Back When Quotes - Page 6

• Sometimes its good to come back when you least expect to.

  Pete Wentz

  Sometimes

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• The end of a gun looks very big and very back when it's staring you in the face.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Gun, Looks, Faces

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• What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and 'going' with this girl, 'Is this true love?'

  Matthew McConaughey

  Girl, Feelings, Remember

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• As a black man, you run from the cops. It's different now, but back when I was coming up, you run.

  Rodney King

  Running, Men, Black

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Don't open that door," she said. "The hallway is full of difficult dreams." And I asked her: "How do you know?" And she told me: "Because I was there a moment ago and I had to come back when I discovered I was sleeping on my heart.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Dream, Heart, Sleep

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• You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. The rational mind doesn't nourish you. You assume that it gives you the truth, because the rational mind is the golden calf that this culture worships, but this is not true. Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.

  Anne Lamott

  Space, Giving, Intuition

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.112, Anchor

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• But the problem with looking back when you should be walking ahead is that you usually end up walking into something that hurts.

  Megan Hart

  Hurt, Problem, Ends

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• It was one lesson he never forgot.You don't sit back when you or a loved one is being assaulted.And you don't act like the goverment with their "proportional responses" and all that nonsense.If someone hurts you,mercy and pity must be put aside,You eliminate the enemy.You scorch the earth.

  Harlan Coben

  Hurt, Enemy, Lessons

  Harlan Coben (2010). “Tell No One”, p.39, Hachette UK

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• All stories must end so, with the next tale winking out of the corners of the last pages, promising more, promising moonlight and dancing and revels, if only you will come back when spring comes again.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Spring, Dancing, Stories

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.279, Macmillan

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• Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once too, back when she was eighteen. But she knew that love was messy, just like life. It took turns that people couldn't foresee or even understand, leaving a long trail of regret in its wake. And almost always, those regrets led to the kinds of what if questions that could never be answered.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Regret, Believe, Long

  "The Best Of Me". Book by Nicholas Sparks, 2011.

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• The Rusty Ruins were the remains of an old city, a hulking reminder of back when there'd been way too many people, and everyone was incredibly stupid. And ugly.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Stupid, Cities, People

  Scott Westerfeld (2015). “Uglies & Pretties: Uglies; Pretties”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• You remind me of myself ” Bes continued “back when I was a young dwarf. You got a stubborn streak. When it comes to girl problems you’re clueless.

  Rick Riordan

  Girl, Clueless, Dwarves

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• He was right – she was beating herself up about hurting his feelings. The girl was a classic martyr. She’d totally been born in the wrong century. She should have lived back when she could have gotten herself fed to some lions for a good cause.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Girl, Hurt, Should Have

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Breaking Dawn: Twilight”, p.114, Hachette UK

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• (...) Since I was a kid." "Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.'" "Right.

  Ned Vizzini

  Kids

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• I’m Lila, and yes, he’s crazy. But you must have noticed that before now. He was crazy back when I knew him, and he’s obviously gotten crazier over time.

  Holly Black

  Crazy

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• I think where I've instinctively found myself is that I am somewhat guarded in my public life. Being interviewed or being photographed or just in public attention, I have a certain reserve. But when I'm working I feel like I'm very open. At least I like to believe that I feel like nothing is held back when I'm in front of a camera. That's my job.

  Annette Bening

  Jobs, Believe, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• WHEN YOU BOW deeply to the universe, it bows back; when you call out the name of God, it echoes inside you.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Echoes, Names, Bows

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.181, Shambhala Publications

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• Burning up the phone until there's nothing left to say, so I lay here and just listen to you breathe. Girl you know it's only been a week since our first date-back when you were just a stranger to me. I've never let another in so soon.

  Toby Keith

  Girl, Fall, Phones

  Song: Yet, Album: Dream Walkin', 1997

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• Back when I was younger,
  Very ambitious, but often blinded by my hunger.
  Some say I dream too big,
  And my dream gon' take me under.

  Freddie Gibbs

  Dream, Rap, Hip Hop

  Song: National Anthem, 2010

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• Nowadays, the game is all bugged out,
  Phony, like back when Hammer tried to come thugged out.

  Daniel Dumile

  Rap, Games, Hip Hop

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• The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come back when you go out the door without them.

  Stanley Coren

  Dog, Fear, Doors

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• Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.

  Publilius Syrus

  Inspirational, Motivational, Goal

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave: From the Latin". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 580, 1856.

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• The physician who waits until dead certain of a diagnosis before acting is likely to wind up with a dead patient. Sometimes things develop so rapidly that only early action-back when you're still somewhat uncertain-stands a chance of being effective, as in catching cancer before it metastasizes.

  Joel Garreau

  Cancer, Wind, Waiting

  Joel Garreau (2005). “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human”, p.183, Broadway Books

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• I was born in Munich, and my father was stationed in Salzburg. For the first three years of my life, I lived in Austria back when the American Army was still in Austria. I grew up subsequently in posts around the country around veterans.

  Rick Atkinson

  Thank You, Country, Memorial Day

  "Rick Atkinson talks "The Guns at Last Light"". Interview with John Barron, www.chicagotribune.com. May 10, 2013.

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• STOP looking back!!!! When your past calls do NOT pick up!! it has nothing new to say.

  Joseph Simmons

  Past, Rapper, African American

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