Quotes about Looking Back

In looking back, I see nothing to regret and little to correct. Votes: 4

Looking back at my life's voyage, I can only say that it has been a golden trip. Votes: 4

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. Votes: 4

I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

I don't like looking back. I'm always constantly looking forward. I'm not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I'm too busy looking for the next cow. Votes: 4

I remember the first time I walked on that stage. Maxine and I were just a duet at the time, and we walked on that stage and did 'Looking Back to See.' Ernest Tubb introduced us at the time. I remember my knees were shaking. Votes: 3

I don't like looking back. Votes: 2

Looking back on things, the view always improves. Votes: 2

It is not possible to go forward while looking back. Votes: 2

But there's no point in looking back and saying I was unlucky. Votes: 2

I've never particularly liked the idea of looking back; I'd rather look forward. Votes: 2

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything. Votes: 2

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind. Votes: 2

Looking back isn't going to help you. Moving forward is the thing you have to do. Votes: 2

Avoid the trap of looking back unless it is to glorify God for what He has done. Votes: 2

When the storm has passed, put your energy into rebuilding your life, don't waste time looking back. Votes: 2

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Votes: 2

The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. Votes: 2

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you. Votes: 2

Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back. Votes: 2

The Eyes of the Future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time. Votes: 2

I have no intention of retaliating or looking backwards. We are going to forget the past and look forward to the future. Votes: 2

I have no regrets. I don't believe in looking back. What I am proudest of? Working really hard... and achieving as much as I could. Votes: 2

It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave. Votes: 2

No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune. I don't waste time looking back. Votes: 2

Looking back, my whole life seems so surreal. I didn't just turn up on the doorstep playing rugby; I had to go through a whole lot of things to get there. Votes: 2

I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging. Votes: 2

You know looking back on it now I used the fight and after the fight as motivation, to make sure I was going to be the best middleweight in the world for a long time. Votes: 2

For me, looking back is akin to being on a tightrope and looking down. It doesn't help you in the present moment to deal with what you have to deal with in order to move forward. Votes: 2

Sometimes I imagine myself looking back on right now and I think like where will I be standing when I look back Will right now look like the beginning of a great life or... or what Votes: 2

You want to fall in love with a shoe, go ahead. A shoe can't love you back, but, on the other hand, a shoe can't hurt you too deeply either. And there are so many nice-looking shoes. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Looking back, I underestimated the risks. The planet and the atmosphere seem to be absorbing less carbon than we expected, and emissions are rising pretty strongly. Some of the effects are coming through more quickly than we thought then Votes: 2

Once you have made a careful decision based on facts, go into action. Don't stop to reconsider. Don't begin to hesitate, worry, and retrace your steps. Don't lose yourself in self-doubting which begets other doubts. Don't keep looking back over your shoulder. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

When I was fighting, I would look to excite the crowds with a bolo punch or something taunting. Looking back, they were legal - but not sportsmanlike. I don't recommend another boxer try them. But we looked more to make the robot fights dramatic first and realistic second. Votes: 2

My first book was called, 'Mountain, Get Out of My Way,' where I did an autobiographical sketch, if you will, looking back at myself and looking back at things in my life, and juxtaposing them against things that are happening in other people's lives and trying to be motivational. Votes: 2

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now. Votes: 2

I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so that oncoming generations can look back to the shapes we leave here and get the same thrill that I get in looking back at theirs - at the Parthenon, at Chartres Cathedral. Votes: 2

Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now. Votes: 2

The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I've got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer. Votes: 2

Did you ever spell a word so bad that your spell check has absolutely no clue what you're trying to spell? What do you end up getting, you end up getting, like, a question mark. You got a million dollars of technology just looking back at you like, 'You got me, buddy. Which is pretty amazing because I have all the words.' Votes: 2

For my senior prom, my father finally said I could go - as long as I was home by 9 P.M.! That was around the time that most people were heading out. When I was little I was so mad at them all the time. 'Why can't I do this?' 'Why are there so many rules?' But looking back now, my parents gave me the foundation to have so many choices in life. Votes: 2

