Looking Back Quotes - Page 7

• Yelena.” I halted in the doorway, looking back over my shoulder. “You once said I wasn’t ready to believe your reason for killing Reyad. I’ll believe you now.” “But I’m not ready to tell you,” I said and left the room.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Believe, Doorways, Rooms

  Maria V. Snyder (2008). “The Study Series Bundle: Poison Study\Assassin Study\Magic Study\Fire Study”, p.232, MIRA

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• 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.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Hate, Dark, People

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• My mother raised me and there was some painful and difficult times, because she was pursuing a career and also very actively involved in expressing her political views. But, looking back, I wouldnt switch her for a normal mom, even though there were moments when Id come back from school and wish shed just be there in a gingham dress putting dinner on the table. I never had that. But now Im really glad I have her.

  Natasha Richardson

  Mom, Mother, School

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• Using any reasonable definition of a scientist, we can say that 80 to 90 percent of all the scientists that have ever lived are alive now. Alternatively, any young scientist, starting now and looking back at the end of his career upon a normal life span, will find that 80 to 90 percent of all scientific work achieved by the end of the period will have taken place before his very eyes, and that only 10 to 20 percent will antedate his experience.

  Derek J. de Solla Price

  Life, Taken, Hard Work

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• 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.

  Imelda Staunton

  War, Hippie, Men

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• 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.

  Sissela Bok

  Happiness, Ongoing, Misery

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• The Princess's so-called 'time and space speech' at the end of '93 about a year after the formal separation, looking back on it it's called her retirement from public life but we've seen in fact it's nothing of the kind.

  Anthony Holden

  Retirement, Princess, Years

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• 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!"

  George Carlin

  Humorous, Realizing, Incidents

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• 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.

  Bill Walton

  Basketball, Running, Hitting

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• As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.

  Simon Newcomb

  New Year, Memorial Day, Adversity

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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• I was a goth girl in high school. Perhaps the powdered white face and the black lipstick were not the most attractive. I felt fabulous at the time but looking back, uh, probably not the best idea.

  Christina Hendricks

  Girl, School, White

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• Like the Sweetness of Gardenias Mother, you died 15 years ago. pain, a rapier, cut until, finally, there was just peace like the sweetness of gardenias in the crystal vase on your yellow kitchen table. so fragrant. your voice lingers in my ear reminding, scolding, guiding a pleasant mantra of tenderness, magic words that move my palms, your palms. together we are molding, helping, creating. in the mirror I see your eyes, your beautiful brown circles looking back, so radiant. "don't forget me," you whispered the day you died. I won't.

  Wallace Stevens

  Beautiful, Mother, Peace

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• I'm just always looking forwards. I spend very little time, looking backwards.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Inspirational, Littles, Looking Forward

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• Everything happens kind of the way it's supposed to happen, and we just watch it unfold. And you can't control it. Looking back, you can't say, "I should've..." You didn't, and had you, the outcome would have been different.

  Rick Rubin

  Different, Watches, Outcomes

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. January 12, 2005.

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• Looking back, perhaps the single biggest problem was fear. Fear of failure, fear of other people, but mostly fear of myself. It has taken sixty years to discover who I really am. It's never too late to find yourself however lost you may be.

  Lynda Bellingham

  Taken, Years, People

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• 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.

  David Selby

  Dark, Creating, Shadow

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• View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn't

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Happiness, Spiritual, Views

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• You don't realize that if you stop looking backwards craving the love and acceptance which you didn't receive from your parents, then you might open your eyes to what is available for you now. But you won't let go. If only you could see that looking back into an incomplete and imperfect past, with regret, blame, guilt or resentment is keeping you from the treasures that await you here now. The past has gone. You cannot rectify something that is no longer with you.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Letting Go, Regret, Eye

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• When you have a very hot single there is no reason why it can't drive album sales. People fall off and come back on. I'm looking forward to coming back on with a vengeance.

  Justin Guarini

  Fall, People, Hot

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• 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.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Dream, Good Life, Thinking

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• 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.

  Wade Boggs

  Moving On, Sports, Baseball

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• Important thing is not the me that's lying here, but the me that's sitting on the edge of the bed looking back at me, and the me that's downstairs cooking supper, or out in the garage under the car, or in the library reading. All the new parts, they count. I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family.

  Ray Bradbury

  Death, Lying, Reading

  Ray Bradbury (1980). “The Stories of Ray Bradbury”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• Russia on its path has oftentimes discussed and overdiscussed what had happened earlier, instead of moving forward. The result is always the same: It is very difficult to move forward when you're looking backward.

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky

  Mistake, Moving, Russia

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

  Michael Vick

  Football, Way, Decided

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• My biggest sorrow, when looking back on my youth, is how much of it I somehow missed. Now, looking at my life today, I don't want to make the same mistake. I don't want to miss this. As Bonnie Raitt sang like she was singing it for all of us, "Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste."

  Marianne Williamson

  Mistake, Missing, Singing

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.29, ReadHowYouWant.com

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