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Quotes About Behind

Do you mean you were attacked from behind?
~ Christa Faust
But who is being compelled? She herself? And to what end? To make her stay? --Let's put all the evasions behind us. No: the compulsion to make her stand and be recognized. Useless to pretend it's for her sake. Once and for all, she doesn't need us. So we should be certain of one thing: that it's for our sake. Because it seems we need her.
~ Christa Wolf
and my eyes slipped to the white panels of cut light in the branches behind them.
~ Helen Macdonald
a young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
~ Leonard Cohen
It was an accident," Deborah declared. "Yeah, the man she intended to hit ducked. I just happened to be behind him.
~ Tracie Peterson
But the face I would always remember best was the one that never made the pictures. The one behind the camera.
~ Unknown
You know, said Port, and his voice sounded unreal, as voices are likely to do after a long pause in an utterly silent spot, the sky here's very strange. I often have the sensation when I look at it that it's a solid thing up there, protecting us from what's behind. Kit shuddered slightly as she said: From behind? Yes. But what is behind? Her voice was very small. Nothing, I suppose. Just darkness. Absolute night.
~ Paul Bowles
Sail on silver girl, sail on by...your time has come to shine all your dreams are on their way...see how they shine..oh and if you need a friend. I'm sailing right behind......
~ Paul Simon
And I had the gringo's instant assurance that my country, and my car, was just behind the humongous wall.
~ Paul Theroux
Above and behind them the Dipper turned on its great handle as if to pour night itself out onto the dreaming continent and each of its seven stars gleamed from between the fitful clouds.
~ Paulette Jiles
This world—absolutely pure As is. Behind the fear, Vulnerability. Behind that, Sadness, then compassion And behind that the vast sky.
~ Pema Chodron
Some of the tension seeped out of the air when the doors closed behind us.
~ Darren Shan
That was the way it was, the burial ritual. You set them in the earth and walked away to keep living, until it was your turn to be left behind.
~ David Baldacci
The truth is not so important as the leaving of it behind.
~ Unknown
Men ought to treat with caution those that clarify the deed by seeing deep into the thought that lies behind it.
~ Clive James
a cheerful black shadow reared up behind him as he spoke, thundering a happy challenge to my Dark Passenger, which slid forward and bellowed back.
~ Jeff Lindsay
But then, behind every great man . . . is a surprised mother-in-law.
~ Jeffrey Archer
When I was looking for financing while making 'Hellraiser,' I wish there was a studio like Project Greenlight Digital Studios behind me.
~ Clive Barker
in his lovely eyes sorrow has closed into a circle for the road has no ending and he must drag behind him the whole world
~ Unknown
Hiding behind the mask of a quotation, using someone else's words to bolster our own softly blooming emotions.
~ Unknown
The happy ending is never universal. Someone is always left behind.
~ Zadie Smith
Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
~ Hubert Humphrey
The trouble with the world is that it's always one drink behind.
~ Humphrey Bogart
Nothing sapped morale like the fear of being attacked from behind.
~ Conn Iggulden