Earlier Quotes

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw

Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others,
but probably earlier and anonymous

Men have a much better time of it than women.
For one thing, they marry later; for another thing,
they die earlier.
- H. L. Mencken

You're allowed to rip-off another score so close that it's ridiculous.
In my opinion it's ridiculous, how closely one can
just rip-off a score that happened a year or two earlier.
- Danny Elfman

One can measure the importance of a scientific work
by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.
- David Hilbert

I believe my voice is pretty much the same.
I've written 75 books, so I'm better at it now than
I was earlier in my career.
- Caroline B. Cooney

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible;
in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions,
but still retains vividly those of earlier years.
- Charlotte Bronte

Earlier lives drift by on silver soles,
and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters.
- Georg Trakl

But as someone pointed out earlier, it is not really about fairness;
it is about taking finite resources and applying them
where they will have the most effect.
- Jim Walsh

The contents of the massive banks behind these successive
revetments makes it quite clear that the material was
derived from the incorporation of earlier occupation levels.
- Kathleen Kenyon

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds
should be awake earlier than you.
- Abu Bakr

Once again the mastermind was Lionel Curtis,
and the earlier Round Table Groups and Institutes of
International Affairs were used as nuclei for the new network.
- Carroll Quigley

Speed is often confused with insight.
When I start running earlier than the others,
I appear faster.
- Johan Cruijff

I wish I could have known earlier that you have all
the time you'll need right up to the day you die.
- William Wiley

My earlier award was also based on a close collaborative effort.
- John Bardeen

Research clearly shows us that the earlier women think
about maintaining their bone mass and take the steps to do so,
the better their health will be in the long run.
- Lois Capps

A poll earlier this year showed that 42 per cent of
Americans believe we're in the End Times.
- Andrew Denton

I started working on OpenBSD, and many earlier projects,
because I have always felt that vendor systems were
not designed for quality.
- Theo de Raadt

There's one of my new poems actually -
is a good example of where my poetry has ended up.
My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between
Shelley and Dylan Thomas.
- Robert Adamson

Vincente understood all too well what was happening to Liza;
he had gone through it 40 years earlier with my mother.
- Lorna Luft

Well, I decided earlier this year that I would run for president,
and obviously I needed something to run on.
- Craig Armstrong

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world
from earlier centuries is attributable to science,
which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
- Bertrand Russell

Unless action is taken soon - unless we can display
the same vision of that earlier period -
we will lose the treasure of California's open space
and environmental beauty.
- Adam Schiff

The developing science departs at the same time more
and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens
to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches.
- Felix Klein

Earlier on in my career I felt that I had to hide behind
a lot of different masks,
and showboat ways of performing.
Now, that's a lie.
The less I have to hide, the less I have to act.
- Thomas Jane

We have believed for many years, much earlier than
anyone else was talking about this issue,
that it was in the interest of China to evolve to a
more flexible exchange rate system.
- Rodrigo Rato

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and CSIS have provided
extraordinary co-operation,
as I mentioned earlier.
- Paul Cellucci

Since the end of the nineteenth century,
if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about
their motives and their intentions in going to war.
- Robert Higgs

Looking through the list of earlier Nobel laureates,
I note a large number with whom I became acquainted
and with whom I interacted during those years as they
passed through Cambridge.
- John Pople

The EU should have consolidated its different presences
and purposes in Kosovo earlier.
- Emma Bonino

On almost anything someone does in the computer business,
you can go back in the literature and prove someone had done it earlier.
- Ken Olsen

Earlier, 100,000 elephants lived in Kenya and we didn't
have any noteworthy problem with it.
The problem that we have is not that there are now more elephants.
- Richard Leakey

When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists...
I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier,
they wouldn't be wanted now.
- Eddie Cantor

My favorite book is the last one printed,
which is always better than those that were published earlier.
- Stephen Ambrose

I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier.
- Tony Randall

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies,
prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
- Jonathan Swift

