Behinds Quotes - Page 23

• Science stands, a too competant servant, behind her wrangling underbred masters, holding out resources, devices, and remedies they are too stupid to use. ... And on its material side, a modern Utopia must needs present these gifts as taken.

  George Herbert

  Stupid, Taken, Science

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• What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me - all this I owe to the game of baseball.

  Babe Ruth

  Success, Sports, Baseball

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• A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.

  Andre Maurois

  Song, Drama, Flower

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• Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Mr. Justice Brandeis, Great American". Book by Irving Dilliard, 1941.

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• The philosophies behind meditation are very current today and are a way of finding some sort of peace.

  Orlando Bloom

  Philosophy, Meditation, Today

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• In Puppies Behind Bars, when the puppy is eight weeks old it is given to an inmate. The inmate is responsible for the dog.

  Doris Roberts

  Dog, Eight, Bars

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• My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Daughter, Mother, Dad

  "Samuel L. Jackson: What I've Learned" by John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2010.

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• The Prime Minister seems now to be basing his re-election campaign on this plot line. He is saying to the Australian people, look out, the baddies behind you - hiss, boo and whatever you do, don't vote Labor. This political parody of pantomime is looking and sounding desperate.

  Julia Gillard

  Plot Lines, People, Political

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• When from behind me, a young woman of 25 uttered the following, it was the dumbest thing I have ever heard in my life until Dan Quayle was elected Vice President of the United States. She said, if it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college.

  Lewis Black

  Horse, College, Years

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• The basic philosophy behind [switch putting] is you always want a hook putt. So for a left-to-right breaking putt, you're going to want to hit it left-handed and vice versa.

  Notah Begay III

  Philosophy, Golf, Want

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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 strongest army in the world [the French] facing no more than twenty-six [German] divisions, sitting still and sheltering behind steel and concrete while a quixotically valiant ally was being exterminated!

  J. F. C. Fuller

  Military, Army, Sitting Still

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• Radio wasn't outside our lives. It coincided with and helped to shape our childhood and adolescence. As we slogged toward maturity, it also grew up and turned into television, leaving behind, like dead skin, transistorized talk-radio and nonstop music. . . .

  Vincent Canby

  Life, Maturity, Childhood

  Vincent Canby, Janet Maslin (1999). “The New York Times Guide to the Best 1000 Movies Ever Made”, Three Rivers Press

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• It's torturous what my siblings put me through. I can take any Olympic final, I can fight in a world championship and fall behind and win in sudden death, but when it comes to my siblings, it's out of my control. There's not much I can do.

  Steven Lopez

  Sibling, Fall, Fighting

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• I ask my destiny - what power is this That cruelly drives me onward without rest? My destiny says, "Look round!" I turn back and see It is I myself that is ever pushing me from behind.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Destiny, Looks, Pushing

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• A scar left behind by a woman typically goes forever.

  Kim Ok-gyun

  Drama, Forever, Scar

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• Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.

  A. E. Waite

  Men, Evil, Tree

  A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.46, Courier Corporation

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• Everything God does has purpose and intention behind that design. It is a master design, and every little thing has its proper place and function.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Design, Doe, Purpose

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• The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life-the terror of art.

  Franz Kafka

  Dream, Art, Halloween

  Franz Kafka (1972). “The Metamorphosis”

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• Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.

  Seneca the Younger

  War, Eye, Men

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• Resist discouragement by speaking His Word over your future. Keep standing. Keep hoping; keep believing because He is working behind the scenes. He's going to accelerate your times and lead you into the life of victory He has for you.

  Joel Osteen

  Believe, Godly, Over You

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• I did come up with the term "sack" to describe the devastation I was bringing on the poor, cringing quarterbacks in the NFL. "Sack the quarterback." That was nice. I thought it was lots better than saying, "Jones tackles the QB behind the line for another loss of yardage ..." It had a ring to it, and it caught on with the sports writers. But I tell you, doing it was a lot more fun than talking about it.

  Deacon Jones

  Sports, Football, Fun

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• For Aboriginal leaders, the social and moral obligation that comes with community leadership is life-long. Those who lead, who have authority, must care for and look after those who come behind.

  Patrick Dodson

  Leadership, Long, Community

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• The quarterback's spending so much time behind the center that he may jeopardize his right to lead a Boy Scout troop.

  Dennis Miller

  Football, Boys, May

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