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  • A mature person does not fall in love, he or she rises in love. Only immature people fall; they stumble and fall down in love. Somehow they were managing and standing. Now they cannot manage and they cannot stand. They were always ready to fall on the ground and to creep. They don't have the backbone, the spine; they don't have the integrity to stand alone.

  • Overstated planning is the backbone of understated elegance.

  • It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.

  • [Senator] Kerry [democrat MA] is emerging as the worst of all the viable Democratic candidates. He has the backbone of Clinton and the charm of Gore.

  • When the news you don't want to hear is looming before you like Everest, two things can happen. Tragedy can run you through like a sword, or it can become your backbone. Either you fall apart and sob, or you say, 'Right. What's next?

    Running   Fall   Two  
    Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.75, Simon and Schuster
  • Providing tax relief and reducing regulations leads to job creation and new economic opportunities for our small businesses, which are the backbone of our economy.

  • Corporation: a miniature totalitarian state governed by a hierarchy of unelected officials who take a dim view of individualism, free speech, equality and eggheads. The backbone of all Western democracies.

  • Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs.

    Song   Artist   Backbone  
  • How is the base sequence, divided into codons? There is nothing in the backbone of the nucleic acid, which is perfectly regular, to show us how to group the bases into codons.

    Groups   Acid   Backbone  
  • Since the beginning of physics, symmetry considerations have provided us with an extremely powerful and useful tool in our effort to understand nature. Gradually they have become the backbone of our theoretical formulation of physical laws.

    "Particle Physics and Introduction to Field Theory: Revised and Updated First Edition". Book by Tsung-Dao Lee, 1981.
  • The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!

    Military   Army   Men  
    The Seven Seas (1896) "The 'Eathen"
  • My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.

    Men   Years   Important  
  • It’s hard to find backbone.I never had crisis of identity. But I think many Americans have it.

  • Here in this blessed land, the foundation, the backbone, the life-centre is religion and religion alone.

    Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Lectures from Colombo to Almora”, p.57, editionNEXT.com
  • The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.

    Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.21, Oxford University Press
  • I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.

    Selfish   Work   Hero  
  • Do we want in this nation to lose the backbone of manufacturing in this country? Do we want to be a nation that doesn't want to manufacture anything?

    "State of the States". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. February 22, 2009.
  • I found myself wondering, what would it be like to have a strange woman living in your home, nursing your child? My resulting research into the private lives of women in the 18th and 19th centuries inspired me and provided the backbone for [Lady of Milkweed Manor] novel.

    Children   Home   Nursing  
  • Mark you, if you give up spirituality, leaving it aside to go after the materializing civilization of the West, the result will be that in three generations you will be an extinct race; because the backbone of the nation will be broken, the foundation upon which the national edifice has been built will be undermined, and the result will be annihilation all round.

    Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.36, Vivekananda Kendra
  • For your own good, for the good of your family and your future, grow a backbone. When something is wrong, stand up and say it is wrong, and don't back down.

    Dave Ramsey (2010). “The Money Answer Book: Quick Answers to Everyday Financial Questions”, p.64, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • I co-own the ranch with my brother, and he and his wife are really the backbone of the operation.

    "A Minute With: Bill Pullman about 'Torchwood'". Interview with Iain Blair, www.reuters.com. July 6, 2011.
  • For decades, community colleges have been the backbone of American workforce training. Because they are nimble and closely attuned to local community needs, they are inherently positioned to be influential leaders of the movement for a sustainable economy.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • If you don't have that trust in the backbone of the project, you may not know what you're making.

    May   Projects   Backbone  
    Source: www.rogerebert.com
  • When it comes to cyber warfare, we have more to lose than any other nation on earth. The technical sector is the backbone of the American economy, and if we start engaging in these kind of behaviors, in these kind of attacks, we're setting a standard, we're creating a new international norm of behavior that says this is what nations do. This is what developed nations do.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone.

    Terry Pratchett (2009). “Reaper Man: A Novel of Discworld”, p.9, Harper Collins
  • For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.

    Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. November 3, 2003.
  • The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?

    Country   May   Want  
    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.2877, e-artnow
  • Much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul.

    Character   Men   Skulls  
    Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, G. Thomas Tanselle (1988). “Moby Dick, Or The Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition”, p.349, Northwestern University Press
  • I remember as a child reading or hearing the words 'The Great Divide' and being stunned by the glorious sound, a proper sound for the granite backbone of a continent. I saw in my mind escarpments rising into the clouds, a kind of natural Great Wall of China.

    Children   Wall   Reading  
    John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.93, Penguin
  • Everyone who's ever met Guillermo Del Toro knows that he's the most generous, creative, mind-bogglingly wonderful man. And I was so lucky that he had seen Storytelling and he asked me to do Hellboy. And then I watched Devil's Backbone and I was blown away.

    Men   Creative   Lucky  
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