Top 100 Before It Quotes
#1. Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.
Ali Smith
#2. How many times can a heart be broken before it is beyond mend?
Tarryn Fisher
#3. Now where does he sit as he thinks of her? These years later. A stone of history skipping over the water, bouncing up so she and he have aged before it touches the surface again and sinks.
Michael Ondaatje
#4. Relationships are like flash floods, they happen when you least expect it. Can be as quick as lightning, and they change all that stand before it, and after it,"
WIP Strands of Sollus Book 2
Cheryl Suchacek
#5. The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#6. You have to think like a designer. You have to establish the trend four seasons before it becomes popular.
Kanye West
#7. Religious fundamentalism, even before it eliminates human beings by perpetrating horrendous killings, eliminates God himself, turning him into a mere ideological pretext.
Pope Francis
#8. When I turned 40, subconsciously, life was a blank sheet. Before, it was disjointed, and I was very displaced and quite mad, but it was a brilliant time. Everyone thinks I must have been unhappy.
James Nesbitt
#9. Anxiety is simply living out the future before it gets here.
Kevin DeYoung
#10. Love doesn't let you walk away clean. Love is messy. Love takes a fucking piece of you before it's done.
R.K. Lilley
#11. I left 'Wired' before it was sold to Conde Nast and Lycos, so I didn't experience that transition.
John Battelle
#12. Love is not about want.
Love is not about good.
Love doesn't let you walk away clean.
Love is messy.
Love takes a fucking piece of you before it's done.
If it is ever even possible to be done.
R.K. Lilley
#13. I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.
Henry Miller
#14. Just curious? That's a bullshit phrase."
"It's a simple question. How long - "
"No, it's a signal that bullshit is about to follow. It's the hat that bullshit puts on before it goes out to get the paper.
Daryl Gregory
#15. No one could reach Amy Winehouse before it was too late. Can anyone reach Washington before it's too late? Both addicted - same fate?
Billy Long
#16. This world is too peaceful, too acquiescent, too tame. It is a circumcised world. Nay! - a castrated world! It must be made fiercer, before it can become grander and better and - more natural.
Arthur Desmond
#17. Live every second, Here and now . Don't let go, Before it's to late
Bill Kaulitz
#18. The Blood Decanter is really a myth. It's a metaphor that we all watch, we all stand before it, awed and reverent; but in actuality, it's a demon that steals your soul.
A.L. Mengel
#19. When can I drive the new ride?" "When you learn that a yellow light means haul ass to get through it before it turns red instead of slowing down to a crawl a half a block away.
J.D. Robb
#20. The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a deep impression.
Joshua Reynolds
#21. You will ask me, after this, why, I didn't tell you this before. It is because I know how powerful a story can be. It can change the course of history. It can save a life. But it can also be a sinkhole, a quicksand in which you become stuck, unable to write yourself free.
Jodi Picoult
#22. Youth looks at its world and age looks through it; youth must get busy on problems whose outlines stand single and strenuous before it, while age can, with luck, achieve a cosmic private harmony unsuited for action as a rule.
Freya Stark
#23. Why does anything left-wing have to be trendy before it's read, and by the time it's trendy it's already a force for conservatism?
Julian Barnes
#24. I think anytime you can do something you haven't seen or done in a film before, it's always a great day as an actor.
Matt Dillon
#25. If they haven't heard it before it's original.
Gene Fowler
#26. Don't be gullible, use life before it uses you. Understand there are no free lunches, and for every action you take, there's a reaction.
Sylvester Stallone
#27. Like the genocide of the Armenians before it, and the genocide of the Cambodians which followed it ... the lessons of the Holocaust must never be forgotten.
Ronald Reagan
#28. You could not really bargain away your soul before it was established that you had one.
Stacy Schiff
#29. God is able to fix that which is broken so that what stands repaired is immeasurably greater than that which stood before it needed repair. Therefore, the most staggering brokenness conceivable is in reality the greatest opportunity imaginable.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#30. The trouble with a movie is that it's old before it's released. It's no accident that it comes in a can.
Orson Welles
#31. There were tears in his eyes. The ocean rose inside him, and I looked away, before it got me, too.
Sarah Ockler
#32. However ugly a face may be, we can discover some beauty in it if we first experience wonder before it and then begin to understand it, too.
Oskar Kokoschka
#33. Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.
Plato
#34. We're led to believe love is complicated. It's not the love that's complicated. It's all the crap that we attach to it and put in front of it that makes it difficult. If you're smart, you'll realize this before it's too late and simplify.
Alison G. Bailey
#35. They tryna shoot down my flight before it lands
Drake
#36. Time was something altogether more fragmented than it had been before. It was like throwing a handful of feathers into the air and watching them drift. Moments no longer flowed from one to the other.
