#before

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#away #before #breaking #felicity #flights

When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. She's happy, she's thriving, she's full of self-confidence. I tell her she's beautiful every day before I send her off to school. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#before #between #born #children #confidence

Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life. ↗

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#athlete #before #being #both #combination

All men are equal before fish. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#before #equal #fish #men

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#become #before #deal #fully #great

I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not. ↗

— Jim Elliot

#bring #depend #enjoyable #feel #i

I've been on projects before where there's no rehearsal, and you walk in on set and that's literally the first time you've ever played the character, and then I've had times where there's been three weeks of rehearsal. I like both. ↗

— Josh Hutcherson

#before #both #character #ever #first

I am called here to answer before you, but I hear no things laid to my charge. ↗

— Anne Hutchinson

#answer #before #called #charge #hear

So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean, people have never really heard my voice before - or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience. ↗

— James Iha

#before #completely #curve #doing #experience

I was happier before, when I lead a normal life. ↗

— Enrique Iglesias

#happier #i #lead #life #normal