#before

Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#advises #another #any #before #contradict

I am what I am. Before I was not so proud to make fashion. My family thought fashion wasn't very interesting. So I hid that. ↗

— Sonia Rykiel

#before #family #fashion #hid #i

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

— Al Sharpton

#anything #before #done #else #i

Before I had crossed the threshold of my church I was made to realize that I was shepherd of a divided flock. ↗

— Anna Howard Shaw

#church #crossed #divided #flock #had

I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#born #decade #hot #i #imminent

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#had #journalist #never #think #time

It made me think about a whole area of human activity that was not really a concern to me before that, because I was involved in reading Chinese history, or languages, or whatever. ↗

— Ron Silver

#activity #area #because #before #chinese

With this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, I have always enjoyed much cheerfulness before men; but I have at the same time laboured incessantly to cultivate the deepest humiliation before God. ↗

— Charles Simeon

#always #before #cheerfulness #cultivate #deepest

I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing. ↗

— Ian Smith

#before #civilization #clothing #colonialism #even

In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#american #available #been #before #entertainment