Is Until Quotes

#1. You'll never truly know what alone is, until you're on the brink of death with no one to rely on. But after finding the strength to save yourself, you realize that the person you'll ever need is yourself.

Gabriel Common

#2. The best break anybody ever gets is in bein' alive in the first place. An' you don't unnerstan' what a perfect deal it is until you realizes that you ain't gone be stuck with it forever, either.

Walt Kelly

#3. One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a women is, until
after considerable acquaintance with her.

Mark Twain

#4. You really won't know where your home is until you meet your own kind and realize you're both playing the same game.

Shannon L. Alder

#5. The significance of things can only evolve in time.Nothing is what it is until it becomes what it must become

Gaye Shortland

#6. People will never know how glorious the cross is until they know how serious sin is.

David Platt

#7. You never quite know what the change is until, one day, you wake up and go, "Wow, I'm reacting to things differently and I feel differently."

Sandra Bullock

#8. You don't know how strong something is until you actually test it.

Nicholas Sparks

#9. about eighty percent of what you believe about yourself when you're twenty turns out to be wrong. The problem is you don't know what your small true part is until much later.

Nathan Hill

#10. Reality is not what you see but what is, and you don't know what is until you are yourself first.

Daniel Marques

#11. My concept is, until you absolutely know the plane is crashing, there's no reason to be afraid. All the turbulence in the world does not mean the plane is crashing. Once it's confirmed, then you can be afraid.

Nile Rodgers

#12. You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love.

Halle Berry

#13. A woman is like tea. She will never know how strong she is until she is in hot water.

Bodie Thoene

#14. For instance, a man generally doesn't even know how small a woman is until he holds an article of her clothing up in front of him, one of her nightgowns, say, and sees how small and flimsy it is and how like a child's and unlike his own, and how thick and heavy his hands seem.

Russell Banks

#15. I always write as I like to write, and I've been thinking about it because I honestly didn't realize how different my stuff is, until I started looking at other people's scripts as a producer.

William Monahan

#16. Sometimes you can't see what the problem is until you go close, until you look deep inside. It's when you look beyond the edge of what you think you know that you can finally arrive at the truth.

J. Michael Straczynski

#17. Introverts keep their best stuff inside - that is, until it is ready. And this drives extroverts crazy! The explanation for the introvert's behavior - and there must be an explanation for this behavior, say the extroverts - is that he or she is antisocial, out of touch, or simply a snob.

Laurie A. Helgoe

#18. You will never realize how precious a baby is until she keeps you awake through the whole night.

Debasish Mridha

#19. I'm not a dancer, and it was very time-consuming. But I met great people, and it was flattering to be asked to be on. You don't understand how demanding that show is until you're on the inside. That is real work. Real work!

Wendy Williams

#20. An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty.

DMX

#21. With women, the best part is the discovery. There's nothing like the first time, nothing. You don't know what life is until you undress a woman for the first time. A button at a time, like peeling a hot sweet potato on a winter's night.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#22. The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.

Elisabeth Elliot

#23. The bottom line is, until we're helping people to stop smoking, screening for breast cancer, giving Pap smears, giving prenatal care to pregnant women, we should not go into publicly paying for the artificial heart, which will benefit at great cost only a few people.

Richard Lamm

#24. I know it feels like you have all these options and when you make a decision, you lose a world of possibilities. But the reality is, until you make a decision, you have nothing at all.

Janet Fitch

#25. You hear people say it all the time, how life changes so drastically. But you can't possibly grasp how beautiful that is until you have your child.

Pink

#26. Some people don't like lawyers, that is, until they need them

Kenneth Eade

#27. We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

Paul Gauguin

#28. I wasn't planning on being a guitar player; I was going to be a singer. And I was for a little bit in the Sex Pistols - that is, until we got John Lydon. And then I realized I wasn't really suited as a front guy.

Steve Jones

#29. You don't know what thirst is until you drink for the first time

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#30. I didn't realize how interesting the place I come from is until I left home and saw how other cultures handled things differently.

Brad Pitt

#31. I don't know what a monopoly is until somebody tells me.

Steve Ballmer

#32. I read anything that's going to be interesting. But you don't know what it is until you've read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there'll be the making of a novel.

Terry Pratchett

#33. A specter is haunting the cinema: the specter of narrative. If that apparition is an Angel, we must embrace it; and if it is a Devil, then we must cast it out. But we cannot know what it is until we have met it face to face.

