Top 100 Quotes About Turn Back
#1. AMA report both confirmed the public health benefits of legal abortion and foresaw the public health danger of legislative attempts to turn back the clock on American women.
David A. Grimes, M.D.
#2. I shan't be lonely now. I was lonely; I was afraid. But the emptiness and the darkness are gone; when I turn back into myself now I'm like a child going at night into a room where there's always a light.
Edith Wharton
#3. Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall. Some mountains are higher than others. Some roads steeper than the next. There are hardships and setbacks but you cannot let them stop you. Even on the steepest road you must not turn back.
Muhammad Ali
#4. No graduation speaker will ever tell you that the future is anything but uncertain. It never is. But graduations need not only be obsessed with looking ahead; a graduation can be a day on which we turn back and trace our steps to see how we ended up where we are.
Taylor Mali
#5. I have always thought that if I could turn back the pages of history and photograph one man, my choice would be Moses.
Margaret Bourke-White
#6. On today's athletes: I wish I could turn back the clock a little bit so I'd have a chance to cut it up with those guys.
Eric Heiden
#7. He says that it's okay to be fearful. That some of God's strongest warriors were frightened. The difference between a believer and the rest of the world is that we press on. We can be shaking in our boots, but we don't turn back.
Jenny B. Jones
#8. My movies are film-paintings - moving portraits captured on celluloid. I'll layer that with sound to create a unique mood
like if the Mona Lisa opened her mouth, and there would be a wind, and she'd turn back and smile. It would be strange and beautiful.
David Lynch
#9. When men are arrived at the goal, they should not turn back.
Plutarch
#10. If a person is dying of cancer, you do not say, 'You can't turn back the clock.' You try to heal the person, no matter how painful the process.
Mark Sheppard
#11. Just put one foot in front of the other and don't worry about the length of the path. Once you get on that path, and the longer you stay on it, there eventually will come a time when you will not turn back.
Martina Navratilova
#12. I leave her in the bed. I put on my clothes, pick up my keys, and close the door behind me. I turn back. I keep turning back to see her. Even when there are walls between us. I keep turning back. I keep turning in her direction.
David Levithan
#13. The gears of life had moved ahead a notch with a loud ker-chunk, and Junpei knew that they would never turn back again.
Haruki Murakami
#14. Since you've stepped in the war battlefield, it is impossible for you to turn back.
Asif
#15. There is no better way to fight weakness than with strength. Once the mind and body have been awakened to their true potential, it's impossible to turn back.
Henry Rollins
#16. The Rom believe you should take the road that calls to you, and never turn back. Because you never know what adventures await." ... "So we're going to take this road," he murmured, "and see where it leads.
Lisa Kleypas
#17. Ahead of me is the open desert, hot and merciless. Behind me is Sand. I don't turn back; I don't say goodbye. The Bullet Catcher carves a straight line through the desert, walking towards the distant mountains.
And I follow.
Joaquin Lowe
#18. Ben Says: No matter how long you've been traveling down a wrong road ... you always have time to turn back.
Now ... just do it!
Timothy Pina
#19. We can not change history, we can not turn back time, but we can change ourselves,change for the better.
Faiz Triumph
#20. He accepted hard times with resignation, like his ancestors had done for centuries. He just gritted his teeth and kept moving because there was no way to turn back.
Manel Loureiro
#21. It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than, after knowing it, to turn back. 2 Peter 2:21
Beth Moore
#22. John Carter was also one of our first recognizable superhumans and there is little doubt that his extraordinary physical feats inspired Superman's creators. Remember: before Superman could fly or turn back time, he was nothing less than an earthbound crime-fighting John Carter in tights.
Junot Diaz
#23. At seventeen, I'm in-between. Staring at the carnival from a distance. Not sure if I want to go forward and become an adult; liking the view too much to turn back.
Kirsty Eagar
#24. Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.
Conor Oberst
#25. In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.
Yakov Smirnoff
#26. I should have gone back to my book on Alpha Males and their instincts: how a dominant leader, when it has subjugated its subordinate mate to the point of rebellion, will turn back to the ploys it used for its initial sexual courtship.
Anonymous
#27. But the fact remains that according to the testimony of one of his own Nazi followers in the column, the physician Dr. Walther Schulz, which was supported by several other witnesses, Hitler "was the first to get up and turn back," leaving his dead and wounded comrades lying in the street. He
William L. Shirer
#28. The only way to free ourselves from the destructive influence of counterfeit gods is to turn back to the true one. The living God, who revealed himself both at Mount Sinai and on the Cross, is the only Lord who, if you find him, can truly fulfill you, and, if you fail him, can truly forgive you.
Timothy Keller
#30. No one can turn back the clock. Lie about your age if you want, but we're all going in the same direction.
Emma Woolf
#31. Draw every bad word you've ever called yourself on your body. Stand in the shower and pay attention to the way the words turn back into ink and disappear down the drain.