I don't much like looking back. Votes: 0

I never waste time looking back. Votes: 0

I ain't looking back only forward. Votes: 0

Looking back doesn't have to be painful. Votes: 0

Looking back, I've never had one regret. Votes: 0

I'm tipping the hat and looking back. Votes: 0

I'm not a great one for looking back. Votes: 0

Always keep looking forward, and never look back. Votes: 0

While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back. Votes: 0

I'm looking to show people I'm a running back. Votes: 0

Looking back, I guess I've lived an unusual life. Votes: 0

Reason can be used only when looking critically back. Votes: 0

Fashion's not about looking back. It's always about looking forward. Votes: 0

Every moment wasted looking back, keeps us from moving forward. Votes: 0

The narcissist enjoys being looked at and not looking back. Votes: 0

I think, ultimately, looking back now, acting wasn't satisfying me 100%. Votes: 0

I think looking forward will be better than looking back. Votes: 0

Are you looking for a Negro who won't fight back? Votes: 0

You can't look back; you have to keep looking forward. Votes: 0

I avoid looking back. I prefer good memories to regrets. Votes: 0

Stop looking back when your future is ahead of you. Votes: 0

Looking back, nothing seems so simple than a utopian vision realised. Votes: 0

Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write. Votes: 0

I fear looking back and wishing I had done things I hadn't. Votes: 0

I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back. Votes: 0

I've never particularly liked the idea of looking back; I'd rather look forward Votes: 0

I'm looking forward to coming back, back to Earth, the landing, the views. Votes: 0

Looking back on myself as a little kid, I see seeds of entrepreneurship. Votes: 0

When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back. Votes: 0

The way I am, I like to look forward instead of looking back. Votes: 0

Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions. Votes: 0

Looking back, I am thankful that I didn't go into the film industry. Votes: 0

Looking back, I just think I was a really average sort of girl. Votes: 0

Looking back at all the films, it just seems like one long film. Votes: 0

Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment? Votes: 0

Looking back isn't going to help you! Moving forward is the thing to do Votes: 0

Live your life like you are 80 years old looking back on your teenage years Votes: 0

Looking back at my high school years, I'm struck by how slowly history can move. Votes: 0

Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back. Votes: 0

The most breathtaking thing about being in space is actually looking back at the Earth. Votes: 0

I love looking back, and even putting new music on vinyl - if it's right! Votes: 0

I'm looking forward to getting back on the field, it's what I love to do. Votes: 0

It's sad to know I'm done. But looking back, I've got a lot of great memories. Votes: 0

Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle. Votes: 0

Looking back on a happy life, one realizes that one was not happy all the time. Votes: 0

My happiest moment is the day they call wrap and I'm free. I'm not looking back. Votes: 0

I'm not in the habit of looking back - I leave that till I get old. Votes: 0

Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting. Votes: 0

Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere. Votes: 0

Don't design your back yard from the outside looking in. Design from your window looking out. Votes: 0

The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past. Votes: 0

When wiggling through a holethe world looks different thanwhen scrubbed clean by the wiggleand looking back. Votes: 0

People accuse me of glamorizing mental illness. Looking back sometimes, that's true. But I don't feel guilty. Votes: 0

How can you not care?" "Practice," Magnus said, looking back to his book and turning the page. Votes: 0

Growing up I had lots of role models. Looking back, my parents were my first role models. Votes: 0

In fact, looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about 50-years-old. Votes: 0

STOP looking back!!!! When your past calls do NOT pick up!! it has nothing new to say. Votes: 0

Looking back, I realise I had to grow up and be responsible at a very tender age. Votes: 0

Looking back, I don't know why we needed it to be quite so loud all the time. Votes: 0

Sometimes God has to put us flat on our back before we are looking up to Him. Votes: 0

Think of the fears, hit 3rd gear no point in looking back in the rear view mirror. Votes: 0

There is no comfort looking forth nor back, The present gives the lie to all her past. Votes: 0

We move through time like a man in a rowboat, looking back even as we move forward. Votes: 0

Ever blow bubbles when you were a kid? Well, he's back in town and looking for you! Votes: 0

I look into my heart and see the abyss looking back at me.''I won't let you fall. Votes: 0

Looking back we see with great clarity, and what once appeared as difficulties now reveal themselves as blessings. Votes: 0

In curved Einsteinian space we are at all times, technically, looking at the back of our own head. Votes: 0

You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward. Votes: 0

Sometimes you don't know what you're looking for until it's already knocked you flat on your back. -Cade Votes: 0

My characters tend to be people who are looking back on a life lived, their joys, their regrets. Votes: 0

Looking back at my career, if there's one word that most people use to describe me, it's intense. Votes: 0

Jem drew back from her, looking dazed. "By the Angel," he said. "Perhaps we do need a chaperon. Votes: 0

Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as if you have just come back from somewhere expensive. Votes: 0

Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it. Votes: 0

Looking back on my life, I know I have made others suffer as much as I have suffered. Votes: 0

Wow. When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days--that was sad. Votes: 0

I am very pleased to be back at Onex and am looking forward to helping build our business. Votes: 0

I was enjoying the great human trophy hunt and, looking back, it scares the hell out of me Votes: 0

Yes, I'm looking at you, looking at me, looking at you, looking at me, looking back at you. Votes: 0

Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting. Votes: 0

I'm not big on looking back beyond the moment in which decisions and events occur. I'm always pushing forward. Votes: 0

Whatever we have done, we can always make amends for it without ever looking back in guilt or sorrow. Votes: 0

It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins. Votes: 0

Looking back, I wish I could bottle the stuff that made it better, but how can one bottle time? Votes: 0

Looking back, I am ashamed that I have not always upheld the values that I profess and believe in. Votes: 0

Looking in the mirror, staring back at me isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament. Votes: 0

I will always be looking back at the things I've gone through, thinking of the struggling people I've seen. Votes: 0

I'll do my dreaming with my eyes wide open, and I'll do my looking back with my eyes closed. Votes: 0

I'm grateful this ordeal is over, and I'm so looking forward to getting back to the job I love. Votes: 0

Looking at Mount Kenya in the morning is a holistic experience. I go back at least once a year. Votes: 0

If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret. Votes: 0

I've written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that's what's been fun about looking back. Votes: 0

Looking back on our lives, we invariably find that the person we pretended to be is the person we became. Votes: 0

Once I decided football was the way for me, there was no looking back. Nothing was going to distract me. Votes: 0

Looking back on my own career, I've come to the conclusion that too much money is worse than too little. Votes: 0

We made love like there was no tomorrow. Looking back, we should have made love like there was no yesterday. Votes: 0

Looking back, I should have pursued philosophy and economics and things of that sort in college more, but I didn't. Votes: 0

I'm just back in line with every other actor looking for a job right now and keeping my fingers crossed. Votes: 0

Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist. Votes: 0

An ex-wife is a woman with a crick in the neck from looking back over her shoulder at her matrimony. Votes: 0

Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical. Votes: 0

How did you fall in love with New Orleans? At once, madly. Looking back, sometimes I think it was predestined. Votes: 0

Finnegans Wake,' 'Alice and Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass' live on my bedside table back home in London. Votes: 0

James Finch is exactly what I'm looking for, as far as getting back into the race car to have fun. Votes: 0

I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people. Votes: 0

Instead of just looking back, whiplash-style, I can assume there's something else coming. Time just folds over itself, like origami. Votes: 0

Seems like the only one who doesn't see your beauty is the face in the mirror looking back at you. Votes: 0

Looking back at Tim Cook's public appearances in the last few years makes the standoff with the government look almost inevitable. Votes: 0

Obviously everyone has things in their past that they don't enjoy looking back on [Laughs], but no, you can't change it. Votes: 0

Looking back, you can romanticize the things you did back then. I also like talking about the stupid things I've done. Votes: 0

Looking back, I'm so proud to have gone to five Olympics - I believe only three other Americans have achieved that. Votes: 0

College. I didn't even realize it was carefree at the time, but looking back, that was the most carefree time ever. Votes: 0

Sooner or later we'll be looking back on everything and we'll laugh about it like we knew what all was happening Votes: 0

I blew the lot on vodka and tonic, gambling and fags. Looking back, I think I overdid it on the tonic. Votes: 0

When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't have done. Votes: 0

Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels. Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields. Votes: 0

There may be circumstances in this life that God uses to keep bringing us back to Him, looking for His grace. Votes: 0

Looking back, I think that's why I did music. I'd get home from school and the house would be so quiet. Votes: 0

New days should be greeted like new lovers and babies toddling along a table looking back to make sure we're watching. Votes: 0

I don't want to look back-I want to keep looking ahead. I'd hate for my defining moment to be my past. Votes: 0

Looking back at him was a man who was battered and broken.And alive, for the first time in his life. Votes: 0

If it's not in your heart you're not gonna make it. At the end looking back, you know its worth it. Votes: 0

