Back turned, you don't have to look at what you've left behind. And the person who first turned their back on you can't watch you break down and cry. Never allow an enemy to see weakness in you.
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Related Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU Turn your back on the love you have for someone who has turned his back on you. KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN Things keep happening all around you. There is violence, there is gore, there are people who will us... HEEMA SHIRVAIKAR You cant find outside what you dont have inside. CARL HAMMERSCHLAG See what's left and look to see where you can cut back on discretionary expenses. JUDY MARTINDALE Never look back; you may only find what you left or let you go. STEFANOS LIVOS Say to those of the dwellers of the desert who were left behind: You shall soon be invited (to fight... QURAN If you focus on what you left behind, you will never see what lies ahead. GUSTEAU, RATATOUILLE Petrol poured down behind me and into the back. Luckily I had goggles on. It was panic. You dont thi... GEORGE LONG When you are so busy pursuing your passion, you never look back to see who likes what you are doing,... JACINTA MPALYENKANA we can only see forwards and never look back and when we turn around we can miss what's to come so d... MATTHEW WAYNE GAULIN Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost. ROBERT H. SCHULLER It's unbelievable. You look at the chart and you have to set it down and step back. MICHAEL DEAN Never look behind you, it will only bring you back. YAN ORTIZ You cant be in a position where you dont know what you are going to do next. ERIC GREEN Dont look back in anger, I heard you say... OASIS If you look at my career and you look at the span of my work and the things I have done, as far as t... JAY-Z You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your fu... JODI PICOULT I remember being about eight and watching 'Pollyanna' with Hayley Mills. I looked at my mum ... LAURA HADDOCK Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me, so I knew wha... JOHN GREEN I know you have asked and I've turned you down. WARREN BEATTY the thing is you can get used to anything you think you cant you want to die but you dont you cant y... ELIZABETH SCOTT You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, a... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 I missed you today, but that was nothing new. I didn't have to go far to see you. I just had to go t... MAHMOUD EL HALLAB You look at them and you don't see any weakness. BRAD SALEM Utilities get out of the way. Can you imagine if you flipped a light switch and had to watch an ad b... JAN KOUM The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind. KIRAN DESAI If you can control a mans thinking, you dont have to worry about his actions. If you can determine w... CARTER WOODSON Sometimes you have to break down in order to build yourself back up. DONNAYSIA IFIELD And whenever you look at somebody as an enemy,you never look deep,you never look into the eye, you a... OSHO Your mama coming back. Just cause you cant sees a person aint mean nothing. They still there. You wo... NANCY RAWLES Who told you you couldn't come back when you're grown? Was it the same person who told you grown-ups... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE No matter how great you ‘think’ you are or how successful you've become. Never forget those who ... JAMES A. MURPHY Archer turned back to me, and that familiar grin flashed over his face. “Come on, Mercer. Me, you,... RACHEL HAWKINS Most surely you are at variance with each other in what you say, / He is turned away from it who wou... QURAN People see what they want to see. People say what they like to say. People hear what they always try... SALMAN AZIZ If you behind me, I'm not going to look back and try and figure out what you're doing behind... FUTURE You will never see me surrender, never see me cry, but you will often see me walk away. Turn around ... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON You're talking crazy, Cassie. Let me break that glass around you."I wrap my hand around the door kno... TRACY KRIMMER Fuck you. I know Day is just showing off for you.” Johnson turned back to look at Day. “I’ll b... A.E. VIA And if you dont come back from the dorm, I'm the one who has to explain to Micheal how I let you go ... RACHEL CAINE 'The Dance Scene' is just a real look at what it takes. You see the award shows. You see the... LAURIEANN GIBSON You have to have an olive branch, always. You have to have amnesties. You have to have a path always... JOHN LEHMAN It seems disrespectful to my parents who left... to hear their story over and over again which alway... JENNINE CAPó CRUCET I turned around and I saw him down and I just started praying for him because you never want to see ... RODNEY HARRISON you clench your teeth,you look up, you tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them,and... JOHN GREEN You don't cry when someone pushes you down. You get up. You get up and you fight back. And pretty so... MORGAN RHODES What do you see when you look in the mirror? I hope it goes beyond beauty. I hope what you see is th... TEMITAYO OLAMI Authenticity is everything! You have to wake up every day and look in the mirror, and you want to be... AARON RODGERS Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ... GERMANY KENT You look at their attitude at that first minicamp and they came back charged up for that, ANDY REID What do you see when you look in the mirror? I hope it goes beyond beauty. I hope what you see is th... TEMITAYO OLAMI You can watch someone on-stage cry and cry - but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to ... LAURA LINNEY If you think a weakness can be turned into a strength, I hate to tell you this, but that's another w... JACK HANDY When you look at their offense, that's what they're built for. They pride themselves on being a phys... DEXTER COAKLEY To find that things are never what they seem no matter what way you look at it is an eye opener inde... GARY F EVANS... Little drops of rain Whisper of the pain Tears of love Lost in the days gone by. ROBERT PLANT "THANK YOU" Yeah, I turned down 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' and 'Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore.' Can you believe ... SHIRLEY MACLAINE What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one's enemy only when his back is turned? THOMAS PYNCHON Some people will slap you on the back behind your face and then slap you in the face behind your bac... VIKRANT PARSAI And if you should ask them who created them, they would certainly say: Allah. Whence are they then t... QURAN Read and Mind it :)