Iain S. Thomas
#32. I'd have given anything to turn back the last ten years of my life - and that wasn't something someone my age should have to feel.
Courtney Allison Moulton
#33. I listened, vaguely knowing now that I had committed some awful wrong that I could not undo, that I had uttered words I could not recall even though I ached to nullify them, kill them, turn back time to the moment before I had talked so that I could have another chance to save myself.
Richard Wright
#34. Even if we could turn back, we'd probably never end up where we started.
Haruki Murakami
#36. When I turn back to Jase, he's again beaming at me. "You're nice." He sounds pleased, as if he hadn't expected this aspect of my personality.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#37. 40 Let us search out and examine our ways, And turn back to the LORD; 41 Let us lift our hearts and hands To God in heaven.
Anonymous
#38. Without you, I'm lost, fumbling and falling
Missing so much of who you were
If I could change the past, I'd take it all back
I'd turn back time, I'd take away the pain
I'd make sure I didn't leave without you
Monica Alexander
#39. In the course of this one day, several things have taken a decisive step forward. The gears have turned forward with a click. And gears that have turned forward never turn back. That is one of the world's rules.
Haruki Murakami
#40. Thing about being free is, comes a point where you can't turn back, even if you wanted to....Even if you wanted to, they wouldn't take you. You've gone to far.
Nicholas Hochstedler
#41. 8I will hear what God the LORD will speak, For He will speak peace To His people and to His saints; But let them not turn back to folly.
Anonymous
#42. It's all right," the boy murmured as he felt her trembling. "My grandmother always told me 'Never try to turn back on a new road - you don't know what adventures await you.
Lisa Kleypas
#43. Character, past, and environment all affect the choices we make. The trick is choosing a path and following it. Make a decision, and don't turn back.
Amanda Bouchet
#44. Know that a word suddenly shot from the tongue is like an arrow shot from the bow. Son, that arrow won't turn back on its way; you must damn the torrent at its source.
Rumi
#45. Maybe things that we turn our backs to arnt rlly there, but its true that they will be there when we turn back around.
Brandon Anthony Lukstein
#46. A single shoe. Only someone under a spell would lose a shoe and not turn back for it.
Nicki Salcedo
#47. Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
Herodotus
#48. My weaknesses, my choices, and my decisions - the ones I made and the ones I didn't - all took me down a rocky road filled with regret, heartbreak, and pain. And eventually, they nearly killed me. Would I change things if I could? Would I turn back time and do things differently? Never.
Madeline Sheehan
#49. No, I'd never been to this country
before. No, I didn't know where the roads
would lead me. No, I didn't intend to
turn back.
Mary Oliver
#50. They all need the others to say, yes, yes, this is what we should be doing, it's worth the risk. And now that they've decided it, the decision is bigger than all of them. Not one of them could turn back on their own.
Robin Hobb
#51. Either you take a path, RIGHT or LEFT, and if it was a mistake, turn back and take the other path, because your are the one who can change it.
Adel Sakura
#52. Kundalini Yoga is the yoga of power. Without wisdom, a powerful person does not become more powerful. Their power will turn back on them and eventually destroy them. So those who are truly wise become most powerful.
Frederick Lenz
#53. All of our prayers are to include thanksgiving. Like the leper, we must pause, turn back, and give thanks. We are so indebted to God that we can never exhaust our opportunities for expressing gratitude. Forgetting
R.C. Sproul
#55. He knows as soon as he turns onto their walk that she's gone. But he doesn't turn back. He doesn't regret a single day they spent together, including this one.
Rainbow Rowell
#56. Let it be said by our children's children thta when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried frth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.
Barack Obama
#57. You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.
Bonnie Prudden
#58. Delving into the past had unveiled a cruel lesson - that in the book of life it is perhaps best not to turn back pages; it was a path on which, whatever direction we took, we'd never be able to choose our own destiny.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#59. Time, my elusive friend, just for once can you turn back the clock,
Play back some of my lost moments and some events can you block?
K.S. Khatana
#60. Beside me, Philippe and Meg hold hands. He murmurs something that sounds like, "my dear leetle mongoose." I wish he'd turn back into a frog and hop away.
Alex Flinn
#61. Clark Kent gives up his powers just to have sexual intercourse with Lois Lane in a glittery bed. Who'd make such a stupid swap? If you could fly? Deflect nuclear missiles into space? Turn back time by spinning the planet in reverse? Sexual intercourse can't be that good.
David Mitchell
#62. ...Once your heart gets involved, there ain't no way you can turn back.
Kira Saito
#63. Ellysetta Baristani." Belliard's voice caused her to stop and turn back around. "Even should you clothe yourself in rags and dirt, you would bring honor to the Fey.
C.L. Wilson
#64. If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things which please thee, thou displease. If souls please thee, be they loved in God: for they too are mutable, but in Him they are firmly established.
Saint Augustine
#65. Her Yankees-loving, bottle cap-giving, dimpled smile other half was gone, and there wasn't anything she wouldn't do to turn back time.
