Top 100 Behind The Back Quotes

#1. He closes the door and turns around to face me with his hands behind his back. He studies me intensely, and it makes me squirm. "You know, you're not like I thought you'd be," he says, taking a step forward. "Yet, at the same time

Jessica Sorensen

Behind The Back Quotes #10127
#2. Tom pounded into him. Prophet bit out a howl, hooked his ankles behind Tom's back and dug his heels against the man's ass, forcing him deeper inside.

S.E. Jakes

Behind The Back Quotes #10276
#3. You want my advice? Put down your phone. Hug her from behind and kiss the back of her neck. Entwine your fingers with hers ... . You're welcome.

Steve Maraboli

Behind The Back Quotes #10597
#4. A married couple never seem so married as when viewed from the back seat of a motor car, talking quietly together in the front. Polly and Marcus might have been in their bedroom already, so soft and intimate their converse sounded to me, as I sat there alertly mute behind the backs of their heads

John Banville

Behind The Back Quotes #11654
#5. You taste like the last drop of whiskey
at 3 am
after a lousy day
like the first gulp of coffee on a Monday sipped behind a desk
hot and bitter
like the burning at the back of the throat
after the first cigarette
You taste, boy oh boy, like my next mistake.

Malak El Halabi

Behind The Back Quotes #18719
#6. Mom also hinted a couple of times that it was good I was going to college, since with one failed marriage behind me, I 'd have trouble landing a good husband and would need something to fall back on. "A package that's been opened once doesn't have the same appeal".

Jeannette Walls

Behind The Back Quotes #22087
#7. With a slow smile, she brought her gaze back to Kyle's as she reached behind and unhooked her bra.
"Need some help with that?" he asked.
"I have had plenty of practice."
"Yeah, well, I could do with the extra practice. Takes way too long to get those things off.

J.A. Belfield

Behind The Back Quotes #35896
#8. I don't have 'The Jerry Springer Show'. I just got 'Family Feud', but some of them families, when they lose, man, they have some real conversations with each other back behind that wall, but I've never been involved in any of them.

Steve Harvey

Behind The Back Quotes #42348
#9. I climb behind the steering wheel... I drive off immediately without once looking back; it's a long journey but it leads to freedom.

Corinne Hofmann

Behind The Back Quotes #48025
#10. Piper!" Frank yelled. "Counter those empousai! We need some chaos."
"Thought you'd never ask." She started catcalling at the female demons: "Your makeup is smeared! Your friend called you ugly! That one is making a face behind your back!

Rick Riordan

Behind The Back Quotes #50847
#11. Our role is to stand behind the open gates and turn them back one by one. And so we fight.

Cassandra Clare

Behind The Back Quotes #53064
#12. If given a chance, I would really want to explore the monuments in Delhi, like Qutub Minar and the forts. I have been there as a child, but now I want to go back and understand the history and significance behind them. We take all of these things for granted in life.

Shreya Ghoshal

Behind The Back Quotes #58652
#13. The eye and brain are conspirators, and, like most conspiracies, theirs is negotiated behind closed doors, in the back room, outside of our awareness.

Daniel Gilbert

Behind The Back Quotes #60010
#14. if somebody steals from you, you should forgive them because they might have been in need. If someone speaks behind your back, say nothing because you must be the bigger person. When you fall in love, give all your heart to your beloved and don't ever doubt.

Zahed Haftlang

Behind The Back Quotes #69093
#15. Peter smiles at me, shaking his head. Behind the smile I can see he's scared as I am. Blood drips onto his lips. "You never did listen to my orders," he said.
I smiled back. "Aren't you glad you'll have company?

Dan Krokos

Behind The Back Quotes #76118
#16. As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.

Oscar Wilde

Behind The Back Quotes #82531
#17. Never worry about anything that is past. Charge it up to experience and forget the trouble. There are always plenty of troubles ahead, so don't turn and look back on any behind you.

Herbert Hoover

Behind The Back Quotes #83696
#18. We always have something running in the back of our thoughts. What's running behind yours?
Right now I was thinking about how nice his eyes looked, but I'd shave my head before I admitted that.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

Behind The Back Quotes #89030
#19. Well, it is so difficult right now when you look out on the road and how fast people go and the more and more cars you see out there, for teenagers, you'd think a kid that literally, a few years before, was sitting back in a car seat in the back seat is now behind the wheel.

Amy Klobuchar

Behind The Back Quotes #91724
#20. Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back ... play for her.

