Backbone Quotes

174 quotes by 156 authors

... hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts for our having found so… — Friedrich Nietzsche
My brothers are my backbone. My parents are my oxygen. I can't live without them. — David Cook
Demonisation is the ideological backbone of an unequal society. — Owen Jones
Too many American authors have a servile streak where their backbone should be. Where's our latest Nobel laureate? More than likely you'll find him in… — Edward Abbey
Russia does continue to battle us in the U.N. time and time again. I have clear eyes on this. I'm not going to wear rose-colored… — Mitt Romney
President Obama has thrown allies like Israel under the bus, even as he has relaxed sanctions on Castro's Cuba. He abandoned our friends in Poland… — Mitt Romney
Cus was my father but he was more than a father. You can have a father and what does it mean?â€”it doesn't really mean anything.… — Mike Tyson
The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved… — Charles Darwin
Itâ€™s hard to find backbone.I never had crisis of identity. But I think many Americans have it. — Natalia Makarova
The more I did it-the more it owned me. It made things matter. It put a spine into my spineless life and that spine spread,… — Megan Abbott
The backbone of our nation's domestic defense against terrorist attacks will continue to be the men and women in local law enforcement and emergency services. — Saxby Chambliss
It's time for democrats to grow a backbone and stand up for what we believe. — Deval Patrick
At a time when we are losing manufacturing jobs in this country, we should be doing everything we can to help our manufacturers stay competitive.… — Debbie Stabenow
Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells. — Khalil Gibran
But as soon as we got that higher speed access to the home there?s going to be a tremendous crunch on the backbones for a… — Jon Postel
Gaming is the backbone of Nevadas economy. — Kenny Guinn
Is your ego small enough, and your backbone strong enough, to raise others up high on your shoulders? — Bear Grylls
I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that… — Anne Tyler
For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot — Guillermo del Toro
A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one's spiritual life, as nothing else can. — Evelyn Underhill

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