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Quotes About Prior

This was the inheritance she had come back to, the prior life she had run from. She was once more back in a small repeating universe
~ Michael Ondaatje
Self-affirmation cannot be found in love; it is a prior condition of genuine love.
~ Jo Coudert
Before, prior to. There is no difference between these two except length and a certain affectedness on the part of 'prior to.' To paraphrase Bernstein, if you would use 'posterior to' instead of 'after,' then by all means use 'prior to' instead of 'before.
~ Bill Bryson
Yemen was, in the years prior to World War I, the 'Vietnam' of the Ottoman Empire, but not that of Egypt. In Yemen, Egypt attained its political goals. The republic survived.
~ Fred Halliday
Before me, there was no money, no business with yoga.
~ Bikram Choudhury
I was at an acting academy for seven years prior to the trial.
~ Kato Kaelin
Birisinin seni lanetlemede benden önce davrand???n? söylemiÅŸtin.'' ''Melodramd? o.İşe yaram?? m?yd?? Beni öpmüÅŸtün.'' ''Sen kendini lanetlenmiÅŸ hissetmiyor musun?'' ''Alem buysa kral benim.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I'm holding back, delaying the information. I'm lingering in the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes were still possible.
~ Ian Mcewan
The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day.
~ William Bennett
I had a prior deal in place to do a miniseries for HBO, so I'm not done with TV. But I basically want to stay in movies.
~ David Chase
Judaism regards evil as a contingent to a prior and more basic good
~ Milton Steinberg
argument before he was
~ Caroline Graham
What happens, if the writer is good, is usually not that the work seems derivative or trivial but just the opposite: the work actually acquires depth and resonance from the echoes and chimes it sets up with prior texts, weight from the accumulated use of certain basic patterns and tendencies.
~ Thomas C. Foster
Columbia University, idealistic, and so thoroughly a New Yorker that he had to learn how to drive a car in order to take the job. Prior
~ Ken Burns
Researchers may have some conscious or unconscious bias, either because of a strongly held prior belief or because a positive finding would be better for their career. (No one ever gets rich or famous by proving what doesn't cause cancer.)
~ Charles Wheelan
If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude.
~ Geraldine Brooks
Well, our position, and our chairman has talked about this extensively, is that we had a lot of intelligence prior to 9/11. We knew that two al Qaeda operatives who ultimately participated in the 9/11 disaster were in the United States. We didn't find them.
~ Richard Ben-Veniste
The secular" is conceptually prior to the political doctrine of "secularism", that over time a variety of concepts, practices and sensibilities have come together to form "the secular".
~ Talal Asad
Mission is not ours; mission is God's. Certainly, the mission of God is the prior reality out of which flows any mission that we get involved in. Or, as has been nicely put, it is not so much the case that God has a mission for his church in the world but that God has a church for his mission in the world. Mission was not made for the church; the church was made for mission-God's mission.14
~ Christopher J. H. Wright
The regress is infinite. and this reduces to absurdity the theory that for an operation to be intelligent it must be steered by a prior intellectual operation.
~ Gilbert Ryle
Yet if prior to life we had Been able to imagine life, what mad, Impossible, unutterably weird, Wonderful nonsense it might have appeared!
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I'd made before it.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Prior Aymer, who pushed his mule betwixt his companion and
~ Walter Scott
I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history of influence.
~ Harold Bloom