Before Quotes

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.

I go through insanity before a show. It's not really a process but it's like absolute mortal fear.

So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before.

One of the problems with a candidate like Bob Kennedy, and his brother before him, was that people assumed they didn't need contributions.

Today the fate of humankind is even more crucially linked than ever before. The boundaries between the problems of "others" and "our" problems are being increasingly erased.

Americans are probably more in line than ever before. We're more moderate than we are liberal or conservative.

We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.

Life came in and put me in front of the camera before I could really make a decision, but I think I probably would have gravitated to film.

I try to get that across in the work, to try to, if I'm lucky, to make this world a little bit better for all of us before I check out. And that's if I'm lucky, I don't always get to have that privilege but I try always.

We're allowed to have had a private life before politics in which we make mistakes and do things we should not.

I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

The prisoners eyed the clothes some time, and laughed a good deal among themselves before they put them on.

My priorities had been changing before I had Addie but after she was born they changed completely. I don't count - my daughter sort of owns me.

We've both been married before and our previous experiences made us fearful of commitment.

Most of the pressure comes from myself, not from others. I don't need a manager or a pundit to put pressure on me. I do all that myself before others do it.

The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.

There are a lot of things that have to be considered in National. The military aspect of it is only one of them. I'm confident that President Bush will have all of those things laid out for him before he makes the decision.

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

Obviously, you make preparations before you engage in any meeting.

I'm an American before any party preference.

I've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.

Before I fight, I always pray that no one gets hurt.

One way to think about the magnitude of the changes to come is to think about how you went about your business before powerful Web search engines. You probably wouldn't have imagined that a world of answers would be available to you in under a second. The next set of advances will have an different effect, but similar in magnitude.

After being in Harry Potter, I believe a bit more in magic than I did before.

I want to hear as much music as I possibly can before I leave this mortal coil but it's impossible to hear it all because there's so much of it.

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.

Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.

The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.

What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?

More Americans own their home than ever before. Nearly 70 percent of American's are homeowners. So it is a good time for us to asses the positive impacts of homeownership on families, communities and on the nation's economy.