Afterwards Quotes

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
Winston Churchill

Tomorrow, Happen, Why

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
Winston Churchill

Politics, Tomorrow, Happen

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
Theodore Roosevelt

Good, Country, Enough

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Benjamin Franklin

Marriage, Eyes, Before

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
Confucius

Before, Action, Superior

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Life, Men, Reason

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.
Sun Tzu

War, Battle, After

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
Robert A. Heinlein

Writing, Hands, Private

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Rene Descartes

Problem, Problems, Rule

God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Good, God, Person

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Anatole France

Art, Young, Whole

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
Honore de Balzac

Tired, Pleasure, Genuine

Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.
Lewis Carroll

Truth, Down, Before

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.
Rudyard Kipling

Children, Why, Tell

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Write, Youth, Next

Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
E. M. Forster

Time, Incredible, Inevitable

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.
Richard M. Nixon

Time, Try, Possible

Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
Lewis Carroll

Sentence, Verdict

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.
Baltasar Gracian

Sleep, Lie, Awake

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.
Thomas Aquinas

Knowledge, May, Start

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Live, Goal, Succeed

I did not know I was in my prime until afterwards.
Mason Cooley

I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.
Marie Curie

Give, Enough, Dark

She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
Charles Lamb

Mind, Book, Her

Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.
Brian Eno

Music, Once, Impact

An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.
Austin O'Malley

American, Thinks, Standing

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
Walter Scott

Person, Student, Rule

The bravest person I've ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and unpleasant disease. I last saw him at a Discworld convention, where he chose to take part in a game as an assassin. He died not long afterwards, and I wish I had his fortitude and sense of style.
Terry Pratchett

Long, Game, Person

For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards.
Brian Eno

Getting, Line, Sound

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.
Brian Eno

Work, Again, Able

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