Backstab Friend Quotes & Sayings

Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special. — Vidal Sassoon

We knew shortly after the war that our troops were becoming ill. — Christopher Shays

The legacy of [Martin Luther] King is the very thing that must be expanded if America is to be free and democratic in the 21st century. It's just as simple as that. — Cornel West

Any theory is better than no theory. — Fuller Albright

The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame. — Salman Rushdie

Health officials are saying the number of measles cases that originated in Disneyland continues to grow. Which is why this year after the game the Super Bowl MVPshouted, 'No way am I going to Disneyland!' — Conan O'Brien

The novel should tell the truth, as I see the truth, or as the novelist persuades me to see it. And one more demand: I expect the novelist to aspire to improve the world ... As a novelist, I want to be more than one more dog barking at the other dogs barking at me. Not out of any foolish hope that one novelist, or all virtuous novelists in chorus, can make much of a difference for good, except in the long run, but out of the need to prevent the human world from relaxing into something worse. To maintain the tension between truth and falsity, beauty and ugliness, good and evil ... I believe the highest duty of the serious novelist is, whatever the means or technique, to be a critic of his society, to hold society to its own ideals, or if these ideals are unworthy, to suggest better ideals. — Edward Abbey

We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down. — Angelina Grimke

Mindfulness is the capacity to shine the light of awareness onto what's going on here and now. Mindfulness is the heart of meditation practice. — Thich Nhat Hanh

All I Need are Shoes, Booze and Bad boys with Tattoos. — Christine Zolendz

we'll be going up to London — J.K. Rowling

What fortune has made yours is not your own. — Seneca.

I've never had plastic surgery, but if they made a new invention for making people taller, I'd be the first to have the surgery. — Alanna Ubach

The belief that a personal life exists apart from God creates experience disconnected from God. This is painful and frustrating. Our spiritual work is to break down the illusion that we have a life here and that a life of God is somewhere else. — Michael Beckwith

Openness is all, she thought. Truth was its own reward. — Dave Eggers