Quotes for tag "before"

"This is the age of the shrug. He knows I've heard all the stories about him, and he doesn't care. Our civilization could well die of the indifference within it, before succumbing to external attack.

~Frank Herbert's *Children of Dune*

"An author once told me I must find my muse before I could write. When I finally found her, she was
wearing a rubber helmet, a latex catsuit, a very tight corset, an armbinder, and ballet-toe boots
with seven inch heels. I suspect I am not meant to be a writer."

~~anon

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"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us. "He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."

~~Kurt Vonnegut, *Cat's Cradle*

"A good programmer is someone who looks both ways before crossing a one-way street."

~~Doug Linder

"Dangerous!" cried Gandalf. "And so am I, very dangerous: more dangerous than anything you will ever meet, unless you are brought alive before the seat of the Dark Lord."

~~Gandalf, from JRR Tolkein's *The Lord of the Rings*

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"When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it--but all that had gone before."

~~Jacob Riis

"Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen."

~~Jude 1:24-25

"Twas a new feeling -- something more
than we had dared to own before
Which when we hid not;
We saw in each other's eye,
And wished, in every half-breathed sigh,
To speak, but did not."

~~Thomas Moore

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In my sentences I go where no man has gone before...I am a boon to the English language.

~~George W. Bush

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"He wrote passages of sheer poetry which had to be read several times before it was clear that they could not be understood."

~~Richard Armour

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"Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise."

~~Maya Angelou, *I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings*

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