Top 100 Only After Quotes
#1. Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us.
Stephen Covey
#2. I know how to smile, I know how to laugh, I know how to play. But I know how to do these things only after I have fulfilled my mission.
Nadia Comaneci
#3. It is only after we have integrated the dark side of the moon into our world view that we can begin to talk seriously of universal culture.
Shulamith Firestone
#4. I am that which lies beyond time. Like a melody, which sounds completely only after the last note is played.
Anna Kamienska
#5. The composer must bear in mind that the radio listener does not hear music directly. He hears it only after the sound has passed through a microphone, amplifiers, transmission lines, radio transmitter, receiving set, and, finally, the loud speaker apparatus itself.
Raymond Scott
#6. Nothing is so unpopular as positive change amongst friends. It seems when you change for the better, the people around you will be inspired to change ... But only after trying their hardest to make you stop. Live your truth and don't EVER let anyone dilute your power to change!
Steve Maraboli
#7. I do not think we are born with empathy. We learn it only after we have felt the hurt that we've inflicted on another.
M.D. Ireman
#8. What is surprising is not that oppression should make its appearance only after higher forms of economy have been reached, but that it should always accompany them.
Simone Weil
#9. I handle wisdom only after I just looked down, listened to and understood.
Abdul'Rauf Hashmi
#10. Only after a while did it occur to me (in spite of the chilly silence which surrounded me) that my story was not of the tragic sort, but rather of the comic variety.
At any rate that afforded me some comfort.
Milan Kundera
#11. Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred.
Mason Cooley
#12. It happens, I do not know how, that most of the proud never really discover their true selves. They think they have conquered their passions and they find out how poor they really are only after they die.
John Climacus
#13. It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
Chuck Palahniuk
#14. Moskowitz became a world leader in the use of neuroplasticity for treating pain only after making some discoveries while treating himself. A
Norman Doidge
#15. The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.
Chuck Palahniuk
#16. I'm a Libra. That means that I can make a decision, but only after much thought.
P.J. Harvey
#17. Fundamentalist Muslim terrorists kill three thousand Americans, but America isn't supposed to respond, because if we respond, they'll respond. We always hear about 'karmic retributions' and the 'cycle of violence' only after we've been hit.
Ann Coulter
#18. It's only after you have lost everything that you are free to do anything.
Chuck Palahniuk
#19. When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes.
John Boyd Orr
#20. Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
#21. I think you overestimate the maturity of adults, he wrote me in his final letter, a letter he sent only after I'd broken down and written him first, after a year of silence.
Maggie Nelson
#22. It is only after you have come to know the surface of things ... that you can venture to seek what is underneath. But the surface of things is inexhaustible.
Italo Calvino
#23. Of course world travel isn't as good as it seems, it's only after you've come back from all the heat and horror that you forget to get bugged and remember the weird scenes you saw
Jack Kerouac
#24. Happiness is a strange thing. It is something I tend to recognize only after it has passed, when I realize I miss it.
Claire Holden Rothman
#25. If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.
A. Edward Newton
#26. Germany will regard the Jewish question as solved only after the very last Jew has left the greater German living space ... Europe will have its Jewish question solved only after the very last Jew has left the continent.
Alfred Rosenberg
#27. Only after a piece of music is done does my frontal cortex allow me to organize what might be trying to come out of my subconscious.
Arca
#28. When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.
Taiye Selasi
#29. Her mother stared in quiet awe of this more artful rearrangement of her genetic code, and slipped into a contentedness that usually appeared only after the red wine had fallen below the bottle label.
Anthony Marra
#30. The interesting thing is that New Order finished on an okay note. It was only after we split that things got worse.
Peter Hook
#31. I will never know how you see red and you will never know how I see it. But this separation of consciousness is recognized only after a failure of communication, and our first movement is to believe in an undivided being between us.
Maurice Merleau Ponty
#32. Only after giving up 'the truth' can we learn to speak our truth.
Terrence Real
#33. Fate will make things right in the end, though only after the work has been done, the tears have been shed and the sleepless nights have been endured.
Nadia Hashimi
#34. Authors frequently say things they are unaware of; only after they have gotten the reactions of their readers do they discover what they have said
Umberto Eco
#35. Only after several years of training did I come to realize that the deepest purpose of the martial arts is to serve as a vehicle for personal spiritual development.
Joe Hyams
#36. Most of us find our own voices only after we've sounded like a lot of other people.
