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Tag Name "Rear" (130)

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REAR, n. In American military matters, that exposed part of the army that is nearest to Congress.
Ambrose Bierce
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Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.
Winston Churchill
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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.
Walter Smith
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You do not move ahead by constantly looking in a rear view mirror. The past is a rudder to guide you, not an anchor to drag you. We must learn from the past but not live in the past.
Warren W. Wiersbe
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For a long time I've walked through this world with the desire, like in Rear Window, to look into other people's lives because I know that there is a way in which I am the same as so many of the strangers that I see.
Will Oldham
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The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, even tanks, being kept from the front and hidden for treacherous purposes.
William Alexander
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And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shot and danger of desire, The chariest maid is prodigal enough If she unmasks her beauty to the moon.
William Shakespeare
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[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.
Robert Staughton Lynd
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When someone's got your rear tires off the ground, you don't have much traction.
Kyle Petty
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Grandpa Patterson used to say: Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.
Debbie Macomber
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The most intense patriotism always flourishes in the rear.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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All women scientists should marry, rear children, cook, and clean in order to achieve fulfillment, to be a complete woman.
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
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To produce things and to rear them, To produce, but not to take possession of them, To act, but not to rely on one's own ability, To lead them, but not to master them - This is called profound and secret virtue.
Laozi
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Halloween was banned in Haddonfield and I think that the basic idea was that if you tried to suppress something, it would only rear its head more strongly. By the very [attempt] of trying to erase the memory of Michael Myers, [the teenagers] were going to ironically bring him back into existence.
Dennis Etchison
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I'm not much into rear window ethics.
Alfred Hitchcock
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In Michigan recently a man won a lawsuit for substantial damages because, he claimed, a rear-end collision in his car had made him a homosexual.
Simon Blackburn
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I had to admit the man looked amazing in jeans. The ancient denim clung lightly to his hips and followed the long lines of some remarkable thigh muscles. And although I made a point of not checking out his rear view, my peripheral vision was having a very good day.” ~ Haven Travis on Hardy Cates
Lisa Kleypas
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Blank cartridges should never be used against a mob, nor should a volley be fired over the heads of the mob even if there is little danger of hurting persons in the rear. Such things will be regarded as an admission of weakness, or an attempt to bluff, and may do more harm than good.
Douglas MacArthur
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Should the enemy strengthen his van, he will weaken his rear should he strengthen his rear, he will weaken his van should he strengthen his left, he will weaken his right should he strengthen his right, he will weaken his left. If he sends reinforcements everywhere, he will everywhere be weak.
Sun Tzu
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Everything in the air that is beneath me, especially if it is a one seater . . . is lost, for it cannot shoot to the rear.
Manfred von Richthofen
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The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.
Dudley Moore
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Running a company on market research is like driving while looking in the rear view mirror.
Anita Roddick
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Excuses are like rear ends. Everybody has one and they stink.
Tom Curle
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Marshall McLuhan is absolutely right, we are always looking in the rear view mirror.
Margaret Atwood
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