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Quotes About Preceding

even I myself, who am not remarkably liable to be captivated with show, have yielded not a little to the impressions of much preceding state.
~ Henry Fielding
Before me, there was no money, no business with yoga.
~ Bikram Choudhury
There are very few starts. Oh, some things seem to be beginnings. The curtain goes up, the first pawn moves, the first shot is fired - but that's not the start. The play, the game, the war is just a little window on a ribbon of events that may extend back thousands of years. The point is, there's always something before. It's always a case of Now Read On.
~ Terry Pratchett
Things that happen before you are born still affect you, she said. And people who come before your time affect you as well. We move through places every day that would never have been if not for those who came before us. Our workplaces, where we spend so much time -- we often think they began with our arrival. That's not true.
~ Mitch Albom
argument before he was
~ Caroline Graham
Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment
~ Thomas Jefferson
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. You understand what I'm sayin?
~ Cormac McCarthy
What's past is prologue.
~ William Shakespeare
Above all, no thought. Nothing is more compromising than a thought. Rather the state preceding thought, the throng of yet unborn thoughts, the promise of future thoughts, the world as it was before god created it -- a recrudescence of chaos. Chaos induces intimations.
~ Unknown
Not lost, but gone before.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It must be recognized that an ideology is always out of phase with the situation in which it is employed, for an ideology has always emerged as a response to a preceding situation, the attributes of which are different from the current situation.
~ Unknown
Interior is anterior.
~ Unknown