Bob Backlund Quotes

Ken Patera was the strongest man in the world, but he was probably the most gentleman in the ring.

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• God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Peace
  • Happiness

• The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Experiences

• I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don't work. When you clean your house, you don't get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Work
  • Believe
  • House

• I enjoy science, and I'm a very curious person. I always want to know the reason behind everything, big or small.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Science
  • Small
  • Enjoy

• I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • People
  • Me
  • Conscious

• Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Up
  • Work
  • Path

• I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Artist
  • Writer
  • Verbs

• Still often interventionist, convinced of our importance in the world, even those of us born long after 1900 live in a country that is much more Victorian than we think.

  

  Kate Williams
  • World
  • Long
  • Live

• I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Choice
  • Now
  • Admit

• It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Real
  • You
  • Adventure

• I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Out
  • Island
  • Struggles

• A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Wine
  • Bread
  • Loaf

• I get up, go out, and everything is changed. The blood drains from my head, the noise of things bursting, merging, avoiding one another, assails me on all sides, my eyes search in vain for two things alike, each pinpoint of skin screams a different message, I drown in the spray of phenomena.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Up
  • Different
  • Eyes

• When I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.

  

  Audre Lorde
  • Life
  • Work
  • Women

• We heard moving accounts from two working miners about just what they have to face as they try to make their way to work. The sheer bravery of those men and thousands like them who kept the mining industry alive is beyond praise. 'Scabs' their former workmates call them. Scabs? They are lions!

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Work
  • Men
  • Moving

• Rock stars aren't crapped out of the sky.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • Rock
  • Sky

• With a good melody... music gets me through everything.

  

  Drake Bell
  • Good
  • Music

• I have a big mouth, and I have a temper, so that's not good for people. That's not good for executives.

  

  Leah Remini
  • People
  • Good

• The best weapons of a Jew are his prayers.

  

  Nachman of Breslov

• There's such a dark cloud over this, it's disappointing. As a kid, you wondered who'd be the next guy to pass Ruth or maybe Aaron. We're talking about a great, great player in Barry Bonds, but there's that black cloud, and I just think we all wish it could go away.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Dark
  • Cloud
  • Disappointing

• I am at heart a gentleman.

  

  Marlene Dietrich
  • Heart
  • Gentleman

• This is now a global war on terror and, indeed, it is important, it is imperative that we win in the battles in Afghanistan and that we win in the battles in Iraq. And as the gentleman from Georgia has mentioned, this is not something that is going to be quick and easy.

  

  Marsha Blackburn
  • Important
  • War
  • Gentleman

• If you cannot say what you mean, your majesty, you will never mean what you say and a gentleman should always mean what he says.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Mean
  • Should
  • Gentleman

• Ken Patera was the strongest man in the world, but he was probably the most gentleman in the ring.

  

  Bob Backlund
  • Gentleman
  • Ring
  • Strongest