Left Behind Quotes - Page 3

• If you must begin then go all the way, because if you begin and quit, the unfinished business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Unfinished Business, Way, Quitting

  Chogyam Trungpa (2002). “The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation”, p.187, Shambhala Publications

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• Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind.

  Sigmund Freud

  Atheist, Humanity, Age

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• No original thought still exists. People are original, each one of them. The same ideas that others had before you are waiting for you to bring them back to life in a new way. The part of who you are that is left behind within these old ideas is what makes them original all over again.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Origin Of Life, Ideas, People

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• Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.

  Paul de Man

  Fashion, Fire, Flames

  Paul de Man (2013). “Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism”, p.147, Routledge

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• Yes, but I - you know, it's been such a long time, I'm sure that I've got cousins and uncles that I've never met before, you know, that I've left behind.

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Sports, Cousin, Uncles

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• I feel annoyed that in His wisdom, [God] chose to reel me in with middle-brow Christian fiction. It could be worse, I suppose. I could have come to faith while reading Left Behind.

  Lauren F. Winner

  Christian, Reading, Annoyed

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• And yes, the Homesteaders, including my grandparents who left behind almost nothing, and arrived in Montana with nothing but the clothes on their back, high hopes, faith in God and dreaming of the future.

  Brian Schweitzer

  Faith, Dream, Clothes

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• "We will make such a chase as shall be accounted a marvel among the Three Kindreds: Elves, Dwarves and Men. Forth the Three Hunters!" Like a deer he sprang away. Through the trees he sped. On and on he led them, tireless and swift, now that his mind was at last made up. The woods about the lake they left behind. Long slopes they climbed, dark, hard-edged against the sky already red with sunset. They passed away, grey shadows in a stony land.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Sunset, Dark, Men

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.293, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As the bus slowed down at the crowded bus stop, the Pakistani bus conductor leaned from the platform and called out, "Six only!" The bus stopped. He counted on six passengers, rang the bell, and then, as the bus moved off, called to those left behind: "So sorry, plenty of room in my heart - but the bus is full." He left behind a row of smiling faces. It's not what you do, it's the way that you do it.

  Edwin Francis Gay

  Sorry, Kindness, Heart

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• Buddha's Wife tells a fascinating story, little known in the west, about the woman whom Buddha left behind. Gabriel Constans focuses the reader's attention on the strong and complicated women who surrounded Buddha and makes us re-think the nature of spiritual life.

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  Spiritual, Strong, Book

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• Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an 'intelligence explosion,' and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make.

  I. J. Good

  Clever, Men, Design

  "Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine". Advances in Computers, vol. 6, 1965.

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• If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?'... it was the teaching of others, so that they could take my work and take it further.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Teaching, Essence, Numbers

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• There is something in this universe that justifies the biblical writer in saying, "You shall reap what you sow." This is a law-abiding universe. This is a moral universe. It hinges on moral foundations. If we are to make of this a better world, we've got to go back and rediscover that precious value that we've left behind.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspiring, Biblical, Law

  "Rediscovering Lost Values". Sermon delivered at Detroit's Second Baptist Church, February 28, 1954.

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• And I'm lost behind
  The words I'll never find
  And I'm left behind
  As seasons roll on by

  Chris Cornell

  Lost, Behinds, Seasons

  Song: Seasons

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• Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind.

  David Ehrenfeld

  Green World, Earth Day, Humanity

  "The Arrogance of Humanism". Book by David Ehrenfeld, 1978.

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• What we have caught and what we have killed we have left behind, but what has escaped us we bring with us.

  Heraclitus

  Caught, Behinds, Left

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• Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.

  Jerry B. Jenkins

  Book, Done, Smashing

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• If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I’ve left behind me.

  Lars von Trier

  Cake, Careers, People

  "INTERVIEW: Lars von Trier Comes Out of the Dark". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. September 22, 2000.

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• Technology is the fashion of the '90s. It affects everyone, and everyone is interested in it - either from fear of being left behind or because they have a real need to use technology.

  Jay Chiat

  Fashion, Real, Technology

  "Virtual Chiat". Interview with David Dix, www.wired.com. July 01, 1994.

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• But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood is up. He is fighting for his life, and killing now for him is as much a profession as writing is for me.

  Ernie Pyle

  Military, War, Writing

  Ernie Pyle, David Nichols (1987). “Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches”, Touchstone

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• I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release.

  Mark Twain

  Suicide, Grief, Heart

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.6914, Delphi Classics

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• Even if death were to fall upon you today like lightning, you must be ready to die without sadness and regret, without any residue of clinging for what is left behind. Remaining in the recognition of the absolute view, you should leave this life like an eagle soaring up into the blue sky.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Death, Regret, Fall

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• The President's call for more math and science students is not being heeded by his party's leaders in Congress. They are cutting over $10 billion from student aide while refusing to fully fund No Child Left Behind. Something doesn't add up.

  Jim Clyburn

  Children, Party, Cutting

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• My friends, all I'm trying to say is that if we are to go forward today, we've got to go back and rediscover some mighty precious values that we've left behind. That's the only way that we would be able to make of our world a better world, and to make of this world what God wants it to be and the real purpose and meaning of it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspiring, Real, Our World

  "Rediscovering Lost Values". Sermon delivered at Detroit's Second Baptist Church, February 28, 1954.

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• That was the dirty secret associated with her past. Not that she'd been abused but that somehow she felt that she deserved it because she'd let it happen. Even now, it shamed her, and there were times when she felt hideously ugly, as though the scars that had been left behind were visible to everyone.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Dirty, Past, Secret

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