Behind Quotes
6713 Behind quotes by 4130 unique authors
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It's important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister—a person with hopes and dreams.
— Melinda Gates
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For too long, decisions have been taken behind closed doors - tablets of stone have simply been past down to people without bothering to involve…
— Peter Mandelson
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If you flip a coin three times and it lands on heads each time, it’s probably chance. If you flip it a hundred times and…
— T. Colin Campbell
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I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this…
— A A Milne
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The interesting thing now for No Child Left Behind is that there are very few advocates for it; there is no constituency for it. Parents…
— Bob Schaffer
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My view of Christianity is that the hallmark of being a Christian is to reach out to people who have been left behind. So I…
— Howard Dean
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Fighting clutter is like fighting weeds-the writer is always slightly behind,
— William Zinsser
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There is a pile of dead bodies behind the Mars Hill bus, and by God's grace, it'll be a mountain by the time we're done,
— Mark Driscoll
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Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings…
— Michelangelo Antonioni
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As the Iraqi people better understand that Saddam Hussein and his regime are history, it is my hope that they will get behind the coalition…
— Pete Domenici
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The artist should paint not only what he sees before him, but also what he sees within him. If, however, he sees nothing within him,…
— Caspar David Friedrich
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You can't hide behind race any more. You can't hide behind class structure any more. You can't hide behind family. You need to produce.
— Mitch Landrieu
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It can be argued that the mathematics behind these images [of the orbit diagram for quadratic functions and the Mandelbrot set] is even prettier than…
— Robert L. Devaney
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He led his regiment from behind. He found it less exciting.
— W. S. Gilbert
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Instead of dumping all my money on an independent film that nobody would watch and most people would make fun of behind my back, I…
— Daniel Tosh
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Perhaps illnesses could be left behind, just like small, badly concealed china corpses.
— Frances Hardinge
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I shall never forget my first encounter with gorillas. Sound preceded sight. Odor preceded sound in the form of an overwhelming, musky-barnyard, humanlike scent. The…
— Dian Fossey
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Someone's got to break the glass ceiling, and once it's broken, everybody else comes clamouring up behind.
— Helen Clark
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You could see the flames and the outer skin of the spacecraft glowing; and burning, baseball size chunks flying off behind us. It was an…
— William Anders
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I like to imagine a person's psyche to be like a boardinghouse full of characters. The ones who show up regularly and who habitually follow…
— James Hillman
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I leave my character behind me.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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I've found that wherever there is one cockroach in plain sight, many more are lurking behind the corner out of view.
— Harry Markopolos
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Only a fool trips on what’s behind him. – Unknown
— Monica Murphy
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You have to be committed or you fall behind, lose out.
— Crystal Gayle
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There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.
— Earle Brown
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