You Look Back Quotes

#1. Well, if you look back, in almost two and a half years, the biggest change probably was in late 2000 when we decided to totally change the CA business model.

Sanjay Kumar

#2. 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

#3. If you look back on your life and where you started from it's like looking back down a mountain back to the desert floor. It's like now I can't believe I had whatever it takes or perceived whatever it took to get here.

Morgan Freeman

#4. As you look back on a year almost ended, recall the ways in which God has been inviting you to return, again and again, to Love which is the same as returning to God

Richard Rohr

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. The big, bad unknown is only that until it is known. Then you look back and wonder what all the fuss and worry was about.

S.A. Tawks

#8. I'm very impatient, so I was like, 'I want to be able to do whatever I want now.' But even the biggest stars - you look back and they weren't overnight.

Donald Glover

#9. Events can seem random while you're living them, but when you look back, what do you see? A chain of coincidences? Plain old luck? Or something more?

Justin Cronin

#10. 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

#11. I always find it actually funny that the analysis is that the characters I play in comedies are the manchild, the adolescent, characters that refuse to grow up. And yet, if you look back in the history of comedy all the way back to the Marx brothers, that's a big part of comedy.

Will Ferrell

#12. Baby steps count, as long as you are going forward. You add them all up, and one day you look back and you'll be surprised at where you might get to.

Chris Gardner

#13. If you want to be constructive in politics, the less you look back, the better. If you do look back, then it can only be to learn for yourself through the events that have taken place.

Angela Merkel

#14. You get a feeling when you look back on life that all God really wants from us is to live inside a body He made, and enjoy the story, and to bond with Him through the experience.

Donald Miller

#15. May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.

Paul Dickson

#16. Life is to short so get on with it before its to late and you look back and wonder.

David Strouthos

#17. There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.

Dag Hammarskjold

#18. Life is a series of tests; but if you pass your tests, you look back upon them as good experiences.

Peace Pilgrim

#19. The farther you look back, the farther you can look ahead.

Henry Ford

#20. Life is about making good choices, Matt. One after the other. They pile up day after day. It's only when you look back that you can see what the choices led to. What you're able to stand on.

Chris Fabry

#21. I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done.

Robert Downey Jr.

#22. If you look back, Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven were mixing music and humor all the time.

Richard Hyung-ki Joo

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

Haruki Murakami

#24. I tried to be a goth for a while. I'd pour baby powder on my face and paint my lips black, but that didn't last long. I thought I looked cool at the time. But then you look back and wonder, 'Why did anyone let me out of the house looking like that?'

Imelda May

#25. You will understand why when you look back, the answers are rarely given in the middle of the lesson.

Leon Brown

#26. There are always those ifs when something goes wrong. We can't blame ourselves. It's just a bunch of little choices that don't mean anything till the shit hits the fan, and then you look back and see how you got there. And you find a whole string of ifs going back forever.

Richard Kelly

#27. Live everyday as if it's your last, boys, and one day in the future when you look back, you'll have lived ten thousand lifetimes.

Steven Moore

#28. You look back and you remember the good, the bad and the ugly.

Jenson Button

#29. You look back on films sometimes and if they have not been as all-out successful as you anticipated you try to find reasons why maybe it didn't come off for audiences as well as you would have liked.

Robert Wise

#30. It's funny how, when you look back on the big things that have happened in your life, you realize that there were small things you might have done which would completely have changed the course of events.

Stuart Prebble

#31. 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

#32. If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.

Patrick Wilson

#33. I think if you look back through time, the history of income, wealth and taxation is full of surprise. So I am not terribly impressed by those who know in advance what will or will not happen.

Thomas Piketty

#34. I think if you look back at some of the stuff that we broadly label as the crime 'ouvre,' there are certainly elements of the supernatural at work.

Greg Rucka

#35. If you look back through history, most visionaries are one step away from madmen." I

Rysa Walker

#36. I'm very fond of an old map of London that used to belong to my father. I'm a big London fan, and the evolution of the city is astonishing, when you look back to Pepys and how small it was - everyone knew each other.