Forget about lien about you behind your back and talking nonsense, some people can lie to you looking in your eyes... Votes: 0

I'd always wanted to grow my hair out. And now looking back on those photos I understand why I probably shouldn't have... Votes: 0

We all know that looking back only gets you into an accident because you're going to run into something without seeing it. Votes: 0

I'm looking forward to getting back to my house and my Ugg boots and not washing sometimes, and getting back to writing. Votes: 0

I'm an incurable optimist, and I'm a great believer in never looking back. Life is too short, and new challenges are exciting. Votes: 0

I know that Europe's wonderful, yet something seems to lack;The Past is too much with her, and the people looking back. Votes: 0

They say not to look back, but if you’re not sure what lies ahead, what else is there but looking back? Votes: 0

In a weird way, when I was looking back, I didn't know I was going to be a director until I was. Votes: 0

Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make. Votes: 0

You can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead. Votes: 0

I made the decision to keep putting one foot in front of the other, and looking back that was a really stupid decision Votes: 0

In looking back we remember only the triumphant consummations of each season. Failures and frustrations are forgotten; garden-memories are as perfect as garden-hopes. Votes: 0

A lover is always accused of something. But when he finds his love, whatever was lost in the looking comes back completely changed. Votes: 0

But the problem with looking back when you should be walking ahead is that you usually end up walking into something that hurts. Votes: 0

I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese. Votes: 0

Can we go back to using Facebook for what it was originally for - looking up exes to see how fat they got? Votes: 0

Looking back, I think I tried to be too eclectic. Sometimes I'd sing thirty songs, and fifteen of them were not in English. Votes: 0

Looking back in front of me, in the mirror a grin. Through eyes of love I see, I'm only looking at a friend. Votes: 0

There is no satisfaction that can compare with looking back across the years and finding you've grown in self-control, judgment, generosity, and unselfishness. Votes: 0

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right. Votes: 0

I think if you look at exactly where you are, you can't really focus without looking back and forward at the same time. Votes: 0

It was nice - in the dark and the quiet... and her eyes looking back, like there was something in me worth seeing. Votes: 0

I played seven years in Minnesota and I'm looking forward to a better, greater seven years down in Miami. I'm back home. It's great. Votes: 0

Regret is counterproductive. It's looking back on a past that you can't change. Questioning things as they occur can prevent regret in the future. Votes: 0

I'm really looking forward to a time when generations after us look back and say how ridiculous it was that humans were driving cars. Votes: 0

Looking back, [R.E.M.]videos, by in large, have always been art films. I'm thinking of "Losing My Religion." That's a landmark piece. Votes: 0

Looking back to data, we can see if the consequences are plausible; looking forward to theory, we can see if general principles are suggested. Votes: 0

Looking back on the God my friend believed in, he seems a little erratic, not entirely unlike her father - God as borderline personality. Votes: 0

We all know the true beauty of people everywhere, because we have all looked into the eyes of children, and saw ourselves looking back. Votes: 0

Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character. Votes: 0

Lily lay back in Jake's arms looking at the timbered roof overhead, planks and beams smooth and worn, antiqued by a century of summers." Votes: 0

Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all. Votes: 0

I think it is important to approach others comfortably. Instead of blaming others (for not having any friends), try looking back at yourself first. Votes: 0

Fifty years," I hackneyed, "is a long time." "Not when you're looking back at them," she said. "You wonder how they vanished so quickly. Votes: 0

Right now, you know, it's not about the refs or anything else, it's about hitting first, getting on the run and never looking back. Votes: 0

Looking back on my achievements, it is fair to say that I am extremely proud of what I have done and accomplished so far. Votes: 0

We're all looking for love, in our confusion, until we find our way back to the realization that love is what we already are. Votes: 0

You have the here and now. You have a future. Deal with the past so you can stop looking back. It's just the pain. Votes: 0

Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what is nurturing. Votes: 0

Fiction can either be a mirror reflecting you back to yourself or it can be a clean pane of glass looking on the outside. Votes: 0

Sometimes when I'm told to use my own discretion, if no one is looking I'll use someone else's. But I always put it back. Votes: 0

Everyone is looking for me to bring a gold back home, and a lot of people in other places are expecting me to win. Votes: 0

I want to towel off, leave my heart on this beach and walk the sand into a lake of stars, while never looking back. Votes: 0

