Look Back At Quotes

#1. If you look back at President Bush, nobody agreed with his policies, but you understood that he was doing things that he believed was right.

Martin Heinrich

#2. When I look back at the world championships, I know there's a lot of room for improvement, I'm always up for a challenge. The Olympics, they don't define me, I've had some good and some bad. But it's all about the Olympic experience.

Michelle Kwan

#3. I definitely look back at certain moments and don't think I look good ... but I know why! I didn't have a hair stylist, I did all my own makeup, and I was going to the local fabric store for all of my outfits.

Gwen Stefani

#4. She didn't look back at him as she went away to where she was obligated to be- somewhere at a dinner, surrounded by gold, suits, and champagne, staring blankly and beautifully, in her proper place in society.

Chelsie Shock

#5. I look back at old photographs and videotapes, and I go, Who was I trying to be? Who was I doing this for?

Marla Maples

#6. The future belongs to all who, refusing to look back at the past move ahead with the clock as it ticks.

Odo Simon Agbo

#7. If I were to look back at my career, I think my greatest achievement is very simple. I've been able to make choices where I could glorify God.

Roma Downey

#8. Well, thank you and that's for them, but for me, I want to look back at a body of work where when you do the research and you explore the psyche of a character, where she's been, where she is and where she's going.

Pam Grier

#9. Did you ever look back at some moment in your past and have it suddenly grow so vivid that all the intervening years seemed brief, dreamlike, impersonal - the motions of a May afternoon surrendered to routine?

Roger Zelazny

#10. In 50 years, I don't think you're gonna look back at 2006 and say, 'The good old days.'

Brandon Flowers

#11. Be simple and always take the next step. You needn't see it in advance, but you can look back at it afterwards.There is no 'how' of life, one just does it.

Carl Jung

#12. I look back at pictures of myself and I remember thinking, "I was so fat when I was growing up. I was 165 pounds when I graduated from high school. I was a mess".

Viola Davis

#13. When I look back at many of the moments of wonder, awe, or terror that I've got from science fiction, it's often been because I've been put in the head of one of the characters.

Alastair Reynolds

#14. A cookbook is a moment in time because, otherwise, you look back at the end of the day, and all the meals have been eaten, and the experience is gone.

Daniel Humm

#15. I'd rather look back at my past and say, "I can't believe I did that!" instead of saying "I wish I did that.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#16. Look back. Look back at me.
Richard Armitage spoke this line in the movie North and South as he watched Miss Hale drive away in a carriage.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#17. When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's heart when they canceled it.

Lorna Luft

#18. When you look back at the painful and difficult events of your life, you find that they were the times of your greatest personal growth. The challenges of our lives provide us the opportunity to develop our highest potentials.

John Bruna

#19. If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.

Noam Chomsky

#20. I want you to go back into the barrack and tell the men to come out after the storm. Tell them to look up at me tied here. Tell them I'll open my eyes and look back at them, and they'll know hat I survived.

Brandon Sanderson

#21. If you look back at life, I bet you will regret about 80% of your actions. But life consists of all mistakes.

Sylvester Stallone

#22. I look back at him, determined, adamant. I'm going to tell him no way, no how is he coming with me. I don't care what he says. But then he smiles. And I give in.

Kristen Lippert-Martin

#23. I never thought I would run for Congress. If you look back at a certain reality TV show, you know that.

Sean Duffy

#24. The eyes with which you will look back at God will be the same eyes with which God first looked at you.

Richard Rohr

#25. I look back at my adolescence, and I'm shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior.

Katherine Waterston

#26. When I look back at the 1980s I pinch myself. Did I really do all that?

Cynthia Payne

#27. We all look back at some time or other and wonder why we didn't listen to our instincts. Why did we hestiate? Why did we lose our dreams?

Diane Griffith

#28. I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from 'Empire of the Sun,' who'd never made a movie before.

Steven Spielberg

#29. If nothing else, I want women to understand that they are powerful. If you look back at history, in almost every big moment, in every leap forward, you find ordinary women at the core. We have more ability to make changes in the world than we can imagine if we have the courage to try.

Liya Kebede

#30. If you look back at the history of creativity in clothes - the French Revolution, the First World War and the Second World War - they have all been creative reinventions, the moment new forms of luxury come into play.

Christian Lacroix

#31. You don't want to look back at your years with regrets. Regrets have no place in your memory jar.

Tricia Goyer

#32. I think future generations will look back at this history of our country and call us barbarians for murdering millions of babies who we never gave a chance to live.

Marco Rubio

#33. When I look back at experience [with my father], all I can do is feel pity. You know, how torn he was about how to act, what to say. And it seems an important story to me.

Paul Auster

#34. I wanted to know what it would be like to get on a horse and ride all the way west to Europe and take a look back at my own culture through the eyes of a nomad.

