Behind Quotes
6713 quotes by 4130 authors
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Writing is fifty years behind painting.
— Brion Gysin
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At a time when the average student is graduating from a four-year college $27,000 in debt, when hundreds of thousands of capable young people no…
— Bernie Sanders
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You know, it was once said of the first George Bush that he was born on third base and thought he'd hit a triple. Well,…
— Ted Strickland
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Be an earth angel, and look for love behind the actions of everyone you meet today. Whenever you look for love, you will always find…
— Doreen Virtue
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As long as the government can arbitrarily decide which substances are legal and which are illegal, then those who remain behind bars for illegal substances…
— Paul Krassner
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A sacred pride should grip us of not being satisfied with the mediocre but to strive (for we can do it, if we want to)…
— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
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I wish I could tell you about the South Pacific. The way it actually was. The endless ocean. The infinite specks of coral we called…
— James A. Michener
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
— Vanessa Mae
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I've gone on record to say that I'm proud of the PC version of Daikatana and I stand behind that.
— John Romero
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What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them
— Augusto Roa Bastos
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I want to leave something behind when I go; some small legacy of truth, some word that will shine in a dark place.
— Nellie L. McClung
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If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron… my answer is “How should I know?â€â€¦ I…
— Martin Gardner
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What WE represent is the nexus of concrescent novelty that has been moving itself together, complexifying itself, folding itself in upon itself for billions and…
— Terence McKenna
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Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.
— Terry McMillan
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For the criminal who is weak and poor the narrow cell of death awaits; but honor and glory await the rich who conceal their crimes…
— Khalil Gibran
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So I departed, leaving behind a pungent smell of brimstone. Just something to remember me by.
— Jonathan Stroud
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Nobody will ever know I existed. Nothing to leave behind me. Nothing to pass on. Nobody to mourn me. That's the bitterest blow of all.
— Tony Hancock
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What’s happened is that, almost overnight, we’ve switched from democracy in real-property recording to oligarchy in real-property recording. There was no court case behind this,…
— Christopher Peterson
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You know, it doesn't happen that often that you have the crowd support behind you straightaway from the beginning of the match.
— Kim Clijsters
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A law is not a law without coercion behind it....
— James A. Garfield
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