Precedes Quotes

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Thomas A. Edison

Success, Work, Money

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Thomas A. Edison

Success, Work, Greatest

Existence precedes and rules essence.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Rules, Existence, Essence

Sex is like washing your face - just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it.
Sophia Loren

Love, Sex, Face

As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't.
Laurence J. Peter

Matter, Fact, Expression

Life is a predicament which precedes death.
Henry James

There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.
Abu Bakr

God, Patience, Death

Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.
Rita Mae Brown

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.
Douglas Horton

Thought, Action, Precede

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
Hugh Walpole

Truth, Science, Last

Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Reputation, Shadow, Follows

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Him, Reputation, Shadow

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
Wendell Phillips

Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes.
Emanuel Swedenborg

After, Visitation, Effected

The human race is the basis on which heaven is founded, is because man was last created, and that which is last created is the basis of all that precedes.
Emanuel Swedenborg

Human, Last, Heaven

Literature precedes genre.
Rick Moody

Literature, Genre

Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.
William Gilmore Simms

Time, Thought, Genius

In human life, economics precedes politics or culture.
Park Geun-hye

Life, Politics, Human

For the earliest period of the history of Israel, all that precedes the building of the temple, not a trace can be found of any sanctuary of exclusive legitimacy.
Julius Wellhausen

History, Found, Building

Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples.
Juan Antonio Samaranch

Friendship, Peace, Philosophy

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