After Quotes

The truth is, after Boys Don't Cry, I realized how few and far between the great roles are. I am beyond thankful for finding Million Dollar Baby.

Because the truth is, today's immigrants, as they have for generation after generation, work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for the lowest pay, jobs that are just about impossible to fill.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.

The most important thing about music that I've learned after all this time is that to me, it's a way of reaching the truth.

You don't have the judgment after you've had the drink. If something truly catastrophic had happened that evening, I don't know how I could have lived with myself. I feel like I've gotten a second chance.

A good thing to live by is to go after what truly interests you.

An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

After I set out to refute Christianity intellectually and couldn't, I came to the conclusion the Bible was true and Jesus Christ was God's Son.

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us.

A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot.

I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got famous, it just got me into more trouble.

It's always been too slow for me. Playing. The pace of things. I'm a fast sprinter. The trouble was, after playing in the group for a few months, I couldn't reach that point.

The trouble is that after nine years as a Jack of all trades and Master of the Dominican Order, I have no expertise on anything except airports and exotic foods.

It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.

The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone.

There was a second problem that was still not a technical problem... the project became classified. I couldn't work on it after having gone to all that trouble. I was considered a security risk, so I could not get a clearance.

One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It's brutal. And there's a trophy.

We knew shortly after the war that our troops were becoming ill.

One year after the United States led the invasion of Iraq, the country remains extremely dangerous not only to our troops, but also to the stability of the world.

If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.

A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.

Juan Tripp was a friend. Good name for an airline man, huh? Juan Tripp after another?