Before And After Quotes

• The moment between before and after is called Truth.

  Dainin Katagiri

  Truth, Moments

  Dainin Katagiri (2017). “Returning to Silence”, p.134, Shambhala Publications

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• A picture is something that makes invisible its before and after.

  Jeff Wall

  Invisible

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• Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Thinking, Secret

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• Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.

  Juan Ramon Jimenez

  Grace, Culture, Literature

  Selected Writings: "Poetry and Literature", 1941.

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• Sever the edge between before and after.

  Takuan Soho

  Edges

  Takuan Sōhō (1986). “The unfettered mind: writings of the Zen master to the sword master”, Kodansha Amer Inc

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• Learning is the measurement of knowledge before and after.

  Eben Pagan

  Learning, Measurement

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• The time for debilitating fear is before and after the mission.

  Karl Marlantes

  Missions

  Karl Marlantes (2011). “What It Is Like To Go To War”, p.35, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Thinking, Done

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• We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Happiness, Song, Laughter

  "To a Skylark" l. 88 (1819)

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• The feeling before and after the event is very important. There are things happening before and after the event. These things are even more important than the event itself.

  Gueorgui Pinkhassov

  Feelings, Important, Events

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• Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Night, Waiting, Lasts

  "Before and After". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,

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• Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment.

  T. S. Eliot

  Intense Moments, Burning, Lifetime

  Four Quartets "East Coker" pt. 5 (1940)

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• Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.

  Elif Safak

  Love, Mean, Stories

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• There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love, as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Love, Differences, Romance

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

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• There was emptiness more profound than the void between the stars, for which there was no here and there and before and after, and yet out of that void the entire plenum of existence sprang forth.

  Heinz Pagels

  Stars, Profound, Here And There

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• Shakespeare says, we are creatures that look before and after; the more surprising that we do not look around a little, and see what is passing under our very eyes.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Eye, Looks, Littles

  Sartor Resartus Book I, Chapter 1

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• Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.

  Homer

  Men, Mind, Age

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• I'm probably the only guy who worked for (Casey) Stengel before and after he was a genius.

  Warren Spahn

  Guy, Genius, Pitching

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• In 'Before and After,' I identify the sixteen strategies that we can use to make or break our habits. Some are quite familiar, such as 'Monitoring,' 'Scheduling,' and 'Convenience.' Some took me a lot of effort to identify, such as 'Thinking,' 'Identity,' and 'Clarity.'

  Gretchen Rubin

  Thinking, Effort, Identity

  Gretchen Rubin (2016). “The Best of the Happiness Project Blog: Ten Years of Happiness, Good Habits, and More”, p.50, Hachette UK

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• Wheather it is conscious or not, you eventually make the decision to divide your life in half - before and after - with loss being that tight bubble in the middle. You can move around in spite of it; you can laugh and smile and carry on with your life, but all it takes is one slow range of motion, a doubling over, to be fully aware of the empty space at your center.

  Jodi Picoult

  Moving, Loss, Space

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• He leans over and kisses me. And suddenly, my life splits in two: before and after.

  Candace Bushnell

  Kissing, Two, Splits

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• Home is where one starts from. As we grow older
  The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicatied
  Of dead and living, Not the intense moment
  Isolated, with no before and after,
  But a lifetime burning in every moment . . .

  T. S. Eliot

  Home, Intense Moments, Burning

  Four Quartets "East Coker" pt. 5 (1940)

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• I would like my book to give people insight to the war before and after, but I don't think anyone could read my book and suddenly make up her mind about the war. I want to write for everybody.

  Asne Seierstad

  War, Book, Writing

  "A Hundred & One Days". Interview with Lisa Katayama, www.motherjones.com. May 12, 2005.

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• Me, what's that after all? An arbitrary limitation of being bounded by the people before and after and on either side. Where they leave off I begin, and vice versa.

  Russell Hoban

  Art, Philosophy, People

  Russell Hoban (2012). “The Turtle Diary”, p.37, A&C Black

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• I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The first of these came as a terrible shock and, like anything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After.

  Ransom Riggs

  Forever, Would Be, Half

  Ransom Riggs (2011). “Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children”, p.9, Quirk Books

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