From the outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living. Votes: 0

Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material. Votes: 0

There are some moments in man's life that looking back might cause him fall into the precipice! At those moments, man must just look forward! Votes: 0

There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back. Votes: 0

Missing someone is like hearing a name sung quietly from somewhere behind you. Even after you know no one is there, you keep looking back. Votes: 0

Looking back, I realize that my life has been a series of incidents where one person has said to another, "Get this asshole outta here!" Votes: 0

It was so hard to watch myself back because whatever movie I do, I never look at the monitor. I hate looking at the monitor. Votes: 0

I detest these underdone men, he thought coldly. Boiled looking! Ought to be shoved back in the oven; just one more minute would do it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

At my age you find yourself looking back from time to time and you begin to appreciate some of the things that happened to you. Votes: 0

Go back in time. Next question go and look at dinosaurs. I would be sitting on a rock looking at a T- Rex, loving life. Votes: 0

When I left, after my divorce, when I left Oklahoma, I never looked back. It was the future. It was looking forward from then on. Votes: 0

But why look back at all? Why turn your eyes to your shadow, when, by looking upward, you see your rainbow in the same direction? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm beginning to think that you don't find happiness from living your life looking ahead or back… that you find it when you look around. Votes: 0

Looking back, some of the happiest moments of my childhood were spent with my arm in packets of breakfast cereal, rootling around for a free gift. Votes: 0

For me, I find that even though I've accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn't give me a sense of satisfaction. Votes: 0

Idiot. Which road do you take when you're running from something weaker than yourself? Or maybe you're the one looking for an excuse to back out. Votes: 0

You know... the wonderful thing about Dark Shadows, the thing about going and looking back at it. It was so sucsessful at creating its own world. Votes: 0

She stared at her face in the mirror, feeling everything around her slipping away. The face stared back, and she wondered who was looking at her. Votes: 0

What's going on?" Newt asked, looking back and forth between Thomas and Aris. "Why're you guys looking at each other like you just fell in love? Votes: 0

It would drive the photographers crazy because I would giggle and tell jokes. I was gregarious, and looking back, I realize I had a captive audience. Votes: 0

The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion. Votes: 0

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am. Votes: 0

It was interesting looking back at the '80s and trying to find newspaper headlines from the time - the cliché of history repeating itself. Votes: 0

It's hard sometimes to take a step back and realize what's happened because you're always trying to move forward. You're always looking at the next palette. Votes: 0

I taught myself to tune in to another persons wavelength, figure out what they were looking for, and try to project that thing back at them. Votes: 0

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl. Votes: 0

I don't believe in looking back. If you make a decision that you think is the proper one at a time, then that's the correct decision. Votes: 0

I know that when I am dying, looking back, it will be women that I regret having argued with, women I sought to impress, to understand... Votes: 0

They're always looking forward to going places they're just coming back from, or regretting doing things they haven't yet done. They say hello when they mean goodbye. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

I felt myself trapped in line for a ride I was not nearly ready for, looking back but moving forward in the only direction I could go. Votes: 0

The world is a looking glass. It gives back to every man a true reflection of his own thoughts. Rule your mind or it will rule you. Votes: 0

I'm really looking forward to getting back and winning some matches but I'm not thinking about the U.S. Open yet, just getting through my first match. Votes: 0

Growing older, I love only quietness: who need be concerned with the things of this world? Looking back, what better plan than this: returning to the grove. Votes: 0

She lay on her back, looking up at the sky, feeling no desire to move or think or know that there was any time beyond this moment. Votes: 0

If you're looking to get silly, you better go back to from where you came. because the cops don't need you and man they expect the same. Votes: 0

In comedy, looking back is more important than looking around at your contemporaries because they are too much influenced by the same time period as you are. Votes: 0

They were missing all the enthusiasm, the creativity; that whole excitement about the music was lost. A lot of people are really going back looking for that. Votes: 0

Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets. Votes: 0

At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too. Votes: 0

Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets." Votes: 0

I am looking forward enormously to getting back to the sea again, where the overstimulated psyche can recover in the presence of that infinite peace and spaciousness. Votes: 0

Looking back on all the things I went through to get here. It was all worth it. It's a blessing that I can write about it all. Votes: 0

Looking back upon my work today, I think the best I have done grew out of things deeply felt, the worst from a pride in mere talent. Votes: 0

