Backbench Work Quotes & Sayings

If you capture someone's heart, you will eventually get his hands and feet as well. — Andy Stanley

The city has become a serious menace to our civilization ... It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant. — Josiah Strong

Before I lose my nerve, I slip a hand around her waist and haul her to me. I need to touch her like I need to breathe. With her scent invading me under the covers, I want to bathe in it - to stain my soul with it. She — Elizabeth Gray

A crown is a pitiless master, harsher than the staff of a pig-keeper; while a staff bears up, a crown weighs down, beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly. — Lloyd Alexander

My books have all generated controversy. — Helen Fielding

Energie is the operation, efflux or activity of any being: as the light of the Sunne is the energie of the Sunne, and every phantasm of the soul is the energie of the soul. — Henry More

If you ask why I do what I do - I want to make a difference. I don't just want to maintain the status quo. I want to help people, to work with institutions or create ones when they don't exist. — Eli Broad

The only times you'll see me in terms of the movie business is when I have to go to the premieres of my own movies. I don't go to see ones that aren't mine because I don't even like going to mine. — Billy Bob Thornton

Cohen testified that there was no 'direct relationship' linking heart disease to dietary fats, and that he had been able to induce the same blood-vessel complications seen in heart disease merely by feeding sugar to his laboratory rats. Peter Cleave testified to his belief that the problem extended to all refined carbohydrates. 'I don't hold the cholesterol view for a moment,' Cleave said, noting that mankind had been eating saturated fats for hundreds of thousands of years. 'For a modern disease to be related to an old-fashioned food is one of the most ludicrous things I have ever heard in my life ... but, when it comes to the dreadful sweet things that are served up ... that is a very different proposition. — Gary Taubes

I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily. — Sigmund Freud

With the danger of terrorism and war spreading in the world, now is the right moment to stop and reconsider our actions and do everything possible to bring an end to the fighting, be it in your own homeland, neighboring countries, or in your region. — Dalia Grybauskaite

But it was frightening: or, more exactly, it was like a foretaste of death, like being a little less alive. — George Orwell

How much this book of life changes, he thought. And we are not the ones to write the pages. — Naomi Benaron

How many wars have been fought, man against man, with both armies espousing that god, a goodly god, was on their side and in their hearts? — R.A. Salvatore