A Quote by Muriel Spark

Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.

Muriel Spark

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Muriel Spark
Scottish - Novelist
February 1, 1918 - April 13, 2006

You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward.

Jim Bakker

I often have said to people that there are really two cities in the country where the outlook is always forward-looking - there is never really a backward-looking tendency. My banking work has taken me out to Palo Alto, what is commonly called Silicon Valley. And you sense out there is always a forward-looking outlook. And New York City.

Harold Ford, Jr.

I consider myself a progressive. I have a passion for people who work. To me, this is about forward looking versus backward looking. Ideological gradations are the wrong way to look at it.

Rahm Emanuel

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

Charlotte Bronte

You live life looking forward, you understand life looking backward.

Soren Kierkegaard

I feel excited about my new home in F1. I am looking forward to working here and of course I am especially looking forward to driving the car for the first time.

Nico Hulkenberg

In my experience, people looking for progress aren't actually looking to move things forward. They're looking to be perceived in a certain way: as a forward thinker. It's about vanity rather than any altruistic motives for the art.

James Murphy

Immigrants who voluntarily come to a country have already made a decision to assimilate to one degree or another. Probably not completely, but they've committed to the place, and they know that they need to make certain kinds of concessions. They change themselves in some way to fit in. They're looking forward as much as they're still looking backward.

Nguyen Viet Thang

i know he's been looking forward to this--and i know that i've been looking forward to this. but now i have to stop looking forward and start looking at where i am. it's hard.

John Green

I'm really looking forward to the Hall of Fame ceremonies. It's going to be unbelievable - just crazy. I'm looking forward to thanking all the fans for inspiring me to go out there and play my best football each and every game.

Jerry Rice

It is hopeless trying to go forward when you are looking backward.

Nancy Astor

You can't go forward if you're looking backward. You run into walls that way.

Karen Marie Moning

I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.

Iggy Pop

Russia on its path has oftentimes discussed and overdiscussed what had happened earlier, instead of moving forward. The result is always the same: It is very difficult to move forward when you're looking backward.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

I don't look at my life too much. I'm always looking forward, not backward.

Clint Eastwood

You decide that you don't want to go backward. You want to go forward. But sometimes, going 'backward' isn't really going backward, it's actually moving forward.

Leryn Franco

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