Backfills Quotes & Sayings

Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out. — Charles Dickens

What can chastity or purity even mean, once you have smiled at sodomy? — Anthony M. Esolen

When I came to this country in 1958, to be a dying patient in a medical hospital was a nightmare. You were put in the last room, furthest away from the nurses' station. You were full of pain, but they wouldn't give you morphine. Nobody told you that you were full of cancer and that it was understandable that you had pain and needed medication. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

For get this quite clear, every time we have to decide between Europe and the open sea, it is always the open sea we shall choose. Every time I have to decide between you [Charles de Gaulle] and Roosevelt, I shall always choose Roosevelt. — Winston S. Churchill

Two European nations emerged with credit from the Iraq disaster: France and Germany. Both had the courage to withstand the Bush administration and oppose the U.S.-led invasion. — Martin Jacques

I wasn't heroic because I was never in danger. — Nicholas Winton

Learn to say no, so your yes has some oomph. — Kristin Armstrong

Even though I was getting better education at home than any of the kids in Toyah, I'd need to go to finishing school when I was thirteen, both to acquire social graces and to earn a diploma. Because in this world, Dad said, it's not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you go it. — Jeannette Walls

When I was a kid, man, my dad used to buy me the Ted Williams glove at Sears with the Ted Williams shoes with the eight stripes on 'em. I used to play Little League, and I was Ted Williams-ed out. — Tony Gwynn

She is driven to seek power. She finds some way to do that and then backfills a rationalization for it afterward. — Neal Stephenson

There isn't a person alive who doesn't like being caressed. — Jock Sturges