Top 100 Never Before Quotes
#1. Never before have the tools of value creation been so great and the potential artisans so busy watching the Kardashians.
Ryan Lilly
#2. It is absolutely no accident that the peace and reconciliation, and indeed the economic progress, that eluded us generation after generation for hundreds of years, has at last come to pass in an Ireland where the talents of women are now flooding every aspect of life as never before.
Mary McAleese
#3. On the other hand, I have never before so learned to know the Lord Jesus as a tender, loving Friend, who never forsakes us or casts us off when we are bad, but rather helps us to gain the mastery over sin.
Corrie Ten Boom
#4. My journey has begun
and the direction is upwards.
I am shooting for the stars
and will come back with a shine
like never before.
I am blessed beyond measure.
Gerard Johnson
#5. I felt sensations of a peculiar and overpowering nature: they were a mixture of pain and pleasure, such as I had never before experienced, either from hunger or cold, warmth or food; and I withdrew from the window, unable to bear these emotions.
Mary Shelley
#6. In all his centuries of existence, he'd never before taken a lover he considered his on every level. He'd kill for her, destroy for her, savage anyone who dared attempt to take her from him.
And he would never let her go.
Nalini Singh
#7. We have now armed to such an extent as the world has never before seen.
Adolf Hitler
#8. Never before in human history has more information been available to more people. But at the same time, never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people.
Scott Pelley
#9. Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did
Diego Rivera
#10. Many of our troubles in the world today arise from an over-emphasis of the masculine, and a neglect of the feminine. This modern world is an aggressive, hyperactive, competitive, masculine world, and it needs the woman's touch as never before.
Eva Burrows
#11. Think of this: never before this generation has the average person been able to afford to have somebody else prepare his meals. You
Matt Ridley
#12. This afternoon it rains as never before; and I
don't feel like staying alive, heart. This afternoon is pleasant. Why shouldn't it be?
It is wearing grace and pain; it is dressed like a woman.
Cesar Vallejo
#14. the fact that he'd never before seen her in the evening. He was just short of being astounded that she could exist at this hour. He must have been the type who thought that beauty gets put in a box at night. But it couldn't be true, no, because there she was, facing him.
David Foenkinos
#15. The ball laughs, radiant, in the air. He brings her down, puts her to sleep, showers her with compliments, dances with her, and seeing such things never before seen his admirers pity their unborn grandchildren who will never see them.
Eduardo Galeano
#16. Outrage alternated with a sweaty fear he had never before felt. Something, it seemed to him was being drained from him, leaving the body feeling like a very dry sponge, very light, completely at the mercy of sly toying gusts of wind.
Ayi Kwei Armah
#17. Never before in his life had he understood how subjective, how plastic, time really is.
Stephen King
#18. A story is told that Whistler once painted a tiny picture of a spray of roses. The artistry involved in the picture was magnificent. Never before, it seemed, had the art of man been able to execute quite so deftly a reproduction of the art of nature.
Sterling W. Sill
#19. She'll be waiting for me. Never before had he wanted immortality so badly.
Michael R. Fletcher
#20. Throughout their friendship Deronda had been used to Hans' egotism, but he had never before felt intolerant of it: when Hans, habitually pouring out his own feelings and affairs, had never cared for any detail in return, and, if he chanced to know any, had soon forgotten it
George Eliot
#21. As we follow [the Savior], He blesses us with gifts, talents, and the strength to do His will, allowing us to go beyond our comfort zones and do things we've never before thought possible.
Robert D. Hales
#22. Christeson, cut that stop sign down and put it in the back of the truck". He looked at me in disbelief. An Officer had never before ordered him to commit vandalism.
Nathaniel Fick
#23. You are never too old to dream, keep dreaming like never before and you're never too young to dream, so young people go for it don't hesitate; dream again and again.
Euginia Herlihy
#24. The stars seemed near enough to touch and never before have i seen so many.
i always believed the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, but i was sure of it that night.
Amelia Earhart
#25. Strange that in my remoteness I seemed to feel, as never before, the vital presence of Earth as of a creature alive but tranced and obscurely yearning to wake.
Olaf Stapledon
#26. A night of crying has silenced me. This morning it seems the whole world is against me. I've never before felt so barren, so empty. I've never before thought the daylight to be ... my enemy. My enemy.
Shaun Hick
#27. Now, as never before, it was clear to him that art is always, ceaselessly, occupied with two things. It constantly reflects on death and thereby constantly creates life.
Boris Pasternak
#28. Every great artist gives birth to a new universe, in which the familiar things look the way they have never before looked to anyone.
Rudolf Arnheim
#29. loved lawyers; never before had there been such a scrupulous, underhanded, deceiving creature as the lawyer. And
Andrew Buckley
#30. She had often been alone in the house before - but she had never before been so conscious of being alone in it.
Agatha Christie
#31. And in that moment with the warmth of the sun and coolness of the rock and the mountains and cedar all around her, she knew she would be okay with whatever happened to her. And with that thought, never before had she felt so free.
Diane Les Becquets
#32. The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930's were very different from those in later times. I had never before encountered minds of that quality at close quarters and they influenced me strongly.
