Top 100 Back Down Quotes
#1. If you're lucky enough to do well, it's your responsibility to send the elevator back down.
Kevin Spacey
#2. An argument would have begun to steam and boil and sputter - and you know how arguments end. Even if I had convinced him that he was wrong, his pride would have made it difficult for him to back down and give in.
Dale Carnegie
#4. Then, amid the roar of bees in the afternoon sunlight, Simon found for the fruit they could not reach ... passed them back down to the endless, outstretched hands.
William Golding
#5. Sit back down - and for God's sake quit trying to be as nasty as I am; you don't have my years of practice.
Robert A. Heinlein
#6. You know what it's like to move from being happy to being not? It's like swinging as high as you can and someone stops you as you come back down.
Joan Bauer
#7. You gonna back down so easy, little sister?. Not much wild about you, is there? I bet that cottage doesn't have a scratch. Did Edward tell you how many houses Rose and I smashed?
Stephenie Meyer
#8. Haters are cowards. When confronted they often back down. We must resist haters.
Janet Reno
#9. I had a particular affinity for wrestling, and it did have a lot to do with being small and being combative - and being angry. And when you're small and you don't back down, you get in a lot of fights.
John Irving
#10. One moment you appear to be riding the crest of a wave, only to have the rug pulled away from you, bringing you back down to earth with a sickening thud.
John Barrow
#11. So when you're in REM sleep, your brain is very active, our body is quiet, but your brain is really processing a lot of things, a lot of emotions; we dream the most in REM sleep. And then you go back down in the deep stages, and so on and so forth.
Shelby Harris
#12. There was panic in my eyes. I looked into my own eyes and back down at my hands. Horrid age spots, two scars. Un-Indian, nervous, lonely hands. I could see children and men and gardens in my hands. His
Lucia Berlin
#13. Analysts often write about the need for certain cultures not to lose face, or ever be seen to back down, but this is not just a problem in the Arab or East Asian cultures - it is a human problem expressed in different ways.
Tim Marshall
#14. I pulled him tighter as I lay back down. I had no idea where we went from here. No fucking clue what happened tomorrow. But for tonight, Adam was in my arms. And everything was okay.
Spencer Spears
#15. I have been going to the gym instead of the bar, trying to get back down to my fighting weight.
Gregg Allman
#16. A lot of times, I go and face the top receiver, and that's a task ... it comes with the territory, and I never back down from that challenge.
Johnathan Joseph
#17. Socrates ... brought human wisdom back down from heaven, where she was wasting her time, and restored her to man ... It is impossible to go back further and lower. He did a great favor to human nature by showing how much it can do by itself.
Michel De Montaigne
#18. I certainly never get above my station - my family would soon slap me back down to earth.
Sheridan Smith
#19. When dreams evaporate into the clouds and come back down as tiny rain droplets, are they the same dreams, or something altogether new?
Marilyn Grey
#20. I think my level of fame will drop back down. I think it'll recede. In fact, I know it will. That's life on Planet Earth. And I'm okay with that. Besides getting tables at restaurants and special treatment at the airport, what else is there?
Tina Fey
#21. For your own good, for the good of your family and your future, grow a backbone. When something is wrong, stand up and say it is wrong, and don't back down.
Dave Ramsey
#22. I've done routes where I've climbed 200 feet off the ground and just been, like, 'What am I doing?' I then just climbed back down and went home. Discretion is the better part of valor. Some days are just not your day. That's the big thing with free soloing: when to call it.
Alex Honnold
#23. The grandmothers are the most prayerful creatures on the planet. They don't back down until they see the results.
Euginia Herlihy
#24. A good marriage can be ruined by poor communications - and by forgetting to put the lid back down.
Gene Simmons
#25. One day, you're a nobody, and the next, you're in a movie that everybody is talking about. But Hollywood has a way of knocking you back down to Earth.
Patrick Fugit
#26. I love to fly. It's just you're alone, there's peace and quiet, nothing around you but clear blue sky. No one to hassle you. No one to tell you where to go or what to do. The only bad part about flying is having to come back down to the fuckin' world.
Mary Ellen Mark
#27. When someone falls," Mark said, "you don't throw her back down in the dirt. You offer her a hand up. It's the Christian thing to do.
