Top 100 Then To Quotes
#1. Then to this earthen Bowl did I adjourn
My Lip the secret Well of Life to learn:
And Lip to Lip it murmur'd
'While you live,
Drink!
for once dead you never shall return.
Omar Khayyam
#2. My fingers positively itched to drift at length along their spines, to arrive at one whose lure I could not pass, to pluck it down, to inch it open, then to close my eyes and inhale the soul-sparking scent of old and literate dust.
Kate Morton
#3. I have learned to be patient with people. Once again I point to Rose's computer and then to the words me too.
Sharon M. Draper
#4. I felt as if it were better, or not worse, to have compressed my enjoyments and sufferings into a few wild years, and then to rest myself in an early grave, than to have chosen the untroubled and ungladdened course of the crowd before me, whose days were all alike, and a long lifetime like each day.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#5. I love a challenge. It's fun as hell to fall and to not get something and then to finally land it. That's like pursuing a girl that said no a hundred times and she finally say yeah. That's what it feels like every single time.
Lil' Wayne
#6. Then, to their surprise, they found before them a high wall which seemed to be made of white china. It was smooth, like the surface of a dish, and higher than their heads.
L. Frank Baum
#7. The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.
D.H. Lawrence
#8. The key of success is for you to set one big, challenging goal and then to pay any price, overcome any obstacle and persist through any difficulty until you finally achieve it
Brian Tracy
#9. I had to steel myself against this psychic devastation - to see your father on the street. It's hard enough to pick up somebody you don't know from the streets, and then to actually have other people pick your father up - it was psychically devastating.
Nick Flynn
#10. It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness ...
Abraham Lincoln
#11. Within the United States, there is a real division between the PhDs given in science and math to the Asian community, to the traditional white community, and then to African-Americans and Hispanics.
Juan Enriquez
#12. Acquire worldly wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly. If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group then to hell with them.
Charlie Munger
#13. By privileges, immunities, or prerogatives to give unlimited swing to the passions of individuals, and then to hope that they will restrain them, is about as reasonable as to expect that the tiger will spare the hart to browse upon the herbage.
Charles Caleb Colton
#14. First there must be order and harmony within your own mind. Then this order will spread to your family, then to the community, and finally to your entire kingdom. Only then can you have peace and harmony.
Confucius
#15. Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.
B.C. Forbes
#16. Technical Expertise is composed of all the little and large bits of technique known to the skilled painter, musician, actor, any artist. He adds these things together in his basic presentation. He knows what he is doing. And how to do it. And then to his he adds his message.
L. Ron Hubbard
#17. Programmed by quanta, physics gave rise first to chemistry and then to life; programmed by mutations and recombination, life gave rise to Shakespeare; programmed by experience and imagination, Shakespeare gave rise to Hamlet.
Seth Lloyd
#18. The best and safest method of philosophizing seems to be first to inquire diligently into the properties of things, and establishing those properties by experiments, and then to proceed more slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them.
Isaac Newton
#20. I used to walk down the street like I was a fucking star ... I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be - and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth.
Lady Gaga
#21. After God created the world, He made man and woman. Then, to keep the whole thing from collapsing, He invented humor.
Bill Kelly
#22. But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because it is repugnant to the law of nature and of nations.
William H. Seward
#23. But I love to entertain. My vocation is to accrue all these experiences, to write about them, to get them out of my system, to not get sick, and then to share them publicly.
Alanis Morissette
#24. I'm good, I don't need no help. Cause I'm better off by myself then to start over with somebody else.
Drake
#25. All things seemed in their kinds to be my enemies...
It seemed then to my apprehension to proceed from indignation, wrath, and as it were a gnashing of teeth against me.
Richard Norwood
#26. It had never occurred to him until then to think that literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people ...
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#27. I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing.
Victoria Abril
#28. He would be cruel indeed, to put a passion in her, and then to punish her for feeling it.
Sarah Waters
#29. The secret of making something work in your lives is first of all, the deep desire to make it work; then the faith and belief that it can work; then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.
Eileen Caddy
#30. The truth about our own modest contribution might immobilize us: much easier then, to tell ourselves a story about how much we make our own reality.
David Whyte
#31. You have to treat everyone you meet as if they are the most important person in the world - because they are. If not to you, then to someone; and if not today, then perhaps tomorrow.
Linda Kaplan Thaler
#32. I'd advise you, then, to quickly get rid of your burden; for until then you'll never be settled in your mind or enjoy the benefits of the blessings that God has given you.
John Bunyan
#33. A novel is a commodity that fulfills a certain need; people need to buy daydreams like they need to buy ice cream or aspirin or gin. They even need to buy a pinch of intellectual catnip now and then to liven up their thoughts ...
John Dos Passos
#34. She had discovered early that what we want out of life can change; that the important thing is to learn to recognize or even simply just to admit what we really want, and then to have the courage to reach for it.
Candice Proctor
#35. Now it seems that everything in the world stems from sources other than God, since the products of nature have their source in nature; deliberate effects can be traced back to human reason or will as their source. There is no need then to assume that God exists.
