Back Benchers Quotes

#1. Back-benchers and Last-rankers in School; they have determined hands, powerful minds and courage to turn the mountain of opportunities in their favour, grind challenges and mould desires and dreams into Grand Realities.

Kavita Bhupta Ghosh

#2. For many years I have advocated 'redesigning Parliament' in a variety of ways - elect the Senate, do away with the 'confidence convention,' permit freer voting, strengthen the role of back benchers and committees, do away with ineffectual 'take note' debates, restructure question period, and so on.

Preston Manning

#3. Lead by inspiration, not intimidation.

Rebecca Aguilar

#4. Baseball has better opening days and All-Star Games than the N.F.L. does. Ours stink.

John Madden

#5. Your mental attitude is your motivation and your inspiration.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#6. All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe.

Roald Dahl

#7. I remember the day when they sold Brian Deane and Jan Aage Fjortoft. It was like when President Kennedy got shot.

Neil Warnock

#8. You have to keep your vision clear, cause only a coward lives in fear.

Nas

#9. Good guys are boring. You need a little bad to keep things fun. And nice guys? Nice guys have something to hide.

Emma Chase

#10. In Castling, the King must be moved first, or before the Rook is quitted. If the Rook be quitted before the King is touched, the opposing player may demand that the move of the Rook shall stand without the Castling being completed.

Howard Staunton

#11. Because, I figured that, because I was a successful man, I was wealthy, I was, you know, seemingly intelligent - even that I am not intelligent enough to ask for help.

Elton John

#12. I had just won the lawsuit against Melrose Place.

Hunter Tylo

#13. It's funny when you can actually relate to the fans on a human level and it happens all the time. People assume that's impossible. So when that happens it's a cool thing.

Kristen Stewart

#14. Astride a horse I am not, nor camel-like carry a load,
Subjects I have none, nor follow any sultan's code;
I worry not for what exists, nor fret for what is lost,
I breathe with extreme ease, and live at very little cost.

Saadi

#15. A representative assembly, although extremely well qualified, and absolutely necessary, as a branch of the legislative, is unfit to exercise the executive power, for want of two essential properties, secrecy and dispatch.

John Adams