#behind

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. ↗

— Anatole France

#another #before #behind #changes #die

Her stare fixed me. Without rancour and without regret; without triumph and without evil; as Desdemona once looked back on Venice. On the incomprehension, the baffled rage of Venice. I had taken myself to be in some way the traitor Iago punished, in an unwritten sixth act. Chained in hell. But I was also Venice; the state left behind; the thing journeyed from. ↗

— John Fowles

#distance #othello #outgrowing-others #personal-growth #reference-to-shakespeare

I'm not such a big star. I am just a little planet. In Spain, people don't put so much attention on the star system. But here in America, I can feel it. Mostly, people are very, very nice. But there are also a bunch of fanatics behind the stars. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#am #america #attention #behind #big

I'm always one time zone behind myself. ↗

— Eric Bana

#behind #i #myself #one time #time

Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent. ↗

— James Connolly

#democracy #enter #enters #industrial #only

Don't ever, ever, believe anyone who tells you that you can just get by, by doing the easiest thing possible. Because there's always somebody behind you who really wants to do what you're doing. And they're going to work harder than you if you're not working hard. ↗

— Maria Bartiromo

#anyone #because #behind #believe #doing

I think everybody's got different methods of working which suit the particular individual. Mine is to sort of play the part, and give 100%, to concentrate and focus on it while I'm actually working, but then leave it behind until the next day. ↗

— Sean Bean

#behind #concentrate #day #different #everybody

It does not have to be that the greatest generation is behind us. It does not have to be that our children will have a lower standard of living. It will be that way if we choose to believe that. I choose not to believe that. ↗

— Glenn Beck

#believe #children #choose #does #generation

The problem with naming a No. 2 is you really want to throw all your weight behind the guy who is going to be the leader. ↗

— Charlie Bell

#going #guy #leader #naming #problem

It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality. ↗

— Clive Bell

#catch #follow #form #reality #sense