Top 100 Never Get Back Quotes
#1. If you lose 50%, it takes 100% to get back to where you started-and that takes something you can never get back: time.
Tony Robbins
#2. Remind yourself that every second spent scrolling through social media is one you will never get back.
Daniel Smith
#3. He rolled the other way and watched the digital display of his alarm ticking seconds off he'd never get back. This is the life we're given. One life. One opportunity to be happy, to make others happy, and I'm letting it slip through my fingers because I'm afraid.
Barbara Elsborg
#4. Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That's part of what it means to be alive.
Haruki Murakami
#5. Twigs and beetles and dead body. Water and blood. You'll never get back.
Caryl Churchill
#6. Words. Time. Opportunity. These are things we can never get back. Not even in death.
Kathryn Perez
#7. When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back.Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time
Rick Warren
#8. No, we'll never get back together. We'll remain friends, but I see her going in a completely different direction than me musically. But she'll end up doing really well if she continues on the path she's on. Because she's doing something very original.
John Wozniak
#9. No matter what I do now, there are certain doors I have already closed, certain opportunities I'll never get back. There's nothing to be done, I guess. It is what it is.
Blake Nelson
#10. Your time, energy and words.
Three things you can never get back once they've been exchanged. Choose wisely.
Keysha Jade
#11. We all have the same amount of time allotted to us each week: 10,080 minutes. No more, no less. We have the responsibility to choose how we spend those minutes. In reality, every passing minute is a moment we'll never get back. Without question, time is our most precious and elusive commodity.
Rodney Gage
#12. I'd never forgotten him, despite spending half my life trying to forget him. I'd given him everything: my love, my body, my pride, & parts of my heart & mind that I could never get back.
Beth Harbison
#13. Why do people even take photographs, anyway? They're just reminders of what once was and what you'll never get back. It's so masochistic.-Dom
Daria Snadowsky
#14. I mourn the piece of myself that I gave away and will never get back
Maggi Myers
#15. The Beatles will never get back together and David Lee Roth will never again sing with Van Halen.
Alex Van Halen
#16. Silver is forty-four years old, if you can believe it, out of shape, and depressed - although he doesn't know if you call it depression when you have good reason to be; maybe then you're simply sad, or lonely, or just painfully aware, on a daily basis, of all the things you can never get back.
Jonathan Tropper
#17. Regret is a painful thing. Few people understand that there are three important things that leave us and can never return. Words. Time. Opportunity. These are things we can never get back.
Kathryn Perez
#18. There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is a third.
John Marsden
#20. I've heard, "We live in a world of diminishing returns, when what we give we'll never get back." I say, "What we give returns to us in like-kind 400 times.
Kat Kaelin
#21. And then I should get no brains," said the Scarecrow. "And I should get no courage," said the Cowardly Lion. "And I should get no heart," said the Tin Woodman. "And I should never get back to Kansas," said Dorothy.
L. Frank Baum
#22. To lose a child ... was something that could end one's world. One could never get back to how it was before. The stars went out. The moon disappeared. The birds became silent.
Alexander McCall Smith
#23. A lot of people got in at the wrong time. A lot of people did very well and some people said, "This is it. I'll never get back in again." And they maybe meant it, but they probably got back in again anyway.
Peter Lynch
#24. When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did, you fear that you'll never get back in shape.
Charisma Carpenter
#25. Well, if you live long enough, you lose a lot. Just as long as you don't throw them away. Whatever you loose, you'll find again, but what you throw away you never get back.
-Oibore (Enishi's dad) to Yahiko and Misao
Nobuhiro Watsuki
#26. The common hill-flowers wither, but they blossom again. The laburnum will be as yellow next June as it is now. In a month there will be purple stars on the clematis, and year after year the green night of its leaves will hold its purple stars. But we never get back our youth.
