Behinds Quotes - Page 12

• The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself - something that's in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.

  Livy

  Success, Real, Congratulations

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• I find myself born into this particular position. I'm determined to make the most of it. And to do whatever I can to help. And I hope I leave things behind a little bit better than I found them.

  Prince Charles

  Determination, Power, Littles

  "Rita Cosby Live & Direct", www.nbcnews.com. October 31, 2005.

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• God has a purpose behind every problem. He uses circumstances to develop our character. In fact, he depends more on circumstances to make us like Jesus than he depends on our reading the Bible.

  Rick Warren

  Jesus, Disappointment, Reading

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• I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release.

  Mark Twain

  Suicide, Grief, Heart

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.6914, Delphi Classics

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• I get pissed off. I simply do not understand someone who hits a ball that lands behind a tree and can look at it and say, "Well, that's golf".

  Simon Hobday

  Golf, Land, Tree

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• That "I don't give a darn" attitude is probably why I've shot so many good final rounds over the years when I started the day a few shots behind with nothing to lose. . . and maybe that's why I've shot so many bad last rounds when I was ahead and knew I couldn't afford a mistake.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Attitude, Mistake, Golf

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• [Chuck's wife] was standing behind me at the time and she said, 'Chuck hasn't fed himself in 19 years. So, you've got a choice: We keep the arm, or you keep Chuck.'

  Dean Kamen

  Technology, Years, Wife

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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 science fiction. Furthermore, so little emerging thought and technology is employed by sf writers today that the genre is lagging far behind reality both in the cosmology area and the technology area: sf is no longer a place to experiment, but is now very derivative.

  Janet Morris

  Book, Heart, Technology

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• The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind.

  Joseph Stilwell

  Sarcastic, Writing, Monkeys

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• We Americans have faith in ourselves, but not in ourselves alone. We do not know-we do not claim to know all the ways of Providence, yet we can trust in them, placing our confidence in the loving God behind all of life, and all of history.

  George W. Bush

  Faith, Way, Loving God

  Second Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered January 28, 2003

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• When a scholar of the old culture vows no longer to have anything to do with men who believe in progress, he is right. For the old culture has its greatness and goodness behind it, and an historical education forces one to admit that it can never again be fresh.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Greatness, Men

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• It just wasn't right the way they were behind by 25 points and then they're told to hold the ball.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Balls, Way

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• The 76ers currently play very good basketball, and we don't. However, we are still only one win behind them. If we continue to improve, we should be on the top of our division at the end of the regular season.

  Jason Kidd

  Basketball, Winning, Play

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• There's a lot of research behind the scenes that you don't get to see, but I have an instinct that my dad nurtured from when I was born. I was very lucky then.

  Steve Irwin

  Dad, Intuition, Lucky

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• With the realization of God comes all power. If the little wave knew that behind it is the great ocean, it could say, "I am the ocean." You should realize that just behind your consciousness is the Ocean of God.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Inspiration, Ocean, Realization

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• The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Men, Snow, Silence

  Orhan Pamuk (2006). “Snow”, p.3, Vintage

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• The whole art of allowing the truth to take possession of you is of being vulnerable, of being open, of being in a let-go. Or in other words, the whole art consists of one word, "surrender". And that's what sannyas is, that's my definition of a sannyasin: a man who is surrendered to existence so totally that he never thinks in terms of achievement any more, because he is no more. Who is there to achieve? - he has disappeared totally, he has not left even a trace behind. In that very moment, when you are just a pure nothingness, truth arrives. It is a gift of God.

  Rajneesh

  Letting Go, Art, Men

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• The ego is a subtle wall around you. It does not allow anybody to enter into you. You feel protected, secure, but this security is deathlike. It is the security of the plant inside the seed. The plant is afraid to sprout because - who knows? The world is so hazardous and the plant will be so soft, so fragile. Behind the wall of the seed, hiding inside the cell, everything is protected.

  Rajneesh

  Wall, Cells, Ego

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• Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wise, Lying, Ridiculous

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• I can mingle with the stars and throw a party on Mars
  I am a prisoner, locked up behind Xanax bars

  Lil Wayne

  Depression, Stars, Xanax

  Song: I Feel Like Dying, Album: THE DROUGHT IS OVER PT.2 (CARTER 3 SESSIONS MIXTAPE)

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• He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the comparison of imagination with reality; he will look with contempt on his own unimportance, and wonder to what purpose he came into the world; he will repine that he shall leave behind him no evidence of his having been, that he has added nothing to the system of life, but has glided from youth to age among the crowd, without any effort for distinction.

  Samuel Johnson

  Reality, Imagination, Effort

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “Works”, p.355

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• The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and behind that drift of law there is a far more potent force of growing custom, and under that custom there is a natural philosophy which erects conformity into the noblest of virtues and the free functioning of personality into a capital crime against society.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Philosophy, Ideas

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• If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

  Jean Cocteau

  Addiction, House, Smoking

  Jean Cocteau, Margaret Crosland (1972). “Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings”, Owen

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• Behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even, there is the country herself, your country, and . . . you belong to her as you belong to your own mother. Stand by her, boy, as you would stand by your mother.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Mother, Country, Boys

  Edward Everett Hale, Hsuan L. Hsu, Susan Kalter (2010). “Two Texts by Edward Everett Hale: "The Man Without a Country" and Philip Nolan's Friends”, p.32, Rowman & Littlefield

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• In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.

  Charles Lamb

  Science, World, Accounts

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia [both series]; to which are added, Letters, and Rosamund, a tale”, p.53

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