Backs Quotes

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.

We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive.

Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can balance it only on the wallets of the rich.

Sometimes we used to eat once a day... chicken backs. You could buy four chicken backs for a quarter.

The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

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?

If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.

The danger that we have right now are people who get the same information as I do and, therefore, think they'll reach the same conclusions that haven't traded as long, don't have bear claws up and down their backs like I do.

Everybody goes through obstacles and problems and issues and turn their backs on people that we are fond of and love just because we hurt; and everybody goes through that.

There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs.

We feel good about our running backs as we have them right now, and we will continue to see how they progress.

No one cuts backs like he did. No one knows what a back is anymore.

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 we're fat. You read one line in a magazine and it sends you into a tailspin.

My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results.

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.

We, the artists, make the stuff they sell and they're like ticks on our backs, sucking the life out of us.

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.

It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs.

Even in these times, there are still neighbors that will turn their backs on neighbors.

Defensive backs are the best players on the field. But when you get an exceptional player like a Deion Sanders or a Darrell Green - these guys are fast and they have very good technique. You have to work a little harder.

When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.

It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.

The music and everything we're doing on the stage and on television backs itself up. If that's what gets people's curiosity going or brings their attention to us, that's fine.

In fact, it works the other way: A government as big and bossy as this one is maintained on the backs of the middle class and those who hope to join it.

That's what we really mean by being feared on the football field. And not actually the player that fears him, it's the offensive coordinator that fears him or the running backs coach.

States should not balance their budgets on the backs of students.

Last year we had so many people coming in and out they didn't bother to sew their names on the backs of the uniforms. They just put them there with Velcro.

To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs.

I really don't look at comparing things that way because even in a 14-game season, there could be a running back who could have a lot more carries than other running backs.