Behinds Quotes - Page 38

• It wasn't until I became more confident with myself and I put myself forward instead of the jokes; at first it was put the jokes out there and I'm just behind the jokes.

  Wanda Sykes

  Firsts, Comedy, Jokes

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• That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos.

  Charlie Hunter

  Want, Jazz, Kind

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• I did it because I thought I could die quickly if I lived like that. I couldn't end my life, leaving behind my younger sister. I thought that if I lived that way I would get punished and end this crappy life early. But now I want to live. Because I have a reason to live.

  Ma-Roo

  Love, Drama, Leaving

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• We see the water of a river flowing uninterruptedly and passing away, and all that floats on its surface, rubbish or beams of trees, all pass by. Christian! So does our life. . .I was an infant, and that time has gone. I was an adolescent, and that too has passed. I was a young man, and that too is far behind me. The strong and mature man that I was is no more. My hair turns white, I succumb to age, but that too passes; I approach the end and will go the way of all flesh. I was born in order to die. I die that I may live. Remember me, O Lord, in Thy Kingdom!

  Tikhon of Zadonsk

  Christian, Spiritual, Strong

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• When the legacy you leave behind lasts for hours, days or a lifetime, you matter.

  Seth Godin

  Greatness, Legacy, Matter

  Seth Godin (2012). “Whatcha Gonna Do with That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012”, p.79, Penguin

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• Behind every dark cloud there is an every-shining sun. Just wait. In time, the cloud will pass.

  Marianne Williamson

  Optimistic, Adversity, Dark

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Nov 22, 2010

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• So you scream from behind your door, say what's mine is mine, and not yours
  I may have too much, but I'll take my chances
  Cause God's stopped keeping score
  And you cling to the things they sold you
  Didn't you cover your eyes when they told you that he can't come back
  Cause he has no children to come back for
  It so hard to learn, there's so much to hate
  Hanging on to hope when there is no hope to speak of
  And the wounded skies above say it's much too late
  So maybe we should all be praying for time

  George Michael

  Song, Children, Hate

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• They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.

  Cindy Crawford

  Hate, Brave, Swimsuits

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• Today, chess programs have become so good that even grandmasters sometimes struggle to understand the logic behind some of their moves.

  Kenneth Rogoff

  Struggle, Moving, Chess

  "AI can power this decade" by Kenneth Rogoff, www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2010.

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• If I could stomach the awful part of being a veterinarian, which involves sticking your hand up animals' behinds, I would be a vet.

  Allison Janney

  Animal, Hands, Would Be

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• Wakening from the dreaming forest there, the hazel-sprig sang under my tongue, its drifting fragrance climbed up through my conscious mind as if suddenly the roots I had left behind cried out to me, the land I had lost with my childhood - and I stopped, wounded by the wandering scent.

  Pablo Neruda

  Dream, Land, Roots

  Pablo Neruda (1986). “100 Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor”, University of Texas Press

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• When the long, varnished buds of beech Point out beyond their reach, And tanned by summer suns Leaves of bright bryony turn bronze, And gossamer floats bright and wet From trees that are their own sunset, Spring, summer, autumn I come here, And what is there to fear? And yet I never lose the feeling That someone else behind is stealing Or else in front has disappeared; Though nothing I have seen or heard, Makes me still walk beneath these boughs With cautious step as in a haunted house.

  Andrew Young

  Summer, Spring, Sunset

  Andrew Young (1963). “Quiet as moss: thirty-six poems”

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• We don't need men with new ideas as much as we need men who will put energy behind the old ideas.

  William Feather

  Men, Ideas, Energy

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• Ivan Lendl is a robot, a solitary, mechanical man who lives with his dogs behind towering walls at his estate in Connecticut. A man who so badly wants to have a more human image that he's having surgery to remove the bolts from his neck.

  Tony Kornheiser

  Dog, Wall, Men

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• Staying interested in a match is a lot harder than many people think. Throughout my career, I've always had trouble in the early rounds of a tournament mainly because it was hard for me to psychologically get up until I got to the quarters or the semis. What happened a lot of times is that I would fall behind early, maybe even lose the first couple of sets in a five-set match and then begin to concentrate. Still it wasn't something I could control from the start.

  Rod Laver

  Couple, Fall, Thinking

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• Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which lay behind human unhappiness. People did not realize how widespread envy was.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  People, Envy, Unhappy

  Alexander McCall Smith (2008). “Love Over Scotland”, p.307, Hachette UK

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• It's sort of easy to make a challenge. It's very hard to put the full fate of your government behind the challenge and make it happen. That's real leadership.

  Jody Williams

  Leadership, Real, Women

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• The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm

  Sylvia Plath

  Honesty, Men, Pseudonyms

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• Perhaps if human desire is said out loud, the urban planes, the prisons, the architectural mirrors will take off, as airplanes do. The black planes will take off into the night air and the night winds, sliding past and behind each other, zooming, turning and turning in the redness of the winds, living, never to return.

  Kathy Acker

  Airplane, Past, Night

  Kathy Acker (1989). “Empire of the Senseless”, p.112, Grove Press

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• But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way to find that what I really sought was something I had left behind.

  Tom Hornbein

  Long, Way, Quiet

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• First, forgive. Second, forget by choosing not to dwell on that which is forgiven and in the past. We have no right to keep in front of us what God has put behind Him.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Religious, Regret

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• Family violence is an entrenched epidemic that we've lived with since time began, so we've got a long way to go. But I do believe the tide is turned. It's no longer a subject that only occurs behind closed doors

  Rosie Batty

  Believe, Epidemics, Doors

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• Behind the love of God lies His imniscience - His ability to "know and understand all." . . . At all times, even in the midst of any type of suffering, I can realize that He knows, loves, watches, understands, and, more than that, He has a purpose.

  Billy Graham

  Love, Lying, Suffering

  Billy Graham (2012). “Hope for Each Day: Morning & Evening Devotions”, p.258, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing. There's no use doing it now, it doesn't fit anybody I know.

  Phyllis Diller

  Years, Use, Cleaning

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• Behind every adversity - is an opportunity!

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspiring, Adversity, Opportunity

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