
Top 100 Look Behind You Quotes
#1. Look behind you in gratitude.
Look ahead of you in hope.
Look beside you in caution.
Look around you in faith.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#2. If you decide to take somebody on, don't look behind you, because there won't be anybody there. You'll be all alone.
Dan Groat
#3. But look behind you, Mary.' She nodded towards the dais. 'One of the musicians seems to be trying to attract your attention.'
It was Peter. He was standing on the dais smiling across at me. My delight at seeing him was such that I could not disguise it - did not try to disguise it.
Jennifer Paynter
#4. Hazel and Piper zipped around the monster's head, Hazel slicing with her sword, Piper shouting random commands like, "Dive! Turn left! Look behind you!" The
Rick Riordan
#5. Barely halfway back, exhaustion sets in. What if I don't make it? An edge of panic gets intercepted by a calmer inner voice: Look behind you.
Laurie Nadel
#6. Wayfarer, the only way is your footsteps, there is no other. Wayfarer, there is no way, you make the way as you go. As you go, you make the way and stopping to look behind, you see the path that your feet will never travel again. Wayfarer, there is no way- Only foam trails to the sea.
Antonio Machado
#7. Look behind you: What have you learned?
Look around you: What is happening to others?
Look above you: What does God expect of you?
Look besides you: What resources are available to you?
John C. Maxwell
#8. If you are going down a road and don't like what's in front of you, and look behind you and don't like what you see, get off the road. Create a new path!
Maya Angelou
#9. Always look within, to seek out the love and joy residing inside of you and then look to find your dark shadows falling behind you disappear.
Denis John George
#10. Oh, now look what you've done. You've gone and pissed him off, Breccan said as he stood behind two of the gypsies, one of his large hands clamped down on each of their shoulders.
Madison Thorne Grey
#11. When you're in prison, there's no hiding. These women are not hiding behind towels and shower curtains. They go to the bathroom with no doors on the stalls. It would actually look weird, if these women were hiding.
Laura Prepon
#12. She wished she had known back then. Known that happiness isn't a point in time you leave behind. It's what's ahead of you. Every single day.
Sarah Addison Allen
#13. Do you ever look less than gorgeous?" Parker asked.
"Based on the first time she came over here, I'm going to say yes," Travis said from behind me.
Jamie McGuire
#14. Never worry about anything that is past. Charge it up to experience and forget the trouble. There are always plenty of troubles ahead, so don't turn and look back on any behind you.
Herbert Hoover
#15. Do you become in visible?'
'No. I'm there, if you know how to look. I stand between the place you look at and the place you see. Behind what you expect to see. If you expect to see me, you do. I listen in places where no one expects me to be.
Patricia A. McKillip
#16. It is your heart behind the action that allows you to prosper, not the action yourself. You can give away all your possessions, time, and energy, but if you do it to look good, to look pious, to look holy, you have already lost.
J. Evan Johnson
#17. There is always a story behind what you like. Like what you like and be happy with what you like but don't ever forget to mind the real lessons from the story behind what you like.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#18. Tag opened the door to his knock, and with a look of disappointment, peered behind Wade.
"You got someone better coming over?" Wade asked him.
"Pizza," Tag said.
Jill Shalvis
#19. To all who try and get over on other people, using and abusing them, thinking they deserve it because they're fools. Don't look now ... KARMA Is standing right behind you.
Timothy Pina
#20. Ye've no idea how lovely ye look, stark naked, wi' the sun behind you. All gold, like ye were dipped in it.
Diana Gabaldon
#21. I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you.
Bill Withers
#22. Look, all I meant is...words are words. They don't matter as much as you think the do. What's important are the emotions behind them" -Josh
Claudia Gabel
#23. Don't stand behind a strange horse, don't look a strange dog in the eyes, don't rub a strange cat's belly, and for God's sake, don't let strange men handcuff you to your bed.
Maggie Stiefvater
#24. Choose to look at the mountains rather than trying to concentrate on the valleys. It's easier to glance behind you and see the peaks, but it takes actual effort to look down into the darkness of where you've been.
Rachel Van Dyken
#25. No way, man. I got one rule as a driver."
"What's that?"
"Never look in da rearview mirror."
"Never?" We drifted into the left-hand lane, cutting off a cab.
