- Like
- |
- 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
- Drama
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
It is difficult to know how the Tudors actually spoke because we're going back before Shakespeare; much of the drama from that period is courtly, allegorical.
- Effort
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness.
- Good
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
After a week of back and forth, and forth and back over firearms, it's good to see a consensus developing on this common-sense amendment to keep handguns away from children.
- Go
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm sure I'll go back again and record in the digital process.
- Figuring
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Developing expendable rockets is always going to be painful and expensive. Throwing the whole rocket away on each attempt not only costs a lot, it also hampers figuring out just what went wrong because you don't get the rocket back for inspection.
- Night
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Our store was so small, it had no back or second floor. We just slept on the counter late at night after the store was closed.
- Genuine
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
- Pure
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
In Giacometti's work, the armature has once again become the life-line of the sculpture, and also, he's brought back to sculpture a nervous sensitivity which the 'pure carving' side of sculpture can lose sight of altogether.
- Financial System
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
If the financial system collapses, it's really, really hard to put it back together again.
- Leadership
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My focus as part of the leadership is to keep talking about the independent voters, independent voters - how do we get the independent voters back?
- Like
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in Malaysia, there wasn't really a problem with representation. We saw faces like ours on screen because Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, China and Hong Kong all have their own film markets. It was only until I went back to the U.K. when I realized, 'Where did all these faces go?'
- FEMA
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I can recall back in 1998, in August of that year, when we had a horrible disaster along the Mexican border in the town of Del Rio. At the time, FEMA was the shining star of the federal government. It's now perceived as many to be the dullest knife in the drawer. Right or wrong, that's the perception.
- Movement
- |
- Nov 07, 2020