Top 100 Before There Quotes
#1. We're going where no one has gone before. There's no model to follow, nothing to copy. That is what makes this so exciting.
Richard Branson
#2. Do people ever realize how precious life is? I know I never did before. There was always time. There was always a future.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#3. In Africa, there is much confusion ... Before, there was no radio, or other forms of communication ... Now, in Africa ... the government talks, people talk, the police talk, the people don't know anymore. They aren't free.
Youssou N'Dour
#4. Americans have seen fit to elect twelve generals to the U.S. presidency, but even before there was a United States of America generals ruled the earth. Take
Winston Groom
#5. Christ loved the sons of men before there were sons of men, and me before there was me. If he was going to get tired of me, he would have done so before now.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#6. Before there was an Internet, before there was an A.O.L., the circulation of newspapers was going down.
Donald E. Graham
#7. There were creative-writin g teachers long before there were creative-writin g courses, and they were called and continue to be called editors.
Kurt Vonnegut
#8. I had read them and congratulated myself for being black, as if I had chosen to be, because black women were feminists before there was a name for it.
Carleen Brice
#9. Cardinal Arithmetics is much older than Number Theory. People used to exchange things way before there were numbers. Expressing numbers like 762 is already a sign of a very advanced civilization.
Saharon Shelah
#10. Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to the highest ascent. There is usually some baseness before there is any elevation.
Walter Savage Landor
#11. Before, there had been this small, shiny thing inside her that kept her immune from what was happening, and now she knew it had only been her ignorance, and she felt herself falling into a deep, dark place.
Tatjana Soli
#12. Before there is a business, a successful entrepreneur is designing this type of business in his or her mind's eye. According to my rich dad, this is the job of a true entrepreneur.
Robert Kiyosaki
#13. As before, there is a great silence, with no end in sight. The writer surrenders, listening.
Jayne Anne Phillips
#14. It is easier to believe that there was nothing before there was something than that there was something before there was nothing.
Julian Huxley
#15. a sincere promise, coupled with a helping hand, can bring hope where before there had been only despair.
Richard D. Sagor
#16. I've seen it before. There are women who spread ruin through no fault of theirs, just by being too beautiful, too ful of life and love. They can't help it. Poeple come to them as people go to a warm fire in winter.
Willa Cather
#17. There's something about [pain] that excites me. If I'm feeling really awful about something, it's because I haven't experienced it before. There's something I need to learn from it.
Rachael Yamagata
#18. Faith is like automobile insurance. It need to be in place before there's a crisis.
Pamela Christian
#19. A few minutes before, there had only been three real things before me
the immensity of the night and space and nature, my own feebleness and anguish, and the near approach of death.
H.G.Wells
#20. We can only sacrifice so much of ourselves in a relationship before there's nothing left to love or be loved.
Tiffany Reisz
#21. but now we see that the subject controls the time of its environment. While we said before, "There can be no living subject without time," now we shall have to say, "Without a living subject, there can be no time.
Jakob Johann Von Uexkull
#22. There is no before. There is only now, and what comes next.
Lauren Oliver
#23. They made up all those myths in the time before there was anything called science.
Jostein Gaarder
#24. The shushing of the waves was the heartbeat of the world, ever present, seldom noticed, and linking every moment together from before there was life to now.
Kim Harrison
#25. As she looked around, she realised although she had stayed here many times before, there was nothing there that was truly hers.
Lara Pass
#26. So long as men shall be on earth, there will be tasks for them to do. Some way for them to show their worth. Each day shall bring its problems new. And men shall dream of mightier deeds than ever have been done before. There always shall be human needs for men to work and struggle for.
Edgar Guest
#27. Long before there was Marilyn Manson, long before there was Alice Cooper, way before Ozzy Osbourne, there was Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Reverend Billy C. Wirtz
#28. It's always about wanting to one-up myself from the day before. There's never an absolute 100% perfect performance, but going out and striving for that perfect performance is what keeps me going.
Cat Osterman
#29. Before there was the Soviet Union that could inflame matters. Now you have states not as powerful as the Soviet Union, but states like Iraq, like Iran, and to some extent Syria, having made it possible for some of these groups to operate. So it is a very difficult situation.
Henry A. Kissinger
#30. A thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope.
Samuel Johnson
#31. Before there was any talk of a movie, people would sometimes ask me what actors I would imagine playing these characters. And the only thing I could ever say is: I have such a clear idea of these characters that they'd have to play themselves.
