Behind Quotes
6713 quotes by 4430 authors
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Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you were surprised when Nixon resigned, just watch what happens when I whup Foreman's behind!
— Muhammad Ali
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Sometimes when I'm driving behind a big cement truck, I think of how the valve on the truck could suddenly open, spilling cement over my…
— Jack Handey
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All means prove but blunt instruments, if they have not behind them a living spirit.
— Albert Einstein
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Between two throw-ins in a soccer game, right behind my back, three thousand people had been put to death.
— Tadeusz Borowski
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The state of interbeing is a vulnerable state. It is the vulnerability of the naive altruist, of the trusting lover, of the unguarded sharer. To…
— Charles Eisenstein
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Behind every good woman lies a trail of men.
— Tracy Bonham
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Travel compels you to discover your spiritual side by elimination: Without all the rituals, routines and possessions that give your life meaning at home, you're…
— Rolf Potts
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We Jews have put issue upon issue to the American people. Then we promote both sides of the issue as confusion reigns. With their eye's…
— Harold Wallace Rosenthal
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We turned onto the last landing. Going out with this guy, I thought, would involve a lot of silly laughter, some wit--the buzz of his…
— Alice McDermott
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I feel annoyed that in His wisdom, [God] chose to reel me in with middle-brow Christian fiction. It could be worse, I suppose. I could…
— Lauren F. Winner
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My loneliness...still comes over me sometimes...It's a liminal, lost sensation of having wandered wide, endless boulevards, among rows of orange trees, winter butterflies, seasons reversed…
— Marco Roth
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It's one thing to tell a front man to drop off and fill in the hole behind, but if they don't know why they are…
— John Toshack
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Rooney has those things that you cannot teach players - the positions he takes up just behind the front men is a European trait,
— John Toshack
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Sometimes my backswing gets long, and I get in bad positions. The club also can get behind me coming down, so I have to flip…
— Louis Oosthuizen
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Behind every person who’s committed an unimaginable crime is an adult who committed unimaginable violence against them as a child. All of them, as if…
— Gong Ji-young
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Computers bootstrap their own offspring, grow so wise and incomprehensible that their communiqués assume the hallmarks of dementia: unfocused and irrelevant to the barely-intelligent creatures…
— Peter Watts
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The best thing about conceptual poetry is that it doesn’t need to be read. You don’t have to read it. As a matter of fact,…
— Kenneth Goldsmith
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If the light is great in front of you, you should turn around and see what it is doing behind you.
— Jay Maisel
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I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal…
— Isabelle Huppert
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