How much suffering did you lay on yourself before you awakened and recognized that guilt is deadly, and empty, and profitless?
As she ran, a memory uncurled in her mind and spread out before her and it felt like she was running into the memory.
They'll torture you for months before killing you if you run" Otis shrugged, as if this was an everyday occurrence.
You haunt me, Mina. Even before I knew you, I felt your absence.
He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin.
When the outlook is bright, bring it before their eyes; but tell them nothing when the situation is gloomy.
Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before.
Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.
Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
I would have died, before a literary agent ever committed to my book. This is why I chose to empower myself by self publishing.
With the exception of 'Descent,' that was a very conscious thing to make an action or horror movie that was an all-female cast because I hadn't seen anything like that before.
The last thing I do before bed is think I should take my contacts out. Then I fall asleep.
I was starving before I hit Journey. Very, very rough times... I didn't know where the next pay check was gonna come.
I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.
Manifestation is like a flower, you must put so much intent into its energy before you can sight its beauty.
It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
About 20 percent of the genetic information in your nose doesn't match anything that we've ever seen before.
What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.
I'm such a homebody. I don't party. I don't drink. That may be because I got it out all out of my system before I was 18.
Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years.
Before shooting, I prepare with the actors much more like it's a theater play than a movie. Apparently, that way of working is very unusual.
