Top 100 Before We Quotes
#1. I had written 'Two Lovers' before we started shooting 'We Own the Night.'
James Gray
#2. We must invite the Cross to do its deadly work within before we can be free.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#3. I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.
Ron Paul
#4. Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.
Roseanne Barr
#5. 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.
Anatole France
#6. It was after 2:00 A.M. before we got back to the graveyard. The Feds had kept us forever, like they didn't believe we were telling them the whole truth. Fancy that. I hated being accused of concealing evidence when I wasn't. Made me want to lie to them just so they wouldn't be disappointed.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#7. In my opinion, if we have not achieved peace, it is because people forget its most fundamental aspect. Before we talk about peace among nations, we must settle our peace with God.
Sun Myung Moon
#8. We all had, at some point, matches we should have won and we didn't and that's the game. That's just the way the sport is. Otherwise, if everything was written before, we don't need to play.
Amelie Mauresmo
#9. Before we can experience the pure & serene state of love, we must learn how to give forgiveness - to ourselves & to others. Have you forgiven yourself?
Debbie Ford
#10. A lifetime is so little a time that we die before we get ready to live. I should like to study at a college, but then I have to say to myself: "You will die before you can do anything else".
John Muir
#11. As I was saying before we were so rudely interrupted," Tyrion began, "there is a serious flaw in Littlefinger's fable. Whatever you may believe of me, Lady Stark, I promise you this - I never bet against my family.
George R R Martin
#12. His expression went cold and dark as he came within inches from her, towering over her small frame. His voice was calm but stern. "Let me be clear before we begin our working relationship. I am not kind nor do I, or will I ever, offer anything out of sheer kindness.
Madison Thorne Grey
#13. Good things come to us just when we need them the most, like an angel throwing us a life-preserver before we go under the waters of despair.
Bryant McGill
#14. I should've written a contract up before we slept together so he understood exactly what it entailed outside the bedroom. It meant you have to agree with everything I say, especially when people I don't like are present
Donna Augustine
#15. Did you know that I almost called the magazine Stag Party and the symbol was originally going to be a stag? I changed my mind just before we went to press, thank God. Somehow, it wouldn't have been the same. Can you imagine a chain of key clubs staffed by beautiful girls wearing antlers?
Hugh Hefner
#16. Before we can build the world we want to live in, we have to imagine it.
Simon Sinek
#17. In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.
Charles Caleb Colton
#18. Yes, sometimes we must lose something ... someone ... before we realize its worth.
Julie Klassen
#19. I did this thing for HBO called 'Strip Search' with Sidney Lumet, who was one of the best directors I've ever worked with. We actually had a rehearsal period before we shot, which is unusual.
Ken Leung
#20. I think the challenge is going out in front of a paying audience with absolutely nothing and trying to entertain them for two hours. Thankfully, I only think about that right before we go on, and then once we're out there, everything's fine.
Colin Mochrie
#21. Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.
Al Goldstein
#22. We must be before we can do, and we can do only to the extent which we are, and what we are depends upon what we think.
Charles F. Haanel
#23. I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.
Orson Scott Card
#24. When we were growing up and saw a Ray Harryhausen movie, we were interested in how it was done. But thank God we got to go through the magic of seeing it before we knew how it was done. You were able to get this beautiful, pure, visceral response to something without knowing too much about it.
Tim Burton
#25. Some of us have so much defeat in our past that we feel we lost the race before we knew it started.
Beth Moore
#26. [America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.
Theodore Parker
#27. The Strokes, you bond when you're 18, and you're friends. The feeling's different. When all of us get into a room, we feel like the same people from before. We weren't anybody; we were just hanging out. It's hard to understand if you're not in a band. You're one-fifth.
Albert Hammond Jr.
#28. We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#29. What separates Masters from others is often something surprisingly simple. Whenever we learn a skill, we frequently reach a point of frustration - what we are learning seems beyond our capabilities. Giving in to these feelings, we unconsciously quit on ourselves before we actually give up.
Robert Greene
#30. Before we leave this country, I'm finding out what they wear under those kilts, even if I have to hike one up and take a gander myself.
Vonnie Davis
#31. When we make a habit of acting on the interests arising out of our authentic passions, our enthusiasm can open doors before we even realize the potential that lies beyond them.
Marian Deegan
#32. There are nearly 30% of young people who are too fat. So let's take care of the zillions of the too fat before we talk about the percentage that's left.
Karl Lagerfeld
#33. Well, I'm not advocating it," I said. "I just mean that before we learn to feel afraid of things, our bodies know how to do them anyway. It's one of the more disappointing aspects of growing older. We fear more so we can do less.
