Top 36 Turned Their Backs Quotes
#1. But on the other hand, there are many corporations who have turned their backs on the American worker, who have said, if I can make another nickel in profit by going to China and shutting down in the United States of America, that's what I will do.
Bernie Sanders
#2. Jesus spoke to those who had turned their backs on history. He spoke to those who had blatantly ignored sign after sign, servant after servant.
Max Lucado
#3. I made mistakes. I trusted both too little and too much. But, by the gods, I tried so hard. I gave everything I had.
I have always done the best I could, and yet, somehow,it has never been enough. No one cared what I did. They always turned their backs on me. Why can't I be like that?
Marie Lu
#4. What a disgrace! They were afraid...ashamed...they chose to conceal it...they buried the roots of a Great Civilization...they lacked the courage to go further...and turned their backs on what science had to offer them...and tried to seal away forever the hole they had torn open with their own hands.
Katsuhiro Otomo
#5. During the first millennium BCE, even the beer-loving Mesopotamians turned their backs on beer, which was dethroned as the most cultured and civilized of drinks, and the age of wine began.
Tom Standage
#6. The girls screamed. They covered themselves with their hands and turned their backs and so on, and made themselves utterly beautiful.
Kurt Vonnegut
#7. All of them turned their backs on me at that time because they thought I was a troublemaker.
Fred Korematsu
#8. I have always done the best I could, and yet, somehow, it has never been enough. No one cared what I did. They always turned their backs on me.
Marie Lu
#9. [Thomas Henry] Huxley is a very genial, comfortable being-yet with none of the noisy and windy geniality of some folks here, whom you find with their backs turned when you are responding to the remarks that they have made you.
Henry James
#10. Those who do not hope cannot wait; but if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
Charles Spurgeon
#11. When you are lying in bed angry with your backs turned towards each other, imagine Satan sleeping in the space between you.
Mark Driscoll
#12. The people I hung out with in my early twenties were middle-class and, at least to our minds, artistic. We'd all turned our backs on privilege, but comfortably, the way you can when you still have access to it.
David Sedaris
#13. With the 'Watchmen' comic, we attempted to tell it in an accessible way. I deliberately made the artwork very clear, deceptively so. You think you're sucking on a sweetie, but it turns out to be a sugar-coated chili.
Dave Gibbons
#14. So I immediately joined Sutton College of Music in Grove Road, Sutton to thoroughly learn theory of music. Over and over again, I would copy all the major and minor scales until I was blue in the face. It wasn't easy because it was so boring but I knew it was absolutely essential to have this
John Fox
#15. Believe in yourself and in your inner strength. You can do anything you want. Just put your mind to it!
Camilla Dorand
#16. In spite of Mr. Poe's fame, the pair made me feel out of sorts, and sad. In one of the busiest cities in the world, they seemed to exist on a bleak island of their own making, their backs turned against the social tide lapping at the battered door.
Lynn Cullen
#17. Whatever you've learned becomes truly useful to you only once it has become second nature.
Guthrie Govan
#18. The Council turned an elite squad into a mockery," Marjorie had said to Zaira more than once. "They used us as a whip on the backs of those who would oppose their rule, while allowing the true threats to roam free.
Nalini Singh
#19. This was the sort of cruelty that only came from turned backs, from being ignored. Well-aimed lashes and direct blows were more easily understood. At least then the stricken knew their anguished cries were being heard.
Hugh Howey
#20. Success is the ability to move from one failure to another without losing enthusiasm" Winston Churchill
Amit Eshet
#22. I have no idea why hitting people when their backs are turned has such a bad reputation. I've always found it most effective."
Cassandra Gannon
#23. A darkness lies behind us, and we have turned our backs upon it, and we do not desire to return thither even in thought. Westwards our hearts have been turned, and we believe that there we shall find Light.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#24. When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment of global crisis or will it be recorded that we did the right thing?
Nelson Mandela
#25. I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned.
Quentin Crisp
#26. You mean you don't want to come in and hold my hand while I piss?
Nenia Campbell
#27. Doubt comes to the door in darkness, pretending to be alone and in need of your compassionate ear. But if you let him in, he'll bring his friends.
Julia Cameron
#30. Only cinema narrows its concern down to its content, that is to its story. It should, instead, concern itself with its form, its structure.
Peter Greenaway
#31. The majority of people who claim to be overworked work less than they think they do, and many of the ways people work are extraordinarily inefficient. Calling something "work" does not make it important or necessary.
Laura Vanderkam
#32. Film directing has perfected my theater directing. I think when I first started directing, a lot of my stuff was very lateral; I was afraid to have the actors' backs turned away, afraid to put them too far upstage, and I think once I did more things with film, I got more interested in composition.
Adam Rapp
#33. But supposed she had a sudden urge to see their faces and turned to look at them - what would she see? Probably she would find that their backs were turned to her as well.
Aiko Kitahara
#34. A society is judged by the way it cares for its most vulnerable citizens. As an American, I am ashamed that we have turned out backs on millions of our children. I want to do my part to rectify this terrible situation.
Marlo Thomas
#35. In my view, one of the major reasons that we have so many people in jail is that we have turned our backs on a lot young people.
Bernie Sanders
#36. I'd always known that when you went through one of these doors, you went to another planet, and that that other planet might be so far away, you couldn't fly there in spaceship in a million years. Somehow, the whole thing had never seemed strange before today.
Mary G. Thompson
