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With their backs to the sunrise they worship the night. — Robert Green Ingersoll
We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and disinclined. — Jack Kerouac
...out of the blue, he kissed me. Right in the middle of the Robert E. Lee Hotel Restaurant, he kissed me so slowly with an… — Kathryn Stockett
I want to show you something,â€ I say. What?â€ He dabs at his lips with the napkin, and for a moment Iâ€™m wishing so hard… — Brad Barkley
There were once two sisters who were not afriad of the dark because the dark was full of the other's voice across the room, because… — Jandy Nelson
Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up. — Henry David Thoreau
Oh! Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Now, Mama, Papa, and sir," said Ramses, "please withdraw to the farthest corner and crouch down with your backs turned. It is as I feared;… — Barbara Mertz
Let's all commit ourselves to the basic civility of minding our own business. Failing that, let's go back to a time when we were nasty… — Ayelet Waldman
And so, does the destination matter? Or is it the path we take? I declare that no accomplishment has substance nearly as great as the… — Brandon Sanderson
What a wonderful song, she thought-everything was wonderful tonight, most of all this romantic scene in the den with their hands clinging and the inevitable… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs… — Mark Twain
I havenâ€™t had the chance to look at too many menâ€™s faces up close. And I noticed how his skin was thicker than mine, and… — Kathryn Stockett
I must. I have fought my last battle. When I saw the Clan at Sunningrocks, the strong helping the weak...and I knew you and the… — Erin Hunter
placid, adj. Sometimes I love it when we just lie on our backs, gaze off, stay still. — David Levithan
If the lot of you survives, Curran will fray the skin off your backs,' Doolittle said. 'That's what I always love about you, Doctor.' Raphael… — Ilona Andrews
(He) was in love with the idea of revolution. Men like that, even when they turn their backs on their party and their comrades, can… — Amitav Ghosh
When life backs you into a corner and offers you no escape, when your friends, your lover, and your family abandon you, when you're at… — Ilona Andrews
Everything that creates itself upon the backs of smaller scales will by those same scales be consumed. — David Eagleman
There are people who, on meeting a successful rival, no matter in what, are at once disposed to turn their backs on everything good in… — Leo Tolstoy

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