Befores Quotes & Sayings

For the real difference between humans and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is the sharing of a common view in these matters that makes a household and a state. — Aristotle.

The rain is the sky crying for the death of summer. — Fabian Black

Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it. — Walter Kirn

Your influence on others is your net worth, treat it as such. — Peprah Boasiako

When you fear God you fear nothing else! — Oswald Chambers

Whenever we could steal a few minutes alone, that's when we became the "other", the charged-up thing that kept me up at night, afraid of falling so fast, afraid of losing, afraid it wouldn't last once everyone found out. We stole too-short kisses in the front hallway, shared knowing and devious looks across the table when we weren't being watched. We snuck out every night behind the house to watch for shooting stars and whisper about life, our favorite books, about the meaning of songs. It wasn't the topics themselves that changed, we had talked about all of those things befores. But now, there was a new intensity, an urgency to know as much as we could, to fit as much as possible into our final nights, before somebody found out. — Sarah Ockler

Hollywood is great for entertaining people, it's a wonderful business but it's make-believe, you must remember that. That's one of the most important things to remember and the distinction in your own life, otherwise people get lost in their own fame, and it makes them unhappy. — Dolph Lundgren

The concept of 'talent' is formed under completely abstract criteria, having nothing in common with reality. But the reality is such that I don't understand chess as a whole. But then again no one understands chess in its entirety. Perhaps talent is something else, in chess it is conditionality. — Alexander Morozevich

Nirvana is the other side, the source of all things, where all the aggregates come from, where the templates of infinity are. — Frederick Lenz

Good morning, nightmare! — Ljupka Cvetanova

The average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe. — H.L. Mencken

There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself. — Eiji Yoshikawa

Same people. Same hellos and goodbyes. Same beginnings and endings. Same befores and afters. — Sarah Ockler