Being Back Stabbed Quotes & Sayings

We are governed not by armies and police but by ideas. — Mona Caird

No being gets to decide what his life is 'supposed to be.' " She lifted her eyes and her gaze stabbed him. "Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. Accept your life, and you might survive it. If you hold back from it, insisting this is not your life, not where you are meant to be, life will pass you by. You may not die from such foolishness, but you might as well be dead for all the good your life will do you or anyone else. — Robin Hobb

It is not that I want merely to be called a Christian, but actually to be one. Yes, if I prove to be one, then I can have the name. — Ignatius Of Antioch

The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent. — Carl Jung

It's particularly hard to take being stabbed in the back close to home. There's always a feeling of betrayal when people of your own group oppose you. — Catharine MacKinnon

You won't catch me giving clear lectures. — Donald Norman

That present sucked," I muttered.
Dad slipped an arm around my shoulder and helped me sit up. As he did, his sleeve fell back to reveal several slivers of demonglass embedded in his forearm.
"I'm fine," he said before I could ask. "Cal can get them out later. Are you all right?"
My shoulder was still on fire, but there was no pain anywhere else, and other than the shock of being blown backward and stabbed, I was peachy. "I think so. What was that, like a magic pipe bomb?"
The present lay in tatters on the floor, its ribbon coiling and snapping like a snake. Cal stomped on the ribbon, and it went still. "Seems like it," he said grimly.
"And it was ensorcelled to seek you out," Dad added. He looked so worried and angry that I decided not to give him a hard time for using a word like ensorcelled. — Rachel Hawkins

The first ideas of religion arose, not from contemplation of the works of nature, but from a concern with regard to the events of life. — David Hume

God gives the world enough of what it needs. All He asks is that we distribute what He gives. — Ann Voskamp

I believe that to be a free woman is to be both passionate and intelligent; and I am a free woman at last. — Philippa Gregory

At the crossroad, may God point the straight path for your journey. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When I'm interviewing someone, I want to make sure that he thought enough to take care of himself - to dress appropriately and to groom himself properly. — Bill Rancic