Courtney Milan
#28. I'd forgotten how that sort of craving felt, how it rose suddenly and loudly from the pit of my stomach like a flock of startle birds, then floated back down in the slow, beguiling way of feathers.
Sue Monk Kidd
#29. The old Lena is dead, I say, and then push past him, back down through the gully toward the camp. Each step is more difficult than the last; the heaviness fills me and turns my limbs to stone. You
Lauren Oliver
#30. Al brought his attention back down from the ceiling. "You really don't want to have sex with him? Why? What's wrong with him?
Kim Harrison
#31. Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me;
Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see
A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings
And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she
sings.
D.H. Lawrence
#32. Nick: I'm not leaving you. I don't care what you try to do to push me away. I don't care what comes along. I'm here. If you think I'm going to back down now, you're crazy.
Maggie: So you're going to love me out of spite?
Nick: Yes.
Maggie: Ah, spite, the stuff of fairy tales.
Molly Harper
#33. I think there have always been male writers, female writers. As a reader, I never picked up a book and said, 'Oh, I can't read this - it's about a male,' and set it back down.
Robin Hobb
#34. If you feel so empty
So used up, so let down
If you feel so angry
So ripped off so stepped on
You're not the only one
Refusing to back down
You're not the only one
So get up
Three Days Grace
#35. The Obama administration has refused to back down on the insurance mandate that needlessly pits health care against the rights of the religious ... This administration simply doesn't get it.
Rob Portman
#36. Space is not just going up and coming back down again. Space is getting into orbit and being there, living there, establishing a presence, a permanence.
Buzz Aldrin
#37. What are you going to call them?" Meg asked. "Lunch?" Simon offered. The female pack gave him a look that made him think running away would be a good idea, if he wasn't the leader and couldn't back down.
Anne Bishop
#38. Striving to meet my father's expectations is like climbing out of quicksand: the harder I try to get to the top, the more I'm sucked back down by his unrelenting criticism.
Lac Su
#39. The minute I get swelled up about something, something has always brought me back down to earth ...
Chuck D
#40. And let the Fed sell bonds to bring bank reserves back down to required reserve levels, so we have restraint on bank lending and bank issuances of liability.
Arthur Laffer
#41. I had to bring myself back down to being a normal person again.
Aidan Quinn
#42. I'm right next to two beautiful women right now, so I'm going to sit right back down.
Andrew Garfield
#43. We must stand so firmly for the truth so that we do not back down because every movement away from righteousness and God's truth is similar to death
Sunday Adelaja
#44. Vice President Spiro Agnew can not cheat on his score : because all you have to do is look back down the fairway and count the wounded.
Bob Hope
#45. People may get angry at us for setting boundaries; they can't use us anymore. They may try to help us feel guilty so we will remove our boundary and return to the old system of letting them use or abuse us. Don't feel guilty and don't back down.
Melody Beattie
#46. It is a noble responsibility to not back down when you know that you know that you know that you are right.
Criss Jami
#47. I stop stretching and face him, unwilling to back down from this visual standoff. I'm not going to let him perform his little Jedi mind tricks on me, no matter how much I wish I could perform them on him. He's completely unreadable and even more unpredictable. It pisses me off.
Colleen Hoover
#48. I'm one of the
freaks, the faggots,
the geeks, the savages,
rogues, rebels, dissident devils,
artists, martyrs, infidels ...
do we sit still
under attack?
or do we start pushing back?
never back up
never back down
& FIGHT.
Otep Shamaya
#49. How strange and abandoned and unsettled I am. Like a snowdome paper weight that's been shaken. There's a blizzard in my bubble. Everything in my world that was steady and sure and sturdy has been shaken out of place, and it's now drifting and swirling back down in a confetti of debris. (p30)
Craig Silvey
#50. He leaned down and whispered to me: No matter how thin you get, no matter how short you cut your hair, it's still going to be you underneath. And he let go of my arm and walked back down the hall.
Marya Hornbacher
#51. Our souls are made of water, Goethe says. So too, our bodies. There is a flow within us, rising and falling, unidirectional, to the heart. there is a flow without also. We circulate. We are drawn up, and we fall back down to earth again. It's all haemodynamics.
