Top 100 Back But Quotes
#1. As I was sitting in my chair,
I knew the bottom wasn't there,
Nor legs nor back, but I just sat,
Ignoring little things like that.
Hughes Mearns
#3. I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.
LaToya Jackson
#4. When I was deciding whether or not to take the job at Celine, I didn't really look at the history of the house. I had other offers to come back, but they weren't right, or they wouldn't let me stay in London, which was non-negotiable.
Phoebe Philo
#5. I can't pay her back, but what I can do is make her as happy as she thought I would when we first got married.
George Lopez
#6. It's not the failure that holds us back but the reluctance to begin over again that causes us to stagnate.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#7. I embraced her and she did not object at all. She let herself be kissed and kissed back, but coolly, without conviction, absently, as if she were smoking a cigarette.
Mihail Sebastian
#8. There's something I call telegenekicity, and it's not about just models. Of course, I can reference Iman, Tatiana Patitz, Kelly Emberg, Bonnie Berman - I go all the way back - but I think that you develop an eye to register iconic images - like Greta Garbo and Elizabeth Taylor.
Michael Flutie
#9. I loved 'Pulling.' It was so original and hilarious. I remember being very sad when it finished. I'd love to start a campaign to bring it back, but if I did, the actors would probably say, 'We're fine. We're all really busy, thanks. Please don't!'
Sophie McShera
#10. Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.
Holly Black
#11. What's gone will never come back, but it exists when you think of it.
John Frusciante
#12. Once you make decisions, you can't go back, but in photography, that process can continue. With film, you have to eliminate all the possibilities and make the one possibility work the best for you, so you have to become very creative with the direction you've chosen.
Anton Corbijn
#13. Nothing that had happened in the past could be taken away. This was an amazing gift. The past was done and over and settled; you couldn't get it back, but still, whatever good you had gotten from it, spiritually, emotionally, would be yours for your lifetime.
Nancy Werlin
#14. It definitely can be really hard being away from friends and family for so long. People expect you to be different when you come back. But I love it, I love coming home. I really want to start coming back here more often ? its so fun.
Hayley Williams
#15. The burning eyes did not come back, but memories did, came flooding in. The words. Always the words. Divorce.
Gary Paulsen
#16. Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
#17. I think I should be in a film called 'Space Shrews'. Where I go to space. With a load of shrews. And nothing really happens. We just get out and have a lolly and then come back. But it'll be a musical the ship will be built out of my own hair.
Noel Fielding
#18. The more people I meet, the more I'm realizing how rare it is to find someone who lets you be yourself. Who never tries to hold you back, but watches you ride out the wave of intensity and see where it takes you.
Katie Kacvinsky
#19. Pride tells me to give it back, but common sense tells pride to shut up, have a joint and relax. I shrug and put the note into my wallet.
Mohsin Hamid
#20. It was only later that I wondered about it and tried to look back. But by then I could only see that there was once a time when we had walked apart; and then a time when we walked together.
Sarah Waters
#21. Yelling is a sign of desperation, an indication that you're out of options, with nothing behind your back but volume.
Emma Chase
#22. I love the adrenaline of my bike. I always have. I try my best to let it chase away the feel of Olivia at my back, but I think nothing short of a week locked up in a bedroom with her can accomplish that. And oh what a week that would be.
M. Leighton
#23. It is pointless for a woodcutter to shed tears for the trees he'd chopped all his life. He can't bring them back but he can plant new ones and in doing so he would have compensated and redeemed himself of his wrongdoings.
Chirag Tulsiani
#24. There're two different kinds of skating. There's the style skating, and there's the trick skating. He (Tony Hawk) does the trick skating so heavy duty, that he can overcome the style skating. There's always the chance that the style skater can come back, but the whole deal really is learning tricks.
Christian Hosoi
#25. Because the lives you had before-that we all had before-we can never get them back. But there's a beginning in an end, you know? It's true that you can't reclaim what you had, but you can lock in up behind you. Start fresh.