"It's not healthy to keep a' watchin' what you leavin' behind.
Marisha Pessl
#26. I've got a stomach now as well as a behind. And I mean - well, you can't pull it in both ways, can you? ... I've made it a rule to pull in my stomach and let my behind look after itself.
Agatha Christie
#27. When looking for love, look for one who will not walk in front of you nor behind you yet at your side as an equal!
Michael S. McKinney
#28. Sometimes you don't realize how far you've gotten until you look around at the people who are still trailing far behind you.
Nicki Minaj
#29. Is it my imagination, or is there some kind of jealousy thing going on here?"-Inuyasha
(gives Inuyasha a really bad look)"It's your imagination."-Sango
(Inuyasha tries to hide behind Kagome)
"Whatever you say."-Kagome
Rumiko Takahashi
#30. I've hidden behind my hair more than clothes. Sometimes having long hair with a fringe is very useful when you don't want to look at people. I used to have very short hair, but long hair is my thing - a black nocturnal shield.
Bat For Lashes
#31. Start a daily routine of looking at yourself in the mirror through a lens of unconditional love, appreciation, admiration and respect....Connect with the soul behind the image of you in the mirror. Look upon yourself with complete adoration, acceptance and non- judgement.
Miya Yamanouchi
#32. Is it important to have a crew behind me? No, it's important to have me behind them. That's how I look at it. You can't just roll with a situation like you're depending on somebody to help you. You're supposed to help the situation, whatever the situation is that you're in.
French Montana
#33. Mig watched her father walk away, the red table cloth billowing out behind him. He left his daughter. And, as you already know, he did not look back. Not even once.
Kate DiCamillo
#34. So you're a badass assassin, huh? You don't look like much to me. (Stranger)
You have three seconds to evaporate or I'm going to spray your brain matter all over your crew behind you. (Adron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#35. Look. Listen. Use ears I'd be proud to call our own. Listen to the silence behind the engines' noise. Jesus, Sweets, listen. Hear it? It's a love song.
For whom?
You are loved.
David Foster Wallace
#36. Hmm. Well, good. Does that mean it'd be okay if I wanted to get down on my knees again sometime?" Dallas walks up behind me. "And just what are you going to do down on your knees, Kiki?" "Look for seashells, what else?" I sass back.
Jillian Dodd
#37. Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges
Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!
Rudyard Kipling
#38. Long is the journey homeward, Weary and worn are we. Oh, if I fall behind, my love, Will you look back for?
Sofia Samatar
#39. There is a danger when you leave the past behind, and reinvent your life, that at some point you'll look at yourself, and no longer recognize who you see.
Erin McCarthy
#40. I have often sat in that chair behind my desk and wondered how you would look lying naked here on this sofa. It was a form of self-inflicted torture."
"Good heavens
Amanda Quick
#41. If you look around anywhere, layers are an important part of, not just the story and the concept, but the world you're in. If you just turn around and look at your office door, there's a door, and there's something behind it.
James Pearse Connelly
#42. You look at war as something that is putting your best friend in jeopardy. You are responsible for the person in front of you and the person behind you, and the person to the left of you and the person to the right of you.
Steven Spielberg
#43. Look at your mistakes long enough to learn from them, then put them behind you.
Brent Weeks
#44. Even in the toughest of times ... don't give up hope. It may look dark but you will find the sun standing behind even the darkest of clouds.
Timothy Pina
#45. Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.
Chuck Palahniuk
#46. It's always better to like a gangster from a distance anyway. Like a tiger cub in a cage. They always look soft and cute and warm behind those iron bars. Everybody's happy, smilimg, waving, taking pictures. But you take away those bars and all that goes away. All that's left is the fear.
Lorenzo Carcaterra
#47. You can't move forward in your life ...
If you constantly look at the roads you left behind you. Stay focus on what you want to accomplish today and tomorrow will be a much brighter day!
Timothy Pina
#48. When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own.
John D. MacDonald
#49. Behind my smile is a hurting heart.
Behind my laugh, I'm falling apart.
Look closely at me and you will see,
the girl I am
...isn't me
Unknown
#50. Haste and escape for your lives, look not behind you, escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed.
Jonathan Edwards
#51. What would you have me do? A knight doesn't look for a princess among the garbage."
"My Sam had no use for me when he first met me."
