Our Backs Quotes
76 quotes by 72 authors
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When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.
— Roger Babson
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I find the female tragedy of insecurity to be hilarious. We get obsessed over issues like the tiny skin tags on our backs or that…
— Lake Bell
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Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs... I knew that my heart would break if ever I…
— Maya Angelou
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I thought we'd die there, quarrels in our backs, you for what you did and me for bearing witness.
— Janet Morris
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Attempting to satisfy the passions that rage inside us and the longings that motivate us, we invent spirituality, lean on political solutions, create new villains,…
— Ravi Zacharias
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Go deep into meditation. And by meditation I mean awareness, watchfulness, witnessing. It is only through meditation that the inner light begins. Otherwise man lives…
— Rajneesh
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We will never-and I mean never-turn our backs on our employees.
— Howard Schultz
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Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.
— Seneca the Younger
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We are the ones who work every day with people who are suffering because they don't have health care. We cannot turn our backs on…
— Simone Campbell
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Great achievement often happens when our backs are up against the wall. Pressure can actually enhance your performance.
— Robin Sharma
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You love someone, you open yourself up to suffering, that’s the sad truth. Maybe they’ll break your heart, maybe you’ll break their heart and never…
— T. J. Thyne
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As a teenager, I had to struggle alone to learn about myself and what it meant to be gay. Now for [48] years I've had…
— Barbara Gittings
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There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of…
— Winston Churchill
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Let us make it clear that we will never turn our backs on our steadfast friends in Israel, whose adherence to the democratic way must…
— John F. Kennedy
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When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment of global crisis…
— Nelson Mandela
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Actually, when I look at my old notebooks, I think I have been a bit self-indulgent and have given myself too much time to meander…
— Natalie Goldberg
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Ambition, I have come to believe, is the most primal and sacred and fundament of our being. To feel ambition and to act upon it…
— Steven Pressfield
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When we spend our lives waiting until we’re perfect or bulletproof before we walk into the arena, we ultimately sacrifice relationships and opportunities that may…
— Brené Brown
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We're learning lessons from Africa. And the lesson that we need to learn is, how do we straighten our backs up in the face of…
— Cornel West
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I believe God put that itchy spot on our backs just exactly where we can't reach it in order to encourage us be nice to…
— Teresa Nielsen Hayden
Who Wrote These Our Backs Quotes
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