We see not our own backs.
Thomas Carlyle
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THOMAS CARLYLE Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our
own backs.
[Lat., Suus quoque attr...
CATULLUS (CAIUS QUINTUS VALERIUS CATULLUS) True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is lo...
THOMAS CARLYLE Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.
SENECA Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs
SENECA Bill Thomas turned his backs on America's working people to go home and raise money.
ANITA DUNN Carlyle! The man with a thousand faces.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Thomas Merton, another solitary, understood that. The beginning of freedom, he wrote, is not liberat...
GEORGE SHEEHAN As we cannot see our own face directly, we cannot see our own mistakes.We can only see others face a...
KOWSALAPATHY We have our backs against the wall.
AMY STEPHENS Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU At Home at the Carlyle
ELAINE STRITCH At Home at the Carlyle.
ELAINE STRITCH Despite the voice in his head that says he doesn’t want anything that’s owed to his father, Tom ...
MELINA MARCHETTA Maybe there isn’t such a thing as fate. Maybe it’s just the opportunities we’re given, and wha...
MARISSA MEYER Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274 God usually answers our prayers so mu...
COVENTRY PATMORE They are a little different from Carlyle. They are a little bigger and they spread the floor more wi...
CHAD CLUVER We see what we want to see. We idealize each other with our own fantasies.
ERIC JEROME DICKEY Carlyle said, "A lie cannot live"; it shows he did not know how to tell them.
MARK TWAIN House speaker Thomas read could see the trend, but he could not have changed himself.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN It was a gutsy move to bring Thomas back with six minutes left in the game. Our press got us back in...
EVAN MASSEY We had to hold them. We had our backs against the wall.
DERRICK GIBSON Sometimes we can't see our own selves, our own shortcomings, but it's so easy to see somebod...
DEBBIE FORD Its better to Convince by words rather than your Hands. We should not degrade our Standard for other...
MERLIN8THOMAS It's definitely crushing. We have our backs against the wall now.
JASON VARITEK We lived in danger, they had guns aimed at our backs.
ENZO BOTTILLO Our backs were against the wall, but we pulled it off.
EMILY MCNAMARA We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be...
ALDOUS HUXLEY In this age of growing interconnectedness, we understand that turning our backs on the world is simp...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER I think better of our behaviour as individuals than I do when we see ourselves as members of a group...
JOHN IRVING Our backs were against the wall. We had to win this if we were going to be in the playoffs. Playing ...
BUELL JR Our backs were against the wall. We had to win this if we were going to be in the playoffs. Playing ...
BUELL GONZALES JR Our backs are to the wall. We dropped two games we shouldn't have lost.
DAVID JORDAN I think our young linemen are getting better every week. We have a bunch of sophomores and juniors p...
DAN HOOKS The plotters of yesterday, the plotters of today ... they swim in the water and think we don't see t...
LAURENT GBAGBO In every work of genius we see our own rejected thoughts.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because we're liars, nece...
DEB CALETTI Even though we won, our backs are still against the wall, ... Houston has four great players and we ...
YOLANDA GRIFFITH We're not turning our backs on them. We've done a very good job helping them find work. We can't gua...
GORDON ABSHER Please do not try to balance the budget on the backs of our teachers. We need them. They're good, th...
GREG SHAW We have our backs against the wall right now. We definitely need to come out swinging.
LANCE HARRIS Nobody thought we could pull it off on our own as immigrants, as people of color ? even the consulta...
SARU JAYARAMAN We've got to get it together, as we have our backs against the wall.
SEAN MURPHY If we didn't have a huge multinational corporation on our backs, we'd be golden.
BEN CURTIS Then we left, just me running with my sister, the wolves at our backs.
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT When we stop and look at our own reflection, we will then decide whether or not we like what we see....
DAVE FRANCIS If we see a speck in a brother's eye, we must first see if there is a log in our own eye; perhaps th...
DAVID WATSON Our backs are against the wall.
JAMAR SMITH We give up our backs and allow religious myths to apply the rear naked choke to our minds.
CAMERON CONAWAY Our backs ran hard and our quarterbacks played well,
GLENN DAVIS We all evaluate our own self-value. The difference is what we see as valuable.
DAN WALDSCHMIDT When we're down big, we're resilient. When we have our backs to the wall, we go crazy.
BILL RESLER We were up 14-0. (We wanted to) see if we can't maul them a little bit, find out who our running bac...