That Maddie couldn't believe. "You are Sam's princess in the tower."
"I was Sam's pain in the - " Bella smiled and tapped her behind, leaving the word unsaid.
Sarah McCarty
#52. If you look on wealth as a thing to be valued you'll always fancy yourself to be short of the things you need to the extent to which you lag behind what others have.
Seneca.
#53. To avoid stabs on the back
you have to look behind
while moving forward.
I'd rather have knives in my back
than fall into a manhole!
Manoj Vaz
#54. There is always something behind what is wrong and to change what is wrong, mind the things behind what is wrong! So many people are quick enough to see what is wrong only, and they criticize so blindly! When you see what is wrong, see why, who and what is behind what is wrong.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#55. The Prime Minister seems now to be basing his re-election campaign on this plot line. He is saying to the Australian people, look out, the baddies behind you - hiss, boo and whatever you do, don't vote Labor. This political parody of pantomime is looking and sounding desperate.
Julia Gillard
#56. I guess it was hard for him to look at the logic behind the draft lotteries, because that same logic had taken away his father. And, anyway, what's so logical about the day you were born deciding when you might die? That's just a cruel joke, as I see it.
A.S. King
#57. I'm into the vampire stuff. I think it's really fascinating and interesting. There's a lot of history behind all of that, and if you look into it, it's really interesting stuff.
Gloria Votsis
#58. Guns don't walk into a theater by themselves and shoot people. You have to look at who's behind it, who's behind the trigger?
Kimberly Guilfoyle
#59. I love you, and I want to be
with you because you make my life better." He pushed her hair behind her ear. "You asked me once
what I see when I look into my future." He slid his palm down her shoulder and took her hand. "I see
you," he said and kissed her knuckles.
Rachel Gibson
#60. Chong said, 'Do yourself a favor, Morg. Next time you're staring at a girl's boobs, look up. You'll be shocked to learn it, but there's going to be a face up there. Nose, mouth, eyes. And behind the eyes is an actual person.
Jonathan Maberry
#61. Look at the putt from behind the hole. Everyday players almost never do this. They should! Your eyes will take in more information about the slope. Sometimes you'll find that your initial read was incorrect.
Jordan Spieth
#62. If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.
Andy Warhol
#63. I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.
Terry Pratchett
#64. An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth ... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.
Pope Francis
#65. You are a mask; behind the mask there is the universe! When you are enlightened, mask goes, you go, you disappear and people does not see you anymore, they see the universe when they look at you! They talk to universe when they talk with you! You are a mask till you are enlightened!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#66. Bert, whenever you see something bright, shining, perfect-seeming - all gold, with purple spots - look behind the paint! And if it's a lie - show it up for what it really is!
Jerome Lawrence
#67. Back turned, you don't have to look at what you've left behind. And the first person who turned their back on you can't watch you break down and cry.
Ellen Hopkins
#68. 'The Dance Scene' is just a real look at what it takes. You see the award shows. You see the videos and you never realize what goes on behind the scenes. The reality and the preparation. The motivation I have to give each dancer on that set.
Laurieann Gibson
#69. Look, if you're driving down the highway at 120 miles an hour, I'd rather be behind the wheel than in the backseat.
Mark Wahlberg
#70. Raffe throws me a dirty look. He bends over and swipes his arm behind my knees, lifting me up in his embrace.
'I can go with one of the locusts.' I stiffen in his arms and try to lean as far away from him as I can.
'The hell you will.' He runs a couple of steps before spreading his wings.
Susan Ee
#71. As she released his hand and sat down in her seat he moved her hair back behind her shoulder and whispered in her ear, I love that dress. I love the shoes. I love everything. You look sensational ...
J.B. McGee
#72. Look ahead, because life is before you, not behind you, or else you stumble!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#73. When you look at C-3PO and Darth Vader and then look at the actors behind them, you can't really make the connection. It kills the magic.
Thomas Bangalter
#74. There's an undeniable thrill about meeting a stranger and spending a few hours together, indulging in each other's lives. It's that spurt of saying whatever you want and leaving it behind with someone who'll never look at you and think of it again.
Danielle Esplin
#75. Don't get so caught up in looking behind you forget to look ahead.
