Quotes About You Can't Go Back

#1. Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding's a mystery to me now. You can't go back, your life changes every day.

Billy Connolly

#2. But you can't go back now? To that orderly, harmonious, intimate place?'
He thought about this, though there was no need to. 'That place doesn't exist anymore,' he said quietly.

Haruki Murakami

#3. Live in the present moment, you can't go back to yesterday, you can't leap into tomorrow, Today is your second, minute, hour! Embrace It!

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#4. You can't go back. You can't have what was stolen.
Just forget...

Allison Brennan

#5. Once you have a Dex in your lap, you can't go back," I said. I looked over at Perry. "Ain't that right, kiddo?

Karina Halle

#6. Sex is a commitment ... Once you're there you can't go back to holding hands ... and when you give yourself both mentally and physically ... well, you're completely vulnerable.

Judy Blume

#7. There are some things in this world that can be done over, and some that can't. And time passing is one thing that can't be redone. Come this far, and you can't go back.

Haruki Murakami

#8. You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is ... now.

Jay Asher

#9. They were of the past, and the past always mends itself, no matter how we interfere." "Which is why you can't go back and kill baby Hitler to stop the war from happening," said Enoch. "History heals itself. Isn't that interesting?

Ransom Riggs

#10. You can't go back. Can't fix what broke. But you can go forward. And every step matters. Every one makes a difference." She pushed away from the desk, cupped his face in her hands. "From where I'm standing, you're the best step I ever took.

J.D. Robb

#11. You can't go back to something once it's dead.

Sue Grafton

#12. No matter how far you go, if you can't go back to the essence, you're not sayin' nothin'. The essence for me is hip-hop. But the hip-hop community I came up in isn't a loyal community.

Wyclef Jean

#13. There's a big difference between being alone and being lonely. And I'm guessing that once you've discovered this distinction you can't go back to solitary confinement without serious emotional repercussions.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#14. But once you know, you can't go back. Not really. You can carve out someone's memories, but they won't be who they were before. They'll just be full of holes. Given the choice, I'd rather learn to live with what I know.

Victoria Schwab

#15. You can't go back; I can't go back either, but we can go on.

Christine Feehan

#16. Everything must change and you do what you can with the changes that are made. You can't stop it. You can't fight it. Everybody tries to go back to yesterday, but you can't go back to yesterday. The only time there is, is now.

Marla Gibbs

#17. Because even if you buried yourself in guilt, you can't go back and change what happened.

Katherine Fleet

#18. I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back.

Hugh Laurie

#19. And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.

Donald Miller

#20. You can't go back. I know that. But you can look back.

Jacob Collins

#21. When you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward. The rest is up to Allah, including the danger. And

Paulo Coelho

#22. Whatever you've done, or think you've done, it's over now. You can't go back and change it. What you do about it, right now, from here on out, that's the important thing. -Dawn of Eden, Ch8

Julie Kagawa

#23. Once you go Kerry Washington, you can't go back

Tony Goldwyn

#24. Nostalgia is the aching realization that you can't go back again. The longing, no matter how intense, can never be met.

R.C. Sproul Jr.

#25. Every choice has the power to affect your life later on in ways you can't go back and change.

Jessi Kirby

#26. Time moves on. You can't go back in time. Everything has a consequence, and the last episode of the last season is no exception.

Jon Hamm

#27. You have to be with other people, he thought. In order to live at all. I mean before they came here I could stand it ... But now it has changed. You can't go back, he thought. You can't go from people to nonpeople. - J.R. Isidore

Philip K. Dick

#28. I was raised - my mom and dad were dairy farmers. Once you've made a decision to plant a crop for that year, you can't go back and undo that decision.

Roy Blunt

#29. I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.

Ethel Waters

#30. Once you're famous you can't go back.

Matthew Morrison

#31. You can't go back and change your mistakes or the wrongs that have been done to you. But by surviving them and helping others in their own despair ... will help all move forward to better, brighter days.

Timothy Pina

#32. It may not be written in any book, but it is written
You can't go back,
you can't repeat the unrepeatable.

Charles Wright

#33. If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter.

Anchee Min

#34. You can't go back again, even if you wanted to. But you can own your own life, mistakes and all.

Ellen Barkin

#35. What I know is you can't go back. You can't press delete and re-key your life.

Julie Anne Peters

#36. You can't go back and edit during the live set in the club. In the studio it's different.

Rob Brown

#37. Once you make decisions, you can't go back, but in photography, that process can continue. With film, you have to eliminate all the possibilities and make the one possibility work the best for you, so you have to become very creative with the direction you've chosen.

Anton Corbijn

#38. You can't go back', she told him bluntly. Her voice was neither kind nor unkind. 'That part of your life is over. Set it aside as something you have finished. Complete or no, it is done with you. No being gets to decide what his life is 'supposed to be'.

