Afterwards Quotes

Soon afterwards I studied the inversion of sugar in the light of these considerations and immediately found that this classical reaction, too, was determined quantitatively by the same property of the acids, as was of course to be expected from the previous results.
Wilhelm Ostwald

Same, Light, Found

No man in America ever strove more, and more successfully first to bring about a Congress in 1765, and then to support it ever afterwards than myself.
Christopher Gadsden

America, Support, Congress

People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
Abdolkarim Soroush

Themselves, Needs, Meeting

A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded.
Tyne Daly

Someone, Battle, Actually

When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection.
Gabriel Lippmann

Light, Reflection, White

I was afterwards sorry for this, though, if I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as the climate of Africa is too trying to foreigners.
John H. Speke

Trust, Travel, Sorry

My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.
Kate Bush

Done, Die, Before

There's no doubt about it; playing football and how tough it is on the body afterwards.
Terrell Davis

Football, Doubt, Tough

Pat Roberts and I both feel very strongly that when we get to Iran, that we can't make the same mistakes. We have to ask the questions, the hard questions before, not afterwards, and get the right intelligence.
Jay Rockefeller

Mistakes, Hard, Before

Going to work around 8:00am at the body shop. After work it's either weight training or practicing afterwards.
Ben Jackson

Work, After, Training

Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.
Charles W. Chesnutt

Evil, Control, Cannot

I don't think about the gender thing very much. But when I speak at schools, I've had female students say to me afterwards, "I never envisioned myself being a director, since I've never seen women do it." But after seeing me, they can picture themselves directing, so maybe we'll see more female directors.
Jennifer Yuh Nelson

Women, After, Speak

If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get drunk with it and beat her afterwards. It was his dollar.
Lucy Stone

Husband, Drunk, Woman

Once I was checking to hotel and a couple saw my ring with Blues on it. They said, 'You play blues. That music is so sad.' I gave them tickets to the show, and they came up afterwards and said, 'You didn't play one sad song.'
Buddy Guy

Music, Sad, Play

People keep telling us, that they didn't know when they were booking tickets for it, but afterwards they say that they've had no sense that they were watching an old fashioned play.
Bill Irwin

Play, Old, Sense

I never let politics get personal. You can have the most intense, heated debate on issues, and so long as you keep it on issues, you can go out and have coffee afterwards and you're good friends.
Phil Crane

Politics, Good, Long

In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning.
William Hull

Morning, Few, Days

I never found either this or the Northern Shrike return to such prey for food. I have seen them alight on the same thorn bush afterwards, but never made any use of this kind of food.
John Bachman

Food, Made, Same

I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer and my mom's a dance teacher, and I was always performing and entertaining people. I'd go to see live theatre or a movie, and I'd become the main character for a few days afterwards. I loved being somebody new for a temporary amount of time.
Natasha Calis

Life, Time, Teacher

Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.
Daisy Ashford

Rather, Few, Whiskey

A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true.
Catherine Crowe

Age, Great, True

As soon as the harvest is in, you're a migrant worker. Afterwards just a bum.
Nunnally Johnson

Soon, Harvest, Worker

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