Top 100 Quotes About No Going Back
#1. It was as if a different person put the key in the ignition and drove away from everything that was familiar. There was no going back now. There was no going forward either. He was going in sideways, sort of, and as frightening as that was, there was the thrill ...
Jeff VanderMeer
#2. There's no going back, and there's no hiding the information. So let everyone have it.
Andrew Kantor
#3. I should have known that from the moment I met you that there would be no going back. That I will never be the same. I know now that I'll never recover from loving you, Diana Alexander.
Kate Evangelista
#5. A transition is taking place in Egypt. In my judgement, there is no going back. I think the old expression, They're not going to put the toothpaste back in the tube on this one.
Stephen Harper
#6. Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be 'unseen'. There's no 'going back' to the person you were. Even if such a possibility did exist ... why would you want to?
Dave Sim
#7. How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand ... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#8. So that's what it's like? All of a sudden all possibility just vanishes? A life full of projects, discussions just started, desires not even fulfilled - it all vanishes in a second and there's nothing left, nothing left to do, and there's no going back?
Muriel Barbery
#9. I can't help it; present me with a situation, and I have to think about both sides of it. I can try to suppress it, but I cannot shut off the way I think. Once knowledge is gained, there's no going back to ignorance. I think about what the other feels. I can't stop it,
Mercedes Lackey
#10. One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going back.
Martin Amis
#11. There is no going back in life. There is no return. No second chance.
Daphne Du Maurier
#12. The trouble is, sometimes words are like arrows. Once you shoot them, there's no going back.
Jess Rothenberg
#13. There's no going back. Once you know something for sure, the only path through it is forward. Alfred
Aaron Hartzler
#14. How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand ... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep.. that have taken hold.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#15. There is no going back. Study the past to know why, not what, and from the why, dream and do. There is no shortcut to creation. There may also be no profit in it.
Elizabeth Ann Coleman
#16. There will be no going back to the era before September 11th, 2001, to false comfort in a dangerous world.
George W. Bush
#17. You couldn't take two roads. And once you were on one, there was no going back.
Kami Garcia
#18. This is my universe, my time, my world. There is no going back to what was. There is only the future.
Karen Lord
#19. It seems to me we came to the no-going-back place the moment you made the stone door abracadabra away.
Kami Garcia
#20. Once you taste a little of the sweetness that life can be, there really is no going back.
Liza Palmer
#21. No government which governs by the use of force can survive except by force. There is no going back because force begets force and the perpetrators of crimes live in fear that they might become victims in their turn.
Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
#22. Adel could almost feel himself leapfrogging over childhood. Soon, he would land as an adult. And when he did, there would be no going back because adulthood was akin to what his father had once said about being a war hero: once you became one, you died one. Lying
Khaled Hosseini
#23. You think of me as a ... living stone - hard and cold. That's true. We are set the way we are, and it is very rare for us to experience a real change. When that happens, as when Bella entered my life, it is a permanent change. There's no going back ...
Stephenie Meyer
#24. I keep hoping that as time passes by, we'll regain the ease between us, but part of me knows it's futile. There's no going back.
Suzanne Collins
#25. He'd started falling for her the moment she walked into Devil's Dip Gym. She'd KO'd him and there was no going back.
Avery Flynn
#26. That's the whole point, after all: There's no going back.
Lauren Oliver
#27. My favorite animal to hunt is probably elk. There's nothing like the sound of a bugling bull splitting the cold air at first light. And that smell is unmistakable. Once you experience their musk in the wild there's no going back! A close second would be a varmint hunt.
Chris Pratt
#28. Anyone in this world can have the power of life and death over someone else. It's horrible, but true. All you need to do is take it. And once you have
there is no going back. (The Killer's Cousin)
Nancy Werlin
#29. I had tasted cake and there was no going back. My tiny body had morphed into a writhing mass of pure tenacity encased in a layer of desperation. I would eat all of the cake or I would evaporate from the sheer power of my desire to eat it.
Allie Brosh
#30. To love someone so deeply is to risk losing yourself forever. Once I admitted my feelings to him, there was no going back - no hope to ever make my heart complete without him
J.C. Reed
#31. It's an easy thing to make a man a carcass. He knew a thousand ways to do it. But once you've done it, there's no going back. One minute he's a man, all full up with hopes, and thoughts, and dreams. A man with friends, and family, and a place where he's from. Next minute he's mud.
Joe Abercrombie
#32. My heart had made its decision and there was no going back. Still, it was hard not to be all bitter and betrayed over his announcement. I didn't even have the luxury of being able to get blind rotten drunk. And believe me, dealing with all this sober sucked.
Kylie Scott
#33. The truth was ... he was in love with her. Totally over-the-line, no-going-back, not-even-dead-would-he-part kind of shit.
J.R. Ward
#34. What if she wants to be hurt? What if, like a flint to tinder, I can coax her to flame? To burn for me, and only me? And I remember that girl running against the wind, and I know that there's no going back. I am her future - and she is simply that: mine.