I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if
they left earlier they wouldn't have to go so fast.
- Steven Wright

We've got a bit of growth a bit earlier than expected.
- Stuart Rose

I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time,
just letting an ensemble do really good character acting,
having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures.
- Brian De Palma

When I think of some of my earlier work,
it really seems a fortunate coincidence that I succeeded.
- Helmut Jahn

If you want to succeed in the world,
you don't have to be much cleverer than other people.
You just have to be one day earlier.
- Leo Szilard

You're seeing me develop, not only as a filmmaker if
you've seen my earlier films,
but you're seeing me kind of learn how to be a human,
how my philosophy has evolved.
- David Cronenberg

As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create
a literary vision of the new reality.
- Andrzej Wajda

I always thought of myself as a later bloomer,
so I like some of my work more later than earlier.
- Robert Duvall

Those early steps are very important in understanding the evolution.
But in themselves, maybe now you need the later records
to understand the significance of the earlier records!
- Evan Parker

Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down.
- Malcolm Cowley

At least with me, the match starts much,
much earlier than the actual match.
- Sachin Tendulkar

Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear,
unlike some earlier attempts.
- Brooks Robinson

Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker -
as I said earlier,
you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to think.
- Norman Lear

It's the best thing ever - I love being a mom.
This is my only child.
My career was a priority earlier in my life,
but now my son is definitely the priority.
- Stephanie Mills

I think what we should have done is integrate the web
site with the magazine much earlier in the process.
- James Daly

I probably have an earlier curfew than anyone.
My mom wants to keep me really safe and my dad's not overly protective,
but he's a dad no matter what.
- Miley Cyrus

I try to keep it light and positive most of the time,
whereas earlier on I didn't always do that.
- Gordon Lightfoot

Also, it's risky to try to duplicate earlier success.
Magician had a certain charm to it, mostly due to my
choice of lead characters,
that I would be hard put to duplicate.
- Raymond E. Feist

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy,
just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
- Ezra Pound

So people will come along and do new things and sometimes
return to the spirit of an earlier age.
- Norman McLaren

I was saying earlier that it's really strange -
you can almost step outside yourself and observe yourself running,
and that's what I was doing.
- Marcus Allen

It has yet to be shown by direct biochemical methods,
as opposed to the indirect genetic evidence mentioned earlier,
that the code is indeed a triplet code.
- Francis Crick

I don't think we have very good records about what
they were thinking except,
as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system.
- David R. Brower

Well, I'd had the Fat Mattress earlier as a writing
outlet for songs and that.
- Noel Redding

I had just done what she does in the story just about a year earlier -
I moved from New Jersey and came to New York and was working at a bar,
and you know, trying to make it.
- Piper Perabo

The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read
only with a dictionary to help.
- Carl Sandburg

You know, I think I had a great career;
there's not much I think I'd do different other than
get a title shot much earlier.
I didn't get one till 49 or 50 fights into my career.
- Marvin Hagler

During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire
seems to have been trying -
half unconsciously,
perhaps - to discover and to express the fundamental quality of his genius.
- Lytton Strachey

Yeah, well, it did earlier - but as Bobby and I have played together,
our thing as a unit has become so strong that they
kind of had to get in where they fit in.
And most people do.
- Charlie Hunter

What theatre started to look at much earlier than any
other form was the internal operations of ordinary people,
sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.
- Pete Townshend

The NAACP was even considering earlier this summer
reassessing their position on school integration.
- Tom Joyner

And, in a funny way, each death is different and you
mourn each death differently and each death brings
back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.
- Nigella Lawson

And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center,
a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was,
not just damaged but, totally destroyed.
- Allen Klein

Every little job becomes a dream, and you don't recall it anymore,
and maybe you might have a deja vu moment,
but it's like something you dreamed earlier.
- Terrence Howard

I don't think I could have written what I did any earlier.
- Terry Goodkind

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