Oscar Wilde
#27. It's your life, you can do
whatever you want. But for a
single mistake you may have to
suffer a lot in your life. You'll
never get back same time and same
opportunities again in life once
you miss them. #Life of Love - the film
Santonu Kumar Dhar
#28. He only wished that she were still here. It was good to be here with Jem and Cecily and Charlotte, to be surrounded by their affection, but without her there would always be something missing, a Tessa-shaped part chiseled out of his heart that he would never get back.
Cassandra Clare
#29. There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#30. In my experience, milady, we can never get back to exactly where we started, no matter how hard we try.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#31. People who write poisonous things about your work are using up precious moments of their life dwelling on yours. These are moments they will never get back. Let that be a comfort to you.
Chuck Lorre
#32. If you are late, you are wasting precious moments of another person's life. Moments they can never get back!
Rowan Coleman
#33. I'm just fascinated by the past. You know, both by the possibilities it holds and by the complete tyranny of it, the way it sort of keeps you in this stranglehold and makes you want things that you no longer have and you can never get back.
Samantha Harvey
#34. You may never get back this life, so do something in this lifetime worthy of celebration.
Debasish Mridha
#35. Time is the most precious gift you can give to someone, because if you give someone your time. It's a part of your life that you will never get back.
Gloria Tesch
#36. Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.
Honore De Balzac
#37. This is a tragedy for the players. Their careers are short and this is money and opportunity they'll never get back.
Gary Bettman
#38. Someone or something that wastes your time, makes you lose a part of your life. One you can never get back.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#39. There are some things in this world you can never get back ... There's no reclaiming that piece of the past. Don't you think it'd be better to abandon it completely and consider instead what you did wrong and learn from it?
Fuyumi Ono
#40. I don't have any of the modern electronics at all. I know the Internet would be a distraction. I would see things that interested me and never get back to writing.
Elmore Leonard
#41. When I was younger I never drank. I never drank, I never did any weed or drugs or anything because I felt it would compromise my position. I was an orphan, and I had a feeling like if I ever hit the ground I may never get back up.
Ice-T
#42. There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree.
Lauren Bacall
#43. How clever of me. I have found such a pathway into hell that I can never get back out.
Orson Scott Card
#44. Every kiss is a kiss you can never get back.
Clay Aiken
#45. But there is one part of this that hurts. The carefree, normal part. The part of me that was lost when we first moved and that I'll never get back.
Ashley Elston
#46. You can return all the Christmas gifts you want, but you will never get back the time spent with your relatives.
Andy Borowitz
#47. It was good to be here with Jem and Cecily an Charlotte, to be surrounded by their affection, but without her there would always be something missing, a Tessa-shaped part chiseled out of his heart that he could never get back.
Cassandra Clare
#48. I started to write a series of fantasy novels when I was eleven. I have never taken anything artistic as seriously; since then, writing has felt like an attempt to get back there, to my bedroom, my maps, those races and languages and runes.
Ken Baumann
#49. The day after the Oscars, I flew back to London to film a television play for Anglia. It was a big mistake because you never really get acknowledged for wanting to work in England, as I did.
Ron Moody
#50. Never sit back and wait for a opportunity to find you, get up and search for one, it exists find it!
Victoria Addino
#51. I've always stayed on the periphery of things. When I used to go to the punk clubs and things like that, I was never up front. I always wanted to be in the back, or on the side, because I wanted to get the whole view, rather than be staring up at someone's nostrils.
James Wolcott
#52. I was so used to seeing so many women in the media flaunting their bodies 4 weeks after having a baby - and kudos to those who have genes that they can get right back into shape 2 weeks, 4 weeks after having a baby. But that never happened to me, and I remember going to my doctor asking why.
Tia Mowry
#53. The heavens will not be filled with those who never made mistakes but with those who recognized that they were off course and who corrected their ways to get back in the light of gospel truth.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#54. Bunkum and tummyrot! You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he'd said 'What if I sink on the way over? What if I meet pirates? What if I never come back?' He wouldn't even have started.
Roald Dahl
#55. The most important thing in the life of every man and every woman is not that they should never fall along the way. The important thing is always to get back up, not to stay on the ground licking your wounds.
Pope Francis
#56. I think back to my banter with Cash about sexual harassment. I don't doubt he pushes the boundaries, but never once did I get the impression he might force himself on me or make unwanted advances. I just hope to God he doesn't know that his advances aren't unwanted. I just wish they were.
M. Leighton
#57. When your child goes off to war, you will never get him back. Not as he was, not the same boy. Changed, if he comes back at all.
Orson Scott Card
#58. On those cloudy days, Robert Neville was never sure when sunset came, and sometimes they were in the streets before he could get back.
Richard Matheson
#59. Everything takes you back to yourself. When you get there, you know you never left. You only dreamt you left. You have never been other than that. You are only dreaming due to the idea of 'I am the body.'
Mooji
#60. No matter how much money I ever get, I'm going to want to provide for my family and never have to go back to really struggling. You don't ever want to go outside, you don't ever want to be left in the cold. You want to be safe.
Ludacris
#61. If you get one taste of that man, you will never go back to polos and khakis. That boy is going to rock your world.
Lisa De Jong
#62. Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.
Norman Mailer
#63. In Naples, there were kids who were just lost. You knew they were never going to get back to what they'd been, or have a normal life. And then there were other ones who you though, maybe they will. What I'm saying is, we're the survivors. Not everyone is. But we are. Okay?
Jennifer Egan
#64. Focus is scary - until you realize that it only means turning your back on markets you could never have anyway. Sharp focus on jobs that customers are trying to get done holds the promise of greatly improving the odds of success in new-product development.
Clayton Christensen
#65. I've always thought sleep was a wonderful invention. Not that being awake isn't nice too, of course. But when I get up in the morning, I think, boy, only fourteen more hours and I can be back to sleep again ... And I never dream, because it distracts my mind from pure sleeping ...
Anne Tyler
#66. To be a Bond villain, you only get to do that once in your life. You never get to come back.
Vincent Schiavelli
#67. I mean, I can actually say goodbye to the game of golf, never hit another golf shot the rest of my life and I'd be happy because I can get back in life without any rotation.
Greg Norman
#68. When we have fallen and need to get back up again, we are able to do it in His strength walking in His Spirit. Cling to the Spirit of Christ Jesus - He will never fail.
Monica Johnson
#69. No matter how hard you try, you will never be able to carry the world. So you need to get it off your shoulders before you break your back. (From Night Marchers book 2 coming soon.)
Rebecca Gober
#70. The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can't get it back; it's bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
Francois Rabelais
#71. I have three adopted children with Phil, and for years I was fighting in court with him over being able to see my kids. I was always going back and forth to California, going to court, and I was never able to get a project going.
Ronnie Spector
#72. I want to play a man in uniform. I've got tremendous respect for that life that they lead. We know so little about it. It's never discussed or talked about, when they come back from battle. I want to examine the choices that have to be made in some terrible times. I'll get to wear a uniform.
Ben Kingsley
#73. When you stumble, keep faith. And when you're knocked down, get right back up and never listen to anyone who says you can't or shouldn't go on.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
#74. The sun was like a huge 50-cent piece that someone had poured kerosene on and then had lit with a match, and said, "Here, hold this while I go get a newspaper," and put the coin in my hand, but never came back.
Richard Brautigan
#75. I had only one desire: to leave, to walk, to die, whatever. I wanted to get away, never come back, disappear, melt away into the forest, the clouds, no longer have memories, forget, forget.
Agota Kristof
#76. There are a billion songs that I've heard and said, 'I don't even care to have an opinion about it,' but if I have to hear a snippet of the refrain of 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together' once, it'll get stuck in my head, and that drives me crazy.
Kurt Braunohler
#77. Try to never say 'yes' on the phone; instead, say, 'I'll get back to you.' When you're actually speaking to someone, the desire to be accommodating is very strong, and can lead you to say 'yes' without enough consideration.
Gretchen Rubin
#78. We're starting our own religion at last. The Order of Frisbeetarians. We believe that when you die, your soul ascends to a rooftop and you can never get it back.
