#before

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#africa #before #busy #generally #had

For example, I was a White House intern the summer before I dropped out of law school. Everybody knew about it. I'd come home and go to church and everybody would say, 'Oh, my God. Demetri, you're working at the White House.' ↗

— Demetri Martin

#before #church #come #dropped #everybody

We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society. ↗

— Judith Martin

#born #charming #civilized #fit #fresh

As a matter of fact, I've been to Italy many times before I met my husband, which he can't even imagine that I could possibly know anything about Italian food. But, you know, Italian food's really basic, and there's so many different variations on it that what my husband did is he broke it down for me. ↗

— Debi Mazar

#anything #basic #been #before #broke

You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do. ↗

— Gary Larson

#always #before #leave #minutes #party

That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

#before #command #conflict #demonstrated #disturbing

There is no doubt that I, also, had long been aware of the problem, i.e. producing X-ray interferences, before the inherent difficulties had finally been surmounted. ↗

— Max von Laue

#aware #been #before #difficulties #doubt

More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people. ↗

— Joseph Lelyveld

#any #before #britain #country #europe

Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five. ↗

— Sugar Ray Leonard

#before #fights #five #had #i

Duran always disturbs me. The guy is just weird. Before our first fight, both Duran and his wife gave my wife the finger. ↗

— Sugar Ray Leonard

#before #both #disturbs #duran #fight