Thomas Aquinas
#36. One asks him what his ambition is. He replies, "To become immortal and then to die.
Anupama Chopra
#37. If you just go on dreaming then it stays a dream and becomes stale and dead. But first to dream and then to do isn't that the way to make a dream come true
Meindert DeJong
#38. The whole function of the life of prayer is, then, to enlighten and strengthen our conscience so that it not only knows and perceives the outward, written precepts of the moral and divine laws, but above all lives God's law in concrete reality by perfect and continual union with His will.
Thomas Merton
#39. The tooth-ach is more ease then to deale with ill people.
George Herbert
#40. Salle. The white man and the red man struck hands and entertained each other during three days. Then, to the admiration
Mark Twain
#41. One of my ambitions has been to go back to what those great authors were doing then ... to bridge that sensibility of old Victorian Gothic tales and reconstruct them in a modern way.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#43. Put simply, unlike terrestrial organisms it did not adapt to its surroundings over the course of hundreds of millions of years, so as only then to produce a rational species, but it had gained control over its environment from the start.
Stanislaw Lem
#44. And then, to cap things off, I got wicked cramps and my period started ... I guess my body decided that since I already felt crappy, why not throw some nice uterus-agony on top of everything?
Mimi Strong
#45. Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified.
James Russell Lowell
#46. [T]hrough bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.
Tahir Shah
#47. The road does rarely welcome us, preferring we should stay at home, but I have found the remedy is simply then to move my home itself to other places, and so gain a different view.
Susanna Kearsley
#48. What cause then, to have me in hysterics of unknown kind?
Far-off the clandestine black where my road I cannot find,
What cause then, to submit me not here?
Mpho Leteng
#49. Standing by the frozen glass, he stared down at the icy, barely lit streets running towards the river Seine, the bell-clanging local church, then to the sky like black lead. ("Israbel")
Tanith Lee
#50. I could hunker down by myself and listen closely to mixes, but then to be able to have a sounding board of peers to get advice and feedback.
Aoife O'Donovan
#51. After a lifetime of silence, it is difficult then to speak.
Marya Hornbacher
#52. The usual heresy consists in denying the existence of a god who has created us. It is a much more interesting heresy to imagine that possibly a god has created us and then to say that there isn't the least reason for us to be impressed by that fact. And certainly not to be thankful for it.
Lars Gustafsson
#53. Most practising scientists focus on 'bite-sized' problems that are timely and tractable. The occupational risk is then to lose sight of the big picture.
Martin Rees
#54. With Snorri troubles were always put front and centre and dealt with. My style was more to shove them under the rug until the floor got too uneven to navigate, and then to move house.
Mark Lawrence
#55. The secret of a happy life, Lewis, is to know when to stop and then to go that little bit further.
Colin Dexter
#56. It was strange to become a vampire ,to be presented with what could only be described as an eternal life, and then to die anyway when you're sixteen.
Cassandra Clare
#57. I am deeply grateful to the President and to my country ... To come from Cincinnati, Ohio, for God's sake, then to go to Hollywood, and to get this kind of tribute from my country ... I love this country so much.
Doris Day
#58. God is sending forth His message of love, but you must tune in. You must be willing to listen and to receive His message and then to obey it.
Billy Graham
#59. I won't lay down my principles for any kind of recognition or any kind of position or trying to be more famous. It's just not in me. I'd rather be a man. And then to have all this crazy stuff on my conscience.
Ice Cube
#60. Balance is the most important of all qualities. We don't want a little bit of rapid growth and then to stagnate. We want continual growth, continual development, which implies balance, always.
Frederick Lenz
#61. Let us dare, then, to make the following hypothesis: the raw materials of today's production process are excitation, erection, ejaculation, and pleasure and feelings of self-satisfaction, omnipotent control, and total destruction.
Paul B. Preciado
#62. As an actor, to get a gift of a part like that is unusual. And then, to have the prospect of another one is always going to be interesting and exciting.
Brendan Gleeson
#63. Are we ready?"
"You have your dagger?"
"I rarely leave home without it."
"Then to the Batcave, Sentinel.
Chloe Neill
#64. For the entire earth is but a point, and the place of your own habitation but a minute corner in it. ( ... ) Remember then to withdraw into the little field of self. Above all, never struggle or strain; but be master of yourself.
Marcus Aurelius
#65. I'm not going to get a hit every time in clutch situations, but over the course of the season I'll get a lot of clutch hits. I'm disappointed it's come to a time when they (Orioles fans) boo me. And then to turn around and have the nerve to cheer for you, that's the way baseball goes.
Albert Belle
#66. I went to elementary school in Ottawa, and then to a private secondary school.
Douglass North
#67. I could write the political history of those years based on how Red Label gradually gave way to twelve-year-old Ballantine and then to single malt.
Umberto Eco
#68. It costs a lot of money to make an album in a studio in New York with a producer and musicians. I have to pay a publicist every month. I have to pay for mastering, production, the manufacturing of the discs. Then, to promote an album properly, you have to spend a lot of money.
Juliana Hatfield
#69. I do not want to live.
