Proceeding Vs Preceding Quotes & Sayings

If you would rise, shun luxury, for luxury lowers and degrades. — Saint John Chrysostom

My favourite spectator sport is watching people who should know better searching for something (and often claiming to find it) where it never could be. Women claiming to find feminism in Islam is a good one. — Julie Burchill

The major break in the understanding of manliness is not between, say, the nineteenth century and any particular preceding era but between my generation of Baby Boomers and the entire proceeding complex of teachings. In some ways, TR and Churchill have more in common with Homer and Shakespeare than they do with us. — Waller R Newell

Wherever there is sincerity & talent, people do recognize them. It may take some time but we should have some patience and hold on to our passion. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

I should not be a Christian but for the miracles. — Blaise Pascal

I believe Facebook is going all the way. They're going to reach a billion members and will be the biggest company in the world. It will be a platform everyone goes on the Internet through. — Ben Mezrich

There was a blond misty boy sitting beside me, and he looked at me, and I at him, and we were not strangers: our hands moved towards each other to embrace. I never heard his voice, for we did not speak; it is a shame, I should so like the memory of it. Loneliness, like fever, thrives on night, but there with him light broke, breaking in the trees like birdsong, and when sunrise came, he loosened his fingers from mine, and walked away, that misty boy, my friend. — Truman Capote

Yesterday upon the stair, I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today, I wish to hell he'd go away. — Gregory Maguire

It's interesting about diseases, how they peak and tank. — David Cronenberg