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  • Previous journeys had taught me the danger of taking too much stuff. -- Tahir Shah
  • Previous experience had taught me that any expedition marches on its stomach. -- Tahir Shah
  • Previous journeys in search of treasure have taught me that a zigzag strategy is the best way to get ahead. -- Tahir Shah
  • Previous efforts to eradicate malaria failed for several reasons, including political instability and technical challenges in delivering resources, especially in certain countries in Africa. -- Anthony Fauci
  • Previous efforts to eradicate malaria failed for several reasons, including political instability and technical challenges in delivering resources, especially in certain countries in Africa. -- Anthony Fauci
  • Previous presidents, including great ones like Roosevelt, have used the IRS against their enemies. But I don't think Barack Obama ever wanted to be on the same page as Richard Nixon. -- Joe Klein
  • Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old. -- Terry Pratchett
  • The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles. -- Karl Marx
  • Watching previous figure skaters, I always wondered why they cried after their performance. -- Kim Yuna
  • Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure. -- Confucius
  • Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries. -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training. -- Ulysses S. Grant
  • The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax. -- Tom Osborne
  • I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day. -- James Joyce
  • I wrote the first draft of 'Madame Bovary' without studying the previous translations, although I gathered them and took the occasional peek. -- Lydia Davis
  • Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why. -- James Joyce
  • When Peru had a cholera outbreak in 1991, losses from tourism and agricultural revenue were three times greater than the total money spent on sanitation in the previous decade. -- Rose George
  • I don't feel 'vibes' when I enter a building - don't feel the previous owners looking down on me. But I do know when a place feels friendly. -- Penelope Keith
  • Time passes faster and faster, but with every project I always want to find the next challenge and the next challenge is just as exciting as the previous one. -- Alexander Wang
  • The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos. -- Stephen Jay Gould
  • Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night's date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn't think of looking at another woman. -- Marilyn Monroe
  • With 'Bangarang,' I didn't make any announcement, no campaign. I just put it on my Facebook and some other places. That's how I've done everything with my previous records. I've always kept it organic. -- Skrillex
  • My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
  • Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise. -- Robert Baden-Powell
  • Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true. -- Niels Bohr
  • But really, for the most part - doing a prequel is great because you do have room to kind of free this character and how they got to where they are instead of being a slave to exactly what the previous actor did. -- Jennifer Lawrence
  • I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Every film is a remake of a previous film, or a remake of a television series that everyone loved in the 1960s, or a remake of a television series that everyone hated in the 1960s. Or it's a theme park ride; it will soon come to breakfast cereal mascots. -- Alan Moore
  • It was the Michael Jordan/Nike phenomenon that really let people see that athletes were OK, and black athletes were OK. Defying a previous wisdom - not only that black athletes wouldn't sell in white America, but that the NBA as a predominantly black sport could not sell in white America. -- David Stern
  • I worked at a hot dog place, a bagel place, the Jersey Store and the hottest fashion joint around. I was getting too famous to work there anymore. I was almost showing up as a joke. I made $2,000 on my show the previous night and I'm going to go shopping during my five-hour shift. -- Wale
  • If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the new science of complexity or showing how an architecture can be produced just as quickly, cheaply and efficiently by using computer production methods to get the slight variation, the self-similarity. -- Charles Jencks
  • And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples. -- Barack Obama
  • Every previous era looks innocent. -- James Fallows
  • The Earth forgives the previous year every year. -- Robert Hass
  • When you think you can't, revisit a previous triumph. -- Jack Canfield
  • Our Muslim friends must learn from previous waves of immigration. -- Edward Leigh
  • Every problem was once a solution to a previous problem. -- Robert Mandel
  • The following statement is true. The previous statement is false. -- George Carlin
  • One thing that previous practice doesn't always make perfect: Marriage. -- Malcolm Forbes
  • The most effective mirror is definitely an previous good friend. -- George Herbert
  • Art teachers are always the doormats of the previous generation. -- Peter Schjeldahl
  • Theory must mediate between all previous truths and certain new experiences -- William James
  • The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation. -- Al Ries
  • May the dreams of your previous be the reality of your potential. -- Harriet Morgan
  • I must have been a failed football coach in a previous incarnation. -- David Blunkett
  • From Xbox in the previous generation to Xbox One, it's fundamentally transformed. -- Satya Nadella
  • Few things look as unstable as the rock-solid certainties of previous ages. -- Geoff Nicholson
  • Everybody knows that I have tougher ethics rules than any other previous President. -- William J. Clinton
  • Until work has reached its previous stage nympharium privileges are denied to all. -- Jack Vance
  • Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience. -- Samuel Alexander
  • Life ends with the previous thought It is resurrected with the subsequent One -- Frederick Franck
  • Normally, racing drivers come from a long line of previous successful sports people. -- Lewis Hamilton
  • You can remember, a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones. -- Plato
  • Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too. -- Studs Terkel
  • Each move is dictated by the previous one--that is the meaning of order -- Tom Stoppard
  • Tell not thy previous loves to a woman, lest she also telleth thee hers. -- Gelett Burgess
  • The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation. -- William Godwin
  • To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • We've both been married before and our previous experiences made us fearful of commitment. -- Willie Aames
