Behind Quotes
6713 quotes by 4130 authors
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Shall I part my hair behind Do I dare to eat a peach I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Noise is an easy thing to hide behind. If you make a lot of noise and shout behind that, nobody can tell what you're singing.
— Jarvis Cocker
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When your eyes freeze behind the grey window and the ghost of loss gets in to you, may a flock of colours, indigo, red, green…
— John O'Donohue
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The government of a nation itself is usually found to be but the reflux of the individuals composing it. The government that is ahead of…
— Samuel Smiles
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"We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the seeing."
— Anais Nin
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Adversity challenges the masks we hide behind, revealing sides of ourselves we have not yet comfortably with the world outside. It is why we dislike…
— Michael Arndt
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The darkness always teemed with unexplained sound - and yet he sometimes shook with fear lest the noises he heard subside and allow him to…
— H P Lovecraft
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A funeral is for those left behind. Sometimes, one wonders if the weeping is more out of fear for ourselves than it is sympathy for…
— Ming-Dao Deng
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Politics is still crucially important. Our choices are vital, and we've got to make them, and not just say, 'Oh, they're all the same.' They…
— Dennis Potter
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Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity...are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.
— James C. Collins
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When a legislature decides to steal some of our rights and plans to use police force to accomplish it, what's the real difference between them…
— H. L. Richardson
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Year after year students tumble along like the waters of a river. They flow away, and only the teacher is left behind, like some deeply…
— Kobo Abe
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O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind.
— Helen Hunt Jackson
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The polling of Internet users shows that friends recommendations are the most reliable driver behind purchasing decisions. Right now that market is largely untapped. Facebook…
— Yuri Milner
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I cleave the heavens and soar to the infinite. And while I rise from my own globe to others and penetrate ever further through the…
— Giordano Bruno
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Uma Thurman is one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen. She has those wicked eyes - it looks like there is such a…
— Joshua Jackson
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Women are the bloodthirsty sex," said Ric sadly. "We get the reputation, but it is only because the women stand behind us, and say, Kill…
— Patricia Briggs
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It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror,…
— Winston Churchill
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You've got to think outside the box. If you can't, that's going to put you behind the power curve in a big way.
— Joe Teti
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Moreover, my ancestors' souls are sustained by the atmosphere of the house, since I answer for them the questions that their lives once left behind.…
— Carl Jung
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