Nenia Campbell
#35. Citizens, the priority now is to recover trust between the Egyptian - amongst the Egyptians and to have trust and confidence in our economy and international reputation and the fact that the change that we have embarked on will carry on and there's no going back to the old days.
Hosni Mubarak
#36. I just told her I love her. There's no going back. Nothing to do but own it. But there's the crux of the matter - I want to own it.
Tammara Webber
#37. No pep talk or speech could show me how it felt to transition from seeking shelter to providing it. I had to learn that for myself, and once I did, there was no going back.
J.D. Vance
#38. Strong men need strong love, and a soft touch. Once you fall in love with a man like that, there's no going back to ordinary.
Lauren Gilley
#39. There is no going back but there is accepting your new normal.
Jay Crownover
#40. Love spells are a lot like platform diving. Once you start the process, there's no going back, and the end will be fugly if you don't know what the hell you're doing. - Mariketa the Awaited Mercenary of the Wiccae, Future Leader of the House of Witches
Kresley Cole
#41. Once I got in the public eye there was no going back.
Shayne Ward
#42. Tsukuru nodded. "Life's moving along smoothly, then." "I don't know about smoothly, but it's moving along, at least. 'There's no going back now' might be another way of putting it.
Haruki Murakami
#43. If D-Day - the greatest amphibious operation ever undertaken - failed, there would be no going back to the drawing board for the Allies. Regrouping and attempting another massive invasion of German-occupied France even a few months later in 1944 wasn't an option.
Douglas Brinkley
#44. I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.
Robyn Davidson
#45. There is only forward. Only tomorrow. No yesterday, no going back. And nothing of value is left behind, so nothing is truly lost.
Lesley Livingston
#46. I'm told there's no going back. So I'm choosing forward.
Rachel Cohn
#47. But there was no going back to that idyllic time when only one god wanted to kill me.
Kevin Hearne
#49. I often have the impression that the book I've just finished isn't satisfied: that it rejects me because I haven't successfully completed it. Because there is no going back, I'm forced to begin a new book so I can finally complete the previous one.
Patrick Modiano
#50. There's no going back. So we might as well get on with things.
Suzanne Collins
#51. What I learned was that the more you commit to the process and the more you trust God for increase in every area of your life, the more God allows the scales to tip in your favor until one day the momentum is so tremendous that there is no going back to the life you knew. You
John W. Gray III
#52. The worst part was the fear - looking down at the rushing water that seemed miles away. But once you were on that branch, there was no going back.
Liz Kessler
#53. Lightning. Once it has forked, hot-white, from sky to earth, there is no going back
Ally Condie
#54. Blue to get ready
Green to go
Yellow to guide you through the snow
Orange to warn you that over you'll go
Then red will be the final glow
Now seek the black, there's no going back.
Angie Sage
#55. But in my heart I knew the old Bryce was toast. There was no going back. Not to Garrett or Shelly or Miranda or any of the other people who wouldn't understand. Juli was different, but after all these years that didn't bother me anymore.
I liked it.
I liked her.
Wendelin Van Draanen
#56. Absolutely. I - you know, he was so that much a part of my life that, you know, Elvis, you know, once - once you bonded with him, I mean, there was no - there was no going back. He was just a great guy.
Priscilla Presley
#57. When you cross over into the weird stuff, there's no going back. Hector has a theory on it. Calls it the law of 'Anomalous Phenomena Attraction.' He explained it to me once. Didn't really pay attention, but it boils down to 'weird shit pulls in more weird shit.
A. Lee Martinez
#58. The world went from black and white and into color when I laid eyes on you, my love. There'll be no going back.
R.K. Lilley
#59. There is no going back in life, no return, no second chance. I cannot call back the spoken word or the accomplished deed.
Daphne Du Maurier
#60. There's no going back from what happened. You can go back and understand the past, but you can't go back and change it.
Dana Reinhardt
#61. I'm down, done for, lost and ensnared. There is no going back from Emmy.
Aly Martinez
#62. Once you duct-tape a Ziploc bag to a man's chest, there's no going back.
Orson Scott Card
#63. I opened my mouth to ask him what our excursion meant to him. Then I wondered if I really wanted to know, because once you have knowledge, there's no going back.
Kate Perry
#64. The revolution of equality between men and women has began, there is no going back
Gertrude Mongella
#65. I would love this man to the end of my days. I'd fallen too deep. Middle of the Pacific deep, with no land in sight. There was no going back. My heart was his forever.
R.K. Lilley
#66. Your lives are on two separate tracks and it seems as though there's simply no going back. And as much as you love her and cherish the memories you've shared together, you know in your heart that the friendship has run its course.
Mandy Hale
#68. Succinctly put, a crime scene is like an archaeology site. If an excavation is botched or bulldozed away, there's no going back.
Patricia Cornwell
#69. There was no going back. Apologies weren't welds; they were just an admission that something had been broken. Often between two people.
Hugh Howey
#70. What was lost was lost. There was no retrieving it, however you schemed, no returning to how things were, no going back.
Haruki Murakami
#71. I walked forward simply because there was no going back.
