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I've never backed down from a fight and I relish a good debate. -- Olympia Snowe
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. -- George Bernard Shaw
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. -- Dale Carnegie
Every man eventually is backed up to the wall of faith, and there he must make his stand. -- Ezra Taft Benson
To have faith in Divine protection is good, but even beter if backed by the pratical assistance heaven has a right to expect from sensible mortals. -- Ellis Peters
But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right. -- Ray Stannard Baker
I can say unequivocally that the boycott does not work. It's never complete enough to have impact unless it's backed by force, and I don't think anybody in America seriously proposes that. -- Helen Suzman
I moved further and further away from mass entertainment. The sexual element became increasingly sinister and bizarre. Don't blame me! The bastards drove me to it! They all backed off after that! -- Robert Crumb
When I was a young prosecutor, I got called to testify against my boss. I could have backed down, but I didn't. I stood up to him. And he fired me for it. -- Susana Martinez
I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about. -- H. P. Lovecraft
It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement. -- Yitzhak Rabin
Basically, Pizza Hut just backed out on the ad agency at the last minute. They got fired and we got fired. It was a simple as that. We do stuff like that on and off. -- Gene Ween
As you may know, I'm the co-founder and co-chairman of an asteroid company called Planetary Resources that is backed by a group of eight billionaires to implement the bold mission of extracting resources from near-Earth asteroids. -- Peter Diamandis
There will always be, within a party, people who backed one candidate versus people who backed another, and there will be factions in the party, and there's always a little glee faction looking at the difficulty of the other faction. -- Mitt Romney
My songs are all about celebrating poignant music. While some of them focus on fun and revelry, they are fortunately backed by powerful lyrics. Put together, the lyrics, tune and my voice strive to take the songs to the next level. -- Kailash Kher
We have to start processing what we're really made of in America. American character is not dead. American integrity and honesty are not dead. When we're backed up against the wall against the largest corporations in the history of corporations, it's there. -- Josh Fox
I took 'Grease' to play my trump card, my voice, and get attention that would lead to auditions for serious work like 'Angels in America.' But I backed myself into a corner with 'Grease,' and it took me 17 years to get out. -- Billy Porter
The world's central banks and the International Monetary Fund still have vaults full of bullion, even though currencies are no longer backed by gold. Governments hold on to it as a kind of magic symbol, a way of reassuring people that their money is real. -- James Surowiecki
I trained and trained and went up against Kurt, then being a world champion in '94, and after that I did Tommy's tour and then my tour and all this stuff and just trying to deal with it all. And now, I've just kind of backed off a little. -- Elvis Stojko
The CIA created, armed and financed the Contras. My father backed them with everything he had. It was my father's war, and almost everyone in Nicaragua has lost somebody as a result of it. I couldn't go down there, being his daughter, and expect not to feel those people's wrath. -- Patti Davis
It is best to be born in April or August when the life-giving Sun is in its exaltation sign Aries or Leo, its home, for then we enter the sea of life on the crest-wave and are backed in the battle of existence by an abundant fund of vim and energy. -- Max Heindel
One problem I have with faith-healing is that it tends to be focused only on the physical aspect of healing. But Jesus always backed away when people came to him only to get their physical needs met. My goodness, he was ready to have you lop off your hand! His real interest was in healing the soul. -- Joni Eareckson Tada
I came seriously close to getting married four times, and each time I backed off in fear or for one reason or another. Each occasion was different, but in hindsight when I look at the people involved, it wasn't a bad thing what I did. I think it may have been more complex had the marriage taken place. -- Ratan Tata
I loved making 'The Hunger Games' - it was the happiest experience of my professional life. Lionsgate was supportive of me in a manner that few directors ever experience in a franchise: they empowered me to make the film I wanted to make and backed the movie in a way that requires no explanation beyond the remarkable results. -- Gary Ross
True will is wishing backed by power. -- VIRGIL PROFEANU
Be a practical dreamer backed by action. -- Bruce Lee
Sent off, carried off, but never backed off. -- David Dunworth
I've personally backed off from direct political involvement. -- Pat Robertson
My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields. -- Robert B. Laughlin
People get desperate when they're backed into a corner. -- Seohyun
My looks arent going to help me explain mortgage-backed securities. -- Jenna Lee
Desire backed by faith knows no such word as impossible. -- Napoleon Hill
A van backed through my windscreen into my wife's face. -- Abraham Maslow
What good is inspiration if it's not backed up by action? -- Tony Robbins
To write you had to read so I backed into reading. -- Richard Ford
You are backed by great power. Press onwards, you will succeed. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it. -- Stephen Sondheim
[David] Bowie's last album "Blackstar" featured him backed by a jazz quartet. -- David Bowie
