Quotes with back-bite

Quotes 381 till 400 of 840.

  • Oscar Wilde It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Anne Tyler It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Bela Lugosi It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.
    Bela Lugosi
    Hungarian-American actor (1882 - 1956)
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  • Adrian Edmondson It only works because we still amuse each other. After we have been working with other people, it is so refreshing to laugh unreservedly when we are back together again.
    Adrian Edmondson
    British actor (1957 - )
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  • Buddy Wakefield It was not my intention to make such a production of the emptiness between us, playing tuba on the tombstone of a soprano to try to keep some dead singer's perspective alive. It's just that I could have swore you had sung me a love song back there; and that you meant it.
    Poetry Hurling Crowbirds at Mockingbars
    Buddy Wakefield
    American poet and actor (1974 - )
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  • Bonnie Langford It's been said of me that I must get out of bed every morning and go cartwheeling down the road. Of course it's not true. There certainly was a time in my 20s when I wanted a bit of freedom, and I found that difficult, but if I'm ever having a time when I'm feeling sorry for myself, something always jolts me back.
    Bonnie Langford
    English actress, dancer and singer (1964 - )
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  • Jackie Joyner Kersee It's better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.
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  • Silas Weir Mitchell It's easier traveling the road of life when I don't have so much to carry on my back.
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  • W. H. Auden It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Ben Hardy It's hard to imagine you've got these massive wings in your back. You have to think about how it's going to affect your posture, affect the way you move, just, like, the sheer weight of them.
    Ben Hardy
    British actor (1991 - )
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  • Bethenny Frankel It's hard to wind down, but then I beat myself up because I have a tense back.
    Bethenny Frankel
    American reality television personality, entrepreneur, and author (1970 - )
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  • Mohsin Hamid It's important to have a non-nostalgic view and say, let's look forward, because if we don't, all we'll hear are voices telling us to go back.
    Mohsin Hamid
    British Pakistani novelist, writer (1971 - )
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  • Cate Blanchett It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Binyavanga Wainaina It's like I was always not quite sure even how to move in space somehow; I would watch people and then copy them. I found it really hard to walk straight. My brother was always on at me for walking off the pavement. I guess I always expected people to bring me back into line.
    Binyavanga Wainaina
    Kenyan author and journalist (1971 - 2019)
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  • Busy Philipps It's ludicrous that my friends in California aren't able to legally get married. It's a civil rights issue. In 20 years we're going to look back at tapes of these antigay people saying ridiculous things on the news and it's going to sound as antiquated as the newsreels of horrible racists from the '50s.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Boethius It's my belief that history is a wheel. 'Inconstancy is my very essence,' says the wheel. Rise up on my spokes if you like but don't complain when you're cast back down into the depths. Good time pass away, but then so do the bad. Mutability is our tragedy, but it's also our hope. The worst of time, like the best, are always passing away.
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Bill Vaughan It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Alan Alda It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • Antoine Fuqua It's not worth it, it's not about money, especially when you're dealing with a culture. It should be about elevating the idea of what we are and who we are as people in the cinema, and that kind of stuff keeps dragging us back down.
    Antoine Fuqua
    American film director and producer (1966 - )
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  • Bonnie Blair It's sad to know I'm done. But looking back, I've got a lot of great memories.
    Bonnie Blair
    American athlete and speed skater (1964 - )
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