John Boyne
#34. Oh, and there was pride, of course. It takes a long time before we cease to feel proud of being wanted.
Graham Greene
#35. We not only heard it before 20 years ago, before George Bush in 2001 passed his tax relief, before in 2003 the tax relief were past, we were told they were dead. Before we provided prescription drugs for Medicare, we were told it wasn't going to happen.
Ken Mehlman
#36. We decided to play the NEC because we were asked to, and because we actually rather like the place: we've always enjoyed doing it before. We don't often get sensible offers to play in the UK, so most years we just play on the mainland, with the occasional exotic detour.
Andrew Eldritch
#37. We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.
Joseph Hall
#38. Before we are citizens, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty.
Orson Scott Card
#39. The miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we've been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still here. It is phenomenal just to be.
Anne Lamott
#40. God does have a specific plan for our lives, but it is not one that He expects us to figure out before we make a decision.
Kevin DeYoung
#41. The idea we came up with, well before we left, was something we coined Performance Literature. Excuse the use of that second word, because I realize it's presumptuous. Also, excuse the first word, and the term in general.
Dave Eggers
#42. Facing and embracing grief allows us to experience the shock, anger, disappointment, and other feelings that need to be processed before we can move through this transition.
Michael Thomas Sunnarborg
#43. How do we prepare for that last day? Before we embark on our final trip, have we left an earthly home in a state of chaos or a condition of order?
Billy Graham
#44. We want people to see us live before we continue on and call ourselves recording artists.
Jason Mraz
#45. We paw at nostalgia even before we hit twenty, wanting a holiday that never happened, a wholesomeness that could not survive in the wild.
Thomm Quackenbush
#47. Run equals die. Stay equals die. So before we go all O.K. Corral on this, let's consider the third option: We blow it up.
Rick Yancey
#48. Before we can speak God's message, we must learn to listen. The opened ear comes before the opened mouth.
A.B. Simpson
#49. let us not abandon all hope before we have set our hands to the task. Let us not lay down our rod and staff if we do not have the desired success at once. What is impossible for men remains possible for God. Eventually God's hour must come, if only we wait for it.
Philip Jacob Spener
#50. As Liberal Democrats and proponents of federalism, we must put our heads above the parapet and recapture and disseminate the true meaning of federalism. We have to win the vocabulary before we succeed in the vision.
Charles Kennedy
#52. We never sit down before we start making a record and talk about this new sonic palette that we are going to try to explore. We always let the record kind of reveal itself to us over time.
Ben Gibbard
#54. Shellfish is better to buy live. In the U.S., because we eat oysters and clams raw, it is very important that they are alive before we prepare them. It's important to look for a closed shell. If a clam is alive, the shell will be closed. Never buy clams if the shell is open.
Nobu Matsuhisa
#55. It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world.
Nicolas Chamfort
#56. 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.
Hayao Miyazaki
#57. I believe that some of us who were kept by God a long while before we found Him love Him better perhaps than we should have done if we had received Him directly, and we can preach better to others - we can speak more of His loving-kindness and tender mercy.
Charles Spurgeon
#58. During the Second World War, nobody built any concert halls or theaters. After the war, Lincoln Center was a very brave project because all those architects had never built a theater before. We've learned a lot since then about the nature of materials and the isolation that's required.
Hugh Hardy
#59. Chin up. There are other fish in the sea. It's a big ocean. Sometimes we need to catch and release a few before we find the keeper.
Kasie West
#60. We are coming to a place where the road ends. From here on out, we will be making the road as we walk it, in ways we've never had to do before. We now have the job of forging our own evolutionary destiny, and being prime agents of the process of evolution here on Earth.
Tom Atlee
#61. Unfortunately we did not attend Voltaire's dictum to define our terms before we began. The result was disagreement on all issues.
James Aldridge
#62. Sometimes we only manage to arrive before we have to move on again.
Helen Manos
#63. This is America. We don't call an election before we know who won. That, after all, is the job of the Supreme Court.
Bill Maher
#64. it's clear that before we can be a father and son again, we have to treat each other like men first.
Brian Leung
#65. I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on us and took us over, before we know what was going on.
T Bone Burnett
#66. It is too easy in this country for blessings to become rights, for stuff and money to become what calls the shots in our lives. And before we know it, God's gifts have replaced God himself.
Jennie Allen
#67. We're boxed in and labeled before we're ever able to speak who we believe we are or who we dream we'll become.
Andrea Gibson
#68. Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that writing is practice for death, and for every (other) transformation human beings encounter.
Jayne Anne Phillips
#69. I want to remember what we were like before we became ourselves.