Rachel Joyce
#37. Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight. It will not have its
intended effect until we feel desperately the need for a Savior.
John Piper
#38. It's really nice to be able to do something that you've never done. I think that's the gift of being an actor because I get to play a cop, a racist cop and I've never done that before. It's nice to inhabit these other worlds especially when you get to work with great actors.
Matt Dillon
#39. In order to inherit your freedom, you need to go towards it. You have to claim your own freedom before it becomes yours.
John O'Donohue
#40. Electricity is an example of a general purpose technology, like the steam engine before it. General purpose technologies drive most economic growth, because they unleash cascades of complementary innovations, like lightbulbs and, yes, factory redesign.
Erik Brynjolfsson
#41. How submerged does a reference have to be before it drowns?
Julian Barnes
#42. As she had once told Kathleen, sometimes one had to love something before it became lovable
Lisa Kleypas
#43. God doesn't change his word, if He has promised you something;you better believe that is done before it's existence.
Euginia Herlihy
#44. Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
Alexander Pope
#45. Six hours later, when I returned, I was greeted at the door- and this before it was even opened -by the overpowering smell of vinegar. What were my neighbors thinking? That a douche-obsessed woman with a gigantic, three-foot vagina lived next door?
Augusten Burroughs
#46. I used to buy vinyl. Today, if you do put out a record on a label, traditionally, most people are going to hear it via a leak that happens two weeks - if not two months - before it comes out. There's no real way around that.
Trent Reznor
#47. It is unbelievable the amount of hate the human body can sustain before it begins to break.
Megan McKenna
#48. An inventor is one who can see the applicability of means to supply demand five years before it is obvious to those skilled in the art.
Reginald Fessenden
#49. You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
Barbara Kingsolver
#50. Grabbing his hand, I stepped close and placed a hand over his racing heart. You are what makes me happy. I can't live a life that you're not in, Kash. I've already tried it once before, it didn't work.
Molly McAdams
#51. The night crept on apace, the moon went down, the stars grew pale and dim, and morning, cold as they, slowly approached. Then, from behind a distant hill, the noble sun rose up, driving the mists in phantom shapes before it, and clearing the earth of their ghostly forms till darkness came again.
Charles Dickens
#52. Before it was revealed that my character on 'Lost' had a troubled history, a fan came up to me and said, 'Wow, you're a really nice guy.' To me, that was a compliment, having played a very villainous guy.
Nestor Carbonell
#53. Obviously when you cast someone who hasn't acted before it can be a massive opportunity for them.
Andrea Arnold
#54. You are guilty of no evil, Ransom of Thulcandra, except a little fearfulness. For that, the journey you go on is your pain, and perhaps your cure: for you must be either mad or brave before it is ended.
C.S. Lewis
#55. And that I miss her, that I need her, and this kind of missing, this kind of need, the kind of emptiness it leaves behind is worse than waking up one day and finding the whole world has collapsed in on itself, that I was over longer before it was.
Courtney Summers
#56. Many of the earth's habitats, animals, plants, insects and even micro-organisms that we know to be rare may not be known at all by future generations. We have the capability and the responsibility to act; we must do so before it is too late.
Dalai Lama
#57. Sunlight 's a thing that needs a window Before it enter a dark room. Windows don't happen. So two old poets, Hunched at their beer in the low haze Of an inn parlour, while the talk ran Noisily by them, glib with prose.
R.S. Thomas
#58. The idea of some people being less than people is poison to any society and needs to be named as such in order to halt its spread before it turns the soul of a society septic.
Richard Flanagan
#59. We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#60. The rose fell, a brief fragrant blazing meteor before it plummeted to the cold stones, forgotten.
Melinda O'Donnell
#61. 'Sports Illustrated' does extremely minimal retouching. Other publications, however ... phew. They do a lot; I've watched myself be Photoshopped before. It. Is. The. Worst.
Christine Teigen
#62. There are persons who always find a hair in their plate of soup for the simple reason that, when they sit down before it, they shake their heads until one falls in.
Christian Friedrich Hebbel
#63. My mind spun for a second before it drifted, and in that second I knew that of all pleasures a drink of cold water when you are thirsty, liquor when you are not, sex, a cigarette after many days without one there is none of them can compare with sleep. Sleep is best ...
Roger Zelazny
#64. I considered myself liberated long before it became the fashion. First I liberated myself from debilitating habits, and went on to free myself of combative, aggressive thoughts. I have also cast aside any unnecessary possessions. This, I feel, is true liberation.
