(624 quotes found)
“You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.”
Barbara De Angelis
“We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.”
Mark Twain
“You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do”
“The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.”
William Orville Douglas
“Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.”
Charles L. Allen
“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts”
Charles Dickens
“I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned”
Quentin Crisp
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall”
Confucius
“In a prime-time address, President Bush said he backed limited federal funding for stem cell research. That's right, the President said, this is a quote, the research could help cure brain diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and whatever it is I have.”
Conan O'Brien
“Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum, And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on, While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on. ”
Augustus de Morgan