Ben Schott

#37. Either you look back and deal with your hypocrisy, or you dismiss it.

Jose Padilha

#38. It's amazing how a certain time in your life can seem to be a prelude, but when you look back, you realize it was a whole work, with a beginning, middle, and end.

Jardine Libaire

#39. I think like a lot of people, you look back on your life and say, 'Gee, why didn't I apply myself?' If I would have spent as much time studying as I did conniving, trying to do as little as possible, I probably would have got the A's.

Tony Danza

#40. I think the Cold War works as a great analogy or simile for different kinds of conflict. It's funny, when you look back at it, it's one of the last times that the boundaries were clear. Now, as we see on 'Homeland,' there are no clear boundaries and enemies.

Matthew Rhys

#41. As you look back at your life, there are just a million different things that have happened, just in the right way, to allow you to make your dreams come true. And you know, someone has all that under control.

Michael P. Anderson

#42. I think if you look back at the lead singers that left groups that didn't make it, you'll see that a lot of them were songwriters like Lionel Richie. I mean, they were able to control their own destiny.

Jeffrey Osborne

#43. I think, certainly, in history, if you look back, a lot of people would go through their careers, build a business, or be a doctor, lawyer, and then they would go and do public service later on in their careers.

Dana Perino

#44. I think if you look back at all those great comedies on television in the past, it's all lovable losers that gathered together - 'Taxi' and 'Cheers,' 'Seinfeld' and 'Friends.'

Matthew Perry

#45. The whole point in moving forward is to leave things behind. Once you look back, you stop moving forward. Understanding this makes you move on easier.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#46. People say they like my fashion-haul videos because it's like you've been shopping with your friends, and you look back over what you have bought.

Zoe Sugg

#47. There are moments in your life that, when you look back at them, you realize were perfect.

Jim Butcher

#48. Your hater is your future fan in a way. Cause when it's different they don't really take to it at first, but after you look back on it you get a chance to reflect on it.

Nelly

#49. If you look back at the 1960's in the United States, and if you think that more good was done than harm, you are probably a Democrat. If you think that more harm was done than good, then you're probably a Republican.

William J. Clinton

#50. Whenever you look back and say "if" you know you're in trouble. There is no such thing as "if". The only thing that matters is what really happened.

D.J. MacHale

#51. I think high school's very difficult. You're figuring out your own power and your effect on other people. You look back and see how you spent so much energy on figuring out things with your parents or your peers.

Kelly Rutherford

#52. Things look different when you look back through old eyes. The best part is that we learn to forgive our mistakes.

Zohreh Ghahremani

#53. People look at Marvel movies as epic in scope, but if you look back at the comics, you realise that Marvel heroes were often a reaction to the square-jawed DC characters like Superman, who were flawless and beyond reproach.

Jon Favreau

#54. When you're younger you have so many ideas about yourself; everything is important. It's not when you look back, nothing is that important. It's only life.

Anthony Hopkins

#55. 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

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

Tim Sandlin

#57. But it's not really Chinese, is it?'
Logan was thoughtful for a moment. "I don't know. I guess you'd say it's really not if you look back thousands of years. But I don't think that way. Lots of things start out not Chinese and end up that way.

Ken Liu

#58. 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

#59. 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

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

Robert Mugabe

#61. After you've found love, and you look back on the path you took to reach it, it all seems a bit silly. We spend so much time fearing rejection, when what we really should fear is not trying at all.

Mitch Rowland

#62. Careers are what they are, they don't make any sense at all when you look back. We're not in charge of them.

Paul McGann

#63. When your life is nearly over, you will regret it if you look back and recall too many nights when you made excuses instead of making love.

Barbara "Cutie" Cooper

#64. You look back, and it was important to bring back instrumental music, and it was great to be a part of that wave of instrumental rock music. And clearly it was something I was destined to do.

