Backstop Quotes & Sayings

Myself ... is merely an instrument to connect life and a myth — Anais Nin

I don't think you can spend yourself rich. — George M. Humphrey

An immature parent with unresolved issues and repressed shame can also transfer his or her shame to us. This interpersonal transference of shame is referred to as induced shame. — John Bradshaw

We all want to break our orbits, float like a satellite gone wild in space, run the risk of disintegration. We all want to take our lives in our own hands and hurl them out among the stars. — David Bottoms

Hands up! Hands up! Everybody on the floor!" The effect was akin to three wild-eyed berserkers storming a prayer meeting. — Bryan Burrough

You are poised to be the most perfect creature I have ever encountered, under God, and the affection that I feel for you cannot be measured on Earth — Amy A. Bartol

Bubonic plague is 'natural,' I snapped back. Doesn't mean it's good for you. — Rosamund Lupton

The upper windows of his house, appeared — F Scott Fitzgerald

The risk from terrorism remains acute and the private market cannot continue to operate without a government backstop. — Michael Oxley

Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine. — Thomas Szasz

So many have wept for Jesus on His cross. As if no one else has ever suffered as He suffered. As if millions have not shuffled to worse deaths, and died unremembered. — Joe Hill

Oh, how precious is time! And how guilty it makes me feel when I think I have trifled away and misimproved it, or neglected to fill up each part of it with duty to the utmost of my ability and capacity — David Brainerd

Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse. — Vince Cable

Point is, I invented me ... maybe as a reaction to them ... definitely as a reaction to them. I am myself in spite of my memories. — Sarah Beth Durst

Don't even know why, but I got to that part, and I...God, it hit me, you know? The truth of those damn words the Skin Horse spoke. Being real could hurt. That's what...what living is all about and the opposite is unimaginable. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well:
And yet words are no deeds.
King Henry VIII. Act 3, Scene 2 — William Shakespeare