Emma Raveling
#72. The journey out of lesbianism had many dimensions, and the Lord was gracious in leading me a small step, and then burning the bridge I crossed to keep me safely closer to him. From the first night, there was no going back. Slowly
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#73. Life is so fragile. You're here, then you're not, and it's final, no going back, no changing anything at all.
Catherine Coulter
#74. I don't know why I just remembered this, and I haven't told anybody this, but we were shooting in Canyon de Chelly and we were so far up the canyon. Once we were up there, we were up there. There was no going back to your trailers.
James Badge Dale
#75. It's fun to sentimentalize the 20th-century lifestyle and the 20th-century brain, but it helps nobody, it makes you look ancient, there's no going back, and you'd be miserable if you did.
Douglas Coupland
#76. Forward momentum. That's my new motto. No regrets. And no going back.
Gayle Forman
#77. He knew he could always be smart later, if that turned out to be a better strategy. But once you admitted to being smart, there was no going back.
Orson Scott Card
#78. I said it, just like that. No stupid jokes, no changing the subject. For once, I wasn't embarrassed, because it was the truth. I had fallen. I think I had always been falling. And she might as well know, if she didn't already, because there was no going back now. Not for me.
Kami Garcia
#79. You have to be 100% sure [about brexit] because there's no going back on Friday morning and your decision could cost someone else their job.
Ruth Davidson
#80. There's no going back," he whispers ... "Once I am inside you, you're mine."
...
"I want to be yours," I answer in a breathy whisper. "I want to belong to you, Drew. Only you.
Monica Murphy
#81. It would be so much easier if I didnt have to make either choice. Picking neither and going back to the way I was just a few months previous would have been so much simpler. But something inside me had changed. There was no going back now. I couldnt live the same without them.
Keary Taylor
#82. There was no going back...because some roads you just couldn't travel again.
Linda Howard
#83. The temptation to take the next step hung in the air around them ... it was the apple: take one bite, and there was no going back.
Carol Oates
#84. You don't start searching for truth until something goes terribly wrong and you realize that you need it. There's no going back after that.
Tarryn Fisher
#85. Some minutes or hours or days later, when I lay boneless and well satisfied, Ethan raised his gaze to mine again. His eyes were silver, his fangs descended. "There is no going back," he said, "Not after this.
Chloe Neill
#86. There was no going back to the way things were, because all you ever got was the way things are.
Sarah Ockler
#87. We must choose our allegiances carefully, for there is no going back on them.
Jayne Castel
#88. There's no going back. Pay your son to take out the trash - and you've pretty much guaranteed the kid will never do it again for free.
Daniel H. Pink
#89. Once you've used soap you made by hand with contemporary techniques, there is no going back to store-bought.
Alicia Grosso
#90. I'm so scared of commitment that I even hate stickers. I mean, once they're stuck, that's it. No going back now. Stupid stickers.
Kaine Andrews
#91. But I also knew that there was no going back. One can never go back; nothing and no one is ever the same. All that remained was an occasional evening of sadness, the sadness that we all feel because everything passes and because man is the only animal who knows it.
Erich Maria Remarque
#92. A thousand regrets I've had in love,
A thousand times I've longed to change the past.
I know, my love, there is no going back.
No undoing of our thousand burdens.
We must go on despite our heavy hearts.
A thousand regrets I've had in love, but I shall never regret you.
Rachel Hartman
#93. Six months ago, I was intrigued, bewitched even, by this butterfly man. Now I was in love with him, impossibly so. Impossible because there was no going back from this. I was a changed man. My heart belonged wholly to him, and I knew, without a doubt, it always would.
N.R. Walker
#94. What happens slowly carries in each part the possibility of returning to what came before. In an accident everything is simultaneous, sudden, irreversible. It means this: no going back.
Rachel Kushner
#95. There was no going back and that was exactly what she craved.
Deep breath.
"Consent.
Jennifer Kacey
#96. I'm going for it. Every part of my body says to jump and fly, no matter how hard voices like Shay and my parents try to ground me. I understand their realism, but I don't want to look back and regret not taking the plunge.
Krista Ritchie
#97. I've been around young, talented, non-coachable players. I've been around veteran, talented, non-coachable players. No matter what you do, sooner or later - even if a coach comes in that's able to connect with them - if that's who they are, they're going to go back to it.
Scott Brooks
#98. Am I pushy? Yep. Do I like taking 'no' for an answer when 'no' means New Yorkers aren't going to get something they need? No. Do I push back and crack some eggs? Absolutely.
Christine Quinn
#99. She snorted and went back to the cake. As she smoothed on the last of the icing, she frowned. "It doesn't really look like suklaada cake, does it?"
No, but he wasn't going to admit that. "Looks good to me.
-Brianna & Aeron
Savannah Stuart
#100. I mean its an obsession, you follow the obsession but at the same time you have so many doubts, you know. Why am I wasting so much money going back to this place, taking more pictures? What's the point of it? No one cares about it. I think I care about it but maybe I am deceiving myself.
Alex Webb