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Backs dialogue for solving disputes and not military power and threats. -- Amr Moussa
To survive, humans will work together. Accept each other. For a moment, we are all equal. Backs against the wall, human beings are at their finest. -- Daniel H. Wilson
I want my teammates to know I have their backs. -- Bryce Harper
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs. -- Karl Marx
There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs. -- Kristin Scott Thomas
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. -- Charles Dickens
When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places. -- John Cheever
The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people. -- William O. Douglas
If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day. -- John Madden
It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs. -- Jim Hightower
If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs. -- William Feather
I frequently dream of being on these horses' backs and running across a field. And the horse and I are one. -- William Shatner
In Detroit, the quarterbacks lift with all the linebackers and running backs and everybody else, so I'm doing that whole thing. -- Matthew Stafford
President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people. -- Ralph Nader
There is no kind way to rip the skin off animals' backs. Anyone who wears any fur shares the blame for the torture and gruesome deaths of millions of animals each year. -- Natalie Imbruglia
I think better of our behaviour as individuals than I do when we see ourselves as members of a group. It's when people start forming groups that we have to watch our backs. -- John Irving
I've gone through guys who want to lay on their backs and play like they're full of themselves. You know, I don't care about posing. I mean look at me, do I care about posing? -- Bill Kreutzmann
Really hairy backs on men turn me off. I'm not into the ape thing at all. Or beer bellies and flabby arms, either. Also, one random nose hair which is longer than the others... that's gross. -- Nadine Velazquez
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up the address of publishers on the backs of the books she owned and send off her manuscript. -- Kiran Desai
My wife totally backs the way I am on stage; that's one of the amazing things about her. I have 120 per cent respect for her when I'm on stage, so there are definitely certain things I would never do. -- Gerard Way
Oh, yeah, I like a high neck. And I like naked backs. It seems very sexy. Red carpets are about being a bit theatrical - having fun rather than being too safe. You have to be brave. Fashion is fun. -- Eva Green
Young people all over the world are very frustrated. They are very disillusioned. Many of them are turning their backs on religion. They are walking away from the faith of their parents, and most of this is because religion has failed them. -- Myles Munroe
Johnny Depp is like a brother to me. We have matching tattoos on our backs - Charles Baudelaire, the flowers of evil, this giant skeleton thing. It's kind of a secret. People say to us, 'Why did you get that?' And we say, 'No reason.' -- Marilyn Manson
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 put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole. -- Maya Angelou
My definition, a definition in the drill books from the time that General Von Steuben wrote the regulations for General George Washington, the definition of the object of military training is success in battle... It wouldn't be any sense to have a military organization on the backs of the American taxpayers with any other definition. -- Chesty Puller
There's one Baldessari work I genuinely love and would like to own, maybe because of my Midwestern roots and love of driving alone. 'The backs of all the trucks passed while driving from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, California, Sunday, 20 January 1963' consists of a grid of 32 small color photographs depicting just what the title says. -- Jerry Saltz
If I should have a daughter, instead of 'Mom,' she's gonna call me 'Point B,' because that way she knows that no matter what happens, at least she can always find her way to me. And I'm going to paint solar systems on the backs of her hands so she has to learn the entire universe before she can say, 'Oh, I know that like the back of my hand.' -- Sarah Kay
We see not our own backs. -- Catullus
I have seen their backs before. -- Duke of Wellington
Words carry oceans on their small backs. -- Lidia Yuknavitch
I refuse to say things behind people's backs. -- Marilyn Manson
The enemy never sees the backs of my Texans! -- Robert E. Lee
Don't pray for lighter burdens, but for stronger backs. -- Gautama Buddha
With their backs to the sunrise they worship the night. -- Robert G. Ingersoll
With their backs to the sunrise they worship the night. -- Robert G. Ingersoll
States should not balance their budgets on the backs of students. -- Arne Duncan
To speak behind others' backs is the ventilator of the heart. -- Marjane Satrapi
We will never-and I mean never-turn our backs on our employees. -- Howard Schultz
A true New Yorker never backs down, and I'm no exception. Holla! -- Heather Thomson
Nothing is impossible to the person who backs DESIRE with enduring FAITH. -- Napoleon Hill
Fighters are fighters. We got each others backs in terms of support. -- Tommy Morrison
If more designers had bad backs, we would have more good chairs. -- Ralph Caplan
Women are good for only one thing - lying on their backs. -- Harold Ballard
The Universe backs the part of you that is of clearest intention -- Gary Zukav
No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people. -- Fidel Castro
You can always spot the pioneers by the arrows in their backs. -- William H. Calvin
Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs. -- Seneca the Younger
We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs. -- Ivy Compton-Burnett
There are no take-backs?just as in life. You must think before you move. -- Susan Polgar
As snap-backs became more popular, I started to search and expand my hat game. -- Theophilus London
When our backs are against the wall, we must turn around and march forward. -- John Major
What's funny is that male strippers don't wear thongs anymore. They wear flat backs. -- Joe Manganiello
Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs. -- Mary Elizabeth Braddon
I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's like sweat, on people's backs. -- T. J. Miller
To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs. -- Paul Gillmor
