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You don't ever see a thriller with a spiritual backbone.
— Patrick Wilson
There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth.
— Lucy Powell
To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville. Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever.
— Alan Jackson
Whether it's books or TV, or whatever the case may be, the backbone of what I do is my restaurants.
— Emeril Lagasse
I want to be proud that she has a backbone, but I also want to break it, snapping it into itty-bitty pieces.
— J.L. Beck
Because education is the backbone of a competitive workforce and successful economy, making it a priority is not uncommon.
— Michael F. Easley
I have the backbone of an eel.
— Betty White
Small businesses are the backbone of our economy.
— Ellen Tauscher
The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I really feel sorry for new generation. It's hard to find backbone. I never had crisis of identity. But I think many Americans have it.
— Natalia Makarova
He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
— Franz Kafka
So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.
— John Perry Barlow
A steely look of anger flared in my mother's eyes, and I thought, just maybe, I was leaving her in good hands after all. Her own.
— Rick Riordan
America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave.
— Henry Rollins
Some people develop a wishbone where their backbone should be.
— Shannon L. Alder
I needed the moment of backbone - at a time when I feel I am losing all the pieces that make me, me.
— Alessandra Torre
Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury.
— John Oliver
Maintenance and resupply are the backbone of any military.
— Robert Ferrigno
My parents are my backbone. Still are. They're the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.
— Kobe Bryant
Toughness is not being a bully, it's having a backbone.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Gaming is the backbone of Nevada's economy.
— Kenny Guinn
Being slagged off is good for you. It thickens the skin and strengthens the backbone.
— Charlie Brooker
A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.
— Robert Kiyosaki
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J.H. Boetcker
The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.
— Ida B. Wells
Many a man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone should have been.
— Ronald Reagan
If people are going to be allowed to say "we love you" and "I love you", they'd better have the backbone to prove it. Love isn't just a word.
— C. JoyBell C.
I'm pretty sure my stomach has a sliver in it from rubbing up against my backbone, so back off, bitch.
— H.J. Bellus
A vocation is the backbone of life.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Please don't tell me, it was less painful than a broken backbone, a forgotten poem, a lost home.
— Khadija Rupa
Humble people were unsettling at best. All that lack of backbone. It was just creepy. Like talking to linguine.
— Laura Florand
Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
— Vikram Seth
You can't stand up for Canada with a banana for a backbone.
— John Diefenbaker
Always be the person with Backbone
— Nitika Sharma
Here in this blessed land, the foundation, the backbone, the life-centre is religion and religion alone.
— Swami Vivekananda
Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.
— Clementine Paddleford
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[Senator] Kerry [democrat MA] is emerging as the worst of all the viable Democratic candidates. He has the backbone of Clinton and the charm of Gore.
— Andrew Sullivan
A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one's spiritual life, as nothing else can.
— Evelyn Underhill
Overstated planning is the backbone of understated elegance.
— Molly O'Neill
My Christian faith is my backbone
— Bear Grylls
I heard you showed some backbone. I decided to visit in the vain hope that you might be turning interesting.
— Kimberly Frost
The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!
— Rudyard Kipling
But in the great demoralization of the land he kept up his appearance. That's backbone.
— Joseph Conrad
It's hard to keep your backbone straight in America. It's easy to turn into that which you hate, and to get smashed.
— Henry Rollins
The first socialists were the intellectuals; they, and not the masses, are the backbone of Socialism.
— Ludwig Von Mises
I won't die like this again. (Zarek) Backbone. How I love it. But not as much as I love sucking the marrow from it. (Thanatos)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
How awful to have a passion so intense it dictates your every breath and yet to lack the moral backbone to pursue it. The
— James Rhodes
Oh, how rare are the Christians who speak with a tender heart and have a theological backbone of steel.
— John Piper
The backbone of success is ... hard work, determination, good planning, and perserverence.
— Mia Hamm
No law can give Congress a backbone if it refuses to stand off as the coequal branch the Constitution made it.
— Trey Gowdy
Hope is a hollow backbone.
— Leylah Attar
She couldn't let her fears rule her. It was time she grew a backbone and stood up to the monsters.
— Lia Davis
Have the backbone to go after what you want in life. It's too easy to settle.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
A nation with a strong base in science and technology is a nation with a strong backbone. By
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
If redwoods are the backbone of California, oaks are of England.
— Tracy Chevalier
If you're not still learning and growing as an actor, then you have no backbone and no career
— Kate Winslet
We need a backbone, not a wishbone.
— Joyce Meyer
I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that,
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
I was raised with all the advantages except a backbone.
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips
For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.
— Guillermo Del Toro
Ceremony is all backbone.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
You don't need a wishbone, you need a backbone.
— Caroline Myss
The Scots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head, heart and haggis.
— William Osler
Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.
— Aldous Huxley
"Christ, here we go. Backbone."
— Kristen Ashley
Inflationism is a dreadful cancer that is gnawing at the backbone of the civilized order.
— Hans F. Sennholz
McKinley has no more backbone than a chocolate eclair.
— Theodore Roosevelt
A drummer is usually like the backbone.
— Brody Armstrong
Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Small business is the backbone of our economy. I'm for big business, too. But small business is where the jobs are generated.
— Michele Bachmann
The gas tax has been the backbone of the transportation system since the inception of the Interstate highway system in the 1950s.
— Anthony Foxx
Religion is the mortar that binds society together; the granite pedestal of liberty; the strong backbone of the social system.
— Thomas Guthrie
