I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
Herman Melville

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.
Anne Sullivan

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Albert Schweitzer

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
Honore de Balzac

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.
Honore de Balzac

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. a lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed.
Kanye West

Over any such tangled wave of problems the S-1 secret would be dominant and yet we will not know until after that time probably, until after that meeting, whether this is a weapon in our hands or not.
Henry L. Stimson

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.
Morgan Freeman

The best way to deal with that is to live in a fully conscious, compassionate, loving way. Don't wait until you're on your deathbed to recognize that this is the only way to live.
Morrie Schwartz

I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
William Faulkner

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.
John Locke

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
Sophocles

Until this movie I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already, and am ready for this phase of my career.
Orlando Bloom

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
Elizabeth Bowen

We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
James M. Barrie

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
Agatha Christie

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
Agatha Christie

It wasn't until I went to Korea out of high school and got exposed to the martial arts for the first time and was just completely enamored with the physical ability of the martial arts and making my black belt.
Chuck Norris

Fake it until you make it.
Steven Tyler