Quotes 881 till 900 of 942.
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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.
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When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.
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When your afraid,reallyafraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world.
Source: De last die ze droegen (1990) 183 -
Whenever he met a great man he groveled before him, and my-lorded him as only a free-born Briton can do.
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Whenever I have to choose between two evils, I always like to try the one I haven't tried before.
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White people think one thing and black people think another thing about the same event. And we automatically, before we really know what happened, kind of pick our sides.
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White sharks and tuna travel for thousands of miles before returning to the same hot spot just as salmon do when they return to the same stream. These journeys are the marine equivalent of wildebeest migrations that take place on the Serengeti plain in Africa.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o clock is a scoundrel.
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Why should it matter to us when wrestlers are found dead in their beds or seen limping around on two fake hips? Why should it matter to us that there's a list of modern wrestlers who died before the age of 50 - many of them famous - and that the list is more than 70 names long? Hey, there's always another wave of guys on the way. Always.
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Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.
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Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.
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With Vietman, we found ourselves involved there before we really understood what was going on.
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With Yale, my world got so big all of a sudden. At school, if you could dream it, someone would make it so that you could do it. It was magical. I had a lot going on, as you do when you're 17, and didn't necessarily capitalize on all of it, but it made me see possibility in a way that I hadn't before.
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Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.
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Yes, and how many years can a mountain exist before it is washed to the sea?
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You always want to try, in everything you do, to attempt something you've never tried before, and the only way to succeed at that is through failure, and the only way to succeed through failure is just banging your head against the wall over and over until you get to that interesting thing on the other side.
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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.
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You are what exists before all stories. You are what remains when the story is understood.
Source: Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002) -
You can only punish your body so long before you're stuck with a horrendous inability to do things you'd previously been able to do.
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