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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent. -- William A. Clark
Our whole wedding cost 180 bucks. Afterward, we re-heated lasagna for everyone and set off fireworks. -- Larry the Cable Guy
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. -- Pablo Picasso
I paid more attention to the way I looked before my children were born. Afterward, it wasnt important to look exactly right. -- Meg Tilly
Afterward, there was that long, crowded pause in which everyone decides that although they are very shaken, and possibly upside down, they are, to their surprise, still alive. -- Terry Pratchett
Afterward, there was some debate as to whether we'd actually "done it properly," which gives you some idea of the awesome skill and artful dexterity of my lovemaking technique. -- David Nicholls
I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't be insured because of a pre-existing condition. -- Tammy Baldwin
In the trial of Saddam Hussein on Tuesday, witnesses emotionally testified about the abuse the former dictator inflicted on them. Afterward, a tearful Saddam said, 'Ah, good times.' -- Amy Poehler
It didn't feel difficult at the time because I was so charged up about both books. Afterward, however, I was pretty tired. In a good way, like after a great workout. -- Jonathan Kellerman
President Bush gave a rousing speech to the United Nations General Assembly. Afterward, in a touching show of support, every foreign dignitary shook hands with the president and smiled warmly as he mispronounced their names. -- Tina Fey
PERSONALITY TITHE: A price paid for becoming a couple; previously amusing human beings become boring: 'Thanks for inviting us, but Noreen and I are going to look at flatware catalogs tonight. Afterward we're going to watch the shopping channel. -- Douglas Coupland
The worst gift that I ever gave a girl was a suitcase for Christmas. As in, 'I can't think of anything to give you, but here's a new suitcase.' Afterward, I was like, 'What were you thinking, idiot?' -- Jensen Ackles
Afterward I told his widow, "Your husband is dead, but at least he died laughing.' I think she took some comfort in that. It is the second-best way to die, Will Henry." He did not say what the best way was. -- Rick Yancey
The first time I saw my wife, Marjorie, I was doing stand-up in Memphis, and she was sitting in the front row. Afterward, I walked up and said, 'Ma'am, I'm going to marry you one day.' And 15 years later, I did. -- Steve Harvey
I think that if you use something from you life in fiction, it metamorphosizes into something strange and different. Afterward it is hard to tell what actually was part of your life and what is part of the story of the fictional character. -- Marge Piercy
If I play badly I'll pick a fight in the third, just to get into a fight. I'll break a guy's leg to win, I don't care. Afterward I say, 'Yeah all right I played badly, but I won the fight so who gives a damn. -- Derek Sanderson
Then "wrong" is right, and "right" is wrong! Yet I'll tell you this, to help you out of your dilemma: believe nothing I say. Simply live it. Experience it. Then live whatever other paradigm you want to construct. Afterward, look to your experience to find your truth. -- Neale Donald Walsch
My way is to seize an image the moment it has formed in my mind, to trap it as a bird and to pin it at once to canvas. Afterward I start to tame it, to master it. I bring it under control and I develop it. -- Joan Miro
Fatherland before everything, art afterward. -- Ignacy Jan Paderewski
I am tired before the concert, not afterward. -- Arthur Rubinstein
. . . we should be men first, and subjects afterward. -- Henry David Thoreau
Genius sees the dynamic purpose first, find reasons afterward. -- Walter Lippmann
Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward. -- Peter Greenaway
O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward. -- Horace
Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever. -- Thomas Secker
All marriages are happy, it's living together afterward that's tough. -- Ann Landers
Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another. -- Euripides
History does not usually make real sense until long afterward. -- Bruce Catton
War was easy. The hard part was cleaning up afterward. -- Evan Meekins
Once a decision was made, I didn't worry about it afterward... -- Harry S. Truman
Once cats were all wild, but afterward they retired to houses. -- Edward Topsell
Truth is meant to save you first. The comfort comes afterward. -- Georges Bernanos
Iranians launched their constitutional revolution in 1906 and established their parliament soon afterward. -- Stephen Kinzer
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives. -- Moliere
Real life is never quite as interesting as the story told afterward. -- Laurence Overmire
Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward. -- Amy Tan
If there is one bin Laden now, there will be 100 bin Ladens afterward. -- Hosni Mubarak
Contrary to popular belief, going shopping is really about stopping afterward for cheesecake. -- Bonnie Jensen
It's okay to screw up. It's what we do afterward that defines us. -- Susan Mallery
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. -- Ernest Hemingway
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. -- Vern Law
The greatest realities are physical and economic, all the subtleties of life come afterward. -- Joyce Carol Oates
On the field, sometimes passion overwhelms you, and you do things you regret afterward. -- Luis Suarez
All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble. -- Raymond Hull
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. -- Vern Law
For the first time in history, sex is more dangerous than the cigarette afterward. -- Jay Leno
The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. -- Ernest Hemingway
Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward. -- Marilyn vos Savant
Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun. -- Edie Falco
one forgives parents as naturally as one emancipates oneself from them - usually shortly afterward. -- Francine du Plessix Gray
Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth ever afterward resumes its liberty. -- Walt Whitman
When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration. -- Edward Steichen
It takes courage not only to make decisions, but to live with those decisions afterward -- Mike Krzyzewski
If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterward. -- Joe Pass
Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws. -- Michel de Montaigne
The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward. -- John Knowles
It's always refreshing to meet someone crazier than us," I said. "We seem so normal afterward. -- James Patterson
Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely -- Arnold Bennett
Why didn't someone tell me that I can become a Christian and settle the doubts afterward? -- William Rainey Harper
Mirror the reader to himself and then show him afterward how your product fits his needs. -- Raymond Rubicam
Fortunately for women, most men mistake loneliness for love before marriage, and habit for happiness afterward. -- Helen Rowland
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward. -- Igor Stravinsky
What was the point of education, he thought, if people went out afterward and used it? -- Terry Pratchett
My mother cooked her last Christmas standing rib roast in 1987 and died a few weeks afterward. -- Michelle Huneven
Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die. -- Nic Pizzolatto
There is a warning love sends and the cost of it is never written till long afterward. -- Carl Sandburg
Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward. -- Ambrose Bierce
There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward. -- Jim Butcher
You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want. -- Holly Black
I played Laura Bush in a Tony Kushner piece, and afterward, I think my phones got tapped. -- Marcia Gay Harden
The best way to accomplish something is to just do it, and then find the courage afterward. -- George Chapman
Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian. -- Amber Tamblyn
He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward. -- Tanith Lee
The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward. -- Shana Alexander
As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself. -- Michael Gruber
Choices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood. -- Loren Eiseley
I'll talk to kids afterward and somebody will always say, 'I'll leave my bedroom window open for you. -- Cathy Rigby
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. -- Jean Paul
Long afterward, many would remember those two days in the first week of October with vividness and anguish. -- Arthur Hailey
Don't think about what you'll tell people afterward. The time is here and now. Make the most of it. -- Paulo Coelho
Some men want whores on the eve of battle, and some want gods. Jon wondered who felt better afterward. -- George R. R. Martin
That's what I look at some people for. I like to know about them. I think them over afterward. -- Frances Hodgson Burnett
Only afterward did the guilt set in--the guilt that for a few minutes he let himself stop feeling guilty. -- Tiffany Reisz
This does not matter. This is not anything yet. It all depends on what you do with it, afterward. -- William Faulkner
Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable. -- Erica Jong
One usually dislikes a play while writing it, but afterward it grows on one. Let others judge and make decisions, -- Anton Chekhov
I sometimes wish I were African American because people don't bash them afterward. It's the hardest to be a woman. -- Julie Delpy
The only difference between this and Custer's last stand was that Custer didn't have to look at the tape afterward. -- Terry Crisp
The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward. -- Helen Hunt
I think you learn more from looking at how things occurred and what happened afterward, not just at the event. -- John Turturro
I hate those movies where hundreds of people get blown up and there are jokes afterward. They poison the soul. -- Rob Reiner
I think you learn more from looking at how things occurred and what happened afterward, not just at the event -- John Turturro
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
Ever afterward, though the dance of creation change around me in the hall of eternity, I shall be the same. -- Anandamayi Ma
I wonder if it will rain after we die. When you kill yourself, you don't know what happens next, afterward. -- Albert Borris
I hated the whole idea of being an actress. I used to throw up before every performance and cry afterward. -- Judy Holliday
Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long. -- Kim Stanley Robinson
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
one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twentyâ??one that everything afterward savors of antiâ??climax. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
I used to eat burgers and steak, and I would just be knocked out afterward; I had to give it up. -- Woody Harrelson
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
My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward. -- Kurt Vonnegut
In the fields with which we are concerned, knowledge comes only in flashes. The text is the thunder rolling long afterward. -- Walter Benjamin
The Beatles and the Stones are for blowing your mind. The Doors are for afterward, when your mind is already gone . . . -- Gene Youngblood
Part of the skill of saying no is to shut up afterward and not babble on, offering material for an argument. -- Judith Martin
Every woman should try a Brazilian wax once. And then the sex they have afterward will make them keep coming back! -- Eva Longoria
Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward. -- John Steinbeck
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
Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper. -- Adam Gopnik
I don't feel that catharsis in a play necessarily takes place during the course of a play. Often it should take place afterward. -- Edward Albee
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
Before you get a dog, you can't quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can't imagine living any other way. -- Caroline Knapp
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. -- Kurt Vonnegut
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
Where there is a living memory of struggle, they have a living memory of the rebellion. Where there's no struggle afterward the rebellion is forgotten. -- Vijay Prashad
I became one of [Moses Mendelssohn] defenders. But then I heard the words "Biblical criticism" again. And, of course, afterward, I studied it more closely. -- Elie Wiesel
If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her full confidence again. -- Mark Twain
The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterward have a decisive influence on what happens over long periods of time. -- Hannah Arendt
Memories, impressions and emotions from the first 20 years on earth are most writers' main material; little that comes afterward is quite so rich and resonant. -- John Updike
The most fun part about working out is being done - getting through the workout, let's be honest. But that feeling afterward? Yeah, that's worth it. -- Venus Williams

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