We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
William James

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.
Thomas Sowell

I don't want to be dragging myself on stage, year in year out, until someone else tells me it is time to go. There are certain birthdays that make you revalue your life.
Tina Turner

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they're not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.
George Lucas

Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is.
George Lucas

Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
Victor Hugo

Everybody's got plans... until they get hit.
Mike Tyson

If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood - there I am painting a small beech forest (in the sun) with a few conifers mixed in. This takes until 8 'o clock.
Gustav Klimt

In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid.
Dave Barry

There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.
Charles Dudley Warner

My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles.
Hedy Lamarr

I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.
Fidel Castro

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.
Samuel Johnson

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Samuel Johnson

Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better.
Julius Erving

And I continued to grow until I was 25 years old.
Julius Erving

I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.
Babe Ruth

Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.
Ann Landers

We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.
Tony Blair

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Ezra Pound