Quotes About Preceded

Hilary's reputation had preceded her, and she found that on her first day she did not receive much of a welcome from her new colleagues. Well, she thought: fuck them. She was only going to be coming in one or two days a week. If that.

That scrawny cry—It wasA chorister whose c preceded the choir.It was part of the colossal sun.

The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it.

enlightenment as a collective phenomenon will be predictably preceded by vast upheavals.

I tend to think that knowledge is preceded by power instead of the other way around.

Every serious deflation I've looked at is preceded by an asset bubble, and then it bursts.

As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize.

Let us hope that we are all preceded in this world by a love story.

When you overfit decision quality to outcome quality, you risk repeating decision errors that, thanks to luck, preceded a good outcome. You may also avoid repeating good decisions that, because of luck, didn't work out.

Did I say that the world had never had better color? I left something out of account, a limping, crippled consideration which seems to lose ground as you reach beauty and Orizaba flowers, but soon you find it has preceded you.

I still remember him fondly, there in the doorway. He was absolutely the first person to show me how comfortable it is to arrive in a strange, potentially hostile environment, and discover that you have been preceded by your reputation, that you don't have to do anything to be accepted, that your name is known, that everyone knows about you, and it's the others, the strangers, who must strive to win your favor, and not you theirs.

It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property. The existence of persons and property preceded the existence of the legislator, and his function is only to guarantee their safety.

Every action is an idea before it is an action, and perhaps a feeling before it is an idea, and every idea rests upon other ideas that have preceded it in time.

I think it's safe to say that 'Half-Life' was influenced by every first person action game that preceded it.

The existence of persons and property preceded the existence of the legislator, and his function is only to guarantee their safety.

Surely, whatever lived in this place had preceded him from the hall of the dead. He was kindred to it. There was no need for fear.

What was interesting about grunge was that it was this death sentence to the rock that had preceded it, which was hair metal.

God's ways are the ways which he himself has gone and which we are now to go with him. God will not allow us to go on any way which he himself has not preceded us." —MEDITATING ON THE WORD

Instead of the Americans and the French who preceded them, we had the Soviets, plump and unhappy, the color of lard. They were known as Americans Without Dollars.

I know most of the black players who preceded and followed me at Duke. They all contribute to our tradition of excellence on the court.

And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, but not like the kings of Israel who preceded him.