„Reason well from the beginning and then there will never be any need to look back with confusion and doubt.“

„If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with.“

—  L. Frank Baum, buch The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Quelle: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

„If you have any doubt about the degree with which this is self-defense, just look at those pictures from September 11th.“

—  Condoleezza Rice American Republican politician; U.S. Secretary of State; political scientist 1954

Interview by Wolf Blitzer on CNN http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0109/24/se.22.html, September 24, 2001.

„You know the way people begin to look like their dogs? Well, we're beginning to look like each other.“

—  John Lennon English singer and songwriter 1940 - 1980

„Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?“

—  Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy

Quelle: 1910s, The Problems of Philosophy (1912)

„I don't see any reason why I should look for someone who never took the trouble to love me.“

—  Paulo Coelho Brazilian lyricist and novelist 1947

„Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.“

—  John Irving, buch Owen Meany

Quelle: A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989), ch. 9

„Jem drew back from her, looking dazed. "By the Angel," he said. "Perhaps we do need a chaperon.“

—  Cassandra Clare, buch Clockwork Prince

Quelle: Clockwork Prince

„Aristotle’s view that philosophy begins with wonder, not as in our day with doubt, is a positive point of departure for philosophy. Indeed, the world will no doubt learn that it does not do to begin with the negative, and the reason for success up to the present is that philosophers have never quite surrendered to the negative and thus have never earnestly done what they have said. They merely flirt with doubt.“

—  Sören Kierkegaard Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism 1813 - 1855

Journals and Papers III 3284 (1841)
1840s, The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1840s

„…increasing remoteness of desires from needs. …increasing confusion between means and ends. The ends are human needs… Instead they want the means they have been brainwashed to accept… Never was any society in human history as rich and as powerful as Western Civilization and the United States, and it is not a happy society.“

—  Carroll Quigley American historian 1910 - 1977

Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: "The State of Individuals" (1976)

„Half the confusion in the world comes from not knowing how little we need.“

—  Richard Evelyn Byrd Medal of Honor recipient and United States Navy officer 1888 - 1957

Quelle: Alone (1938), Ch. 2

„There were never any characters that looked like me or my sisters or my girlfriends…Our stories needed to be told.“

—  Beverly Jenkins American author of historical and contemporary romance novels 1951

On becoming an unknowing pioneer in the romance genre in “Interviews: Beverly Jenkins” https://bookpage.com/interviews/19354-beverly-jenkins-romance#.XflqF-lKjcs in BookPage (Feb 2016)

„If there was any doubt about the need for social transformation in 1970, that need is clear and urgent today.“

—  Charles A. Reich American lawyer 1928 - 2019

Preface to 1995 edition of The Greening of America
Kontext: If there was any doubt about the need for social transformation in 1970, that need is clear and urgent today. … I am now more convinced than ever that the conflict and suffering now threatening to engulf us are entirely unnecessary, and a tragic waste of our energy and resources. We can create an economic system that is not at war with human beings or nature, and we can get from here to there by democratic means.

„There's something else there as well, something entirely her own. An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.“

—  Suzanne Collins, buch Die Tribute von Panem – Flammender Zorn

Quelle: Mockingjay

„He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.“

—  José Rizal Filipino writer, ophthalmologist, polyglot and nationalist 1861 - 1896

„Don't look back, and don't run. You must never run from anything immortal; it attracts their attention.“

—  Peter S. Beagle, buch The Last Unicorn

The Unicorn, to Schmendrick, as the harpy Celaeno kills Mommy Fortuna
The Last Unicorn (1982 film)

„I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.“

—  Judy Garland actress, singer and vaudevillian from the United States 1922 - 1969

Interview, NBC TV (16 March 1961)

„Don’t look for reason where it’s never been practiced.“

—  Michael Bishop American writer 1945

Quelle: A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975), Chapter 5, “Ambivalence: The Children of the Ouemartsee” (p. 92)

„I could never be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.“

—  Eleanor Roosevelt American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States 1884 - 1962

„He didn't look back. He never did“

—  John Flanagan Irish-American hammer thrower 1873 - 1938