- Nov 07, 2020
Back Quotes
Words about returning, backing up, and standing behind what matters.
This collection gathers lines built around the small word 'back' in surprisingly different contexts: political leverage handed back to Congress, actors returning from a shoot, and even a beauty routine built on backing up one step with another. See more reflective lines in our Always collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American people are desperately seeking a Moses to lead them out of the wilderness, back to the land of milk and honey. They thought maybe Barack Obama was the one, and when he proved to be mortal after all, they were willing to listen to anyone new.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not the sort to back away from a fight. I don't believe in shrinking from anything. It's not my speed; I'm a guy who meets adversities head on.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
After qualifying for a B.Sc. in pharmacology, I spent a few months in Sheffield University as a research worker in the pharmacology department but then went back to Oxford to the Nuffield Institute for Medical Research in order to study for a D. Phil. with Dr. Geoffrey Dawes.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once I argue with somebody, I'm cool; I let it pass. I'm back to playing basketball.
- Privacy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who steps back for a minute and observes our modern digital world might conclude that we have destroyed our privacy in exchange for convenience and false security.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we contemplate the heroes of Christianity, and compare our feeble efforts with their astonishing performance and self devotion, we should fall into despair, were there not a few softening features, by which they are brought back to the ranks of humanity.
- Nov 07, 2020
As far back as I remember, and earlier, I was an artisan, a maker and doer. Mechanically minded, my parents said.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
We couldn't get the car back until well after the end of the race and we had very little time for repairs.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to be mouthy. It was all to do with being a northerner and from Manchester, which was suddenly a big deal when I was in my 20s. When I read some of the interviews I did back then, I cringe.
- Colour
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- Nov 07, 2020
The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism - Couture advocates it in a little book called 'Causeries d'Atelier' written about 1860 - it is part of the technique of Impressionism but used for quite a different reason.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a horrible limo driver: I ran out of gas with passengers in the back and I used to get lost on a regular basis.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I'd take them back to the track and give 'em away or try and sell them. Much to my parents' dismay, I majored in photography in college.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I write a tune - and it's been like this for many years - I always hear in the back of my head some sort of vague, orchestrated, fully fleshed-out big-band version of the song with other parts going on.
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- Nov 07, 2020