Behinds Quotes

• When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I turn liberal, they will say I have let them down.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Sometimes
  • Profound
  • Observation

• Iain Dowie famously coined the phrase 'bouncebackability' to describe Crystal Palace's ability to come from behind. But this is a typical manager's idea, so optimistic. What fans are interested in is 'throwawayability': which teams toss away hard-earned leads? Now we know that 'throwawayability' exists because we proved last season that 'bouncebackability' exists (although, hilariously, Palace don't have it) and 'throw-awayability' is the flip side of it.

  

  Daniel Finkelstein
  • Team
  • Ability
  • Soccer

• The body is not a permanent dwelling, but a sort of inn which is to be left behind when one perceives that one is a burden to the host.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Body
  • Burden
  • Perceive

• You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.

  

  Terry Bradshaw
  • People
  • Giving
  • Funny

• Google will make us more informed. The smartest person in the world could well be behind a plow in China or India. Providing universal access to information will allow such people to realize their full potential, providing benefits to the entire world.

  

  Hal Varian
  • People
  • World
  • Realizing

• Alone I walked on the ocean strand, A pearly shell was in my hand; I stooped, and wrote upon the sand My name, the year, the day. As onward from the sport I passed, One lingering look behind I cast, A wave came rolling high and fast, And washed my lines away.

  

  Hannah Flagg Gould
  • Sports
  • Hands
  • Ocean

• Behind every sucessful person lies a pack of haters

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Persons
  • Lying
  • Packs

• I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has some thought behind it.

  

  Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
  • Play
  • Moved
  • Sophisticated

• If you're trying to do what's popular now, you're way behind already. By the time you record it and do it and try to copy it, it's moved on.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Popular

• It's been reported - in fact, The New York Times has reported that intelligence agencies have told the White House that they now have, quote, "high confidence" that the Russian government was behind the hack.

  

  Terry Gross
  • House
  • Government
  • Facts

• I don't like to leave anything,' the man said. 'I don't like to leave things behind.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Men
  • Said
  • Behinds

• Beware The Court of Owls, that watches all the time, ruling Gotham from a shadowed perch, behind granite and lime. They watch you at your hearth, they watch you in your bed speak not a whispered word of them or they'll send the Talon for your head.

  

  Scott Snyder
  • Speak
  • Bed
  • Court

• I was not great behind the counter. I had a week off without asking for it. Another time, we had a cart go up in flames, and we went out on another cart, which we wrecked by running it into the cart that was on fire.

  

  Mike Weir
  • Running
  • Fire
  • Week

• Behind good brands lie stakeholder companies.

  

  Will Hutton
  • Lying
  • Company
  • Stakeholder

• I am an employment hyena. I am happy to make a meal of what the lions leave behind.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Employment
  • Meals
  • Lions

• When George VI - displaying a flair for timing that was utterly absent in his lifetime - upped and died, the way was clear for her to inhabit her logical position as the eminence cerise, the bolster behind the throne.

  

  Will Self
  • Behinds
  • Thrones

• Pride goes before a fall, they say, And yet we often find, The folks who throw all pride away Most often fall behind.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Fall
  • Pride
  • Folks

• I guess the disc jockey thought I was trying to sing or something so ... they had fun with it. But the reality was that it was something, there was a concept behind it.

  

  William Shatner
  • Trying
  • Fun
  • Reality

• And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Time
  • Behinds
  • Oxen

• Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her.

  

  Mia Hamm
  • Girl
  • Practice
  • Games

• 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.

  

  Willa Cather
  • World
  • Energy
  • Animal

• If you ask almost any of them, do you stand behind your theory, is this the answer, I think they would almost every one say that no, no, no, I'm just trying to expand the range of possibilities. We really don't know what is going on.

  

  Saul Perlmutter
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Answers

• Some friends and I, we went right up there behind the studio and we got on a train, we could tell it was going to go to Roseville. We got off it and got on another train. And we got to Roseville, and it takes hours to get through that yard. It's really big. So we ended up just coming back here. It's like fishing or hunting. You can't always come back with something.

  

  William T. Vollmann
  • Train
  • Coming
  • Studios

• I feel like a visitor that got left behind by his ride.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Feels
  • Left
  • Visitors

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