Top 100 Back You Quotes
#1. You lose, you smile, and you come back the next day. You win, you smile, you come back the next day.
Ken Griffey Jr.
#2. There's some sense in not going back. That way, you preserve it.
Fiona McFarlane
#3. Once you start altering your body's blueprint, things start falling apart. Some players take steroids, and two years later, after they've broken records, suddenly they have back problems, shoulder problems, arm problems. They're out of the game for good.
Charlie Sheen
#4. When you look back from your Olympic experience, you never want to question whether you could have done more. The one thing you can control is your off-ice preparation.
Angela Ruggiero
#5. ALways be careful what you say. You can always say you're sorry, but you can never take back what you said.
F.B. Newman
#6. For years of our lives the days pass waywardly, featureless, without meaning, without particular happiness or unhappiness. Then, like turning over a tapestry when you have only known the back of it, there is spread the pattern.
Jane Gardam
#7. Believe in yourself, even if you feel like turning back at times. Don't run away. Little by little you will get closer to achieving your dreams.
Yunho
#8. He puts the chain with the locket around my neck, then rests his hand over the spot where our baby would be. "You're going to make a great mother, you know," he says. He kisses me one last time and goes back to Finnick.
Suzanne Collins
#9. Lucas kicked back in his chair, and thought, Let's go to Sherlock Holmes. When you've eliminated the impossible, whatever was left, however improbable, must be the truth. Or something like that.
John Sandford
#10. When one's dead, one's dead ... This squirrel will become earth all in his time. And still later on, there'll grow new trees from him, with new squirrels skipping about in them. Do you think that's so very sad?
Tove Jansson
#11. We have some decisions to make. You'd just be going back and forth to his room to report when you might as well take all his objections at once and be done with it. The decisions aren't going to change.
Erin Kellison
#12. I think you're kind of seeing the real me as far as seeing what I post on social media, because I am very much into cooking, and my dogs, and obviously my son, and my lifestyle in Santa Cruz is very laid-back.
Marisa Miller
#13. If you said to people you can cast a secret ballot on whether to turn back the clock and have Morsi in power again, I don't think very many people in Washington would turn back that clock.
Elliott Abrams
#14. I Love You
and your perfect ask
'Would you scratch my back?' is enough
to stretch out hands because folk who love
happily scratch backs where a person can't reach
John Lavan
#15. The last time anyone did anything wrong in this town, Hades's men found those responsible and dragged them back here in chains. You would have to be insane to actively want to piss that man off." "Insane or very sure of yourself," I said.
Steve McHugh
#16. I've always said it takes more courage to stand back there and throw a ball knowing you're fixing to get drilled than anything I can think of in football.
Bobby Bowden
#17. Once a relationship is done, it's done. You can't do that back and forth thing.
Taylor Swift
#18. She comes to naught, my dear one, she comes to naught, all that there business. What the hell, maybe twice in your life you have yourself a whore of a good time, and then you spend every night of the rest of your life trying to get that good time back. But she comes to naught.
Lynn Coady
#19. In the middle of all this, as Sean slips out of his jacket, he looks over his shoulder at me and he smiles at me, just a glancing, faint thing before he turns back to Tommy. I'm quite happy for that smile, because Dad told me once you should be grateful for the gifts that are the rarest.
Maggie Stiefvater
#20. And then it all came rushing back; that's when I realized I'll never stop having a thing for you.
Ahmed Mostafa
#21. You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.
David Levithan
#22. And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.
Nigella Lawson
#23. I like songs that make me feel tough. Like 'Back in Black.' You want to hear it again and get in a fight.
Chris Stapleton
#24. I just close my eyes and act like I'm a 3-year-old. I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then. So you just close your eyes and think back to when you were as young as you can remember and had the least barriers to your creativity.
Kanye West
#25. You're a thief, Echo.' The Ala Squeezed her hand, her grip strong despite her frailty. 'Steal him back.
Melissa Grey
#26. I laugh when Floyd Mayweather says that if he went back in time he would beat us all. I'll tell you this: if he was in the same era as Hagler and Hearns and Leonard and me, I don't think he would be such a big name. There is too much talk.
