Top 25 A Man With No Backbone Quotes
#1. ...you have been taught to grow out; I have been taught to grow in...I learned to absorb.
Lily Myers
#2. That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed.
Albert Einstein
#3. There are physical karmas that carry through death. Jesus Christ may no longer be with us but his effects continue on in the world. Those waves will be passed on from one person to another to another.
Frederick Lenz
#4. He who busies himself with the sins of others, or judges his brother on suspicion, has not yet even begun to repent or to examine himself so as to discover his own sins ...
St. Maximos The Confessor
#5. Much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul.
Herman Melville
#6. Many a man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone should have been.
Ronald Reagan
#7. Fabulous lover, excellent decorator - rotten writer? Nobody can be good at everything, and two out of three ain't bad.
Rupert Smith
#8. Wherever I've been, and I've been to over 20, maybe 25, countries in Africa, I've noticed how their backbone is broken. They don't have any confidence in themselves. They always think a white man will solve their problems from outside for them.
Bunker Roy
#9. My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.
Bear Grylls
#10. What use to the sane, after all, are the words of the mad?
Alexis Hall
#11. The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!
Rudyard Kipling
#12. It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.
George Matthew Adams
#13. Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.
Dick Wolf
#14. Give house-room to the best; 'tis never known
Verture and pleasure both to dwell in one.
Robert Herrick
#15. I like to think of myself as the middleman between Fred Allen and Henny Youngman.
Milton Berle
#16. With the attraction for lust and lucre working the other way, how many long for the realisation of God?
Swami Vivekananda
#17. Grit is the grain of character. It may generally be described as heroism materialized,
spirit and will thrust into heart, brain, and backbone, so as to form part of the physical substance of the man.
Edwin Percy Whipple
#18. You know before you know, of course. You are bending over the dryer, pulling out the still-warm sheets, and the knowledge walks up your backbone. You stare at the man you love and you are staring at nothing; he is gone before he is gone.
Elizabeth Berg
#19. The anchor man thrown overboard has simply rooted us in history's repeating cycle
Saul Williams
#20. Nature offers a well from which many, famous or not, draw a creative sense of pattern and connection.
Richard Louv
#21. The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
William J.H. Boetcker
#22. Do you think my being someone else's wife will change anything? Don't you know that I'd lie with you in the groves, under the light of the moon? That I'd defy the laws of gods and men for you?
Richelle Mead
#24. Adam and Eve ate the first vitamins, including the package.
E. R. Squibb
#25. Sometimes players need to gain time on the clock by repeating the position, but most often its purpose is to wear down the opponent psychologically.
Pal Benko
