#looking back

Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions. ↗

— Luke Ford

#careless #i #looking #looking back #opinions

I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back. ↗

— Judy Garland

#finding #i #keyhole #looked #looking

People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he was a cunning and calculating politician; from the cultivation of his image as a hayseed from Illinois, to his ability to keep this country together under dire circumstances. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#ascribe #back #brilliant #calculating #circumstances

Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all. ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

#anything #back #better #far #i

Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#almost #another #around #back #crashing

Looking back, I'm so proud to have gone to five Olympics - I believe only three other Americans have achieved that. ↗

— Gail Devers

#back #believe #five #gone #i

I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#back #day #end #end of the day #forward

Sure I should have been at the Fifa workshop for example, but I had personal reasons for not being there and looking back saying that it was a mistake for me not being there I would take the same decision because the personal situation has higher priority than a workshop. ↗

— Jurgen Klinsmann

#because #been #being #being there #decision

In looking back, I see nothing to regret and little to correct. ↗

— John C. Calhoun

#correct #i #i see #little #looking

I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

#aging #back #been #context #enough