Top 100 Look Before You Quotes
#2. Do you know what happens when you always look before you leap?"
She reached out and touched his hand before hurrying toward the door.
"You hardly ever make the jump.
Nora Roberts
#3. The way you're singing in your sleep The way you look before you leap The strange illusions that you keep You don't know But I'm noticing Fuck
Rachel Cohn
#5. This is why they say you should look before you leap. They say a lot of things. Carpe diem. Even platitudes contradict each other. Man, this has to be the longest fall ever if I have the time to think all this.
Swati Avasthi
#6. What is the work of God? Accepting people. Loving before judging. Caring before condemning. Look before you label. (From
Anonymous
#7. What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.
Malcolm Gladwell
#9. Look before you leap. Don't take risks lightly. Make sure someone is watching your back. Safety is a shifting illusion, move with it," Grandpa recited in Hadadian before leaning forward and adding his own little ending, "And pray. Trust that God knows best, in every situation.
Jessiqua Wittman
#10. Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
Samuel Butler
#11. look before you draw and believe what your eyes, not the rest of your head, tell you.
Danny Gregory
#12. Quidquid agas prudenter agas et respice finem ... Skye was used to hearing this phrase, which Mr. Penderwick translated loosely as look before you leap and please don't do anything crazy.
Jeanne Birdsall
#13. Your Dollar is your only Word, / The wrath of it your only fear. / You build it altars tall enough / To make you see, but your are blind; / You cannot leave it long enough / To look before you or behind.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
#14. When you're fifteen and somebody tells you they love you, you're gonna believe them. And when you're fifteen don't forget to look before you fall. In your life you'll do things greater than dating the boy on the football team. I didn't know it at fifteen.
Taylor Swift
#15. You get told to look before you leap. But if you are too careful you may end up just looking.
Max McKeown
#16. I didn't know I could do that. I mean I knew I could do that before, but I didn't know it was actually working now until you screamed. I thought I was just imagining it. And don't give me that look ... sorry? (Xypher)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#17. I said to my girlfriend, you shouldn't eat before you swim. She said, "why not"? I said, you look fat.
Jimmy Carr
#18. I look at you, Mrs. Emily. I see your eyes smile before your lips. Your hair has a curl that droops onto your forehead when the weather is humid . . .
I look at you too, Sabine. I see you.
Phyllis H. Moore
#19. Well, it is so difficult right now when you look out on the road and how fast people go and the more and more cars you see out there, for teenagers, you'd think a kid that literally, a few years before, was sitting back in a car seat in the back seat is now behind the wheel.
Amy Klobuchar
#20. Look at the subject as if you have never seen it before. Examine it from every side. Draw its outline with your eyes or in the air with your hands, and saturate yourself with it.
John Baldessari
#21. If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation.
Robert D. Kaplan
#22. Look for wars to trim transition times. If you decide to do something, do it. You can lose thirty minutes or more puttering around the house, putting things away, getting distracted, and losing intensity before taking whatever action you decide to take.
Laura Vanderkam
#23. I think this can be a championship team. But we do have to take it one game at a time. You can't look at the end of the road before you get the next foot in.
Michael Strahan
#24. Watch the morning watch. Do not see the face of man until you have seen the face of God. Before you enter on the day with its temptations, look up into His face and hide His Word in your heart.
F.B. Meyer
#25. Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.
Jodi Picoult
#26. She's my wife," Vlad growled before I could correct the misassumption. "And if your cock twitches one more time while you look at her, I'll burn it off.
Jeaniene Frost
#27. Look, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; your walls are continually before Me. Isaiah 49:16
Beth Moore
#28. People will make judgments before you even speak based on the way you look. Most definitely your physical appearance matters. The way you dress, your hygiene - it all matters.
Jonathan Adler
#29. Come in,
come in! and know me better, man! I am the Ghost of Christmas Present. Look upon me! You have never seen the like of me before!
Charles Dickens
#30. He leaned forward, his lips grazing her ear before he spoke. "I know you want this too. I've seen the way you look at me.
Donna Augustine
#31. It often happens that when you look at familiar things through someone else's eyes you see them as you have never seen them before.
