Back And Forth Quotes

• Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else.

  Mitch Albom

  Want, Life Is, Don't Take Anything For Granted

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.40, Broadway Books

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• It's give-and-take and back-and-forth, that constantly allows you to grow as an artist and as a human being.

  Hilary Swank

  Artist, Giving, Give And Take

  Source: collider.com

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• You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.

  Alison McGhee

  Powerful, People, Expectations

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• Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic.

  Ray Bradbury

  Life, Art, Simple

  Ray Bradbury (1955). “THE OCTOBER COUNTRY”

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• I don't read like other people do - back and forth, across the page. I tend to scan a page at a time.

  Jackie French

  People, Pages

  "Jackie French, author". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. May 15, 2011.

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• Whenever you experiment with something, it's very easy to take the emotion out of it. And going back and forth between wanting to be respected artistically and wanting to move people is its own challenge.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Moving, People, Challenges

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I know I personally get a little rusty when I've jumped back and forth.

  Hayden Panettiere

  Littles, Knows

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• They say I'm young, but my purpose is the inspiration of a nation, innovation 'till I change the talk into a conversation. I'm like a doctor and my patients are anxiously waiting; healing all the hatin' that fakin' in the paper chasing. It's hard to live up to these expectations that I'm facing, and gain the admiration of an older generation. That's why I'm pacing back and forth, contemplatin' mediatatin', how to use what I've been taught is a positive force.

  Tyler James Williams

  Inspiration, Healing, Doctors

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• I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.

  Nathan Lane

  Moving, Careers, Want

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• Kaiaphas. I see you finally made some friends. You must have learned to use a toothbrush at last. You know it’s the whole up and down, back and forth that confuses people…or demons. (Xypher)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  People, Use, Lasts

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• Dammit, Michael, get out of my room, you pervert!” Could you even be a pervert if you were dead? She supposed you could, if you had a working body half the time. “I swear, I’m going to start taking my clothes off!” The cold spot stayed resolutely put until she got the hem of her T-shirt all the way up to her bra line, and then faded away. “Chicken,” she said, and paced the room, back and forth.

  Rachel Caine

  Clothes, Half, Hem

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• The tension of opposites: Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Hurt, Tuesdays With Morrie, Opposites

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• Our radio plays rhythm and blues as we pass the joint back and forth in jutjawed silence both looking ahead with big private thoughts now so vast we can't communicate them anymore and if we tried it would take a million years and a billion books - Too late, too late, the history of everything we've seen together and separately has become a library in itself - The shelves pile higher - They're full of misty documents or documents of the Mist-.

  Jack Kerouac

  Book, Years, Play

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• ... i didn't fall in love of course it's never up to you but she was walking back and forth and i was passing through

  Leonard Cohen

  Falling In Love, Up To You, Passing

  Leonard Cohen (2008). “Book of Longing”, p.148, McClelland & Stewart

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• We were going to the long field which today looked like an ocean, although I had never seen an ocean; the grass was moving in the breeze and the cloud shadows passed back and forth and the trees in the distance moved.

  Shirley Jackson

  Distance, Ocean, Moving

  Shirley Jackson (2010). “Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches”

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• Do you know, I always imagine that the subway trains are dragons,' Rose said to Bear as they clung to his coat for support in the swaying car. 'Tearing back and forth across the city in their underground caves, devouring people and spitting them out at random destinations.

  Regina Doman

  Dragons, Cities, People

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• The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you Don't go back to sleep! You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep! People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch, The door is round and open Don't go back to sleep!

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Sleep, Doors

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “The Breeze At Dawn”

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• They say - "they" being the great philosophers, or possibly the cast of Seinfeld - that breaking up is like pushing over a Coke machine. You can't just do it, you have to set the thing in motion, rock it back and forth a few times.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Rocks, Machines, Coke

  Jennifer Weiner (2001). “Good in Bed: A Novel”, Atria Books

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• But deep down she said to herself, Franz maybe strong, but his strength is directed outward; when it comes to the people he lives with, the people he's loves, he's weak. Franz's weakness is called goodness. Franz would never give Sabina orders. He would never command her, as Tomas had, to lay the mirror on the floor and walk back and forth on it naked. Not that he lacks sensuality; he simply lacks the strength to give orders. There are things that can be accomplished only by violence. Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

  Milan Kundera

  Strong, Love Is, Mirrors

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• The heart of it all is mystery, and science is at best only the peripheral trappings to that mystery--a ragged barbed-wire fence through which mystery travels, back and forth, unencumbered by anything so frail as man's knowledge.

  Rick Bass

  Heart, Men, Wire

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• Do you know what a balance wheel is?” She shook her head slightly. “There’s one in every clock or watch. It rotates back and forth without stopping. It’s what makes the ticking sound...what makes the hands move forward to mark the minutes. Without it, the watch wouldn’t work. You’re my balance wheel, Poppy.” -Harry Rutledge

  Lisa Kleypas

  Moving, Hands, Balance

  Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Tempt Me at Twilight”, p.293, Macmillan

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• Hey. (She took his chin in her hand so that she could move his head back and forth while she examined him.) You’re hurting in there. That would make akri very sad. He doesn’t like for his Dark-Hunters to hurt and the Simi don’t like it when akri is sad. Why are you hurt? (Simi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Moving, Dark

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2015). “Winter's Night”, p.234, Macmillan

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• I had a back-and-forth where I asked Donald Trump, is it true or false that he said the government should pay for everyone's health care? He said it's false. Listen, within minutes, we put out a video just contrasting what he said there with video of him just a few months earlier saying exactly the opposite.

  Ted Cruz

  Opposites, Government, Care

  "Face the Nation" with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. February 28, 2016.

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• I'm a southern girl, and I grew up with this slightly schizophrenic upbringing where I bounced back and forth between Atlanta, Georgia, and a tiny mountain town called Brevard, North Carolina. My parents were divorced, and my two lives were very different because of socioeconomic reasons.

  Lauren Myracle

  Girl, Atlanta, Two

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• Don’t let haters get me off my grind. Keep my head up, I know I’ll be fine. Keep fighting until I get there. When I’m down and I feel like giving up I whip my hair back and forth.

  Willow Smith

  Giving Up, Fighting, Hair

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