Mia Hamm

Behind The Back Quotes #92251
#21. I hate to think how many minutes of my life I've spent on goddamn hold. I want those minutes back. When death comes for me, I want back every minute I was on hold in traffic jams, and behind people with eleven items in the ten items or less line.

Laura Lippman

Behind The Back Quotes #93391
#22. He was walking into Faerie, in search of a fallen star, with no idea how he would find the star, nor how to keep himself safe and whole as he tried. He looked back and fancied that he could see the lights of Wall behind him, wavering and glimmering as if in a heat-haze, but still inviting.

Neil Gaiman

Behind The Back Quotes #98712
#23. 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.

Holly Black

Behind The Back Quotes #117447
#24. The two of them walked toward the road and the stone marker. Behind them, other cars were pulling out. A woman began screaming abruptly. Unconsciously, Garraty and McVries drew closer together. Neither of them looked back. Ahead of them was the road, wide and black.

Stephen King

Behind The Back Quotes #118609
#25. Taking Morgana with it, the lightning arced back through the clouds; leaving behind nothing but the last echoing remains of her scream.

Sam Whitehouse

Behind The Back Quotes #120886
#26. I endeavor to shine a light on what's happening behind closed doors in the back-door deal making that so many Americans understand is going on but they don't quite understand how or why, but they know that our elected leaders are lying to us.

Ted Cruz

Behind The Back Quotes #122768
#27. Jutta drags herself closer; she watches her brother with outsize eyes. A piano chases the violins. Then woodwinds. The strings sprint, woodwinds fluttering behind. More instruments join in. Flutes? Harps? The song races, seems to loop back over itself. "Werner?" Jutta whispers. He blinks;

Anthony Doerr

Behind The Back Quotes #127246
#28. Thousand Moments:
I still remember the day the world took you back & there was never time to thank you for the thousand scattered moments you left behind to watch us while we slept.

Brian Andreas

Behind The Back Quotes #129279
#29. I want to leave behind me the name of a fellow who never bullied a little boy, or turned his back on a big one.

Thomas Hughes

Behind The Back Quotes #149287
#30. Cursed, he once cried in a fit of rage. His temper has always been as restless and unpredictable as the sea itself. But his words had power behind them and I felt the effects instantly. Too late to take it back.

Jennifer Silverwood

Behind The Back Quotes #149814
#31. I am so looking forward to seeing the back of you two," Kent pipes up behind me.
"Excuse me?" I spin around to face him.
"Baby. Babe." He mimics our voices, slapping a hand against his forehead. "I swear all your mushy talk has actually irreparably damaged my brain.

Siobhan Davis

Behind The Back Quotes #154109
#32. At one time or another, almost every politician needs an honest man so badly that, like a ravenous wolf, he breaks into a sheep-fold: not to devour the ram he has stolen, however, but rather to conceal himself behind its wooly back.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Behind The Back Quotes #156553
#33. I could see nothing behind that child's eye. 40
I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.

T. S. Eliot

Behind The Back Quotes #164478
#34. Now you die while we live on, and you've no one to blame but your selves. So do not speak of betrayal behind my back, humans. For the Great Betrayal is your shame, not mine. ~ Ayden

Rachel Haimowitz

Behind The Back Quotes #169049
#35. One of the nicest things you can do is to speak kind words about someone behind his or her back.

Molly Friedenfeld

Behind The Back Quotes #170162
#36. Em. Are you the Loch Ness Monster?" Archie stuttered shuffling back a step.
"Aghhh! M, M, Monster. Monster." Gordon shrieked, he turned his huge body and run further down the cavern to a boulder no more than six feet tall in the center, Gordon hid behind it.

Mark A. Cooper

Behind The Back Quotes #171165
#37. Their faces were the way women's faces are when they've been talking about you behind your back and they think you've heard: embarrassed, but also a little defiant, as if it were their right.

Margaret Atwood

Behind The Back Quotes #175411
#38. I started out as a drummer, and now play with a back-to-basics rock band called the 'Luddites.' I'm happiest when I'm behind the kit.

Rick Astley

Behind The Back Quotes #179414
#39. This is what you get in life. Wee flannel-arsed naebodies sittin' behind a desk tryin' to make you sweat in your stool. And see when they do? Y'can feel the wind-up key take another turn in your back.