Stuart Hamm

#65. I can't help but think that at the end of your life, when you look back, there'll be a tone. And that tone will come from the essence of how you live your day to day what you did in that between time because that is really your life.

Richard Linklater

#66. When you look back on this moment months from now, don't forget the one word I'm about to say to you, Claire Deveraux. Foreplay.

Georgia Cates

#67. When you look back, I think things are as they are meant to be. Timing is very important.

Lesley Nicol

#68. The most glorious moment you will ever experience in your life is when you look back and see how God was protecting you all this time.

Shannon L. Alder

#69. 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

#70. 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

#71. If you look back 600 years ago, royals' sole goal was to keep their wealth within the family.

Peter Diamandis

#72. Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromell

#73. 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

#74. And I feel that filmmakers ought to be careful with the use of 3D. Because if you look back over the decades, you see that 3D has come and gone for I don't know how many years now.

Warwick Davis

#75. Sometimes, you know - I think, with a lot of things, at the time, everything is extremely upsetting, and then you look back on it, and it actually can be sort of funny.

Roz Chast

#76. When you look back ... on your love affairs ... what you really find out is that the only person you really go to bed with is yourself.

Shirley Maclaine

#77. 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

#78. Time has a funny way of airbrushing relationships, removing all the things that were wrong so when you look back it looks much better than it really was.

Alexandra Potter

#79. When you look for independence and you get what you want, how come you look back thinking what have I done?

Joey Tempest

#80. You look back and you always think you can probably do something better.

Tommy Haas

#81. You look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were.

Jack London

#82. Lives are made of strings of moments, and every once in a while, one of those moments is pivotal and defining. It changes everything, alters you so completely that when you look back, there's a clear before and after

Elizabeth Norris

#83. And when night comes, and you look back over the day and see how fragmentary everything has been, and how much you planned that has gone undone, and all the reasons you have to be embarrassed and ashamed: just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God's hands and leave it with Him.

Edith Stein

#84. You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Henry Drummond

#85. 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

#86. 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

#87. Do the little things. In the future when you look back, they'd have made the greatest change.

Nike Thaddeus

#88. When you look back on music history, it falls into these neat periods, but of course, the period you yourself are living through seems totally scattered and chaotic.

Eric Whitacre

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

Sean Duffy

#90. And when the abyss looks into you - and it will - may you look back unflinching.

Neal Shusterman

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

Sylvester Stallone

#92. You can't really move forward until you look back.
[From Remaking America panel discussion at George Washington University]

Cornel West

#93. Someday your life will be over, no matter how much attention you give to your health. Will you look back with regret, because you nourished your body but starved your soul?

Billy Graham

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

Noam Chomsky

#95. I'm trying to buy a house and set some sense of roots because otherwise you're constantly chasing one job after another, and you look back and you've had all these very extraordinary experiences with extraordinary people, but there's not a line of continuity to it.

Eddie Redmayne

#96. We're always doing a lot of user studies on health and safety. We take it super seriously. But if you look back at the history of most new big technology breakthroughs, there is some element of controversy around what impact is it going to have.

Brendan Iribe

#97. One's relationship to time is complicated, and sometimes a day will drag on forever and sometimes it'll be over in a flash. When you look back, "I'm old," after 40 or 60 years, I can't believe I'm as old as I am.

Frederick Wiseman

#98. And I think Alanna would quote Sean Connery from "The Untouchables" to you: "At the end of your shift, go home alive." She would say, Don't think about being brave or working hard
just do what you need to do. When you look back, you'll be surprised to see that this was exactly enough.

Tamora Pierce

#99. Will you look back on life and say, 'I wish I had,' or 'I'm glad I did'?

Zig Ziglar

#100. You look back and see pictures of yourself, or hear an old song, and you know where that came from or why you were working on that - but you don't want to do that again. You don't necessarily hate it, but you're a very different person now, so, in that way you do.

Hamilton Leithauser