I just discovered when I was, oh, 12 or 13, that I was very interested in language - and this showed itself as poetry. There was no looking back. Votes: 0

After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished? Votes: 0

Part of the challenge of being a girl living in the 21st Century, looking back, the danger is to not judge your character by your own standards. Votes: 0

Looking back on the production of 'Nevermind,' I'm embarrassed by it now. It's closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record. Votes: 0

What makes us brave isn't lacking the good sence to be afraid; it's looking back at what we've lived through and seeing if we've faced it well. Votes: 0

Every day we encounter situations where we have to make a stand. Looking back, I could have not hand-picked a better song to be my first single. Votes: 0

Those blue, blue eyes, icy blue, looking back at me as if I could warm them up. They’re pretty powerful, you know, those eyes, pretty beautiful, too. Votes: 0

In my head, my business is architecture and furniture; it's 70 percent Prouvé, and Corbusier, Royer, Jeanneret - they all passed away. So it's retrospective, I'm looking back. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

But I would rather be with you, somewhere in San Francisco on a back porch in July, just looking up to Heaven, at this crescent in the sky Votes: 0

I started going back and forth, New York, London, New York, London. I wasn't looking back at all. I was doing tons of jobs. Working, working, working, working. Votes: 0

It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Not trying to be arrogant, but if I walked down the street and a girl saw me, she might take a look back because maybe I'm good-looking, right? Votes: 0

Kitsch evokes a future utopia looking back at a past that is selectively (mis)remembered, thereby helping to stabilize the present toward which kitsch is otherwise deeply anatagonistic. Votes: 0

When being objective, we can transcend and look back at our constructs with powerful clarity; instead of looking through them, which can give a murky and distorted view. Votes: 0

It is very easy for me to imagine in 200 years, people looking back at chemotherapy as proof that people of the 20th century were insane and just morons. Votes: 0

Every one of my works, when I'm looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on. Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction. Votes: 0

I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75. Votes: 0

I'll tell you this, lad: A tattoo says more of a fellow looking at it than it can do of the man who's got it on his back. Votes: 0

Racquetball is the only sport where simultaneously you can be looking at the ball and it'll hit you in the back of the head at 90 miles per hour. Votes: 0

Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life- and it was you. It is not too late to find that person again. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Looking at the past is like lolling in a rocking chair. It is so relaxing and you can rock back and forth on the porch, and never go forward. Votes: 0

It's funny looking at yourself. You know how it is when you look back at old pictures? It's just funny looking back at yourself walking and talking at age 14. Votes: 0

There's only one boss in your life . . . and that's you! The person looking back in the mirror at you is the one you have to answer to every day. Votes: 0

Looking back, my greatest regret is not that I didn't love them enough (to the brink of insanity and back again), but that I couldn't save them from themselves. Votes: 0

I had this vivid image of myself at the age of 60 looking back on my life and truly regretting the fact that I hadn't tried to be an actor Votes: 0

Does the cosmos contain keys for opening my diving bell? A subway line with no terminus? A currency strong enough to buy my freedom back? We must keep looking. Votes: 0

A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support. Votes: 0

You have to find what's good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue. Votes: 0

That desire to reach further is also where I ended my memoir, in 1994 in California, perhaps ironically, looking out to the Pacific and back to Asia, toward the not-yet-written. Votes: 0

Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting Votes: 0

He leaned back a little, not taking his arm from around me, but looking into my eyes. “You're changing, Zoey. And I'm not sure what you're changing into. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Looking back, I think we were very much a part of democratizing music, and we wanted to demystify the process of making music - to show it's a myth. Votes: 0

It's funny looking at yourself. You know how it is when you look back at old pictures? It's just funny looking back at yourself walking and talking at age 14 Votes: 0

What I'm certain I don't want is to find myself someday in a new century, an old bitter woman looking back, wishing that right now I'd had more nerve. Votes: 0

Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me. Votes: 0

I hope the World War II generation doesn't lose that quality that made them so appealing: their modesty, and the way they are always looking forward and seldom back. Votes: 0

By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch of the Big Bang. Votes: 0

Dory is what Mum used to call a "strong-looking woman," which means that, from the back, she looked like a man, and, from the front, you preferred the back Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I traveled all over the South looking for factories - to keep production in the South. I wanted to give back to the place and people that raised me. Votes: 0

