Walking Away And Never Looking Back Quotes

Can I make you happier with powder on my chest? Do you need a thousand movie shows? Sixteen million people to ride the bus with, hit the stop - I shoulda never let you go away from home - " Rich lips brooded in my deaf ear. "The fog'll fall all over you, Jacky, you'll wait in fields - You'll let me die - you wont come save me - I wont even know where your grave is - remember what you were like, where your house, what your life - you'll die without knowing what happened to my face - my love - my youth - You'll burn yourself out like a moth jumping in a locomotive boiler looking for light - Jacky - and you'll be dead - and lose yourself from yourself - and forget - and sink - and me too - and what is all this then?"
"I dont know - "
"Then come back to our porch of the river the night time the trees and you love stars - I hear the bus on the corner - where you're getting off - no more, boy, no more - I saw, had visions and idees of you handsome my husband walking across the top of the America with your lantern...
Out of her eyes I saw smoldering I'd like to rip this damn dress off and never see it again! ~ Jack Kerouac

New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors. ~ Wallace Stevens

I'm walking away from the Troubles in my Life ... ~ Craig David

Jeff knew full well what he was walking away from. Again, he needed to deal with this right away. ~ Kenneth Lay

I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject. ~ Jeanette Winterson

Pain Doesn't go away, you just make room for it. ~ The Walking Dead

But the problem with looking back when you should be walking ahead is that you usually end up walking into something that hurts. ~ Megan Hart

I have always admired the Esquimaux (Eskimos). One fine day a delicious meal is cooked for dear old mother, and then she goes walking away over the ice, and doesn't come back. ~ Agatha Christie

Looking, Walking, Being, I look and look. Looking's a way of being: one becomes, sometimes, a pair of eyes walking. Walking wherever looking takes one. The eyes dig and burrow into the world. They touch, fanfare, howl, madrigal, clamor. World and the past of it, not only visible present, solid and shadow that looks at one looking. And language? Rhythms of echo and interruption? That's a way of breathing. breathing to sustain looking, walking and looking, through the world, in it. ~ Denise Levertov

I still love the music and it's still plays a part in what I do but I never 'turned my back' on garage. I was always doing R&B with, say, Walking Away. It's wonderful that I was classed as the king of 2-step and a pioneer, but it's had its turn, I think. ~ Craig David

Walking away from you feels like not taking care of myself. ~ Trista Mateer

I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back. ~ Judy Garland

I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from ... I just wanted to study literature and writing. ~ Gaby Hoffmann

Selfhood begins with a walking away, And love is proved in letting go. ~ Cecil Day-Lewis

No matter how rudely someone treats you, remain kind. Walking away at peace with yourself is worth it. ~ Anne Rice

Just imagine walking away from something you've started. Something you really believed would be good. I don't think i could ever do that. ~ Jo Nesbo

Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future. ~ Aneurin Bevan

It's just me and James walking and walking except he's on my back and his eyes are looking past the people who are looking past us for the coyote of our soul and the wolverine of our heart and the crazy crazy man that touches every Indian who spends too much time alone. ~ Sherman Alexie

As Scots - like everyone else - we live in an increasingly inter-connected world that demands shared solutions to shared problems. Walking away from others have never been our way. Walking with others has been our heritage and still represents our best future. ~ Douglas Alexander

You know I like that fight and I'm confident of walking away with two super-middleweight titles ~ Jeff Lacy

I think looking forward will be better than looking back. ~ Erin Morgenstern

Looking back, I've never had one regret. ~ Ted Lindsay

He had risked his life and now it was walking away from him, hand-in-hand with a Ruffian prince. ~ William Goldman

What his uncle does not understand is that in walking backwards, his back to the world, his back to God, he is not grieving. He is objecting. Because when everything cherished by you in life has been taken away, what else is there to do but object? ~ Yann Martel

Have the courage to walk away, those that value you will want you back, & those that do not won't hold you back. ~ Trevor Driggers

Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking. ~ Antonio Machado

Which would prove I'm a monster, Arnie? Sacrificing the people I love for the fight? Or walking away from the fight to save the people i love? ~ David Wong

My favorite place is whichever sidewalk is beneath my feet because I am just constantly fascinated by walking and looking and learning. If I've already walked a street five times, then the next five times I walk it looking up, and I learn something about the cornices. ~ Danny Meyer

The worst mistake you can make is walking away from the person who actually stood there and waited for you ... ~ Drake

Trying to find a heart that's not walking away. ~ Mat Kearney

Every crazy fad from the 1800s comes back or they never go away. It's like fashion, like everything's already been invented, and somebody stumbles onto it and people will always, always be looking for an answer for some vague illness they can't get a diagnosis for. ~ Mary Roach

The only way that we may overcome the world is by coming unto Christ. And coming to Christ means walking away from the world. ~ Sheri L. Dew