Ive never backed down from a fight and I relish a good debate. -- Olympia Snowe
I have not lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere. -- Steven Wright
I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Being assertive and somewhat really firm has to be backed up with being fair. -- Gordon Ramsay
A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn't make fun of another man's cross-eyed aunt -- Mark Twain
When backed up against a wall, dig deep, demand excellence, stand tall, and be strong. -- Robert Cheeke
Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent. -- Napoleon Hill
I haven't backed down from a fight in my life, and I won't start tonight. -- John Cena
A broad-backed ox can be driven straight on his road even by a small goad. -- Sophocles
I know your game, you know. You get nasty when you're backed into a corner. -- Lauren Dane
I backed horse last week at ten to one. It came in at quarter past four. -- Tommy Cooper
The imagination, backed by great expectations, can bring about almost any reality within the range of probalities. -- Jane Roberts
All you need in any industry is someone to back you, and Jim Cameron backed me up. -- Sam Worthington
There are plenty of good ideas, if only they can be backed with the power of action. -- Winston Churchill
A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power. -- Brian Tracy
I think Iâ??m better than everyone else. An opinion that has been backed up with ample evidence. -- Cassandra Clare
Riches don't respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence. -- Napoleon Hill
Indignation does no good unless it is backed with a club of sufficient size to awe the opposition. -- E. W. Howe
A boy and a girl started dating after he backed his car into hers. They met by accident. -- Adam Young
There will always be people for whom hate is easier when it's not backed up by anything but fear. -- Mira Grant
America has lost 70,000 factories since China entered the World Trade Organization, WTO, another Bill and Hillary Clinton backed disaster. -- Donald Trump
Instead of fighting ISIS, (the Saudis) have focused more on a campaign to oust Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen. -- Bernie Sanders
Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time. -- Pandurang Shastri Athavale
I refer to a negro politician as a negro who is selected by Negroes and who is backed by Negroes. -- Malcolm X
I never intended to be a journalist. Frankly, I don't think I ever was a journalist. I backed into it. -- Laurence Shames
Well, I'm backed by a very rich Jew. Yeah!! Yes, I am! His Name is Jesus. I'm backed by Him. -- Jesse Duplantis
Allow yourself emotion-backed demands only for physical necessities such as air to breathe, food if starving, and shelter if freezing. -- Ken Keyes Jr.
My father, Charles Seeger, got me into the Communist movement. He backed out around '38. I drifted out in the 50's. -- Pete Seeger
Crankish attacks on the freedom to read are common at present. When backed and coordinated by organized groups, they become sinister. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
No! I won't pay debt with a currency that's not backed by gold and silver! No! I won't trust in God! -- Jared Lee Loughner
While I had cancer, I wrote these twenty-two personal essays about how I lived my life backed by Zen and writing. -- Natalie Goldberg
The only time I had any butterflies was when I stood up and backed toward the open door and looked down. -- George H. W. Bush
You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done. -- Kofi Annan
You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do -- Mark Twain
Meanings generating meanings - the process has backed us into a particular corner, a kind of cave, where sunlight seldom enters. -- Tarthang Tulku
Speaking of prostitutes, big oil's top call girl Sen Inhofe wants to kill fuel economy backed by automakers, small biz, enviros, & consumers -- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Patch backed me into a tree and kissed me, hard. I regained my breath. "Boys take not everywhere: That was a kiss. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
Dhoni backed Jadeja to play aggressively and backed Ishant to bowl short. I have not seen a better Indian captain than him. -- Kapil Dev
Last Thursday, our Supreme Court backed that local governments can co-opt private property, and give it to another private entity, for economic development. -- Cliff Stearns
If nobody can sell mortgage-backed securities based on trillions of dollars of unpayable instruments, there's a lot less risk in the overall system. -- Elizabeth Warren
Yes, I backed the hula hoop. And I had a lot of other people come to me with ideas that turned out well. -- Art Linkletter
Yes, I backed the hula hoop. And I had a lot of other people come to me with ideas that turned out well -- Art Linkletter
For too long people have backed companies on hope value rather than solid products coming out. Now we are coming out the other side. -- Daniel Morgan
Laws have to be backed up with resources and political will. And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed. -- Hillary Clinton
John McCain said that Sarah Palin is still a force in the Republican Party. Then he got in his car and backed over his mailbox. -- David Letterman
Economic planning is nothing more than the forcible superseding of other people's plans by the powerful elite backed up by the brute force of government. -- Walter E. Williams
The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task. -- Aldrich Ames
When I played, I received racial abuse but I was just one of a few black players and we weren't backed up by the authorities. -- Ruud Gullit
I've got a huge, huge position in mortgage-backed securities. I started accumulating them in 2009, when the market was really down and things were really scary. -- Jeff Greene
