Backbends Rib Quotes

#1. It is the darling delusion of mankind that the world is progressive in religion, toleration, freedom, as it is progressive in machinery.

Moncure D. Conway

#2. Come here immediately and see if you can find the murderer of the President.

Edwin M. Stanton

#3. Beautify your tongues, O people, with truthfulness, and adorn your souls with the ornament of honesty. Beware, O people, that ye deal not treacherously with any one.

Baha'u'llah

#4. I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable nighttime conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air when there's no light in the room.

David Levithan

#5. Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

Alexandre Dumas

#6. Grief is like a journey one must take on a winding mountainside, often seeing the same scenery many times, a road which eventually leads to somewhere we've never been before.

Gladys M. Hunt

#7. I prefer to work for my country in a free and independent way. I was born free, and I want to die free. I am always suspicious of ideology. Instead, I respect men with ideas.

Andrea Bocelli