107 Rearview Quotes
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Famous Rearview Quotes
We go forward looking in the rearview mirror. — Marshall McLuhan
The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it. — Dudley Moore
Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror. — Colin Powell
The hood ornament on your car is for telling you where you're going. The rear-view-mirror is for showing you how good you look while you're getting there. — David Lee
We can’t really look back and see what is in the rear-view mirror. This is not how you are going to move forward. — Didier Deschamps
We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future. — Marshall McLuhan
Management by results - like driving a car by looking in rear view mirror. — W. Edwards Deming
Looking back in front of me, in the mirror a grin. Through eyes of love I see, I'm only looking at a friend. — Stevie Ray Vaughan
The only time you should look back is to see how far you've come. — MrBeast
I have only one eye. Do you want me to look at the road or the at the speedometer. — Moshe Dayan
What's behind you doesn't matter. — Enzo Ferrari
It’s always easier for people to face backward than to face forward. — Martha C. Nussbaum
Surfing's one of the few sports that you look ahead to see what's behind. — Laird Hamilton
Instead of just looking back, whiplash-style, I can assume there's something else coming. Time just folds over itself, like origami. — Feist
When I notice a rear wheel overtaking me, I know I'm sitting in a Lotus. — Graham Hill
Short Rearview Quotes
- In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield. — Warren Buffett
- The best view of big government is in the rearview mirror as we leave it behind. — Ronald Reagan
- You can't see the future through a rearview mirror — Peter Lynch
- God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors. — Ann Voskamp
- We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror. — Marshall McLuhan
- Can I tell you how strange it is to look in your rearview mirror and see guys in cars tailing you? — David Schwimmer
- You won't even know you've crossed the line until it's way back in your rearview mirror. — Barry Lyga
- The great times were never as great as they seem in the rearview mirror. — Pat Benatar
- I know you followed me. Don't look so surprised. It's called a rearview mirror. — Becca Fitzpatrick
- No matter where you go, you always see yourself in the rearview mirror. — Kinky Friedman
Rearview Mirror Quotes
The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better. — Joe Hill
Your future starts today. Don’t go through life looking in the rearview mirror. Your life is filled with possibility. — Joel Osteen
Look in the rearview mirror long enough & you'll see that God has purposely positioned you everywhere you've been-even when it seemed you'd taken a wrong turn. — Mark Batterson
God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors. And I've an inkling that there are times when we need to drive a long, long distance, before we can look back and see God's back in the rearview mirror. Maybe sometimes about as far as heaven -- that kind of distance. — Ann Voskamp
Speed damages our souls because living fast consumes every ounce of our energy. Speed has a deafening roar that drowns our the whispering voices of our souls and leaves Jesus as a diminishing speck in the rearview mirror. — Mike Yaconelli
I love driving, but sometimes, I'm not too good at it because I spend too much time looking in the rearview mirror if I know I'm being followed. You don't respond like, 'Oh, there's paparazzi.' It's more like, 'There's a man, and he's going to attack me.' That's how your body responds. — Ashley Olsen
Explore the situation. Statements are expendable. Don't keep on looking in the rearview mirror and defending the status quo which is outmoded the moment it happened. — Marshall McLuhan
Every woman needs secrets,' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearview mirror. 'Remember that when you're old like me, pumpkin, because the world has a way of making a woman's life everyone else's business--you have to dig out a little place that's only yours. — J. Courtney Sullivan
I don't tend to look at myself through the rearview mirror where dates are concerned. I have blinders on the past and try to look forward. — Russell Mael
We're better in the rearview mirror than we are at predicting - 'cause you're never going to be right every time. You can handicap it. You can point to certain elements that make it work, and many of those elements come straight out of epidemiology, right? — Seth Godin
Rear View Mirror Quotes
The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past. We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future. — Marshall McLuhan
You do not move ahead by constantly looking in a rear view mirror. The past is a rudder to guide you, not an anchor to drag you. We must learn from the past but not live in the past. — Warren W. Wiersbe