The philosophy I shared... was one of ambition - ambition to succeed, ambition to grow, ambition to move forward - backed up by hard work. -- Frank Lowy
I took no money to make art, but my woman backed me up on it and I want my children to see their father happy. -- Jason Momoa
Have I said dumb things? Absolutely, who hasn't? But I have never backed away from being called out on something I did or said wrong. -- Curt Schilling
The most practical of all methods for controlling the mind is the habit of keeping it busy with a definite purpose, backed by a definite plan. -- Napoleon Hill
Then came the hostage crisis during which Carter did nothing to rattle the ayatollahs who hung tough until Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, when they suddenly backed down. -- Alexander Haig
It's still a compliment when you're backed by younger and older, but it's actually unexpected. It's surprising, but for me it's in fact the most beautiful compliment. -- Stromae
Thought is power, as is desire, but neither is enough unless it is backed by faith, specificity, and the desire to see to it that it becomes. -- Stephen Richards
It's not enough for women to speak out on the issue - for the message to be strong and consistent, women's voices must be backed up by men's. -- John Conyers
When I see people laughing at ideas and companies we have backed, I smile. It means we are going to make a lot of money on that investment. -- Fred Wilson
Gingrich first backed the concept in 1993, "I am for people, individuals "? exactly like automobile insurance "? individuals having health insurance and being required to have health insurance, -- Newt Gingrich
The corporation is not a person; it is a legal fiction backed up by guns and police and jail cells and taxing authorities and the regulators called government. -- Jerry Brown
Rand rubbed his hands over his face. His anger had dissipated. "I'm sorry, Yelena. I was backed into a corner and I couldn't get out without hurting someone. -- Maria V. Snyder
Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many. -- Bob Brown
Honduras is strongly anti-Communist, maintains no diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, and has provided vital support for United States-backed rebels fighting to overthrow the Sandinistas in neighboring Nicaragua. -- Stephen Kinzer
We have new rules that give shareholders the ability to vote on executive compensation. We have new rules for asset-backed securities. We have new rules around credit rating agencies. -- Mary Schapiro
A dream written down with a date becomes a goal. A goal broken down into steps becomes a plan. A plan backed by action makes your dreams come true. -- Greg Reid
The gift turned inward, unable to be given, becomes a heavy burden, even sometimes a kind of poison. It is as though the flow of life were backed up. -- May Sarton
One word is enough to destroy an entire city provided that word is backed by anger. Drop down the bullets of anger; it destroys at the speed of light! -- Israelmore Ayivor
If blacks were given the right to vote, that would place every splay-footed, bandy-shanked, hump-backed, thick-lipped, flat-nosed, woolly-headed, ebon-colored in the country upon an equality with the poor white man. -- Andrew Johnson
Everything is entertainment; criticism is now entertainment and it seems that the French directors have woken up one day and suddenly realised that they were not backed up any more. -- Wim Wenders
It is essential that in a society, divine thoughts and power should co-exist. Simple Faith, not backed by material forces, is weak and Strength without touch of Divinity is monstrous. -- Pandurang Shastri Athavale
When authority is backed up by an immediate physical compulsion, what we are dealing with is not authority proper (i.e. symbolic authority), but simply an agency of brute force. -- Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
Other bands gave us lip service, but when it came down to it they kind of backed off. That was a little disheartening. But I respect them. That's their business. -- Mike McCready
I don't even have many friends anymore because I backed away from them. When things went wrong for me I didn't want them to have any part of my trouble. -- Betty Hutton
Sammy Davis, I backed him up. I used to study him every night. I saw how great performers worked and was able to incorporate a little bit from the best. -- Bobby Vinton
Everyone holds a secret and that's just true about everyone. So at the end of the day it's amazing what people will do when they're backed up in a corner. -- Matt Barr
The chances of a bank going out of business are extremely slim, but it's always a good idea to spread around major sums so every penny is backed by insurance. -- Suze Orman
The first video I ever watched was on a Beta system because everyone thought Beta was the way but then it ended up being video so we backed the wrong horse. -- Joel Edgerton
Power is defined as an ability to do qualitative work with a quantitative passion, backed by a compelling conviction, directed by a propelling purpose, fulfilling a divine destiny. That is power! -- Israelmore Ayivor
This is the man who called the fire department when the toilet backed up, and I'm asking him for help. What was I thinking? Why am I attracted to weak men? -- Christopher Moore
Marco Rubio, I think, will be president some day. Whether 2016 is his time, time will tell. He embraced immigration reform. He seems to have backed off. I'll let him explain why. -- Lindsey Graham
Bravery is a willing decision to do what must be done. Fear is a cancer that is cured only by doing what must be done, backed by an intelligent, open mind. -- Corey Aaron Burkes
People have a right to their own opinions, but not to their own facts. Evidence must be located, not created, and opinions not backed by evidence cannot be given much weight. -- James W. Loewen

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