Behind Quotes - page 4

How fleet is a glance of the mind Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light. (William Cowper)

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

Walter Lippmann

Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

James A. Garfield

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.

Albert Camus

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves "It's pretty, but is it Art?"

Rudyard Kipling

I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them.

Elizabeth Taylor

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.

Bill Watterson

I leave my character behind me.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.

W. C. Fields

The sky hides the night behind it and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above. (Paul Bowles)

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

Helen Keller

Come let us mock at the great That had such burdens on the mind And toiled so hard and late To leave some monument behind, Nor thought of the leveling wind.

William Butler Yeats

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

They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway.

Wisława Szymborska

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

J. B. Priestley

We cannot continue to have an excellence gap with the rest of the world and intend to remain the economic superpower and military superpower of the planet. That's just not going to happen, ... We're in a position where unless we take action, we'll end up being the France of the 21st century a lot of talk, but not a lot of strength behind it in terms of economic capability.

Mitt Romney

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

William Wordsworth

Thou has left behind Powers that will work for thee,air, earth, and skies There 's not a breathing of the common wind That will forget thee thou hast great allies Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind.

William Wordsworth

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

Marilyn Monroe

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'. (Wayne W. Dyer)

The idea of sin and retribution is just an attempt to hide behind the shield of superstition. You are trying to find rational causes where there aren't any.

George Alec Effinger

When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own.

John D. MacDonald

It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline.

Alfred Jodl

Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

Edgard Varèse

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