John Backus Quotes

#1. Be always concerned with what concerns God

Sunday Adelaja

#2. I ... " - her voice nearly disappeared - "think I live for you.

Rainbow Rowell

#3. You need the willingness to fail all the time.

John Backus

#4. Much of my work has come from being lazy.

John Backus

#5. Europe needs an engine, and the Franco-German motor has provided that when the two nations have converged on important topics during critical periods. But that partnership shouldn't be a directorate for other EU members.

Francois Hollande

#6. No low-trust society will ever produce sustained innovation.

Thomas L. Friedman

#7. There's also something about your bed; it's sort of a symbol of yourself and of your marriage, if you're married. Making your bed doesn't seem to be an important thing in a happy life, and yet it can be that tiny foothold into a more orderly life that sometimes people need.

Gretchen Rubin

#8. An authentic and ingenious account of the ingeniously counterfeit in art and in life.

D. J. Enright

#9. Goldfish have no memory, I guess their lives are much like mine. And the little plastic castle is a surprise everytime.

Ani DiFranco

#10. All people are the same; only their habits differ.

Confucius

#11. I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.

Courteney Cox

#12. They don't like thinking in medical school. They memorize - that's all they want you to do. You must not think.

John Backus

#13. The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that you tend to undervalue the times when you're apparently doing nothing, and those are very important times.

Brian Eno

#14. I, myself, have had many failures and I've learned that if you are not failing a lot, you are probably not being as creative as you could be -you aren't stretching your imagination.

John Backus

#15. Everything's mine, Francis," she replied in a merry tone. "The only question is whether or not it knows it is yet.

Jim Butcher

#16. If I didn't believe, there would be nothing left.

Alex Flinn

#17. She crooned in his head. Honey, I'm so proud of you for not killing anybody.
His gaze flashed to hers, and that flat, assessing expression vanished as he laughed. Squeezing her fingers, he told her, Week's not over yet.

Thea Harrison

#18. No matter what it takes, I'm going to prove that I love you and I need you and I want you - and that those kids are yours." With

J.R. Ward

#19. I've always had an interest in business, and my interest in business has really expanded over the years.

Derek Jeter