J.M. Ledgard
#52. I missed you every minute this week and I don't want to spend another day without you. If my mom disowns me for being with a vampire, then that's her decision, but I've made mine, and I won't apologize of back down from it.
Jeaniene Frost
#53. Dagmar tried to stand, and Gwenvael caught her hand, pulling her back down. "You can't leave me. I'm tortured and brooding. You need to show me how much you adore me so I can learn to love myself again."
"You've never stopped loving yourself."
"Because I'm amazing.
G.A. Aiken
#54. I keep waiting for things to get back down to whelming, but they stay at overwhelming.
Erin Morgenstern
#55. And the sea moved her back down the shore.
Ray Bradbury
#56. I lean back down and press my lips against his" you're going to be safe. i swear.i'll keep you safe."
his lips move beneath mine." I love you." his eyes are strong for a second, intense Nick eyes."I will always love you no matter what."
"we'll always love each other," i say
Carrie Jones
#57. On the way back down the road, he passes me in his car, our eyes meet for just a second and he smiles at me.
Paula Hawkins
#58. Being that I went to jail and came back, I went through a whole new experience in life. I went from being at the top to back down at the bottom again. In jail, you get stripped of your freedom and everything, so I experienced different things, learned more.
Meek Mill
#59. Wait a minute. Are you limping?" Before he could speak, she said, "You can ride, though, right?"
"I assume you're referring to a horse?"
She smiled and jammed her hands down on her abundant hips. "Cowboys," she muttered under her breath as she sat back down.
B. J. Daniels
#60. Yes, Wagner and the storm intermix with the wine as nights like this run up my wrists and up into my head and back down into the gut
Charles Bukowski
#61. I'm definitely not a muscle builder or a guy that's interested in being a muscle builder. It feels good to get back down to a normal size. Not like a hipster size or a buff-guy size, but just a normal, 34-waist guy.
Anthony Mackie
#62. There was a momentary lull in the shooting and spellslinging, and the kid started scrambling to his feet. I grabbed his arm and pulled him back down. In my family that's not silence; it's reloading.
Lisa Shearin
#63. If you get to the top of the ladder by pushing people off, you'll find that there won't be a ladder left or people to help you get back down.
Aliza Licht
#64. And maybe the only reason we have to fall back down to grow again is the same cause for the sun to rise and sink: our stars need time to shine at night to heal, to heal.
Anonymous
#65. I'll stand my ground and I won't back down...
Tom Petty
#66. Like the ideals of freedom and democracy, the right to stand one's ground was held to be an exclusively white prerogative. Even when threatened by a mob, black people were to back down or submit - never to stand up for themselves.
Charles E. Cobb Jr.
#67. Back down a country road the girls are always hot and the beer is ice cold.
Jake Owen
#68. Kathel did not back down at all. "Well, Keirah told me she was suddenly unattached, if you know what I mean. And I figured, what the hell, why not have a go at her myself," Kathel said enthusiastically.
Madison Thorne Grey
#69. Hell no. Absolutely not. I am a Skotos. We are to be feared. We never back down or run away from anything. Ever.
S.L. Jennings
#70. I lie back down and close my eyes and imagine his arms are still around me, and that's how I fall asleep.
Jenny Han
#71. I tried to fight the panic and force it back down to where it had come from.
Sue Whitaker
#72. Royce looked back down at the stream below. "She doesn't even know me. What if she doesn't like me? Few people do."
"She might not at first. Maribor knows I didn't. But you have a way of growing on a person." He smiled. "You know, like lichen or mold.
Michael J. Sullivan
#73. With enough determination, any bloody idiot can get up this hill," Hall observed. "The trick is to get back down alive.
Jon Krakauer
#74. When faced with a situation, the confidence you stand up to that situation with usually pushes the other person to back down because the guy that is trying to start the fight doesn't really want to fight. He just wants a scene.
Sean Faris
#75. I don't really think of myself as a heartthrob. I've got a lot of brothers, and there's a natural competitiveness between us when it comes to girls. If I said something about being a heartthrob, then they would bring me straight back down to earth!
Ross Lynch
#76. I do good when people doubt me. When someone says I can't do something, I want to do more. I won't back down from anybody.
