Behind You Quotes - Page 7

• You can't win if nobody catches the ball in the outfield. You are only as good as the team you have behind you.

  Jim Palmer

  Team, Winning, Balls

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• The Prime Minister seems now to be basing his re-election campaign on this plot line. He is saying to the Australian people, look out, the baddies behind you - hiss, boo and whatever you do, don't vote Labor. This political parody of pantomime is looking and sounding desperate.

  Julia Gillard

  Plot Lines, People, Political

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• The beloved's innocence brutalizes the lover. As the singing of a mad person behind you on the train enrages you, its beautiful animal-like teeth shining amid black planes of paint. As Helen enrages history. Senza uscita.

  Anne Carson

  Beautiful, Animal, Mad

  Anne Carson (2015). “Plainwater: Essays and Poetry”, p.88, Vintage

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• Slow down. Stop trying to do everything now, now, now. Hold up the people behind you for all you care, feel them kicking at your heels but maintain your pace. Don't let anybody dictate your speed.

  Cecelia Ahern

  People, Trying, Kicking

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• So what does Tod look like? Whitewashed skeleton skulking around in a black cape and hood? Carrying a scythe? 'Cause I'm thinking that would cause mass panic in the hospital." ..... "Do you chase after a funeral processions in a long, dirty dress, hair trailing behind you in the wind? I shot him a mock frown. "Have you been following me again?

  Rachel Vincent

  Dirty, Thinking, Hair

  Rachel Vincent (2011). “Soul Screamers Volume One: My Soul to Lose\My Soul to Take\My Soul to Save”, p.184, Harlequin

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• The shortest unit of time in the multiverse is the New York Second, defined as the period of time between the traffic lights turning green and the cab behind you honking.

  Terry Pratchett

  New York, Light, Green

  "Lords and Ladies" by Terry Pratchett, Harper, (p. 282), October 2008.

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• Things happen, people change,' is what Amanda said. For her that covered it. You wanted an explanation, and ending that would assign blame and dish up justice. You considered violence and you considered reconciliation . But what you are left with is a premonition of the way your life will fade behind you, like a book you have read too quickly, leaving a dwindling trail of images and emotions, until all you can remember is a name.

  Jay McInerney

  Life, Book, Names

  Jay McInerney (2011). “Bright Lights, Big City”, p.127, Vintage

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• I wish you were that birch rising from the clump behind you, and I the gray oak alongside.

  Donald Hall

  Grief, Loss, Wish

  Donald Hall (2007). “White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems, 1946-2006”, p.355, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Once you've stopped loving someone breaking his or her heart's just an unpleasant chore you have to get behind you. My God, you really don't love me anymore, do you? No matter your decency the victim's incredulity's potentially hilarious. You manage not to laugh.

  Glen Duncan

  Heart, Loving Someone, Laughing

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)”, p.64, Canongate Books

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• Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today And then one day you find, ten years has got behind you No one told you where to run, you missed the starting gun.

  David Gilmour

  Running, Monday, Lying

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• For God is wholly present in all creation, in every corner, he is behind you and before you. Do you think he is sleeping on a pillow in heaven? He is watching over you and protecting you.

  Martin Luther

  Sleep, Thinking, Heaven

  "Sermons".

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• You'll live forever in our hearts, big man. That particularly galled me, because it implied the immortality of those left behind: You will live forever in my memory, because I will live forever! I AM YOUR GOD NOW, DEAD BOY! I OWN YOU!

  John Green

  Memories, Real, Heart

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.171, Penguin UK

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• ...it just goes to show you can't leave anything behind. You bring it all with you, whether you want to or not.

  Stef Penney

  Want, Shows, Behinds

  Stef Penney (2008). “The Tenderness of Wolves: A Novel”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.

  Richard Peck

  Writing, Light, Bridges

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• No wonder you want to be a writer. How can you not, with all that behind you? You practically are a novel already.

  Sylvia Brownrigg

  Want, Wonder, Novel

  Sylvia Brownrigg (2011). “Pages for You”, p.110, Pan Macmillan

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• When you spend all your time worrying that the devil is right behind you, eventually you start seeing him whether he's there or not.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Worry, Devil, Behinds

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Obsidian Butterfly: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.63, Penguin

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• Leaning forward in your chair when someone is trying to squeeze behind you isn't enough. You also have to move the chair.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Moving, Trying, Enough

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• Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Healing, Tea, Finding Yourself

  "The Toys of Peace and Other Papers".

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• The thing about 50 is that you've clearly reached a point where you have more of your life behind you than ahead of you, and that's a very different place to be in. You're thinking, 'I've done most of it.' I don't like that feeling. But it makes you evaluate your life and go, 'Am I doing what I want to do? Am I spending my time the way I want?' 

  Julianne Moore

  Thinking, Feelings, Age

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• Put the past behind you, the present moment is all that matters, in the life of those who want to be happy.

  Leon Brown

  Beautiful, Past, Matter

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• Let the living live; and you, gather together your thoughts, leave behind you a legacy of feeling and ideas; you will be most useful so.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Life, Ideas, Feelings

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• A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.

  Harold Ramis

  Fun, Two, Important

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• I know you left me once, but I came right back to find you. Even though I like being in your past, you got a bright future behind you.

  Drake

  Past, You Left Me, Bright Future

  Song: Celebration, Album: More Than Enough

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• Never be discouraged, because every wrong turn attempt, when left behind you, is another step forward taking you closer to your goals.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Powerful, Goal, Steps

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• Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you, like the winter that has just gone by. For among these winters there is one so endlessly winter that only by wintering through it will your heart survive.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Heart, Winter, Gone

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “The Sonnets To Orpheus: Book 2: XIII”

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