Alexandra Bracken
#26. Funny how your life could be interrupted: You left a house expecting to come back, but then the path you were on took you left instead of around again to the right. How
J.R. Ward
#27. One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph.
Robert Browning
#28. Oh, yes. In my future, a man will control all my possessions if I marry him, I shan't be allowed to vote, and I won't be given the opportunity to earn a living by any means except on my back - but by all means, the most dire threat I face is freckles.
Courtney Milan
#29. Because Ragen is kind hearted and strong at the same time, and I know how rare that kind of man is. Because I never doubted that he loved me, and would come back. But most of all, because the moments I had with him were worth all the ones apart.
Peter V. Brett
#30. I feel that if your soul was branded by the sixties, you never lost the brand. It's like going into a nightclub and having your hand stamped so that you don't have to come back but you can come back.
Marianne Williamson
#31. We were taught that the French were our archenemies, that the Italians were traitors, that Austria had lost the First World War only because of a "stab in the back" - but I must tell you, we were never sure who had done the stabbing.
Edith Hahn Beer
#32. A great number of people wake up each morning with the thought of not just how to pay back, but how to consciously or unconsciously live in the past!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#33. I think life is too short not to say how you feel. You don't have to say it back, but I wanted you to know tonight, right now, how I feel about you. I love you, Cheyenne Jensen. I love you with all of my heart.
Nikki Lynn Barrett
#34. Sometimes GOD places walls NOT to hold us back, but to test our determination
Samer Chidiac
#35. It seems like a lot when you have three movies back to back but that's not really how it is.
Naomi Watts
#36. I shed many a tear when the steam engines went out of style on the railroads. I'd like to seem them come back, but I realize the diesels are more efficient.
Clyde Tombaugh
#37. I do not care to speak ill of a man behind his back, but I believe he is an attorney.
Samuel Johnson
#38. Diversion is the absolute worst remedy for depression. When we ignore the things that haunt us or taunt us, not only do they keep coming back, but they're bigger and stronger each time they return. Stop shoving us depressives in that direction.
Northern Adams
#39. Spiders hate Athena, and Athena hates them right back. But spiders also hate humans, because Arachne never forgot her shame and her anger at being ridiculed.
Rick Riordan
#40. When you want someone back, but you know they will never ever want you back again.
Unknown
#41. Perhaps I'm not their dead one back, but I'm something almost better to them; an ideal shaped by their minds.
Ray Bradbury
#42. Some lean back. But those who lean forward are poised to cross the finish-line, first!
T.F. Hodge
#43. She kept me from living in back alleys and going back to drugs. I paid her back, but I owed her a lot more than the money. Emily saved my life." Buck Jamison in Goodbye Emily
Michael Murphy
#44. Like Claire said, there were other things to hunt and most of them were much less likely to hunt me back. But there was nothing that made my blood sing, my senses reel, my heart pound quite like chasing my natural prey. Except maybe fucking it.
Karen Chance
#45. It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!
Agnetha Faltskog
#46. Something dug into the Bloody-Nine's back, but there was no pain. It was a sign. A message in a secret tongue, that only he could understand. It told him where the next dead man was standing.
Joe Abercrombie
#47. She will not come back, but her beauty, her voice, will echo until the end of time. She believed in something beyond herself, and her death gave her voice power it didn't have in life.
Pierce Brown
#48. I am gone and am not coming back, but I remember everything.
Keith Donohue
#49. She's holding it together, too, and I want to tell her she doesn't have to do that for me, because I might not be able to do it or her. I can tell she's also trying not to look back, but she does it - she looks over her shoulder - and the tears won't leave her eyes.
David Levithan
#50. Jesus, you're a bossy motherfucker," Nick muttered. "Then again, you always were." "You don't know the half of it," Knight muttered back, but did it grinning.
Kristen Ashley
#51. It's OK to stand back. But it's also good to demonstrate that it's fun to be involved. As long as you are willing to say, 'This looks fun. I'd like to try this, too,' your child will mimic your example of openness, playfulness and optimism.