  • It's moving in the right direction. It was in decline under the previous administration. -- John Prescott
  • In my previous life, I was an artist. I still paint. I love art. -- Edi Rama
  • You have the ability, right now, to exceed all your previous levels of accomplishment -- Brian Tracy
  • Cooperate on move one; thereafter, do whatever the other player did the previous move. -- Anatol Rapoport
  • Just saw an orthodox Jewish kid do 3 pull-ups on the scaffolding. Shattering the previous record. -- Gary Gulman
  • The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice. -- Doug Larson
  • Use the previous techniques in rotation. It will prevent your meditation experience from becoming stale. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • Stop the bullsh*t. Stop drawing lines in the sand like previous generations [have done]. -- Michael Skolnik
  • I was in for 10 hours and had 40 pints - beating my previous record by 20 minutes -- George Best
  • In new work, we need to see the shadow, however faint, of previous literary effort. -- Phillip Lopate
  • I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. -- Helene Hanff
  • The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self. -- Dalai Lama
  • The way we eat has changed more in the last 50 years than in the previous 10,000, -- Robert Kenner
  • Pardew has got previous for this kind of thing - but that was a one-off. -- David Speedie
  • I knew what infinity was. Being a previous art student, I knew about some art concepts. -- Lynne Rae Perkins
  • The reason people blame things on the previous generation is that there's only one other choice. -- Doug Larson
  • Every experiment destroys some of the knowledge of the system which was obtained by previous experiments. -- Werner Heisenberg
  • For previous generations, swimming the English Channel was the feat to accomplish. And that's been done. -- Diana Nyad
  • Let's face it, the Obama administration was handed a pretty poor deal from the previous administration. -- Richard Armitage
  • With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one. -- Andre Gide
  • Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of one or more previous ideas. -- Austin Kleon
  • The previous generation, such as Alec Stewart and Nasser Hussain, lost to Australia on many occasions. -- Andrew Strauss
  • My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment. -- David Levithan
  • Do not make your current partner pay for the crimes and misdemeanors of your previous partners. -- Amy Dickinson
  • An adult has the opportunity to enjoy the wisdom gleaned from previous decades of living and experience. -- Henry Rollins
  • The confidence essential to effective habit-making comes as a rule from knowledge of previous and related successes. -- Ralph Alfred Habas
  • I'm just into spirituality. I believe that in a previous life I used to be Shirley MacLaine. -- Roseanne Barr
  • The next generation will always surpass the previous one. It's one of the never-ending cycles in life. -- Masashi Kishimoto
  • During the past fifty years, more mathematics has been created than in all previous ages put together. -- Ian Stewart
  • Science is a self-correcting discipline that can, in subsequent generations, show that previous ideas were not correct. -- Brian Greene
  • A wanted pregnancy as much as a dreaded pregnancy can play differently than all one's previous imaginings. -- Susie Orbach
  • Every day I beat my own previous record for the number of consecutive days I've stayed alive. -- George Carlin
  • A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one. -- Dmitri Shostakovich
  • Historically, when a previous US administration enters into an agreement, it carries forward into the future administration. -- Barack Obama
  • As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation. -- Patricia Hewitt
  • There is definitely a thematic lineage between 'Descender' and my previous work, like 'Sweet Tooth' and 'Trillium.' -- Jeff Lemire
  • The previous generation paved the way for my generation to gallop unheeded into jobs previously reserved for men. -- Beeban Kidron
  • If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives? -- Taylor Caldwell
  • She's French, so she's teaching them French, and their previous nanny was Spanish, so they're fluent in Spanish. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
  • What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power. -- Henry George
  • Charles Burchfield was exceptional. As such an accomplished artist, he had limited previous association with academia and teaching. -- Paul Smith
  • Why are you doing this to me? What kind of country did I save in my previous life? -- Cheon Eunbi
  • What my previous film 'Paper Tigers' have proven, is that it can point toward helpful tools for change. -- James Redford
  • If there isn't a sequence of 15 previous passes, a good transition between attack and defence is impossible. Impossible. -- Pep Guardiola
  • [A]s previous studies have concluded, the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets are probably thickening rather than melting. -- Myron Ebell
  • It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear. -- C. L. R. James
  • I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. -- Aaliyah
  • The incompetent quickly throws himself into another impressive enterprise in order to escape his responsibility from previous disaster. -- George Chapman
  • Life creates new heroes, and new heroes always find it easiest to beat up on the previous heroes. -- Lech Walesa
  • One of my favorite actors is Javier Bardem, he always challenges his previous roles, and basically does the unexpected. -- Freida Pinto
  • A cherished cause and a general who inspires confidence by previous success are powerful means of electrifying an army. -- Antoine-Henri Jomini
  • When it comes to creating graphic novels I always deliberately work on something completely different to the previous one. -- Bryan Talbot
  • When you're on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations. -- Chris Martin
  • It really is considered one of the blessings of previous mates which you could manage being silly with them. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Books make it possible for every person born into the world to begin where the previous generation left off. -- Orison Swett Marden
  • My books are always about someone obtaining a power to replace the previous sort of power that they held. -- Chuck Palahniuk
  • I've had bad luck in my two previous marriages. The first wife left me, and the second did not. -- Woody Allen
  • My previous movie before 'Life Is Beautiful' was the same; they didn't release it so much in United States. -- Roberto Benigni
  • We go around and talk about what are each of the kids most proud of from the previous week. -- Wendy Kopp
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