Ilsa J. Bick
#76. Don't look for flaws as you go through life and even when you find them it is wise and kind to be somewhat blind, and look for the virtue behind them.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#77. There was a quality of loneliness to her that comes when your only friend walks away and you don't know why and there's no one else and never will be. A left-behind look.
Robert Crais
#78. And I loved the whole idea behind the story, which is that you're beautiful, so don't let other people tell you that you're not just because you don't look like the people in magazines. Or because you're not that weird ideal body image that's out there right now.
Mike Myers
#79. If you look at the play very closely, this is a thirdhand report of what a wonderful hero Macbeth is for saving Scotland. And in the next scene, he's planning to murder Duncan, and you never really know why or what's behind Macbeth.
David Hewson
#80. Alistair spoke behind his visor. "You look very pretty."
Mouse looked to Eanrin. "He sounds concerned. What did he say?"
"He said they're never going to believe you're a girl.
Anne Elisabeth Stengl
#81. The sun was bobbing on the horizon, just peeking over. Its light shimmered on the sand behind you, making your body look like it was glowing ... like it had a kind of aura.
Lucy Christopher
#82. No need to look to see if your former home has vanished yet into the humdrum gray behind you; you'll be able to feel it, the sudden eclipse of the tractor beam the house puts out. Of its forcefield of sadness.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#83. Do you think anything else can go wrong tonight?"
Kaden turned to look at Nicholas coming up behind her and nodded. "Yes ma'am. I'd say all kinds of things could go wrong.
Christine Feehan
#84. You can't believe people when they look you in the eyes. You gotta' look behind them. See what they're standing in front of. What they're hiding. Everyone's hiding, Wes. Everybody. Nobody look like what they are.
Sam Shepard
#85. You have the right to work, but do not become so degenerate as to look for results. Work incessantly, but see something behind the work. Even good deeds can find a man in great bondage. Therefore be not bound by good deeds or by desires for name and fame.
Swami Vivekananda
#86. Don't look so surprised. You didn't think I'd spent my whole life behind this desk, did you?
And I suddenly realized that, well, I guess I had. Weren't all teachers born behind their desks, fully grown, with a red pen in their hand and ready to grade?
Gary D. Schmidt
#87. The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.
Terry Pratchett
#88. I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don't have to think about it.
Clyde Tombaugh
#89. Mumbai is different! It's busy, it's dusty, it's posh, it's different from everything I've ever known. You can barely see the sky, hidden behind the tall buildings, the moon seems so detached, the trees look indifferent and distant.
Debalina Haldar
#90. Where did you go to, if I may ask?' said Thorin to Gandalf as they rode along.
To look ahead,' said he.
And what brought you back in the nick of time?'
Looking behind,' said he.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#91. Every time the Secretary of Defense tries to get a hand on his many intelligence programs, we hear warnings about the dire consequences to liberty. When you look behind those warnings, what you really see is the CIA trying to preserve its perks.
Mark Riebling
#92. A tiger, however fearsome, could be hunted into a corner. It fought alone, so it died alone. But to hunt a wolf was to constantly look over your shoulder, wondering if others were behind you in the dark. "Lost?
Nicholas Eames
#93. It seems like all the time people are making themselves themselves, but they don't really know it. You can only have true visions when you look behind. A person can slide so fast into being something they never really intended. I wonder if you can truly resurrect your own self.
Elizabeth Berg
#94. Well, I'm not sure what suspicious looks like. Sometimes when you come down the mountain and stand behind those trees, you look suspicious.
Melina Marchetta
#95. He darted a look at the uncovered basket behind me, saw what I was eating, and glared at me. "That's appalling," he said.
"They're wonderful!" I said. "They're all coming ripe."
"All the better to turn you into a tree," he said.
"I don't want to be a tree yet," I said.
Naomi Novik
#96. Each of us experiences clouds in life - sometimes slight, but sometimes dark and frightening. Whatever clouds you face today, ask Jesus, the light of the world, to help you look behind the cloud to see His glory and His plans for you.
Billy Graham
#97. 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
#98. If you don't look ahead, you'll always be behind.
Harvey MacKay
#99. If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing that, follow that finger back, go up the arm and look at the head that's behind it, because there's almost always something fairly woolly in there.
Jock Sturges
#100. I look at going to Hollywood as going behind enemy lines. You parachute in, set up the explosion, then fly out before it goes off.
Robert Redford
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