B Quotes
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“Behind the veil of each night, there is a smiling dawn.”
“Behind the veil of each night, there is a smilling dawn.”
“Behind the veneer of the ‘American Dream’ was a person with failing health.”
“Behind the veneer of ‘The Greatest Nation On Earth’ is a shady third world like country.”
“Behind the veneer of the ‘Greatest Nation On Earth’, you find a society filled with sick and disabled people that are in extreme poverty.”
“Behind the violence of the birthing of galaxies and stars and planets came a quiet and tender melody, a gentle love song. All the raging of creation, the continuing hydrogen explosions on the countless suns, the heaving of planetary bodies, all was enfolded in a patient, waiting love.”
Source: Many Waters
“Behind the visible movement there is another movement, one which cannot be seen, which is very strong, on which the outer movement depends. If this inner movement were not so strong, the outer one would not have any action.”
“Behind the wheel, staring out at the long, flat landscape, with Garth Brooks blaring on the radio and the dash slick with Armor All, Texas sun shining through the windshield, I felt a new sense of freedom. But this freedom wasn't what I'd felt as a little girl on my banana-seat bike; the definition had changed. Back then, freedom was a kind of abandon- wild, reckless, unselfconscious. Now I felt free when I could control every detail, from the temperature to the song on the stereo to where I would go next.”
Source: The Tell: A Memoir
“Behind the windows of a house in North London, exist domestic horrors, performed by desperate human beings. upon their chosen victim, such as passersby could scarce imagine”
Source: House Boy
“Behind the world we live in, in the distant background, lies another world standing in roughly the same relation to the former as the stage one sometimes sees in the theatre behind the real stage stands to the latter.”
Source: Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
“Behind their dark glass, the mad own nothing.”
Source: Charlotte Mew
“Behind their eyes the hope was sickening and in many, dead. They lived from event to event with a subtle terror of the gap between, filling up their lives with distractions to avoid the emptiness where curiosity should have been.”
Source: The Great and Secret Show: The First Book of the Art
“Behind them all, carried upon the bed of an enormous carriage with thirteen sets of iron-banded wheels, nestled within a casement crafted from the bronzed skull of a giant, was the holiest relic in all skavendom: the Black Ark, the compact between the Horned Rat and the first Seerlord. Imprinted upon a block of purest warpstone, its quality unsurpassed by the richest ores ever found, were the thirteen tyrannies, the sacred dictates by which the skaven might placate their terrible god and achieve the promise He had made to them: that one day the ratkin would inherit the whole of the world.”
Source: Wolf of Sigmar
“Behind them in the garden the little stone house brooded among the shadows. It was lonely but not forsaken. It had not yet done with dreams and laughter and the joy of life; there were to be future summers for the little stone house; meanwhile, it could wait. And over the river in purple durance the echoes bided their time.”
Source: L. M. MONTGOMERY – Premium Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry & Autobiography (Including Anne Shirley Novels, Chronicles of Avonlea & The Story Girl Series): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, The Golden Road, Kilmeny of the Orchard, The Watchman, Songs of the Sea & many more
“Behind them was the darkness, nothing but the darkness, and all around them destruction, and before them nothing but the fire - a bastard people, far from God, singing and crying in the wilderness!”
Source: Go Tell it on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Baldwin (4-Oct-2001) Paperback
“Behind these eyes
there is a girl trapped within
her pain – a girl feeling all the emotions
of anger and sadness.
She’s fighting for a way out.” (In her eyes, p. 39)”
Source: Muses of Wandering Passions
“Behind these practical studies lay powerful, intertwined, and potentially contradictory beliefs: that language provides a key to the rational, scientific understanding of the world and that language is more than human speech, that it claims a divine origin and is the means by which God created the cosmos and Adam named the beasts.
As we will see, both ideas strongly influenced the Inklings, whose leading members wrote many words about the meaning of words. For Owen Barfield, language is the fossil record of the history and evolution of human consciousness; for C. S. Lewis, it is a mundane tool that "exists to communicate whatever it can communicate" but also, as in That Hideous Strength, an essential part of our metaphysical makeup for good or ill; for Charles Williams, language is power, a field of force for the magician, a vehicle of prayer for the believing Christian; for Tolkien, language is a fallen human instrument and a precious divine gift ("O felix peccatum Babel!" he exclaimed in his essay "English and Welsh"), a supreme art, and, as "Word", a name for God.”
Source: The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
“Behind this judicial wall of separation there is a tyranny of lies that will fall... I say to you, my friends, let it fall!”
“Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.”
“Behind this smile in my face
Lies the dark shadow of emptiness
Hiding from your eyes within my gaze
Concealed with sham happiness.”
“Behind those happy eyes, you hide a mind that is terribly chaotic and that's what makes you, so beautiful.”
“Behind those messages was the one even he hadn't allowed himself to consider: I may not be with you forever. Though she was ultimately the one to leave, in some ways he was already gone.”
