Rearview Mirrors Quotes

#1. To pick a modern image we once heard, but can't remember where: life is like driving a car with its front window opaque. All you have to go by are your rearview mirrors.

Amos Oz

#2. God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors. And I've an inkling that there are times when we need to drive a long, long distance, before we can look back and see God's back in the rearview mirror. Maybe sometimes about as far as heaven
that kind of distance.

Ann Voskamp

#3. We live in a world of excess: too many kinds of coffee, too many magazines, too many types of bread, too many digital recordings of Beethoven's Ninth, too many choices of rearview mirrors on the latest Renault. Sometimes you say to yourself: It's too much, it's all too much.

Corinne Maier

#4. I am an employment hyena. I am happy to make a meal of what the lions leave behind.

Henry Rollins

#5. Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life.

Gloria Steinem

#6. The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.

Aristotle.

#7. Pessimism is rife in Israel.

Elliott Abrams

#8. To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.

Oscar Wilde

#9. I really try to forget. I only look at my old works if there's an interview and someone asks me about it. Otherwise, it's not even in the rearview mirror.

Chang-rae Lee

#10. I like to think the world wasn't ready for me, but maybe the truth is that I wasn't ready for the world. I've always arrived too late for my life.

Nicole Krauss

#11. Anna smiled,as people smile at the weaknesses of those they love ...

Leo Tolstoy

#12. The best view of big government is in the rearview mirror as we leave it behind.

Ronald Reagan

#13. The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people's minds.

Edward De Bono

#14. We go forward looking in the rearview mirror.

Marshall McLuhan

#15. Look in the rearview mirror long enough & you'll see that God has purposely positioned you everywhere you've been-even when it seemed you'd taken a wrong turn.

Mark Batterson

#16. You can't see the future through a rearview mirror

Peter Lynch

#17. We're better in the rearview mirror than we are at predicting - 'cause you're never going to be right every time. You can handicap it. You can point to certain elements that make it work, and many of those elements come straight out of epidemiology, right?

Seth Godin

#18. The material world may be nothing but illusion ...

Anodea Judith

#19. No matter where you go, you always see yourself in the rearview mirror.

Kinky Friedman

#20. Speed damages our souls because living fast consumes every ounce of our energy. Speed has a deafening roar that drowns our the whispering voices of our souls and leaves Jesus as a diminishing speck in the rearview mirror.

Mike Yaconelli

#21. When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

#22. Explore the situation. Statements are expendable. Don't keep on looking in the rearview mirror and defending the status quo which is outmoded the moment it happened.

Marshall McLuhan

#23. Jackie Bachman says, "Hey, you got your tits this summer!" And I roll my shoulders forward, the huge wrecking balls of that summer pressing their flesh on my hanging belly. "Shut up, bitch," I say.

Stacey Waite

#24. Your future starts today. Don't go through life looking in the rearview mirror. Your life is filled with possibility.

Joel Osteen

#25. I looked at my reflection in the rearview mirror. Some lipstick would go with this truck, I thought.

Jennifer Niven

#26. What's done, is done

William Shakespeare