Behinds Quotes - Page 25

• The paradox of the English country house is that its state of permanent decline, the fact that its heyday is always behind it, is part of the seduction, just as it is part of the seduction of books in general.

  Lev Grossman

  Country, Book, House

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• The breeze and the dew make tranquil the clear dawn;
  Behind the curtain there is one who alone is up betimes.
  The orioles sing and the flowers smile -
  Whose then, after all, is the Spring?

  Li Shangyin

  Spring, Flower, Dawn

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• Henry Kissinger is the greatest living war criminal in the world today, with the blood of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and Chile and East Timor on his hands. He will never appear in a court or be behind bars.

  George Galloway

  War, Blood, Hands

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• The worst is likely to be behind us.

  Henry Paulson

  Worst

  "Paulson: The Worst Is Behind Us", www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2008.

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• I’ve got four nipples. I think I must have been a twin, but the one other went away and left its nipples behind.

  Harry Styles

  Thinking, Four, Nipples

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• Adventures come to the adventurous, and mysterious things fall in the way of those who, with wonder and imagination, are on the watch for them; but the majority of people go past the doors that are half ajar, thinking them closed, and fail to notice the faint stirrings of the great curtain that hangs ever in the form of appearances between them and the world of causes behind.

  Algernon Blackwood

  Fall, Adventure, Past

  Algernon Blackwood (2011). “Four Weird Tales”, p.4, The Floating Press

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• The Iraqis had paid a terrible price for Saddam's folly (in the Gulf War). But looking at the devastation they left behind (in Kuwait), my sympathy was limited.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Kuwait, Devastation

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• Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Philosophy, Men, Taxes

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.98, BookBaby

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• Writing is fifty years behind painting.

  Brion Gysin

  Writing, Years, Fifty

  Brion Gysin (2015). “Back in No Time: The Brion Gysin Reader”, p.131, Wesleyan University Press

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• Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.

  Wilfred Owen

  Home, Force, Never Fear

  Wilfred Owen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)”, p.398, Delphi Classics

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• At a time when the average student is graduating from a four-year college $27,000 in debt, when hundreds of thousands of capable young people no longer see college as an option because of high costs and when the U.S. is falling further and further behind our economic competitors in terms of the percentage of young people graduating from college, no agreement should be passed which, over a period of years, makes a bad situation worse and will make college even less affordable than it is today.

  Bernie Sanders

  Fall, College, Agreement

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• A sacred pride should grip us of not being satisfied with the mediocre but to strive (for we can do it, if we want to) with the exertion of all our strength to attain the highest. Let us scorn what is of this earth, let us ignore what is of heaven, let us leave absolutely everything worldly behind us in order to hasten to the abode out of this world, in the proximity of the sublime deity. We do not need to think of stepping back. Of being satisfied with second rank, let us strive for dignity and glory. To attain the highest.

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

  Pride, Thinking, Order

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• I wish I could tell you about the South Pacific. The way it actually was. The endless ocean. The infinite specks of coral we called islands. Coconut palms nodding gracefully toward the ocean. Reefs upon which waves broke into spray, and inner lagoons, lovely beyond description. I wish I could tell you about the sweating jungle, the full moon rising behind the volcanoes, and the waiting. The waiting. The timeless, repetitive waiting.

  James A. Michener

  Ocean, Moon, Islands

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• I've gone on record to say that I'm proud of the PC version of Daikatana and I stand behind that.

  John Romero

  Gone, Records, Proud

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• What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them

  Augusto Roa Bastos

  Memories, Remember, Forget

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• If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron… my answer is “How should I know?”… I am not dismayed by ultimate mysteries… I can no more grasp what is behind such questions as my cat can understand what is behind the clatter I make while I type this paragraph.

  Martin Gardner

  Lying, Cat, Answers

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• For the criminal who is weak and poor the narrow cell of death awaits; but honor and glory await the rich who conceal their crimes behind their gold and silver and inherited glory.

  Khalil Gibran

  Cells, Honor, Gold

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• So I departed, leaving behind a pungent smell of brimstone. Just something to remember me by.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Smell, Leaving, Departed

  Jonathan Stroud (2003). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One: Amulet of Samarkand, The (International Edition)”, Disney-Hyperion

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• Nobody will ever know I existed. Nothing to leave behind me. Nothing to pass on. Nobody to mourn me. That's the bitterest blow of all.

  Tony Hancock

  Blow, Mourn, Knows

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• The accent in the counter attack style of play lays on the defensive team
  function, with the emphasis being on the defender's own half of the field
  and letting the opponents keep the initiative of the game. This is to take
  advantage of the space behind their defense for the buildup and the attack.

  Rinus Michels

  Team, Play, Space

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• What’s happened is that, almost overnight, we’ve switched from democracy in real-property recording to oligarchy in real-property recording. There was no court case behind this, no statute from Congress or the state legislatures. It was accomplished in a private corporate decision. The banks just did it.

  Christopher Peterson

  Real, Decision, Democracy

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• You know, it doesn't happen that often that you have the crowd support behind you straightaway from the beginning of the match.

  Kim Clijsters

  Support, Crowds, Behind You

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• A law is not a law without coercion behind it.

  James A. Garfield

  Law, Coercion, Intriguing

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• The logic: Reading is a private pursuit, one that often takes place behind closed doors. A young lady might retreat with a book, might even take it into her boudoir, and there, reclining on here silken sheets, imbibing the thrills and chills manufactured by writerly quills, one of her hands, one not absolutely needed to grip the little volume, might wander. The fear, in short, as one-handed reading. [p. 146]

  Siri Hustvedt

  Book, Reading, Doors

  Siri Hustvedt (2011). “The Summer Without Men”, p.71, Hachette UK

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• I wanna sit behind the scenes and see nothin' but the greens.

  Method Man

  Behind The Scenes, Scene

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