George Stigler
#33. Stephen Harper is trying to load the dice between now and the next election in his own favour. Never before in the history of Canada has a government tried to use its majority to unilaterally change Canada's election laws with no support from any political party.
Thomas Mulcair
#34. Let God have you, and let God love you - and don't be surprised if your heart begins to hear music you've never heard and your feet learn to dance as never before.
Max Lucado
#35. There are seeds of happiness in every soul. Our mental attitude and dispositions constitute the environment in which these seeds germinate. There is as much need for sunshine in our heart as for sunshine in the world. Today, as perhaps never before, mankind needs encouragement and cheer.
David O. McKay
#36. She'd never before seen moobs quite so active and bouncy.
Nicki Elson
#37. We want women leaders today as never before. Leaders who are not afraid to be called names and who are willing to go out and fight. I think women can save civilization. Women are persons.
Emily Murphy
#38. I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor.
Edward Everett
#39. Never before has the gap between what we can imagine and what we can accomplish been smaller.
Gary Hamel
#40. I have seen children shot in El Salvador, Algeria, Guatemala, Sarajevo, but I have never before watched soldiers entice children like mice into a trap and murder them for sport.
Chris Hedges
#41. The spirit of the kingdom undermines its defenses. People will rise against the king. A new peace is made; holy laws deteriorate. Paris has never before found herself in such dire straits.
Nostradamus
#42. The first time I stepped onto the rooftop of the Potala Palace in Lhasa in 1985, I felt, as never before or since, as if I was stepping onto the rooftop of my being: onto some dimension of consciousness that I'd never visited before.
Pico Iyer
#43. We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own.
John Le Carre
#44. Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.
Bill Gates
#45. This idea holds out hope that the human race will prosper mightily in the years ahead-because ideas are having sex with each other as never before.
Matt Ridley
#46. I do give a great deal of forethought and zone in on character and all sorts of things like that. Never before have I just stuffed something away in the back cupboard of my brain because it was just such a crazy concept.
Greg Kinnear
#48. That was somewhere near the middle of a modern gold rush. Never before have so many unskilled twenty-four-year-olds made so much money in so little time as we did this decade in New York and London.
Michael Lewis
#49. When I was 18 years old, I had never before seen Australian film on the big screen.
Gillian Armstrong
#50. His heart beat with awe: he felt that he had never before beheld love visible.
Edith Wharton
#51. Now I am more nearly a grown member of the human race..she thought she had never before had a chance to realize the strength human beings have, to endure;she loved and revered all those who had ever suffered, even those who had failed to endure
James Agee
#52. Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, 'Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#53. We had never before seen a place where European influence had not contributed to smooth and soften the rough features of uncultivated nature. The prospect of Rangoon, as we approached, was quite disheartening.
Adoniram Judson
#54. When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy. There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.
Tycho Brahe
#55. This would be something never before seen in the history of the universe: an underground shooting star.
Randall Munroe
#56. The enemy of the human race ... invented a means never before heard of, by which he might hinder the preaching of God's word of Salvation to the people.
Pope John Paul II
#57. Effective metaphor does more than shed light on the two things being compared. It actually brings to the mind's eye something that has never before been seen. It's not just the marriage ceremony linking two things; it's the child born from the union.
Rebecca McClanahan
#58. Braden arched his brow as Maggie walked away. She was truly something else. What she was, he couldn't say in polite company, but never before had he met a woman quite like her.
Kinley MacGregor
#59. LIFE CHANGES AHEAD? Darwin never said it was the strongest who survive; he never said it was the smartest either. He said it was the most adaptable. So, lets embrace our next life change with energy and euphoria. Lets make it positive and enlightening like never before. Carpe Diem
Lee Johnson
#60. With him, I became utterly myself as never before - and, to my astonishment, when I looked into his eyes like mirrors reflecting myself back to me, I admired the person I beheld there.
Sherry Jones
#61. There is a dreamlike quality to the 1936 Basque government, the fulfillment of a historic longing that was to be crushed only nine months later in carnage the scale of which had never before been seen on earth.
Mark Kurlansky
#62. Wit is that which has been often thought, but never before was well expressed.
Samuel Johnson
#63. Now, as never before, hundreds of millions of men and women-who had formerly believed that stoic resignation in the face of hunger and disease and darkness was the best one could could do-have come alive with a new sense that the means are at hand with which to make for themselves a better life.
John F. Kennedy
#64. Never before had I been offered a contract and advance before a word had been written ... I went home and began writing 'Julie of the Wolves.'
Jean Craighead George
#65. For grace to be grace, it must give us things we didn't know we needed and take us places where we didn't know we didn't want to go. As we stumble through the crazily altered landscape of our lives, we find that God is enjoying our attention as never before.
Kathleen Norris
#66. As far as I know, we have never before decided to fight a war with borrowed money and ask generations that come after us to pay for it.
Byron Dorgan
#67. Never before in history had the world actually believed in the equality of man.
Peter Marshall
#68. 'Operation Ajax' presents history in an entirely new way. It takes a true story and uses cutting-edge technology, never before used in this way, to bring it to spectacular life.
