Top 27 Backed Into A Corner Quotes
#1. When backed into a corner, a victim has two options: he can lie down and die, or, he can fight regardless of the odds.
Marc Schiller
#3. [O]ther thinkers have philosophised since the time of Plato, but that does not destroy the interest and beauty of his philosophy
Frederick Charles Copleston
#4. For any writer who wants to keep a journal, be alive to everything, not just to what you're feeling, but also to your pets, to flowers, to what you're reading.
May Sarton
#5. People who have been backed into a corner will do anything to fight their way to the center again.
Jodi Picoult
#6. You like to be chased, nalla," Z said in a voice so deep it distorted. Bella's smile got even wider as she backed up into a corner. "Maybe." "So run some more, why don't you.
J.R. Ward
#7. You will never ever be backed into a corner of desperation as long as you trust and believe that "God's Got It.
Gale C. Adams
#8. Together, we will protect the sanctity of life, ensuring early next Congress that no federal funds are used for abortion.
Fred Upton
#9. I know that relationships can be a winding, sometimes unpredictable road ... it just seems to me that, if you ever find yourself backed into a corner, and the only way out is a box, that you have sex in, on stage, on live TV ... something has gone terribly wrong.
Matt Walsh
#10. I was trying to have an insight, and all I could think of was that I'd backed myself into a corner, and the corner was me.
John Welter
#11. That was part of being a girl--you were resigned to whatever feedback you'd get. If you got mad, you were crazy, and if you didn't react, you were a bitch. The only thing you could do was smile from the corner they'd backed you into. Implicate yourself in the joke even if the joke was always on you.
Emma Cline
#12. I took 'Grease' to play my trump card, my voice, and get attention that would lead to auditions for serious work like 'Angels in America.' But I backed myself into a corner with 'Grease,' and it took me 17 years to get out.
Billy Porter
#13. I know your game, you know. You get nasty when you're backed into a corner.
Lauren Dane
#14. Diversity has got to be a part of modern feminism, and I think that my feminism is stronger because its an inclusive thing. I won't be backed into a corner that polarizes me against other women. And I wished they wouldn't be either.
Betty Friedan
#15. People get desperate when they're backed into a corner.
Seohyun
#16. Nothing is more confusing than people who give good advice but set a bad example.
Norman Vincent Peale
#17. Everyone holds a secret and that's just true about everyone. So at the end of the day it's amazing what people will do when they're backed up in a corner.
Matt Barr
#18. Meanings generating meanings - the process has backed us into a particular corner, a kind of cave, where sunlight seldom enters.
Tarthang Tulku
#19. Back home the black women are all beautiful
Amiri Baraka
#20. Do I know everything about him already? she thought, bewildered. And back came the answer: Everything. You are branded with this knowledge, you will have it for the rest of time.
Eva Ibbotson
#21. Rand rubbed his hands over his face. His anger had dissipated. I'm sorry, Yelena. I was backed into a corner and I couldn't get out without hurting someone.
Maria V. Snyder
#22. I do not write for children, but for the childlike, whether of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.
George MacDonald
#23. That werewolf fantasy would be a hard one to pull off. She'd have to troll through the forest in high heels, just praying one of the scruffy campers was actually a raving beast.
Victoria Dahl
#24. What I'm trying to do in [Winter Journal] is to tell the story of a man's life from birth, but there are different versions of him, four different versions.
Paul Auster
#25. Backed into a corner, the poor can riot, but the rich start war.
Stefan Petrucha
#26. A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear.
William Hazlitt
#27. Daemon had written: "What do you do when she asks a question no man would give a child an answer to?"
Saetan had replied: "Hope you're obliging enough to answer it for me. However, if you're backed into a corner, refer her to me. I've become accustomed to being shocked.
Anne Bishop