Tim Cope

#35. When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing - and listen to her recordings - it makes me sad to think that all of that joy she found in her work came to an end. I wish she hadn't had to make that sacrifice, even if it was for the benefit of my father and siblings and me.

Marlo Thomas

#36. One tends to look back at the mistakes as the same thing - relinquishing control of something at some point in your career.

Nick Mason

#37. I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.

Barbara Cook

#38. If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you.

Cory Doctorow

#39. Sometimes I scrape off a lot. You have on the floor, like cow dung in the field, this big glob of paint ... and it's just a lot of inert matter, inert paint. Then I look back at the canvas, and it's not inert - it's active, moving and living.

Philip Guston

#40. When I look back at the way that I was in that documentary I cringe.

Benjamin Cohen

#41. Someday our grandchildren will very likely look back at the individual, selfish control of the wealth of the world by a small elite the same way we view slavery today.

Corinne McLaughlin

#42. I try to never look back at how I dressed in the first few seasons of 'Laguna Beach' because it was pretty bad ... head-to-toe bad.

Lauren Conrad

#43. At the end of the century, humans will look back at our impact on the planet and World War II will be a footnote compared to us presiding over the largest loss of biodiversity since a meteor hit the planet sixty-five million years ago.

Louie Psihoyos

#44. Someone like Jay-Z does have a timeless quality, but it's much different than ours. You can look back at something like "At the Hop" by Danny and the Juniors or the music that was on American Bandstand in the 1950s-'60s.

Chuck D

#45. I never liked the whole thing about pictures with the artists. You look back at an Elvis Presley record, and you don't see any producer credits, because the audience is not supposed to know about the producer credit.

Chris Blackwell

#46. First time films are hard. Even with some of the greatest directors, you look back at their first film, and you are just going, 'That movie is kind of bad.'

Mike Birbiglia

#47. But I think, maybe, I won't look back at what you highlighted, because I won't need to. I want to read all the way to the end with you.

Mary Ann Rivers

#48. In twenty years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.

Mary Schmich

#49. It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

Alan Alda

#50. 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.

Jennifer Connelly

#51. I can look back at things I've done and said and worn and be completely humiliated by them, but I can never say it wasn't me. I feel really honored to say that.

Debby Ryan

#52. Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.

Salman Khan

#53. I was a big light heavyweight but I feel perfect at heavyweight. When I look back at some of my old fights, I was really just a shell of myself. Now I'm healthy and strong and ready to get to the top.

Antonio Tarver

#54. Oops is the sound we make when we improve our beliefs and strategies; so to look back at a time and not see anything you did wrong means that you haven't learned anything or changed your mind since then.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#55. When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art.

Robert Wilson

#56. I look back at my twenties and see that I was much less confident.

Katherine Heigl

#57. I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.

Padma Lakshmi

#58. I look back at myself, this innocent person, and I think, 'Gosh, she's okay.' I handled a lot, and I'm still here.

Brooke Shields

#59. Sometimes you look back at girls you spent money on rather than send it to your mum & you realise witchcraft is real

Robert Mugabe

#60. You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.

Robert M. Pirsig

#61. If you look back at history, the various Maharajas of the Indian empire actually helped support a whole British industry. The royalty in those days ordered exotic cars in huge numbers.

Mark Shand

#62. After all, memory may be the only thing on earth we can truly manipulate to serve us, so we don't have to look back at ourselves in the receding past and think, What an arsehole!

Steve Toltz

#63. Bravery isn't what you do so much as how you look back at what you did.

Tim Sandlin

#64. I can look back at my own life and see where a few words of praise have sharply changed my entire future. Can't you say the same thing about your life?

Dale Carnegie

#65. I'd love to go to space. I would love to peek out a giant window and look back at the blue marble. There's no question; I'd love to do that.

Gwynne Shotwell

#66. When you're living through them, events are nothing more than stuff that happens. You're not thinking about significance. Significance only comes when you look back at your life.

James Howe

#67. When I look back at this career I've had, I don't know where it goes from here, but certainly any time I can make a movie that's different, that explores something that's not a retread of something else, I'm interested in it.

Don Coscarelli

#68. I think right now we need to look back at the founding values of our country. Rise above partisanship, be less bitter when it comes to important matters that have to be solved.

Walter Isaacson

#69. When you look back at the fight against Communism, one thing that is striking is the degree to which we [the United States] were carried on by our own values. One of the real challenges of the new era is going to be to maintain those values and not adopt those of our adversaries.

David E. Hoffman

#70. He headed for the stairs, pulling me along behind him. He was forceful, yet took the steps at a slow pace so I did not stumble. It was an overwhelming experience, heightened by the fact he didn't speak, nor once look back at me.

