Take Back Quotes

#1. And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil.

Horace

#2. When you start to accept responsibility for the results you get in life, you also take back the power to change your future outcome.

Kevin Ngo

#3. There are many things in my life that I wish I could take back. Many moments I would recast.

Mitch Albom

#4. Meant to be?' It's just something people say so that they don't have to look at all the things they did wrong and wish they could take back. Only by the time they figure that out, it's too late.

Zoey Dean

#5. Think before you speak, because words can really hurt, and you can't take back what you said, because the damage is already done.

M. Clarke

#6. I am not a person who tries on in the stores. It drives me crazy. So I buy and take back if I don't like something. I really don't enjoy being in the dressing room. I rather just try it on in my house.

Jessica Simpson

#7. I honestly believe that in my lifetime we will see a country once again governed by Christians ... and Christian values. What Christians have got to do is take back this country, one precinct at a time, one neighborhood at a time, and one state at a time.

Ralph E. Reed Jr.

#8. I think it's time that we said to people who are incapable of acknowledging that they've ever got anything wrong: 'I'm sorry, you've had your day.' Unelected, unaccountable elites, I'm afraid it's time to say, 'You're fired. We are going to take back control.'

Michael Gove

#9. Never say anything you'll regret. It's easier to say nothing at all than to say something you can't take back.

Nikki Sex

#10. Some things you can't take back. Some things take you farther into the darkness.

Jeyn Roberts

#11. If I win... do you know what I would wish for?" Don't say it, don't say it. Don't say the thing you can't take back. I'd wish we never started any of this." The words echo in my head, in the air.

Jenny Han

#12. But nothing can be taken back, not the leaves by the trees, the rain by the clouds. You want to take back the ugly thing you said, but some shrapnel remains in the wound, some mud.

Dean Young

#13. Let me be who you need. Those words out of Sophia's mouth were everything I wanted to hear in this moment, and everything I wanted her to take back and pretend like she'd never said.

Nina Levine

#14. Choose your words carefully. The only place you can take back what you said is the Congressional Record.

Ron Brackin

#15. You may have started a war," Jean growled. "All for what?"
Ammon growled back. "To take back this world! To never live in fear again!

Zechariah Barrett

#16. He can't take back what he said on Twitter, that he will fight me.

Sergio Martinez

#17. No." I tilted her chin up. "I expect you to live a damn good life. I expect you to listen to me when I tell you there has never been anyone but you. No one. Only you, always you, forever you. And I'm sorry, but I won't take back what I did." - Nixon

Rachel Van Dyken

#18. I want to do the most subversive thing I couldn't do as a child: I want to take back the planet's future.

Louie Psihoyos

#19. I go to work as others rush to see their mistresses, and when I leave, I take back with me to my solitude, or in the midst of the distractions that I pursue, a charming memory that does not in the least resemble the troubled pleasure of lovers.

Eugene Delacroix

#20. The earth is expertly designed to take back what it has created. Bodies left for carrion in enclosed, regulated spaces could be the answer to the environmental problems of burial and cremation. There is no limit to where our engagement with death can take us.

Caitlin Doughty

#21. I am Me, You are You, I'm just living my life, you should just live your own life, so take back those obscure preaching and do what you are supposed to do

Kim Heechul

#22. When we decide to take back our own power, we discover that the true solver of problems is intuition, not reason.

Deepak Chopra

#23. Take it, and cut your brother's throat with it, and take back the honor of your blood.

Cassandra Clare

#24. Our words sound light and almost carefree, but we can both feel the strain behind them. The effort of trying to forget, to push down. The consequence of things neither of us can ever take back.

Marie Lu

#25. The great difficulty is that you cannot be nice. If you want to take back the power, you have to behave in ways that are not conforming and will not be about pleasing other people.

Rachel Holmes

#26. Voting is not only our right, it is our power. When we vote, we take back our power to choose, to speak up, and to stand with those who support us and each other.

Loung Ung

#27. The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#28. If the king had given me for my own
Paris, his citadel,
And I for that must leave alone
Her whom I love so well,
I'd say then to the Crown
Take back your glittering town
My darling is more fair, I swear.
My darling is more fair.

Richard Wilbur

#29. When there is conflict, it's good to step away, even for five minutes, because you could say terrible things that you can't take back, so it's best to walk away.

Viggo Mortensen

#30. Son, always answer back when you receive an insult. Do it straight away. Even if there's a chance there was nothing behind it, take back control, answer them back. An insult is an attack. You must counter.

Christos Tsiolkas

#31. To her who gives and takes back all, to nature, the man who is instructed and modest says, Give what thou wilt; take back what thou wilt. And he says this not proudly, but obediently and well pleased with her.

Marcus Aurelius

#32. Do this. Don't do that. Stay back in line. Where's tax receipt? Fill out form. Let's see license. Submit six copies. Exit only. No left turn. No right turn. Queue up and pay fine. Take back and get stamped. Drop dead - but first get permit.

Robert A. Heinlein

#33. If we have children. When they are just born we do everything for them. We are omnipotent, they are completely dependent on us, but then when they grow up you must take back your influence on them, to give them freedom.

Jurgen Moltmann

#34. Ideology is dead..Politics is about barter..you give some, take back a lot more. Its business at the end of the day. - Ravi Nehra

Tuhin A. Sinha

#35. The Ospreys, these children, were my life. Without them, I had nothing. But with them ... With them, I would take back my kingdom.

Jodi Meadows

#36. The tears that had been threatening to overflow finally did, coursing down my cheeks. I wanted to run after him, to take back what I'd said, to beg him to stay, but I'd spent my life running after Mal. Instead, I stood in silence and let him go.

Leigh Bardugo

#37. If you take, we will take back. Steal from us, and we will rob you blind. When you squeeze, we will hit

Lauren Oliver

#38. We have a country that is $5 a gallon gas, $4 a gallon gas, we got unbearable unemployment and a federal government that is out of control. We have to take back this country and we've got to get off the sidelines and take it to President Obama.

Tim Pawlenty

#39. Things always work out if you don't send that e-mail. That's another great life lesson: I've sent enough e-mails of just "f - k you, f - k you, f - k you" and hit send. I've learned a lot from never being able to take back that I sent that e-mail.

John Feldmann

#40. I said, "Suppose communists come out against cancer, do we have to automatically come out for cancer?'" I can't take back that I'm against the poll tax, that I'm against lynching, that I'm for peace.

Studs Terkel

#41. It does. This is how it should have been anyway.' I caught my breath as he kissed my neck, teeth grating my skin. 'And I'll take back what's mine.

Richelle Mead

#42. A woman who's lived in a cage all her life. And hates it. Bored in there, aren't you. Waiting for life to happen. And when it finally does, it steals from you what you loved most. So take back. Explode. Lash out. Blow up

Karen Marie Moning

#43. God always visit two times in our life first on our birth he is the one who take out from mother's womb second to take back home.

Kishore Bansal

#44. We give our time away all day long, to emotions that gain us no advantages, to people who do not value our time, to inefficient habits. If you want to take back this time, you need to cut to the chase.

Stuart R. Levine

#45. If you want something, you have to take it. Because nobody's ever going to give it to you. So we're going to take back what has been taken from us. Ad then we'l' create a better future for Paelsia. A better future for us all.

Morgan Rhodes

#46. I take back everything I ever said about that boy being clever." He turned around to face the bar while leveling an accusatory finger at the closed door. "That," he said firmly to the room in general, "is what comes of working with iron every day.

Patrick Rothfuss

#47. Losers are more like the rest of us. They make mistakes they can't take back.

