Best Looking Back Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 13

“It often seems, looking back, that the unexpected comes to define us, the paths we didn't see coming and may have wandered down by mistake. The older we get the more willing we are to follow those, to surprise ourselves.”

May Seems Mistake Path Willing Surprise Unexpected Looking Back

Book:Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir of a Woman's Life

Source: Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir of a Woman's Life

“The great majority of the Christian world is still weeping at the foot of the cross. The consciousness of man is fixed on the Christ Who died, not the Christ Who LIVES. They are looking back to the Redeemer Who was, not the redeemer who IS.”

Men World Stills Christian Christ Consciousness Feet Crosses Died Majority Fixed Looking Back Weeping Redeemer

Author:John G. Lake

“I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long... Looking back on it, I feel I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three city districts. We Marines operated on three continents.”

Feels Long Might Three Given Cities Half Records Streets Wall Benefits Als Republic Dozen Continents Looking Back Marine Hints Racket Capone

Author:Smedley Butler

“Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.”

Trying Country Light Night Business Future Window Looking Back Predicting Business Plan Looking To The Future Predicting The Future Business Planning Country Roads

Author:Peter Drucker

“We move through time like a man in a rowboat, looking back even as we move forward.”

Men Moving Moving Forward Looking Back Rough Times

Author:William Landay

“Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment?”

Moments Life Is Decision Our Lives Decision Making Looking Back Looking Forward

Author:Al Pacino

“Looking back on a happy life, one realizes that one was not happy all the time.”

Happiness Realizing Happy Life Looking Back Not Happy

Author:Robert Breault

“It's so funny looking back, but my so-called overnight success actually took 15 years. I remember when I didn't have any money, and my only car was mom's Hyundai.”

Years Remember Car Mom Looking Back Remember When Overnight Success

Author:Criss Angel

“The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.”

Past Forever Wife Tyrants Looking Back Incapable Live In The Present Textbooks

Book:White-jacket, Or, The World in a Man-of-war

Source: White-jacket, Or, The World in a Man-of-war

“Lying on the roof counting the stars that fill the sky I wonder if Someone in the heavens looking back down on me I'll never know So much space to believe”

Ifs Knows Believe Lying Heaven Stars Space Wonder Sky Roof Looking Back Counting

Author:Dave Matthews

“I ain't looking back only forward.”

Looking Back

Author:Eminem

“Sometimes, of all the people in the world, the one who is the hardest to forgive-as well as perhaps the one who is most in need of our forgiveness-is the person looking back at us in the mirror.”

People World Needs Wells Persons Sometimes Mirrors Forgiving Hardest Looking Back

Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“Live your life like you are 80 years old looking back on your teenage years”

Years Like You Looking Back Live Your Life Teenage Teenage Years

Author:Taylor Swift

“My aim in life is to make pictures and drawings, as many and as well as I can; then, at the end of my life... looking back with love and tender regret, and thinking, 'Oh, the pictures I might have made!'”

Thinking Wells Made I Can Ends Might Life Is Regret Aim Drawing Looking Back

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

“The poignancy of a photograph comes from looking back to a fleeting moment in a floating world. The transitoriness is what creates the sense of the sacred”

World Moments Sacred Photograph Looking Back Floating Fleeting Fleeting Moments Poignancy

Book:The Human Street: Photographs

Source: The Human Street: Photographs

“I'll do my dreaming with my eyes wide open, and I'll do my looking back with my eyes closed.”

Dream Eye Wide Looking Back Eyes Wide Open

Author:Tony Arata

“Avoid the trap of looking back unless it is to glorify God for what He has done.”

Done Trust In God Looking Back Traps Looking Forward Commitment To God Glorify Greatness Of God Mighty God Praise God Thank You God

Author:T. B. Joshua

“It's not about being upset about the things you might have said or done yesterday, which is quite appropriate at the moment. It's about looking forward rather than looking back. I hate people who look back on the past or talk about what might have been.”

People Looks Has Beens Said Done Moments Might Past Hate I Hate Yesterday Upset Appropriate Looking Back Might Have Been Looking Forward Hate People I Hate People

Author:Noel Gallagher

“Don't waste your time in the race looking back to see what the other guy is doing. It's not about the other guy. It's about what can you do. You just need to run that race as hard as you can. You need to give it everything you've got, all the time, for yourself.”

Needs Giving Hard Running Guy Race Waste Looking Back Other Guys Don't Waste Your Time Time For Yourself

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“How did you fall in love with New Orleans? At once, madly. Looking back, sometimes I think it was predestined.”

Thinking Sometimes Fall Falling In Love Looking Back New Orleans Predestined

Author:Andrei Codrescu

“Let us hold fast to the iron rod. The Savior urged us to put our hand to the plow without looking back. In that spirit we are being asked to have humility and a deep and abiding faith in the Lord and to move forward-trusting in him, refusing to be diverted from our course, either by the ways of the world or the praise of the world.”

World Way Hands Moving Spirit Courses Lord Humility Praise Moving Forward Iron Savior Looking Back Abiding Hold Fast Abiding Faith

Author:Spencer W. Kimball

“I was never looking back in regret. I never thought, Oh, why didn't I become an actress? or Why did I just go paddling along after John? I've always walked along right by his side, and he's always supported everything I do.”

Inspirational Sides Regret Actresses Looking Back Paddling

Author:June Carter Cash

“Looking back at his career, Mr. Rustin, a Quaker, once wrote: ‘The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one.’”

