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It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterward return again. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am tired before the concert, not afterward. — Arthur Rubinstein

For the first time in history, sex is more dangerous than the cigarette afterward. — Jay Leno

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward. — Frank Lloyd Wright

I'm saying you want to put it in me. I'm just asking to keep it afterward. — Laurelin Paige

We can't control forces of nature. But we can control what comes afterward. We have a chance to start fresh. — George W. P. Hunt

Yes: I was down there once, and for a good while afterward I could call up the sight of it in winter. But now it's all snowed under. — Edith Wharton

War was easy. The hard part was cleaning up afterward. — Evan Meekins

Fear in her eyes that were a damp blurred blue Patrick would afterward recall, — Joyce Carol Oates

Real life is never quite as interesting as the story told afterward. — Laurence Overmire

A policy of moving out and doing it, and asking forgiveness afterward, is much better than a policy of asking permission and having it denied. — Richard Preston

Before transformation, sin is any kind of moral mistake; afterward, sin is a mistake about who you are and whose you are. — Richard Rohr

He needed fresh air and sunshine. A walk in the woods and afterward a good book to read by the fire.
Yeah, that was the life. — Josh Lanyon

I'll talk to kids afterward and somebody will always say, 'I'll leave my bedroom window open for you. — Cathy Rigby

Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit. — Anne Lamott

One forgives parents as naturally as one emancipates oneself from them - usually shortly afterward. — Francine Du Plessix Gray

Once a decision was made, I didn't worry about it afterward ... — Harry Truman

Afterward I always kiss her, my baby, and look into her clear eyes that know everything about me, and want me to be her daddy anyway. — Angela Johnson

he would learn - truth is brief (afterward, it is all commentary). So — Umberto Eco

I paid more attention to the way I looked before my children were born. Afterward, it wasnt important to look exactly right. — Meg Tilly

She says queer things sometimes in a bantering way that you don't notice at the time and you find yourself thinking about afterward. — Kate Chopin

Time stretched years back and years forward, but nothing that came afterward ever had the power to wash away what came before. — Erika Johansen

She is ... she is Bloody Melody and perfect. God created her and then shattered the mold afterward, for the world could not handle two of her. — J.J. McAvoy

Iranians launched their constitutional revolution in 1906 and established their parliament soon afterward. — Stephen Kinzer

One is so apt to cheapen a thing when one tries hastily to put it into words, and ever afterward it is never quite the same. — Ruth Sawyer

The only difference between this and Custer's last stand was that Custer didn't have to look at the tape afterward. — Terry Crisp

Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever. — Thomas Secker

Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward. — Marilyn Vos Savant

I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward. — Anne Tyler

And afterward, in the small cabin, they'd do this, this tangle of bodies, this blurring of the edges that kept people distant and lonely. — Libba Bray

Aim for the stars, and afterward, pass them. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Only afterward did the guilt set in
the guilt that for a few minutes he let himself stop feeling guilty. — Tiffany Reisz

In the fields with which we are concerned,
knowledge comes only in flashes. The text
is the thunder rolling long afterward. — Walter Benjamin

Nothing is the same afterward, is it? We carry on, as indeed we must, but we are never who we were." He — C.W. Gortner

(about Ivy) She was good at rescuing things and wretched at doing anything about it afterward. — Kate Avery Ellison

You shall guide me with Your counsel - and afterward receive me to glory! Psalm 73:24 — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward. — Helen Hunt

Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable. — Erica Jong

I'd always thought death would be some sort of peaceful homecoming - a sweet, sad lullaby to usher me into whatever waited afterward. — Sarah J. Maas

I knew how to prepare for punishment. And I knew how to glue back my shattered pieces afterward. That was it. I didn't know how to endure anyone else. — Pepper Winters

Because afterward, you left me. For seven years." Austin kissed the top of my head. "Never again, Ladybug. — Dannika Dark

Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward. — John Steinbeck

The greatest realities are physical and economic, all the subtleties of life come afterward. — Joyce Carol Oates

Why didn't someone tell me that I can become a Christian and settle the doubts afterward? — William Rainey Harper

The difference between the truth and a lie is that both of them can hurt, but only one will take the time to heal you afterward. — Mira Grant

Was it hard to watch people go?
No. Breathing afterward, every day, was harder. — Meg Gardiner

Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die. — Nic Pizzolatto

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. — Pablo Picasso

I played Laura Bush in a Tony Kushner piece, and afterward, I think my phones got tapped. — Marcia Gay Harden

And they're thieves to a man. If you shake a Rhonish hand, count your fingers afterward. — Mark Lawrence

If he gives you the grace to make you believe, he will give you the grace to live a holy life afterward." (Sermon, "Justification by Grace") — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I hated the whole idea of being an actress. I used to throw up before every performance and cry afterward. — Judy Holliday