Roberto Duran
#27. He took her hand in his and kissed her fingers, then shook his head. "I wouldn't have let you get away. I was angry and I acted foolishly, but I would have gotten you back. Whatever it took, I would have gotten you back. You're my answer, Zoe. You're my salvation.
Elliot Mabeuse
#28. If you want to become a fossil, you actually need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the earth moves in such a way as to bring the bones back up to the surface. And then you hope that one of us lot will walk around and find small pieces of you.
Louise Leakey
#29. In the aftermath of September 11, you can't - as Tony Blair was so fond of suggesting - draw a line under historical events. They don't go away. They come back.
Nick Harkaway
#30. The old white man didn't look into your eyes, he looked clear through your eyes, and straight to the inside of the back of your head. 'Instead of runnin from pain, which is the natural thing in life, in boxing you step to it, get me?
F.X. Toole
#31. If you're an alcoholic or a drug addict or something, we flirt with death. We pull ourselves to the brink of destruction and if we're lucky we pull ourselves back. We all have that in us.
Anthony Hopkins
#32. I flipped open my phone and sent Daniel a text: I love you.
As I crawled into bed, my phone beeped with a message back from him: Always.
Bree Despain
#33. Success shouldn't be measured by how much you have but by how much you give back.
Danny Villanueva
#35. Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding's a mystery to me now. You can't go back, your life changes every day.
Billy Connolly
#36. Yeah. Think I'll have to pass on the sex, though."
"We don't have to have sex just because you're staying the night."
"Oh! I thought it was the standard fee for the pillow, but now when I know better..."
"I might take that back..."
"Too late!" she laughed.
Lina Andersson
#37. True story," Horse chimed in. "Fuck with us, we'll fuck you back. Harder. Always.
Joanna Wylde
#38. The problem with falling in love is falling back out of it again, usually because you've fallen in love with a lie. That happens as often as not.
Ellen Hopkins
#39. I wanted to badly to be vulnerable over a burger, beer, and bags of free books we find on some stranger's porch. You wanted badly to be touched some thousand miles away and never found the time to write me back.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#40. Well, how did you die, then?" the old man finally asked.
"Die?" Matthew threw back. "Are you crazy? I'm not dead. I'm just very late.
J. Tonzelli
#41. No I'm not. It might benefit you to go back and have a look at what some of our founding fathers really believed, instead of relying so much on what people these days tell you they believed.
Harper Lee
#42. But you can't go back now? To that orderly, harmonious, intimate place?'
He thought about this, though there was no need to. 'That place doesn't exist anymore,' he said quietly.
Haruki Murakami
#43. I guess that's the thing about a hero's journey. You might not start out a hero, and you might not even come back that way. But you change, which is the same as everything changing. The journey changes you, whether or not you know it, and whether or not you want it to. I had changed.
Kami Garcia
#44. Everyone knows you only want to look at the sinkhole because you love a good disaster. Get back to work, Fuller. I don't pay you for your looks.
Meg Cabot
#45. He's not going to look back if you don't,' he said, 'They're the most forgiving creatures God ever made.
Nicholas Evans
#46. You're right. Everyone in this room with a pulse is starting to smell really good. Okay. Back in the box, better safe than sorry.
Jeaniene Frost
#47. She stepped back, staring up into my eyes. "You've given me hope." She ran her hand up my chest. "I don't know how to thank you for that."
I grinned. "You can start by taking my calls.
Lisa Kessler
#48. There's a hand," she said.
"You need a hand?" Matthew carefully skated back to her. "Have you got yourself stuck?"
"No, Matthew. There appears to be a hand. Frozen in the ice.
Lauren James
#49. Trust your heart and embrace the journey. You may make a wrong turn but your heart will get you back on the right path. Just keep making choices and don't second guess yourself.
E'yen A. Gardner
#50. Sometimes those fears creep into the back of your head, but then you slap yourself and think, 'Oh, woe is me! People actually like me.' What a silly thing to worry about. This is a huge opportunity, and I'm excited.
Ben McKenzie
#51. And even the aches and pains that had joined her as she got older
she'd liked them. They were reminders
the back, the knee, the achy wrists
they were even friends: Feel that now, Emer. You're alive.
