My focus is always on the day. What I've done behind me I try to have respect for it and keep an eye on it and make sure it isn't abused and obviously be thoughtful about it because it's all real to me. I'm basically in every band I ever was in and the songs I still mean them all.

It's easy to see why pitchers respect McGwire. If you hit behind him they're saying that they don't respect you. You have to change their thinking.

Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.

The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.

As long as there are religions there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.

I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance.

You know sex is actually not so original as the way people love or the stories behind each relationship which is what you remember. Sex is sex in the end.

With public figures involved in a relationship it seems that there is a machine behind their love so oftentimes.

The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes.

Moreover behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture.

I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.

I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.

Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics not science is behind the FDA's actions.

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.

Fiction will always be my greatest love with poetry close behind.

I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets how they've used tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.

Never fear: Thank Home and Poetry and the Force behind both.

All those authors there most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side that's the prose side that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed.

Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether the trick they miss is that being called this thing with the weight of tradition behind it and with the association of the Royal family does allow you to have conversations and to open doors and wallets for the good of poetry in a way that nothing else would allow.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

The central premise behind Oslo was that if Arafat were given enough legitimacy territory weapons and money he would use his power to fight terror and make peace with Israel.

I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise she might say something that confuses and distracts me.