Hollis Frampton

#34. I always say that you cannot tell what a picture really is or what an object really is until you dust it every day and you cannot tell what a book is until you type it or proof-read it. It then does something to you that only reading it never can do.

Gertrude Stein

#35. Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.

Walter Darby Bannard

#36. Einstein didn't speak until he was four, leading most of his teachers to believe he was crazy. That is until he whipped out the theory of relativity. BAYUM! Showed you guys.

Albert Einstein

#37. I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.

Flannery O'Connor

#38. No one can realize how substantial the air is, until he feels its supporting power beneath him. It inspires confidence at once.

Otto Lilienthal

#39. People who exercise their freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived.' [That is, until] they are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Stephen R. Covey

#40. Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

Mark Twain

#41. We will never know how great God's love is until we first see how great our sin is.

Steven J. Lawson

#42. My mother had tried to fool me into thinking I was a natural beauty, and I'd believed her for a little while, that is, until I moved to the land of beautiful people.

J.C. Patrick

#43. A man never knows what a fool he is until he hears himself imitated by one.

Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#44. They say that everything happens for a reason. Maybe one day, I will know what that reason is. Until then, I would live everyday correcting my wrongs.

Jessica N. Watkins

#45. Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.

Richard Hell

#46. Funny thing is, until I met you all I wanted to do was to get as far away from here as I could. Kind of ironic, isn't it? Can't get much farther away than where Im going, and now I'd give anything to stay.

Kami Garcia

#47. You don't know what love is until someone lives with you while you write a book.

Thulani Davis

#48. Hearing 'no' a lot of times usually tells you either you're crazy or you're on the right track, and you don't know which one it is until you finally launch.

Mike Krieger

#49. It's more important that you eat vegetables, even if they are conventional
I'm talking about for your health
then it is until you wait until you can afford organic, or you can find organic.

Michael Pollan

#50. You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.

John Barrymore

#51. I wanted to be ready.
I had thought I was ready.
I really believed I was ready.
That is, until the milk came.

Kathryn Michaels

#52. When you have one kid, you feel like you can jet set around, and you can throw him on the hip, and you get your life done. You don't realize how easy one is until you have two. Now I'm really a mom. Oh, I am a mom now! This is for serious - I am responsible for two people now.

Elizabeth Banks

#53. The truth is, until you know any different, the island is enough.
Actually, I know different. And it's still enough.

Maggie Stiefvater

#54. You never understand how dear your privacy is until you lose it.

Rosie Perez

#55. You don't really know how beautiful a girl is, until you meet her, all her beauty is in her personality.

Zac Efron

#56. Benno blushed violently. "I am not a murderer!" he protested. "No one is, until he commits his first crime," William said philosophically.

Umberto Eco

#57. We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice - that is, until we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say, "I lost it.

Sydney J. Harris

#58. You don't know what love is, until you've learned the meaning of the blues, until you've loved a love you've had to lose.

Chet Baker

#59. Making a movie is like chipping away at a stone. You take a piece off here, you take a piece off there and when you're finished, you have a sculpture. You know that there's something in there, but you're not sure exactly what it is until you find it.

Robert Altman

#60. Some women like to treat a man like a piece of bubble gum. The poor sap thinks everything's fine. And it is - until the taste runs out. Then she'll just spit him out the car window of her life and never look back.

Robert Burton Robinson

#61. American newspapers frequently offered praise for eugenics just prior to WWII and The Holocaust .... that is, until Hitler revealed what eugenics really looked like. They avoided the subject for decades thereafter.

A.E. Samaan

#62. The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made.

Louis Kahn

#63. The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.

Sally Quinn

#64. Unfortunately, one of the most signifi cant things ever said about emotion may be that everyone knows what it is until they are asked to define it.

Joseph E. Ledoux

#65. Every life is a love story, but few of us know what love is until the story is nearly over.

Karen Maezen Miller

#66. Every man has a cemetery inside him. You don't know how big yours is until you dig in it.

David L. Robbins

#67. Perhaps not everything happens for a reason. That is, until you make it so; because for everything there is a season, which can, in fact, become beautiful.

Criss Jami

#68. The Civil Service is a bit like a rusty weathercock. It moves with opinion then it stays where it is until another wind moves it in a different direction

Tony Benn

#69. The question is: until reinforced, can we learn the ways of church mice.

