Home / Topics / Behinds Quotes

Behinds Quotes

Browse 6839 quotes about Behinds.

Behinds Quotes

“Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn’t really scare me. I’d say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind a wall and you don’t know what it is. Is there something there or not?”

Knows Kind Stuff Behinds Wall Skins Scare Shocking

Author:Oren Peli

“That's the power behind a tool like Facebook Connect. It is making a Web without walls. Facebook allows you to go to other sites to comment, rate, etc., without having to set up a new profile for that site.”

Behinds Wall Tools Rate Etc Comment Site Profile Like Facebook

Author:Erik Qualman

“It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States. Virtually everything that government does, of any significance, is conducted behind an extreme wall of secrecy. The very few leaks that we’ve had over the last decade are basically the only ways that we’ve had to learn what our government is doing.”

Way Doe Hard States Government Lasts United Behinds United States Imagine Wall Extremes Decades Significance Secrecy Leaks Secretive

Author:Glenn Greenwald

“The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls. That is the reality of Haiti.”

Stills Reality Behinds Wall Structure Rooted Apartheid Haiti Haitian

Author:Jean-Bertrand Aristide

“Take care what you say before a wall, as you cannot tell who may be behind it.”

May Care Behinds Wall Listening Take Care

Book:Gulistan or Rose Garden

Source: Gulistan or Rose Garden

“The moment we find the reason behind an emotion the wall is breached, and the positive memories it has kept from us return too. That's why it pays to ask those painful questions. The answers can set you free.”

Reason Moments Asks Memories Answers Pay Emotion Behinds Wall Return Painful Questioning

Author:Gloria Steinem

“From the walls of Baidi high in the coloured dawn To Jiangling by night-fall is three hundred miles, Yet monkeys are still calling on both banks behind me To my boat these ten thousand mountains away.”

Stills Night Fall Three Behinds Wall Calling Thousand Ten Mountain Hundred Miles Boat Dawn Monkeys

Author:Li Bai

“Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house. His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls. Put him in a nice detached villa and he'd never have written a word.”

Writing Whole House Sound Voice Behinds Nice Written Doors Wall Whole Life Lifts Apartment Detached Closed Doors Behind Closed Doors Villa

Book:Writing Home

Source: Writing Home

“Snow pursued by the wind is not wholly unlike a retreating army. In the open field it ranges itself in ranks and battalions; where it can get a foothold it makes a stand; where it can take cover it does so. You may see whole platoons of snow cowering behind a bit of broken wall.”

May Doe Whole Bits Behinds Fields Wind Broken Wall Army Snow Range Pursued Open Fields

Book:Can Such Things Be?

Source: Can Such Things Be?

“All the suffering that humanity ever knew can be traced to the one fact that no man in the history of the Galaxy ... could really understand one another. Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed.”

Men Humans Facts Suffering Humanity Human Beings Behinds Loneliness Wall Galaxy Mist Choke

Author:Isaac Asimov

“Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed. Occasionally there were the dim signals from deep within the cavern in which another man was located so that each might grope toward the other. Yet because they did not know one another, and could not understand one another, and dared not trust one another, and felt from infancy the terrors and insecurity of that ultimate isolation there was the hunted fear of man for man, the savage rapacity of man toward man.”

Knows Men Humans Might Felt Human Beings Behinds Wall Ultimate Terror Isolation Insecurity Savages Signals Mist Another Man Choke Infancy Deep Within Hunted Caverns

Book:Second foundation

Source: Second foundation

“But I don't even think you hear me at all Under your medieval ceiling behind your biblical wall”

Thinking Behinds Wall Biblical Medieval Ceilings

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“'Participant' is the incontrovertible new concept given by quantum mechanics. It strikes down the 'observer' of classical theory, the man who stands safely behind the thick glass wall and watches what goes on without taking part. It can't be done, quantum mechanics says it...May the universe in some sense be 'brought into being' by the participation of those who participate?”

Men May Done Universe Given Behinds Watches He Man Theory Wall Goes On Concepts Unity Glasses Strikes Thick Quantum Participation Mechanic Observers Participants Quantum Mechanics

Author:John Archibald Wheeler

“Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one's mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.”

