Left Behind Quotes - Page 15

• The misfortune of a young man who returns to his native land after years away is that he finds his native land foreign; whereas the lands he left behind remain for ever like a mirage in his mind. However, misfortune can itself sow seeds of creativity. ---- Afterword to "Hothouse" Brian Aldiss

  Brian Aldiss

  Creativity, Men, Years

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• All that sunny afternoon, traveling north and east, Caroline believed absolutely in the future. And why not? For if the worst had already happened to them in the eyes of the world, then surely, surely, it was the worst that they left behind them now.

  Kim Edwards

  Eye, Sunny Afternoon, East

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.76, Penguin

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• Going back after a long time will make you made, because the people you left behind do not like to think of you changed, will treat you as they always did, accuse you of being indifferent, when you are only different.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Thinking, Long, People

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• Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Government, People, Together

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• If you should ask me where I've been all this time I have to say "Things happen." I have to dwell on stones darkening the earth, on the river ruined in its own duration: I know nothing save things the birds have lost, the sea I left behind, or my sister crying. Why this abundance of places? Why does day lock with day? Why the dark night swilling round in our mouths? And why the dead?

  Pablo Neruda

  Dark, Night, Rivers

  Pablo Neruda (1990). “Selected Poems”, p.121, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You will remember when a bird crashed through the window and fell to the floor. You will remember, those of you who were there, how it jerked its wings before dying, and left a spot of blood on the floor after it was removed. But who among you was first to notice the negative bird it left in the window? Who first saw the shadow that the bird left behind, the shadow that drew blood from any finger that dared to trace it, the shadow that was better proof of the bird's existence than the bird ever was?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Wings, Blood, Bird

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Meriwether Lewis's last words were, 'I am not a coward, but I am so strong. So hard to die.' I don't doubt that it is, but it cannot be much harder than being left behind.

  John Green

  Strong, Doubt, Coward

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.113, Penguin

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• Nightly you retrace your steps again to return to the scene of the crime. It's uncanny how you hover in the air of the wreckage that you left behind.

  Aimee Mann

  Air, Return, Wreckage

  Song: True Believer, 2008

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• Demon. Gremlin. Poltergeist. Ghost. Phantom. Spirit. Shadow. Ghoul. Devil. People are afraid of them, so they relegate their existence to stories, volumes of books that can be closed and put on the shelf or left behind at a bed and breakfast; they clench their eyes shut, so they will see no evil. But trust me when I tell you that the zebra is real. Somewhere, the zebra is dancing.

  Garth Stein

  Zebras, Real, Book

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind.

  Sarah Dessen

  Filling Up, Space, Empty

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.110, Penguin

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• It's really not so good to have time. Rush, scramble, desperation, this missed, that left behind, those others too big to fit into such a small space--that's the way life was meant to be. You're supposed to be too late for some things. Don't worry about it.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Space, Worry, Way

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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• Hey!" Caleb snapped as he realized Nick was about to lock him on the outside with their attackers. He pushed the door open and glared at him. "No man left behind." Nick scoffed. "This aint' the army, boy. It's every man for himself. Fall behind. Get eaten

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fall, Army, Boys

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Infinity: Chronicles of Nick”, p.341, Macmillan

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• Hazel had read enough books to know that a line like this one is the line down which your life breaks in two. And you have to think very carefully about whether you want to cross it, because once you do it’s very hard to get back to the world you left behind. And sometimes you break a barrier that no one knew existed, and then everything you knew before crossing the line is gone. But sometimes you have a friend to rescue. And so you take a deep breath and then step over the line and into the darkness ahead.

  Anne Ursu

  Book, Thinking, Two

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• It doesn't really matter if you are left behind the back, but what matters is your capacity to pull and push everyone by your way to get to the front.

  Michael Bassey

  What Matters, Way, Capacity

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• Terrorism and trade policy are clearly topics where Trump expresses the fears and concerns of many American people. There is a widespread feeling in this country that the government has been too willing to go into trade deals that sent American jobs to Mexico or to China. The affected communities feel left behind. It is one of the reasons for Trump's rise.

  Jake Tapper

  Country, People, Community

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think Donald Trump was successful in capturing "drain the swamp, change Washington, a big screw-you to the status quo" - which has already been ironic since election night. But it was one of his big messages, and there's a broader sense of how to address the feelings of so many people left behind by the economy.

  Neera Tanden

  Successful, Night, Thinking

  Source: www.politico.com

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• If people are being left behind, impoverished economically or even culturally, they will always be easily targeted by demagogues of any stripe, exploiting their hate and fear and making impossible promises. That impoverishment is more likely if we fight a doomed battle against automation and new technology, when what those people need most is the ambitious new tech that is the only proven way to create sustainable industries and jobs.

  Garry Kasparov

  Hate, Fighting, Technology

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• In education, it is said that the state must impose schooling on all children, else the parents and communities will neglect it. Only the state can make sure that no child is left behind. The only question is the means: will we use the union and bureaucracies favored by the left, or the market incentives and vouchers favored by the right. I don't want to get into a debate about which means is better, but only to draw attention to the reality that these are both forms of planning that compromise the freedom of families to manage their own affairs.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Children, Mean, Reality

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• No more than a famous master can be replaced and another take over the completion of the half-finished painting he has left behind can the great poet and thinker, the great statesman and the great soldier, be replaced. For their activity lies always in the province of art. It is not mechanically trained but inborn by God's grace.

  Adolf Hitler

  Art, Lying, Grace

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• Those who wait for the future to happen before aligning their educational goals with the new realities will be left behind in the new ecomomy. A better path is to know what is ahead and prepare-this is education.

  Oliver DeMille

  Educational, Reality, Goal

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• I get the feeling more and more that religion is being left behind.

  Richard Dawkins

  Feelings, Behinds, Left

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• The love she left behind will be the reason dreams are reached. She was the rock in a world that was crumbling. Her strength will remain. It’s in our hearts.

  Abbi Glines

  Dream, Heart, Rocks

  Abbi Glines (2014). “Fallen Too Far: A Rosemary Beach Novel”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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• There were worse things than dying, and those worse things happened to the people you left behind.

  P. C. Cast

  People, Dying, Behinds

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2012). “Hidden”, p.35, Macmillan

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• I just let the pain take over, allowing it to numb the pain of being left behind.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Pain, Numb, Behinds

  Jessica Sorensen (2013). “The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden”, p.29, Hachette UK

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• I do not view suicide as wicked, just terribly sad. There is only one death, but it is like a stone cast into a pond - the ripples stretch far. Such an act must leave a burden of sorrow, guilt, shame and confusion on an entire family. A natural death, such as my father suffered, is hard enough to deal with. A decision to end one's life must be still more devastating for those left behind. I cannot imagine the degree of hopelessness someone must feel to contemplate such an act.

  Juliet Marillier

  Suicide, Father, Views

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