Backbreaking Quotes

#1. Writing is nothing if not carrying the hopeless, backbreaking burden of decisions devoid of consequences.

Aleksandar Hemon

#2. Preparation is the only way to get ready for a hard test, whether a court trial, race, boxing match, Broadway appearance or death. You can fake readiness, falling back on past experience and bravado. But without backbreaking preparation for a main event, you know inside that you aren't really ready.

James Donovan

#3. Romantic comedies are backbreaking to write because they have to be fresh.

Mike Newell

#4. Better meant American. Better meant safe, clean, honest, and true. Dreams of every size and description lulled them into restful sleep at night and fueled them through their backbreaking days. At

Adriana Trigiani

#5. [To learn] is to harness Nature; to spare man all that is most physical, backbreaking, and brutish in the work of production; to make mind master over matter.

Frederic Bastiat

#6. I see robotic technology getting rid of the dangerous, the dirty, and the just plain boring jobs. Some people say, 'You can't. People won't have anything to do.' But we found things that were a lot easier than backbreaking labor in the sun and the fields. Let people rise to better things.

Rodney Brooks

#7. Anyone with a show on T.V. will tell you it's backbreaking work. And if you have a big personality, which I have, and you're a perfectionist, there's going to be head-butting.

Roseanne Barr

#8. You can travel from one end of the industrialized world to the other and almost the only people you will find engaging in backbreaking toil are people who are doing it for sport. To find people whose day's toil has not been lightened by mechanical invention, you must go to the non-capitalist world.

Milton Friedman

#9. The only difference between realizing a dream and losing oneself in fantasy [is] backbreaking work.

Mark Frost

#10. Boredom was as exhausting as backbreaking labor.

Jung Chang

#11. It was backbreaking, round-the-clock work, and it made us realize how hard the nurses and aides and orderlies worked in their normal routines, but we managed to prevent skin breakdown or any other problems among the more than five hundred patients. Work

Oliver Sacks

#12. Obviously, personal responsibility is important. But there's no evidence that people who are poor are less ambitious than anyone else. In fact, many work long hours at backbreaking jobs.

Robert Reich

#13. And the jobs we worked, Jesus - Jesus - Jesus, the jobs we worked. Low-paying jobs. Backbreaking jobs. Jobs that gnawed at the bones of our dignity, devoured the meat, tongued the marrow.

NoViolet Bulawayo

#14. Farming is backbreaking work, but at least it is honest labor. This killing isn't honest. It is thievery ... the thievery of men's lives, and no right-minded person should aspire to it.

Christopher Paolini

#15. The grace of God transforms the sinner into saint.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. On every birthday, when I wake, I now take out the old Nagan, load it with one bullet, spin the chamber and pull the trigger with the barrel in my mouth. I've cheated death nine times. It is my greatest achievement. And three months to go to my next birthday. I can't wait.

Eddy Shah

#17. When you're younger, the mental strain of being a successful actor, jumping from role to role, and trying to have some kind of personal life, can really be terrible.

Kathy Baker

#18. Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.

Maxwell Maltz

#19. I swear, Z. I was hoping you'd use this time here to show Artemis that you can mingle with people again. (Acheron)
Sure you were. Why don't you cover me in shit and tell me it's mud while you're at it? (Zarek)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#20. We all know fear. But passion makes us fearless.

Paulo Coelho

#21. That's when he'd run and run until he was nothing more than two feet and a pair of lungs, until he coughed blood and stank of sweat and forgot for an hour or two everything that he was and what he had to do and the people who'd get hurt along the way.

Carmen Amato

#22. God saved you for Himself; God saved you by Himself; God saved you from Himself.

Paul Washer

#23. It was as if her insides were light-headed. And her heart was not beating quite properly. It wasn't racing, and it wasn't pounding ... It was dancing. Singing.

Julia Quinn

#24. I ain't from Africa. I'm from St. Louis.

Redd Foxx

#25. There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.

Fabiola Gianotti