B Quotes
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“Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.”
“Behaviour is the mirror in which we can display our image.”
“Behaviour is your character in action”
“Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere.”
Source: New Selected Poems 1988-2013
“Behaviours and feelings rarely line up.”
Source: Last Sacrifice
“Behead yourself!... Dissolve your whole body into Vision: become seeing, seeing, seeing!”
“Beheading, burying and burning humans alive are extreme acts of cruelty. Such crimes against humanity must be investigated and the guilty parties brought to justice. May ALL victims rest in peace!”
“Behind a cold face there is always an insecure heart.”
“Behind a leader there must be followers, but they should always be on the lookout for the main chance and ready to change sides if the current leader doesn't deliver.”
“Behind a life of influence you will find a masterful storyteller.”
“Behind a rack of framed photos of Snow, we encounter a wounded Peacekeeper propped up against a strip of brick wall. He asks us for help. Gale knees him in the side of the head and takes his gun.”
Source: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)
“Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.”
“Behind a screen it's easy to lie, but when someone stands face to face with you, you will never tell them the truth.”
“Behind a screen of hides, not two strides from the flock, a woman was slaughtering 'em and three more doing the skinning and gutting and hanging the carcasses, all soaked to the armpits and not caring much about it either.
Two lads, probably just reached fighting age, were watching. Laughing at how stupid the sheep were, not to guess what was happening behind those hides. They didn't see that they were in the pen, and behind a screen of songs and stories and young men's dreams, war was waiting, soaked to the armpits and not caring.”
Source: The Heroes
“Behind a screen of hides, not two strides from the flock, a woman was slaughtering 'em and three more doing the skinning and gutting and hanging the carcasses, all soaked to the armpits in blood and not caring much about it either. Two lads, probably just reached fighting age, were watching. Laughing at how stupid the sheep were, not to guess what was happening behind those hides. They didn't see that they were in the pen, and behind a screen of songs and stories and young men's dreams, war was waiting, soaked to the armpits and not caring.”
Source: The Heroes
“Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women.”
“Behind a veil, unseen yet present, I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body.”
“Behind all art is an element of desire...Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is in some way behind all art — even the most angry, even the darkest, even the most grief-stricken, and even the most embittered art has that element somewhere behind it. Because how could you be so despairing, so embittered, if you had not had something you loved that you lost?”
“Behind all fears of man, there is only one fear, the fear of death. The one who conquers this fear is bound to win over fear itself.”
Source: The Pulse of Wisdom
“Behind all forms of beauty there is an infinite unity, and this unity, this intrinsic and eternal beauty, the artist is seeking to discern and to make others discern.”
Source: The Outlook
“Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself.”
“Behind all the falling rain, the sun still hangs in the sky. And if the sun can hang in there through the rain, surely you can, too.”
Source: Love Is Everything
“Behind all the hype shaping the electronic highway are corporate interests. These huge companies are doing the most natural thing in the world to them; following their own corporate interest.”
“Behind all the stories we tell ourselves and the conditioning and beliefs we’ve adopted, there is a voice that is constantly whispering our truth. An internal GPS that knows our ‘yes’s’, and ‘no’s’ our ‘this way’s’ or ‘that way’s’, our core intent.”
Source: Your Vivid Life: An Invitation to Live a Radically Authentic Life
“Behind all the years of practice and all the hours of glory waits that inexorable terror of living without the game.”
Source: Life on the Run
“Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.”
“Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object.”
Source: The Power of Myth
“Behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even, there is the country herself, your country, and . . . you belong to her as you belong to your own mother. Stand by her, boy, as you would stand by your mother.”
Source: Two Texts by Edward Everett Hale:
“Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding.”
Source: The Selected Poetry Of Yehuda Amichai
“Behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins.”
“Behind an able Indian Cricket Team there is always able Sachin Tendulkar.”
Source: 5 Feet 5 Inch Run Machine – Sachin Tendulkar
“Behind anger, is hidden the cemetery. (Derrière la colère, - Se cache le cimetière.)”
“Behind any Strength lies a greater Love.”
“Behind Calvary's cross is the throne of heaven.”
“Behind closed doors Narcissists are different people.”
“Behind discovery is delivery.”
“Behind each and every difficult mountain is an easy valley. Keep climbing; endure a little more. Your pain will bring you gain!”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“Behind each biography there should always be a rich treasury of unformulated knowledge, a tapestry that has not been unrolled.”
“Behind each challenge rests a hidden grace, patiently waiting to be revealed.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“Behind each door we shake is a reality.”
“Behind each great man, there's a Richard Delisle.”
“Behind each number is a person, a victim, whose individual story is ghastly.”
“Behind each person is an utter mystery, supreme value. The more we recognize this the better we ALL get.”
Source: Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
“Behind each piece, animating every attempt, is the echo of a precarious faith, that we are more intimately bound to one another by our kindred doubts than our brave conclusions.”
“Behind each triumph are new peaks to be conquered.”
“Behind every act of obedience there is an open door”
“Behind every adversity - is an opportunity!”
“Behind every American soldier, dozens of their countrymen tonight sleep soundly — and hundreds more in their shadow abroad will wake up alive and safe.”
“Behind every angry soul is a wounded child that just wanted you to love them for who they are.”
“Behind every argument is somebody's ignorance. Rediscover the foundation of truth and the purpose and causes of dispute immediately disappear.”