Ian Pattison

Behind The Back Quotes #180620
#40. antagonist having one hand strapped behind his back and the other

Giles Milton

Behind The Back Quotes #186217
#41. M. Richard bowed ... to nobody; bent his back ... before nobody; and walked backward ... before nobody ... And, a few steps behind him, M. Moncharmin did the same thing

Gaston Leroux

Behind The Back Quotes #190158
#42. He folded his hands behind his back and puffed out his chest. Reminded Lucky of a barnyard rooster. Anybody who referred to Lucky as a cocky little bantam found out pretty soon that Lucky could back up his strut, and this guy was probably the roostah who used ta, or he wouldn't be teaching.

Eden Winters

Behind The Back Quotes #195095
#43. My hand slid to the back of her head, and I felt her body react in a way that surprised her. I drew back only a fraction, my lips close to her ear. I whispered, "I'm not fucking scared of you." If she wanted to dive headfirst, I was going to dive right behind her. She knew that was true.

Krista Ritchie

Behind The Back Quotes #197555
#44. A Scotch half-breed took charge of him and his mates, and in company with a dozen other dog-teams he started back over the weary trail to Dawson. It was no light running now, nor record time, but heavy toil each day, with a heavy load behind; for this was the mail train,

Jack London

Behind The Back Quotes #201185
#45. The days, the weeks, the years out here shall come back again, and our dead comrades shall then stand up again and march with us, our heads shall be clear, we shall have a purpose, and so we shall march, our dead comrades beside us, the years at the Front behind us: - against whom, against whom?

Erich Maria Remarque

Behind The Back Quotes #212701
#46. From the age of three on, as far back as I remember, I just knew there was a God behind everything.

M. Scott Peck

Behind The Back Quotes #214449
#47. Seeing our VH-1 Behind the Music shows just how dysfunctional some of the moments of the band were but this new line-up has put the fun back in dysfunction.

James Young

Behind The Back Quotes #218588
#48. Death
It does not happen to the dead alone
Those left behind, die too
In parts that would never heal and come back to life
(Page 14)

Neena Verma

Behind The Back Quotes #223271
#49. We know that behind every image revealed there is another image more faithful to reality, and in the back of that image there is another, and yet another behind the last one, and so on, up to the true image of that absolute, mysterious reality that no one will ever see.

Michelangelo Antonioni

Behind The Back Quotes #223520
#50. Cath could hear the perv shouting curses behind them. "Oh, fuck you, Flowers in the Attic!" Levi shouted back

Rainbow Rowell

Behind The Back Quotes #227763
#51. No original thought still exists. People are original, each one of them. The same ideas that others had before you are waiting for you to bring them back to life in a new way. The part of who you are that is left behind within these old ideas is what makes them original all over again.

Ashly Lorenzana

Behind The Back Quotes #227821
#52. Once again, the hopeless cowardly Americans were back to repeat their cowardly act hiding behind a technological advance that God, most gracious, wanted it to be their curse and cause for shame.

Saddam Hussein

Behind The Back Quotes #231072
#53. The roar behind him was louder than anything he had ever heard in his life; a monstrous fist punched him in the back, knocking all the wind out of him even before he landed, sprawled on his belly on the wall top, barely holding on to his staff as it swung over the edge.

Robert Jordan

Behind The Back Quotes #240053
#54. Let's all commit ourselves to the basic civility of minding our own business. Failing that, let's go back to a time when we were nasty and judgmental, but only behind one another's backs.

Ayelet Waldman

Behind The Back Quotes #245458
#55. It was bad enough that she'd made a deal with the devil and was apparently addicted to his kisses, but now she had her brothers going behind her back and orchestrating something that couldn't possibly end well for her.

R.L. Mathewson

Behind The Back Quotes #248504
#56. I have a question to ask you." Beth stretched one arm across the back of the seat, hoping she looked provocative. "And what is that, husband?" Ian leaned down, his body hemming her in. His large fists rested on the seat back behind her. "Do I love you?

Jennifer Ashley

Behind The Back Quotes #250941
#57. What is a parent, really, but somebody who picks up the things a child leaves behind - a trail made of stripped off clothing, orphaned shoes, tiny bright plastic game pieces, and nostalgia - and who hands back each of these when its needed?

Jodi Picoult

Behind The Back Quotes #264415
#58. I had something called the back of the chair test. Where I sit, we don't sit like you and I do. I can see a sliver right behind them and they come out and they sit like this like god students and they don't touch the back of the chair.

James Lipton

Behind The Back Quotes #264526
#59. Those left behind prayed constantly for peace but prayers came back with Return to Sender stamped all over them. Only the roll call of the dead grew.

Sarah Winman

Behind The Back Quotes #271155
#60. Little Joe was still behind him. Eli could feel it. He wanted to look back, but he couldn't. The tears were too close. If he were Fancy, he'd turn around and kick and buck and moo and do just about anything to keep his calf near. But Eli wasn't Fancy; he was a farmer.