If life is just a highway, then the soul is just a car. And objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are. — Jim Steinman
In my rear view mirror the sun is going down sinking behind bridges in the road and I think of all the good things that we have left undone and I suffer premonitions confirm suspicions of the holocaust to come. — Roger Waters
The new is always made up of the old, or rather, what people see in the new is always the old thing. The rear-view mirror. The future of the future is the present, and this is something that people are terrified of. — Marshall McLuhan
Running a company on market research is like driving while looking in the rear view mirror. — Anita Roddick
I'm paranoid. On my stationary bike, I have a rear view mirror. — Richard Lewis
You can drive a car by looking in the rear view mirror as long as nothing is ahead of you. Not enough software professionals are engaged in forward thinking. — Bill Joy
Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes... You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few Parking Tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a Cop car in your rear-view mirror. — Hunter S. Thompson
Even though I'm proud by dad invented the rear-view mirror, we're not as close as we appear. — Stewart Francis
Rear Window Quotes
We've become a race of Peeping Toms. What people ought to do is get outside their own house and look in for a change. Yes sir. How's that for a bit of homespun philosophy? — Thelma Ritter
Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles. — Paul Fussell
Weve become a race of Peeping Toms. What people oughta do is get outside their own house and look in for a change. — John Michael Hayes
Everybody cryin' mercy / When they don't know the meaning of the word. — Mose Allison
Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that? Well, he gets it from the landlady once a month. — John Michael Hayes
I wonder if it's ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens? D'ya suppose it's ethical even if you prove that he didn't commit a crime? I'm not much on rear window ethics. — John Michael Hayes
... I looked through the car's rear window for a final wave, and it felt like someone had invaded my chest and squeezed all the juice out of my heart until it was a tiny dry sponge. — Karen Tayleur
Her round, mascara-streaked face looked back at him out of the rear window. He forced a grin and a wave before lighting another cigarette, and reflecting that Lucy's idea of sympathty compared unfavourably with some of the interrogation techniques they had used at Guantanamo. — J. K. Rowling
Hell, when I was in high school, a "drive-by shooting" meant somebody had their rear end hanging out a car window! — Jeff Foxworthy
I'm not much into rear window ethics. — Alfred Hitchcock
Rear Quotes
The art of concentrating strength at one point, forcing a breakthrough, rolling up and securing the flanks on either side, and then penetrating like lightning deep into his rear, before the enemy has time to react. — Erwin Rommel
Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them. — Ludwig von Mises
As far as rearing children goes, the basic idea I try to keep in mind is that a child is a person. Just because they happen to be a little shorter than you doesn't mean they are dumber than you. — Frank Zappa
But Hezbollah now has reared its ugly head in a way that threatens the entire free world. And they want, by their own charter and definition, the destruction of Israel and Christians. That is the truth. That is in their charter. — Zach Wamp
I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage. — Countee Cullen
Only the family, society's smallest unit, can change and yet maintain enough continuity to rear children who will not be 'strangers in a strange land,' who will be rooted firmly enough to grow and adapt. — Salvador Minuchin
Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will. — Gelett Burgess
The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf. — Marshall McLuhan
Whatever we refuse to recognize about ourselves has a way of rearing its head and making itself known when we least expect it. — Debbie Ford
The cat is the only non-gregarious domestic animal. It is retained by its extra-ordinary adhesion to the comforts of the house in which it is reared. — Francis Galton
People Writing About Rearview
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Marshall McLuhan |
369 | 2937 |
 Dudley Moore |
14 | 133 |
 Colin Powell |
377 | 7882 |
 David Lee |
11 | 103 |
 Didier Deschamps |
54 | 1 |
 W. Edwards Deming |
245 | 3622 |
More Rearview Quotes
See, when you drive home today, you've got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you've got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what's happened in your past is not near as important as what's in your future. — Joel Osteen