John Mole
#32. The Beatles did everything long before anyone else. They weren't afraid to try things and to experiment with a lot of sounds. In 200 years, when you look up 'rock and roll' in the dictionary, it'll have a picture of the Beatles next to it.
Joe Perry
#33. You can't be a good actor if you get too affected by fame. Because then you're not real, and you're not really wanting more. You look at a lot of actors who, before they were famous, did a lot of amazing work, and once they got too big, it just got off.
Ansel Elgort
#34. I know it sounds foolishly old fashioned, but I'm stuck with this idea that there's something dignified and noble about facing your enemy and looking him in the eye before you thrust a saber in his heart.
Michael Robotham
#35. I love digital, but the only problem is less intimacy. People look at the screen right away. Before, nobody saw the picture before you saw the final picture. There was more privacy in a way.
Patrick Demarchelier
#36. Don't look like that, Draco, you look like you did right before you pounced on the cat when you were two.
Inadaze22
#37. Is the rain getting the mud off of me?"
She tilted her head. A hint of laughter crept into her eyes. "Actually it's running down your face in a rather dramatic fashion. I think you'd even manage to scare an alligator."
"Before you start laughing at me, you might take a look at yourself.
Christine Feehan
#38. To succeed, you have to do something and be very bad at it for a while. You have to look bad before you can look really good.
Barbara De Angelis
#39. He darted a guilty look toward his dad. "Will you - get me a bottle of spicy?"
My eyes jerked to his.
"Maybe some barbecue sauce?"
I closed my mouth before a bug flew into it. "Sure." I did not believe this. I was pimping ketchup to the son of the FIB's captain.
Kim Harrison
#40. And down I went to fetch my bride: But, Alice, you were ill at ease; This dress and that by turns you tried, Too fearful that you should not please. I loved you better for your fears, I knew you could not look but well; And dews, that would have fall'n in tears, I kiss'd away before they fell.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#41. Have I ever told you, you look like Monty Clift? he inquired in a deep, seductive voice.
Before or after the accident?
Josh Lanyon
#42. Before you say it, Derek's boyfriend doesn't look anything like me. "
"How would you know?
Laura Ruby
#43. Look and see which way the wind blows before you commit yourself.
Aesop
#44. The only thing missing is a pool." "It's on the roof," Evan blurted before I could say anything. "Really?!" Sara practically squealed with excitement. "No," Evan laughed teasingly. Sara shot him a look. "You're and asshole, Evan." This caused Jared to chuckle.
Rebecca Donovan
#45. They say, "Gee, you look great." That means they thought you looked like hell before.
Richard M. Nixon
#46. It takes only five minutes to look nice before you go out.
Evelyn Lauder
#47. When your resolve to succeed is unshakable, no 'odds' can stand between you and your success. Look at our parents. In their own way, they have demonstrated before us: how to survive and prosper against all odds!
Vishwas Chavan
#48. Look both ways before you cross the street," she tells me.
I start to protest, but then it strikes me that if I am very lucky I will one day be able to offer annoying safety tips to my own children one day.
Paul Acampora
#49. Before yesterday I just thought on "IF", from there I build the theory "Everything is about IF", if you look deep enough you will find sense.
Deyth Banger
#50. A Drinking Song Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die. I lift the glass to my mouth, I look at you, and I sigh.
W.B.Yeats
#51. When you're starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that's gone before and the stuff that's influenced you, and you reach the ladle of your imagination into this bubbling stew pot of all of this stuff, and you pour it out. And that's where you start from.
Neil Gaiman
#52. That's a dangerous look," said Dimitri, giving me a brief glance before returning his eyes to the road.
"What look?" I asked innocently.
"The one that says you just got some idea."
"I didn't just get an idea. I got a great idea.
Richelle Mead
#53. The heart becomes wide by forgetting self, but narrow by thinking of the self and pitying one's self. To gain a wide and broad heart you must have something before you to look upon, and to rest your intelligence upon - and that something is the God-ideal.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#54. I think design does evolve in a meaningful sense. I think if you look at design as a part of the continuum of communication, since even before Guttenberg.
