Quotes About Turn Back

#1. To turn off your phone when you go to your country house or you're on vacation for a few days is important. I turn off my phone and just check it once a day. I turn it on and, if it's an important message, I'll call back. Otherwise, it can wait. - Author: Alexander Skarsgard

#2. See, they return; ah, see the tentative Movements, and the slow feet, The trouble in the pace and the uncertain Wavering! See, they return, one, and by one, With fear, as half-awakened; As if the snow should hesitate And murmur in the wind, and half turn back; - Author: Ezra Pound

#3. One of the crazies moved into the cone of light beneath a streetlight. It was a black man, high-stepping and making jerking movements with his arms. He made a crisp turn and began moving back into the darkness. He was a trombone player in a matching band in a world somewhere else. - Author: Michael Connelly

#4. Like a fiend in a cloud, With howling woe After night I do crowd And with night will go; I turn my back to the east, From whence comforts have increased; For light cloth seize my brain With frantic pain. - Author: William Blake

#5. The shape of your dreams will not hold if you believe that disbelief is the mending glue. You will only turn back to see the pieces of your dreams if you have the impossibility mindset. - Author: Israelmore Ayivor

#6. I wouldn't stick your tongue out at me unless you intend to use it in the right way."
Pausing, I turn back to him. "You're disgusting."
"Just the way you like me. - Author: Samantha Towle

#7. Because when life handed you an opportunity you didn't turn your back or drag your feet. You made a choice and you leapt. - Author: Jean Oram

#8. I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax. - Author: Pete Seeger

#9. Let us, therefore, foresake the vanity of the crowd and their false teachings, and turn back to the word delivered to us from the beginning. - Author: Polycarp

#10. Smiling, she answered, "You can't mean that! Why there are people who would give an arm and a leg to be a decorated Kobani." She started to turn away but stopped. Looking back she added, "Oh, right... You already did that." She laughed as she walked out. - Author: Stephen W. Bennett

#11. Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln. - Author: Bruce Barton

#12. You don't turn your back on family, even when they do. - Author: Aboubakar Msangi

#13. A map was a fine thing to study when you were disposed to think of something else, being made up of names that would turn into a chime if you went back upon them. - Author: George Eliot

#14. I turn back to Griffin. His expression is stony and unreadable, although if I had to take a wild guess, I'd say it was tending toward ominous. - Author: Amanda Bouchet

#15. Cal will never turn his back on his crown, on your father."
"I know my brother. If it comes down to it, to saving your life or saving his crown, we both know what he will choose."
"He would never choose me. - Author: Victoria Aveyard

#16. But with Celine, she managed to amass a collection of a thousand pieces, each one hand-selected for its historical value and beauty, and then turn her apartment into a masterpiece that you could sit back and enjoy. She wasn't just a collector, she was a curator. - Author: K.A. Tucker

#17. How about if you turn over, baby?" Wolf licked his way up Tristan's back to nibble at the spot between his shoulder blades. "And we can take turns working our way through these condoms my mom brought us. - Author: Rhys Ford

#18. Frank heard a laugh behind him. He glanced back and couldn't believe what he saw. Nico di Angelo was actually smiling. "That's more like it," Nico said. "Let's turn this tide! - Author: Rick Riordan

#19. I think you just have to turn it around and say we are at this absolute historical moment. No generation has ever been as powerful as us. We have the future of our species in our hands. We could be the generation that people look back on and say, 'They bloody did it!', not 'They didn't bother.' - Author: Franny Armstrong

#20. I try to hear her voice, try to separate that single pitch from the shouts and applause. But she's as lost to me as she was the night I cried and she didn't turn back to see if I was okay. Three weeks, two days, and twenty-three hours ago. And she's already with someone else. - Author: David Levithan

#21. You don't turn your back on love." He went on without missing a beat. "Love isn't easy, not for anyone, but you don't push it away. You hold even tighter. - Author: Cambria Hebert

#22. Oh God, Oh God! that it were possible
To undo things done; to call back yesterday!
That time could turn up her swift and sandy glass,
To untell days, and to redeem these hours. - Author: Thomas Heywood

#23. I suppose really I was a wife, a mother and a business woman, and then suddenly catapulted into this kind of world of craziness where it's ... there's good sides and there's bad sides ... I wouldn't kind of turn the clock back and take another direction. - Author: Lisa Vanderpump

