| "If you ever crawl inside an old hollow log and go to sleep, and while you're in there some guys come and seal up both ends and then put it on a truck and take it to another city, boy, I don't know what to tell you." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see -- not to eat, not for love, but only gliding." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure." »Charlotte Bronte |
| "I scrambled to the top of the precipice where Nick was waiting. 'That was fun,' I said. 'You bet it was,' said Nick. 'Let's climb higher.' 'No,' I said. 'I think we should be heading back now.' 'We have time,' Nick insisted. I said we didn't, and Nick said we did. We argued back and forth like that for about 20 minutes, then finally decided to head back. I didn't say it was an interesting story." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself." »John Harold |
| "There's a deep fly ball... Winfield goes back, back... his head hits the wall ... it's rolling towards second base." »Jerry Coleman |
| "I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means -- except by getting off his back." »Leo Tolstoy |
| "Grubb goes back, back... He's under the warning track and makes the play." »Jerry Coleman |
| "I used to always think that I'd look back on us crying and laugh, but, I never thought I'd look back on us laughing and cry." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven." »Lucretius |
| "When we hold back on life, life holds us back." »Mary Manin Boggs |
| "I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as a part of life--specifically the fear of change, the fear of the unknown and I have gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says turn back, turn back, you'll die if you venture too far." »Erica Jong |
| "It was all right to talk about it. They made plans. They had a moment's vision, a fleeting dream. But in the end, some lack in their moral fiber, some gnawing, nibbling fear held them back. They never started. They stayed where they were. They dropped back. They failed somehow to release within themselves that power which lies in every individual, and is released only when he starts forward in a straight line for the object about which he has dreamed. The man who never starts, never feels that sense of power." »Ray Dickinson |
| "A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said 'What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.' The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, 'What is the turtle standing on' 'You're very clever, young man, very clever,' said the little old lady. 'But it's turtles all the way down.'" »Stephen William Hawking |
| "The more we give of anything, the more we shall get back." »Grace Spear |
| "It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not." »Denis Watley |
| "What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you." »Oprah Winfrey |
| "Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |
| "It ain't braggin' if you can back it up." »Dizzy Dean |
| "We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward." »Dan Quayle |
| "Do not turn back when you are just at the goal." »Publilius Syrus |
| "The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you." »Brian Tracy |
| "Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so." »David Grayson |
| "It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back." »Mick Jagger |
| "Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again." »Andr Gide |
| "Dont look back. Something might be gaining on you." »Satchel Paige |
| "I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back." »Henny Youngman |
| "Then give to the world the best you have. And the best will come back to you." »Madeline Bridges |
| "Sorrow looks back... Worry looks around... But, faith looks up." »God's Little Instruction Book |
| "I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back." »Richard Lewis |
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