Death was standing behind a lectern, poring over a map. He looked at Mort as if he wasn’t entirely there. You haven't… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The hardest thing usually to leave behind, as was the case now, can loosely be called the conscience. — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
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[President Bush should] quit hiding behind the Secret Service, come out and face the nation and explain his failure to protect the… — Peter Jennings Copy Share Image
The feat represents immense achievement for the neotenic ape, species Homo sapiens. But behind this lie twooldattributesoftheapetribalismandinquisitiveness. — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
Everyone sees the glory moments, but they don't see what happens behind the scenes. — Allyson Felix Copy Share Image
As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer's long hair in water. I knew the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
A book is a physical object in a world of physical objects. It is a set of dead symbols. And then the… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
What you dislike in your superiors, avoid doing to your inferiors. What you dislike in your inferiors, avoid doing when working for… — Confucius Copy Share Image
A need for approval lies behind all efforts of evangelism. If someone else can be convinced, that will show us that we… — Ravi Ravindra Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter if you're the smartest person in the room: If you're not someone who people want to be around, you… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Patricia embraces me on the station platform. 'The past is what you leave behind in life, Ruby,' she says with the smile… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
As soon as politicians start climbing up the ladder, they suddenly become kings. I don't know how it works, but what I… — Jose Mujica Copy Share Image
Your Dollar is your only Word, / The wrath of it your only fear. / You build it altars tall enough /… — Edwin Arlington Robinson Copy Share Image
A man with a machine may murder or enslave millions, whereas it used to take at least thousands to murder millions. And… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
It's an old story; it's as old as our history. The difference between Democrats and Republicans has always been measured in courage… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
There is a great line of women stretching out behind you into the past, and you have to seek them out and… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I'd like to direct myself but I'm a cinephile and I also would like to just step behind the camera and be… — Jackson Rathbone Copy Share Image
When you are behind bars with no hope of release, you need to find strength wherever you can. Personally, I found strength… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“The time has come to lay that baggage down and leave behind all the struggling and striving. You can be set free… — Sue Augustine Copy Share Image
Men are beasts! Nothing more! We fight! We kill! We devour our prey! Beasts do not stand behind beasts, little prince... They… — Gangrel Copy Share Image
When somebody leaves this plane—or, if you like, goes into another room—those left behind sometimes try and stop loving—but this is a… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric; but they are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The American films just have so much more publicity and so much more money behind them that it's so hard to compete. — Georgina Haig Copy Share Image
On the national stage and in the neighborhoods of New York, Senator Hillary Clinton has repeatedly put her expertise and power behind… — Ellen Malcolm Copy Share Image
If we can string together some wins this year, maybe I'll be a close second-or third behind Bart Starr-on their favorite quarterback… — Aaron Rodgers Copy Share Image
Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't matter if… — Elena Anaya Copy Share Image
The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I'm telling you, it's so exciting playing out there because I'm playing well, you have the crowd behind you, and it's such… — Stefan Edberg Copy Share Image
The old saying is true, behind every good man theres an incredible woman. — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do you think it makes people nasty to be loved? You know it doesn’t! Then why should it make them nice to… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I'm sent a script. I read the script. If I love it, I want to do it. And that's it I don't… — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
On walks, make sure that your dog is not in front of you, pulling you down the street. Instead, keep your dog… — Cesar Millan Copy Share Image
Change doesn't happen with people sitting on their behinds, getting lazy. — Susan Rice Copy Share Image
So Disney has their full support behind it, which is great, but again it's got to be the right story. It's got… — Joseph Kosinski Copy Share Image