Kenyon Martin
#77. I'll be out of my mind
and you'll be out of ideas pretty soon.
So let's spend the afternoon
in a cold hot air balloon.
Leave your jacket behind.
Lean out and touch the tree tops over town.
I can't wait to kiss the ground wherever we touch back down.
Owl City
#78. Would you please hush and let me kiss you?"
Laughing, I pulled him back down towards me. "I'm all yours.
Aimee Carter
#79. Damn it, Mariel," Kieran growled and spun her around to face him once more. "Ye belong to me."
Her heart skipped a beat. He wanted her. Mariel wrenched her arm from his hold but did not back down from the heat of his stare. "Then be a man and take what's yours.
Madeline Martin
#80. OUT of that moment Jesus was nailed to his cross flowed our attempts to represent it, to create a narrative that could contain it. Yet the body, hanging there, is still, simply, terrible. Caravaggio's genius was to paint Jesus with dirty feet, to bring him back down to earth.
Nick Flynn
#81. I can't help thinking about memoir as a down-and-up process: Dive down for color; come up for context. Sink back down for action; climb back up for self-awareness and gratitude.
Koren Zailckas
#82. I won't back down. I get a satisfaction from being tested and defeating the test.
Ashton Eaton
#83. If it weren't for supplies, I'd never go back down to town. But a man has to do what a man has to do. Hard to live like a king without toilet paper.
Astamur
Ilona Andrews
#84. We should've been better, more disciplined. We made untimely mistakes defensively, as a group. This is really humbling for us. After winning the Stanley Cup, we got brought back down to earth, hard. Maybe the humbling is good for us in the long run.
Steve Yzerman
#85. I like how writing can take you off for a jaunt in your head and then set you back down in the chair where you've been all along.
Georgann Low
#86. She doesn't usually back down that easily."
"Maybe she's got class."
Eve snorted. "Trust me," she said. "That girl's got no class at all.
Rachel Caine
#87. Never give up or back down on the things that fill your soul, Calloway. There is no worse life than a hollow one.
Krista Ritchie
#88. There was something terribly sad, yet terribly uplifting, about watching this prophet of the ancient art of distance running turning his back on everything except his dream, and heading back down to "the best place in the world to run." Alone.
Christopher McDougall
#89. There are so many things that kept forcing metal back down to the underground. It survives everywhere on the planet.
David Pajo
#90. So, now, with me. That brute which knows no peace came ever nearer me and, step by step, drove me back down to where the sun is mute.
Dante Alighieri
#91. If you have done well in whatever business you are in, it is your duty to send the elevator back down and try to help bring up the next generation of undiscovered talent.
Kevin Spacey
#92. Shadow brushed his teeth and washed his face in the cold water of the little bathroom, and then walked back down the hall to the sitting room, turned out the light, and was asleep before his head touched the pillow.
Neil Gaiman
#93. Damn, that woman is one mighty bitch. I think my balls just now dropped back down.
M. Leighton
#94. I wonder what I will do if she doesn't wake up, and I don't have an answer. As I lie back down next to her and pull her into my arms, my stomach growls, and suddenly I know exactly what I will do. If she doesn't wake up, then I will just lie with her until I don't wake up either.
Shay Savage
#95. And then it happened. This massive heart attack that brought the brilliant Julian Mantle back down to earth and reconnected him to his mortality. Right in the middle of courtroom number seven on a Monday morning, the same courtroom where we had won the Mother of All Murder Trials.
Robin S. Sharma
#96. You better stand tall when they're calling you out, don't bend, don't break, and don't back down!
Jon Bon Jovi
#97. Every consession gives rise to further concessions, we cannot back down, because behind us there is only an abyss, we must keep our promises and demand that they be kept.
Vaclav Havel
#98. I was taught that I cannot back down to anything. I was trained never to be scared.
Ray Rice
#99. If you look back on your life and where you started from it's like looking back down a mountain back to the desert floor. It's like now I can't believe I had whatever it takes or perceived whatever it took to get here.
Morgan Freeman
#100. Aww, the sound of waves crashing along the ocean side and spraying back up to touch the wind only for a moment, then to fall back down becoming the ocean once more...
Melanie Kilsby
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