People Humans Mean Belief Careers Personality Democratic Factors Principal Looking Back Tactics Procedures Quaker Human Personality

Author:Bayard Rustin

“In assembling this group of portraits of women, I'm aware that I'm treading on dangerous ground. When I was in college, I learned to be distrustful of men's depictions of women. I remember seeing Garry Winogrand's book Women Are Beautiful in the school library and being shocked that it hadn't been defaced for its blatant objectification of women. But looking back, maybe I was too harsh. Whether one photographs men or women, it is always a form of objectification. Whatever you say about Winogrand, his depiction was honest.”

“What are you going to do? Are you going to keep looking backwards, full of anger, resentment and unfulfilled desire. Or are you going to be here now. Because everything is available for you in the here and now. Love, compassion, silence, bliss and Oneness.”

Desire Silence Compassion Available Oneness Bliss Resentment Looking Back Backwards Here And Now Be Here Now Anger Resentment Unfulfilled Desires

Author:Leonard Jacobson

“I do not want to discuss evolution in such depth, however, only touch on it from my own perspective: from the moment when I stood on the Serengeti plains holding the fossilized bones of ancient creatures in my hands to the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back. You may not believe in evolution, and that is all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important than how we should act now to get out of the mess we have made for ourselves.”

“Looking back now I realise that the worst things that happened to me were the best things in disguise - I just didn’t know how to read the signs.”

Knows Know How Happened Worst Best Things Realising Disguise Looking Back Worst Things

Author:Jan Hellriegel

“Looking back isn't going to help you! Moving forward is the thing to do”

Helping Moving Moving Forward Things To Do Looking Back Moving Back

Author:McKayla Maroney

“Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.”

Should Has Beens Sitting Should Have Looking Back Should Have Been Pubs Playwriting

Author:Jez Butterworth

“Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.”

People Way Past Mindfulness Lonely Muscles Dull Necks Looking Back Strain Bumps Being Lonely Past Present And Future Past Present Future Living In The Past Future And Present Past Present Future Love Leaving The Past

Author:Edna Ferber

“I will always be looking back at the things I've gone through, thinking of the struggling people I've seen.”

People Thinking Struggle Gone Looking Back

Author:William Kamkwamba

“Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting.”

Ifs Realizing Experience Looking Back Opera Singers Interrupting

Author:Robert Breault

“Looking back now on the whole sexual scene we can see that our species has remained much more loyal to its basic biological urges than we might at first imagine. Its primate sexual system with carnivore modifications has survived all the fantastic technological advances remarkably well.”

Firsts Wells Whole Might Sex Imagine Scene Species Fantastic Urges Loyal Looking Back Technological Survived Primates Modification Carnivores

Book:The illustrated naked ape: a zoologist's study of the human animal

Source: The illustrated naked ape: a zoologist's study of the human animal

“But looking back, the fact was that I had a couple of big hits too quickly and it was simply too much for an introvert like me to handle.”

Facts Bigs Too Much Couple Handle Like Me Looking Back Introvert

Author:Paula Cole

“I shall always be grateful for this curious love of history, allowing me to spend a lifetime looking back into the past, allowing me to learn from these large figures about the struggle for meaning for life.”

Past Struggle Figures Grateful Lifetime Curious Allowing Looking Back Be Grateful

Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Looking back in front of me, in the mirror a grin. Through eyes of love I see, I'm only looking at a friend.”

Eye Friendship Fronts Mirrors Looking Back Through The Eyes Eyes Of Love

Author:Stevie Ray Vaughan

“When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back.”

Surprise Over You Looking Back Get Over

Author:Kirk Douglas

“It's sad to know I'm done. But looking back, I've got a lot of great memories.”

Knows Done Memories Looking Back Great Memories

Author:Bonnie Blair

“I think, ultimately, looking back now, acting wasn't satisfying me 100%.”

Thinking Acting Satisfying Looking Back

Author:Joey Lauren Adams

“I'm perfectly proud of the work I did, looking back at it. I know I've had a bit of a revision since my 'Big Finish' stories came out.”

Knows Stories Bigs Bits Proud Looking Back Revision

Author:Colin Baker

“Looking back, I think that's why I did music. I'd get home from school and the house would be so quiet.”

Thinking Home Would Be School House Quiet Looking Back

Author:Dido Armstrong

“So I've always been kind of an apocalyptic kind of kid, and looking back at the movies I've done, there's some kind of apocalypse in them. So that must be what scares me... besides Republicans.”

Kind Done Kids Republican Scare Looking Back Apocalypse Apocalyptic

Author:Joe Dante

“The past is a stronger influence in the South. But I think everywhere you have this sense that the world changes faster than you can accommodate yourself to. Looking back and seeing how you got where you are is a useful way to combat disorientation.”

Thinking World Way Past Seeing Influence Stronger South Faster Where You Are Combat Looking Back Accommodate Disorientation

Author:Charles Frazier

“It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's nice to write a book that does tend toward significance and meaning, and where else are you sure of finding it?”

Writing Doe Book My Own Attention Nice Findings Significance Surprising Looking Back Peers

Author:Jonathan Franzen

“Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.”

Writing Wells Persons Long Courses Memories Saws Looking Back Reporters Observant

Author:Alma Guillermoprieto

“Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.”

Art Art Is Tradition Historian Looking Back Revive

Author:Josef Albers

“Yes, I'm looking at you, looking at me, looking at you, looking at me, looking back at you.”

Explanation Looking Back

Author:Sammy Hagar

“Looking back now at my first World Cup experience, I didn't know what was going on. I was a newbie and I had no idea what to expect.”

Knows World Firsts Ideas Cups No Idea Looking Back World Cup

Author:Cobi Jones

“I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at my films again. I don't like looking back. I don't even like talking about 'em! So I'm really digging back in my memory because I don't like to sit and look at my films again.”

Looks Film Memories Talking Ems Looking Back Digging

Author:Jim Jarmusch

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