Behind Quotes
6713 Behind quotes by 4130 unique authors
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... We borrowed it all from Coltrane. I started encouraging everybody in the band to listen to John Coltrane - 'Check it out, see what…
— Phil Lesh
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People enquire as to the craft behind our art and we reply by making references to a patently childish notion.
— Jay Sankey
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And believe me, to have been in the city of Tuscaloosa in October when you were young and full of Early Times and had a…
— Howell Raines
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When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own.
— John D. MacDonald
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Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.
— Paul Gauguin
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Desire is the putting of my will into God’s concern. It’s not a passive, sitting back in your easy chair, folding your arms sort of…
— Jim Elliot
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The fact is that, we are not producing saints. We are making converts to an effete type of Christianity, that bears little resemblance to that…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Everything God does has purpose and intention behind that design. It is a master design, and every little thing has its proper place and function.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The stresses of high-altitude climbing reveal your true character; they unmask who you really are. You no longer have all the social graces to hide…
— David Breashears
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The real slums are another matter. The bad parts of Tondo are as bad as any place I've seen, ancient, filthy houses swarmed with the…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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You can tell by looking at me that I've got more miles behind me than I've got in front of me. When you reach that…
— Tom Osborne
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Another way to look at meditation is to view thinking itself as a waterfall, a cascading of thought. In cultivating mindfulness, we are going beyond…
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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All of my books have the potential to become movies, it's just a question of finding a studio who wants to get behind me and…
— Jackie Collins
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I once bought a Manchester United hat, which I think was 12 shillings, and somebody ran up behind me and pulled it off and just…
— Steven Morrissey
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My coming to England in this way is, as I realize, so unusual that nobody will easily understand it. I was confronted by a very…
— Rudolf Hess
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There are going to be times when we can't wait for somebody. Now, you're either on the bus or off the bus. If you're on…
— Ken Kesey
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But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, Leaving no tract behind.
— William Shakespeare
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Behind every attractive room there should be a very good reason.
— Sister Parish
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It seems to me that inner growth is the whole moving force behind voluntary simplicity.
— Duane Elgin
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Behind every successful man, there is a woman - And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.
— Mark Twain
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No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged - in some places…
— Randolph Bourne
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A crucial Elite group behind the Civil War was the Knights of the Golden Circle, again based in Cincinnati, Ohio.
— David Icke
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So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes they are behind; Sometimes breathing is hard, sometimes it comes easily; Sometimes there is strength and sometimes weakness;…
— Laozi
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The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to…
— Thomas Carlyle
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There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.
— Robert E. Lee
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