Gail McHugh
#66. I seem to see ahead, in a kind of way. I know we are going to take a very long road, into darkness; but I know I can't turn back.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#67. It seems very strange that one must turn back, and be transported to the very beginnings of history, in order to arrive at an understanding of humanity as it is at present.
Emile Durkheim
#68. Folks in the wagon train figured Ma would turn back, but they hadn't known Ma so long as I had. Once she set her mind to something she wasn't about to quit.
Louis L'Amour
#69. Make a decision, and don't turn back."
"What if it's wrong?"
"I don't know." He winks at me over his shoulder. "It's never happened.
Amanda Bouchet
#70. He turned to face the long, shadowy hall. There was no turning back now. Unless, of course, he decided to turn back.
Lauren Magaziner
#71. Don't have kids until you're ready. And when you do have them, have them all the way. They aren't like some Cadillac that you can turn back into the dealership after three years.
Carew Papritz
#72. Bal," she whispered, her forehead resting against his chest as the seconds counted away. "The only power I'd wish for is the power to turn back time.
Alison Sinclair
#73. When you haven't forgiven those who've hurt you, you turn back against your future. When you do forgive, you start walking forward.
Tyler Perry
#74. The mission or ministry of backbiters is to bite you at the back. When they backbite you, move forward. If you turn back to talk back or fight them, you descend to their low class.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#75. It's difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything's changed.
Gabrielle Zevin
#76. We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections.
Ralph G. Neas
#77. If a bout of "creepy face" sets in, the trick is to look away from the camera between shots and turn back only when necessary. This also limits how much of your soul the camera can steal.
Tina Fey
#78. Then I saw that sparkle in Naji's eye and knew he was laughing at me.
"See?" he said. "Now you know how it feels"
I glared at him for a few seconds. He looked kind of pleased with himself, but he also looked kind of happy, and that was enough for me to turn back to my equations.
Cassandra Rose Clarke
#79. But there are forces that don't let you turn back and undo things, because to do so would be to deny what is already in motion, to unwrite and erase passages, to shorten the arc of a story you don't own.
Salvador Plascencia
#80. The father who would taste the essence of his fatherhood must turn back from the plane of his experience, take with him the fruits of his journey and begin again beside his child, marching step by step over the same old road.
Angelo Patri
#81. There is a safety mechanism in place [to ensure the perambulator doesn't turn back into a purse with a baby in it] : if anything weighing more than a pound and a half-about the weight of a three-volume novel-is in the carriage of the perambulator, it will not transform.
Lev A.C. Rosen
#82. I knew then that I would not turn back. I'd struggled to come this far, and I would commit myself to whatever happened next.
Louis Zamperini
#83. Cher hated 'If I Could Turn Back Time.' I had to beg her, literally, on my knees, just to try it. Happens all the time.
Diane Warren
#84. If I could turn back time, I would tell myself that I'm beautiful every day, because we all are! And we need to start believing it!
Demi Lovato
#85. I could still turn back before I pass the last houses and really have to commit to this.
Claire Wong
#86. I therefore had only enough fear to make myself terrified - not enough to turn back
Marie Brennan
#87. It be more a feeling. Something swirls out in the beyond, something unnatural. It's the reason so few venture to these worlds. The black spaces are a part of it, pieces unraveling pulling apart. We've come too far, waited too long to turn back now. Only death awaits us here.
Jennifer Silverwood
#88. The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back
Seneca The Elder
#89. THEY SAY THE FIRST STEP is the hardest. But it's really the third - when you're too far in to turn back and not far enough to completely commit.
Kim Liggett
#90. Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back.
Thomas A Kempis
#91. All we did was to turn back the time to a photography of precision which is superior to the human eye.
Bernd Becher
#92. Well when my death is in front,
I just want to turn back to my life,
And say the last thing,
looking in to its lens that,
"Life oh my life,
Nobody would have ever painted
this life as beautiful as i did". Good Bye
-Ravi
Ravi
#93. It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you.
Taylor Caldwell
#94. The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through
our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or turn back to finger what
Plato said or remember Napoleon and his conquests, we inflict
on the world the injury of some obliquity. This is life ...
Virginia Woolf
#96. As a child she thought if she could just pull away the fence they would turn back into the beautiful horses they really were and escape to the old plains. she had hope in that power
Mary E. Pearson
#97. From now on I hope Always to stay Alert, to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in Future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out.
Ray Bradbury
#98. Sometimes a book I'm reading is so terrific that when I finish, I simply turn back to page one and start all over again to see what I've missed, to experience it again, more deeply, or because I don't want to let it go.
Bobbie Ann Mason
#99. I think music, like writing, can be a mirror. Can turn back onto the listener, the viewer, the reader, an experience that they know but they don't know.
Claudia Rankine
#100. Most conservatives just want to turn back the clock to a time before the income tax - 100 years or so. I would like to turn the clock back thousands of years to a time when people lived in small communities and took care of each other.
Pete Seeger
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