Truth is meant to save you first. The comfort comes afterward. — Georges Bernanos

Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don't always act in the film afterward. — Abbas Kiarostami

If there is one bin Laden now, there will be 100 bin Ladens afterward. — Hosni Mubarak

When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration. — Edward Steichen

Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward. — Amy Tan

It was most troubling to find there existed a pair of lips he would allow to insult him and yet still want to kiss immediately afterward. — Jayne Fresina

As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself. — Michael Gruber

And what voluntary organizations exist to help you rehabilitate afterward. — Douglas Adams

You own a piece of me," he murmurs as he holds me afterward.
"Good," I tell him. "And just so you know ... I'm never giving it back. — Simone Elkeles

So afterward, when you no longer love him, it bothers you just to think that you once wanted him. — Elena Ferrante

Yeah, because when you're attracted to someone, you actually enjoy kissing them and afterward, you don't act like you kissed Adolf Hitler. — J. Lynn

We all make mistakes, Steele. It's what we do afterward that defines us more than the actual incident that led to the mistake. (Joe) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

But these backwaters of existence sometimes breed, in their sluggish depths, strange acuities of emotion ... ("Afterward") — Edith Wharton

There is a warning love sends and the cost of it is never written till long afterward. — Carl Sandburg

Afterward Joe Biden greeted me outside the green room, falling on bent knee to kiss my hand. (Who says chivalry is dead!) — Hillary Rodham Clinton

Perhaps it was, what you don't realize, my dear (not having killed anyone) our judgement is distorted afterward and everything seems exaggerated. — Agatha Christie

Stories are invented as you go along... — Orson Scott Card

A well-known writer said writing is like getting sick to your stomach. You throw up and clean up afterward. — Maija Rhee Devine

When people fell in love, they just landed where they landed, and they had no choice in the matter afterward. — Veronica Roth

Any dope with a checkbook can buy a company. It's what you do afterward that matters. — Henry Silverman

to speak to her. He was interested in his roses (which, she heard afterward, were to be sent to town to an invalid friend), — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives. — Moliere

On the field, sometimes passion overwhelms you, and you do things you regret afterward. — Luis Suarez

I love a hard-hit ball, a diving-play situation where you realize afterward there was no thinking involved. It was 100 percent reaction. — Morgan Ensberg

It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterward. — Thomas Jefferson

I know that the problem isn't the dream per se. It was the way I felt afterward, once awake. — Emily Giffin

I think we're dating now" "Come on ... I got you naked. You wore a damn corset. And don't get me started on the sponge bath afterward. — J.R. Ward

O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward. — Horace

History does not usually make real sense until long afterward. — Bruce Catton

Swallowing your words before you say them is better than having to eat them afterward. — Kate Lloyd

Fatherland before everything, art afterward. — Ignacy Jan Paderewski

You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want. — Holly Black

I hate those movies where hundreds of people get blown up and there are jokes afterward. They poison the soul. — Rob Reiner

Sometimes we must do things, plenty scared or not. To be able to say afterward,'I was plenty scared'makes a man a bigger man, not a smaller one. — LaVyrle Spencer

Part of the skill of saying no is to shut up afterward and not babble on, offering material for an argument. — Judith Martin

Afterward, Tsukuru Tazaki's life was changed forever, as if a sheer ridge had divided the original vegetation into two distinct biomes. — Haruki Murakami

Limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax. His family were enormously — F Scott Fitzgerald

I'm not going out with you."
"Come on, it can just be a friends thing. If we choose to get naked afterward, so be it. — Julie Johnson

I think you learn more from looking at how things occurred and what happened afterward, not just at the event. — John Turturro

Afterward, she hooked a limp arm around his neck, buried her face against his shoulder, and whispered, Don't ever get hypothermia with anyone but me. — Catherine Anderson

Many events plant seeds, imperceptible at the time, that bear fruit long afterward. — Rebecca Solnit

This man, I say, is most perfect who shall have understood everything for himself, after having devised what may be best afterward and unto the end. — Hesiod

Contrary to popular belief, going shopping is really about stopping afterward for cheesecake. — Bonnie Jensen

I always thought losing my virginity would be a memorable event with fireworks and theme music and maybe a parade afterward. But no. — Chelsea Fine

It's okay to screw up. It's what we do afterward that defines us. — Susan Mallery

This does not matter. This is not anything yet. It all depends on what you do with it, afterward. — William Faulkner

I sometimes wish I were African American because people don't bash them afterward. It's the hardest to be a woman. — Julie Delpy

Oh,' she says, 'the Vat prints nothing but rapes. You know what a rape usually is? It's a woman who changed her mind afterward. — John Updike