Looking Back Quotes - Page 3

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

  Diane Cilento

  Trying, Spheres

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• 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

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Letting Go, Memorable, Past

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• I don't like looking back.

  Tommy Shaw

  Interview with A-J Charron, www.guitarnoise.com.

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• 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.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Play, Interesting

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• Looking back on my career, I think I've been extremely fortunate to be in the right place at the right time in order to have the influence that I did.

  Peter Singer

  Thinking, Influence, Right Time

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It will be very interesting one day to follow the pattern of our life as it is spread out like a beautiful tapestry. As long as we live here we see only the reverse side of the weaving, and very often the pattern, with its threads running wildly, doesn't seem to make sense. Some day, however, we shall understand. In looking back over the years we can discover how a red thread goes through the pattern of our life: the Will of God.

  Maria von Trapp

  Beautiful, Running, Years

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• When you're single, you go out and party and it's fun, but in a relationship, you experience things together. It's just sharing the memories and looking back on them together, remembering that it was an amazing time. And then thinking about it like it was just yesterday.

  Andrew W.K.

  Fun, Memories, Party

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

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• I don't much like looking back.

  Walter Hill

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

  Jackson Browne

  Summer, Years, Rushing

  Song: Running on Empty, Album: Running on Empty, 1977

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• If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was worse than finding out in the first place. Because if you were wrong, you could go forward in your life without ever looking back over your shoulder and wondering what might have been.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Regret, Feelings, Might

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• Blessed are those who have known meditation. Only those few people are the blessed people; others are simply groping in darkness. Meditation gives you an inner light, and then wherever you are there is light and whatsoever you do, you do in full light and clarity. Hence there is never any guilt, no repentance, no looking back. Whatsoever one does, one feels that`s the only thing that can be done. It is always right.

  Rajneesh

  Blessed, Light, People

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• The first time I made myself up, I was looking at my reflection in the mirror and it wasnt me looking back. It allowed me to do things I couldnt do as myself. I found out how powerful that was and how much that can mean to an actor.

  Rick Baker

  Powerful, Mean, Reflection

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  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.

  Diego Rivera

  Pride, Thinking, Done

  Diego Rivera, with Gladys March (2012). “My Art, My Life: An Autobiography”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• Every Jewish holiday has a religious significance, a historical significance, and a relevance to the time of year in the natural calendar of the seasons and trees and growing things, as well as a personal significance. So you are always looking backward, outward, inward and forward.

  Marge Piercy

  Religious, Holiday, Years

  Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

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• Reason can be used only when looking critically back.

  Peter D. Mitchell

  Reason, Used

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• 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.

  Corey Feldman

  Kids, Water, Childhood

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

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• No looking back. Life goes one way only, and whatever opinions you hold about the past having nothing to do with anything but your own damn weakness. Nothing changes what already happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't.

  Charles Frazier

  Past, Weakness, Way

  Charles Frazier (2011). “Nightwoods: A Novel”, p.42, Random House

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• I was probably 35 when I wrote the first story. The voice is kind of a mix in that it has a young voice, but it's also someone who's looking back. I like that kind of double vision.

  Denis Johnson

  Aerospace, Voice, Double Vision

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

  Joe Lando

  Jobs, Actors, Lines

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

  Auberon Waugh

  People, Comeback, Insulted

  Auberon Waugh (1991). “Will this do?: the first fifty years of Auberon Waugh : an autobiography”, Vintage

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• A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he fails and loses a fortune on account of his ambitions (...) if one has failed only where others have not had the courage or will to try, there is consolation - indeed, deep satisfaction - to be gained from his observation when looking back over one's life. #Page no.134

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Ambition, Men, Trying

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• My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely understand, for instance, how a young man can decide to ride over to the next village without being afraid that -not to mention accidents- even the span of a normal happy life may fall far short of the time needed for such a journey.

  Franz Kafka

  Fall, Happy Life, Journey

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• Trying to get the talk show, looking back on it, we had to beg a lot of station managers to pick up the show because people thought no one would watch it because I'm openly gay.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Gay, People, Trying

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• 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.

  Lucy Christopher

  Beautiful, Powerful, Eye

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.4, Scholastic Inc.

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• What a mystery blood was -- how did a tiny gesture, a tome of voice, endure through generations like the harder verities of flesh? He had seen it again and again, watching his nieces and nephews grow, and accepted without thought the ehoes of parent and grandparent that appeared for brief moments. the shadow of a face looking back through the years -- that vanished again into the face that was now.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Niece, Blood, Years

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.2966, Dell

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