Backways Quotes

#1. A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways.

Mark Twain

#2. They locked her up and kept trying to break her. But she kept coming back, and do you know what I think?" "No." "She got stronger each time.

David Lagercrantz

#3. What is technically called the 'fungibility' of money, is its chief value as an article of commerce; and this fact could not long remain recognized, even by such a conservative class as legal officials.

Edward Jenks

#4. There is no more terrible woe upon earth than the woe of the stricken brain, which remembers the days of its strength, the living light of its reason, the sunrise of its proud intelligence, and knows that these have passed away like a tale that is told ...

Ouida

#5. Whenever Canada moves to protect its own industries and people, it is subjected to violent attacks in the U.S. Congress and to threats of economic retaliation.

Judy LaMarsh

#6. Queequeg was George Washington cannibalistically developed.

Herman Melville

#7. I realized I could only play-act at the spiritual life as long as my appetites were stronger than my empathy.

Victoria Moran

#8. Anyone deserves a second chance, but not everyone deserves a second chance.

Shawn Lukas

#9. Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.

Igor Stravinsky

#10. Where are your clothes? And do not pretend you do not know. I can accept that you may not know if you killed a man, but every girl always knows where her clothes are.

M.R.C. Kasasian

#11. The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves.

Shunryu Suzuki

#12. ... there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means of fighting a plague is - common decency.

Albert Camus

#13. You will know when the time comes, Cloudstar replied. Could you be any more vague? Firestar thought irritably.

Erin Hunter

#14. We can let our goals motivate and inspire us, but we don't want to let them determine our happiness or self worth.

Elaina Marie

#15. Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

F Scott Fitzgerald