#24. Instead of crushing them and mixing them with water, she decided to take them one by one, because there is always a gap between intention and action, and she wanted to feel free to turn back halfway. - Author: Paulo Coelho

#25. Once I was decapited
a black out in an avalanche
I went from human to animal
please turn me back - Author: Pleasefindthis

#26. Please, no one touch my heart. Don't touch it. Don't notice anything. No one has to know what my heart is feeling. I decided that I wouldn't turn back. That's why I threw everything away. So, don't you ever say, I'm lonely. - Author: Arina Tanemura

#27. God is just waiting for you to turn your face back toward Him. You've not gone too far! - Author: Beth Moore

#28. Many a soul will turn back to accustomed marshlands of defeat rather than brave the fogs of frustration; but the mountain peaks rise high above the rain and gloom. - Author: V. Raymond Edman

#29. You can turn your life around. You can through hell and back. It is possible. Never underestimate yourself. I believe in you. - Author: Demi Lovato

#30. We must go on, because we can't turn back. - Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

#31. Our trials are supposed to turn us toward God, but we whine and complain and wish someone would turn down the fire so we could have our old life back the way it was. - Author: Lynn Austin

#32. I turn around and start walking, careful to keep my head down so no one sees the moment when the huge smile I was fighting finally breaks free. It takes every ounce of self-control not to look back and see if he's watching. - Author: Kami Garcia

#33. Sometimes, you turn back. Sometimes, you walk away. And sometimes, you find the place you're meant to be, and you stay there. You find a way to make it work. Whatever it takes. - Author: Megan Hart

#34. There is nothing in back of this cafe. Since the place sits right on the margin between the edge of the world and infinite possibility, he back door opens out to a void. It takes courage to turn the knob and heart to leave the steps. - Author: Gloria Naylor

#35. Why would anyone want to turn back time? There is no meaning in regret, no point in thinking about thing I could have done. Because there is no guarantee that any decision is the right one. - Author: Kazuya Minekura

#36. All right people, listen up! If you've got a family back home waiting for you or if you just want to save your own skin, turn around and walk away. Also, women! I have no intention of fighting any women! - Author: Hiromu Arakawa

#37. Don't just stand back and play the way you're coached. A great player must rise to the occasion and turn the game around on his own. - Author: Joe Paterno

#38. She would turn from him in bed, her hands under the pillow, the digital clock peeling back the old skins of numbers. - Author: Lorrie Moore

#39. I chose my way when I wed ye, though I kent it not at the time. But I chose, and cannot now turn back, even if I would.'
'Would you?' I looked into his eyes as I asked, and read the answer there. He shook his head.
'Would you? For you have chosen, as much as I. - Author: Diana Gabaldon

#40. that the wars of the past were slowly being forgotten. Shea believed that one could turn his back on the past and build a new world with the future, never understanding that the future was inextricably tied to the past, an interwoven tapestry of events and ideas that would never be entirely severed. - Author: Terry Brooks

#41. I clap so that I can hold on to this feeling. I clap because I know what will happen when I stop. It's the same thing that happens when I turn off a really good movie - one that I've lost myself to - which is that I'll be thrown back to my own reality and something hollow will settle in my chest. - Author: Gayle Forman

#42. All you need is a pinch of Grace," I whisper, sprinkling it on the pie. "And a dash of Hope," she follows, tossing more on top. "To make life sweeter." I turn and press a kiss to her cheek. "And help love grow," she whispers, kissin' my cheek back, her tears mixin' with my own. - Author: K.C. Lynn

#43. This is what you get in life. Wee flannel-arsed naebodies sittin' behind a desk tryin' to make you sweat in your stool. And see when they do? Y'can feel the wind-up key take another turn in your back. - Author: Ian Pattison

#44. Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know "why" I look this way. I've traveled a long way and some of the roads weren't paved. - Author: Will Rogers

#45. my blue eyes peering into their brown eyes and seeing there some essential part of myself, some irreducible aspect of my being, which in turn gave them back the same reflected version of themselves - Author: Russell Banks

#46. Mothers...accept when they have to, let go when they must, but watch out; they'll also turn their back on whoever hurts their child so quickly you'll feel the wind cut your face. - Author: Hester Kaplan

#47. The strength to move forward when others stop, to keep going when others turn back, is the key to unlocking your greatest potential. - Author: Matshona Dhliwayo

#48. To lead the orchestra, you have to turn your back on the crowd. - Author: Max Lucado

#49. I am not doctor who and I can't turn back time. I once said the audience was all punks and little girls, now they are old punks and old little girls. I don't mind the fans being maturer, if there are younger fans that's good too. - Author: Marco Pirroni

#50. When you say things they don't want to hear, it's like holding a mirror up to them and asking them to look at themselves. It's much easier for them to turn the mirror back on you and claim that your thinking is flawed. - Author: Merry Freer

#51. We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back. - Author: Martin Luther King Jr.