Sweden is an open, liberal, secular and democratic country. We strive towards achieving equality; we are forward-looking and refuse to be pulled back by social constructs such as religion. Votes: 0

Looking back, it's funny how the lighter family-friendly version of these classic Universal movie monsters that were satirized in The Munsters seduced me like a gateway drug into the genre. Votes: 0

I don't want to accidentally end up looking back on my life to find that I'm ashamed of myself, I want to live a life I can be proud of. Votes: 0

Looking back at those great singers like Gordon MacRae and Howard Keel - they have such a specific kind of style that it seems like we don't really appreciate anymore. Votes: 0

In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune. Votes: 0

They seemed no closer to the tops of the peaks that rose before them. It was only by looking back, to the forest far below, that she knew they'd climbed. Votes: 0

I'm very tired of staring out into your vacant faces looking back at me. Wanting to fill your empty lives with humor you couldn't possibly think of yourself... Good evening! Votes: 0

I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft. Votes: 0

I don't feel the depression the people who are always looking back to the '50s, to 'Father Knows Best' feel. I can see the coming of another glorious era. Votes: 0

Looking back, it seemed like it should have been harder to lose someone, or have them lose you, especially when they were in the same state, only a few towns over. Votes: 0

Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

Looking back, my whole life seems so surreal. I didnt just turn up on the doorstep playing rugby; I had to go through a whole lot of things to get there. Votes: 0

Almost all the people who've had the most effect on me I seem to have met by chance, yet looking back it seems as though I couldn't but have met them. Votes: 0

I caught professer ryan or as I call him beautiful face looking back at me with desire in his eyes as if I had just been naked and fingering my sex. Votes: 0

The opportunity to orbit the Earth, witnessing multiple sunrises and sunsets every day, looking back to our small blue life-sustaining jewel from a distance, gives me the greatest sense of anticipation. Votes: 0

I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits. Votes: 0

There was a time when I thought I was doing a good thing with good guys for a good cause. Looking back, I think I really wanted to be a warrior. Votes: 0

Fears, indecision, and frustration feed on words. Without words they usually stop. . . . Words are at times good for looking back, but they are confining when I need to act in the present. Votes: 0

Psychologists have found that we are more likely, in looking back at our lives, to remember high points and dramatic shifts in far greater proportion than ongoing stretches of happiness or misery. Votes: 0

Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker. Votes: 0

Looking back to the earlier centuries of the church, most of the great teachers were also bishops and vice versa. It's only fairly recently that the church has had this great divide. Votes: 0

I liked to think I had written 'scripts' when I was in high school, but looking back at them, they were about thirty pages of wannabe-Mamet dialogue with a staple through them. Votes: 0

I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewhere where things could happen and the subject wasn't just looking back at you. Votes: 0

Looking back on those games, I probably hustled out of position as much as I hustled into position since I really never had any real training. I was working on instincts alone. Votes: 0

When I look in the mirror, I don't see my Dad, I see my grandmother. For a while it was my mother looking back at me. If only it was my Dad. Votes: 0

I don’t want to accidentally end up looking back on my life to find that I’m ashamed of myself, I want to live a life I can be proud of. Votes: 0

Writing an autobiography, usually thought of as a looking back, can just as well be a looking across or through, with the passing of time giving an X-ray quality to the eye. Votes: 0

I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings. Votes: 0

Jace. This can't happen." I closed my eyes, thinking it would be easier to say without him looking back at me. But it wasn't. "This isn't about us. I can't leave Marc. Votes: 0

I was so ordinary, critics couldn't understand it, but looking back, that was the reason for my success. What you see is what you get. People thought, 'I could do that.' Votes: 0

If you don't have a plan, days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, months turn into years, and before you know it you're looking back saying, I should've had a plan. Votes: 0

I feel privileged and honored to have flown. It's been a tremendous ride, looking back on the legacy and accomplishments, like the Hubble telescope and the launching of the International Space Station in 1998. Votes: 0

And then, looking back at my first Olympics, and when the pressure was on, in '94 and '98, and looking back and going, wow. I sensed and felt what Brian had gone through. Votes: 0

The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future. Votes: 0

Looking back, now, I realize that you only ever need one person who lights up that way when you enter a room. One person is all it takes to give a kid confidence. Votes: 0

