#before

The women who pass away before they receive Social Security, for them this is nothing but a tax from which they or their family will never receive a benefit. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

#before #benefit #family #never #nothing

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness. ↗

— Huey Newton

#being #bring #chamber #community #consciousness

People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes, was seldom put to the test better than in Germany at that time. ↗

— W. G. Sebald

#before #better #eyes #forget #germany

I never really did Christmas before. Christmas Day? I mean - what's that? What's it all about? I was always flying on Christmas Day. ↗

— Monica Seles

#always #before #christmas #christmas day #day

Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#before #commercial #developers #hard #interests

Every seven years our bodies change, every cell. Every seven years, we disappear. ↗

— Jenny Downham

#change

The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#before #come #curiosity #end #i

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#art #been #before #common #doing

I was overlooked long before anyone knew who I was. ↗

— Paul Desmond

#before #i #knew #long #overlooked

It's all right, Tessa, you can go. We love you. You can go now.' 'Why are you saying that?' 'She might need permission to die, Cal.' 'I don't want her to. She doesn't have my permission. ↗

— Jenny Downham

#cancer #death #family #sad #death