#52. I used to routinely turn down things that might compound the impression that I was some kind of vacuous blonde. But now, when I look back, I think I should have done them because I would be very rich - being taken seriously isn't all it's cracked up to be. - Author: Mariella Frostrup

#53. Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition. - Author: Charles Spurgeon

#54. People's souls are like gardens. You can't turn your back on someone because his garden's full of weeds. You have to give him water and lots of sunshine. - Author: Nancy Farmer

#55. Motioned to the sergeant-major to turn the prisoner around to show his back. - Author: Diana Gabaldon

#56. Tyler commanded attention because he was like a tiger. Mesmerizing and possessing something that suggested it was wise not to turn your back on him, any more than it would be a wise move to run. - Author: Joey W. Hill

#57. As long as you're in motion, your perspective is obscured. Only when you reach the summit and turn to look back, can you be at peace. - Author: Joyce Carol Oates

#58. Not everyone Jesus tried to turn back from the brink of destruction responded - nor will they with us. - Author: Billy Graham

#59. I encourage anyone who has gone through hardships to look back through their life's chapters and see what can be turned into a book. For you never know what heartache God, one day, can turn into a redemptive story. - Author: Jolina Petersheim

#60. In this universe there are no time machines or keys that can turn hearts back around. - Author: Sarah Tregay

#61. I don't spend the day writing. I'll maybe write fresh copy for two hours, and then I'll go back and revise some of it and print what I like and then turn it off. - Author: Stephen King

#62. I would imagine that most of my writing is done spontaneously. I had no intention of writing, and then I'll just walk through the house, and I'll hear this melody, and I'll turn on the tape players and go back to it later on. Some days I'll get 3-5 songs a day. - Author: Andrae Crouch

#63. He snorts more cocaine, I could pull over and roll him out the door, but he's on so much blow right now that he would probably just turn into a roadrunner, catch up to me, and jump back in. - Author: Caroline Kepnes

#64. Our role is to stand behind the open gates and turn them back one by one. And so we fight. - Author: Cassandra Clare

#65. ...an when we got there, O my brothers and chiefs, we saw what it said: OSVETIM, Auschwitz, an it was too late for us to turn back, no matter how badly we wanted to... - Author: Jachym Topol

#66. A flash of anger made her turn back. When had he ever known the kind of vulnerability a woman must suffer, when left on her own to face the world? How could he know that a woman might seek any strategy to render herself ineligible, invisible? - Author: Meredith Duran

#67. You have a right to be angry, but you mustn't turn that anger back on yourself because that only compounds the damage which has already been done. You must turn the anger outwards. - Author: Susan Howatch

#68. Acceptance in the mindful context means that even when the unthinkable happens, we honor our self and our experience with dignity and kindness. Rather than turn our back on our own suffering, we treat ourselves as we would a beloved friend. - Author: Heather Stang

#69. My dear, dear girl [ ... ] we can't turn back the days that have gone. We can't turn life back to the hours when our lungs were sound, our blood hot, our bodies young. We are a flash of fire
a brain, a heart, a spirit. And we are three-cents-worth of lime and iron
which we cannot get back. - Author: Thomas Wolfe

#70. As far back as I can remember, I have worshipped the sun. My skin is fair, but as the years have gone by, it has toughened and darkened. I now turn a rich golden brown every summer, but only after the first day of burning. - Author: Jane Green

#71. Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own. - Author: Richard Bachman

#72. If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount. - Author: William Jennings Bryan

#73. Trust your heart and embrace the journey. You may make a wrong turn but your heart will get you back on the right path. Just keep making choices and don't second guess yourself. - Author: E'yen A. Gardner

#74. It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world. - Author: George Dennison Prentice

#75. 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. - Author: Claudia Rankine

