A Quote by Arthur Frank Burns

We all know it's brutal up there at the front, especially those of us at the rear.

Arthur Frank Burns

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Brutal Front Know Rear Those Up Us

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Arthur Frank Burns
Ukrainian - Economist
April 27, 1904 - June 6, 1987

I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.

Abraham Lincoln

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.

Bill Alexander

I have a really small rear-view mirror in my life. I look at the rear-view mirror for memories and learning experiences, but I've got a big front windshield and I'm looking at right now. I've got so many projects on my plate.

Pat Croce

We can put fear of the future in front of us to block us, or behind us to drive us forward. I feel like telling all the people who look like me to start trying to write. You don't know it's possible because it's not often in front of you.

Michaela Coel

When you are getting kicked from the rear it means you are in front.

Fulton J. Sheen

It was Lorraine in her nightie and Mo in his cap. They'd just settled their brains for a long winter's nap in front of the television. When out in the lot there arose such a clatter, they sprang from their recliners to see what was the matter. Away to the window they flew like a flash, tore open the blinds and threw up the sash. And what to their wondering eyes should appear, but Stephanie Plum and yet another of her cars burning front to rear.

Janet Evanovich

In the future, if nuclear weapons are unleashed there will be no front and no rear.

Nikita Khrushchev

I think brutal honesty is extremely important. Don't be afraid of being up-front about your feelings and your life.

Minka Kelly

I have been refused entrance on the buses because I would not pay my fare at the front and go around to the rear door to enter. That was the custom if the bus was crowded up to the point where the white passengers would start occupying.

Rosa Parks

One of the parodoxes of war is that those in the rear want to get up into the fight, while those in the lines want to get out.

Ernie Pyle

I opted for the rear door, both as a courtesy and so she couldn't freak out about me showing up on her front doorstep for all of East Falls to see. Being the village pariah does make social calls most trying. -Paige

Kelley Armstrong

I think brutal honesty is extremely important. Don't be afraid of being up-front about your feelings and your life. I'd rather be an honest friend than a phony lover.

Minka Kelly

Sadly, it has often been said that my rear is better than my front, so thank you very much indeed.

Anton du Beke

The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front.

Ulysses S. Grant

I know that there is still a lot of bitterness and anger, and arguably justifiably so, when you think about how brutal slavery was and what its brutal legacy still is.