Quotes with afterward

  • Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.
  • I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha.

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  • Frank Lloyd Wright A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Geoffrey Chaucer First he wrought, and afterward he taught.
    Geoffrey Chaucer
    British poet (1340 - 1400)
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  • Arthur Golden I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha.
    Arthur Golden
    American writer (1956 - )
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  • Anne Tyler I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Arthur Godfrey If I go to a seminar and someone like you or someone like him is talking, I'm never part of the group that rushes him directly afterward. I always wait in the back corner with my head down until everyone is gone, and then I go up and do my thing.
    Arthur Godfrey
    American radio and television (1903 - 1983)
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  • Baltasar Gracian It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Carl Hubbell It was funny, when I thought of it afterward, how Ruth and Gehrig looked as they stood there. The Babe must have been waiting for me to get the ball up a little so he could get his bat under it.
    Carl Hubbell
    American baseball player (1903 - )
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  • Kurt Vonnegut Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Arthur Hailey Long afterward, many would remember those two days in the first week of October with vividness and anguish.
    Arthur Hailey
    British-Canadian novelist (1920 - 2004)
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  • Winston Churchill Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Napoleon Hill Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Thomas Secker Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Ernest Hemingway The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Carl Sandburg There is a warning love sends and the cost of it is never written till long afterward.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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