AL BORGES The fact that our budget was balanced on the backs of students should not be celebrated,
ELIZABETH HILL I think we all see ourselves as the heroes in our own lives.
TOM HIDDLESTON Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA We are looking for our own virtue, our own piety, our own goodness, and so live on and in our own po...
WILLIAM LAW When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.
ROGER W. BABSON We have to stay focused in the second half. Our backs are against the wall.
JUAN PALACIOS We are not our own light.
NICOLAS MALEBRANCHE TV actors are doing great in Bollywood. We have our own market, our own fans, who love to see us on ...
MONA SINGH And here we see again that we do not decide our own lives. Dieneke, even if we won't see each other ...
DIET EMAN That shot kind of broke our backs.
WAYNE GRETZKY How can we see the pain of others if we are constantly focused on our own?
~ANYA SUNDQUIST~ I feel the film companies should pay for proper advertising to see that the movie will sell, instead...
BILLY CRUDUP All day long, no one is at fault for anything. Whatever faults we see; we see them because of our ow...
DADA BHAGWAN We knew (the Reapers) had to key on our running game because we have four powerful backs. That leave...
BON BEAN We knew our backs were against the wall. Nobody wanted to end up in the NIT.
TERRENCE ROBERTS That will change in the back half of 2006. For 2006, we're not going to see double-digit growth, but...
BRAD BRADSHAW This is the time for anyone to emerge as the starter. We just have each others' backs. I want to see...
ANDREW SHANLE When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are
spoken under the rose.
- Sir Th...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE The problem is we play our best basketball when we get our backs against the wall. We didn't have ou...
MARCEL JONES Let's just say things are going to be turned inside out, but we are not going to lose the shirts off...
LAMELL MCMORRIS We do not know if St. Thomas is on the list. Probably not. But who knows?
DENNIS DESROSIERS When our backs are on the wall, that's the time when we enjoy having fun, relax out there, do ou...
PABLO SANDOVAL We've had our clothes ripped off us, jackets going missing, scratches all down our backs -- and then...
ROBBIE WILLIAMS This definitely gets the monkey off our backs.
KIRK WALTERS We have a monument here for the greatest troublemakers of our history -- Thomas Jefferson and George...
DANA ROHRABACHER The most ugliness we see in others, is but a reflection of our own nature.
JOHN ALEXANDER TRISTRAM With our backs against the wall, we're in familiar territory. We play better when we know we can't a...
GLENYS BAKKER It's huge. We always come in with our backs against the wall. It's tough to play here.
FRANK MITCHELL We all have an extended family, people whom we recognize as our own as soon as we see them.
JAMES LEE BURKE Today, we can see with our own eyes what global warming is doing. In that context it becomes truly i...
JOSEPH LIEBERMAN Today, we can see with our own eyes what global warming is doing. In that context it becomes truly i...
JOE LIEBERMAN The more we see that others are well-off when we refuse to adapt with our own crisis.
JECON B. NADELA We need to see a point of view that comes from South America, not from Europe or the United States. ...
ARAM AHARONIAN It puts a lot of pressure on your D-backs (defensive backs). We need to tackle. They're going to com...
DENNY PELLEY When we allow our hands and our minds to wither in our efforts to control our own habits, our own hu...
GENE CRAWFORD And if those who disbelieve fight with you, they would certainly turn (their) backs, then they would...
QURAN And certainly they had made a covenant with Allah before, that) they would not turn (their) backs; a...
QURAN Increasingly, the battlefields are fought on women's backs, and it is done not just to humiliate the...
NOELEEN HEYZER Carlyle would never have gotten to the level that it is at today had it not been for this premeditat...
DAN BRIODY Our backs are against the wall. We can't afford to (mess) up anymore. This is it for us.
CHRIS MASON I am fond of reminding my yoga students of the saying “It takes one to know one” when they becom...
PREM PRAKASH All we see is football, baseball, soccer, but no basketball. We need to get some trophies of our own...
CHARLES HARPER The offense had our backs all season. It was our turn this week.
BROOKS DUNN I'm just hoping our guys will respond. Our backs are against the wall.
LEROY FOSTER We know less about the structure of our own galaxy than we do about many nearby galaxies like Androm...
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THOMAS CARLYLE The Mystic Bond of Brotherhood makes all men one.
THOMAS CARLYLE No violent extreme endures.
THOMAS CARLYLE What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-toge...
THOMAS CARLYLE I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a gr...
THOMAS CARLYLE Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and kno...
THOMAS CARLYLE Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
THOMAS CARLYLE