Behinds Quotes - Page 23

• It seems to me that inner growth is the whole moving force behind voluntary simplicity.

  Duane Elgin

  Moving, Simple, Simplicity

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• Behind every successful man, there is a woman - And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Successful, Men

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• No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged - in some places perhaps irreparably - our life has been, we cannot in our heart of hearts imagine how it could have been different. As we look back on it, it slips in behind us in orderly array, and, with all its mistakes, acquires a sort of eternal fitness, and even, at times, of poetic glamour.

  Randolph Bourne

  Mistake, Heart, Reflection

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• A crucial Elite group behind the Civil War was the Knights of the Golden Circle, again based in Cincinnati, Ohio.

  David Icke

  War, Cincinnati Ohio, Knights

  David Icke (1998). “The Biggest Secret”, David Icke Books

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• So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes they are behind; Sometimes breathing is hard, sometimes it comes easily; Sometimes there is strength and sometimes weakness; Sometimes one is up and sometimes down. Therefore the sage avoids extremes, excesses, and complacency.

  Laozi

  Strength, Breathing, Balance

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• There is a time to go ahead and a time to stay behind. There is a time to breathe easy and time to breathe hard. There is a time to be vigorous and a time to be gentle. There is a time to gather and a time to release. Can you see things as they are And let them be all on their own?

  Laozi

  Motivation, Feeling Down, Feelings

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• Mayor Daley has no honor and his word has no value. The sneaky way he did this shows that he knows it was wrong. We're not going to allow the mayor to hide behind the fiction of homeland security for his reprehensible action.

  Phil Boyer

  Honor, Way, Fiction

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• Well, getting behind the camera is something I've always wanted to get involved with. Ever since I was doing movies like 'Zathura' I was very interested in all the different jobs on set and kind of soaking all the information up like a sponge.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Jobs, Cameras, Different

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• This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes that we, with careless, question-begging inference, call progress.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Knowledge, Progress, Desire

  Nicholas Murray Butler (1911). “Philosophy”

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• Behind intimidating messages are simply people appealing to us to meet their needs.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, People, Needs

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• The intention behind the protective use of force is to prevent injury, never to punish or to cause individuals to suffer, repent or change.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Suffering, Use

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• It's sadly predictable that the only way you can come up with a way to celebrate the liberation you feel at leaving the old system behind is by coming up with a "system of liberation", as if such a thing could exist - but that's what we can expect from those who have never known anything other than systems and systematizing, I guess.

  Mao Zedong

  Leaving, Way, Anarchy

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• Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.

  Gustav Mahler

  Branches, Existence

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• The voice is certainly important and you can hear if it's beautiful or not, it's the gods who decide; it's more a question of what you do with the voice, which is the mysterious element. It's the personality behind the voice which makes the artist. The voice is a gift of God, but if you're not able to use this gift, what's left? Nothing but a beautiful voice, without nuance or color.

  Cecilia Bartoli

  Beautiful, Artist, Voice

  OperaNet Interview, www.culturekiosque.com.

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• Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other.

  Guy Debord

  Choices, Different, Mask

  Guy Debord (2012). “Society Of The Spectacle”, p.45, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• I wouldn't mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don't know the way out.

  Gregory Maguire

  Leaving, Mind, Way

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.104, Harper Collins

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• And in another year everything will be different yet again. It is always like that, and always will be; you are forever standing on the brink, in a place where you cannot see ahead; there is nothing of which to be certain except what lies behind. This should be terrifying, but somehow it is not.

  Penelope Lively

  Lying, Years, Forever

  Penelope Lively (2007). “Consequences”, p.39, Penguin

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• Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely any way now remains of reporting the American Century except from behind the billboards.

  Nelson Algren

  Self, Deception, Vision

  Nelson Algren (1998). “Nonconformity: Writing on Writing”, p.85, Seven Stories Press

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• Above our heads exists an infinity of unfathomable fantasiastics: and fields of future fireside fables trail close behind

  Brandon Boyd

  Fables, Fields, Infinity

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• Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.

  Paul Bert

  Religion, Morality, March

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• I'm hunting for the truth. It might be a kind of poetic truth, and not just a factual one, because behind everything that happens to you, there is another truth, a secret life.

  Anne Sexton

  Hunting, Secret, Might

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• I dropped my hoe and ran into the house and started to write this poem, 'End of Summer.’ It began as a celebration of wild geese. Eventually the geese flew out of the poem, but I like to think they left behind the sound of their beating wings.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Summer, Writing, Thinking

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• When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.

  Alex Van Halen

  Planets, Music Is

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• If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Fall, Past, Shadow

  H.P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Secret Doctrine”, p.1206, Penguin

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• Forgetting the things that lie behind, I will strive towards my higher spiritual possibilities. I dedicate myself anew to the service of the Coming One and will do all I can to prepare men's minds and hearts for that event. I have no other life intention.

  Alice Bailey

  Spiritual, Lying, Heart

  Alice A. Bailey, Djwhal Khul (1955). “Discipleship in the New Age Vol II”, p.62, Lucis Publishing Companies

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