Backs Quote by David Levithan

Men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up

— Henry David Thoreau

Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

— Henry David Thoreau

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on…

— Anonymous

We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection is taken as a full-scale revolution.

— Cynthia Ozick

What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy…

— Harlan Coben

My mother was a domestic goddess and Mother Earth figure. She was sweet and placid - just what the perfect wife was supposed to…

— Joan Collins

I have been to non-denominational churches like National Community Church in Washington D.C., but I've also gone to Lake Placid Baptist and a slew…

— Elana Meyers

I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained; I stand and look at them long…

— Walt Whitman

It becomes the moralist, too, to inquire what man might do to improve and beautify the system; what to make the stars shine more…

— Henry David Thoreau

Evening is the delight of virtuous age; it seems an emblem of the tranquil close of busy life--serene, placid, and mild, with the impress…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the day holds not, a…

— Isak Dinesen

“Placid waters hide lethal currents.”

— Susan Cummins Miller