Backbone Quotes - Page 9

• My female writers have always been my backbone. I had a writing room of six women for five years so I know what women do. Cultivated by me, by the way!

  Michael Patrick King

  Writing, Years, Rooms

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• If you look at Gothic detailing right down to the bottom of a column or the capital of a column, it's a small version of the whole building; that's why, like dating the backbones of a dinosaur, a good historian can look at a detail of a Gothic building and tell you exactly what the rest of the building was, and infer the whole from the parts.

  Charles Jencks

  Dating, Details, Looks

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• My mom has always been kind of my backbone. She keeps me strong. She is a mother, a friend. She is really everything to me.

  Aerin Lauder

  Mom, Mother, Strong

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• To live as I incline, or not to live at all: so do I wish; so wisheth also the holiest. But alas! how have I still - inclination? Have I-still a goal? A haven towards which MY sail is set?A good wind? Ah, he only who knoweth WHITHER he saileth, knoweth what wind is good, and a fair wind for him.What still remaineth to me? A heart weary and flippant; and unstable will; fluttering wings; a broken backbone.This seeking for MY home: O Zarathustra, dost thou know that this seeking hath been MY home-sickening; it eateth me up.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Home, Wind

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Thus spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None”, p.281, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• When it comes to cyber warfare, we have more to lose than any other nation on earth. The technical sector is the backbone of the American economy, and if we start engaging in these kind of behaviors, in these kind of attacks, we're setting a standard, we're creating a new international norm of behavior that says this is what nations do. This is what developed nations do.

  Edward Snowden

  Creating, Warfare, Earth

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A vocation is the backbone of life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Vocation, Life And Living

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• Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Responsibility, Self, Law

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• Are Singaporeans so easily offended? Please. Have more of a backbone and thick-skin. Are you going to go on a frenzied witch hunt just because some foreigner called you a loser on the Internet?

  Calvin Cheng

  Skins, Goes On, Loser

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• I found myself wondering, what would it be like to have a strange woman living in your home, nursing your child? My resulting research into the private lives of women in the 18th and 19th centuries inspired me and provided the backbone for [Lady of Milkweed Manor] novel.

  Julie Klassen

  Children, Home, Nursing

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• 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

  Hate, America, Easy

  Source: oustedproductions.net

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• President Obama has thrown allies like Israel under the bus, even as he has relaxed sanctions on Castro's Cuba. He abandoned our friends in Poland by walking away from our missile defense commitments, but is eager to give Russia's President Putin the flexibility he desires, after the election. Under my administration, our friends will see more loyalty, and Mr. Putin will see a little less flexibility and more backbone.

  Mitt Romney

  Loyalty, Commitment, Walking Away

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 30 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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