We value apology in the abstract, but turn our backs on it in practice. -- John Kador
My teammates, they put me on their backs and they wouldn't let me down. -- Jerome Bettis
Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow. -- Martha Graham
I believe in talking behind peoples' backs. That way, they hear it more than once. -- Fran Lebowitz
Mutually counting on each other, watching each other's backs, forcing each other to be brave. -- Suzanne Collins
Even in these times, there are still neighbors that will turn their backs on neighbors. -- Wynton Marsalis
Defensive backs are always trying to kill me, so I'm trying to get them first. -- Hines Ward
Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do. -- Melinda Gates
When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up. -- Roger Babson
No one cuts backs like he did. No one knows what a back is anymore. -- Diana Vreeland
I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned -- Quentin Crisp
I was raised right â?? I talk about people behind their backs. It's called manners. -- Kathy Griffin
Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs. -- Catullus
I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned. -- Quentin Crisp
I don't feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering. -- Marianne Williamson
Everything that creates itself upon the backs of smaller scales will by those same scales be consumed. -- David Eagleman
I'm always surprised to see the way "friends" will twist things or trash people behind their backs. -- Ariana Madix
And I'm a Hailsham student - which is enough by itself sometimes to get people's backs up. -- Kazuo Ishiguro
Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up. -- Charles L. Allen
The days blur into one, and the backs of my eyes hum with things I've never done. -- Radical Face
placid, adj. Sometimes I love it when we just lie on our backs, gaze off, stay still. -- David Levithan
That's one of the things you get when you're playing golf. You get bad backs, bad necks. -- Tom Watson
Donald Trump's campaign manager said that you built a lot of businesses on the backs of little guys. -- Hillary Clinton
This country was built on the backs of dudes who drank on buses. What we do honors them. -- Sam Lipsyte
It's amazing what the sight of four gentlemen with red crosses on their backs can to injured players. -- Jon Champion
If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible. -- Honore de Balzac
We give up our backs and allow religious myths to apply the rear naked choke to our minds. -- Cameron Conaway
All of them turned their backs on me at that time because they thought I was a troublemaker. -- Fred Korematsu
Great achievement often happens when our backs are up against the wall. Pressure can actually enhance your performance. -- Robin Sharma
I am not big on jewelry, but I do love hats as an accessory, specifically snap backs and beanies. -- Jourdan Dunn
I thought we'd die there, quarrels in our backs, you for what you did and me for bearing witness. -- Janet Morris
We were sleeping on the same bed with our backs to each other trying to imagine a new life. -- Kalyani Rao
Superheroes allow their capes to hang off their backs; but our Superwomen choose to wrap them around their heads. -- Boonaa Mohammed
Sometimes we used to eat once a day... chicken backs. You could buy four chicken backs for a quarter. -- Raul Julia
An accountant is a man who puts his head in the past and backs his ass into the future. -- F. Ross Johnson
The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it. -- Mignon McLaughlin
If you're gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up. -- Joan Baez
God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily. -- Jimmy Carter
In this age of growing interconnectedness, we understand that turning our backs on the world is simply not an option. -- Douglas Alexander
It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing. -- Scott Westerfeld
You want bold? Ask the hundreds of defensive backs I ran over during my career if they think I'm bold. -- Jerome Bettis
All the backs in the history of this game are the same when there isn't any hole to run through. -- Bill Parcells
Angels do walk among us. Sometimes the only thing we may not see are the wings resting upon their backs. -- Molly Friedenfeld
Jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones. -- Cab Calloway
We, the artists, make the stuff they sell and they're like ticks on our backs, sucking the life out of us. -- Malcolm Wilson
No one can tell what the future holds, you're backs to the corner, you make the choice of how it goes. -- Kenny Loggins
The ancestors will turn their backs against you and you will have bad luck forever if you leave the ANC unhappy -- Jacob Zuma
Catty is not cool. I can't think of anything less becoming than a man who talks about people behind their backs. -- Meghan Markle
Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up. -- Henry David Thoreau
I was driving pretty much the way everyone drives in LA, like elephants dancing on each others' backs at a circus. -- Gary Reilly
How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins. -- Henry David Thoreau
willing me to understand: that people should be sacrificed to causes, that beauty can be built on the backs of the dead. -- Lauren Oliver
They were Catholic, my lovers,All in an access of crossing themselves,Particularly their fingersBehind their suspendered backs--And that was the women. -- Shay Caroline
If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine. -- Johannes Tauler
Talking about straws and camels' backs is just one way of approaching things. If you have enough camels, no backs need be broken. -- Idries Shah
Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people. -- Oscar Isaac
I do like to keep mementos from my work, whether they be photos, the backs of make-up chairs or even props and clothes. -- Adam Garcia
Now hell and heaven grapple on our backs and all our old pretense is ripped away. Aye, and God's icy wind will blow. -- Arthur Miller
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
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers? -- Bertolt Brecht
You have to use your mind n the NFL. Every player is smarter. Defensive backs bluff and disguise coverages to try to fool you. -- Chad Ochocinco
I feel the film companies should pay for proper advertising to see that the movie will sell, instead of putting it on our backs. -- Billy Crudup
The patience of poverty. In rice fields, backs bent forever. Amazing, man outoxens the oxen and still smiles. The mystery of India, say Indologists. -- Gunter Grass

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