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  • If, when you talk to people, they keep backing away from you, it's because you're TOO CLOSE, alright? SO DON'T KEEP ADVANCING ON THEM LIKE A HUMAN GLACIER.

    Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.192, Ballantine Books
  • He who lays up treasures on earth spends his life backing away from his treasures. To him, death is loss. He who lays up treasures in heaven looks forward to eternity; he's moving daily toward his treasures. To him, death is gain. He who spends his life moving toward his treasures has reason to rejoice. Are you despairing or rejoicing?

    Moving   Loss   Heaven  
    Randy Alcorn (2012). “The Treasure Principle: Discovering the Secret of Joyful Giving”, p.49, Multnomah
  • He who lays up treasures in heaven looks forward to eternity

    Heaven   Looks   Treasure  
    Randy Alcorn (2012). “The Treasure Principle: Discovering the Secret of Joyful Giving”, p.49, Multnomah
  • I get that that the violent illegal immigrants will be removed from the country. But what I am not hearing and I am wondering, for people out there - and, look, it’s not just the liberal media, right? It’s also conservatives. It’s Rush Limbaugh. It’s Governor Sarah Palin. It’s other people who want Donald Trump to win who are saying, wow, it sounds like he is really backing away from this deportation force…

    Country   Winning   Media  
    "Trump team dodges and ducks". www.washingtonpost.com. August 29, 2016.
  • A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life.

    People   Aging   Enjoy  
    "Fictional character: Maude". "Harold and Maude", www.imdb.com. 1971.
  • And stop doing that,” he said. “Backing away, giving me that look.” Like you’re scaring me? Maybe you are.” He stepped back so fast he wobbled and caught himself, and the look on his face—It vanished in a second, the scowl returning. I’d never hurt you, Chloe. You should know—” He stopped. Paused. Then wheeled and started walking away. “Next time? Handle it yourself. I’m done taking care of you.

  • MR.GOUDY: I believe you testified that you backed away from Aaron Wharton. MR.COGBURN: That is right. MR.GOUDY: You were backing away? MR.COGBURN: Yes sir. He had that ax raised. MR.GOUDY: Which direction were you going? MR.COGBURN: I always go backwards when I am backing up.

    Charles Portis (2011). “True Grit”, p.65, A&C Black
  • Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian about it.

  • Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.

    "Wishful Drinking". Book by Carrie Fisher, ew.com. December 2, 2008.
  • I would find myself backing away from all of the 'isms,' all of the communities. I have always been able to be misused by every community But that is OK. I would rather be misused than neglected.

    Community   Isms   Able  
  • Violet heard the coughing and came running back. She sank down on the bench beside Rose, putting her arm around the older girl and holding a handkerchief to Rose's lips. "What happened?" she asked Galen, her tone just shy of being accusatory. "I am so sorry, Your Highness," Galen said, backing away. "I made her laugh, and–" "You made her laugh?" Violet's eyes widened. "She hasn't laughed in weeks!" She smiled at Galen and gave Rose's shoulders a little squeeze.

    Girl   Running   Sorry  
  • His brother maintained that what sent people backing away was neither his size nor his mother's blood, but solely the expression on his face. To test Samuel's theory, Charles had tried smiling - and then solemnly reported to Samuel that he had been mistaken. When Charles smiled, he told Samuel, people just ran faster.

    Patricia Briggs (2012). “Fair Game”, p.34, Penguin
  • Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure and uninterpreted experience, in which body, mind, and nature are the same. This retreat from wonder, the backing away like lobsters into safe crannies, the desperate instinct that our life passes unlived, is reflected in proliferation without joy, corrosive money rot, the gross befouling of the earth and air and water from which we came.

    Air   Water   Joy  
    Peter Matthiessen (2008). “The Snow Leopard”, p.68, Penguin
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