Al Swearengen

#70. Got anything we can cull the herd with?"
Nick stared at Zane for a few seconds. "I never realized how disturbing your accent is until you use cow analogies."
"Yeah okay, say 'car'.

Abigail Roux

#71. Jesus may give you eternal life, but until then, your ass going to stay right were it is until you do something about it.

Bryant McGill

#72. After all, you don't know how strong something is until you actually test it." She winked. "I read that in a fortune cookie once." "Fortune cookie?

Nicholas Sparks

#73. A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#74. You don't know who a person is until you see how he acts when given unexpected power. He hasn't rehearsed for the part. So what you see is what he is.

Orson Scott Card

#75. I saw humans more clearly. I saw them as exceptional creatures under the tyranny of knowledge, helpless to change their circumstances. The human animal is helpless, that is, until the mind decides to change and until knowledge has lost its supreme authority.

Miguel Ruiz

#76. If you think something is impossible, it is. Until you decide it's possible and you do it.

Jude Watson

#77. No truth can be said to be seen as it is until it is seen in its relation to all other truths. In this relation only is it true.

Elizabeth Prentiss

#78. The security business is as thick as the club. Business in both areas stays private. Everyone is on a need-to-know basis, me and Mom included...that is until I patch in.

Katie McGarry

#79. Sometimes you don't realize how special a place - or a person - really is until until they're slipping away from you.

Natalie Lloyd

#80. You don't know what love is until you find it," he whispered, "but when you do, promise me you won't let it go. Promise you'll seek it out even when you're scared it'll hurt.

Caroline George

#81. People only really live when they're about to die," he said. "Before then it's all a waste. You don't appreciate how good it is until you're really in the shit.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#82. Dread invades the living room, finds her on the couch, presses on her, gets inside her where it swiftly grows bigger than she is until she is inside it, looking out from a rind of shadow.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

#83. Being a child is such a shining gift, yet we don't know how precious it is until it's worn out and gone away.

Storm Constantine

#84. the only Cuba I could ever imagine. That is, until the dead began to rise.

Max Brooks

#85. Most people new to a city on the ocean would probably go to the beach during the day when there are people around. I, on the other hand, decided to try a midnight swim at the somewhat gamy Santa Monica pier, by myself. That is, until a nearby guard kicked me off the beach for my own safety.

Kathy Griffin

#86. Home is where the heart is, until we get a chance to bury it. Home is where the heart pulled the nails out of its feet, and fled.

Joey Comeau

#87. You don't know what pressure is until you play for five bucks with only two bucks in your pocket.

Lee Trevino

#88. America had yet seen - that is, until the public caught on and the lean, ammonia-processed beef came to be known as "pink slime.

Michael Moss

#89. I had forgotten how thrilling a snow day is until my son started school, and as much as he loves it, he swoons at the idea of a free day arriving unexpectedly, laid out like a gift.

Susan Orlean

#90. Nobody knows how fast he is until they play him. He has games when everything he touches turns to gold.
(on Michael Owen)

Brad Friedel

#91. She grinned wide and wicked, and Phane's chest tightened with desire. That is, until she said, I have many males.

Laura Wright

#92. I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family.

Andrew Vachss

#93. You never realise what loneliness is until it creeps up on you - like a disease, it is, something that happens to you gradually.

Elizabeth Haynes

#94. But it's interesting being directed by someone who is a very good actor. There's nothing like it. It might sound like a territorial thing about what I do, but I don't think you can understand what it is until you've done it. I know that to be a fact.

Colin Firth

#95. We can't really explain what the goal of mentoring is, until we understand what the church is for.

Rhys Bezzant

#96. It is surprising how many times a good feeling can be confused with a bad one. Often one is unsure which feeling it really is until much later.

Karen Hawkins

#97. You've no idea how wonderful toilet paper is until it's taken away from you by an unfeeling universe. I think it's the defining characteristic of human civilization, the ability to manufacture something decent to wipe your ass on.

Peter F. Hamilton

#98. You won't understand where home is until you realize it is the only place your mind takes you back to when every journey ends badly.

Shannon L. Alder

#99. Nothing is until it is and until then everything is possible.

Nicola Morgan

#100. Poets talk about "spots of time," but it is really fishermen who experience eternity compressed into a moment. No one can tell what a spot of time is until suddenly the whole world is a fish and the fish is gone.

Norman Maclean