Behinds Quotes - Page 33

• Thou has left behind Powers that will work for thee,-air, earth, and skies! There 's not a breathing of the common wind That will forget thee; thou hast great allies; Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Men, Air

  "To Toussaint L'Ouverture" l. 8 (1807)

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• It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. . . . We need to feel that behind us is intelligence and love.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Love, Atheist, Men

  Telephone Remarks to a Group of Boy Scouts: "What it Means to Be a Boy Scout", July 25, 1924.

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• Behind any Strength lies a greater Love.

  Matthew Price

  Inspirational, Life, Lying

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• Brother, thy tail hangs down behind.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Brother, Tails

  'The Jungle Book' (1894) 'Road Song of the Bandar-Log'

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• If the business were a play, Act One is: Woohoo, bright and bushy-tailed. We're going to make something great! Act Two is: We're six months behind on back-end development. We're trying to raise venture capital. We're trying to figure out what furniture we should sell to make payroll.

  Caterina Fake

  Business, Play, Two

  "How We Did It: Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake, Co-founders, Flickr". Interview with Stewart Butterfield, www.inc.com. December 1, 2006.

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• The vision behind our idea is a world where people don't carry hazardous chemicals in their bodies, the environment is free of toxic pollutants, and the economy diligently conserves its natural resources for consumers and future generations. We want to make it easier for consumers to create this world through their purchasing decisions and everyday activities.

  Jeffrey Hollender

  Business, Ideas, People

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• Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an ecstatic intuition - and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Writing, Creative, Intuition

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works”, p.244, My Ebook Publishing House

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• If you do not know where your competitor is, or overconfident and snobbish about your competitor, or are unable to comprehend how yourcompetitor became a real threat, you will surely fall behind him. Don't be the "they" in this idiom: First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

  Jack Ma

  Leadership, Business, Real

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• Jesus came from heaven down to earth. He left all grandeur behind Him, He passed by palaces and thrones-to be born in a manger! He was born lowly, that He might raise men up to God. The poor have a friend in Jesus. If no one else loves them, He loves them. He came to give them liberty, to proclaim to them the gospel of God's grace.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christmas, Jesus, Men

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• White performances were always dull in comparison to the astonishing expressiveness of Black dancers. Behind the white person's inarticulate body were centuries of condemnation of dancing on religious grounds.

  Jamake Highwater

  Dance, Religious, White

  Jamake Highwater (1992). “Dance: Rituals of Experience”, p.61, Oxford University Press, USA

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• You can kill a lot of time if you really want to put your mind to it Or leave it all behind and never really have to go through it

  Ben Harper

  Time, Mind, Want

  Song: Waiting For You

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• I am afraid. I am not solid, but hollow. I feel behind my eyes a numb, paralyzed cavern, a pit of hell, a mimicking nothingness.

  Sylvia Plath

  Eye, Feminism, Pits

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.60, Anchor

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• Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
  Man never Is, but always To be Blest.
  The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home,
  Rest and expatiates in a life to come.
  Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind
  Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind;
  His soul proud Science never taught to stray
  Far as the solar walk or milky way;
  Yet simple Nature to his hope has giv'n,
  Behind the cloud-topp'd hill, an humbler heav'n.

  Alexander Pope

  Spring, Home, Simple

  Alexander Pope, “Essay On Man”

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• What a wonderful time to be young. You will see events in your lifetime that will test your courage and extend your faith. If you will face the sunlight of truth, the shadows of discouragement and sin and error will fall behind you. You must never give up!

  Boyd K. Packer

  Time, Giving Up, Truth

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• There's a new and virulent cultural virus ripping through the world. . . . The symptoms of those infected include attacks of optimism, strong feelings of community, lower stress levels and outbreaks of pronoia - the sneaking feeling that someone is conspiring behind their backs to help them.

  Jules Marshall

  Strong, Stress, Optimism

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• The pleasure to be derived from a chess combination lie in the feeling that a human mind is behind the game, dominating the inanimate pieces ... and giving them breath of life.

  Richard Reti

  Lying, Games, Giving

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• I am very sorry to say that I rejoiced when I once more perceived the towers of Windsor behind me.

  Karl Philipp Moritz

  Sorry, Towers, Windsor

  Karl Philipp Moritz (1886). “Travels in England in 1782”

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• We find that at present the human race is divided politically into one wise man, nine knaves, and ninety fools out of every hundred. That is, by an optimistic observer. The nine knaves assemble themselves under the banner of the most knavish among them, and become politicians; the wise man stands out, because he knows himself to be hopelessly out-numbered, and devotes himself to poetry, mathematics or philosophy; while the ninety fools plod off behind the banners of the nine villains, according to fancy, into the labyrinths of chicanery, malice and warfare.

  T. H. White

  Wise, Philosophy, Optimistic

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• Jane Francklyne, born in 1565, had lived for less than a month. She left very little behind. She was buried in the Ecton churchyard, but her father would hardly have paid a carver to engrave so small a stone. If not for the parish register, there would be no record that this Jane Francklyne had ever lived at all. History is what is written and can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by the earth.

  Jill Lepore

  Father, Records, Earth

  Jill Lepore (2013). “Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin”, p.16, Vintage

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• Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.

  Kate Greenaway

  Beautiful, Feelings, Golden

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• I look at decisions like - it's like an Indiana Jones movie. The guy comes to a rope ladder, and he's being chased. There's uncertainty on the other side, but he knows when he gets to the other side, he's going to take his machete and cut the rope ladder behind him. He has no retreat.

  Mark Burnett

  Cutting, Guy, Decision

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• It can be exalting to belong to a church that is five hundred years behind the times and sublimely indifferent to fashion; it is mortifying to belong to a church that is five minutes behind the times, huffing and puffing to catch up.

  Joseph Sobran

  Fashion, Years, Church

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• Language and words for psychopaths are only word deep; there is no emotional colouring behind it. A psychopath can use a word like, ‘I love you’ but it means nothing more to him than if he said, ‘I’ll have a cup of coffee.

  Robert D. Hare

  Coffee, Love You, Mean

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• As the Hindu gods are 'immortal' only in a very particular sense - for they had born and they die - they experience most of the great human dilemmas and often seem to differ from mortals in a few trivial details... and from demons even less. Yet they are regarded by the Hindus as a class of beigns by definition totally different from any other; they are symbols in a way that no human beign, however 'archetypal' his life story, can ever be. They are actors playing parts that are real only for us; they are masks behind which we see our own faces.

  Wendy Doniger

  Real, Class, Actors

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• Only a fool trips on what is behind him.

  Iceberg Slim

  Fool

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