Source: Ways of Leaving
“Behind those thick glasses (of TR's) was a man who did not blink.”
Source: All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt
“behind those walls
behind the barriers
that keep the world
from your heart
is a woman worth
fighting for
behind those walls
that tall, strong
separation from the world
lives a love worth
wishing for
you are greater
than what has happened
you are far more greater
than the what occurred
in your past
behind those walls
behinds that cement
that has kept others
from hurting you
like the ones from before
lives a love
that only you can provide
a love like yours
is worth climbing the wall
that sits in front
of your heart”
Source: I hope this reaches her in time
“Behind us lay rainy weeks—grey sky, grey fluid earth, grey dying. If we go out, the rain at once soaks through our overcoat and clothing;—and we remain wet all the time we are in the line. We never get dry. Those who will wear high boots tie sand bags round the tops so that the mud does not pour in so fast. The rifles are caked, the uniforms caked, everything is fluid and dissolved, the earth one dripping, soaked, oily mass in which lie yellow pools with red spiral streams of blood and into which the dead, wounded, and survivors slowly sink down. The storm lashes us, out of the confusion of grey and yellow the hail of splinters whips forth the child-like cries of the wounded, and in the night shattered life groans painfully into silence.”
Source: All quiet on the western front
“Behind us lay the great Antarctic Land; snow peaks rising beyond one another until by distance they dwindled away into insignificancy. The silence and immobility of the scene was impressive; not the slightest animation or vitality anywhere. It was like a mental image of our globe in its primitive state - a spectacle of Chaos. Around is ice and snow and the remnants of internal fires; above, a sinister sky; below the sombre sea; and over all, the silence of the sepulchre!”
“Behind us, the man laughed. "Looks like we aren't the only ones looking for a little diversion. There's an empty office right over there, guys."
Marsten raised his hand in thanks. The couple moved on. I let the kiss continue for five more seconds, then pulled away.
"They're gone," I said.
Marsten frowned, as if surprised-and disappointed-that I'd noticed. I tugged my hair from his hands.
"Okay, coast clear," I said. "Let's go."
He let out a small laugh. "I see I need to brush up on my kissing."
"No, you have that down pat."
"She says with all the excitement of a teacher grading a math quiz..."
"A-plus. Now let's move. Before someone else comes along.”
Source: Chaotic
“Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do far off. Not only things familiar and stale, but even the tragic and terrible, are comely, as they take their place in the pictures of memory.”
Source: The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.”
“Behind war
There are humans
Innocent humans
Victims of the conflict
Who have lost their lives
Who have lost their loved ones
Due to the power game
Played by a select few”
“Behind wars
There are humans
Innocent humans
Victims of the conflict
Who have lost their lives
Who have lost their loved ones
Due to the power game
Played by a select few”
“Behind weight gain are the larger hurts and questions that have to be explored, probed, and understood before weight loss and maintenance is a possibility. It's a bigger issue than just calories in, calories out.”
Source: Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life
“Behind you, leave your enemies. Beside you, keep your family. Around you, maintain your friends. Within you, treasure God.”
“Behind you swiftly the figure comes softly,
The spot on your skin is a shocking disease.”
“Behind your every bad fate, almost always there lie your own stupid mistakes! Behind your every good fate, almost always there lie your own clever deeds! Skies have nothing whatsoever to do with your fate!”
“Behind your reaction is a feeling that whatever is 'true' must be able to be expressed logically. Men, in particular, have a tendency to confuse correct logic with an accurate assessment of a situation. Be careful of any situation that you have to reason through logically, because if you have to work to reason it out, you're probably missing something.”
Source: Imager
“Behind your skin, your bones, your heart and your mind, you are simply a mirror of the universe, all of its history and its future in a single breath.”
Source: Conversations with Krishna
“Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there stands a mighty ruler. an unknown sage - whose name is self. In yourt body he dwells; he is your body. There is more reason in your body than in your best wisdom.”
“Behind your view there are other views; to see them, you must first visit the view you see!”
“behold
The approach of him whom none believes,
Whom all believe that all believe,
A pagan in a varnished car.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
“Behold , I have graven you upon the palm of my hand, that is what Jesus came on earth to do: to proclaim, to give us the Good News that God loves us, that we are precious to Him.”
“Behold a candle, how it gives its light. It weeps its life away drop by drop in order to give forth its flame of light.”
“Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.”
“Behold a God more powerful than I who comes to rule over me.”
Source: Vita Nuova: Text
“Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.”
“Behold a silly tender babe,In freezing winter night,In homely manger trembling lies;Alas! a piteous sight.”
Source: St. Peter's Complaint: And Other Poems
“Behold a tree. Does it not speak to us thusly: 'Don't you see that God is not working himself into a frenzy in me? I am calmly, quietly, silently pouring forth my life and bringing forth fruit. Do thou likewise.'”
“Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our world is terrifying in its insignificance.”
“Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.”
“Behold, all things have become new.”