Looks Back Quotes
64 quotes by 56 authors
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
— Ben Jonson
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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
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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
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It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.
— Karl Barth
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Wanted or unwanted, I believe that human life, even at its earliest stages, has certain rights which must be recognized – the right to be…
— Edward Kennedy
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
— Jack Kevorkian
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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
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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
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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
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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
— Karl Kraus
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No one looks back and regrets leaving this world. What's regretted is how real we thought it was.
— Rumi
Who Wrote These Looks Back Quotes
56 authors contributed a total of 64 Looks Back Quotes, led by these top contributors: