I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
Charlotte Brontë
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I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE I try to avoid looking backward and keep looking upward.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE We have to learn from this, and we have to keep looking forward, not backward.
JENNY PFEIFFER Far from looking backward we're going to be looking forward.
TOM SHANNON Earnings warnings are backward looking; economic data are forward looking. People want to look forwa...
DAVID BEARD The girls were upbeat afterward, looking forward to playing Page again and just try to keep momentum...
JENNIFER PARKER Looking back, may I be filled with gratitude;
Looking forward, may I be filled with hope;
Looking up...
UNKNOWN I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and origin...
BURT LANCASTER What they're doing here (at Charlotte) is totally different than what we're doing. We're in first pl...
EDDIE HOUSE -Let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure; Mdlle Reuters is...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.
ERIC ROTH You can't look back; you have to keep looking forward.
LUCY LIU Spare the stress on your neck muscles... Looking backward takes more energy; it's more painful than ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR When we hear of people not surviving in this world it should make us more glad that we are alive .We...
GARY F EVANS... The first game was better than the second game, I was excited to be back. The important thing was to...
JOSH GREEN I am going to keep on training and am looking forward to being back.
RONALDO I never stop looking for things to try and make myself better.
BARRY BONDS I saw that we lost the first game after I left. I try to keep in contact with those guys. Some of my...
DWAYNE JONES Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking b...
CHARLES YU A man who is looking backward all the time cannot move forward, he will be standing still
SUNDAY ADELAJA Everybody else was about a house museum and backward-looking things. Phil was talking about Wright's...
GERALD MOROSCO You need to keep looking forward; don't ever look back.
CHAD KELLY At 93, I'm not looking forward to fame and fortune.
IRVING HARPER I am really looking forward to tomorrow. It feels good just now...If I can keep the game plan to hit...
JARMO SANDELIN In the morning, I have certain aspirations. One of my goals is to avoid looking at the computer or c...
MATT MULLENWEG You can't win every game. As a team obviously you want to. We don't have any excuses. We're looking ...
KYLE NEPTUNE To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its...
PAUL BOESE I know he's going to be fired up. He's going to try to get some revenge for the NCAA finals. He's pr...
JOE DUBUQUE I often have said to people that there are really two cities in the country where the outlook is alw...
HAROLD FORD, JR. Try to keep order and security so that there will not be any negative side effects, ... Try to be po...
AYATOLLAH ALI Try to keep order and security so that there will not be any negative side effects. Try to be polite...
AYATOLLAH ALI I try to live holistically and avoid conventional medicine.
PAMELA SUE MARTIN I'm looking to try to give back to the community some of the things I enjoyed.
DAMON SHELOR Try everything with an open heart, looking to fall in love.
TAYLOR JENKINS REID To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for...
MARGARET FAIRLESS BARBER To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for...
MARGARET FAIRLESS BARBER I'm ready to go. I'm looking forward to going. I'm looking forward to returning. I'm looking forward...
STEVE ALEXANDER I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. A...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I try to dress smooth, I try to keep my face shaved, I try to keep my head cut. I try to do all the ...
J. B. SMOOVE But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience?
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It would take a great deal to crush me
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Both Gore and Bush have just bent over backward to try to reach out, try to appeal, to Hispanics and...
MICHAEL ALVAREZ I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.
IMTIAZ ALI I'm looking forward to it. I'd like to be married.
CHAD MICHAEL MURRAY We're looking at companies which are taking advantage of high energy prices, and we've been buying e...
MARKUS STEINBEIS We're looking forward to the weekend -- it should be fun. I think we're all looking forward to great...
GARY WEBB Every opportunity I get, I try to make the most out of it. I'm looking forward to my future here at ...
BRANDEN ORE I didn't know if it was going to come to me or not, but I was ready. The DB was looking back at the ...
GREG CARR The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, ...
ALBERT MURRAY Try to keep order and security so that there will not be any negative side effects. Try to be polite...
AYATOLLAH ALI I am really looking forward to it.
NICK PRICE We're looking forward to facing San Antonio Christian against on Monday. We'll try to stay focus on ...
CRAIG LAUGER If you lose to a guy a couple of days ago, the best thing is to get back on the court again and try ...
ARVIND PARMAR The prices keep going up. You can't try and sell a piece of junk around here. People won't buy that....
CHARLES CLARK One idea I explore in my stand-up show is whether, if you try looking at the universe rationally and...
ROBIN INCE That loss is behind us for good. It's like I told the kids, we have to keep looking forward.
RYAN SANCHEZ I've slipped on occasion into the realm of irresponsible invective, but I try to avoid it and ge...
MARK MCKINNON We were looking for something unexpected to try just to see what it would do.
KYLE HUGHES I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.
MAYA LIN The past is yesterday. I'm looking forward to tomorrow.
GERRY COONEY I was looking for that pitch, a fastball. I didn't try to do much. I just tried to hit the ball.