Two people pass each other. As one looks upon the other's skin color, the other is looking back at their appearance. Both justifying, how better and righteous they are, in their own insecurities. Votes: 0

Sometimes, with autobiographies, it turns into a bit of score-settling. And looking back, I don't feel the way I did then, and you kind of grow up and let it go behind you. Votes: 0

Looking back, I remember telling my daughters that we didn't have money, pizzazz and a lot of the things we have today, but we had so much love and we lived like millionaires. Votes: 0

Your past is handing you a tool you can use to leap into your future: the crucible moments from your own life. The power you need is in looking back to look forward. Votes: 0

We are so habitually nostalgic by now that we anticipate looking back in the midst of enjoyment, look forward to watching the videos we're taking of our children even as we make them. Votes: 0

I don't think I made any really big mistakes; it's just that I chose something difficult to do. Looking back, I suppose I should be grateful that I got as far as I got. Votes: 0

It was fortunate in looking back for South Africa and its entire people that Mandela and I found it possible to work together even though big strains developed between us from time to time. Votes: 0

Wisdom is looking back at your life and realising that every single event, person, place and idea was part of the perfected experience you needed to build your dream. Not one was a mistake. Votes: 0

The past was gone. Nothing could change what had already been. Looking back at it, letting its wounds fester, indulging in regret was just a different, slower way to die. The living moved forward. Votes: 0

The best thing is looking back and realizing how good life is. If you don't take the time to think about it and analyze it, you'll never realize all the dots that are connected. Votes: 0

Maybe a deal was possible earlier. And maybe, in retrospect, looking back, you could say this was a moment you could have jumped on. If so, shame on us. I tend to think not. Votes: 0

Looking back into childhood is like looking into a semi-transparent globe within which people and places lie embedded. A shake - and they stir, rise up, circle in inter-weaving groups, then settle down again. Votes: 0

I like looking back at people's faces in the dark. I like noticing details that no one else sees. But I hate it in the old American movies when drivers don't watch the road. Votes: 0

I'm going to be like Benjamin Button; I'm just going to grow younger. I will probably be happy, fat, with kids and looking back and thinking, 'I was such a angry young woman.' Votes: 0

I knew one person in the entire city of New York. Looking back, I should have been terrified, but I was just excited to living in New York on my own and acting professionally. Votes: 0

I find that musically, looking back, I have learned much more from those relationships, people I have bumped into that I have admired, that's the way I feel musically I have learned most in life. Votes: 0

The final bridge to cross is to let go of the mind-created 'spiritual' self. Burn that bridge behind you. Stay empty of self-image and cease looking back. Remain in the neutrality of being. That's it! Votes: 0

One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed. (Bone Crossed) Votes: 0

This is a very tough business, politics. It's easy to get resentful or full of bitterness ... (but) I think hatred hurts the hater more than the hated. So I'm looking back on my time positively. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I love filmmaking, but I decided to go to drama school because I thought that when I'm 60 and looking back on my life, if acting hadn't been a part of it, I would hate myself. Votes: 0

Looking back, as far as looking when I was a kid and what I dreamed about doing as far as playing on the PGA Tour and winning on tour, I've got those taken care of. Votes: 0

Vonnegut could not help looking back, despite the danger of being turned metaphorically into a pillar of salt, into am emblem of the death that comes to those who cannot let go of the past Votes: 0

The years go by. The time, it does fly. Every single second is a moment in time that passes. And it seems like nothing - but when you're looking back ... well, it amounts to everything. Votes: 0

He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way. Votes: 0

Looking back, I didn't have the patience to work in fashion. I like women so much, but I was never qualified to torture them in photo shoots. You have to be really tough and brutal. Votes: 0

Nothing ought to be told, I think that does not interest or kindle one's own mind in looking back; it is the only condition on which one can hope to interest or kindle other minds. Votes: 0

I know people who go back and check themselves, but it drives me crazy. Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case. Votes: 0

Now, looking back on my life in Africa, I feel that it might altogether be described as the existence of a person who had come from a rushed and noisy world, into a still country. Votes: 0

It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood. Votes: 0

Defend my honor protect my pride the good advice i always hated but looking back it made me greater .. u make me laugh u make me hoarse from yelling at you and getting at u ... Votes: 0

When the most important times are occurring, we don't even recognize them or notice. We are just busy living our lives. Only looking back do we know what was a great moment in our lives. Votes: 0