I'm not really easy to live with! There needs to be unlimited patience and unconditional love. Men I've known before loved my independent spirit and were proud of my success to the point that they'd become jealous of the time I devote to my career.

The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham Joseph David and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards.

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

I feel very blessed to have two wonderful healthy children who keep me completely grounded sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real.

I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.

Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature a soul why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment his soul might die before his body does or that his soul might die without his knowing it?

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.

In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.

I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature and that man will be myself.

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

Sit down before fact as a little child be prepared to give up every conceived notion follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads or you will learn nothing.

In nature we never see anything isolated but everything in connection with something else which is before it beside it under it and over it.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Before you can make good music you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.

I can play punk rock and I love playing punk rock but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.

I don't like to be labeled to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music but it's counter-productive.

Music is a part of my life all the time - on the plane before matches driving out to the court.

People think our music's very aggressive or angry or whatever and it's just the opposite really... I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show and smiley.