CLAUDIO VARGAS Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI We try not to look too far ahead. But now the game is finally here and we can focus on the big game ...
MONIQUE CURRIE 100 Steps forward, 99 back. 1 Step forward, never lookin' - back.
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER I try to keep it the same, try to stay humble.
JACOB DEGROM We've just had a team meeting and the guys are looking forward to tomorrow, we're obviously disappoi...
CHRIS GAYLE Stories about lives remembered bring us backward while allowing us to move forward.
NINA SANKOVITCH We're going to try and build on this in-your-mug defense and continue moving the ball up the floor. ...
CARY THOMPSON I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understandi...
CARSTEN NICOLAI We're looking forward to seeing it settle down and getting started. I think that it's looking really...
SERGIO GARCIA People try to find themselves by looking outward for solutions when the answers lie within.
JIM GENOVESE There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow...
FAMKE JANSSEN I don't try to sound like anyone but me anymore. If something is out of my element, I try to avoid i...
NORAH JONES I think looking forward will be better than looking back.
ERIN MORGENSTERN Looking forward for perfection simply means looking forward for complexity.
AHSAN HASSAN I don't go into games looking for blocks. But if there's an opportunity for me, I will try. I just g...
AHMET GUEYE We're not going to try to avoid things,
MARTHA STEWART We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
E. L. DOCTOROW I am looking forward to even greater healings and miracles in my ministry.
BENNY HINN I was definitely looking forward to the draft,
DAVID LOWRY Try, try, and try again. Never stop trying.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I want every man on the force to try his best, his level best, to try to avoid arresting anyone. I k...
CHILL WILLS I try to avoid stories that end with...and he was never seen again.
KEN POIROT This night is not calm; the equinox still struggles in its storms. The wild rains of the day are aba...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Don't try to focus in something within itself is a failURE.
DEYTH BANGER I'm looking forward to the future, and feeling grateful for the past.
MIKE ROWE I'm really looking forward to, not more of the same, but a continual growth.
BEN HARPER The point of conservatism is not that it prevents movement forward and upward, but that it prevents ...
VLADIMIR PUTIN I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
VIGGO MORTENSEN I'm looking forward to it.
DAVE ROLLER I'm looking forward to it.
LESLY HAINSWORTH I'm looking forward to it,
ROCKY CALMUS I think I'm mostly looking forward to the college life. I'm looking forward to more freedom....
NERLENS NOEL I like to challenge myself. I like to learn - so I like to try new things and try to keep growing.
DAVID SCHWIMMER It's a good market for people who are looking for value. We try to handle quality consignments.
JOEL KULCSAR We're looking forward, we're not looking back.
LEROY CAIN I'm sure they think it's weird that I play with the boys, and I think they try to avoid me, but I ju...
ANNIE HOUGHTON I'm looking to try and get him going as soon as possible. A dunk or an easy basket, anything to get ...
JASON TERRY I try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I've managed to grac...
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë . . . for if we rarely taste the fulness of joy in this life, we yet more rarely savor the acrid bit...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë . . . still we are none of us perfect . . .
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I gave, at first, attention close;
Then interest warm ensued;
From interest, as improvem...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Qué terrible esfuerzo de dejar aquello que queremos
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Un hombre no puede olvidar la devoción que sentía por una mujer así, no debe ser, no puede ser
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It was her pleasure, her joy, to make me still the master in all things.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë -Let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure; Mdlle Reuters is...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë A man is master of himself to a certain point, but not beyond it. -William Crimsworth
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I held a brief debate with myself as to whether I should change my ordinary attire for something sma...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Belgium! name unromantic and unpoetic, yet name that whenever uttered has in my ear a sound, in my h...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I'm a universal patriot...my country is the world.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Pero cuando el dolor termina el recuerdo que queda a veces se transforma en placer
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I verily believe all that is desirable on earth--wealth, reputation, love--will for ever to you be t...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë No man likes to acknowledge that he has made a mistake in the choice of his profession, and every ma...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I know that a pretty doll, a fair fool, might do well enough for the honeymoon; but when passion coo...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Human beings -- human children especially -- seldom deny themselves the pleasure of exercising a pow...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructur...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë In sunshine, in prosperity, the flowers are very well; but how many wet days are there in life—Nov...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I sought her eye, desirous to read there the intelligence which I could not discern in her face or h...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitt...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless s...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë A strong, vague persuasion that it was better to go forward than backward, and that I could go forwa...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Worn out with this torture of thought, I rose to my knees. Night was come, and her planets were rise...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life. If they observed this du...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë And who talks of error now? I scarcely think the notion that flittered across my brain was an error....
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Sir,' I interrupted him, 'you are inexorable for that unfortunate lady; you speak of her with hate -...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Spring drew on...and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I knew, you would do me good, in some way, at some time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself,
than to commit a...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë All men must die.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Signs may be but the sympathies of nature with man.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë You are human and fallible.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë