Turn Back Quotes

193 Turn Back quotes by 168 unique authors

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
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
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
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
Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam. — Conor Oberst
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
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
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
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
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
My dear, dear girl [. . .] we can't turn back the days that have gone. We can't turn life back to the hours when… — Thomas Wolfe
If you have no faith in yourself, then have faith in the things you call truth. You know what must be done. You may not… — Patricia A. McKillip
For a long time I believed the opposite of passion was death. I was wrong. Passion and death are implicit, one in the other. Past… — Marya Hornbacher
This morning, as Charlotte approached the brick facade of Hartnett, she found herself overcome with a great sense of dread. It hit her with a… — Anne Ursu
Tonight I saw myself in the dark window as the image of my father, whose life was spent like this, thinking of death, to the… — Louise GluÌˆck
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… — Edith Wharton
I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me, and I have followed the source of rivers towards their source or plunged into… — Jean-Paul Sartre
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… — Megan Hart
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… — Arina Tanemura
You said to us once before," said Hermione quietly, "that there was time to turn back if we wanted to. We've had time, haven't we? — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And… — Langston Hughes
I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep,… — Beryl Markham
O you, who in some pretty boat, Eager to listen, have been following Behind my ship, that singing sails along Turn back to look again… — Dante Alighieri
Turn back, turn back,thou pretty bride, Within this house thou must not abide. For here do evil things betide. — Jacob Grimm
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,… — Gabrielle Zevin

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