Michael Cunningham
#32. I've worked with a lot of first time directors; in fact, I enjoy it because there is a certain beginner's mind that they bring into a project that isn't loaded with the way things have been done before. There's a certain freedom to it.
Stephanie Allain
#33. The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler.
Fulton J. Sheen
#34. Since the day I finished shooting there's been at least one person come up to me every single day and then after the trailer came out, at least four. It's absolutely bizarre to me. This was before there was any systematic promotion of the movie. It's just completely nuts.
Robert Pattinson
#35. Whenever anyone pulls out of the race, you know, unless they've just been trounced in the days before, there's also - always a lot of questions about why that happened.
Elizabeth Edwards
#36. Before there was Ronald Reagan there was Barry Goldwater, and before there was Barry, there was National Review , and before there was National Review there was Bill Buckley with a spark in his mind.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#37. Before there was any water there were tides of fire, both our tones flow from the older fountain.
Robinson Jeffers
#38. It's inevitable. When you meet the one who makes you smile as you've never smiled before, cry as you've never cried before... there is nothing to do but fall.
Renee Ahdieh
#39. I think people at least now, as opposed to ten-15-20 years ago, kind of get it, what is the bad food. I think, before, there was a time when they didn't even get it that processed food was hurting them. Now, I think they get that, but the big enemies to switching over to good food are convenience.
Mark Bittman
#40. Everyone talks about success, but what happens before? There's always something you have to overcome.
Chris Bosh
#41. Charles Dickens was an incredibly cinematic writer. He wrote this one hundred years before there were movies. He writes very thematically. It is amazing.
Jim Carrey
#42. Nobody sits alone accompanied only by a stewing ambition that won't see fruit for years. Ambition is something you turn into publicity before there's anything to publicize.
Cris Mazza
#43. I remember what love was like before There were complex emotional and biological factors at work. We had elaborate tests to pass, connections to forge, ups and downs and tears and whirlwinds. It was an ordeal, an exercise in agony, but it was alive. The new love is simpler. Easier. But small.
Isaac Marion
#44. Before there can be fullness there must be emptiness. Before God can fill us with Himself we must first be emptied of ourselves.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#45. Most of our designs are developed long before there is a practical possibility of carrying them out. I do that on purpose and have done it all my life. I do it when I am interested in something.
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
#46. Back in the Stone Age, before there were workshops, it was a very difficult idea to get into musical theatre. Normally, you would be a chorus girl or boy and write something. People would get their start as rehearsal pianists or dance assistants.
Maury Yeston
#47. In the old days, before there was such a thing as film schools, directors learned the camera by watching other directors, and learning from their own dailies, and listening to the cameraman, and seeing what would work. Some of those guys could cut their movies in their head.
Don Ameche
#49. But with that burst of the fairness that he can never repress, he admits that conversion is unlikely as long as Christians exclude Jews from the community: There must be first conversing with them before there can be converting them.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#50. As I said before, there are often disagreements as to what a particular set of facts mean. That is not at all unusual, and one shouldn't read into it more than is there.
Robert Mueller
#51. Oftentimes during the period in which conventions really did business, you had situations where the delegates were divided and you would have ballot after ballot before there was a final nominee.
Michael Beschloss
#52. I want to keep feeling the way I feel when I'm with you. Just tell me what I have to do. And give me some room to screw up. I've never done this before. There's a learning curve.
Sylvia Day
#53. It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.
Robin Wright
#54. Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection before there can be renewal and reform.
J. B. Jackson
#55. The world will end before there is another .400 hitter ... I think that was mentioned in the Bible.
Lenny Dykstra
#56. Maybe we have to sin, to know ourselves human, faulty and flawed, before there is any possibility of greatness." - Nik
Madeleine L'Engle
#57. How long can a man live on the outside before he loses his ability to love? How long before there's no more hope?
Elizabeth Lowell
#58. We don't have that for the most part it is learned behavior and so the first part is we have to understand why people are behaving the way they are. Behavior is a result so we have to understand that before there is a result something is going on in here in the brain.
John Assaraf
#59. More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries.
Gro Harlem Brundtland
#60. There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boisterous battle, with pennants waving and cannon roaring, before there can be peaceful treaties and enthusiastic shaking of hands.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
#61. How deep inside your own heartbreak do you have to fall before there's no outward sign of life?
Jonathan Maberry
#62. There was a space program before there was integrated circuits.
Jack Kilby
#63. There is something about New Orleans that embodies passion; I've never seen that before. There's something tangible about the essence of the city. You can taste and smell it.
Blake Lively
#64. Culture and the freedoms of people are fragile. Without a sufficient base, when such pressures come only time is needed - and often not a great deal of time - before there is a collapse.
