Moving Back Quotes:

Chunks of his life fell away, so that while we were moving ahead in time, he was moving back.

- Jeffrey Eugenides

source: Jeffrey Eugenides (2002). “Middlesex: A Novel”, p.210, Macmillan

topic: Moving, Moving Ahead, Moving Back

I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done.

- Robert Downey, Jr.

topic: Motivational, Moving On, Confidence, Just Keep Moving Forward, Inspirational Moving Forward

The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.

- Alyson Noel

source: Alyson Noel (2013). “The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland”, p.217, Pan Macmillan

topic: Motivational, Change, Moving On, Just Keep Moving, Just Keep Moving Forward

Looking back isn't going to help you! Moving forward is the thing to do

- McKayla Maroney

topic: Moving, Moving Forward, Helping, Moving Back

We don't want to go back to the same policies and practicies that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led to this catastrophe. We keep moving forward.

- David Axelrod

topic: Letting Go, Failure, Moving, Just Keep Moving, Just Keep Moving Forward

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

- Bob Newhart

source: Bob Newhart (2006). “I shouldn't even be doing this: and other things that strike me as funny”

topic: Happiness, Moving On, Smile, Inspirational Laughter, Laughs And Smiles

L.A. ispolluted. It's overpopulated. But it is very much home. It was inevitable for me, the moving back. I was living in San Francisco, and Joan broke it off with me, and I needed a place to live. I'd been divorced. And I needed to write movies and TV shows to earn a living. Alimony. All that. So I figured what the hell, I'll go back to L.A.

- James Ellroy

source: Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

topic: Moving, Home, Writing, Moving Back, Alimony

After moving back to LA, I definitely would love to go to school and do more music in between acting as well as finally learning how to drive!

- Megan Lee

topic: Moving, School, Acting, Moving Back

There was a period that black film had no chance of making it in Hollywood. So, people just made the made the statements that they wanted to make. Whether it was a science fiction film or whatever, b/c they were just making movie for themselves. Then there was a period where people were creating projects as their Hollywood audition 'pieces'. I feel that today we are moving back to the era where we all have our own voices.

- Reginald Hudlin

topic: Moving, Voice, Creating, Moving Back

The whole society has to recognize the importance of the value in embracing what science is going into the 21st Century. Otherwise, we might as well start packing and moving back into the cave right now, because that's where we'll end up.

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

topic: Moving, Caves, Might, Moving Back, 21st Century

As you know, there are al Qaeda operatives that are taken back into Iran, given training as leaders, and they’re moving back into Iraq.

- John McCain

source: "John McCain on Iraq, Iran and the Middle East from Amman, Jordan". "The Hugh Hewitt Show", www.hughhewitt.com. March 17, 2008.

topic: Moving, Taken, Iraq, Moving Back

I've got a lot to prove because of the criticism over my weight and moving back down a division.

- Ricky Hatton

topic: Moving, Criticism, Weight, Moving Back

Bill Clinton may in fact be moving back into the White House. And coincidentally I'm thinking about moving back into my mother's house.

- David Letterman

topic: Mother, Moving, Thinking, Moving Back

Sandy was particularly destructive because it was prevented from moving back out to sea by a "blocking pattern" associated with the jet stream. There's debate about this, but one recent study suggested that melting sea ice in the Arctic may lead to such blocking.

- Nicholas D. Kristof

topic: Block, Moving, Ice, Moving Back, Sandy

The whole movement of happiness, unhappiness, happiness, unhappiness, could be called unhappiness. You're suffering because your state of mind is in flux, moving back and forth. The ego's happiness is really a form of suffering, because it cannot live without unhappiness.

- Eckhart Tolle

source: Source: www.meditationblog.com

topic: Moving, Ego, Mind, Moving Back

Until presence becomes your predominant state, you may find yourself moving back and forth for a while between the old consciousness and the new, between mind identification and presence.

