Back Peddling Quotes

#1. Liza considering back-peddling but thought about her empty bank account. "That'll be fine, sir. I don't wear skirts anyway."
He hmphed as though he suspected she might also be inclined to burn her bra on the courthouse steps and snapped, "No jeans either, this is a professional establishment.

Gwenn Wright

#2. Now, most of the time you couldn't be too sure of the quality of the drug. Although, in my experience the stuff was always of a very high quality, because back then we didn't have business majors peddling lower-quality stuff in an effort to increase profits.

Lewis Black

#3. I will have nothing to do with a bomb! [Response to being invited (1943) to work with Otto Robert Frisch and some British scientists at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project to create the atomic bomb.]

Lise Meitner

#4. Forgiveness empties the past of its power to empty the present of its peace.

L.R. Knost

#5. Well so am I." She stared at the coverlet. "What I said ... earlier," she faltered, glancing at him and then away. "I was overwrought and tired, and I guess I kind of got carried away."
"You mistook a chill for true love?

Diana Palmer

#6. Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

Agatha Christie

#7. I don't really collect books. I tend to lose interest in them the minute I've read them, so most of the books I've read are left in airplanes and hotel rooms.

Malcolm Gladwell

#8. I hope we win the game tonight." "I hope I pass my final tomorrow." We often use the word hope as a wish for something to happen. But hope in God is something far deeper. It's knowing that he's in control, that he loves us, and that our future is secure in him.

Max Lucado

#9. Much of the time, we cannot control what happens to us. But we can always control how we respond to what happens to us. If we cannot choose to be lucky, to be talented, to be loved, we can choose to be grateful, to be content with who we are and what we have, and to act accordingly.

Harold S. Kushner

#10. No matter how often he strips the past from her body, she finds a way to wear it again.

Stuart Dybek

#11. The game is never lost till won.

George Crabbe

#12. The entire merit of a man can never be made known; nor the sum of his demerits, if he have them. We are only known by our names; as letters sealed up, we but read each other's superscriptions.

Herman Melville

#13. Indeed, there was a frankness in his face, an honesty, and an undisguised show of his pride in her, and his love for her, which were, to me, the best of good looks.

Charles Dickens

#14. One realization does dawn upon the death of the second parent, namely that you've now moved into the green room to the River Styx. You're next.

Christopher Buckley

#15. You must be passionate, you must dedicate yourself, and you must be relentless in the pursuit of your goals. If you do, you will be successful.

Steve Garvey

#16. To be a good actor you have to feel life and observe life.

Lane Garrison

#17. Love is impossible without bite marks.

Nelson Rodrigues