Quotes with backs

  • The nature of a panther is that he never attacks. But if anyone attacks or backs into a corner, the panther comes up to wipe that aggressor or that attacker out.

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  • Boris Kodjoe Everybody goes through obstacles and problems and issues and turn their backs on people that we are fond of and love just because we hurt; and everybody goes through that.
    Boris Kodjoe
    Austrian-American actor, producer (1973 - )
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  • William Shakespeare I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.
    Othello I, 1
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Henry Morton Stanley I was becoming wise by experience, and I was compelled to observe that when mud and wet sapped the physical energy of the lazily-inclined, a dog-whip became their backs, restoring them to a sound--some-times to an extravagant activity.
    How I found Livingstone (1872) Ch. 6
    Henry Morton Stanley
    Welsh-American journalist and explorer (1841 - 1904)
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  • Bill Kreutzmann I've gone through guys who want to lay on their backs and play like they're full of themselves. You know, I don't care about posing. I mean look at me, do I care about posing?
    Bill Kreutzmann
    American drummer (1946 - )
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  • Eilliam Feather If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.
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  • Jean Rostand It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Seneca Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Retain the vision for space exploration. If we turn our backs on the vision again, we're going to have to live in a secondary position in human space flight for the rest of the century.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Robert Lynd Surely it is better to tell the truth behind people's backs than never to tell it at all.
    Robert Lynd
    American sociologist (1892 - 1970)
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  • William O. Douglas The constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
    William O. Douglas
    American jurist and politician (1898 - 1980)
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  • Huey Newton The nature of a panther is that he never attacks. But if anyone attacks or backs into a corner, the panther comes up to wipe that aggressor or that attacker out.
    Huey Newton
    African-American political activist (1942 - 1989)
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  • Carl Rowan The Reagan Administration has fostered a climate in which a barest majority of the Supreme Court caters to the passions and hatreds of the American mob, stripping away the constitutional shield outside our bedrooms.... How tragically ironic that an Administration that promised to get Government off our backs is now so active in draping Government gumshoes over every part of our anatomies.
    Carl Rowan
    American government official, journalist and author (1925 - 2000)
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  • Karl Marx The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Billy Crudup The truth is I don't think actors should have to do anything but come in and act. I feel the film companies should pay for proper advertising to see that the movie will sell instead of putting it on our backs.
    Billy Crudup
    American actor (1968 - )
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  • Charles Dickens There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Mark Twain We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss whether they was made or just happened.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Coco Chanel Why am I so determined to put the shoulder where it belongs? Women have very round shoulders that push forward slightly; this touches me and I say: ''One must not hide that!'' Then someone tells you: ''The shoulder is on the back.'' I've never seen women with shoulders on their backs.
    Coco Chanel
    French couturier (1883 - 1971)
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