Peace Pilgrim
#65. I am doing my best to find it. I will find it before the public finds it. I will get out of it before it's too late. The reason I will do that is because that's what I'm paid to do.
Jim Cramer
#66. I think the hard work of writing is just how long a book is terrible before it's good."--Leigh Bardugo
Leigh Bardugo
#67. Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation.
George H. Smith
#68. Mesmerism, n. Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage and asked Incredulity to dinner.
Ambrose Bierce
#69. Jade must be chiseled before it can be considered a gem -- Chinese Proverb
Lars Guignard
#70. It was time to get out of what Coach called "small-stack mentality." I no longer had to play like I was trying to escape the space station before it self-destructed, as the chirpy computer voice counted down.
Colson Whitehead
#71. how many times a heart could break before it was shattered into so many minute fragments there was no heart left at all.
Nadine Miller
#73. The thing was, Ronan knew what a face looked like, just before it was about to break. He'd seen it in the mirror often enough. Adam had fracture lines all over him.
Maggie Stiefvater
#74. When a basic human need becomes a taboo, it is only a matter of time before it turns into a hideous industry.
Stephan Attia
#75. Each eye can have its vision separately; but when we are looking at anything our vision, which in itself is divided, joins up and unites in order to give itself as a whole to the object that is put before it.
John Calvin
#76. Catch up with your past, before it catches up with you.
Robert Palmer
#77. I think it's important to be kind to the world before it disappears if we don't take care of it.
Danielle Panabaker
#78. I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating, but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us. Perhaps we shall have to colonise the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.
R. J. Hollingdale
#79. This time, I took it easier. I stood up before it so as not to crash again.
Hermann Maier
#80. As it is so strangely ordained in this world, what is amusing will turn into being gloomy, if you stand too long before it, and then God knows what ideas may not stray into the mind ... Why is it that even in moments of unthinking, careless gaiety a different and strange mood comes upon one?
Nikolai Gogol
#81. He's no Turner Campbell, but the kiss is different than anything I've ever felt before. It's like kissing death, but in a good way. Like having a bite of that final rest, tasting soothing comfort and reassurance.
C.M. Stunich
#82. I was familiar with 'Addicted' for a long time, even prior to the movie, way before it got the greenlight. And when it finally got the greenlight, I was very happy to be a part of it.
Tasha Smith
#83. Sounding throaty like a dog before it barfed, he said, Put her in the chair.
Judy Byington
#84. My heart forgets to wait and get to know a girl before it starts to claw its way out of my chest to get to her.
Colleen Hoover
#85. I love to see actors' work. I love to surf channels late at night and accidentally run into movies I hadn't seen before. It makes me very proud of the profession.
James Earl Jones
#86. The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop.
Rudolf Nureyev
#87. Jack Reacher ordered espresso, double, no peel, no cube, foam cup, no china, and before it arrived at his table he saw a man's life change forever.
Lee Child
#88. The most important thing was that time had passed, pouring thousands of soothing seconds across the island. People need time to deal with the now before it runs away and becomes the then.
Terry Pratchett
#89. It was a wonderful flower, indeed. She had never seen its like before. It was not just one color, or two, but four: ebony, silver, snow white and purple, all at once.
Rachel Sharp
#90. Yeah, I'd rather be a flower that only blossoms once before it dies, and then nourishes the ground with its remains - than this empty soul that's stuck in a dead shell.
Michelle Horst
#91. A soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor.
James A. Michener
#92. Love did not conquer all; it only made life more bearable for a short time before it consumed its victims.
Heather Webb
#93. That scene, like the one before it, is perfectly believable and totally made up
Laurent Binet
#94. Like 'Twin Peaks,' '24,' 'Mad Men,' and 'The Sopranos' before it, 'Downton Abbey' enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture. It replenishes the stream.
James Wolcott
#95. 'Human' was controversial within The Killers way before it was controversial to the rest of the world! It caused some problems within the band. Not to throw anybody under the bus, but it was pretty much me and Dave against Mark and Ronnie for a little while. We were standing up for the song.
Brandon Flowers
#96. Love causes war and causes death, breaks souls and breaks lives. It runs people into the ground, makes them behave like moronic, immoral beasts, before it dances off, leaving only destruction in its wake - hearts blown wide open for the whole world to see.
Karina Halle
#97. I strongly encourage listening to the radio to hear something you haven't heard before. It's a very healthy thing to do. It's strange: unless you reload your iPods every couple of weeks, you're listening to and recycling the same music all of the time. I'm serious. Listen to your radio station.
Alvin Lee
#100. When in life you are destined great, but fated to a humble background, it always gets really worse before it gets really better.
Darmie Orem