You are special,yes u r special in urself. u can do what u want. dont jus sit an... SHUBHAM CHAVAN If you look at history, and if you look at all these different things that have threatened the movie... KIM DOTCOM Youll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you dont have to remember what you have ... SAM RAYBURN Often, when you see yourself on the screen, you feel like a sweater that's been put through the ... EMMANUELLE BEART Your worst enemy is not the person you hate most! But the ego that lives inside of you and the anger... PHILIP T. M. One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dr... ROBERT BROWNING Sure enough, the tight end got just enough of me, the back was just able to get to the corner and th... LEROY HILL [Reporter: How did you find America?] We turned left at Greenland. JOHN LENNON If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never... JOE ABERCROMBIE It's funny: when you make a film, you always look back, and there are always crucial decisions t... PAUL GREENGRASS I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ... CHARLIE SHEEN Before every break you try to get on a high and come back and play like you were before. We were a l... ALEXANDRE GIROUX people dont know you till they meet you. dont smile if you dont want to, dont be a false person, don... CAROLINA JANETTE GOMEZ GONZALEZ And so I sit on the dunes in my carefully mismatched clothes, hour after hour, day after day, frozen... BARBARA DAVIS At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and ... JOHN GREEN The Hardest Part Of Letting Someone Put You Back Together, is Trusting Them Enough not to Break you ... JENNIFER HICKS It always hurts to realize the other person has got over you and moved on with their life while you ... OUSSAMA HEDHLI Good friends laugh at you, laugh with you, but never laugh behind your back. SARU SINGHAL When a man tells you he cant be alone dont be surprised when he gets married 4 months after you brea... STARGAZER See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you ... JODI PICOULT Never let them see you in public after you've turned thirty-five. You're finished if you do! NORMA SHEARER I think you could go back to any filmmaker or musician or artist, and look at what their input was i... ANDREW STANTON Dont GiVe UP iF U StIll WaNna TrY* DonT WIpE YOUR TeARS IF YOU StiLL WANT TO Cry DON'T SET... TRENT REZNOR Never let them see you in public after you've turned thirty-five. You're finished if you do! NORMA SHEARER At a certain point, you have to face the fact that you've turned into an old fart. ROBERT GOTTLIEB The person who fights monsters should make sure that in the process, he does not become a monster hi... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE When you step back from the moment of the loss and the pain and agony that goes with that and look b... BOBBY BAYLISS Do not shed tears when I have gone but smile instead because I have lived.
Do not shut your eye... DAVID HARKINS Cinderella was such a dork. She left behind her glass slipper at the ball and then went right back t... RACHEL COHN You still have to pay the teacher and have the lights turned on. AL MIJARES Do you become in visible?' 'No. I'm there, if you know how to look. I stand between the place y... PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP Safe? What can be classified as safe? Everything we do in life has a risk. Just getting out of bed e... BRANDY NACOLE When you stand on top of that mountain and you look out, you will know that you will never again loo... ANTHONY T. HINCKS He'd turned a prison into an opera hall. That's an example of taking what you have and making it int... ALAN COHEN When you have the strength to stand up for yourself ,the ones you love and the dignity and honor to ... GARY F EVANS...
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The fact is that we're dreaming all the time. That&... ANTHONY HOPKINS Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain no... ANTHONY HOPKINS I love life because what more is there? ANTHONY HOPKINS The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can't even comprehend i... ANTHONY HOPKINS Relish everything that's inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light ... ANTHONY HOPKINS If I spent all my time criticising myself, I wouldn't be able to function. There are actors who ... ANTHONY HOPKINS Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fi... ANTHONY HOPKINS We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, wh... ANTHONY HOPKINS I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen. ANTHONY HOPKINS I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself... ANTHONY HOPKINS I come from - I came from Wales, and it's a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all th... ANTHONY HOPKINS We're all caught up in circumstances, and we're all good and evil. When you're really hu... ANTHONY HOPKINS I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week... ANTHONY HOPKINS I'm a pretty tough guy, you know. I'm a pretty hard man. I've got a lot of compassion, b... ANTHONY HOPKINS I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink ... ANTHONY HOPKINS Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities. ANTHONY HOPKINS My philosophy is it's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am,... ANTHONY HOPKINS When I started playing music, I was more of a character. Now I'm just me with a cool outfit on. ... BEN HOPKINS Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority. TOM HOPKINS My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants. ANTHONY HOPKINS I felt a sense of urgency, ... I wasn't sure if I was winning or not. BERNARD HOPKINS Everything rides on Dec. 3. This fight is important because that's where Bernard Hopkins will show t... BERNARD HOPKINS That's the only thing that I say to myself that I need to work on. BERNARD HOPKINS I got my butt kicked. BERNARD HOPKINS I'm lining up my troops to go to battle with. Tarver is the man at light heavyweight. He has the cre... BERNARD HOPKINS Come Sunday morning, somebody's going to be asked questions (like) 'What happened?' ... And guess wh... BERNARD HOPKINS Understand that I'm at my best when it comes to proving a point, not only to show that I'm a better ... BERNARD HOPKINS If I'm in a situation where Duane Ford is one of the judges, I have to pick it up. BERNARD HOPKINS This is my last fight of meaningful significance, ... This is my last fight, outside and in the ring... BERNARD HOPKINS I was knocking guys out in the streets before I knew how to throw a jab and keep your chin down, ...... BERNARD HOPKINS Rather than writing about my experiences with other people, 'Ugly Cherries' is the first son... BEN HOPKINS I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with ... ANTHONY HOPKINS