Robin Hobb

#39. There are some choices you can only make once. You can't go back to where you made a choice and then take the other one.

Mary Hoffman

#40. Once you get yourselves into things that are working on a deeper level, you just have to keep going. When you reach that deeper level, you can't go back.

Matt Stone

#41. I know you can't go back, so I try to do all the things other teenagers do.

LeAnn Rimes

#42. Life does just go on, and you change, and you can't go back. You have to live it the way it comes.

Mary Stewart

#43. Once you sleep on feathers you can't go back to sleeping on the floor.

Lenny Bruce

#44. You're right ... you can't go back. No matter how much you want to, you never can

Elizabeth Scott

#45. 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

#46. I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.

Karl Rove

#47. Once you're on stage you can't go back, even when things go wrong people expect you to stay there and entertain them. When all else fails, you've got to try tap dancing.

Angus Young

#48. When you first take someone's life, two people die. The person you just killed and the human
being you used to be. You're never the same after that - it changes you forever and not in a good way
- and no matter how hard you try, you can't go back to the innocence you had. Ever.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#49. I turn my negatives into my positives because one of my mottos is, 'Yesterday's history, tomorrow's a mystery,' meaning that you can't go back and change anything in the past.

Vanilla Ice

#50. You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

C.S. Lewis

#51. A smile is nature's freeway: it has lanes, and you can go any speed you like, except you can't go back

James M. Cain

#52. In Caribbean there is no middle class: you're either rich or you're poor. And the ladder to success is not really a ladder, it's a chain; once you reach a certain level, you can't go back and you can only keep going forward.

Zoe Saldana

#53. The dark ancestral cave, the womb from which mankind emerged into the light, forever pulls one back - but ... you can't go home again ... you can't go ... back home to the escapes of
Time and Memory. You Can't Go Home Again

Thomas Wolfe

#54. And, when you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.

Paulo Coelho

#55. Once you have a mission, you can't go back to having a job.

Shai Agassi

#56. The other thing about moments that are given to us? They're limited. We don't get an endless amount. If you miss them, they're gone. Time machines don't exist; you can't go back and fix what's been broken.

Rachel Van Dyken

#57. Perhaps it's true you can't go back in time, but you can return to the scene of a love, of a crime, of happiness, and of a fateful decision; the places are what remain, are what you can possess, are what is immortal.

Eric Weiner

#58. When you see something or experience something extraordinary, you can't go back to normal ... I think that that's the way I see the supernatural-as happening in mundane circumstances or to people who are unprepared.

Guillermo Del Toro

#59. Everybody knows that once you past it, you can't go back.

Claire Cook

#60. You can't go back. Once it's done, it's done. I'm sure there will be things that I would love to change, in the future, but each movie is a snapshot of its time and the resources, and you do your best on it.

David Ayer

#61. Like my mother said, you can't go back to holding hands

Judy Blume

#62. Once someone loves you that much, loves you more than you deserve, you can't go back to being loved the normal way.

Tiffany Reisz

#63. You can't go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending.

James R. Sherman

#64. You ever feel like home is the one place you can't go back to? It's like you promise yourself when you got out of bed and combed your hair that this evening, when I get back I'll be a different woman in a new place. And now you can't go back because the house expects something from you.

Marlon James

#65. They're people who probably imagine that they would have had a better time in the past. I wouldn't imagine you'd encounter a lot of black people saying 'Oh, the '50s, that was when America was great.' It's very dangerous because the past was imperfect, and you can't go back anyway.

Christine Jennings

#66. You get people who come to London, sever links with where they come from, and then when they need people, there's nobody there. To feel like you can't go back home would be a horribly sad place to be, as is mistaking fame for genuine love and affection.

Johnny Vegas

#67. I mean, it's impossible to fake anything if you've already seen the other person in a way they'd never choose for you to. You can't go back from that.

Sarah Dessen

#68. You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory or go back to the desk.

Eric Burdon

#69. The momentum of time is always going forward. You cannot repeat what has been done before. You can't go back.

Annie Lennox

#70. Besides buying a mansion or something, everything I wanted I always got. I'm just ready to invest it and save it. Otherwise, life can hit you, but you can't go back to working at Home Depot. That's why I always just be stacking.

French Montana

#71. You can't go back. What's done is done. Unrequited love is never easy. Time heals all wounds. I kept repeating such cliches to myself, hoping that they, like medicine, would take away the sting.

They didn't.

Alice J. Wisler

#72. You can't go back, Ever. You can't change the past. It just is ... This is our destiny. Not yours.

Alyson Noel

#73. You can't go back and I think that's the point of all to grow and grow until you don't want to anymore.

