Quotes About Backing Away

#1. You'd better take over here as temporary Mistress, Joan, he said to Professor Aiken.

Garth Nix

#2. MR.GOUDY: I believe you testified that you backed away from Aaron Wharton.
MR.COGBURN: That is right.
MR.GOUDY: You were backing away?
MR.COGBURN: Yes sir. He had that ax raised.
MR.GOUDY: Which direction were you going?
MR.COGBURN: I always go backwards when I am backing up.

Charles Portis

#3. A number of us had conversations with the Kerry campaign about what he was going to say about CAFE. What he told us was that he did not want to sacrifice jobs and that he wanted to work with the auto industry to achieve that goal.

Jennifer Granholm

#4. Take your hate out on me, show me how much you hate me. Show me how much I hurt you." "What? You're crazy," she squeaked, backing away from me. "And I'll show you how much I've always wanted you, how fuckin' sorry I am. I'll make you forget everything," I said, closing the distance between us again.

Ellie R. Hunter

#5. The difference between real acceptance and just backing away from an issue, or away from the whole relationship, is resentment.

Terrence Real

#6. She was backing away from him now. Don't go, was his first panicked thought. Followed by: Hurry up.

Julie Anne Long

#7. Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian about it.

Henry Flynt

#8. I don't distinguish between men and women. This is irrelevant to me, and I don't think in these terms.

Ada Yonath

#9. Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.

Carrie Fisher

#10. But even a ninety-year-old blind priest would stop and stare at this woman. If

Brandon Sanderson

#11. If you do not let go of thinking about forms, you will not understand what I am showing.

Masaaki Hatsumi

#12. I'm sorry, Genna," he said. "Really, I am. I didn't want to hurt you." "You didn't," she said, backing away from him as she tried to ignore the pain nagging her chest that suggested otherwise. Man, it did hurt. It hurt like a son of a bitch. "I'm just disappointed, Jackson.

J.M. Darhower

#13. What's your heritage, anyway? I said irritably, backing away, putting more space between us. He regarded me blankly, looking startled by the personal question, and as if he lacked a frame of reference for one.

Karen Marie Moning

#14. I would find myself backing away from all of the 'isms', all of the communities. I have always been able to be misused by every community But that is OK. I would rather be misused than neglected.

Anthony Braxton

#15. Democrats have a history of backing away, backing down.

Michael Moore

#16. Life a continuous backing away from the edge.

Emma Cline

#17. I read way too much given all I want to do every day, and I only recommend books I really like.

Gary Lincoff

#18. There is no bounty to be showed to such
As have real goodness: Bounty is
A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act
Can take effect on them that have no power
Of equal habitude to apprehend it?

Ben Jonson

#19. A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life.

Ruth Gordon

#20. Go to her," Grimalkin said, backing away. "Wake her up. I will attempt to rouse Goodfellow once more. Perhaps he will waken if claws are applied in a strategically important area...

Paul Adams

#21. You know that thing when you break up with someone and you're walking around the town where you both live and you're just really hoping to see them? You know that you're not supposed to see them, but there's nothing you want more.

Kit Harington

#22. If, when you talk to people, they keep backing away from you, it's because you're TOO CLOSE, alright? SO DON'T KEEP ADVANCING ON THEM LIKE A HUMAN GLACIER.

Dave Barry

#23. I cannot be contained ... bec ause I am the container

Jim Carrey

#24. I heard someone say once that many of us only seem able to find heaven by backing away from hell. And while the place that I've arrived at in my life may not precisely be everyone's idea of heavenly, I could swear sometimes
I hear angels sing.

Carrie Fisher

#25. And Morwen lost control.
A quick bite and deep, and a flap of skin fell in her throat, sweet and juicy. Galadir pushed her away with all his might, backing away. Morwen put her hand over her mouth, shutting her eyes.

Chiara Cilli

#26. I said no. You're not backing away from this. From me.

Becca Lee

#27. Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficially over others.

Honore De Balzac