Of all the things I've ever done, perhaps none was more difficult than turning away from my beautiful girl and walking away, leaving her there, never to look back. But my friend Tom, my ever-faithful good friend Tom said, pointing down the hall away from Cec's room, 'Life's that way. Let's go home.'
And so we did. ~ Jim Beaver

I never waste time looking back. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

But simply punishing the broken
walking away from them or hiding them from sight
only ensures that they remain broken and we do, too. There is no wholeness outside of our reciprocal humanity. ~ Bryan Stevenson

Stage is really hard work. You've got to do it every night. Not like doing it once and walking away. ~ Morgan Freeman

My mum passing away wasn't funny, but that funeral and what I went through, the things that happened, looking back at it, there were funny moments. You have to be strong enough to look back at it, to sit and assess the situation. ~ Kevin Hart

If you see me walking down the street, you're gonna see the same guy as you do on stage, dressed the same, looking the same, and nothing changes. I'm just one person. ~ Daryl Hall

The she-cat carried on walking without looking back. "Mapleshade," she mewed. ~ Erin Hunter

I'm in the kitchen and I'm not walking out. ~ Charles B. Rangel

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears. ~ John Locke

I have learned to not let a bad race or failure bring me down, and always walking away with something positive and learning from mistakes so I can be better or stronger next time. ~ Erin Hamlin

If you're always looking back at what you've lost, you'll never discover the treasure that lies just up ahead. ~ J.E.B. Spredemann

My wife uses fabric softener. I never knew what that stuff was for. Then I noticed women coming up to me, sniffing, then saying under their breath, "Married!" and walking away. Fabric Softeners are how our wives mark their territory. We can take off the ring, but it's hard to get that April fresh scent out of your clothes. ~ Andy Rooney

Am I walking toward something I should be running away from? ~ Shirley Jackson

I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful tropical thing that can survive the winter in the woods in New Hampshire. ~ Steven Tyler

I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made fo figure things out, not to read the same page recurrently. ~ Donald Miller

I get pretty much all the exercise I need walking down airport concourses carrying bags. ~ Guy Clark

Never trust a thought that didn't come by walking. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

What you've done is done. You've got a goal you never reach, and it's always farther away. It keeps you walking. I don't want to sit down. ~ Christopher Lambert

I would try and help everybody, because the game was so easy for me. It was just like walking in the park. ~ Willie Mays

Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write. ~ Mary Wesley

Yes, I'm looking at you, looking at me, looking at you, looking at me, looking back at you. ~ Sammy Hagar

Always keep looking forward, and never look back. ~ Justin Bieber

Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment? ~ Al Pacino

I ain't looking back only forward. ~ Eminem

Pause and remember - You deserve peace! So, don't feel bad for one moment about walking away from people, jobs, and situations that keep you from having peace of mind. ~ Jennifer Young

Keep walking! Keep walking!" Agres hissed as they headed away from Gila walking as fast as they could at this point they didn't care how they looked. ~ Charon Lloyd-Roberts

You don't cruise the Internet looking for your name and walk away with a good feeling. So, I never do it. ~ Adam Carolla

I'm the boy who fell for you from afar, Sera. I should have done the right thing and walked away. I've never had a problem walking away from anything in my whole damn life, but I was weak. I could not walk away from you. ~ Callie Hart

Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets. ~ Bernard Cornwell

I never should have left you. I'll never stop loving you, even if you hate me for walking away. ~ Tara Sivec

Every moment wasted looking back, keeps us from moving forward. ~ Hillary Rodham Clinton

When you have a very hot single there is no reason why it can't drive album sales. People fall off and come back on. I'm looking forward to coming back on with a vengeance. ~ Justin Guarini

I love acting. It's a lot of fun work, interesting work, and you get to work with some very interesting people. But I seemed to be OK walking away from it for a little while and then coming back to it. ~ David Alpay

I have exes I'm friends with and exes I'm not friends with. It depends on what you decide together. I do think that sometimes trying to maintain that bond can be healthier than walking away. ~ Tyler Blackburn

I had the most expensive haircut you can get, and I was walking around with my hair in rollers backstage, and my hair still came out looking like I was shot out of a cannon and I had just gotten out of bed. ~ Kelly Cutrone

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. ~ George Chapman

These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago ... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me. ~ Ansel Adams

Going your own way shouldn't stop them from being happy with you."
"My brother and my sisters, they're clerks and parents and settled sort of people. I'm a puzzle, and sooner or later when you can't solve a puzzle, you have to think there's somthing wrong with it. Else there's something wrong with you."
"You ran away," she murmured.
He wasn't sure he liked the phrase, but nodded. "In a sense, I suppose, and as fast as I could. What's the point in looking back?"
But he was looking back, Keeley thought. Looking back over his shoulder, because he was still running away. ~ Nora Roberts

I actually don't have a problem with shooting and then just walking away and forgetting about it. I'm not really like a Method actor or an old soul. It doesn't stay with me. ~ Karen Gillan

Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing. ~ Karlheinz Stockhausen

Walk on water? I know most people out there will be saying that instead of walking on it, I should have taken more of it with my drinks. They are absolutely right. ~ Brian Clough

When we have fallen and need to get back up again, we are able to do it in His strength walking in His Spirit. Cling to the Spirit of Christ Jesus - He will never fail. ~ Monica Johnson

I'm walking out in the rain again
Pains the same as it's always been
Lungs full of smoke from my cigarette
And my heart breaks with every step,
But only a little bit
Walking away from myself, not getting far
Wondering if it's you I see in each passing car ~ Eric Overby

I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry. ~ Yusuf Islam

Yes, he was that good looking. Take-your-breath-away good looking. Want-to-strip-your-body-naked-and-let-him-devour-you-alive good looking. Certified-eye-candy good looking. ~ Gail McHugh

He sat there looking at her smiling and laughing, watching her hair fall over her eyes and she setting it back behind her ear, He turned away bowed his head down and smiled himself looking back at the sky. ~ Akshay Vasu

And then, looking back at my first Olympics, and when the pressure was on, in '94 and '98, and looking back and going, wow. I sensed and felt what Brian had gone through. ~ Elvis Stojko

I think, ultimately, looking back now, acting wasn't satisfying me 100%. ~ Joey Lauren Adams

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river. ~ Zhuangzi

I went to high school in Indianapolis I learned how to walk around looking tough because everybody had to do that. I go out there occasionally and they're still doing it, walking around looking very tough because something might happen. ~ Kurt Vonnegut

Looking back at my life's voyage, I can only say that it has been a golden trip. ~ Ginger Rogers

Not bombs nor my broken heart can take away from me walking barefoot with you in jasmine June through the Field of Mars. ~ Paullina Simons

Standing with the poor means walking away from unethical leaders, even when their companies are 'succeeding.' ~ Jacqueline Novogratz

The lady set off, in search of summers long past, always just around the next corner. On a basic level, maybe all of us on the path were the same; perhaps we were all looking for something. Looking back, looking forward or just looking for something that was missing. Drawn to the edge, a strip of wilderness where we could be free to let the answers come, or not, to find a way of accepting life, our life, whatever that was. Were we searching this narrow margin between the land and the sea for another way of being, becoming edgelanders along the way. Stuck between one world and the next. Walking a thin line between tame and wild, lost and found, life and death. At the edge of existence. ~ Raynor Winn

Far away on the path we saw Sir Henry looking back, his face white in the moonlight, his hands raised in horror, glaring helplessly at the frightful thing which was hunting him down. But that cry of pain from the hound had blown all our fears to the winds. If he was vulnerable he was mortal, and if we could wound him we could kill him. Never have I seen a man run as Holmes ran that night. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

If you are walking backward, away from something you think is a mistake, you may be right in supposing it is a mistake, but for you to be walking backward is never right. You know what happens to people who walk backward ... We are meant to walk forward, not backward, and reaction is always a matter of walking backward. ~ J.I. Packer

In life, redemption was walking up the down escalator: stop to congratulate yourself, and back you slid. ~ Amy Waldman

The act was an exorcism of relief for Florentino Ariza, for when he put the violin back into its case and walked down the dead streets without looking back, he no longer felt that he was leaving the next morning but that he had gone away many years before with the irrevocable determination never to return. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Utopia is on the horizon. I move two steps closer; it moves two steps further away. I walk another ten steps and the horizon runs ten steps further away. As much as I may walk, I'll never reach it. So what's the point of utopia? The point is this: to keep walking. ~ Eduardo Galeano

In looking back, I see nothing to regret and little to correct. ~ John C. Calhoun

But there's no point in looking back and saying I was unlucky. ~ Jamie Redknapp

George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions. ~ Bianca Jagger

The part that sickens me about boxing is guys fight their whole careers and they have nothing to show for it. That's not going to be my testimony. When it's time to get out of the game, I want to be able to walk away. I'm not going to jeopardize my health. I will have no problems walking away. ~ Andre Ward

In walking, we acquire more of less. ~ Robert Moor

I'm tipping the hat and looking back. ~ Robert Plant

You're looking at a man without a heart. It belongs to you now. Keep it or throw it away--do what you will with it. I can never take it back."

-The Edge Of Courage ~ Elaine Levine

Within minutes, the entire village was in the water, splashing about, falling over, getting up, moving steadily forwards towards the horizon; never looking back to shore ... "come back," he beseeched his wife: "nothing is happening. come back! ~ Salman Rushdie

Looking back, I don't know why we needed it to be quite so loud all the time. ~ Pete Townshend