Before Quotes

I used to have this lucky rock and I used to always have to rub it three times before I competed.

A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.

The hooks didn't roll out any more sevens than my hands did before them.

My goal is to just keep playing roles that are different from the roles I've played before.

I don't know what the future holds. I just try to do roles that I haven't done before.

I think I've definitely had my rock bottom and I think that was probably right before I went into treatment where I said, 'I definitely need help.'

Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the idea of creating a new scene that could be a grassroots thing.

I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll.

One of the perks of being an actor is to get to meet athletes that you respect. Especially who played before my time. Brooks Robinson is one of those athletes; they just don't make them any nicer.

As many of the riders before me had been held up and robbed of their packages, mail and money that they carried, for that was the only means of getting mail and money between these points.

Where there is a problem, the risks to the public are greater than they've ever been before.

There's always a risk if you don't do things the way you've done things before.

When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.

Regardless, I did rise to the editorship before embarking on a freelance career in the late '60's.

You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings.

I had to put my kid before my career and all the money I was making. I decided to do the right thing. I was dying inside. If I didn't have my daughter, I would be dead right now, for sure.

Those in the international community that refuse to put red lines before Iran don't have a moral right to place a red light before Israel.

I mean, before this, I would have said playing Bill Gates, because I'm playing someone obviously who is alive and is the richest man in the world. That was a heavy responsibility.

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.

Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.

Why are men talking about what clothes they're wearing? It's so unmanly, I think. It's like Versailles before the Revolution, without the style.

At times we expected the allies unquestioningly to follow our leads; sometimes we failed to consult them in advance before reversing policies; at other times we ignored their requests.

When has there ever been a government in German history that came to the people and revealed its detailed plans for the coming years? That could not happen before, since German governments planned war and conquest.

The Lord Jesus will be revealed mightily, and will make bare his holy Arm, as well in the confusion of Antichrist, as in the conversion of the Jews, before the last judgment, and the end of all things.

I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement.

My father was a police officer before he retired. One of my brothers is also a police officer, and I think they kind of expected I would do something along those lines, like become a fireman or something.

There won't be any miracles. We never promised any. But as we have said before, when things are done properly, the results come in.

You don't face Nolan Ryan without your rest. He's the only guy I go against that makes me go to bed before midnight.

It's been the work that has carried me and I never wanted to rest on my laurels or go back and do what I done before.

John Conyers' office has been very responsive to citizen concerns and the Internet has presented a way to communicate with them in a way that's never before been there.