Behind You Quotes - Page 12

• And though behind you lies a road of dust and heat and discouragement, and before you the challenge and uncertainty of untried paths, in this brief hour you are master of all highways, and the universe nestles in your soul.

  Max Ehrmann

  Lying, Dust, Challenges

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• Do you know how much energy, how many powers, how many forces, are still lurking behind that frame of yours? What scientist has known all that is in man? Millions of years have passed since man came here, and yet but one infinitesimal part of his powers has been manifested. Therefore, you must not say that you are weak. How do you know what possibilities lie behind that degradation on the surface? You know but little of that which is within you. For behind you is the ocean of infinite power and blessedness.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Lying, Ocean, Men

  Swami Vivekananda “My Idea of Education”, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• This is why you can never reason true Christians out of the faith. It's not, as the adage has it, because they were never reasoned into it - many were - it's that faith is a logical door which locks behind you. What looks like a line of thought is steadily warping.

  John Jeremiah Sullivan

  Christian, Doors, Locks

  John Jeremiah Sullivan (2011). “Pulphead: Essays”, p.30, Macmillan

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• You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart.

  Joni Mitchell

  Heart, One Day, Wake Up

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• ...The girls chirped and chatted like uncaged warblers. They were delirious with joy... Intoxications of life’s morning! Enchanted years! The wing of a dragonfly trembles! Oh, reader, whoever you may be, do you have such memories? Have you walked in the underbrush, pushing aside branches for the charming head behind you? Have you slid laughing, down some slope wet with rain, with the woman you loved?

  Victor Hugo

  Girl, Morning, Memories

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

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• Take the adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes! 'Tis but a banging of the door behind you, a blithesome step forward, and you are out of your old life and into the new!

  Kenneth Grahame

  Adventure, Doors, Steps

  Kenneth Grahame (1908). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.211

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• Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Waiting In Line, People, Looks

  "Rant: The Oral Biography of Buster Casey". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 1, 2007.

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• You would run much slower if you were dragging something behind you, like a knapsack or a sheriff.

  Daniel Handler

  Running, Sheriffs, Behinds

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• Working with him was sort of like trying to defuse a bomb with somebody standing behind you and every now and then clashing a pair of cymbals together. In a word, upsetting.

  Stephen King

  Upset, Trying, Together

  Stephen King (2010). “The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• If anyone tells you it's impossible to be fabulous and smart and make a ton of money using math, well, they can just get in line behind you - and kiss your math.

  Danica McKellar

  Smart, Math, Kissing

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• A boy told me if he roller-skated fast enough his loneliness couldn't catch up to him, the best reason I ever heard for trying to be a champion. What I wonder tonight pedaling hard down King William Street is if it translates to bicycles. A victory! To leave your loneliness panting behind you on some street corner while you float free into a cloud of sudden azaleas, pink petals that have never felt loneliness, no matter how slowly they fell.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Kings, Loneliness, Boys

  Naomi Shihab Nye (1998). “Fuel: Poems”, p.81, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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• When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. You're your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people too—leave them behind. You don't yet know about the habit they have, of coming back. Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.

  Margaret Atwood

  Dream, Moving, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Feb 14, 2012

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• If you have no faith in yourself, then have faith in the things you call truth. You know what must be done. You may not have courage or trust or understanding or the will to do it, but you know what must be done. You can't turn back. There is now answer behind you. You fear what you cannot name. So look at it and find a name for it. Turn your face forward and learn. Do what must be done. -Deth to Morgon, Prince of Hed-

  Patricia A. McKillip

  Fear, Names, Understanding

  Patricia A. McKillip (1979). “Riddle of Stars”

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• So if you ever felt something behind you, when you weren't even one, like welcome heat, like a bulb, like a sun, trying to shine right across the universe - it was me. Always me. It was me. It was me.

  Martin Amis

  Shining, Trying, Across The Universe

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• Especially when you play at home, you need a good atmosphere behind you.

  Jose Mourinho

  Home, Play, Atmosphere

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• You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear, and keep going.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Perseverance, Persistence, Voice

  Geraldine Brooks (2006). “March”, p.167, Penguin

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• 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

  Tombstone, Finals, Headstone

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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• The biggest surprise has been making the adjustment after losing a game. In the NBA you could lose tonight and you have to put that game behind you because you have another game the next night.

  Dwyane Wade

  Night, Nba, Games

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• The skating community is very fickle. And with me, they're especially fickle for whatever reason. Maybe I bring it on myself, but if you don't prove yourself and you don't skate consistently, then they can very easily write you off and bring somebody from behind you and put them in your place.

  Johnny Weir

  Writing, Community, Skating

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• Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Life, Way, Next

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• Doing stand-up is like running across a frozen pond with the ice breaking behind you. I love it because it's dangerous.

  Steven Wright

  Running, Ice, Ponds

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• Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny--he has something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered, some work has to be completed. You are not here accidentally--you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you. The whole intends to do something through you.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Destiny

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• It doesn't matter if you're the smartest person in the room: If you're not someone who people want to be around, you won't get far. Likewise for helping those in line behind you. I take seriously my role as a mentor to young female filmmakers - I make sure my time is tithed.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  People, Mentor, Female

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• A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water. Only There is shadow under this red rock, (Come in under the shadow of this red rock), And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

  T. S. Eliot

  Morning, Fear, Rocks

  The Waste Land l. 25 (1922)

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• You don't quit because you happen to be behind. You want to see how you do. And who knows? Maybe somebody will stumble.

  Ron Paul

  Want, Quitting, Behinds

  "Ron Paul Vows to Continue Campaign Against Status Quo" by Jeff Cox, www.cnbc.com. April 23, 2012.

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