Backplate Quotes & Sayings

Concepts of triage and medical rationing are a barometer of how those in power in a society value human life. — Sheri Fink

I had basically the same stigma that Bo Derek did
being created by a Svengali
which took me a long time to overcome. — Pia Zadora

Nobody knew what it was like to be torn between what it meant to be human and what it meant to be Pack better than me. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Having fallen from the eternal, the Evil One's desires are endless, insatiable. Having fallen from pure Being, he is driven by the desire to possess, to fill his emptiness. But the problem is insoluble, always. He is compelled to have and to hold, to possess and consume, and nothing else. All he takes, he destroys. — Denis De Rougemont

We were not in the same social class but at least we were at the same bed. — Marjane Satrapi

It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the articles was about me separating from my wife. It's a weird thing to listen to a news report about the break-up of your marriage. — Rory Bremner

Repetition is a form of change — Peter Schmidt

Go into the silence of your heart; only in silence you can hear your breath. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Perfect wisdom is silence. — Kenneth Reimer

He felt as if he were trying to move a glacier with a frozen chicken. — Mur Lafferty

Holistic self-realization is the realization of your heart's desire. Why holistic? Because it involves your entire being. — Stefan Emunds

What a heartbreaking job it is trying to combine authors for their own protection ... the first lesson I learned was that when you take the field for the authors you will be safer without a breastplate than without a backplate. — George Bernard Shaw

Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can. — Philip G. Zimbardo

The easiest way to meet people is to just look like someone who is willing to listen. — Robert Breault