Backdoor Bistro Quotes & Sayings

One of the marks of true greatness is the ability to develop greatness in others. — J. C. Macaulay

All men come to resemble their fathers. That isn't a tragedy, but you need a hell of a sense of humour to handle it. — Philip Kerr

If we're going to make mistakes anyway, we might as well learn from them
"teachable moments". — Orrin Woodward

He's hit! He's hit!" Pigpen flies into view, gun drawn and on the prowl to kill. — Katie McGarry

We are all assumed, these days, to reside at one extreme of the opinion spectrum, or another. We are pro-abortion or anti-abortion. We are free traders or protectionist. We are pro-private sector or pro-big government. We are feminists or chauvinists. But in the real world, few of us holds these extreme views. There is instead a spectrum of opinion. — Michael Crichton

Bad government, like good government, is a spiritual thing. Even the tyrant never rules by force alone; but mostly by fairy tales. And so it is with the modern tyrant, — G.K. Chesterton

You are so young, so much before all beginning, and I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Most people offer the majority of their thought in response to what they are observing. — Rhonda Byrne

I remember understanding what a brutal thing it is to be the bearer of truly bad news - to break off a piece of that misery and hand it to other people, one by one, and then have to comfort them; to put their grief on your shoulders on top of all your own; to be the calm one in the face of their shock and tears. And then learning that relative weight of grief is immaterial. Being smothered a little is no different than being smothered a lot. Either way, you can't breathe. — Heather Cocks

Football is a personal interest which has been turned into a philanthropic initiative directed at encouraging social cohesion during the difficult process of African modernisation. — Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi

Movie acting, I later realized, reminds me of contract bridge. Each requires the same concentration, intense short-term memory, and obliviousness to everything else until the last trump is called - or whatever it is they do. — Gore Vidal

Had we but world enough and time,
This coyness, lady, were no crime.
We would sit down, and think which way
To walk, and pass our long love's day. — Andrew Marvell

Most people who succeed in life have no clue that what they are trying to achieve is impossible. — John Avery

If I have to be fierce, I'll be fierce. — Quvenzhane Wallis

I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half. — Michael Bergin