Best 94 quotes in «looking back quotes» category

When the minds of men slip from realities to fantasies without thinking of the future consequences, then we must ponder. When the hearts of men are entangled with what though might seem great but yet, specious ambitions without pondering over the resulting footprints, then we ought to take precautions. When the hands of men unwittingly and for the sake of self-gratification find the right weapons and dexterity for the wrong purpose, then massacre and cruelties leave indelible footprints of sorrow and bitterness in the hearts of men. We shall always look back to the footprints of yesterday to say had we know if we don’t take a critical look at today’s footsteps. There is always an alternative that is better than good

Whether beautiful or terrible, the past is always a ruin.

when you get to the peak, remember the valley exists

When you look back at that relationship you didn't think you could live without and realize had you stayed in it, you'd be some comfortable loser, sitting on the couch with another comfortable loser, instead of being the dope motherfucker you are today.

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

You are like a garbage man, what will you do with my life story? Para kang nangangalakal ng basura!

You can never really know where exactly people are looking at! At the place they are staring at? Or at their past? Or at their future?

You can't look back. Nothing you can do to change it. Only forward.

You could climb to the top of the world and jump into the deepest of ravines, but if you don’t have someone to share it with you’ll always be looking back.

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

Fashion's not about looking back. It's always about looking forward.

I'm looking forward, that's all, I'm not looking backwards.

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.

Wie verändert blickt sie mich jetzt an, diese vergangene Zeit!

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

I'm tipping the hat and looking back.

I never waste time looking back.

I think looking forward will be better than looking back.

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

I hate looking backward, but every once in a while it sneaks up on you.

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.

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

Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.

Looking back doesn't have to be painful.

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

Reason can be used only when looking critically back.

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

Looking back, I've never had one regret.

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

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

The narcissist enjoys being looked at and not looking back.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.

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

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

Already my childhood seemed far away—a remote age, faded and bittersweet, like dried flowers. Did I regret its loss, did I want it back? I didn't think so.

Amazing what more we can see looking back. But God didn't give us eyes in the back of our heads. Our eyes, like our feet, face forward, toward the future.

Don't spend your life wondering "what if" and worrying over something you have no control. What's done is done. Looking backwards will cause you to miss out on new blessings ahead. Move on.

But it is perhaps not such a good idea to look back — all the stories say so. Look what happened to Lot's wife. Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around — and so there may be; who is to say there will not be such endings?

experience was not yet my friend

Fantasies... who needs fantasies? I have memories.

Forget the past, it's gone, but glance back occasionally to remind yourself where you came from and where you are going.

All those practice fights when it was just us, two children pretending to be soldiers. Or two soldiers pretending to be children.

...do you ever know a moment is important as it's happening, or is it only when you look back that you can see your life is changed?

Do you think the memory of someone should dictate how we live going forward?' he asks, threading and unthreading his fingers together. 'It depends,' I say. 'I think you can probably honor someone's memory, but you can't live for them, because that means living in the past.