Behinds Quotes - Page 17

• We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal

  V. S. Naipaul

  Father, Thinking, People

  V.S. Naipaul (2010). “Literary Occasions: Essays”, p.240, Vintage

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• It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this experience he passes judgments on the work and course of his life, as if he had only now become clear-sighted; and yet the inspiration behind this feeling of well-being and these confident judgements is not wisdom, but weariness .

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspiration, Men, Feelings

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• As wave is driven by wave
  And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead,
  So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows,
  Always, for ever and new. What was before
  Is left behind; what never was is now;
  And every passing moment is renewed.

  Ovid

  Passing Moments, Time Flies, Wave

  Ovid (1998). “Metamorphoses”, OUP Oxford

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• We believe that when men reach beyond this planet, they should leave their national differences behind them.

  John F. Kennedy

  Believe, Men, Differences

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.151, Best Books on

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• They asked me to go in front of the Reagans. I'm not used to going in front of President Reagan, so we went out behind the Bushes.

  Dan Quayle

  Stupidity, President, Fool

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• Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Intellectual, Vacuums, Slogans

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• I can think of no faster way to unite the American people behind George W. Bush than a terrorist attack on an American target overseas. And I believe George W. Bush will quickly unite the American people through his foreign policy.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Believe, Thinking, People

  "Hillary Clinton and the Kissinger Wing of the Democratic Party" by Pierre Guerlain, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 10, 2016.

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• What is wrong is not the great discoveries of science—information is always better than ignorance, no matter what information or what ignorance. What is wrong is the belief behind the information, the belief that information will change the world. It won’t.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Ignorance, Discovery, World

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• Sometimes we and the members of Coldplay have an orgy together, (Martin) insists we don't invite any women, but I always invite a few. Usually I sing Fake Plastic Trees while he reams me from behind *Laughs* It wears me out *laughs*.

  Thom Yorke

  Laughing, Fake, Tree

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• Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Communication, Men, Cliche

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• Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind

  Bridget Riley

  Focus, Attention, Veils

  Bridget Riley, Richard Shiff, PaceWildenstein (Firm) (2004). “Bridget Riley: recent paintings : September 24-October 23, 2004”

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• We were really helped when President Ronald Reagan came in. I remember non-commissioned officers who were going to retire and they re-enlisted because they believed in President Reagan. That's the kind of President Ronald Reagan was. He helped our country win the Cold War. He put it behind us in a way no one ever believed would be possible. He was truly a great American leader. And those of us in the Armed Forces loved him, respected him, and tremendously admired him for his great leadership.

  Wesley Clark

  Country, War, Winning

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• Satisfying curiosity ranks No. 2 in my book behind conquering a fear.

  Scott Carpenter

  Book, Curiosity, Conquer

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• Always put the rook behind the pawn.... Except when it is incorrect to do so.

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Pawns

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• A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective in the way of swamping boats. In a ten-foot dinghy one can get an idea of the resources of the sea in the line of waves that is not probable to the average experience, which is never at sea in a dinghy.

  Stephen Crane

  Lying, Average, Sea

  Stephen Crane (1993). “The Open Boat and Other Stories”, p.58, Courier Corporation

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• If you want it, leave your excuses behind and come and get it

  George Foreman

  Want, Excuse, Ifs

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  True wealth is not measured in money or status or power. It is measured in the legacy we leave behind for those we love and those we inspire.

  Cesar Chavez

  Inspire, Legacy, Wealth

  Cesar Chavez, Richard Jay Jensen, John C. Hammerback (2002). “The Words of César Chávez”, p.172, Texas A&M University Press

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• You got to have an enemy to fight. And when you have an enemy to fight, then you can unite the entire world behind you, and you seize power. That was Hitler's plan. His enemy: the Jew. Al Gore's enemy, the U.N.'s enemy: global warming. Then you get the scientists - eugenics. You get the scientists - global warming. Then you have to discredit the scientists who say, 'That's not right.' And you must silence all dissenting voices. That's what Hitler did.

  Glenn Beck

  Fighting, Eugenics, Voice

  "Exposed: Glenn Beck's Climate of Distortion" by Rob Dietz and Kathleen Henehan, www.mediamatters.org. May 8, 2007.

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• What I leave behind has a life of its own.

  Audre Lorde

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• If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I’ve left behind me.

  Lars von Trier

  Cake, Careers, People

  "INTERVIEW: Lars von Trier Comes Out of the Dark". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. September 22, 2000.

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• It's so hard to do anything that doesn't owe some kind of debt to what Stanley Kubrick did with music in movies. Inevitably, you're going to end up doing something that he's probably already done before. It always seem like we're falling behind whatever he came up with. "Singin' in the Rain" (1952) in "A Clockwork Orange" (1971) - that was the first time I became so aware of music in movies. So no matter how hard you try to do something new, you're always following behind.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Rain, Fall, Orange

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Behind the parents stands the school, and behind the teacher the home.

  Abdul Kalam

  Teacher, Home, School

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (2003). “Ignited Minds: Unleashing the Power Within India”, p.26, Penguin Books India

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• That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment

  Patricia Highsmith

  Book, Pay, Fool

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• If there was a better way to go then it would find me
  I can't help it, the road just rolls out behind me
  Be kind to me, or treat me mean
  I'll make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine

  Fiona Apple

  Mean, Machines, Way

  Song: Extraordinary Machine, Album: Extraordinary Machine, 2005

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• Human existence had to have a deeper source than our own dank fluids. Dank or rank. There had to be a force behind it, a principal being who was and is and ever shall be.

  Don DeLillo

  Source, Fluid, Force

  Don DeLillo (2011). “Falling Man”, p.148, Pan Macmillan

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