Backwashed Quotes

#1. An odor of June mud, backwashed with essence of meadow-grass and a whiff of cow.

Gregory Maguire

#2. That looked like an intense little conversation," she said. "Who called?" "President of the United States," he answered, starting the engine. "Okay, fine," Cori sighed. "Don't tell me.

Brett King

#3. I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#4. She was a riddle, who mysteriously possessed her own solution, a secret, and what are all diplomats' secrets compared with this, an enigma, and what in all the world is so beautiful as the word that solves it?

Soren Kierkegaard

#5. Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.

Joseph Hall

#6. Most of the significant contributions that have been made to society have been made by people who were tired.

Winston Churchill

#7. We make a living by what we get and make a life by what we give.

Winston S. Churchill

#8. Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

Immanuel Kant

#9. Science proposes something and then does everything it can to disprove it. Religion is not like that. It proposes something and does everything it can to keep it from being disproved.

Roger Scruton

#10. There is only one thing in life you can control: Your own effort.

Mark Cuban

#11. To be great in our times too often means to have great prosperity and no moral magnanimity at all.

Cornel West

#12. After twenty years in Canada, there are certain American lunatics who still fascinate me.

John Irving

#13. Everyday we act in ways that reflect our ethical judgements.

Peter Singer

#14. I'm going to try to enjoy the All-Star break, hope my players reflect on what happened the first half of the season, come back with a different attitude, try to find our solution on how to win it.

Don Baylor

#15. Was he demanding? Hell yes, but he wasn't selfish. He took. He was ruthless in his demands. But he gave her back so much. Not just materially but emotionally, though he'd likely deny he did any such thing.

Maya Banks

#16. The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.

Bill Gates