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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company.

The President didn't offer any clarity in his latest speech about what he would do to tackle our nation's debt before it tackles us and it's still not clear how he'll keep Medicare from going bankrupt. One thing is clear though, Barack Obama isn't interested in governing or putting forward solutions to fix our nation's problems.

I would like, before I die, to see the changes I've always fought for being made. If not, my life will have been worth nothing.

Before you can win, you have to believe you are worthy.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

Russell Crowe is very difficult, but it's worth it. He's the real thing. I can tell you this. Russell Crowe was just as difficult before he was an international star as he was afterwards.

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.

And their pals vote for their stuff when they're not on the panel, and it just keeps going that way. And they tend to be very fringe artists, so anything before the 20th century is not worth considering. This is out of date.

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.

Actors are programmed to see the worst. If you're talking about an actor's TV series, you say, 'I loved you last night.' And they go, 'What about the week before?' They immediately worry.

Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link.

Learn to ask for what you want. The worst people can do is not give you what you ask for which is precisely where you were before you asked.

I bet the worst part about dying is the part where your whole life passes before you.

There is no moral equivalency between those who would kill using children, innocent civilians, children and adults, in their homes and in their places of worship, to that of a government that is seeking those terrorists before they can engage in that awful activity.

He had one uniform practice, and a very bad one it was, during the time of family worship, and just three or four seconds before the conclusion of the prayer, he started to his feet, and ran barking round the apartment like a crazed beast.

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.

My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine.

There's no doubt about it that Mubarak has been indeed a partner with Israel, but there's also no doubt about something else. Conditions in Egypt were getting worse and worse, and it was almost just a matter of time before the popular uprising started.

So what we have is a president that has brought this issue before the American people. We now understand that we can't wait. We understand every year we wait it gets $600 billion worse.

So you get kind of addicted to a revenue stream, and then all of a sudden it goes away, now the problem is worse than it was before.

A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced.

The housing market will get worse before it gets better.

Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them.

You'd never play Hamlet if you started worrying about who's played it before you.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

Let me tell you the polls that count, and those are the polls a couple of weeks before the election. That's when the pollsters worry about holding onto their credibility. Those are the polls that everybody remembers.