Quotes with behind

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  • Edward Gardner It's not what you take but what you leave behind that defines greatness.
    Edward Gardner
    English conductor
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  • Philip Roth It’s amazing what lies people can sustain behind the mask of their real faces.
    Reading myself and others (1985)
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • John McCain Keep moving if you love life, and keep your troubles well behind you.
    Worth the Fighting For (2002)
    John McCain
    American politician (1936 - 2018)
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  • Walt Whitman Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Mary McCarthy Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a ''work'' of man.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Last night me and Kate we laid in bed talking about getting out,
    Packing up our bags, maybe heading south.
    I'm thirty-five, we got a boy of our own now.
    Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and said, Son, take a good look around,
    This is your hometown.
    Born In The U.S.A. (1984) My Hometown
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Wendell Phillips Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
    Wendell Phillips
    American Reformer, Orator (1811 - 1884)
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  • Bob Dylan Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you.
    Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you.
    Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Walt Whitman Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Ben Shapiro Let's assume for the moment that the logic behind Presidents Day is actually sound for certain presidents. Why not have a separate holiday for Lincoln and one for Washington - as we used to do, before we became so concerned with the 'Every President Gets a Trophy' ethos?
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Billy Sunday Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Carly Fiorina Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • George Santayana Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Ben E. King Many times I've gone on tours with Paul Anka. He would have someone sitting behind him to keep people from even talking to him. You were almost in a little restricted area there.
    Ben E. King
    American soul and R&B singer (1938 - 2015)
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  • Virginia Woolf Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Carine Roitfeld Maybe people have no idea how much work is behind a picture. It can seem very effortless, but there is a lot of work. It's exactly like doing ballet. It's hours and hours, but when you go onstage, it's just the pleasure of dancing.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Hermann Hesse Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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