- Eckhart Tolle

source: Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

topic: Moving, Finding Yourself, Mind, Moving Back

Some experts say we are moving back to the pre-antibiotic era. No. This will be a post-antibiotic era. In terms of new replacement antibiotics, the pipeline is virtually dry. A post-antibiotic era means, in effect, an end to modern medicine as we know it. Things as common as strep throat or a child's scratched knee could once again kill.

- Margaret Chan

topic: Children, Moving, Mean, Antibiotics, Moving Back

The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our time moving back and forth between these three.

- Jenny Offill

source: Jenny Offill (2014). “Dept. of Speculation”, p.13, Vintage

topic: Buddhist, Moving, Suffering, States Of Consciousness, Moving Back

The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.

- Al Franken

source: "Al Franken gets serious about politics". www.today.com. November 9, 2005.

topic: Moving On, Running, Home, Moving Back

We've got the wind at our back right now. Americans are waking up to the realities of their previous choices. We must keep America moving back to preeminence because our values and conservative ideas are the world's greatest hope.

- Rick Perry

topic: Moving, Reality, Wind, Moving Back

People die all around us all the time. Drop like flies. Overdose. Aids. Sometimes they kill themselves. People come. They go. Dying is the same as rehab or moving back to Missouri. It just means I won't be seeing them again

- James St. James

source: James St. James (2003). “Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

topic: Moving, Mean, People, Moving Back, Overdose

Do you ever think of moving back?" "To Coldwater? Heck, no. England suits me fine. These Brits love my accent. The first time Gavin asked me out it was just to hear me talk. Lucky for him, it's one of the things I do best." All teasing left her eyes. "Too many memories back home. Can't drive down the street without thinking I see Scott in the crowd.

- Becca Fitzpatrick

topic: Memories, Moving, Eye, Moving Back

We just kept moving back and forth because my mother never had a job. We kept getting kicked out of every house we were in. I believe six months was the longest we ever lived in a house.

- Eminem

topic: Mother, Jobs, Believe, Moving Back

A few years ago, if you had told me I'd be moving back to Glasgow I'd have said, 'No way'. But it's changed. It's much more vibrant, bohemian. But I'm 35 and I've become a bit of a homebody, I don't really go out much. Same in New York. My home could be anywhere but I love Glasgow.

- Kelly Macdonald

source: "Kelly Macdonald: 'I'm so not a celebrity'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2012.

topic: New York, Moving, Home, Homebodies, Glasgow

For the elements have the property of moving back to their place in a straight line, but they have no properties which would cause them to remain where they are, or to move otherwise than in a straight line. The rectilinear motions of these four elements when returning to their original place are of two kinds, either centrifugal, viz., the motion of the air and the fire; or centripedal, viz., the motion of the earth, and the water; and when the elements have reached their original place, they remain at rest.

- Maimonides

source: "The Guide for the Perplexed".

topic: Wise, Moving, Two, Moving Back, Four Elements

According to the latest L.A. Times poll, 75% of Californians believe the country is headed in the wrong direction. And 60% of Californians are so disillusioned, they're thinking about moving back to Mexico.

- Jay Leno

topic: Country, Believe, Moving, Californians, Moving Back

People ask if I miss it, but they don't understand that American culture is so ubiquitous that there's nothing to miss. I don't see myself moving back. It's not that I hate the United States. I just always thought it would be a shame not to live in a foreign country.

- David Sedaris

topic: Country, Hate, Moving, Moving Back, Foreign Countries

I haven't become an American! Having a house in LA is just where the house is. It's just a convenience thing living there. I carry Wales around inside me. I'd consider moving back there one day. I never really left.

- Tom Jones

topic: Moving, House, One Day, Wales, Moving Back

We shouldn't overdramatize the current disagreements with the Russians. They are real, but they're not really all that threatening. And the notion that we're moving back to some Cold War I think is really an exaggerated judgment.

- Zbigniew Brzezinski

source: Source: www.nytimes.com

topic: Real, War, Moving, Moving Back