Behinds Quotes - Page 38

• I have read the Bible many times. But after fasting, and being baptized Orthodox, it's like reading a whole new Bible. You see the depth behind the words so much more clearly.

  Troy Polamalu

  Reading, Fasting, Depth

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• Look at The Adventure. A boat by night is a wonderful sight. This is the way to start a new life, with a hurricane lamp shining at the top of the mast, and the coastline disappearing behind one as the whole world lies sleeping. Making a journey by night is more wonderful than anything in the world.

  Tove Jansson

  Lying, Adventure, Sleep

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• After spending so much money Liverpool were a lot further behind the leaders when Houllier left than before he arrived

  Robbie Fowler

  Leader, Spending, Left

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• Most people didnt have the bandwidth to download whole albums. And so it brought back this cherry picking idea that the audience would focus on certain songs and possibly be the impetus behind what eventually got on AM radio: the single or whatever.

  Todd Rundgren

  Song, Ideas, People

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• Brand-name growth stocks ordinarily command the highest p/e ratios. Rising prices beget attention, and vice versa - but only to a point. Eventually their growth rate can diminish as results revert towards normal. Maybe not in all cases, but often enough to make a long-term bet. Bottom line: I wouldn't want to get caught in a rush for the exit, much less get left behind. Only when big growth stocks fall into the dumper from time to time am I inclined to pick them up - and even then, only in moderation.

  John Neff

  Fall, Rising Prices, Names

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• The past should remain firmly behind one. The present holds enough obstacles.

  Scott Frost

  Past, Obstacles, Enough

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• I see no light behind that terrible curtain. I do not think one religion better than another and I think the Christian religion has brought far more misery crime and suffering far more tyranny and evil than any other.

  Eliza Lynn Linton

  Christian, Thinking, Light

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• There’s something about Olivia de Havilland that has always set her apart from other actresses. Maybe it’s the combination of warmth, sensitivity and intelligence she conveys, or the way her good looks have always been further enhanced by the ever-present twinkle in her eyes or the wisdom you sense behind those orbs.

  Robert Osborne

  Eye, Olivia, Looks

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• There can be no progress on climate change without strong and aggressive leadership from the White House.  While we have been frustrated that it took until now, we find that the President’s plan contains plenty of smart proposals and pathways for action. Stonyfield stands firmly behind the President's vision.

  Gary Hirshberg

  Strong, Smart, White

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• I had a job to do, and I did it all these years to the best of my ability. That's what I'd like to leave behind as I finish my final game in Toronto.

  Ernie Harwell

  Jobs, Years, Games

  Ernie Harwell (2004). “Life after baseball”

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• A Noah's Ark of mathematicians, their lives, loves, hard times, and madnesses, Loving and Hating Mathematics shows our community with all its warts as well as its triumphs. I especially liked the chapter on much-hated school mathematics, 'Almost All Children Left Behind.'

  David Mumford

  Children, Hate, School

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• The fierce ambitions of Carver Dana Andrews, son of a Baptist preacher, might well have been imagined by Horatio Alger, Jr.-- or Samuel Goldwyn-- but not the hidden costs behind those achievements. Carl Rollyson compassionately captures the man behind the movie star.

  Marion Meade

  Stars, Ambition, Son

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• But you are right, being stupid is not illegal. Otherwise half this town would be behind bars.

  Jennifer Echols

  Stupid, Would Be, Bars

  Jennifer Echols (2012). “Forget You”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• Boys are two years behind girls in maturity level.

  Jennifer Echols

  Girl, Maturity, Boys

  Jennifer Echols (2012). “Going Too Far”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• If behind popular fascination with Freudian theory there was a nervous, often guilty preoccupation with the self as sexual, behind increasing interest in computational interpretations of mind is an equally nervous preoccupation with the self as machine.

  Sherry Turkle

  Self, Mind, Fascination

  Sherry Turkle (2005). “The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit”, p.29, MIT Press

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• There was something intrinsically sad about Shinjuku. A vacuum-packed hollowness that no quantity of neon could hide. Roppongi was the same, only there the sadness was older and more Western. All that movement to so little purpose. A million strangers searching for a cure to the darkness behind their eyes in the void between someone else's legs.

  Jon Courtenay Grimwood

  Sadness, Eye, Darkness

  Jon Courtenay Grimwood (2017). “End Of The World Blues”, p.92, Hachette UK

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• Girls can be so petty and jealous. I swear they're worse than guys sometimes. Except they're all quiet about it. They sugarcoat it or else they talk behind each other's backs. It's seriously twisted.

  Melody Carlson

  Girl, Jealous, Guy

  Melody Carlson (2012). “The Jerk Magnet”, p.134, Revell

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• It was my mother who taught me the one worthwhile thing: when they ask if you like what you see in the mirror, pretend that what they mean is what's behind you--the shower curtain, the tile, the wallpaper, whatever's there.

  Gary Lutz

  Mother, Mean, Mirrors

  Gary Lutz (2002). “Stories in the Worst Way”, 3rd Bed Books

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• Maybe the best we can hope for is that those we leave behind find comfort in knowing, that we’re born out of love, and not science. That biology explains the how, but love explains the why

  Shane Koyczan

  Knowing, Comfort, Biology

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• Later when I thought of the chickens, one of those rare pale blue eggs rose up into my throat. The chickens had been part of our family, and the egg in my throat was the feeling of something missing. It was hard and smooth and heavy, but also so fragile it might break and make me cry. It was the feeling of growing out of a favorite shirt, milk spilled on the floor, the last bit of honey in the jar, falling apple blossoms. It was the lump in the throat behind everything beautiful in life.

  Melissa Coleman

  Beautiful, Fall, Blue

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• All lives are tales. Some spread, and grow in the telling. Others are just told between us and the gods, muttered back and forth behind our days, but those tales grow too and shake us just as fierce.

  Mark Lawrence

  Fierce, Tales, Back And Forth

  Mark Lawrence (2014). “Prince of Fools”, p.197, Penguin

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• Besides, whoever keeps the future in front of him and the past at his back is doing something else that's hard to imagine. For the image implies that events somehow already exist in the future, reach the present at a determined moment, and finally come to rest in the past. But nothing exists in the future; it is empty; one might die at any minute. Therefore such a person has his face toward the void, whereas it is the past behind him that is visible, stored in the memory.

  Harry Mulisch

  Memories, Past, Might

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• Here is a fact: nothing in all civilization has been as productive as ludicrous ambition. Whatever its ills, nothing has created more. Cathedrals, sonatas, encyclopedias: love of God was not behind them, nor love of life. But the love of man to be worshiped by man.

  Tom Rachman

  Love Life, Ambition, Men

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• Condelleza Rice and Colin Powell are both dangerous people. What they did in Haiti [2004 U.S.-backed coup that ousted democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide] is a good measure of it. They destroyed a democracy. They squelched loans that had been approved by the Inter-American Development Bank. They did everything behind the scenes, including arming the thugs that came to overrun the country. They're frauds.

  Randall Robinson

  Country, Thug, People

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• You gotta keep things moving. If leaving behind the past means you can have a better future, then, sure, why not?

  Lisa Mangum

  Moving, Mean, Past

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