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I'm always surprised to see the way "friends" will twist things or trash people behind their backs. — Ariana Madix

our backs
tell stories
no books have
the spine to
carry — Rupi Kaur

I do like to keep mementos from my work, whether they be photos, the backs of make-up chairs or even props and clothes. — Adam Garcia

Moreover, I have heard that those who are fond of praising men to their faces are also fond of damning them behind their backs. — Zhuangzi

What do you mean? Leslie's voice was cool, as if she questioned witches who were flat on their backs being threatened by werewolves every day. — Patricia Briggs

Nothing is impossible to the person who backs DESIRE with enduring FAITH. — Napoleon Hill

Work alone isn't enough for me and mine; we know how to break our backs, but the great dream Of my fathers was to be good at doing nothing. — Cesare Pavese

The deficit crisis is real and must be addressed. But it cannot be solved on the backs of the weak and vulnerable. — Bernie Sanders

Right, wrong - those are words thrown around by those what is in power in order to sit on the backs of those what ain't. — Peter David

The ancestors will turn their backs against you and you will have bad luck forever if you leave the ANC unhappy — Jacob Zuma

the strongest backs bear the heaviest burdens — Will Bly

Perhaps our Irish friends should not so completely turn their backs on their historical dishes, no matter how many jokes they might have to endure. — Nick Clooney

Angels walk among us,
Sometimes the only thing we may not see are the wings upon their backs. — Molly Friedenfeld

Sometimes we used to eat once a day ... chicken backs. You could buy four chicken backs for a quarter. — Raul Julia

We all have set-backs, use yours as fuel to burn your desire and dedication. — Jerry Gladstone

Women are good for only one thing - lying on their backs. — Harold Ballard

Memories lurk like dustballs in the backs of drawers. The stereo is a special model that plays only music fraught with poignant associations. — Jay McInerney

Yes, there are some backs on the street
which cry for the knife. — Octave Mirbeau

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs. — Karl Marx

You want bold? Ask the hundreds of defensive backs I ran over during my career if they think I'm bold. — Jerome Bettis

Visiting friends just to shoot the shit is the human equivalent of picking ticks off of one another's backs. — David McRaney

God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily. — Jimmy Carter

I am not big on jewelry, but I do love hats as an accessory, specifically snap backs and beanies. — Jourdan Dunn

Words carry oceans on their small backs. — Lidia Yuknavitch

Treat failure as feed-backs and you will find that success becomes a matter of time — John C.

If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine. — Johannes Tauler

Backs dialogue for solving disputes and not military power and threats. — Amr Moussa

Stripes on their backs. The twentieth century — Rick Bragg

I don't feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering. — Marianne Williamson

...it...planted seeds of doubt as to whether we think diabolically enough when we wonder what our government is doing behind our backs. — Alexandra Zapruder

Willing me to understand: that
people should be sacrificed to causes, that beauty can be built on the backs of the dead. — Lauren Oliver

If you're gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up. — Joan Baez

I thought we'd die there, quarrels in our backs, you for what you did and me for bearing witness. — Janet Morris

I was driving pretty much the way everyone drives in LA, like elephants dancing on each others' backs at a circus. — Gary Reilly

In this age of growing interconnectedness, we understand that turning our backs on the world is simply not an option. — Douglas Alexander

A true New Yorker never backs down, and I'm no exception. Holla! — Heather Thomson

It's only now I realize how easy it was to do so on the backs of other women's sons. — Helen Simonson

If it wasn't for flash backs, I wouldn't remember anything at all. — George Clinton

The sun does not stop shining because we curse or turn our backs to it. — Matshona Dhliwayo

My teammates, they put me on their backs and they wouldn't let me down. — Jerome Bettis

No one cuts backs like he did. No one knows what a back is anymore. — Diana Vreeland

Our backs hut from gathering them: how hard they were to find among the concealing leaves, the frosted deceiving grass. — Truman Capote

What's funny is that male strippers don't wear thongs anymore. They wear flat backs. — Joe Manganiello

With their backs to the sunrise they worship the night. — Robert G. Ingersoll

A word could cause a riot, ink could spell a man's death, and the Sidhe knew those weapons like the backs of their hands. Oh yes, they knew. — Stefan Bachmann

If more designers had bad backs, we would have more good chairs. — Ralph Caplan

No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people. — Fidel Castro

What, then, is the word of the religion of Jesus to those who stand with their backs against the wall? — Arthur G. Holder

