from the ashes.
Education broadens our horizons and enables us to confront realities we’d never before anticipated.
Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.
How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.
Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, ‘Casino Royale’ dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired.
When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased.
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
My scientific studies have afforded me great gratification; and I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work.
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
There’s a way of playing safe, there’s a way of using tricks and there’s the way I like to play which is dangerously where you’re going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven’t created before.
A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother’s love.
Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.
Happy as we are, times may alter; we may be bitten with some impulse towards change, and many things may seem too wonderful for us to resist, too exciting not to catch at, if we do not know that they are but phases of what has been before and withal ruinous, deceitful, and sordid.
I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.
Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.
The financial crisis of 2008 was not caused by investment banks betting against the housing market in 2007. It was caused by the fact that too few investors – including all of the big investment banks – bet too heavily on the housing market in the years before 2007.
Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?
Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.
As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that’s never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
My mom kicked me out a couple of weeks before my 18th birthday. I had a job for about six, seven months at a supermarket, and they fired me for being late.
The Brexit thing to me just looks like a difference of opinion. I know things were lied about, but that should be a wake-up call to get all the information before you vote about something. Educate yourself.
In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.
Learn to obey before you command.
They always say, ‘Time heals.’ But it really doesn’t. You just get used to it. I live life with the mentality of ‘OK, I lost the only thing that has ever been important to me.’ So going forward, anything bad that happens can’t be nearly as bad as what happened before.
Today is a most unusual day, because we have never lived it before; we will never live it again; it is the only day we have.
It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.
I worked in a Starbucks that wasn’t very popular – before the big coffee boom in London. My boss didn’t take kindly to my incessant sitting. I was like, ‘Look, I’ve dusted everything, the stockroom is all figured out… I would rather sit now so I have the energy when a customer does come in.’
My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?
Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
I am mortal. I want the nation to get used to freedom before I die.
I can honestly say I love getting older. Then again, I never put my glasses on before looking in the mirror.
I was supposed to move into a new place and it fell through. So for five months before Sex Education, I was couch-surfing among all my friends. I didn’t have a home.
Before Hurricane Katrina, I always felt like I could come back home. And home was a real place, and also it had this mythical weight for me. Because of the way that Hurricane Katrina ripped everything away, it cast that idea in doubt.
Before I came out, the thought of someone calling me gay, even when I knew very well that I was, was petrifying.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
I’ll die before I’m 25, and when I do I’ll have lived the way I wanted to.
Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’.
There’s a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.
In the game of life, before you get anything out, you must put something in!
Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ’em I never knew existed before.
Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.
Throw a stick, and the servile dog wheezes and pants and shambles to bring it to you. Do the same before a cat, and he will eye you with coolly polite and somewhat bored amusement.
All men are equal before fish.
Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.
Others have said it before me. If you don’t have a seat at the table, you’re probably on the menu. And so it is important that we have women in the United States Senate – strong women, women who are there to help advance an agenda that is important to women.
The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
Don’t be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