#76. I've not ceased being fearful, I've gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says: turn back, turn back, you'll die if you go too far. - Author: Erica Jong

#77. If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light. - Author: Maya Lin

#78. The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections. - Author: Alexis De Tocqueville

#79. Thirty-seven udvars, sir. To have enough fuel to return to Nova Baikonur, we must turn back at thirty-five udvars." "Two udvars?! We're only two udvars short? - Author: Marina Maddix

#80. As a kid, sometimes you have nobody to turn to. I could always go back to some of the sermons and talk to myself in a righteous manner and put that in a song. - Author: Curtis Mayfield

#81. It's a wise man who understands that every day is a new beginning, because boy, how many mistakes do you make in a day? I don't know about you, but I make plenty. You can't turn the clock back, so you have to look ahead. - Author: Mel Gibson

#82. Love is an energy. You can feed it to people, and they in turn feed it to others, and eventually it comes back. - Author: Hill Harper

#83. I've always felt that people's ears are wider than programmers are ever wiling to give them credit for. It's always been very important to me that you not have to turn me off because your kids are in the back seat. - Author: Donnie Simpson

#84. I want to take retirement rather than feel as if it's taking me unawares. Maybe even seize it joyously. But at least behold it without looking back so longingly that I turn into a pillar of regret. - Author: Klaus H. Carl

#85. Fucking NASA. In a horror movie, when everyone is hugging their shins and shouting for the main character to turn and run, or crawl under the bed, or call the cops, or grab a gun, NASA would be the dude in the back shouting, Go see what made that noise! And take a flashlight! - Author: Hugh Howey

#86. Never worry about anything that is past. Charge it up to experience and forget the trouble. There are always plenty of troubles ahead, so don't turn and look back on any behind you. - Author: Herbert Hoover

#87. Maybe in the morning, sunlight would to turn him back into a statue; then I could take Stone out to the forest where he could frolic among the ferns, gurgle at streams, and make friends with the other interesting rocks. - Author: Devon Monk

#88. When I told my sister, who was a fashion designer in college, what I wanted to do, she said I was crazy. But once I got started, I couldn't turn back. Kimberly Goodwin, Snapping Turtle Kids - Author: Holly Hurd

#89. If you said to people you can cast a secret ballot on whether to turn back the clock and have Morsi in power again, I don't think very many people in Washington would turn back that clock. - Author: Elliott Abrams

#90. Pain can either thrust me into the arms of Jesus or make me turn my back on Him. Either way, it's a choice. - Author: Mary E. DeMuth

#91. I have a color-coded computer spreadsheet that divides things down to chapter fragments. Each character's point-of-view is a different color. The text of the manuscript is color-coded the same way. The last thing I do before submitting the manuscript is turn all those colors back to black. - Author: Neal Shusterman

#92. He saw time turn back upon itself, a river flowing upward to the spring. He held the contemporaneity of two moments in his left and right hands; as he moved them apart he smiled to see the moments separate like dividing soap bubbles. - Author: Ursula K. Le Guin

#93. An' you turn your back on your friend, you may as well go ahead an' join the asshole squad, 'cause you just became one more reason why the damn world's gone to hell. - Author: Garth Ennis

#94. And yet, as Verena watched her turn back to the dusting, she had the curious sensation that positions had been reversed in the oddest fashion. The girl was the one telling her to go away, it was her house and Verena was the maid. - Author: Kate Williams

#95. The one-word cinema wasn't possible for me anymore. I'd hit a wall, a dead end. Therefore I thought I'd turn back. - Author: Abbas Kiarostami

#96. Ka was like a wheel, its one purpose to turn, and in the end it always came back to the place where it had started. - Author: Stephen King

#97. A good man would help the two people in the limo because it was the right thing to do; a good man would turn himself in; a good man would beg for his job back; a good man would just let this case go and move on. William wasn't a good man, not anymore. He was on a mission. - Author: Destiny Booze

#98. With time, many staged photographs turn back into historical evidence, albeit of an impure kind - like most historical evidence. - Author: Susan Sontag

#99. Knows a higher law. One cannot turn back, and must put away graven images. - Author: Florence Scovel Shinn

#100. When a caterpillar bursts from its cocoon and discovers it has wings, it does not sit idly, hoping to one day turn back. It flies. - Author: Kelseyleigh Reber