Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.
Michael Novak

But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.
Origen

But the funny thing is, I broke my finger not on set doing kung fu. I broke my finger when I fell down the stairs prior to going on set.
Jaime King

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

First, I'm trying to edit down about 7 hours of material which I made prior to the Cop days and find some way to get it out. This stuff is pretty out there, mostly sonic collages and tape manipulations.
Jim Coleman

For too long, Japan has been dragging its feet as it ignores the steps the U.S. has made to ensure a safe beef supply and shows a disregard for our prior trade pacts.
Randy Neugebauer

Howard Minsky had gotten the script to her agent prior to my involvement.
Arthur Hiller

I believe that all the important people in my life prior to 1982 were victimized by my illness.
Patty Duke

I can't get my head around the fact that the technology of the first two movies, which are forty years prior to Star Wars, is so much better than any technology they had in Star Wars!
David Prowse

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
Bob Dylan

I had done 25 motion pictures prior to The Partridge Family and nobody knew my name.
Shirley Jones

I had had a classical education prior to that.
Skitch Henderson

I had never watched a law show prior to being cast on The Practice.
Lara Flynn Boyle

I learned so much about playing and touring being on the road and in the studio with Jeff, but I'd always played a lot of gigs in Seattle even prior to joining the Fusion.
Kenny G

I really didn't have any plans to record prior to doing My Own Best Enemy.
Richard Marx

I was at a party three weeks prior to the murders at Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate's house.
Nancy Sinatra

I was at an acting academy for seven years prior to the trial.
Kato Kaelin

I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged.
David Guterson

I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.
Kate Adie

It is a very real concern and my view is that everything changed on September 11th and the procedure, the policies that were in place prior to September 11th no longer should apply.
George Pataki