Sandra Neil Wallace

Behind The Back Quotes #275050
#61. He went to his note bag and took out hand sanitizer. Later, he placed his note bag back over the same shoulder. The train was incredibly late. Bruce waited and waited. A happy Trudy appeared from behind him and touched his arm. Bruce jumped. Trudy didn't mean to scare him. "Oops,

Gene Geter

Behind The Back Quotes #276006
#62. There are evil spirits who suddenly fix their abode in man's unguarded breast, causing us to commit devilish deeds, and then, hurrying back to their native hell, leave behind the stings of remorse in the poisoned bosom.

Friedrich Schiller

Behind The Back Quotes #298492
#63. I would really like to focus on directing features, and then eventually take that skill set back to television. On features, you have more control. On television, the producers are the creative forces behind it. Directors come and go on television.

Eric Balfour

Behind The Back Quotes #301849
#64. It's not objective. It's subjective." Katya hooks her bra behind her back. "It's just what you think, not the truth.

E. Lockhart

Behind The Back Quotes #304616
#65. Manga uses Japanese traditional structures in how to teach the student and to transmit a very direct message. You learn from the teacher by watching from behind his back. The whole teacher-master thing is part of Asian culture, I think.

Takashi Murakami

Behind The Back Quotes #307401
#66. I don't have any friends and don't have any intention of making any. People will stab you in the back, mistreat you, talk about me behind your back, steal from you. And they're not really your friends. They're only there because you're a celebrity or because they want to get something from you.

Gary Coleman

Behind The Back Quotes #309235
#67. Hey, sexy. Why haven't you called?" The cooing sound came from behind me, and I glanced back over my shoulder to see a familiar-looking brunette. "Because I'm the asshole who never calls," I replied with a wink.

Abbi Glines

Behind The Back Quotes #309765
#68. Whatever the reason, he reluctantly pulls the cushions from the back of my couch. He pauses, looking like he's about to change his mind. Then he slides in behind me.

Susan Ee

Behind The Back Quotes #314491
#69. Back when we were more in the industrial vein, it was almost like I had to hide the fact that I could sing. Now, I've just sort of embraced the fact that I can sing and I'm not a screamer or hiding it behind any effects, this is just what I sound like.

Jason C. Miller

Behind The Back Quotes #317090
#70. He gently takes the lead, and I trail behind him up the narrow spiral stairway at the back of the kitchen. His hand is warm, and holding it feels like the easiest thing in the world. Too easy. I'm going to get myself in trouble.

Lisa Daily

Behind The Back Quotes #329072
#71. The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back.

China Mieville

Behind The Back Quotes #331845
#72. I started to turn my life around for the better and try to instil a bit of stability and balance back in to it and take a back seat to violence. I wanted to leave that part of my life behind. The leopard wanted to ditch its spots!

Stephen Richards

Behind The Back Quotes #334903
#73. The first ghost to leave the world of the dead was Roger. He took a step forward, and turned to look back at Lyra, and laughed in surprise as he found himself turning into the night, the starlight, the air ... and then he was gone, leaving behind such a vivid little burst of happiness.

Philip Pullman

Behind The Back Quotes #342653
#74. Marco faced her and rested a shoulder against the locker. "It doesn't take much, does it? To make you happy." He reached out, as if to tuck a stray curl behind her ear, but pulled back. "It never did.

Laura Kaye

Behind The Back Quotes #358814
#75. The final bridge to cross is to let go of the mind-created 'spiritual' self. Burn that bridge behind you. Stay empty of self-image and cease looking back. Remain in the neutrality of being. That's it!

Mooji

Behind The Back Quotes #359464
#76. Sophie picked her way through the forest, stepping over tree roots, and pushing aside low-lying branches, letting them snap back behind her with reckless abandon. The sun barely squeaked through the canopy of leaves above her, and down at ground level, it felt more like dusk than midday.

Julia Quinn

Behind The Back Quotes #359523
#77. I was in a fever to get out from behind the plate. Oh boy, I was terrible back there.

Mickey Cochrane

Behind The Back Quotes #366823
#78. English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.

Rachel Johnson

Behind The Back Quotes #369342
#79. I don't begrudge anyone else for anything, but to me, I think the fans deserve to have a studio put money behind their product because when the fans put money into a project and it makes any sort of money, it goes back to the studio. I think that's a little shady.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

Behind The Back Quotes #373091
#80. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.