Roddy Doyle
#52. God says to me with a kind of smile, "Hey how would you like to be God awhile And steer the world?" ... "How much do I get? What time is lunch?" ... "Gimme back that wheel," says God. "I don't think you're quite ready yet."
Shel Silverstein
#53. But what's regret anyway? Regret, I am learning these days, is a lot of things. But mostly, it's a slippery seed of longing, of looking back and asking yourself why you didn't know better when the answers were so obvious all along.
Allison Winn Scotch
#54. So," Asa said conversationally, "want to go home and play butterflies?"
Sebastian grimaced. "Do you promise not to pull my wings off?"
Asa looked at him sideways. "Do you promise to fly back?
Amy Lane
#55. Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own.
Richard Bachman
#56. If you don't look back to self reflect, you're only going to repeat the same mistakes. Those mistakes will continue to show up in your dating lifescape because you haven't learned the lesson they were supposed to teach you.
Jaha Knight
#57. You want me. And you hate that you want me. I know how you feel. Let's get it out of our systems and go back to hating each other next week.
Amanda Usen
#58. If you love her, set her free. If she comes back, she's yours. If she doesn't ... Christ! Stubborn woman! Hunt her down, and bring her the hell back; she's still yours according to vampire law.
- Niccolo DiConti, General of the Vampire Queen's Army.
Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
#59. We must make clear that if you come here illegally, you will be sent back home.
Rob Portman
#60. If we can't have the courage to tell our constituents, hey, we've got to cut back, then if we can point to something and say, I would like to vote for more benefits for you, but this balanced budget amendment or statutory spending cap or whatever the device is, is preventing me from doing it.
Jeff Flake
#61. Humanity is a very interesting phenomenon. If you peel back the layers, if you're brave enough, you realize it's something that's not for the faint of heart-" Angel M.B. Chadwick
Angel M.B. Chadwick
#62. You can try and hold me back. Build your damn walls, pack sandbags along the edges and yell at the clouds and the rain and the sky to stop.
But i will not relent. I will reach you. Because i am the sea. And i will continue to love you no matter what.
Pleasefindthis
#63. You should step in my shoes
Walk for a while
and maybe you will see how hard it is
to hold back the tears and fake a smile
Elizabeth Panos
#64. At my age you find yourself looking back from time to time and you begin to appreciate some of the things that happened to you.
Bob Dole
#65. Sometimes it's blood memory ... not the blood your mother and father gave you ... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.
Martha Graham
#66. You're looking for players whose name on the front of the sweater is more important than the one on the back. I look for these players to play hard, to play smart and to represent their country.
Herb Brooks
#67. When you win a race your on top that day, so take it for what its worth, have a good time and party, cause the next day when you get out of bed, the meter goes back to zero again.
Bobby Allison
#68. Funny thing how when you reach out, people tend to reach right back. Best, then, to make sure your hand is open and not fisted.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#69. Fuck the ones who hurt you
Stop thinking about them,
Get on with your own life
They'll eventually come back with apologies
And you'll gladly accept them; as you keep growing with your life.
Nikki Rowe
#70. People say, 'Weren't you deprived of your childhood?' No way. I would not take anything back at all. Everything about it was great. I got to go places, meet people, play baseball against older kids and better competition. I had a great time.
Bryce Harper
#71. Well, good for you, a breakthrough. The Neanderthals will be pleased to have their leader back.
Kate Stewart
#72. You're very presumptuous, you know," she said, but she smiled. He smiled right back. Confident. "You're very beautiful, you know." She
Robyn Carr
#73. He closes the door and turns around to face me with his hands behind his back. He studies me intensely, and it makes me squirm. "You know, you're not like I thought you'd be," he says, taking a step forward. "Yet, at the same time
Jessica Sorensen
#74. When you drive down Cemetery Road, the angel appears to be looking directly at you. Yet once you pass the monument and look back over your shoulder, the angel is still looking at you. Thus the appellation: the Turning Angel.
Greg Iles
#75. Gabriel raised an eyebrow. "Are you seriously going out with a dagger strapped to your back? You might as well just wear a sign that says Look at me, I'm a killer!
Chelsea Fine
#76. Sugar" he starts, before turning his attention back over to Dee, " I have thought about sex, hard fucking sex, about a hundred times since we sat down to eat." Looking back over to me, " Does that clear it up for you?
