Behind Quotes
6713 quotes by 4430 authors
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Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book is not truly…
— Janet Morris
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I have never experienced a stressful feeling that wasn't caused by attaching to an untrue thought. Behind every uncomfortable feeling, there's a thought that isn't…
— Byron Katie
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Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought.
— Dennis Bergkamp
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It is strange to be here. The mystery never leaves you alone. Behind your image, below your words, above your thoughts, the silence of another…
— John O'Donohue
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Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy,…
— Olive Schreiner
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Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who have deserted their troops, and…
— John F. Kerry
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It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
— Seneca the Younger
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Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the…
— Oscar Wilde
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Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.
— Thomas Browne
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I'm of the mind that life is a risk. Every time you leave your house it's a risk, and I see no reason to go…
— Thomas Jane
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A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling inot actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come…
— Quintilian
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And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.
— William Butler Yeats
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The main thing for a gymnast is total concentration while competing. At such moments one has to put everything else behind. I know that other…
— Ludmilla Tourischeva
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Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and an be of…
— Francis of Assisi
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The Russians have a weapon that can wipe out two hundred eighty thousand Americans. That puts them exactly ten years behind Howard Cosell.
— Red Smith
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My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.
— Duffy Daugherty
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Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it…
— Bart Starr
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They're on our right, they're on our left, they're in front of us, they're behind us; they can't get away from us this time.
— Chesty Puller
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From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the line lie all the capitals…
— Winston Churchill
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The last show we played, I was straight as a die. It did feel weird not to be hiding behind alcohol or dope, but being…
— Ronnie Wood
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