Prior Quotes

Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.

Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man.

... that gender is a choice, or that gender is a role, or that gender is a construction that one puts on, as one puts on clothes in the morning, that there is a 'one' who is prior to this gender, a one who goes to the wardrobe of gender and decides with deliberation which gender it will be today.

There is a tremendous relief in knowing that {God's} love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me, so that no discovery now can disillusion Him about me, in the way I am so often disillusioned about myself, and quench His determination to bless me.

Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I have been appointed leader of the Greeks, and wanting to punish the Persians I have come to Asia, which I took from you.

Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury; ... [and] I have been appointed leader of the Greeks.

His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate. He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life.

Prior to Roe , ... whether one could obtain a legal abortion in the face of an unwanted pregnancy was a crap shoot. For 30 years now, it's been a constitutionally guaranteed right

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.

Are you asking me to undress, Tris?' A nervous laugh gurgles from my throat. 'Only ... partially

Why is your heart racing Tris?

I'm going to stop a revolution,'' I say. I turn right, and Peter follows me.

If your beliefs are stressful and you question them, you come to see that they aren't true - whereas prior to questioning, you absolutely believe them. How can you live in joy when you're believing thoughts that bring on sadness, frustration, anger, alienation, and loneliness?

Going to radio with a rap record prior to going to the consumer is like having no foreplay with your girlfriend.

Love for Kuwait is always prior to self-love, money, and children.

. In the heart of every Kuwaiti, Kuwait's love grew it's seeds, spread its roots and branches all around our good land

There is tremendous relief in knowing that His love to me is based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me.

Prior to the reign of the godly King Josiah, the law of God had been lost in the temple for many years. Has the same thing occurred among us? Has the evangel been lost among evangelicals?

In 1985, the top five percent of the households - the wealthiest five percent - had net worth of $8 trillion - which is a lot. Today, after serial bubble after serial bubble, the top five per cent have net worth of $40 trillion. The top five percent have gained more wealth than the whole human race had created prior to 1980.

I feel about my dogs now, and all the dogs I had prior to this, the way I feel about children—they are that important to me. When I have lost a dog I have gone into a mourning period that lasted for months.

I feel like someone breathed new air into my lungs.

I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless. I am Divergent.

Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief.

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

It's a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.

What I find is that the taking, the stealing, the appropriation of images has to do with prior availability, and it sets up a degree where things can be shared... It's like 50% off... You can let something of another emotion or another personality sign on your work, or co-sign it.

Every time you feel depressed about something, try to identify a corresponding negative thought you had just prior to and during the depression. Because these thoughts have actually created your bad mood, by learning to restructure them, you can change your mood.

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I had done 25 motion pictures prior to The Partridge Family and nobody knew my name.

Prior to Valentinus, those who follow Valentinus had no existence.

Nor did those from Marcion exist before Marcion. Nor, in short, did any of those malignant-minded people, whom I have listed above, have any existence previous to the initiators and inventors of their perversity.

Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

The texture of experience is prior to everything else.

There is no a prior reason for supposing that the truth, when it is discovered, will necessarily prove interesting.

Its assimilation requires the reconstruction of prior theory and re-evaluation of prior fact, an intrinsically revolutionary process that is seldom completed a single man and never overnight

I'm holding back, delaying the information.

I'm lingering in the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes were still possible.

Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought.

. . . life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence.