Behind Quotes - page 2

Books . . . are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development. (Dorothy L. Sayers)
I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me. View quote
Zachary Taylor
As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot. View quote
John Lennon
Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later. View quote
Stanley Kubrick
I wish I could be behind the wheel for every stunt. View quote
Paul Walker
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world. View quote
Willa Cather
It's so ironical. When you finally achieve recognition, you hide behind dark glasses. View quote
Madhuri Dixit
Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. View quote
Albert Camus
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. (Muhammad Ali)
The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us. View quote
Edward Bellamy
Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion. View quote
Scott Adams
This Englishwoman is so refined She has no bosom and no behind. View quote
Stevie Smith
The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. View quote
Louis Brandeis
I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed. View quote
Max Born
Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship. View quote
Black Kettle
Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems. (Rudolf Carnap)
I would like people to recognize in looking at my story that the person who has the most to do with what happens to you is you. It's not the environment, it's not the other people who were there trying to help you or trying to stop you. It's what you decide to do and how much effort you put behind it. View quote
Ben Carson
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work. View quote
Jean Cocteau
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it. View quote
Albert Einstein