Maybe things that we turn our backs to arnt rlly there, but its true that they will be there when we turn back around. — Brandon Anthony Lukstein

Talking about straws and camels' backs is just one way of approaching things. If you have enough camels, no backs need be broken. — Idries Shah

I refuse to say things behind people's backs. — Marilyn Manson

It's amazing what the sight of four gentlemen with red crosses on their backs can to injured players. — Jon Champion

When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up. — Roger Babson

A fruitless year, take a fearless heart
One that blooms late will flourish in the dark — Criss Jami

I think my music speaks for itself - it backs me up. — Drake Bell

If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day. — John Madden

Catty is not cool. I can't think of anything less becoming than a man who talks about people behind their backs. — Meghan Markle

The enemy never sees the backs of my Texans! — Robert E.Lee

It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs. — Jim Hightower

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

PTSD will be the worlds greatest horror for those that survive an all out Nuclear War. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

It's nice to see some youth running around and not see achy backs and necks and arms, ... It's nice to see some young guys feeling spry. — Trevor Hoffman

Was enough to know they had no Devil on their backs. Just old humanity, cheated of love, and ready to pull down the world on its head. — Clive Barker

Fighters are fighters. We got each others backs in terms of support. — Tommy Morrison

Atop their gleaming backs the jockeys look like gaudy baubles, secured with strings. They bob up and down, they rise, lean forward, then settle again. — Beryl Markham

I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter
and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.(IAGO,ActI,SceneI) — William Shakespeare

I frequently dream of being on these horses' backs and running across a field. And the horse and I are one. — William Shatner

You have to use your mind n the NFL. Every player is smarter. Defensive backs bluff and disguise coverages to try to fool you. — Chad Ochocinco

I've got two backs, me - and I'm glad! Tits can be ... mwa, I know, but they're always in the bloody road. Even in bed. — Martin Amis

The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people. — William O. Douglas

You know the sultans used to light their garden parties with turtles? They'd put candles on their backs and let them wander around. Hundreds of them. — Joseph Kanon

This country was built on the backs of dudes who drank on buses. What we do honors them. — Sam Lipsyte

I never had a serious injury that kept me out of a big competition. Now everyone has injuries - to their feet or their knees or their backs. — Katarina Witt

The general public believes that if a health claim is on the label the government backs that up, ... This sells food products, no question. — Marion Nestle

Something about lying on our backs staring up at the heavens ... opens the mind. — Dan Brown

All of them turned their backs on me at that time because they thought I was a troublemaker. — Fred Korematsu

I dislike seats without backs. I'll forget myself, lean back, and fall over, and where shall my dignity be then? I shall stand. — Jonathan L. Howard

I think we carry home on our backs. — Jodi Lynn Anderson

When our backs are against the wall, we must turn around and march forward. — John Major

I was raised right - I talk about people behind their backs. It's called manners. — Kathy Griffin

We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and disinclined. — Jack Kerouac

When we turn our backs on feelings we should deal with, they fester and grow and ultimately consume us. Silence is denial. Silence is anxiety. — Susan L. Taylor

We turn our backs on Latin America, always comparing ourselves instead to Europe. — Isabel Allende

That's Harris all over - so ready to take the burden of everything himself, and put it on the backs of other people. — Jerome K. Jerome

Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up. — Charles L. Allen

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

They retained their wooden souls, and the curve of their backs had the enigmatic shape of growth itself and remained a part of the decaying forest — Tove Jansson

Angels do walk among us. Sometimes the only thing we may not see are the wings resting upon their backs. — Molly Friedenfeld

O Ocean, you remind me somewhat of the bluish marks one sees on the battered backs of cabin boys. — Comte De Lautreamont

We value apology in the abstract, but turn our backs on it in practice. — John Kador

When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places. — John Cheever

And I kind of like the Teen Rebels; they seem to be better than the Bullying Trio. Still, watch your backs, rebels! — Jacquel Chrissy May

Society advances further on the backs of the living than it does on the backs of its dead. — Allan McLeod

That was six years ago. We can't keep turning our backs on chances to live or...at least stop denying ourselves pleasure. — Ally Fleming

The days blur into one, and the backs of my eyes hum with things I've never done. — Radical Face

Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow. — Martha Graham

The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers? — Bertolt Brecht

The strength of a man is less of the man and much more of who and what backs the man. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

An accountant is a man who puts his head in the past and backs his ass into the future. — F. Ross Johnson

Your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs. — William Shakespeare