Pete Hamill

#48. Our lives are marked and shaped by our regrets. Things we all want to take back and can't. In a perfect world, we would never hurt the ones we love or cause hurt to befall them. But the world isn't perfect and neither are we.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#49. Do you still believe that if you truly want something enough it can happen? I ask. I think of all the times I wanted to stop the world from spinning, all the times I wanted to go back and start over again. All the things I've wanted to undo or take back. Did I not want them enough?

Carrie Ryan

#50. The sovereign people have declared they want to take back the reins of their Destiny.

Marine Le Pen

#51. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep. Now whenever that young man looked he looked like a sheep I take back all is this morning. It is genuine.

Agatha Christie

#52. I hate that I can't take back what I said. I would never hit Dylan. I would never hurt her. But just beat her up with words.

Katie Kacvinsky

#53. As the adage goes, 'fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me' ... It's time for patriots everywhere to rally together again and take back America.

Chuck Norris

#54. Every action has a consequence - some you can't take back.

Owen Baillie

#55. The mission of Patrick Henry College was to attract and cultivate academic stars from the ranks of home-schooled evangelicals, then send them off on graduation day to 'shape the culture and take back the nation,' in the words of a common home-schooling rallying cry.

Nina Easton

#56. We can't take back who we've been in the past, Charlie. But we can control who we are in the present.

Colleen Hoover

#57. God's truth is literal truth. The illumined mind has more operative cells. In reclaiming the mystical, we take back our whole selves. Formerly barren mental lands spring to new life through the planting of spiritual seeds.

Marianne Williamson

#58. There should be a message retrieval. Some kind of feature that allows someone to take back a stupidly written text before the recipient reads it.

Jen Frederick

#59. If people take the film and screen it whenever possible for their social and professional networks, we can continue to make a difference. It is one more element we have to use in the ongoing effort to take back our country.

Robert Greenwald

#60. Don't associate with evil men; don't long for their favors and gifts. Their kindness is a trick; they want to use you as their pawn. The delicious food they serve will turn sour in your stomach, and you will vomit it and have to take back your words of appreciation for their "kindness.

Anonymous

#61. You can take back all the things you give,
But you can't take back the days you live.
Life is to some people who've been on earth
Livin' every single day for what it's worth.
I live life just how I please,
Satisfy one person I know: that's me.

Too $hort

#62. I like to say there's certain things you can't take back: One of them is 'I love you,' and one of them is bullets.

Nathan Fillion

#63. And so I will take back up my poor life, so plain and so tranquil, where phrases are adventures and the only flowers I gather are metaphors.

Gustave Flaubert

#64. I feel blessed - I am a woman who has been able to work in the entertainment business for five decades. I don't want to age, but I would never take back a year for the wisdom I've gained in that time.

Marie Osmond

#65. Optimists - people who believe in Britain, who believe in democracy - they're the people I believe who will vote for us to leave and take back control.

Michael Gove

#66. I am furiously happy. It's not a cure for mental illness ... it's a weapon, designed to counter it. It's a way to take back some of the joy that's robbed from you when you're crazy.

Jenny Lawson

#67. Also, if we take back our schools and concentrate on improving them so our children get a better education, they will be better trained to compete for a job locally.

Vincent Frank

#68. I want to rewind the clock, take back the night when the world shattered. I want to erase everything that went wrong.

Amy Hatvany

#69. If we vote to Leave and take back control, all sorts of opportunities open up. Including doing new free trade deals around the world, restoring Britain's seat on all sorts of international bodies, restoring health to our democracy and belief to our democracy.

Boris Johnson

#70. All our hopes of turning the cursed ground into the blessed ground, and thus regaining it, are doomed by the fact that it is God himself who cursed the ground, and it is He alone who is able to take back what he said and bless the earth again.

Deitrich Bonhoeffer

#71. If we take back the labor unions, the legitimate businesses, eventually they become just another street gang. Spiritually, psychologically, they've always been just a street gang.

Rudy Giuliani

#72. She talks to me about regret, but what she doesn't realize is that even if she destroys me in the end, I'll never want to erase what we have. I'd never want to take back a single moment of this.