Bono
#79. One will never get any more than he thinks he can get. YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES. Look back and see your progress - damn the torpedo, full speed ahead!
Bruce Lee
#80. This isn't the girl I fell in love with. My sweet, giving, patient, loving, caring, fun-loving Skye disappeared when you were kidnapped. I'm so scared I'll never get her back.
J.L. McCoy
#81. Be free; hope for nothing from anyone. I am sure if you look back upon your lives you will find that you were always vainly trying to get help from others which never came.
Swami Vivekananda
#82. Which is a wonderful irony, I have property there. I go back every chance I get. One of the main reasons I actually wrote the book, agreed to write it having never wanted to do that in my life, very intimidating by the way to write a book.
Sela Ward
#83. Never back a woman you defend, never get quit of a friend on whom you depend, never make face to a foe till he's rife and never get stuck to another man's pfife.
James Joyce
#84. What about young age? You will be miserable all through your 15 years to reach that goal of $10 million. After 50
years, even if you pay a million to get back a week of your time at 35, you will never get that. Your beer will taste very different when you are at 50 from how it tasted at 30.
Ravindra Shukla
#85. Even if the rebel forces could somehow overthrow the Capitol, you can be sure President Snow's last act would be to cut Peeta's throat. No. I will never get him back. So then dead is best.
Suzanne Collins
#86. Tell him I said that he will know when he's my age that books aren't written on whims or old promises. Books are written on years turned inside out by ideas that never let go until you get them in print, and even then writing's a last resort, a desperate ransom you pay to get your life back.
Richard Bach
#87. Trusting someone was like holding a little water in your cupped hands - it was so easy to spill the water, and you could never get it back.
Ken Follett
#88. So that makes time more precious, doesn't it? More precious than money, more precious than anything. You can never earn more time. Once an hour goes by, a week, a month, a year, you'll never get them back.
Cecelia Ahern
#89. You should never play safe with your heart. It doesn't get to grow if you don't take it out. You break it. You give it away. And sometimes, you kind of hope someone gives it back to you - maybe wrapped up and taped but better because they held it for a little while.
Rhys Ford
#90. I've never been able to develop a movie over several years, and keep coming back to it and adding to it. I get excited by the spark of an idea, and if I can't go make that, there's another idea that comes along that I get excited about. It has to happen quickly, in order for it to happen, at all.
Joe Swanberg
#91. I don't get it. Why are many people drawn to someone who's hurt them? Maybe it's an ego thing- being hurt sucks, and you think you can erase that hurt by going back to the person who caused it. Then it will be like it never happened in the first place. Only problem is that it did happen.
Allison Van Diepen
#92. I love you so badly I could get lost in it and never find my way back out.
Tessa Bailey
#93. I've learned life is a lot like surfing. When you get caught in the impact zone, you need to get right back up, because you never know what's over the next wave ... and if you have faith, anything is possible, anything at all.
Soul Surfer
#94. It's gonna be a buggin' long time before the world can ever get back to normal. Even if it can - we'll never see it.
James Dashner
#95. You never know who is going to get back into my life.
Preeti Shenoy
#96. I think I really believed my childish thoughts back then. Using the determination of the poor, the childish thought that I can do it if I tried with all my might. But in reality ... I never did get to defeat him. No. I couldn't beat him.
Kim Young-kwang
#97. I like a restaurant called Bruci, and there's some really nice people who work there and good food. They change their menu a lot, so maybe that's what keeps me coming back. I never know what I'm going to get.
Paul Dano
#98. In the Astronaut Office we're never totally out of training, we always keep our hand in it. But after five years, things have changed and so it's been good to get back into the flow and relearn a lot of things.
Linda M. Godwin
#99. No one can save time. It's not like money. You can't deposit the time you save into an account and use it later. Time passes. Time is a constantly depleting resource. Once it's gone, it's gone, and you will NEVER get it back.
Gudjon Bergmann
#100. I risk a grin at the thought. Because there's a part of me that likes that idea. Get out of town and never look back.
Daisy Whitney