Khoi Vinh
#55. It is in your power to review your life, to look at things you saw before, but from another point of view
Soren Kierkegaard
#56. Hazard has conditioned us to live in hazard. All our pleasures are dependant upon it. Even though I arrange for a pleasure; and look forward to it, my eventual enjoyment of it is still a matter of hazard. Wherever time passes, there is hazard. You may die before you turn the next page.
John Fowles
#58. Nurses never tell you what they know. They're hired for their cheeriness and the thickness of their hair. They need to look alive and healthy, to give the patients something to aim for.
Jenny Downham
#59. The gnome grinned manically in front of him. "You're mocking me," Merrick said to the statue. "But perhaps you should take a look at your outfit before you judge anyone else.
Kate Perry
#60. Oh. Now you are not so afraid, then?"
Kitty opened her mouth, indignant. "I was not afraid before! I was... shocked. How many times do you see your orphanage roommate be able to turn someone into stone?"
"Every time I look in the mirror.
Ana Franco
#61. Look at the blank pages before you with courage. Now fill them with beauty.
Blaine Hogan
#62. You can't live on last year, you can't live on the year before. I can't bring in my 13 Pro Bowls in the locker room and say, look at me. No. That is gone. That is the best thing about the game of football is that everybody starts over.
Junior Seau
#63. Okay, you need to eat something. Before we do anything else, you have to eat."
"I just did."
I gave him a hard look, but his face was entirely innocent. He was fucking with me, right? He had to be. "Man cannot live by pussy alone," I said.
Ava Lore
#64. I'd give anything if you'd kiss me." I said. "I mean," I said when he tilted his head to look at me, his eyes wide in shock, "I've kissed guys before. It's like a handshake these days," I lied, just wanting to know what his lips on mind would feel like. "Almost required if you're leaving.
Kim Harrison
#65. When the girl you're casually screwing and dating starts to look like she was literally sent from Heaven, you better reassess your priorities before someone gets hurt. Especially when she speaks like the spawn of Satan.
Andrea Randall
#66. When you're young, and you head out to wonderful, everything is fresh and bright as a brand new penny, but before you get to wonderful you're going to have to pass through all right. And when you get to all right, stop and take a good long look, because that may be as far as you're ever going to go.
Robert Goolrick
#67. seen this look on his face before, and I knew exactly what "some time" meant: hours and hours. "Then I'll go find the house by myself," I said. "Not alone, you aren't. You promised." "Then I'll find a person who
Ransom Riggs
#68. Check your vagina. Does it look kind of broken? If so, you probably had a baby. Seriously, mine was all Franken-gina for a good year before it was presentable again.
Jenny Lawson
#69. If you look at my life before I went into television, the struggle I went through coming out would be surprising to most people, given how comfortable and how out I am being the only late-night gay talk-show host.
Andy Cohen
#70. Before the days of video village a director should stand right next to the camera, look with his naked eye and if he sees something that is real to him, he'd look up at the [camera] operator and if he gives the look to indicate he'd seen it to, then you print and you'd move on.
Matt Damon
#71. It's just that you're about to do something out of the ordinary. And after you do something like that, the everyday look of things might seem to change a little. Things may look different to you than they did before. But don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality.
Haruki Murakami
#72. Do you know what you've done?" I asked in a bland tone. Annette gave me
an inquiring look. "You've gotten on my last nerve."
The table went crashing into her before she could blink, and then my fist found a home in
her perfectly arranged hair.
Jeaniene Frost
#73. If he wore any expression at all, it was a look that said, "Take your damned photo and hurry up about it before I have my manservant kill you." It
Elliott James
#74. She had no experience of crushing on someone like that. She hadn't realized before how frightening it was to look a dream in the face. To realize how much it could change you live, and how much it could demand of you.
Jillian Hart
#75. He raised his brows. "You're drunk." "Am not!" He gave me a bland look. "A drunk's famous last words before they fall flat on their face.
J. Lynn
#76. Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em.
Terry Pratchett
#77. Look at me, you chatty bitch, I'm a goddamn pinata! Fuck off and let me sleep before I puke up a kidney on your slutty leather pants!
