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 never really meet a human being until you live with them or know them for awhile, so this is my clown and they understand that and so these interviews don't bother them.
Shia LaBeouf

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
George Eliot

I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one.
James Carville

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.
Paul Gauguin

I refuse to stand up in front of a rabbi and my friends and the woman I love - who I will tell you I can love with all my heart - and promise she will be the only one I will ever have until the day I die. That's a lie.
Gene Simmons

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
Horace Mann

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
Horace Mann

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
Bill Vaughan

Guys are kind of retarded until they're about 30.
Katherine Heigl

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.
Norman Mailer

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
Robert Louis Stevenson

It's never over. You don't want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inning, but it's not over until the last out.
Derek Jeter

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
Elbert Hubbard

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
Elbert Hubbard

It wasn't until I became more confident with myself and I put myself forward instead of the jokes; at first it was put the jokes out there and I'm just behind the jokes.
Wanda Sykes

I want to wait to have sex until I'm married.
Britney Spears

Again, with two small children it's incredibly hard to commit yourself to anything because you're just getting interested in it and someone comes along and goes I want Thomas The Tank Engine on, and screams the place down until you put it on.
Jo Brand