Kris Kidd
#70. Maybe that's what we look for all our lives, the worst possible grief, to make us truly ourselves before we die.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#71. This sweet, blessed, God-inspired place called America is a champion that has absorbed some blows. But while we bend, we don't break. This is no dark hour; this is the dawn before we remember who we are.
Artur Davis
#72. I believe it's easy to serve God if we learn to hear from Him before we struggle to do things for Him that He never asked us to do.
Joyce Meyer
#73. In a social environment that is ever crowded and impersonal, it is becoming increasingly important to reconsider the value of close personal relationships before we are driven to ask the forlorn question, 'Whatever happened to love?'
Desmond Morris
#74. I can't tell one from the other:I find you or you find me?There was a time before we were born If someone asks, this is where I'll be.
David Byrne
#75. We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
Samuel Johnson
#76. I smoke my cigarettes, staring into his eyes, it feels like we're cowboys on a dusty trail sizing each other up before we shoot each other. My gun is loaded. I don't have to check, the bullet is a dead daughter. I don't know what his bullet is.
Lisa O'Donnell
#77. The greatest secret to living a happy, fulfilled life is the realization that everything is created in our minds before it manifests itself in the outer world. We must believe it before we can see it.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#78. Before we left them, I slanted a glance at Leila, and mischievously said, "No one thought what you just did could be done, you know. You'll earn the nickname of The Dragon Slayer."
Vlad glowered at me, but Bones laughed.
Jeaniene Frost
#79. Even the hooligan was probably invented in China centuries before we thought of him.
Saki
#80. I heard about the project over a year before we began. My American agent said, 'Oh, you might want to read 'In Cold Blood' because they're talking about you for Capote, but the script's with Johnny Depp and Sean Penn at the moment.' So, these things take their time to dribble down the food chain.
Toby Jones
#81. Charlie started crying, in the convulsive, soundless way that men do. "Don't you understand," he said after composing himself, "that's a funeral dirge for the first wave." We all thought about that, the many lives lost before we even opened our eyes this morning.
Suzanne Hayes
#82. Let us come together before we're annihilated.
Stevie Wonder
#83. There's lots of things you don't know. All kinds of strange things ... mostly they happened before we were born: that makes them seem to me so much more real.
Truman Capote
#84. Sometimes we must gravitate towards madness before we can levitate on greatness.
Curtis Tyrone Jones
#85. Understanding is a word that I cherish. Understanding is what helps us to love before we judge. Understanding helps us to know more of ourselves and do the same to others.
D'Andre Lampkin
#86. It seems to me that before we give federal funds to police departments, we ought to mandate that they have body cams.
Claire McCaskill
#87. You are in my soul, and nothing you did before we met or will do in the future can change that.
Jeaniene Frost
#88. Uh, Darius, I'm thinking that we really need to change clothes before we make a grand entrance in the middle of the cafeteria, or even my dorm. I mean, you're more than a little bloody, and i'm wearing what looks like a green trashbag. We're not exactly inconspicuous.
P.C. Cast
#89. Football is a thinly disguised re-enactment of hunting; we played it before we were human.
Carl Sagan
#90. One day, when I can afford you, I will sign you,' he said, before we went our separate ways.
Didier Drogba
#91. Just as the Eucharist fuels our soul and our spirit, good healthful meals fuel our bodies for the work God calls each of us to do in his kingdom. Praying before we consume a meal or when we are feeling exhausted and stressed helps to bring this "body and soul" connection into the light
Mary DeTurris Poust
#92. Before we can minister to others, we must permit God to minister to us.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#93. Magic has often been thought of us the art of making dreams come true; the art of realizing visions. Yet before we can bring birth to the vision we have to see it.
Starhawk
#94. I mean, in the end it wasn't up to me. The big things never are. Birth, I mean, and death. And love. And what love bequeaths to use before we're born.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#95. I struggle with how humankind ended up this way. We made ourselves slaves to money, and we all have to work and be a part of this thing when time is always ticking. And before we know it, a decade has gone by, and did I really get to do everything I wanted to do or say everything I wanted to say?
Jason Mraz
#96. On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me.
John C. Hawkes
#97. Two broken hearts - we would destroy each other before we even had a chance to begin.
J.L. Berg
#98. Our wandering life isn't over yet and before we definitely settle in Peru, a country that I admire in many ways, or in Argentina, we want to see a bit of Europe and two fascinating countries, India and China.
Hilda Gadea
#99. Speaker calls the Christian counselor to look at each person as soul embodied with unique challenges that move us. This is not, he says, the first step before we get on to important business but vital in and of itself.
Edward T. Welch
#100. And before we begin, I should like one thing noted. I knew you had Secret Pain.
Tessa Dare