Julia Cameron
#52. You can only live on the past for so long, and we kind of stretched our luck on that. We think we're on the way back, but it's just a matter of how quickly things come together. Common sense tells you it's not going to happen overnight because we're trying to catch up.
Richard Petty
#53. You can love a monster, it can even love you back, but that doesn't change its nature. This isn't Beauty and the Beast where my kiss would transform the monster to a prince. If anything, it's Shrek, and his kiss brings out the ogre in me.
Eliza Crewe
#54. I don't expect you to take me back, but I needed to come here and tell you how sorry I am. I needed to tell you how much I love you, Gavin. How much I need you in my life.
Gail McHugh
#55. Tears resurfaced. I tried to bite them back, but they bled free. And I knew they would fall endless, ceaseless, even when my eyes were dry. Never would I stop grieving her. This love was eternal.
A.L. Jackson
#56. For years I'd been trying to forget ... , locking it up and burying it deep in my memory. The journey ... had shattered that, bringing it all back - but now that I'd faced it, I found to my surprise that the fear had been worse than the reality.
Benedict Jacka
#57. Involvement in Afghanistan, I thought, was totally warranted. We were attacked, we attacked back, but after six months of being in Afghanistan, I thought we had pretty well effectively wiped out al Qaeda.
Gary Johnson
#58. The white man knows many things," the other whispered back, "but he doesn't know how to tell a good lie.
Okey Ndibe
#59. I shovel [money] out, and God shovels it back ... but God has a bigger shovel!
R. G. LeTourneau
#60. You may boo, you may turn your back, but I have devoted my life to the conservative cause.
Gresham Barrett
#61. The dark ancestral cave, the womb from which mankind emerged into the light, forever pulls one back - but ... you can't go home again ... you can't go ... back home to the escapes of
Time and Memory. You Can't Go Home Again
Thomas Wolfe
#62. You can turn your back but you can never really walk away.
Ellen Hopkins
#63. I didn't look back, but I knew you were still watching. It probably sounds weird, but I could just feel it. The hairs on my neck bristled when you blinked.
Lucy Christopher
#64. I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.
John Green
#65. She talked back, but he didn't understand her raven language of harsh caws and soft croaks.
Audrey Niffenegger
#66. As of right now, I have no desire. I've watched several games and played pickup ball thinking I'd have the feeling I'd like to get back, but I didn't have that feeling. I don't really miss the game.
Antonio Davis
#67. Pillars hold things up, and salt keeps things clean, but it's a poor exchange for losing your self. People do go back, but they don't survive, because two realities are claiming them at the same time.
Jeanette Winterson
#68. Caidi to Jacin: "Do you know why I love you?"
Jacin: "No."
Caidi: "Because you love so big, even when you don't want to. Because you can't help it. And because you need it back, but you don't know how to take it.
Carole Cummings
#69. You want to fall in love with a shoe, go ahead. A shoe can't love you back, but, on the other hand, a shoe can't hurt you too deeply either. And there are so many nice-looking shoes.
Allan Sherman
#70. You couldn't begin to imagine who I am, where I'm going, or what I'm about to do, All of you are trapped here. You can't go anywhere, forward or back. But I'm not like you. I have work to do. I have a mission to accomplish. And so, with your permission, I shall move ahead.
Haruki Murakami
#72. My mom was a model, and her laid-back but put-together sensibility really rubbed off on me.
Tony Parker
#73. When I was on The View, Barbara Walters was asking me about the blood and stuff, and I said, 'Well, you know, that's a staple of Japanese cinema.' And then she came back, 'But this is America.' And I go, 'I don't make movies for America. I make movies for planet Earth.'
Quentin Tarantino
#74. A performance is only as good as the audience you are playing to. A lot of times you feed off of the audience, and we always try to give them all we've got and sometimes you don't get a lot back, but we've never been dead whenever we've performed.
Kelly Jones
#75. By day, it was merely the Lane That Time Forgot; perfect for a bygone age when a pony and trap might have trotted merrily down to the village and back, but less suited to modern requirements and any car without a 'thin' button.