Neil Gaiman
#37. Hate a liar more than I hate thief. A thief is only after my salary a liar is after my reality.
Curtis Jackson
#38. But you don't know what will happen.'
'No. That is our curse. To know that something will happen, and only after it is over, to look back and say, "oh, that is what that meant. If only i'd known". It can break your heart.
Robin Hobb
#39. Companies selling a product play down its vulnerability and emphasize its robustness. But only after technology leaves the dock is it really tested. For human operators in control of a supposedly infallible system, complacency and overconfidence can take over, and caution may be thrown to the wind.
Henry Petroski
#40. People can be committed to a mental institution only after judicial hearing, but people are committed to schools beyond the reach of Habeas Corpus.
Martin Mayer
#41. If these examples are typical, then 75 to 95 percent of the productivity gains from many major new technologies were realized only after decades of improvements in the implementation.
James Bessen
#42. Realists value order above freedom: for them the latter becomes important only after the former has been established.
Robert D. Kaplan
#43. Most new insights come only after a superabundant accumulation of facts have removed the blindness which prevented us from seeing what later comes to be regarded as obvious.
Isidor Isaac Rabi
#44. I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
V.S. Naipaul
#45. Truth is only sweet to the ears only after a person is sick of drinking the vinegar of repeated failures.
Orrin Woodward
#46. Only after a person has their heart broken does the world appear as it truly is.
Michael Gilbert
#47. One of the bitterest ironies of life is that one truly appreciates a blessing only after having been deprived of it or imagining that.
Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi
#48. I have been lucky with writers. None have been real trouble. Some I never met. Some I meet only after the book is finished, and some, the easiest to get along with, are the dead ones. Most become friends.
Michael Foreman
#49. Here it comes. My inevitable death, ignoring me all those years when I wished for it daily, arriving only after I've decided I want to live forever.
Isaac Marion
#50. A thing is incredible, if ever, only after it is told
returned to the world it came out of.
Eudora Welty
#51. The Government have made it clear that the constitutional treaty will be ratified in the UK only after a referendum.
Geoff Hoon
#52. To wish for the happiest days is to wish for a season of sorrow; for it is only after prolonged, wintry darkness that the summer sun appears to shine at its brightest.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#53. Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.
Mark Twain
#54. I shall become a master in this art only after a great deal of practice.
Erich Fromm
#55. As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.
Bernard Berenson
#56. People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. When you change for the better, the people around you will be inspired to change also ... but only after doing their best to make you stop. Live your truth and don't EVER stop.
Steve Maraboli
#57. I understood myself only after I destroyed myself. And only in the process of fixing myself, did I know who I really was.
Sade Andria Zabala
#58. The issue of finding the best possible answer or achieving maximum efficiency usually arises in industry only after serious performance or legal troubles.
Steven S. Skiena
#59. I often buy print books only after I've read them in some digital form or other. It's my odd way of keeping the physical presence of the best among multitudes. And I only have one shelf.
Joyce Rachelle
#60. It is in racists' best interest to maintain white supremacy at all costs. They will defend it with their lives, but ONLY after they've defended it with ours.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#61. Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
Maj Sjowall
#62. We're quite happy with our Big Bang description of cosmic origins. But actually, the Big Bang accounts for what happened only after the beginning. The beginning itself, and especially what happened before, remains the biggest mystery of all.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#63. A soul can finally fly free as a bird only after its energy is lighter and has been purified.
Ilchi Lee
#64. Once you make something you think it's awesome, but it's only after you listen to it for a few weeks then you actually get a proper perspective on it.
Flume
#65. From laboratories employing complex apparatus, poetry often emerges into the outside world after a long lapse of time, just as some scientific discoveries become common property only after they have entered the blood stream of the generations.
Mieczyslaw Jastrun
#66. Love can exist only after meditation, not before it. That is a simple existential law. Before meditation - only lust, only sexuality. Before meditation you are an animal and not really a human being. With meditation a transformation comes: you become human, and out of your humanness, love flows.
Rajneesh
#67. Marriage, I have always held, is a serious affair, to be entered into only after long deliberation and forethought, and suitability of tastes adn inclinations is the most important consideration.
Agatha Christie
#68. I'm never any good in the morning. It is only after four in the afternoon that I get going.
Stephen Hawking
#69. We find the light only after total defeat of our attempts to deceive and outwit it.
Vernon Howard
#70. All too often, we do smart things only after exhausting every conceivable dumb thing we could have done.