Francis A. Schaeffer
#65. Books are sharks ... because sharks have been around for a very long time. There were sharks before there were dinosaurs, and the reason sharks are still in the ocean is that nothing is better at being a shark than a shark.
Douglas Adams
#66. From Wall Street to Drive was almost a year, when I didn't do anything 'cause there was just nothing that was significantly different from the things I'd done before. There was just nothing to explore.
Carey Mulligan
#67. Have you ever wondered why in the last century all the great metropolises hastened to build subways?" "To solve traffic problems?" "Before there were automobiles, when there were only horse-drawn carriages? From
Umberto Eco
#68. Tomorrow! How sweet its prospects for a drunkard the night before. There is no better word. Before the earth hurls itself into sunshine, nothing is not possible.
Mary Karr
#69. Before there was any chance to go to England, I changed schools, and it was rugby from there on in.
Brian O'Driscoll
#70. A successful business is created before there is a business.
Robert Kiyosaki
#71. The sound world that I created for 'Avatar' had to be very different, really, than anything I ever created before. There is also three hours of music.
James Horner
#72. Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn't deliver, the king cut off his head.
Alvin Toffler
#73. In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness that doesn't have that much to do with everyday thinking. It's as if you could imagine life before there were words.
Charlie Haden
#74. I hadn't been there ten minutes before there were three turds on the carpet.
Helen Fielding
#75. It was before there were any words; there were just things without names, and things without names don't stay in your mind. They fall out, and then they're gone.
M.R. Carey
#76. It disturbs me when Obama says in the State of the Union address that he wants to make dropping out of school at 18 illegal, because people learn differently and before there are forms of learning for every type of person in the world, we shouldn't be condemned for leaving.
Ezra Miller
#77. Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction; before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed.
Walter Savage Landor
#78. In many respects, I guess I would say I was into Tea Party before there was a Tea Party.
Jeb Hensarling
#79. We must be much more angry with theft than before, and yet much kinder to thieves than before. There
G.K. Chesterton
#80. Christianity has always been the Gestapo of desire, since long, long before there was a Gestapo. Instead of Jews to hate, Christianity has desire. Though I guess Christianity has Jews, too. In any case, all the ovens in the world can't incinerate desire.
David Burr Gerrard
#81. People have to want to change before there's any chance of helping them do so.
Jakob Nielsen
#82. I haven't been to Tasmania. I haven't been to the South Pole, and I haven't been to the North Pole. I want to see the polar bear migration before there are no polar bears. I want to see Glacier National Park before the glacier melts.
Martha Stewart
#83. And, as I said before, there are exceptions to the white norm: people who are white on the outside, but not white inside. I'm not sure what term should be applied to them other than "human beings.
Russel Means
#84. With awareness there comes choice. And so you are able to say: "I allow this moment to be as it is". And then, suddenly, where before there was irritation, there is now a sense of aliveness and peace. And out of that comes right action.
Eckhart Tolle
#85. I think that it is a good plan to bear in mind that people were in the habit of dreaming before there was such a thing as psychoanalysis.
Sigmund Freud
#86. Before there can be change there must be discontent.
Paul Bowles
#87. The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.
C. G. Jung
#88. He was a pitiful thing. He had always been a pitiful thing. Why had she never seen that before? There was a hollow place inside her where her fear had been.
George R R Martin
#89. Before there were any sort of 'recordings' there was performance. If we are devolved back to the Stone Age tomorrow, there will be performance.
Todd Rundgren
#90. Let me know the way, before there's hell to pay.
Fiona Apple
#91. The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in me
Older and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean.
Robinson Jeffers
#92. It's occurred to me that our human values, our ideas of right and wrong, good and bad, evolved in simpler times, before there were machines.
Herman Wouk
#93. Ultimately, with every film I'd done before, there was a reference. They have their own uniqueness, but there was always a precedent.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#94. But as we've said before, there is great power in all of us, if only we channel that power into action.
Thomas Wheeler
#95. Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat.
Ron Paul
#96. For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.
Jon Bon Jovi
#97. The fire that hollows us out is what allows us to be filled with strength and power where before there was none.
Morgan Rhodes
#98. Travelers are always discoverers, especially those who travel by air. There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#99. Voice comes from a moment beyond the alienation of culture, it is heard before there is an "I" to listen to it.
Betsy Wing
#100. I just wanted to tell the story of a bunch of musicians who had never had their story told before. There's no preaching or theorizing.
Michael Azerrad