I want to love and then to live,
incidentally.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#70. Must I keep thinking about those other people, whatever I am doing? And if I want to laugh about something, should I stop myself quickly and feel ashamed that I am cheerful? Ought I then to cry the whole day long? No, that I can't do. Besides, in time this gloom will wear off.
Anne Frank
#71. When our needs are permitted to grow to an extremity, and all visible hopes fail, then to have relief given wonderfully enhances the price of such a mercy
John Flavel
#72. Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.
Fred Rogers
#73. 199. For to wish to forget how much you loved someone - and then, to actually forget - can feel, at times, like the slaughter of a beautiful bird who chose, by nothing short of grace, to make a habitat of your heart.
Maggie Nelson
#74. I have firmly decided to bite the dust with a minimum of medical assistance when my time comes, and up to then to sin to my wicked heart's content.
Albert Einstein
#75. I was too young and naive then to link up the meaning of those ridiculingly defunct tennis shoes that I was forced to wear with the reality that we were on Welfare and Welfare was not designed to provide a child with any pride in its existence.
Richard Brautigan
#76. How unjust then to meet that person you love, and be kept away from them only because ones bed is made of hay , and the other, feathers.
Kristin Cashore
#77. It is one thing to be sick of your own infirmities and another to understand that the people you love most are sick of them also. You are very near then to being friendless in the world.
Leif Enger
#78. He's wearing a costume," I whispered to Emma. Then, to the guy: "She doesn't see a lot of movies." "A costume?" Emma scrunched her brow. "But he's a grown man.
Ransom Riggs
#79. I have always seen life personally; my interest or sympathy or indignation is not aroused by an abstract cause but by the plight of a single person ... Out of my response to an individual develops an awareness of a problem to the community, then to the country, then to the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#80. Back then: to be paid more, one needed to increase the number of things that are by him known. Today: to be paid more, one needs to increase the number of people by whom he is known.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#81. She had a Barbie Dreamhouse, which back then, to little girls, was pretty much the equivalent of crack. That
Leah Remini
#82. The writing is what gives me the joy, especially editing myself for the page, and getting something ready to show to the editors, and then to have a first draft and get it back and work to fix it, I love reworking, I love editing, love love love revision, revision, revision, revision.
George Carlin
#83. Shall this nectar Run useless, then, to waste? or ... these lips, That open like the morn, breathing perfumes, On such as dare approach them, be untouch'd? They must
nay, 'tis in vain to make resistance
Be often kissed and tasted.
Philip Massinger
#85. You and I, in our quest for truth, must set ourselves on a higher level. If the worldly reasoner
is like a butcher, we wish not to be found like them - minus fingers or thumbs. Spiritual reasoning
can be a very sharp blade; it behooves us, then, to 'rightly divide'.
D.L. Herring
#86. It was an honor and a thrill to have the chance to meet His Holiness, Pope Benedict, and then to have lunch with Prime Minister Berlusconi ... I think Italy and the U. S. have a very strong friendship and relationship, and I'm proud of that.
Laura Bush
#87. You need propellants to accelerate toward Mars, then to decelerate at Mars, again to re-accelerate from Mars to Earth, and finally to decelerate back at Earth. Accordingly, the mass of these required propellants, in short, drives our need for innovative launch vehicles.
Buzz Aldrin
#88. Rock'n'roll starts between the legs and goes through the heart, then to the head. As long as it does those three things, it's a great rock song.
John Mellencamp
#89. If somebody takes the time, a: to read a book that I have written, and then to b: care about it enough to write me and ask questions, surely I owe them a response.
Lois Lowry
#90. Your love of glory must conquer your will to survive; or why fight at all? Why not be a smith, a brewer, a wool merchant? Why are you in the contest, if not to win, and if not to win, then to die?
Hilary Mantel
#91. The dog kept tipping his head up to Annabel, and then to the path ahead, and then back to Annabel again. It was how he used to follow his father, Ross recalled, and suspected his wife had been adopted by the beast in his father's place. He
Lynsay Sands
#92. If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there
Will Rogers
#93. You stick a bunch of drunken murderers together, ain't long before some turn to thieving, then to lying, then to bad language, and pretty soon to sobriety, raising families and making an honest living.
Joe Abercrombie
#94. I think people prefer to remember happy times, well, happier times, and if they can't remember them, then to change the memories and make them happier.
Donna Leon
#95. Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you've gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.
Mel Brooks
#96. But then, to those behind the First Order, sowing fear and terror was merely politics by another means.
Alan Dean Foster
#97. Once we have found ourselves, we must understand how from time to time to lose
and then to find
ourselves once again: assuming,that is, that we are thinkers. For a thinker it is a drawback to be bound to a single person all the time.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#98. A fighter can condition his body to go hard certain rounds, then to coast certain rounds.
Muhammad Ali
#99. The most important rule is to formulate, clearly and precisely, the goal to be reached, and then to retain it unswervingly in mind throughout all the stages of the execution, which are often long and complex.
Roberto Assagioli
#100. I've always just been really interesting in humans, whether I knew it or not, back then. To be able to recreate that and express that was definitely something I wanted to do.
Daniela Bobadilla