In my life there were a lot of situations where I could have been killed or some officer might have been killed chasing me, a lot of things could be different. Now, you know that's experience you can't buy. And it's there in my rearview mirror and I can refer to it in my writing. I have the experience to talk about things some people only imagine. — Merle Haggard
When you're a regular gal, you look in the rearview mirror, and in the bright daylight you see that line around your mouth, but when you're an actress and you see that line up on the big screen, it's, like, seven feet long. — Sharon Stone
Given the slow pace of Washington's bureaucracy, policymakers are often busy solving yesterday's problems. This rearview mirror approach afflicts Mr. Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress. — Fred Upton
I can’t believe how much this place has grown,” Hazel muttered. The taxi driver grinned in the rearview mirror. “Been a long time since you visited, miss?” “About seventy years,” Hazel said. The driver slid the glass partition closed and drove on in silence. — Rick Riordan
I looked at my reflection in the rearview mirror. Some lipstick would go with this truck, I thought. — Jennifer Niven
Connie drove a silver Camry with rosary beads hanging from her rearview mirror and a Smith& Wesson stuck under the seat. No matter whatwent down, Connie was covered. — Janet Evanovich
It is undeniable that the French were in a better situation in 1960s then than they are today in 2017. I don't look in the rearview mirror. But there was no need for us to experience an end to social progress since then. — Marine Le Pen
I really try to forget. I only look at my old works if there's an interview and someone asks me about it. Otherwise, it's not even in the rearview mirror. — Chang-Rae Lee
I am reminded that no matter how hard you try, you can never be more than twelve years old with your parents. Parents earnestly try not to inflame, but their comments contain no scale and a strange focus. Discussing your private life with parents is like misguidedly looking at a zit in a car's rearview mirror and being convinced, in the absence of contrast or context, that you have developed combined heat rash and skin cancer. — Douglas Coupland
I come from a minimum wage working world, as we all did for at least some part of our lives, and that is never out of my rearview. I've never forgotten how much your feet hurt after you've stood on them for like 12 hours. And how the drudgery of a job you hate craps on your entire life; how you treat other people, how you treat yourself, and it really was getting to me. — Henry Rollins
Can you imagine telling a woman she can't vote!? The women I hang out with would be going home with parts of your anatomy swinging from their rearview. — Henry Rollins
You have to find hope. Hope is such a shape shifter. You tend to look in the rearview mirror for hope, but when its gone, you have to look forward. You have to get in the van and keep driving on. — Jonathan Evison
we live in a world of excess: too many kinds of coffee, too many magazines, too many types of bread, too many digital recordings of Beethoven's Ninth, too many choices of rearview mirrors on the latest Renault. Sometimes you say to yourself: It's too much, it's all too much. — Corinne Maier
Speed Limit – A sign that tells you at what speed the car that's rapidly fading from view in your rearview mirror is going; a law that provides the sole means of support for many small-town police departments. — Richard Turner
It may be tempting to look back and wring our hands over missed opportunities for change in the preceding decades. But, I'm not interested at looking in the rearview mirror except to learn. — Jennifer Granholm
I was just about to ask you the same thing. I know you followed me. Don't look so suprised. It's called a rearview mirror. Are you stalking me for a specific reason? — Becca Fitzpatrick
I drove off, with my friends watching me go, all of them grouped on Lissa's hood. As I pulled onto the road, I glanced into the rearview and saw them: they were waving, hands moving through the air, their voices loud, calling out after me. The square of that mirror was like a frame, holding this picture of them saying good-bye, pushing me forward, before shifting gently out of sight, inch by fluid inch, as I turned away. — Sarah Dessen
Girls like you want to cut guy's nuts off and hang 'em from your rearview mirror. — Simone Elkeles
The beautiful thing about driving was that it stole just enough of his attention - car parked on the side, maybe a cop, slow to speed limit, time to pass this sixteen-wheeler, turn signal, check rearview, crane neck to check blind spot and yes, okay, left lane. — John Green
Sure,” she said, and hugged the laptop bag closer. “What could go wrong?” Michael’s eyes flashed to meet hers in the rearview mirror. Besides everything, I mean,” she said. — Rachel Caine
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