“I never joined the army because at ease was never that easy to me. Seemed rather uptight still. I don't relax by parting my legs slightly and putting my hands behind my back. That does not equal ease. At ease was not being in the military. I am at ease, bro, because I am not in the military.” DoeStillsHumorHandsFunnyEasyBehindsMilitaryEqualArmyLegsEaseRelaxPartingBrosUptightBehind My Back Author:Mitch Hedberg
“Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man; the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike.” MenHardDoneBehindsHonorBattleEqualBraveCowardPortionsIdleBrave ManIliad Author:Homer
“One of the things I have always said about the man-woman relationship is that I don't want anybody to walk ahead of me and I don't want anybody to walk behind me. I want a man who will walk along beside me. And that's how I feel about equal rights.” MenWantFeelsSaidWalksBehindsRightsHe ManEqualEqualityEqual RightsMen Women Author:Cicely Tyson
“[In a blogosphere] everybody has an opinion now, but I don't really freaking care about - all opinions ain't created equal, because everybody can go out there and express themselves and hide behind some character we don't know who you really are, a bunch of cowards.” KnowsCharacterCareBehindsOpinionEqualBunchCoward Author:Tavis Smiley
“The arc of my mind has an equal swing in all directions. I should say the same of your mind if I thought you would believe it. But we are so saturated with the notion that Time is a dimension accessible from one direction only, that you will at first probably be shocked by my saying that I can see truly as far in front of me as I can see exactly behind me.” IfsShouldMindFirstsBelieveI CanTimeBehindsFrontsEqualNotionDimensionsSwingsShockedArcsOf My MindOne DirectionSaturated Author:Mary Hunter Austin
“A big business man was telling Henry Ford about a coach driver of super-expertness with his whip. The driver was telling how he could flick a fly off his horse's ear with his whip-and, a fly alighting just then, he promptly did so. Next he spied a grasshopper beside the road, and he flicked it off with equal dexterity. A little further along the road the passenger noticed an insect on a bush, and nudged the driver to get him. Not on your life, replied the master of the whip. That there insect is a hornet sitting on his nest with an organization behind him. I leave him alone.” MenLittlesBigsNextBusinessBehindsMastersEqualSittingEarsOrganizationHorseCoachesDriversInsectsNestsWhipsPassengersBig BusinessBusiness ManGrasshoppersDexterityHornets Author:B. C. Forbes
“That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind , a dog's fidelity!” HumansHeartKindFeelingsLeftLossBehindsDogEqualPetLeft BehindFidelityPet LossDog LossSympathy For LossDog GriefTrue Heart Book:Selected poems Source: Selected poems
“A good leader does not tell people to stand behind him. That position does not give anybody power but the leader. Today's politician isn't going to be the first marching to war, so why put that guy in front? Instead, a good leader tells people to stand beside him. That creates an invincible wall of people, and that's a force where everybody stands as a true equal.” PeopleGivingFirstsDoeWarTodayGuyForceBehindsLeaderFrontsPositionWallPoliticianEqualThat GuyInvincibleGood Leader Author:Suzy Kassem
“I am absolutely behind equal rights but I am also bridging the gap between cultural mentality and society's mindset as there are huge amount of gaps that need to be addressed and progress needs to be made. Yeah I am a feminist, it is not a difficult thing to explain.” NeedsMadeDifficultBehindsRightsProgressHugeAmountEqualYeahFeministMindsetGapsMentalityEqual RightsDifficult ThingsBridging The Gap Author:Hozier
“So much of my work is defined by the difference between the figure in the foreground and the background. Very early in my career, I asked myself, "What is that difference?" I started looking at the way that a figure in the foreground works in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European paintings and saw how much has to do with what the figure owns or possesses. I wanted to break away from that sense in which there's the house, the wife, and the cattle, all depicted in equal measure behind the sitter.” WayWantedHouseDifferencesBehindsCareersBreakSawsWifeCenturyFiguresPaintingEqualBackgroundsDefinedNineteenth CenturyCattleForeground Author:Kehinde Wiley
“Each time he took a walk, he felt as though he were leaving himself behind, and by giving himself up to the movement of the streets, by reducing himself to a seeing eye, he was able to escape the obligation to think, and this, more than anything else, brought him a measure of peace, a salutary emptiness within...By wandering aimlessly, all places became equal and it no longer mattered where he was. On his best walks he was able to feel that he was nowhere. And this, finally was all he ever asked of things: to be nowhere.” ThinkingGivingFeelsEyeAbleFeltWalksBehindsSeeingStreetsMovementEqualLeavingObligationWanderEmptinessReducingWandering Aimlessly Author:Paul Auster
“I drive him to school, then I break back into Barron's house. I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen. Then I go home and shave until my skin is as slick as any slickster's.” KindHomeSchoolValuesHouseBehindsBreakEqualSkinsThievesStolenItemsSlick Author:Holly Black