Should Mind Self Behinds Wall Return Leaving Discrimination Contemplation Stable

Author:Bodhidharma

“Dear God, Please teach me to forgive myself and others. Remove the walls that keep love out, behind which I am a prisoner. Heal my guilt and remove my anger, that I might be reborn. Make gentle my heart and strong my spirit and show me how to love. Please show me how to honor myself. Please teach me how to listen to myself. "Please program my mind to know itself, that I might at last be free. Teach me to appreciate your spirit that lives within me. Show me how to be good to myself, that I might know more fully the goodness of life. Amen”

“Superhero power... I probably would just want to fly. I definitely would not want to be able to see through walls. I think walls are there for a reason. People put them up for a reason. You don't want to be looking through them. That would only cause nothing but misery and angst to know what's happening behind people's walls.”

People Thinking Knows Want Reason Able Causes Behinds Wall Happenings Misery Superhero Angst

Author:Brian Regan

“We have created a democracy that links us all, and with it come not only opportunities but obligations. There are no gates or walls high enough. There are no bank accounts large enough to buy you and your family and your friends protection from the fear and hunger of those left behind or to isolate you from the consequences of growing social inequities. We are all in this boat together. And the fact that there isn't a hole at your end of the boat doesn't mean you are safe.”

Source: Fanatics & Fools: How Politicians are Betraying the American People

“sexual predators were like cockroaches. For every one you saw, there were twenty more hiding behind the walls.”

Behinds Saws Crime Wall Twenties Hiding Predator Cockroaches

Author:Karin Slaughter

“When our laws tell people that what lies behind the thin wall of a women's abdomen during pregnancy is not a human being and that the destiny of a preborn child lies with the private conscience of the mother, we are essentially telling society that life itself is not important enough to be called an inalienable right. If life itself is not the most fundamental of all rights, then what is?”

People Ifs Humans Children Important Enough Law Lying Mother Human Beings Behinds Destiny Rights Wall Conscience Fundamentals Pregnancy Abdomen

Author:Bob Dornan

“Here at home, we will strengthen our defenses but not succumb to a siege mentality that sacrifices the open society and liberties and values that we cherish as Americans, because great and proud nations don't hunker down and hide behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.”

Home Values Nations Behinds Liberty Sacrifice Wall Proud Down And Defense Cherish Mentality Suspicion Mistrust Siege

Author:Barack Obama

“I remember kind of doing early acting and thinking, "God, they don't paint behind the sets." It's a bit of a shame, really - "Oh, what's on the other side of this wall? Oh, you can see the plywood." I was really disappointed. I just thought that these things were real, from watching things as a kid.”

Thinking Kind Real Kids Remember Bits Sides Acting Behinds Wall Shame Paint Disappointed Thinking God

Author:Andy Serkis

“November is chill, frosted mornings with a silver sun rising behind the trees, red cardinals at the feeders, and squirrels running scallops along the tops of the gray stone walls.”

Running Behinds Morning Sun Tree Wall Red Stones Rising Silver Gray Chill November Cardinals Squirrels Stone Walls Scallops

Book:The Shape of a Year

Source: The Shape of a Year

“Countless candles dribbled with hot wax, and their flames, like little flags, fluttered in the unchartered currents of air. Thousands of lamps, naked, or shuttered behind coloured glass, burned with their glows of purple, amber, grass-green, blue, blood red and even grey. The walls of Gormenghast were like the walls of paradise or like the walls of an inferno. The colours were devilish or angelical according to the colour of the mind that watched them. They swam, those walls, with the hues of hell, with the tints of Zion. The breasts of the plumaged seraphim; the scales of Satan.”

Source: Gormenghast

“And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.”

Men Looks Feelings Behinds He Man Wall Stones Misery Raised Leaving Stone Walls

Book:Memoirs Of A Geisha

Source: Memoirs Of A Geisha

“When I was a kid my primary goal in life was to find a book that was alive. Not alive in the human sense, but like a thing that would send me to a place not otherwise accessible on Earth. This book should have hidden words encrypted beneath the printed ones, so that if I worked hard enough and discovered the code I would somehow end up inside the book, or the book would take on a body and consume me, revealing a secret set of rooms behind the wall in my bedroom, for instance, inside which anything could be.”