Harper Sloan
#77. That's the kind of guy you'd follow to hell and back.
Richelle Mead
#78. You want my advice? Put down your phone. Hug her from behind and kiss the back of her neck. Entwine your fingers with hers ... . You're welcome.
Steve Maraboli
#79. In my day, when you called on a girl, her mother was always hollering down to see if she was still unraped, the maid would look in, her father would shuffle his feet in another room. Today the boy calls up, says, 'Meet you at the back door of Stern's.'
Frank Crowninshield
#80. If you're driving your car and someone winds the window down and gives you the finger and calls you an asshole, instead of giving him the finger back and calling him an asshole back, you just pull a funny face, and he doesn't know how to react to that, because you're using different rules.
Steve Coogan
#81. When you die, are you ever allowed to come back?"
"Only if you had your hand stamped ...
Charles M. Schulz
#82. You're my friend," Chris whispered back, and his other hand came up so he could rub Xander's lower lip with his thumb. "That makes you beautiful.
Amy Lane
#83. What's it mean; are you determined
To make modern all mankind?
If so, you should be be-sermoned
And brought back to healthy mind.
Charles C. Abbott
#84. Everybody said to me back home, what do you want to go to Alaska for, and I said, because I've never been there, isn't that a good enough reason?
Alice Munro
#85. Well, if you look back, in almost two and a half years, the biggest change probably was in late 2000 when we decided to totally change the CA business model.
Sanjay Kumar
#86. ...She squeezed Niall's hand and bleakly said, "I don't want you hurt."
"Oh, Serena, that's all I have to know." And with that, he kissed her so passionately, she felt as though she had fae transported to the moon and back...
Terry Spear
#87. (Devon) "Cam - you're killing me," she quavered, pressing her head back into the pillow and praying for patience. Her heart was pounding.
"I'm loving you," he corrected in a hot whisper, then took her nipple deep into his mouth as his palm brushed over the damp lace covering her core.
Kaylea Cross
#88. Sure. Waffles are fine. How come you didn't ask me what I wanted?" "I'm asking you now." "They're fine," Janine said again. Sighing, she turned back to the computer. I stuck my tongue out at her and ran downstairs. "Waffles are fine!" I told Mimi.
Ann M. Martin
#89. If you love something let it go, if it comes back to you it's yours." She shakes her head. "You never came back.
Emma Chase
#90. Whose SUV is this?" I asked once we were out of Carnal.
"Mine." He answered.
I looked at him. "You drive a Harley."
"Not big on puttin' bad guys on the back of my bike when I hunt them down, Ace. Fucks with my street cred.
Kristen Ashley
#91. Love, like energy, never dies. You lose people only in the moment. But time is a long road that circles back. At some point the missing turns into love and returns.
M.J. Rose
#92. I learnt that no matter what names they give you, nothing applies until you wish it to. No insult, no barb yours to bear unless you want it to. Use it, if you want. Make it into a weapon and let it boomerang back to those who uttered it. Just don't let it overpower your life.
Sweety Shinde
#93. All these subprime companies were calling and hollering at him: You're wrong. Your data's wrong. And he just hollered back at them, 'It's YOUR fucking data!
Michael Lewis
#94. The only person who can make you miserable is yourself, if you hold back because
you're too afraid of failure to take a chance.
Shana Norris
#95. Science-fiction fans are the most loyal fans in the world. It's true. They'll watch things that you actually should give them their money back for
Katee Sackhoff
#96. When you lose your face ... , it is like dropping your necklace down a well. The only way you can get it back is to fall in after it.
Amy Tan
#97. How different would your world be if you looked in the mirror and saw your best friend looking back at you?
Janet Dunnagan
#98. Jack, I know I'm not perfect, but I'm really hoping you're not ready to give up on me yet. I don't have gifts or love letters or anything like you had. But what I can give you is my word, my promise, my vow to you. Which I will back up with actions, by the way.
J. Sterling
#99. Just consider how terrible the day of your death will be
Others will go on speaking and you will not be able to argue back
Ram Mohan Roy
#100. I can never go back from this, Bianca. It would break me to let you go. You know that, right?
R.K. Lilley
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