Behind Quotes
6713 quotes by 4430 authors
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There is for me powerful evidence that there is something going on behind it all. . . It seems as though somebody has fine tuned…
— Paul Davies
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If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall still…
— Alan Watts
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The teaching of the buddhas is: Find time and a place to remain unoccupied. That's what meditation is all about. Find at least one hour…
— Rajneesh
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This is what meditation means: how to be not identified with the mind - how to create a space between yourself and your own mind.…
— Rajneesh
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We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or…
— Clementine Paddleford
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Once learnt, this business of cooking was to prove an ever growing burden. It scarcely bears thinking about, the time and labour that man and…
— Rose Macaulay
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It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of our own people became a hunger for the freedom of…
— Nelson Mandela
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My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two…
— Samuel L. Jackson
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The Prime Minister seems now to be basing his re-election campaign on this plot line. He is saying to the Australian people, look out, the…
— Julia Gillard
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Human science cannot discover God. Human science is but the backward undoing of the tapestry web of God's science. It works with its back to…
— George MacDonald
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When you realize that the laws of nature must be incredibly finely tuned to produce the universe we see, that conspires to plant the idea…
— John Polkinghorne
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The systems they (the Arts) nourish, which include our integrated sensory, attentional, cognitive, emotional, and motor capacities, are, in fact, the driving forces behind all…
— Eric Jensen
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The question of all questions for humanity, the problem which lies behind all others and is more interesting than any of them, is that of…
— Thomas Huxley
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Clear mind is like the full moon in the sky. Sometimes clouds come and cover it, but the moon is always behind them. Clouds go…
— Seungsahn
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Fear can sometimes be a useful emotion. For instance, let's say you're an astronaut on the moon and you fear that your partner has been…
— Jack Handey
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The basic philosophy behind [switch putting] is you always want a hook putt. So for a left-to-right breaking putt, you're going to want to hit…
— Notah Begay III
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It's not what you take but what you leave behind that defines greatness.
— Edward Gardner
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I think it's about time we legalize marijuana... We either put people who are smoking marijuana behind bars or we legalize it, but this little…
— Glenn Beck
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I salute you! There is nothing I can give you which you have not; but there is much, that, while I cannot give you, you…
— Giovanni Giocondo
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If you don't follow a good nutritional plan, you're bodybuilding with one arm behind your back.
— Shawn Ray
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