Behind You Quotes - Page 4

• The beloved's innocence brutalizes the lover. As the singing of a mad person behind you on the train enrages you, its beautiful animal-like teeth shining amid black planes of paint. As Helen enrages history. Senza uscita.

  Anne Carson

  Beautiful, Animal, Mad

  Anne Carson (2015). “Plainwater: Essays and Poetry”, p.88, Vintage

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• Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Healing, Tea, Finding Yourself

  "The Toys of Peace and Other Papers".

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• Leaning forward in your chair when someone is trying to squeeze behind you isn't enough. You also have to move the chair.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Moving, Trying, Enough

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• When you spend all your time worrying that the devil is right behind you, eventually you start seeing him whether he's there or not.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Worry, Devil, Behinds

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Obsidian Butterfly: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.63, Penguin

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• No wonder you want to be a writer. How can you not, with all that behind you? You practically are a novel already.

  Sylvia Brownrigg

  Want, Wonder, Novel

  Sylvia Brownrigg (2011). “Pages for You”, p.110, Pan Macmillan

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• The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.

  Richard Peck

  Writing, Light, Bridges

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• You'll live forever in our hearts, big man. That particularly galled me, because it implied the immortality of those left behind: You will live forever in my memory, because I will live forever! I AM YOUR GOD NOW, DEAD BOY! I OWN YOU!

  John Green

  Memories, Real, Heart

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.171, Penguin UK

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• No one gets left behind, you know that.

  Mark Bowden

  Inspirational, Life, Left Behind

  "Fictional character: Struecker". "Black Hawk Down", www.imdb.com. December 18, 2001.

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• Everybody does stupid things in life. Some of us more than others. You think you're going to get away with it. Or one or both of you just stop thinking. But it happens. And when it does, you can keep drinking it like poison, or you can put it behind you and go make the most of the rest of your life.

  Claire Cook

  Stupid, Drinking, Thinking

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  If you are going down a road and don't like what's in front of you, and look behind you and don't like what you see, get off the road. Create a new path!

  Maya Angelou

  Positive Attitude, Looks, Path

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jan 19, 2011

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• To reach up for the new, you must let go of the old. What lies behind you is not nearly as important as what lies in front of you.

  Joel Osteen

  Letting Go, Lying, Important

  Joel Osteen (2012). “It's Your Time: Finding Favour, Restoration and Abundance in Your Everyday Life”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• Go forth in confidence and go forth in peace. For there are angels to your left and angels to your right; angels in front of you and angels behind you; angels above you and angels below. You are loved, and you are not alone.

  Marianne Williamson

  Angel, Behinds, Left

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jun 17, 2011

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• As an English player you are lifted when the crowd gets behind you. The atmosphere over here can be unsettling for the Australian players and I hope all our fans get behind us.

  Gareth Ellis

  Player, Rugby League, Atmosphere

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• The beckoning counts, and not the clicking of the latch behind you.

  Freya Stark

  Travel, Latches, Beckoning

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• There is a great line of women stretching out behind you into the past, and you have to seek them out and find them in yourself and be conscious of them.

  Doris Lessing

  Women, Past, Lines

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Love means total interest; love means total creativity; love means total input. Who has that for you? Who has given you values? Who has given you character? Who has told you, "Stand for righteousness and I'll stand behind you"?

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Love, Family, Creativity

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• I would rather speak the truth to ten men than blandishments and lying to a million. Try it, ye who think there is nothing in it! Try what it is to speak with God behind you, to speak so as to be only the arrow in the bow which the Almighty draws.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Truth, Lying, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.78

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• I leave everything to the young men. You've got to give youthful men authority and responsibility if you're going to build up an organization. Otherwise you'll always be the boss yourself and you won't leave anything behind you.

  Amadeo Giannini

  Responsibility, Men, Organization

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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, a good book, a cold drink.

  Deb Caletti

  Ocean, Book, Swim

  Powell’s Books Interview, debcaletti.com. 2007.

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• The thing about 50 is that you've clearly reached a point where you have more of your life behind you than ahead of you, and that's a very different place to be in. You're thinking, 'I've done most of it.' I don't like that feeling. But it makes you evaluate your life and go, 'Am I doing what I want to do? Am I spending my time the way I want?' 

  Julianne Moore

  Thinking, Feelings, Age

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• Put the past behind you, the present moment is all that matters, in the life of those who want to be happy.

  Leon Brown

  Beautiful, Past, Matter

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• Let the living live; and you, gather together your thoughts, leave behind you a legacy of feeling and ideas; you will be most useful so.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Life, Ideas, Feelings

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• A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.

  Harold Ramis

  Fun, Two, Important

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• I know you left me once, but I came right back to find you. Even though I like being in your past, you got a bright future behind you.

  Drake

  Past, You Left Me, Bright Future

  Song: Celebration, Album: More Than Enough

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• Never be discouraged, because every wrong turn attempt, when left behind you, is another step forward taking you closer to your goals.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Powerful, Goal, Steps

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