Lorraine Loveit

#71. I look back at that time fondly. It's something I never thought I'd get the chance to do, be in a soap. Working with Barbara Windsor and Steve McFadden - they're legends in their own lifetimes aren't they?

Sophie Thompson

#72. I'm a big fan of Clint Eastwood, but the Westerns I draw from most directly come from an earlier period in Hollywood. I actually look back at movies like 'Rio Bravo' and others I've liked over the years, and I capture pictures from the movies and use them as a reference for the scenes I create.

Steve Sheinkin

#73. I think once a year it's good to look back at the history of Oscar and to embrace the great work that everybody's done this year and set it in place to the great work that's gone on before us.

Howard Shore

#74. I get a wave of pride in America when I look back at what we've accomplished in the field of music.

Johnny Otis

#75. If you look back at my story, it doesn't matter where you look, but God's fingerprints are all over the place.

Jeremy Lin

#76. Never look back at your past, everything happens for a reason, keep your head up and look forward. the more you look back the more beautiful things you will miss in life.

Brandon Smith

#77. As an author my number 1 goal is to help others overcome despair ... which is something that has plague me in my lifetime. If my writing could have help at least one person overcome it in their lifetime, then when I look back at my life ... I can believe, I did a job well done.

Timothy Pina

#78. There are certain TV shows that probably would have made me rich, and there are certain commitments I could have made that probably would have raised a lot of eyebrows that I didn't. But I don't look back at those decisions and say, 'Oh God, I'm such an idiot.'

Josh Gad

#79. Me personally, I want to entertain people above all. When you look back at burlesque in history and the real golden age of burlesque, those entertainers were there to entertain, and there wasn't usually some big political message behind what they were doing.

Dita Von Teese

#80. Rise baby rise. Don't let the bad things happening in your life...keep you down. Bring the warrior out of your soul and keep moving forward in life. Don't look back at the pain. Look forward to the joy and pleasure ahead. Great things are awaiting for you down the road...if you believe!

Timothy Pina

#81. When I look back at the last decade, I think the following: There are some very wealthy people, but a lot of their incomes are from financial innovations that do not translate to gains for the average American citizen.

Tyler Cowen

#82. Be confident in the work you did to prepare for the race. Take a look back at your training logs to remind yourself that you've done everything possible to prepare. The race is the fun part where you get to see the hard work pay off. Enjoy it.

Desiree Linden

#83. For in moments of absolute darkness, even a glimmer blurs your vision,
But if you dare to look back at it, you feel his presence, you know you are here for a reason !! #MyExperiencewith498A

Ravi Ranjan

#84. When I look back at my past and the way I grew up, I grew up on communes. That was meant to be.

Robert Carlyle

#85. I look back at things I said when I was younger - it was bulls - t. You do what you have to do to go where you have to go, but I look back and I don't believe what that guy was saying.

Nikki Sixx

#86. I believe that a hundred years from now, when people look back at the 20th century, they will look at Miles, Bird, Clifford Brown, Ella and Dizzy, among elders as our Mozarts, our Chopins, our Bachs and Beethovens.

Quincy Jones

#87. If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character.

John Lydon

#88. When you're old, do you really want to look back at your life and realize that you were never young?

Kyra Davis

#89. I don't want to look back at my career and see a string of incredibly commercial projects that don't have much heart. I'm looking for things that have soul.

Taron Egerton

#90. Many people try to avoid looking back. To be sure, there is a wrong way to look back; it is wrong to look back at past sins and failures and defeats. That can only make you fail even more today. But it is good to look back to see where we have been and what the Lord has done in us and through us.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#91. One day we're going to look back at $1,700 with nostalgia. People are going to be shocked at how inexpensive gold was when it could be snapped up for such a bargain price.

Peter Schiff

#92. A person's destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.

Haruki Murakami

#93. We need something fun to remember when we look back at our youth.

Angie Stanton

#94. Sometimes people say,' One day you are going to look back at this and laugh.' My question is:' Why wait?

Richard Bandler

#95. I suppose some people find their voice later than others, but it's interesting to look back at really early work to see that there's some kernel or a Rosetta Stone, in a way.

Joe Bradley

#96. I wear stuff I regret all the time. It's very rare that I look back at a picture and think it was all good.

Suki Waterhouse

#97. An avalanche doesn't look back at the damage it causes.

Marty Rubin

#98. But on the other hand, I look back at my career sometimes and can't believe how fast everything has gone and how much I've been able to accomplish.

Karrie Webb

#99. Whatever you do, make a difference. Earn the right to look back at something and say, 'I did that.'

Michael Josephson

#100. Elsa had looked back at the girl in the only way one can look back at someone who has just pointed at a Gryffindor scarf and said, "Ugly bloody scarf." Not totally dissimilar to how one would look at someone who had just seen a horse and gaily burst out, "Crocodile!

Fredrik Backman