All Quotes

Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.
‐‐ Chuck Noll

Before you can win, you have to believe you are worthy.
‐‐ Mike Ditka

Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.
‐‐ Joyce Carol Oates

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
‐‐ George Santayana

Before you could actually have face-lifts, they would pull your skin around the back of your head with rubber bands, where they would tape it. And then you'd have to wear a wig over it to hide the rubber bands. It was not the most comfortable.
‐‐ Rob Lowe

Before you do anything, you need to know if it's right or wrong.
‐‐ Andy Lau

Before you get a dog, you can't quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can't imagine living any other way.
‐‐ Caroline Knapp

Before you get into the mind, you have to inhabit the physicality. Body language is a great way of speaking.
‐‐ Michelle Yeoh

Before you get to 'SNL,' you have your own sensibility. And when you get to 'SNL,' it's the show's sensibility.
‐‐ Bill Hader

Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.
‐‐ Bruce Barton

Before you have children, you mostly think about the world in terms of yourself. And when you become a parent, the focus shifts to somebody else.
‐‐ Joanne Harris

Before you have kids, you're like, 'I hope I don't die on this plane,' or, 'I hope I don't die crossing the street.' It's all me, me, me. 'What do I want to eat? What do I want to do?' But when you have a baby, and you would just happily stand in front of a bus to save her, it's a ferocious commitment to protecting your charge.
‐‐ Lake Bell

Before you, I engage myself to serve my country with the devotion and the exemplary that this post demands. I understand responsibilities of the job and, as such, I give a republican salute to Nicolas Sarkozy who has led France for 5 years and who deserves all of our respect.
‐‐ Francois Hollande

Before you lay a foundation on the cricket field, there should be a solid foundation in your heart and you start building on that. After that as you start playing more and more matches, you learn how to score runs and how to take wickets.
‐‐ Sachin Tendulkar

Before you open the lunch menu or order that cheeseburger or consider eating the cake with the frosting intact, haul out the psychic calculator and start tinkering with the budget.
‐‐ Caroline Knapp

Before you're a mom you don't know what gear is going to be relevant.
‐‐ Emily Procter

Before you rip off three feet of toilet paper, consider that each year 500,000 acres of virgin boreal forest in northern Alberta and Ontario are being clear-cut to make the stuff. These forests are home to some 500 First Nation communities, as well as caribou and bears, moose and wolves, and, in the summertime, billions of songbirds.
‐‐ Alex Shoumatoff

Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.
‐‐ Bernard Meltzer

Before you start production, you have characters you have created without actors in mind, then all of a sudden you've got actors. They bring an enormous amount in creating these characters, and creating the dynamics between the characters that you've written.
‐‐ Charlie Kaufman

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
‐‐ Chanakya

Before you take your address, while you're still reading the putt, imagine the ball tracking on the line you've chosen and falling into the cup. If you don't believe you can make every putt, why bother trying?
‐‐ Ernie Els

Before you throw it away, let Mighty Mendit save the day.
‐‐ Billy Mays

Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject.
‐‐ John Henry Patterson

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you.
‐‐ Erma Bombeck

Before you worry about what genre it is, about whether it's a loop or a drum, it's about what suits the song. It's using what's within your reach, but also reaching for everything you can. I don't know if I always get it right, because I don't know every sound yet.
‐‐ Beth Orton

Before YouTube, I used to show videos at film festivals, and that was good and constructive. Watching things with an audience is a great way to gauge - it's pretty clear what's working in comedy when there's a joke and people laugh or don't laugh.
‐‐ Jason Woliner

Before YouTube, I was playing in restaurants and doing open mics - every once in a while, I'd throw an original in there. And then YouTube kind of just opened doors for me, so once I felt like I had an audience to share music with, I began to share my original music.
‐‐ Megan Nicole

Beforehand you think, 'Oh, changing nappies - I'm going to be up; I need to get sleep for training.' But when it happens, when you're there, as soon as you hear a wiggle or a cough or something, you're up straight away. It doesn't bother you.
‐‐ Sonny Bill Williams

Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away.
‐‐ Rumi

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
‐‐ Seneca

Begin challenging your assumptions. Your assumptions are the windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile or the light won't come in.
‐‐ Alan Alda

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in while, or the light won't come in.
‐‐ Alan Alda

Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.
‐‐ Liz Smith

Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good.
‐‐ Pythagoras

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
‐‐ Marcus Aurelius

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.
‐‐ Georges Clemenceau

Begin with another's to end with your own.
‐‐ Baltasar Gracian

Begin with the end in mind.
‐‐ Stephen Covey

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.
‐‐ Iyanla Vanzant

Beginning in 1973 and then acts in '77, '78, 1980, 1994 and then into the 21st century in the international arena, governments have steadily gotten out of the transportation business.
‐‐ Frederick W. Smith

Beginning in 1986, a series of field experiments were designed to test the various hypotheses which had been put forth to explain the Antarctic ozone hole.
‐‐ Mario J. Molina

Beginning in June, Alabama seniors previously without prescription drug coverage should begin to see savings of between 10 and 25 percent on their medications.
‐‐ Mike Rogers

Beginning in the 1920s and 1930s, film has been a shadow thrown over the minds of all novelists. Ever since, novelists have strained to make themselves more relevant and, whether consciously or not, novel-writing has been influenced by cinematic doctrines - by turns, embracing and defying it.
‐‐ Matthew Pearl

Beginning in the late 18th century, some German scholars began to regard Holy Scripture not as a single revelation but a sequence of inspired texts that occurred in specific times and places and were subject to varied and multiple meanings.
‐‐ Jay Parini

Beginning runners come in all shapes, sizes and pre-existing conditions, so there's no magic formula for determining exactly how much basic running is needed before you start speedwork. Most experts, though, recommend three or four months of preparation.
‐‐ Don Kardong

Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one.
‐‐ Bill Ayers

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
‐‐ Og Mandino

Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities - in Paris, Oxford, Cambridge? The church.
‐‐ Nancy Pearcey

Beginning with a trip out to Ellis Island, I saw for myself where thousands of European immigrants took their first steps onto American soil, bringing with them nothing but their ambition: people such as Erich von Stroheim and Adolph Zukor.
‐‐ Paul Merton

Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974.
‐‐ Jose Saramago