Looks Back Quotes

64 quotes by 56 authors

Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back. — Ben Jonson
When history looks back, I want people to know the Nazis weren't able to kill millions of people and get away with it. — Simon Wiesenthal
My life is nothing but pressure. All pressure. This pressure is like a heaviness. It's always on top of me, this heaviness. It's always there… — Rodney Dangerfield
It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins. — Karl Barth
When one looks back over human existence however, it is very evident that all culture has developed through an initial resistance against adaptation to the… — Beatrice M. Hinkle
Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has. — Agatha Christie
True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal. The real mystery… — Ursula K. Le Guin
The Principle of Uncertainty fixed once for all the realisation that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of history that at the very… — Jacob Bronowski
Wanted or unwanted, I believe that human life, even at its earliest stages, has certain rights which must be recognized â€“ the right to be… — Edward Kennedy
If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must we… — Frans de Waal
It is not only visitors to the zoo who are fascinated but uneasy in the presence of chimpanzees; the same is true of scientists. The… — Frans de Waal
Sometimes I heard voices muttering in my head, and a lot of the time the world seemed to smolder around its edges. but I was… — Denis Johnson
The wise man looks back into the past, and does not grieve over what is far off, nor rejoice over what is near; for he… — Laozi
Pride looks back upon its past deeds, and calculating with nicety what it has done, it commits itself to rest; whereas humility looks to that… — James McCosh
When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing. — Jack Kevorkian
My chest got this weird feeling, like when you stare into the eyes of a little baby and the baby looks back up at you… — Matt de la Pena
A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that… — Eyvind Johnson
We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That's the repository of that lovely… — George Wald
The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back. — Karl Kraus
No one looks back and regrets leaving this world. What's regretted is how real we thought it was. — Rumi

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