Quotes with back-wounding

Quotes 381 till 400 of 815.

  • 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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  • Bobby Cox It's the only way I think I'm ever going to walk away from the game, is to go ahead and say I'm going to, and then I've got to. There's no turning back now - win, lose or draw.
    Bobby Cox
    American baseball player and manager (1941 - )
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  • Byron Howard It's tough sometimes for groups of people and animals to let go of that fear that can so easily bubble back up to the surface.
    Byron Howard
    American film director and producer (1968 - )
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  • Barry McGee It's very intense to go back to the past and revive work that I've already experienced and moved forward from. It's like seeing an old girlfriend - awkward at times, nostalgic at times and downright maddening and embarrassing.
    Barry McGee
    American artist
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  • C. J. Cherryh Jane leaned back against the counter and stared at the ceiling. At the traditional location of God, no matter what the planet.
    Source: Cyteen (1988)
    C. J. Cherryh
    American writer (1942 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin Just as Mars - a desert planet - gives us insights into global climate change on Earth, the promise awaits for bringing back to life portions of the Red Planet through the application of Earth Science to its similar chemistry, possibly reawakening its life-bearing potential.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen Just sitting back trying to recapture a little of the glory of...
    Well, the time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of
    Glory days - yeah, they'll pass you by,
    Glory days - in the wink of a young girl's eye.
    Source: Born In The U.S.A. (1984) Glory Days
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Frances Rodman Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again.
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  • Benny Blanco Ke$ha is her art; there is no curtain you peel back to find the real person. And with Ke$ha, you never know what to expect when you're in the studio.
    Benny Blanco
    American record producer, DJ, songwriter (1988 - )
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Bob Newhart Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Don Henley Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look back.
    Don Henley
     
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  • Dan Quayle Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!
    Dan Quayle
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • James Thurber Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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