Top 44 Retrace Your Steps Quotes
#1. Better to have to retrace your steps and then move forward than never to move forward at all.
Anne Burack Sayre
#2. But memories got left behind while you kept walking on; every time you had to retrace your steps further to return to your memories, and sometimes it was better not to turn back at all.
Dalene Matthee
#3. Nightly you retrace your steps again to return to the scene of the crime. It's uncanny how you hover in the air of the wreckage that you left behind.
Aimee Mann
#4. To get ahead, sometimes you had to retrace your steps.
Ari Berk
#5. Once you have made a careful decision based on facts, go into action. Don't stop to reconsider. Don't begin to hesitate, worry, and retrace your steps. Don't lose yourself in self-doubting which begets other doubts. Don't keep looking back over your shoulder.
Dale Carnegie
#6. Don't sit down in the middle of the woods. If you're lost in the plot or blocked, retrace your steps to where you went wrong. Then take the other road. And/or change the person. Change the tense. Change the opening page.
Margaret Atwood
#7. People give the worst advice about lost things. Retrace your steps. Pray to Saint Anthony. Think about where you last saw it. But that doesn't apply to the things that matter. Those are right in front of you, except they can't be found by looking for them. Only by looking at everything else.
Kristen Lepionka
#8. Oh you who are born of the gods, easy is the descent into Hell. The door of darkness stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps, and come back out into the brightness above, that is the work, that is the labor.
Virgil
#9. I thought in terms of the enthusiasm of doing it. I didn't think about whether I was ready.
Elmer Bernstein
#10. Receding from a grief, it seems necessary to retrace the same steps that brought us there.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#11. We have all made mistakes in our many incarnations that have caused us to retrace our spiritual steps. Some have made more mistakes than others. But it's part of the experience to spiritually fall from time to time.
Martin Barbara Moraitis Dimitri
#12. Pointed in the wrong direction, trapped outside their own history and unable to retrace their steps because their footprints had been swept away.
Arundhati Roy
#13. Perhaps my life is nothing but an image of this kind; perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I simply should recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.
Andre Breton
#14. I am the nice adversary, the guy that's going to ask the tough questions and is not going to be happy with the quick answer.
Guillermo Del Toro
#15. San Diego was fantastic. I think there's something about San Diego that is quite different than Los Angeles.
Donal Logue
#16. These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.
Schuyler Colfax
#17. The advent of militant atheism marks a reaction - a lurid but natural reaction - to the violence of the Islamic world.
David Berlinski
#18. THE NEGLECTED SOUL DOESN'T GO AWAY; IT GOES AWRY
John Ortberg
#19. The first principle of my own philosophy is that wisdom is meant for anyone who wishes to reach for it. It is the servant of commoner and king alike and should never be regarded with awe.
L. Ron Hubbard
#20. Will carried Zoe on his back and zoomed around on the sidewalk and she laughed and bounced up and down and lost one of her flip-flops so we had to go back and retrace our steps in the dark which I suppose is the meaning of life.
Miriam Toews
#21. I felt like the only way for me to move on with my life was to turn this pain into a project; to retrace my steps and figure out how I got here in the first place.
Josh Einstein
#23. I think the hardest thing in life is when we see those we love turn down a wrong path, and when no entreaty will induce them to retrace their steps.
Rosa Nouchette Carey
#24. The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub.
Virgil
#25. I do not refuse the Blue-Pearmain, I fill my pockets on each side; and as I retrace my steps in the frosty eve, being perhaps four or five miles from home, I eat one first from this side, and then from that, to keep my balance. [17]
Henry David Thoreau
#26. My old man always told me to retrace my steps, but what's the point if I can't remember where my feet are, let alone my footsteps...
Jonathan Dunne
#28. It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.
Virgil
#29. An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#30. At the crossroad in my life, I didn't know which way to go. I just mindlessly choose a random direction... then, after regretting my decision I tried to retrace my steps. However, without even realizing it the sun had already set.
Nobuyuki Fukumoto
#31. They were expressions of who he was and what he'd become, and he couldn't do anything about any of it, apart from retrace his steps back and back and back, until he was fifteen or ten or three years old, and start again.
Nick Hornby
#32. I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
Mahatma Gandhi
#33. The tales are quite hard to remember and I found that going back to it between bouts of writing fiction, I was having to retrace my steps quite a lot, because the stories are very intricate and the material is elusive, and possibly with age, my memory is not as malleable as it used to be.
Marina Warner
#35. Q sucked in a breath, his face darkening as he rubbed the front of his trousers. Goddammit, do you have to be so fucking tempting?
Pepper Winters
#36. Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
Nathalie Sarraute
#37. I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week.
Ken Thompson
#38. I am not a parliamentarian. I am a politician. Some MPs leave and are itching to get back. I don't feel that. This is just a work environment.
David Blunkett
#39. Where exactly did you lose yourself? Maybe we could retrace our steps. You could find yourself where you last saw yourself?" "Har
Tijan
#40. They made us participate in their own madness,
because we couldn't help but retrace their steps, rethink their thoughts, and see that none of them led to us.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#41. What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?
Robert Hughes
#42. . . . This
is not the same river at my fingertips.
There are no paths, no sunken roads
familiar in the forest, by which we can
retrace our steps,
by which we can escape
by which we can reclaim and return,
or hear the child's song running in the timothy . . .
John Daniel Thieme
#43. If you can justify killing to eat meat, you can justify the conditions of the ghetto. I cannot justify either one.
Dick Gregory
#44. Do not desert me when I need you most. And if we can't go on together,
let's retrace our steps as quickly as we can.
Dante Alighieri