Thomas Sowell
#71. We use our tax dollars to pay some bureaucrat to kill a mountain lion, dig a hole and bury this precious beast. No one gets to eat it, nobody gets to buy licenses, fees and taxes themselves. And that's only after a mountain lion has killed somebody! Oh my God! And the Osbournes are still No. 1!
Ted Nugent
#72. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. Only after death, only in solitude, does a man's true nature emerge. In death, as on the chimney sweep's Saturday night, the soot gets washed from his body.
Franz Kafka
#73. University departments wanted to hire sober, rational researchers and teachers. You were allowed revelatory, apocalyptic experiences only after you had tenure.
Richard Tillotson
#74. One of the surest ways of forming good combinations in war would be to order movements only after obtaining perfect information of the enemy's proceedings. In fact, how can any man say what he should do himself; if he is ignorant what his adversary is about?
Antoine-Henri Jomini
#75. Usually, people in the Islamic world set aside one-third or one-fourth of their wealth for endowment, and that will be effective only after their death. But in my case, I decided to implement this decision in my lifetime itself.
Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi
#76. Be slow to speak, and only after having first listened quietly, so that you may understand the meaning, leanings, and wishes of those who do speak. Thus you will better know when to speak and when to be silent.
Saint Ignatius
#77. Each day, the American housewife turns toward television as toward a lover. She feels guilty about it, and well she might, for he's covered with warts and is only after her money.
Mignon McLaughlin
#78. Gratitude takes time. It's the fruit of experience. It still feels new to me, I haven't had it for that long. Gratitude came only after I'd passed through all the other feelings.
Michael W. Clune
#79. Life is just like a book. Only after you've read it do you know how it ends. It is when we are at the end of life that we know how our life ran. Mine, until now, has been black. As black as my skin. Black as the garbage dump where I live.
Carolina Maria De Jesus
#80. My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.
Hugh Leonard
#81. It is only after surrendering what we think our lives are supposed to be that we can step into everything that our lives are meant to be.
Mandy Hale
#82. I tell them that in Finland the first thing men coming back from the front wanted was sex; only after that did they take their skis off.
Johanna Sinisalo
#83. But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.
Barney Frank
#84. Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite; and this rare conjuncture, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant.
Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand
#85. My record was so bad that I was first rejected by the Peace Corps as a poor risk and possible troublemaker and was accepted as a volunteer only after a great deal of explaining and arguing.
Paul Theroux
#86. It was only after the Grimms published two editions primarily for adults that they changed their attitude and decided to produce a shorter edition for middle-class families. This led to Wilhelm's editing and censoring many of the tales.
Jack Zipes
#87. Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.
Judith Wright
#89. Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out.
Arthur Rock
#90. When you fall in love, when Love really does its worst, it gives you no cause. It swallows you whole. It allows no refusals. Like Jonah only after he had been inside the whale awhile, you may say, if asked, Oh, this is why I am here.
Candice Raquel Lee
#91. Only insofar as you enjoy being sorry, my dear, which, while it is a considerable amount, occurs only after the fact, thus making it a singularly ineffective deterrent, yes?
Jacqueline Carey
#92. You can't relate to a superhero, to a superman, but you can identify with a real man who in times of crisis draws forth some extraordinary quality from within himself and triumphs but only after a struggle.
John F. Kennedy
#93. Only after you have qualified yourself, you should then say that God will prosper your labor.
Sunday Adelaja
#95. We shall know that we have begun to speak true by an increased hunger for true-speaking; we shall have the whole hunger only after we have given ourselves the first taste of it.
Laura Riding
#96. Only after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children.
John Vianney
#97. I never saw love as luck, as that gift from the gods which put everything else in place, and allowed you to succeed. No, I saw love as reward. One could find it only after one's virtue, or one's courage, or self-sacrifice, or generosity, or loss, has succeeded in stirring the power of creation.
Norman Mailer
#98. I grew up with an extremely abusive father. As a mother, I wanted to protect my own children from exposure to violence. When I found out one of my daughters was in an abusive relationship, it broke my heart. Finally, she left him ?- but only after his abuse started spreading to the children.
Ginny Brown-Waite
#99. Social and political change is an effect - it comes only after we change ourselves.
Jeffrey Tucker
#100. Even if you've never experienced the wonderful things in life, only after something has been contaminated and marred will it become a beautiful thing. Pain can be healed with gentle care, darkness can be removed with sunlight. Don't underestimate the small things. Everything is significant.
Natsuki Takaya
