There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.
Abu Bakr
I'm from Texas, and Texas has a reputation that far precedes actual Texas, and it is irritating sometimes.
Allison Tolman
Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.
As a negotiator, you should strive for a reputation of being fair. Your reputation precedes you. Let it precede you in a way that paves success.
Christopher Voss
Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.
Douglas Horton
My reputation precedes me now.
Dwayne Johnson
It's interesting that the treatment of historical events by art precedes the civilisation of people through democracy.
Elfriede Jelinek
The human race is the basis on which heaven is founded, is because man was last created, and that which is last created is the basis of all that precedes.
Emanuel Swedenborg
November is auspicious in so many parts of the country: the rice harvest is already in, the weather starts to cool, and the festive glow which precedes Christmas has began to brighten the landscape.
F. Sionil Jose
I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavior... isn't going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve.
Foster Friess
In missionary work, as in all else, preparation precedes power. Encouragement to prepare while still very young can make a tremendous difference.
Gordon B. Hinckley
My desire to be an actor or a model precedes my identity.
Hari Nef
Life is a predicament which precedes death.
Henry James
In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
Horace Walpole
Existence precedes and rules essence.
Jean-Paul Sartre
As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and privacy can be stated in an axiom: the defense of privacy follows, and never precedes, the emergence of new technologies for the exposure of secrets.
Jill Lepore
Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples.
Juan Antonio Samaranch
For the earliest period of the history of Israel, all that precedes the building of the temple, not a trace can be found of any sanctuary of exclusive legitimacy.
Julius Wellhausen
As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't.
Laurence J. Peter
The human race is evolving to the realization that what is happening on the level of consciousness both precedes and determines what happens in the world.
If there's one thing that precedes my sleep, it's my work.
In human life, economics precedes politics or culture.
It's a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.
For practicing Christians, Easter Sunday and the Holy week that precedes it are the apex of our faith. Without the resurrection of Christ there is no Christianity.
Literature precedes genre.
Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.
Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.
The fundamental question of political philosophy, one that precedes questions about how the state should be organized, is whether there should be any state at all. Why not have anarchy?
There are big questions science doesn't answer, such as why is there something rather than nothing? There can't be a scientific answer to that because it's the answer that precedes science.
I've paid the price; I definitely have a reputation that precedes me, and there is a camp that plots my demise. But then again... it's funner that way.
The world of sculpture precedes by many years the world of architecture.
Sex is like washing your face - just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it.
My reputation precedes me all the time, but I'm not the monster people think I am.
Cultural change always precedes political change.
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
We are deeply conditioned against unconditionality because we've been told in a thousand different ways that accomplishment always precedes acceptance, that achievement always precedes approval.
