Quotes with back-bite

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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler My mother left Hungary as a refugee, and she is not nostalgic for the life that she had back in Hungary, and yet Cubans certainly want the economic opportunity in the United States, but they're desperately homesick for the culture that they left behind.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Bonnie Hammer My parents weren't at all in entertainment, but when I look back, something along the line prepared me and opened me up to entertainment.
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  • Rodney Dangerfield My wife wants sex in the back of the car and she wants me to drive.
    Rodney Dangerfield
    American comedian, actor (1921 - 2004)
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  • Joseph Conrad Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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  • Bryant H. McGill Never expect a loan to a friend to be paid back if you want to keep that friend.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway Never go back to your old front.
    Reynolds - Hemingway: The Homecoming
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Ben Vereen Nine years after I had my own accident, I find that in trying to go back to doing those things that I used to do just doesn't fit. Everything seems to just fall apart. I don't know why but I think it is because I am this new creature.
    Ben Vereen
    American actor, dancer and singer (1946 - )
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  • Benjamin Watson Ninety years after slavery, blacks were still segregated from whites. They still had separate drinking fountains, separate restrooms, separate neighborhoods, and separate schools. They still were expected to sit at the back of the bus.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Oscar Wilde No man is rich enough to buy back his own past.
    An Ideal Husband (1895)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness - or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Lee Iacocca No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
    Lee Iacocca
    American businessman and CEO of Chrysler (1924 - 2019)
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  • William Shakespeare No might nor greatness in mortality
    Can censure ’scape; back-wounding calumny.
    Measure for Measure III, 2
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Sigmund Freud No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape the reflection that this picture persists as a prototype of the expression of sexual satisfaction in later life.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Elie Wiesel Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Jerry Garcia Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you've been to some of those places, you think, ''How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?''
    Jerry Garcia
    American singer-songwriter and guitarist (1942 - 1995)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries. Each man is for ever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Alexander Pope Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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