Jesse Hajicek
#78. You will send me to the asylum for the truth,
I know, I know!
But before,
Look within your skin,
Hey, can you see me there?
Sayantan Sen
#80. Oh, you mean fairy gossip, Eric," she giggled. "I get the picture," she said fluttering her lacy wings. "Don't look so sad, Eric. There isn't a day that passes when your nosy beak doesn't find its way into someone's business. I'm sure you'll find the best-ever story before
Caz Greenham
#81. You can look at everything from pre-Heisman to post-Heisman, and I think that's why it ranks up at the top, because before then, I didn't even think I was good enough to be a professional ballplayer.
Barry Sanders
#82. Before you judge me , try hard to love me , look within your heart
Then ask , - have you seen my childhood ?
Michael Jackson
#83. You make us look bad', complained Toad.
'You looked bad before I ever met you', Jon told him.
George R R Martin
#84. I studied him a moment before slipping my arms around his waist. "I guess you look human enough," I said casually, and he raised an eyebrow. Arrogant faery. He knows exactly how gorgeous he is . "Come on,' I said, tugging him toward the carriage. "We should hurry or we'll miss our reservation.
Julie Kagawa
#85. For when you look at the ceiling, or down at the floor, when the trouble's before you, you're begging for more.
Brian M. Boyce
#86. Whew," he said. "You clean up good. You don't look like the same girl."
She frowned right before she laughed. "Do women usually thank you for saying things like that?
Robyn Carr
#87. Now, Simone, I'm a witch, remember? There's not much I don't know just by looking at you. And you know what I see when I look at you?'
Simone walked out the door before she could finish, only hearing the steely hush of Millie's voice add, 'Nothing.
Suzanne Palmieri
#88. I write as someone who has no more time for repressive Islam than he does for repressive Christianity or Judaism, but at least look at the face in the hijab - and try to imagine the one beneath the niqab - before you depersonalise its wearer.
Will Self
#89. Look, I know you're a guy - " "Damn straight." "And there's some man rule that you've got to be all macho - " "Rule number three, actually." Both of her eyebrows shot up. "Would you just let me finish before I make you cry and break rule number three.
Cindi Madsen
#90. Raffe throws me a dirty look. He bends over and swipes his arm behind my knees, lifting me up in his embrace.
'I can go with one of the locusts.' I stiffen in his arms and try to lean as far away from him as I can.
'The hell you will.' He runs a couple of steps before spreading his wings.
Susan Ee
#91. If you don't look before the dusk and beyond the dawn, you won't be able to see the sun. (Soar)
Soar
#92. I was on dialysis for 18 months before the transplant, so it was important I tried to look ahead to days like my comeback this Saturday. You need those big goals to drive you on.
Jonah Lomu
#93. Wisdom is in measured routine. Three naps a day will keep you fit, nine breakfasts before noon, spin until you fall on your back, and thrust your face into a nettle plant. Drink at least five cups of a mare's urine and look upon your self in a silver mirror while you hold your air in your chest.
Benjamin Franklin
#94. You can't find God before an altar if that is the only place you look for him.
A. Powell Davies
#95. Osama bin Laden has hired 10 look-alikes. Now, how hard up do you have to be before you take that job? There's no way to win! If Osama dies, you don't get paid. If you're found, you get killed.
Jay Leno
#96. Look. Folks. It's simple. If you have poor taste in decorating, don't go nuts in the entryway. Wait until your guests are inside before you spring something unusual on them.
James Lileks
#97. This is the worst thing about waiting for someone. You have to look good all the time because they could turn up at any minute and see you before you've seen them
Mark Mason
#98. Problems often look overwhelming at first. The secret is to break problems into small, manageable chunks. If you deal with those, you're done before you know it.
Bill Watterson
#99. Tell the truth. Do your best no matter how trivial the task. Choose the difficult right over the easy wrong. Look out for the group before you look out for yourself. Don't whine or make excuses. Judge others by their actions and not by their race or other characteristics.
James F. Amos
#100. I'm working full-time on my job and part time on my fortune. But it won't be long before I'm working full-time on my fortune ... can you imagine what my life will look like?
Jim Rohn
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