F Scott Fitzgerald

Behind The Back Quotes #373621
#81. Miss Barry, who was sitting behind them, leaned forward and poked Marilla in the back with her parasol.

L.M. Montgomery

Behind The Back Quotes #382250
#82. Don't even think it. Move all the way back. Both of you. On your stomachs, hands behind your heads. Now!"
Yeah, it's straight out of NCIS. I guess Mom's crush on that Gibbs guy came in handy.

Rysa Walker

Behind The Back Quotes #382909
#83. Every moment is precious, even the ones behind me that I often reflect upon with a reserved smile. However ... I seldom look back, only forward in anticipation of the next greater now.

Carl Henegan

Behind The Back Quotes #384465
#84. There comes a time when you just have to be willing to decide what is more important to you and leave behind the things that stand in your way or hold you back from being yourself.

Heather Linn

Behind The Back Quotes #399201
#85. I am not certain I liked you referring to my brother as a monster." There was a trace of humor in Mikhail's voice.
"You should hear what I call you behind your back," Gregori said, even as his arms spread to accommodate the wings forming.

Christine Feehan

Behind The Back Quotes #407158
#86. The moral of the story couldn't be clearer: you already know if your partner is fucking around behind your back, you just need to decide if you're done being a doormat. You need to wake up one morning and decide that those rose-colored glasses are so last fucking season.

Brandi Glanville

Behind The Back Quotes #415780
#87. People ask me if I'd permit fancy things, like dunks. Well, if they did dunk, it was with no fancy flair. No behind-the-back dribbles or passes unless necessary. If it was for show, you were on the bench.

John Wooden

Behind The Back Quotes #427691
#88. Now go. Leaving quickly is the best thing you can do. Don't think about it, don't look back, and don't think that what's behind you is better than what's in front because it's not. Not in the very least, Hannah.

Celia Mcmahon

Behind The Back Quotes #429461
#89. Misconceptions are unavoidable now that we've eaten of the Tree of Knowledge. But Paradise is locked and bolted, and the cherubim stands behind us. We have to go on and make the journey round the world to see if it is perhaps open somewhere at the back.

Heinrich Von Kleist

Behind The Back Quotes #430758
#90. Things like this don't happen back in Libertyville, Illinois.
You don't get lost in the woods behind your house.
You don't get trapped inside a fortress-like wall ten feet tall.

Travis Thrasher

Behind The Back Quotes #433998
#91. She moved to get up, but the man held her down as her car exploded next.
Bree lifted her head and looked back at the wall of fire behind them. "Well. We're well and truly screwed now.

E. Jamie

Behind The Back Quotes #442075
#92. Can the light dying behind my eyes be
recorded in rhyme schemes?
I meet this page in the morning beating back death
trying to re-member.

Sapphire.

Behind The Back Quotes #447073
#93. And each stroke of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin, all the skins of a life in the world, and left behind a nascent patina of shining hairs. My earrings turned back to water and trickled down my shoulders; I shrugged the drops off my beautiful fur.

Angela Carter

Behind The Back Quotes #455292
#94. The guy offered his left fist. Reacher bumped it with his right, behind DeLong's back. Not the first time his knuckles had touched a Sox fan, but by far the gentlest.

Lee Child

Behind The Back Quotes #455552
#95. Sean settles swiftly behind me, and I'm startled by the sudden closeness of him, my back suddenly warm against his chest, the press of his hips on against me. i turn to ask him a question, and he jerks his face away from the proximity of mine. I say, Oh. Sorry.

Maggie Stiefvater

Behind The Back Quotes #458278
#96. Reflection is a good thing. It allows us to look back in time so we can connect the dots between specific memories to reveal the purpose and meaning behind synchronistic events.

Molly Friedenfeld

Behind The Back Quotes #466670
#97. The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to your face does not approach what your best friends say behind your back.

Alfred De Musset

Behind The Back Quotes #467567
#98. Now, as I expect you know, there is nothing more cruel than talk, and there is nothing more difficult to combat. When people say things behind your back there is nothing you can refute or deny, and the rumours go on growing and growing, and no one can stop them. I

Agatha Christie

Behind The Back Quotes #481813
#99. The men in black walked back across the field, back to their dry homes, like crows returning to the nest. I trailed behind them, a confused and drenched brown sparrow behind the flock.

Laura Bickle

Behind The Back Quotes #481892
#100. I want to be back behind the plate as long as I can. I can help the team that way, and I like being in control and in charge.

Joe Mauer

Behind The Back Quotes #483307

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