Backed Out Quotes

#1. Funny, gorgeous, and a genius. What a package. He backed out of the parking space, smiling as he drove away.
I loved that he left crazy off the list.
I loved it even more that he would never think to add it.

Myra McEntire

#2. I've been chastised for going into mixed martial arts and backing out. But the reason I backed out was the terms - they wanted me ready to fight in four weeks, but you've got to be out of your mind. So I decided to go back to my roots, back to wrestling.

Kurt Angle

#3. ...our hostess backed out of the room, grinning vapidly. She had long since forgotten the meaning of a smile, but the physical ability to make the gesture remained. I felt that the grin...would shatter if it were touched and fall to the floor in pieces.

Beryl Markham

#4. I was pre-med, so I was going to go into the family business, more or less. But I came to my senses, luckily, and backed out, and decided to go to drama school.

Sendhil Ramamurthy

#5. Gabe slowly backed out of the kitchen, hands raised. "Wow. That takes family drama to a whole new level."
Hayded stared at him.
"And I think I'll go to my room now." Gabe said.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#6. Basically, Pizza Hut just backed out on the ad agency at the last minute. They got fired and we got fired. It was a simple as that. We do stuff like that on and off.

Gene Ween

#7. But when a boy was born - on February 24, 1955 - the designated couple decided that they wanted a girl and backed out.

Walter Isaacson

#8. Now what kind of guy would I be if I backed out now? A decent one, a smart one, an alive one, because I swear I was going to kill him.

J.L. Weil

#9. The story of Google is just when everyone concluded that a search engine would never make any money, everyone backed out of it, and Google walked into that vacuum and dominated.

David Sze

#10. Maia pulled on a braid. "I ran into Eric of all people. He told me what happened and that you'd backed out of Millenium Lint's gigs for the past two weeks because of it."
"Actually, they changed their name," Jordan said. "They're Midnight Burrito now.

Cassandra Clare

#11. My father, Charles Seeger, got me into the Communist movement. He backed out around '38. I drifted out in the 50's.

Pete Seeger

#12. Some come and go quickly, but nevertheless serve a purpose in the lives of those who participate. Only twelve people originally signed up to follow Jesus as disciples, and one of those backed out at the last minute!

Robert Schnase

#13. For years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?

Anne Graham

#14. She had considered throwing them out a dozen times but in the end always backed away from the idea, as if some unknown charm would be broken by the act. And

Stephen King

#15. You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do

Mark Twain

#16. Yes, I backed the hula hoop. And I had a lot of other people come to me with ideas that turned out well.

Art Linkletter

#17. Rand rubbed his hands over his face. His anger had dissipated. I'm sorry, Yelena. I was backed into a corner and I couldn't get out without hurting someone.

Maria V. Snyder

#18. list of yours," he said with a smile. "That's private." I was seriously annoyed now. "Absolutely not - no deal," I said, walking away. Max reached out and snatched the paper towel from my hand. When I felt it go, I gasped. "Max!" I screamed and backed

Lillianna Blake

#19. No means no. I don't care when you say it, Lily. Once it's out there, it's out there. Any halfway decent guy would have backed off.

Krista Ritchie

#20. The chances of a bank going out of business are extremely slim, but it's always a good idea to spread around major sums so every penny is backed by insurance.

Suze Orman

#21. I know a few universals like: he who can destroy a thing controls it. Not that I get off on destroying things but when you get backed against a wall, coming out with both guns blazing is pretty much your only choice. I want enough power to void a contract, enough to quit my job, permanent-like.

Karen Marie Moning

#22. How does it feel about women?" "Oh, it's not choosy. It ate a book of spells last year. Sulked for three days and then spat it out." "It's horrible," said Conina, and backed away. "Oh, yes," said Rincewind, "absolutely.

Terry Pratchett

#23. Why would you do that?" I asked as he gasped. "Why would you hand me a lever to your pain?" I walked forward, bending the finger down, and he backed before me, into the crowd of his supporters, crying out, bowing low to lessen the sharp angle at which I held the digit.

Mark Lawrence

#24. Letters are meaningless unless put together correctly. Words are worthless unless backed by truth. Sentences are handed out and judged accordingly, but only genuinely honest men or women can create writings that change the world forever.

Paul Morabito

#25. We've backed off in good faith to try and give you a chance to straighten this problem out. But I am going to beg with you for a minute. I'm going to plead with you, do not cross us. Because if you do, the survivors will write about what we do here for 10,000 years.

James Mattis

#26. My parents managed a summer camp, and it was vacant for about seven or eight months out of the year. It was in the middle of nowhere in the woods. We backed up to a state forest. So absolutely, there were creepy woods all around the house. It was easy to get lost. It was really spooky.

Caitlin Kittredge

#27. I backed off Nicole fast. They hit her with a needle, but she wouldn't stop trying to get me and they had to haul her out.
"You b*tch!" she shrieked back at me. "You think what I did to Serena was bad? Just wait until I get ahold of you." They dragged her away, still spewing threats.

Kelley Armstrong

#28. Have I said dumb things? Absolutely, who hasn't? But I have never backed away from being called out on something I did or said wrong.

Curt Schilling

#29. I took 'Grease' to play my trump card, my voice, and get attention that would lead to auditions for serious work like 'Angels in America.' But I backed myself into a corner with 'Grease,' and it took me 17 years to get out.

Billy Porter

#30. For too long people have backed companies on hope value rather than solid products coming out. Now we are coming out the other side.

Daniel Morgan

#31. I know that relationships can be a winding, sometimes unpredictable road ... it just seems to me that, if you ever find yourself backed into a corner, and the only way out is a box, that you have sex in, on stage, on live TV ... something has gone terribly wrong.

Matt Walsh

#32. Leap out the window, my inner Tigress cried. You aren't ready to face such a powerful Tiger. I frowned. I thought a true Tigress never backed down from a fight. Don't you know anything? When she's in heat, she avoids everything male. Now run!

Gena Showalter

#33. It's not enough for women to speak out on the issue - for the message to be strong and consistent, women's voices must be backed up by men's.

John Conyers

#34. Cooper pulled out a high-backed stool, sat down, tapped out the beat on the bar with his fingertips. He'd heard once that the essence of country music was three chords and the truth. Well, the three-chords part still stands.

Marcus Sakey

#35. We can retreat and retreat and let ourselves get backed into corners forever," she'd said once. "Or we can go out and meet the enemy at the time
and place we choose. Not them."
Okay, Tasha, I thought. Let's see if your advice gets me killed.

Richelle Mead

#36. But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.

Ray Stannard Baker

#37. In the last round I was so wiped-out that for the first time in my life I tried to get disqualified. He was throwing punches non-stop and he was dangerous with those shots and becoming a little bit too cute for my liking. I backed to the ropes and catapulted off them and nutted him.

Stephen Richards

#38. She almost cried out with relief when she saw the eyes of the boy who had never backed down. She saw the eyes of the boy who had first stepped forward to fight Orc and later Caine and Drake and Penny. She saw Sam Temple. Her Sam Temple.

Michael Grant