Nikki Rowe

#74. In the aftermath of September 11, you can't - as Tony Blair was so fond of suggesting - draw a line under historical events. They don't go away. They come back.

Nick Harkaway

#75. We - can't go back in time and change anything. If you went back in time and killed your grandfather before you were born, then you wouldn't be able to go back in time to kill your grandfather.

Rick Yancey

#76. I was in my bed trying to figure out why sometimes you can wake up and go back to sleep and other times you can't

Stephen Chbosky

#77. Few things hurt more than doubt creeping into a life of conviction.
Go back to the last sure knowledge you have - the last revelation you know to be true and stand your ground. Stand firm and wait.
The Universe will send you aid and clarity.
Even if you can't see it at first.

Jaime Buckley

#78. L.A.'s kind of, like, seven really cool towns. It's so laid-back. If you go in the right spot, you can walk around, and you don't need a car.

Julian Casablancas

#79. Go and don't come back, you can take the catmint. I have no quarrel with ThunderClan; I don't want to see cats suffer, whatever you might think. Just be careful you don't end up like a bully like your kin, Tigerstar.

Erin Hunter

#80. You Can't Keep Wild Animal In Your Back Yard And Expect It To Go only After Your Neighbor.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

#81. Now you're here and everything's changing
Suddenly life means so much
I can't wait to wake up tomorrow
And find out this promise is true
I will never have to go back to
The day before you

Rascal Flatts

#82. Growing up is like walking through glass doors that only open one way
you can see where you came from but can't go back.

Meg Medina

#83. I still say I would love to go back to acting, but after my kids are older. You can't just drop everything and go out on a call and keep a stable life.

Suzanne Crough

#84. Loneliness isn't about being by yourself. That's fine, right and good, desirable in many ways. Loneliness is about finding a landing-place, or not, and knowing that, whatever you do, you can go back there. The opposite of loneliness isn't company, it's return. A place to return.

Jeanette Winterson

#85. 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

#86. I can't go back to being who I used to be!'
Hadley looked down at him sympathetically.
'None of us can, kid.' he said. 'That's the point. You get what you get. Life changes you. Time travel or no, you always have to build on what you live through.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#87. Girls interested in modeling need to realize that its hard work. You can go to a shoot in the morning and not even start shooting until 10pm - and still be there at 5am the next day. Then if you still haven't got the shot, you'll have to go back the next day and start again!

Kate Moss

#88. You aren't happy," Estela says.
"I can't be happy," I say.
"Look at me, Kenzie."
"I'm looking at you, Estela."
"Do you know your own heart?"
"I don't know anything."
"Go," she says, "and think. And don't come back until you know.

Beth Kephart

#89. You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.

Charles Kuralt

#90. I can't go back because I lost all my Soul Reaper powers! - Rukia
You lost your powers? What are they, socks? - Ichigo

Tite Kubo

#91. You can't really go back to where you came from. I don't think any of us can.

Viggo Mortensen

#92. I had to find a diet that would kick me back into dating shape, because I know that I can't date at size 8. I have to date at size 2. And it's just a fact of nature. Go get your injections and your chemical peels. You gotta look good to attract a man.

Patti Stanger

#93. I don't trust novels with points, do you? If a novel is only about a point, the writer should just say it in as few words as possible so we can take it in and go back to watching 'The Bachelor' on television.

William Lashner

#94. Just remember that certain things you see, you can't take them back. And no amount of wishing will make them go away.

Jeyn Roberts

#95. Just because you're a star on television doesn't mean that you can be a music phenomenon or an artist. You have to have the material to back it, and it's all about hit songs. I can name you every 'Idol' winner and why they didn't go on to have success - their songs. The ones who have - their songs.

Kara DioGuardi

#96. I wasn't into blame. Maybe because I had so much of it directed at me, you know? I guess you can go one of two ways with that. You can reflect it right back out at everybody else, or you can drop out of the whole blame paradigm. I guess I chose not to play the game anymore.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#97. You're in a situation where you have limited education opportunities, you don't have any money, you can't get a job; what are you going to do? You're going to go back to this criminal network that you actually made while you were in prison.

Hill Harper

#98. When I was on Broadway when I was little, I remember always driving through Times Square with my dad to the theater. Now when I go back, you can't even drive on Broadway in the 40s. New Times Square is too touristy to me.

Jenna Ushkowitz

#99. You don't have to choose, Hannah. It's not success or fun. It's not life or love. You don't have to just pick one door to walk through. You can have both. It's okay. You just have to go out and do something about it. Don't sit back and let life happen to you. Go grab what you want, whatever it is.

Jessica Love

#100. In the beginning, yes I did go back ... (but) I learned that if it's continued abusive, you just can't stay there. When guys are young, they make mistakes. Nobody's perfect, but, if they do it more than once, then it's definitely a habit

Lil' Kim