Ifs Should Humans Book Ends Hard Enough Body Kids Earth Goal Rooms Secret Behinds Alive Wall Should Have Instance Primaries Code Bedroom Revealing Printed Life Goal

Author:Blake Butler

“Huge knots of sea-weed hung upon the jagged and pointed stones, trembling in every breath of wind; and the green ivy clung mournfully round the dark and ruined battlements. Behind it rose the ancient castle, its towers roofless, and its massive walls crumbling away, but telling us proudly of its own might and strength, as when, seven hundred years ago, it rang with the clash of arms, or resounded with the noise of feasting and revelry.”

Source: Charles Dickens: The Complete Christmas Novels & Tales (Illustrated): 30 Classics in One Volume: A Christmas Carol, The Battle of Life, The Chimes, Oliver Twist, Tom Tiddler's Ground, The Holly-Tree, Doctor Marigold, The Pickwick Papers, Great Expectations and more

“Not only is the day waning, but the year. The low sun is fiery and yet cold behind the monastery ruin, and the Virginia creeper on the Cathedral wall has showered half its deep-red leaves down on the pavement. There has been rain this afternoon, and a wintry shudder goes among the little pools on the cracked, uneven flag-stones, and through the giant elm-trees as they shed a gust of tears.”

Source: The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Edwin Drood and Miscellaneous

“We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away.”

People Space Behinds Talking Wall Late Illusion Too Late Glimpse Passing Away Space Between

Author:George Harrison

“Leave a cavity behind the [wall] facings, and on the inside build walls two feet thick, made of red dimension stone or burnt brick or lava in courses, and then bind them to the fronts by means of iron clamps and lead. The beds and builds, all settling equally and bonded at the joints, will not let the work bulge out, nor allow the fall of the face walls which have been tightly fastened together.”

Mean Has Beens Made Two Together Faces Fall Courses Behinds Feet Fronts Wall Bed Red Stones Settling Dimensions Iron Thick Bricks Joints Lava

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“Managing the other fellow's business is a fascinating game. Trade unionists all over the country have pronounced ideas for the reform of Wall Street banks; and Wall Street bankers are not far behind in giving plans for the tremendous improvement of trade union policies. Wholesalers have schemes for improving the retailer; the retailer knows just what is wrong in the conduct of wholesale business-and we might go through a long list.... Yet for some reason the classes that ought to be helped keep on stubbornly clinging to their own method of running their affairs.”

“I don't have 'The Jerry Springer Show'. I just got 'Family Feud', but some of them families, when they lose, man, they have some real conversations with each other back behind that wall, but I've never been involved in any of them.”

Men Real Shows Loses Behinds Wall Involved Conversation Jerry Feuds Real Conversation Family Feud Jerry Springer Show

Author:Steve Harvey

“Sometimes sense hides behind walls. You must find a window and stick your head right in before you can see it.”

Sometimes Behinds Wall Window Sticks Nursery Rhymes

Book:Summer and Bird

Source: Summer and Bird

“Like most writers, we like to find what we know and pass it along to anyone who cares. When that's done, as soon as we've said the best we can say, there's nothing else about us that's remotely interesting to anybody else, and we go back behind the walls. We can be intimate in books, we can be intimate in talks, but then we need time to be alone.”

Knows Needs Said I Can Book Done Care Interesting Behinds Wall Intimate Who Cares Time Of Need I Need Time

Author:Richard Bach

“It's a little hard for me to stand behind the walls of the great mansion and play rock and roll star. I feel the need to give back.”

Needs Giving Feels Littles Hard Play Stars Behinds Rocks Wall Great Men Rock And Roll Giving Back Mansions

Author:Jon Bon Jovi

“I was protected behind the walls of my house, the walls of the mosque and later, walls of my school. I didn't know that I was Palestinian. I knew that I was a girl, but the identity issues came later when I was 12 or 13 - then, they came in a very strong way.”

Knows Way School Girl House Strong Behinds Issues Identity Wall Very Strong Protected Palestinian Mosques

Author:Rula Jebreal