Christine Stovell
#76. You're the world to me," I whisper onto
her lips. "I hope you never forget that."
"I'll never forget," she whispers back.. "But if I ever do, for
whatever reason, I hope you'll always find a way to remind me."
... "Always.
J.A. Redmerski
#77. I have enjoyed a wonderful run in films, so far, and I may, at some point, come back. But it will be in my own time and in my own style.
Debra Winger
#78. Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be allowed to come back. But that doesn't mean that they all should live in exactly the same spot that they lived before.
Ed McMahon
#79. Someone had my number and they started text-stalking me. I've never replied to them. It was tempting to write back, but I resisted.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
#80. Why can't Pluto be a planet? Some people like Pluto. And if it doesn't exist then they don't have a favorite planet. Right? Please write back but not in cursive because I can't read cursive.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#82. We go, in winter's biting wind, On many a short-lived winter day, With aching back but willing mind To dig and double dig the clay.
Ruth Pitter
#83. Longing for the past keeps us looking back; but hoping in a brighter future keeps us looking up! EL
Evinda Lepins
#84. Children will run from law, and they'll run from grace. The ones who run from law never come back. But the ones who run from grace always come back. Grace draws its own back home.
Tullian Tchividjian
#85. There are times, they occur with increasing frequency nowadays, when I seem to know nothing, when everything I know seems to have fallen out of my mind like a shower of rain, and I am gripped for a moment in paralysed dismay, waiting for it all to come back but with no certainty that it will.
John Banville
#86. A loose feather can't be put back...but a broken wing can sometimes heal.
Bob Graham
#87. What was I before the war? It's hard to remember that far back. But I think maybe I was human.
A.J. Vega
#88. A lot of shows peak after a series and never get it back, but 'Breaking Bad' keeps the tension up all the time.
Miranda Raison
#89. His wife spotted the danger in our resolutely bohemian ways.
"You have only one year left before you qualify as a doctor and yet you're going away? You have no idea when you'll be back? But why?"
We couldn't give precise answers to her desperate questions and this horrified her ...
Ernesto Che Guevara
#90. They can't push women all the way back, but they can use women's bodies to keep them under surveillance and control.
Katha Pollitt
#91. It doesn't really matter if you are left behind the back, but what matters is your capacity to pull and push everyone by your way to get to the front.
Michael Bassey
#92. I shovel out the money, and God shovels it back - but God has a bigger shovel. - R. G. LeTourneau
Randy Alcorn
#93. God made you to love him supremely, but he lost you. He returned to get you back, but it took the cross to do it. He absorbed your darkness so that one day you can finally and dazzlingly become your true self and take your seat at his eternal feast.
Timothy Keller
#94. You didn't just lose a loved one. You lost your heart, your memories, your laughter, your brain and it even took your bones. Eventually, it all came back, but different. Rearranged.
Louise Penny
#95. Folks in the wagon train figured Ma would turn back, but they hadn't known Ma so long as I had. Once she set her mind to something she wasn't about to quit.
Louis L'Amour
#96. I tend not to listen. When I'm listening to records, I don't listen to much new wave stuff, I tend to listen to the stuff I used to listen to a few years back but sort of odd singles.
Ian Curtis
#97. When I got here, I did get bored ... I got more and more nervous here too, not knowing anybody. And I kept waiting for that loneliness and nervousness to make me want to go back. But it never did. It's the one thing I can't do.
John Green
#98. Lots of people think I'm telling porky pies when I say how nervous I get about singing. I was good at working out how music was put together, and I was good at being at the back, but if you asked me to sing up front, then I looked like I was going to pass out.
Laura Mvula
#99. I felt myself trapped in line for a ride I was not nearly ready for, looking back but moving forward in the only direction I could go.
Elizabeth Berg
#100. When it is fairly quiet we can hear the transports behind the enemy lines rolling ceaselessly until dawn. Kat says that they do not go back but are bringing up troops - troops, munitions, and guns.
Erich Maria Remarque