J.M. Darhower

#73. The only time I got into trouble was when I forged M's signature on the weekly report we had to take home every Friday and take back to school again signed by one of our parents. The reason I did so was that M happened to be out at the time and I thought I could save myself trouble.

Daphne Du Maurier

#74. When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#75. I want to take back at least half of the "I love you"s, because I didn't mean them as much as the other ones.

David Levithan

#76. I will take back Kashmir, all of it, and I will not leave behind a single inch of it because, like the other provinces, it belongs to Pakistan,

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

#77. Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#78. I wonder if I could take back every 'I love you' ever said to you, would I do it?

Faraaz Kazi

#79. There are times in a man's life when he says things he will never be able take back. It's true words can have a physical impact on somebody. A person can concuss with their words. Words can snap as fast as a trap in the woods and leave a victim to writhe for weeks.

Donald Miller

#80. Now is the time to take back your energy, your power, and your peace.

Debbie Ford

#81. Young sir, this merchant is in the right, and whatever his trade may be, his blood is as good as your own. After your brave words, either you should fight him or take back the blow you gave. Then he leaned down

H. Rider Haggard

#82. Sometimes we need to take back and take a look at ourselves, a look at where we are

David Archuleta

#83. There are moments in life that you wish with all your heart you could take back. Like, just erase from existence. Like, if you could, you'd erase yourself right out of existence too, just to make that moment not exist.

Jenny Han

#84. I have returned and I am here to take back what's mine.

Marissa Meyer

#85. What God gives, no one can take back.

Evans Biya

#86. Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child you have stolen, for my will is as strong as yours and my kingdom as great. You have no power over me!

Jim Henson

#87. My policy is I am always more than happy to say, "I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings." What I am not willing to do is take back what I said. Unless I am wrong.

Bill Maher

#88. If there's anyone out there that has never said something that they wish they could take back
if you're out there, please pick up that stone and throw it so hard at my head that it kills me. Please. I want to meet you ... I is what I is, and I'm not changing.

Paula Deen

#89. I have nothing to regret, to retract or take back ... I can only say; God Save Ireland!

Edward Condon

#90. You can't take back texts. If you come off all moody and melancholy in a text, it just sits there in your phone, reminding you of what a drag you are.

Rainbow Rowell

#91. He borrowed me, but you own me. You. Fucking. Own. Me. Take back what's yours and don't ever let me go.

Jewel E. Ann

#92. I take back what I said about the donkey,' Ascanio said. 'She's awesome

Ilona Andrews

#93. Religion is a natural phenomenon of the human mind, but today, in the hands of theoretical bloodsucking religious preachers it has become a lifeless mockery. Now is the time that you take back religion from those intellectual idiots and place it where it belongs, in the temple of your inner cosmos.

Abhijit Naskar

#94. Nature is hungry. It is ready to take back what the man stole from it by living.

Isaac Marion

#95. I could take back those moments that snatched you away from me or maybe just wipe away those ten minutes when you came to me for the first time and I looked into your eyes to realise what love is.

Faraaz Kazi

#96. Creating fear and loathing of gay and lesbian Americans has proven, year after year, to be the most effective say for Dobson and the other fundamentalist Christian leaders to raise millions of dollars and recruit millions of volunteers to support their long-range campaign to take back America.

Mel White

#97. You're saying things you can't take back. And you don't even mean them.

Joshilyn Jackson

#98. Come with me and take back your lives!

Eric Mrozek

#99. There's no bed in here. No threat that we'll do something we can't take back. Just two minutes we'll probably never have again...two minutes where we can both stop pretending the scars we can see are the only ones we have."

~Drake

Jennifer Turner

#100. With a heavy heart, I pulled out my own pocket knife, and carved three little words beneath Archer's. A plea and a wish, in a form I could never take back.
Return to me.

Ashleigh Z.