Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime and departing leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.
As usual there is a great woman behind every idiot.
Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years and I felt the pressure of being a little behind - although I was just 22.
Whatever it is that the government does sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother if it is both he is twice blessed indeed.
The years like great black oxen tread the world and God the herdsman goads them on behind and I am broken by their passing feet.
God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
The Nuclear Security Summit was President Obama's initiative born out of his vision to leave behind a safer more prosperous world for the future generation.
If you really want something you just hang with it. We think our future's ahead and not behind.
There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.
The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish.
Instead of just giving lip service to improving our schools I will actually put the kids first and the teachers union behind in giving our kids better teachers better options and better choices for a better future.
People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you you can leave your past behind.
You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side they don't like you as much. I find too that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny and you never see the sorrow or the pain.
I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.
I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.
Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.
Although the troops have struck us we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.