Quotes with forward-looking

Quotes 381 till 400 of 539.

  • Tom Robbins The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
    Tom Robbins
    American novelist (1932 - )
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  • Annie Leibovitz The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Alan Dundes The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • Brandon Cruz The crew knew because they had heard from other people, and when I showed up on the set the next day, they were all looking at me kind of weird. I told them that Bill always taught me that whenever something bad like that happens, the best thing to do is work.
    Brandon Cruz
    American actor (1962 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Winston Churchill The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bruce Springsteen The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand.
    Bruce Springsteen Talking
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg The fog comes
    on little cat feet.
    It sits looking
    over the harbor and city
    on silent haunches, and then moves on.
    Fog (1916)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ban Ki-moon The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in March 2011 was an immense tragedy that sparked a global response. The international community came forward with aid to the victims and came together to address the broader concerns about nuclear security and safety.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Benito Martinez The fun part about doing voiceovers and all that stuff is that you're not yourself; you're some other looking thing and sounding thing and whatever else.
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  • Brendan Gleeson The good thing about my part in 'Harry Potter' was that I was pretty well disguised. When I was walking down the street, there was no real recognition factor. Parents would sometimes call their children to come say hello to Mad-Eye, and the kids wouldn't know what they were looking at.
    Brendan Gleeson
    Irish actor and film director (1955 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Seneca The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and... each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.
    Contributions to Analytical Psychology (1928)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Samuel Johnson The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • George Eliot The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Alija Izetbegovic The international community is pushing things forward in Bosnia... but it is doing it at expense of the Muslim people. I feel it as an injustice, these are the things that I cannot live with.
    Alija Izetbegovic
    Bosnian politician
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  • Beeban Kidron The Internet has crept up on us, and we need to know what it is and start looking at it. We have to decide which bits we want, which bits we don't, and how we're going to use them - and how we're going to put pressure on the people who deliver these goods to deliver what we really want.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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