Behinds Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• 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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• 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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• My problems are all behind me!

  George Brett

  Problem

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• We are surrounded by curtains. We only perceive the world behind a curtain of semblance. At the same time, an object needs to be covered in order to be recognized at all.

  Rene Magritte

  Order, Needs, World

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• How you use the opportunities your given to affect the world around you will determine the legacy you leave behind.

  Tony Dungy

  Opportunity, Legacy, Use

  Tony Dungy (2010). “The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently”, p.101, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Why is the sea king of a hundred streams? Because it lies below them... If the sage would guide the people, he must serve with humility. If he would lead them, he must follow behind. In this way when the sage rules, the people will not feel oppressed.

  Laozi

  Kings, Lying, Humility

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Working ten hour days allows you to fall behind twice as fast as you could working five hour days.

  Isaac Asimov

  Fall, Tasks, Action

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• Lovers O lovers, lovers it is time to set out from the world. I hear a drum in my soul's ear coming from the depths of the stars. Our camel driver is at work; the caravan is being readied. He asks that we forgive him for the disturbance he has caused us, He asks why we travellers are asleep. Everywhere the murmur of departure; the stars, like candles thrust at us from behind blue veils, and as if to make the invisible plain, a wondrous people have come forth.

  Rumi

  Stars, Blue, People

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2016). “Love is a Stranger”, p.77, Shambhala Publications

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• That competition and the struggle for existence is the mechanism behind this state of perpetual change.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Struggle, Competition, States

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.444, A&C Black

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• The only measure of your worth and your deeds will be the love you leave behind when you're gone.

  Fred Small

  Love, Gone, Deeds

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• But we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen. I regret only for the women we leave behind.

  Robert Falcon Scott

  Regret, Gentleman, Has Beens

  Robert Falcon Scott, Max Jones (2008). “Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition”, p.417, Oxford University Press

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• Our greatest value is to reproduce ourselves in the lives of others. When you leave behind a vibrant Christian who knows his calling and his commission, you can be buried, but you will live on through all those in whom you have been reproduced.

  Jerry Falwell

  Christian, Calling, Buried

  Jerry Falwell (1981). “Keys to daily living”

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• Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the grand-daughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. Slaver y is sixty years in the past. The operation was successful and the patient is doing well, thank you. The terrible struggle that made me an American out of a potential slave said "On the line!" The Reconstruction said "Go!" I am off to a flying start and I must not halt in the stretch to look behind and weep.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Depression, Daughter, Struggle

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• Love, marriage, divorce, infidelity... life was the same here as anywhere else, wasn't? She realized now wrong she'd been; the pali wasn't a headstone and Kalaupapa wasn't a grave. It was a community like any other, bound by ties deeper than most, and people here went to their deaths as people did anywhere: with great reluctance, dragging the messy jumble of their lives behind them.

  Alan Brennert

  Divorce, Ties, People

  Alan Brennert (2010). “Moloka'i: A Novel”, p.382, St. Martin's Press

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• ...once again we face a paradox, for it appears that softening your heart and gently tending its wounds will protect you from evil. Building a fortress and defending yourself behind it will only make you more vulnerable. Healing your own heart is the single most powerful thing you can do to change the world. Your own transformation will enable you to withdraw so completely from evil that you contribute to it by not one word, one thought, or one breath. This healing process is like recovering your soul.

  Deepak Chopra

  Powerful, Healing, Heart

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• Someday I'll wish upon a star And wake up where the clouds Are far behind me Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops that's where you'll find me

  Eva Cassidy

  Stars, Clouds, Funeral

  Song: Somewhere over the rainbow

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• He even knew the reason why: because enough men had gone off to war saying the time for gardening was when the war was over; whereas there must be men to stay behind and keep gardening alive, or at least the idea of gardening; because once that cord was broken, the earth would grow hard and forget her children. That was why.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Children, War, Men

  J. M. Coetzee (1983). “Life & Times of Michael K.: A Novel”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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