Turn Back Quotes
193 quotes by 168 authors
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When men are arrived at the goal, they should not turn back.
— Plutarch
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America, we cannot turn back. Not with so much work to be done. Not with so many children to educate, and so many veterans to…
— Barack Obama
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In any case, you can't turn back the clock.
— Michel Patini
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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…
— Frederick Lenz
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I think you will agree that I am alive in every part of this book; turn back twenty, thirty, one hundred pages - I am…
— Kenneth Patchen
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Sometimes our thoughts turn back toward a corner in a forest, or the end of a bank, or an orchard powdered with flowers, seen but…
— Guy de Maupassant
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Many of us may have watched the waves at sea. They rise, then fall, then rise again, then fall again... and this cycle continues endlessly.…
— Mata Amritanandamayi
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We should be most careful about retreating from the specific challenge of our age. We should be reluctant to turn our back upon the frontier…
— James A. Michener
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When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first page…
— Jane Smiley
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Keep your eyes on the prize and don't turn back.
— William J. Clinton
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Every light has a point where it is brightest and a point toward which it wanders to lose itself completely. It must be intercepted to…
— Josef von Sternberg
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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…
— Junot Diaz
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I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart…
— Erica Jong
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A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the…
— Anne Lamott
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Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.
— Conor Oberst
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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…
— Yakov Smirnoff
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At the halfway point of any drunken night, there is a moment when an Indian realizes he cannot turn back toward tradition and that he…
— Sherman Alexie
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We'll be there, Harry," said Ron "What?" "At your Aunt and Uncle's house," said Ron, "And then we'll go with you wherever you're going." "No-"…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I do not see why I should e’er turn back, Or those should not set forth upon my track To overtake me, who should miss…
— Robert Frost
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But what manner of use would it be ploughing through that darkness?' asked Drinian. Use?' replied Reepicheep. 'Use, Captain?' If you mean by filling our…
— C.S. Lewis
Who Wrote These Turn Back Quotes
168 authors contributed a total of 193 Turn Back Quotes, led by these top contributors: