Behind Quotes
6713 Behind quotes by 4130 unique authors
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Bliss is the ocean, a towel on the sand, the sun out, the chance to swim in waves or walk dragging a stick behind you,…
— Deb Caletti
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Early on May 23, 1997, from 28,500 feet on Everest, I witnessed the incredible shadow of the mountain, the penumbra, forming to the west as…
— Ed Viesturs
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You can't find intimacy-you can't find home-when you're always hiding behind masks. Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a certain level of…
— Junot Diaz
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Technology is the fashion of the '90s. It affects everyone, and everyone is interested in it - either from fear of being left behind or…
— Jay Chiat
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Return to a simpler life, and you will see that behind the expensive cars, the fashionable clothes, the empty celebrities, the fancy houses and the…
— Varg Vikernes
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Fiction writing is a twenty-four-hou r-a-day occupation. You never leave your work behind. It is always with you, and to some extent, you are always…
— Terry Brooks
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At the height of creative activity fueled by enthusiasm, there will be enormous intensity and energy behind what you do. You will feel like an…
— Eckhart Tolle
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The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women. If it's educating its girls, if…
— Barack Obama
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Women are now more comfortable with themselves and their bodies-they no longer feel the need to hide behind their clothes.
— Donna Karan
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When you want to do a big thing, get the mental pattern, make it perfect, know just what it means, enlarge your thought, keep it…
— Ernest Holmes
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You have a God who hears you, the power of love behind you, the Holy Spirit within you, and all of heaven ahead of you.…
— Max Lucado
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Prayer is not an agency by which my will is to be accomplished upon the earth. The purpose of prayer is to get God's will…
— Chuck Smith
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This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain…
— Natan Sharansky
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The principles behind explaining and educating the product or the elected official is similar, even though the actual execution of it is very, very different.
— Frank Luntz
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There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where…
— Upton Sinclair
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My father stood behind a bar in the back of the room all those years, so one day I could stand behind a podium in…
— Marco Rubio
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Here is their plan. Whistle a happy tune while driving us off a fiscal cliff as long as they are behind the wheel of power…
— Chris Christie
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Whilst I may not actually help anyone to retaliate, I must not let a coward seek shelter behind nonviolence so-called. Not knowing the stuff of…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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People say that time heals all wounds, and maybe they're right. But whit if the wounds don't heal correctly, like when cuts leave behind nasty…
— Jessica Sorensen
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You could slap his wrist for saying it, but then he said it with his face, and you could spank him for making faces, but…
— Jonathan Franzen
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...a young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
— Leonard Cohen
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A nursery rhyme shapes your bones and nerves, and it shapes your mind. They are powerful, nursery rhymes, and immensely old, and not toys, even…
— Katherine Catmull
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If in physics there's something you don't understand, you can always hide behind the uncharted depths of nature. You can always blame God. You didn't…
— Edsger Dijkstra
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Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design…
— I. J. Good
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I was amplifying the negative at the expense of the positive, not to serve any useful function, not to make my writing better, but to…
— Seth Godin
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