Stephen Kinzer
#69. In the evening he went to the cinema to see "The Lord of the Rings", which he had never before had time to see. He thought that orcs, unlike human beings, were simple and uncomplicated creatures.
Stieg Larsson
#70. I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons.
Anna Kavan
#71. Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.
Natalia Ginzburg
#72. God will never ask you for something without first depositing it within you. If you will dare to take a step of faith, you will discover gifts inside that you never before realized were there.
Joel Osteen
#73. He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin.
Ian McEwan
#74. At the interface of the say-able and the unsay-able is the novel, the new, the never before seen, said or done. And that's what I think it's important to try and bring out, ideas. Because I think we are the animals that bring back ideas.
Terence McKenna
#75. Shopping online is fantastic for comparison shopping, because never before have you had the ability to see all the prices offered from everybody at one time.
Bill Vaughan
#76. I had never before seen my friends come in beaten, their heads laid open, their noses broken, or seen them jailed for peaceably demonstrating that they wanted work. I had only known how workers lived. Now I was face to face with what our society did to workers who could get no work.
Mary Heaton Vorse
#77. His rage passes description - the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose something that they have long had but have never before used or wanted.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#78. Speaking out as he had never before done in Congress, Lyndon Johnson in 1947 opposed most of Truman's Fair Deal.
Robert A. Caro
#79. The Donald has the political players rising on their hind legs in defense of their realm. And he has hitherto shattered the totems and taboos these players enforce. Debated as never before are vexations like immigration, Islam, and, yes, the legitimacy of the Republican National Committee.
Ilana Mercer
#80. Hamas has long been Israel's enemy, but in the wake of the Arab Spring, the group is empowered like never before.
Richard Engel
#81. Never before has man had such a great capacity to control his own environment, to end hunger, poverty and disease, to banish illiteracy and human misery. We have the power to make the best generation of mankind in the history of the world.
John F. Kennedy
#82. I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before before.
Truman Capote
#83. One could argue the GOP made no progress on limiting government in their four years of total control from 2002 to 2006. If anything, government expanded like never before.
Chuck Todd
#84. Human consciousness is now being drawn inexorably toward the same issues, the gaze of collective attention focused like never before.
Anodea Judith
#85. We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species to have taken evolution into our own hands.
Carl Sagan
#86. As never before, he understood the vitality of tradition, the dignity of the worship of what had existed before one's own self had come into being. There was no shame in awe; there was exaltation. ("Cafe Endless: Spring Rain")
Nancy Holder
#87. Never before have so many people tripped over one another in their eagerness to get rich and thereby impaled themselves on the consequences of their own greed. The greatest irony of it all is that it's done in the name of contentment
N. T. Wright
#88. How can you sleep at a time like this?" she asked, but the only answer was a low snore. She looked at him suspiciously. In the short time she had been with him, she had never before heard him snore.
"You're faking," she said.
"No. I'm really fast asleep," came his voice from under the cowl.
John Flanagan
#89. Honest, open communication is the only street that leads us into the real world ... We then begin to grow as never before. And once we are on this road, happiness cannot be far away.
John Powell
#90. I had never before noticed that rain contained every color within itself, green as the fields, blue as heaven, white as a lamb, yellow as my daughter's hair.
Alice Hoffman
#91. Never before have there been so many people capable of making a profound difference and yet never have there been so many temptations to behave otherwise.
A. Darius Husain
#92. Lights are on, and I'm not in pain, and never before have I been so keenly aware that this is all anyone really needs.
Claudia Gray
#93. It was one of those moments - which sometimes occur only at the interval of years - when a man's moral aspect is faithfully revealed to his mind's eye. Not improbably, he had never before viewed himself as he did now.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#94. The 'economy' became a god such as never before, and a happy, successful society was one that could please this god - sometimes by sacrificing beautiful things - to keep the deity from getting angry and harming the people by withdrawing favours.
Michael Leunig
#95. There are two things that make today the greatest entrepreneurial age: 1. We have access to teachers like never before. 2. You can start a business from home while still working at your job.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#96. This was a young man who had killed, but never before been in imminent danger of being killed. I felt oddly qualified to introduce him to the sensation.
Robin Hobb
#97. Susan had never before come across the idea that you could rise in Society by, as it were, gaining marks, especially since such noblemen as she'd met in her father's house had used neither serviette nor napkin but a state of mind, which was Drop it on the floor, the dogs'll eat it.
Terry Pratchett
#98. e had the strangest feeling come over him, which he'd never before known. Like he was meeting his best friend, for the first time. It was recognition mixed with relief...but also some amount of joy. Like, 'Oh, there you are! It's so great to meet you finally! I've missed you!
Elizabeth Gannon
#99. Never before have so many people had so much and felt so dissatisfied. No wonder we often feel so dissatisfied. No matter how much we have, it can't compare to what others appear to have.
Craig Groeschel
#100. I am a collection of the obsolete, a relic of the damned, of the lost and strayed. I am the waylaid pieces of history which sank out of sight in all of our pasts. Such an accumulation of riffraff has never before been imagined.
Frank Herbert
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