No Turning Back Quotes - Page 2

• Venezuela has changed forever, there is no turning back.

  Hugo Chavez

  "Chavez Claims Victory in Recall Vote", www.foxnews.com. August 16, 2004.

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• Men speak of blind destiny, a thing without scheme or purpose. But what sort of destiny is that? Each act in this world from which there can be no turning back has before it another, and it another yet. In a vast endless net. Men imagine that the choices before them are theirs to make. But we are free to act only upon what is given. Choice is lost in the maze of generations and each act in the maze is itself an enslavement for it voids every alternative and binds one ever more tightly into the constraints that make a life.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Destiny, Men, Choices

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy: Picador Classic”, p.863, Pan Macmillan

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• To be born means being compelled to choose an era, a place, a life. To exist here, now, means to lost the possibility of being countless other potential selves.. Yet once being born there is no turning back. And I think that's exactly why the fantasy worlds of cartoon movies so strongly represent our hopes and yearnings. They illustrate a world of lost possibilities for us.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Mean, Thinking, Self

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• It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Father, Heart, Purses

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• What helps with aging is serious cognition - thinking and understanding. You have to truly grasp that everybody ages. Everybody dies. There is no turning back the clock. So the question in life becomes: What are you going to do while you're here?

  Goldie

  Thinking, Understanding, Age

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• There must be a few times in life when you stand at a precipice of a decision. When you know there will forever be a Before and an After...I knew there would be no turning back if I designated this moment as my own Prime Meridian from which everything else would be measured.

  Justina Chen

  Decision, Forever, Would Be

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• I feel like I got a ticket to go to another planet and I'm moving there and there's no turning back, and I don't know if I'm going to like that other planet or have friends there.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Moving, Tickets, Planets

  "The Hunger Games' Jennifer Lawrence Talks Fame, Katniss and More In Her Glamour Interview". www.glamour.com. February 28, 2012.

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• I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Birthday, Play, People

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

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• There's no turning back...We will win. We are winning because ours is a revolution of mind and heart.

  Cesar Chavez

  Heart, Commitment, Winning

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• We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war. A new era is upon us. Even the lesson of victory itself brings with it profound concern, both for our future security and the survival of civilization. The destructiveness of the war potential, through progressive advances in scientific discovery, has in fact now reached a point which revises the traditional concepts of war.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Discovery, Civilization

  Radio Broadcast to the Nation Following the USS Missouri Surrender Ceremony, delivered 2 September 1945, USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, Japan

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• We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, History, Triumph

  Radio Broadcast to the Nation Following the USS Missouri Surrender Ceremony, delivered 2 September 1945, USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, Japan

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• I think the way you can tell if a guy and girl are in a serious relationship is whether or not they have black and white pictures of themselves together. That's the real test. Because it takes effort to get nice black and white photos. If you've gone that far, there's no turning back.

  Aaron Karo

  Girl, Real, Nice

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• My environmentalism reared its head around the age of ten when I inexplicably become obsessed with littering. For some reason I considered it my personal responsibility to pick up litter wherever I found it and yell at anyone I saw contributing to the problem (much to the horror of my mother). I was a ten-year-old on a mission to clean up the streets! But it was years later when I became a mother myself that concern for my kids' future really ignited my passion and set me on my course. Once I started reading and educating myself, there was no turning back.

  Laurie David

  Mother, Reading, Kids

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• At the same time, we both pulled back briefly still oh so close. Everything in the word rested on that moment. "We can't..." He told me. "I know," I agreed. Then his mouth was on mine again, and this time I knew there would be no turning back.

  Richelle Mead

  Would Be, Mouths, Moments

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.183, Penguin

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• I discovered, though, that once having given a pig an enema there is no turning back, no chance of resuming one of life's more stereotyped roles.

  E. B. White

  Pigs, Roles, Chance

  E. B. White (2014). “Essays of E. B. White”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• I guess that's the secret. It would never have occurred to Lia to want to escape -- but then she gets kicked out. Best thing that ever happened to her? I'm not sure she would say yes, because obliviousness tends to be rather pleasant, but once you realized you've been bolivious, there's no turning back. You can't un-know what you know. You know?

  Robin Wasserman

  Secret, Want, Not Sure

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• You will always be a monster - there is no turning back from it. But what kind of monster you become is entirely up to you.

  Julie Kagawa

  Monsters, Up To You, Kind

  "The Eternity Cure (Blood of Eden)". Book by Julie Kagawa, 2013.

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• The morning air of the pasture turned steadily cooler. Day by day, the bright golden leaves of the birches turned more spotted as the first winds of winter slipped between the withered branches and across the highlands toward the southeast. Stopping in the center of the pasture, I could hear the winds clearly. No turning back, they pronounced. The brief autumn was gone.

  Haruki Murakami

  Morning, Autumn, Winter

  "A Wild Sheep Chase". Book by Haruki Murakami, December 31, 1989.

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• Come on, come on, and there'll be no turning back, You were only killing time and it can kill you right back, Come on, come on! It's time to burn up the fuse, You got nothing to do and even less to lose...

  Jim Steinman

  Time, Killing, Loses

  "Song: Out Of The Frying Pan (And Into The Fire)". September 14, 1993.

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• Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from science. The early warnings about technological dangers also come from science.

  Carl Sagan

  Cutting, Two, Evil

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• An idea is growing in foreign policy circles in Washington ... that there is no turning back. We are stuck in Iraq and Afghanistan for 25 to 40 years, we are embedded in our prideful unilateralism, and nothing can return us to more traditional American values and principles of action. The hubristic creators of this "inevitability" planned it this way. ... Their failures in Iraq have not stopped the fanatic, power-hungry neoconservatives. ... The hard-liners who dominate this administration ... have led us to eternal conflict with Muslims.

  Georgie Anne Geyer

  War, Power, Years

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• It is socialism. It moves the country in a direction which is not good for anyone, whether they be young or old. It charts a course from which there will be no turning back.

  Carl Curtis

  Country, Moving, Care

  Carl Thomas Curtis, Regis A. Courtemanche (1986). “Forty years against the tide: Congress and the welfare state”, Gateway Books

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