Quotes about Backward

Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for to-night! Votes: 3

Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic. Votes: 3

Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us. Votes: 3

Backward we traveled to reclaim the day Before we fell, like Icarus, undone; All we find are altars in decay And profane words scrawled black across the sun. Votes: 3

[In The Dark Backward ] someone who has writer's block and kills people in A Cabin By The Lake. I guess he's a type of serial killer, but I don't know. Votes: 3

Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years!I am so weary of toil and of tears,-Toil without recompense, tears all in vain!Take them, and give me my childhood again! Votes: 3

The Dark Backward. Bill Paxton is in it with me. Wayne Newton. James Caan. Adam Rifkin wrote and directed it. It was made a number of years ago and very odd. Not for the squeamish. Votes: 3

Revolutions go not backward. Votes: 1

Silence moves faster when it's going backward. Votes: 1

If I see an ending, I can work backward. Votes: 1

I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time. Votes: 1

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see. Votes: 1

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power. Votes: 1

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Votes: 1

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies. Votes: 1

There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move! Votes: 1

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. Votes: 1

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom. Votes: 1

At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division. Votes: 1

Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way. Votes: 1

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause. Votes: 1

I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It's a conscious thing; it's a common-sense thing. Votes: 1

It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward. Votes: 1

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates. Votes: 1

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children. Votes: 1

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Votes: 1

There's one secret to hitting hard, and that is to completely dedicate your body. That's the difference between a man going forward and a man going backward, no matter how big he is. Votes: 1

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism. Votes: 1

The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now. Votes: 1

Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together. Votes: 1

When I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the club in a polo T-shirt and pants and sneakers and a hat on backward, just so I would not be dressed like other girls. Votes: 1

The reason why Apple computers have worked so well over time is that, unlike Microsoft, they don't bend over backward to be compatible with every piece of hardware or software in the digital universe. To code or create for Apple, you follow Apple's rules. If you're even allowed to. Votes: 1

Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics. Votes: 1

Revolutions never go backward. Votes: 0

Dog is God spelled backward. Votes: 0

I have seen myself backward. Votes: 0

Work backward from your goal. Votes: 0

Studios look backward. Filmmakers look forward. Votes: 0

You can't look forward and backward... Votes: 0

Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it. Votes: 0

The historian is a prophet looking backward. Votes: 0

Take one step backward into the unknown. Votes: 0

I will not walk backward in life. Votes: 0

He who moves not forward, goes backward. Votes: 0

Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress. Votes: 0

Historians are prophets with their face turned backward. Votes: 0

You live it forward, but understand it backward. Votes: 0

Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system. Votes: 0

Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward. Votes: 0

Robinson could deliver a knockout blow going backward. Votes: 0

A backward glance can often lift the heart. Votes: 0

Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system Votes: 0

Reforms are slow, but they never go backward. Votes: 0

Glance backward, look heavenward, reach outward, press onward Votes: 0

Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward. Votes: 0

His rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power. Votes: 0

For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday. Votes: 0

The heart does not go backward. Only the mind. Votes: 0

You either use the Internet or you are backward. Votes: 0

I start with the joke line and write backward. Votes: 0

To continue in one path is to go backward. Votes: 0

Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward. Votes: 0

As travel pushes me forward, memory keeps dragging me backward. Votes: 0

Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river. Votes: 0

Honestly, if you were any slower, you'd be going backward. Votes: 0

You can't look forward and backward at the same time. Votes: 0

The only direction Obama has the economy moving is backward. Votes: 0

You live life looking forward, you understand life looking backward. Votes: 0

Like the watermen who advance forward while they look backward. Votes: 0

Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'. Votes: 0

This was the Darker Life, where every truth was written backward. Votes: 0

I'd rather look forward and dream, than look backward and regret. Votes: 0

I'm going to change my image - backward caps, the lot. Votes: 0

No one should have to dance backward all of their lives. Votes: 0

Ah! The seasons of love roll not backward but onward, downward forever. Votes: 0

If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward. Votes: 0

Of course the orders all converge backward in time, to different degrees. Votes: 0

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom. Votes: 0

Reality is a wave function traveling both backward and forward in time. Votes: 0

Slow are the steps of freedom, but her feet turn never backward. Votes: 0

It is hopeless trying to go forward when you are looking backward. Votes: 0

the arabs are a backward people who eat nothing but camel dung. Votes: 0

What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? Votes: 0

...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward. Votes: 0

I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward. Votes: 0

I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward. Votes: 0

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization. Votes: 0

Memories and loneliness look backward, fear looks around, but faith always looks forward. Votes: 0

I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals. Votes: 0

Stories about lives remembered bring us backward while allowing us to move forward. Votes: 0

I don't subscribe to the narrative that Africa is backward because of colonialism. Votes: 0

Youth looks forward, for nothing is behind! Age backward, for nothing is before. Votes: 0

Light and dark are relative to one another like forward and backward steps. Votes: 0

I always thought the purpose of time was to move forward, not backward. Votes: 0

There's always a choice,' said Torak, and walked backward off the cliff. Votes: 0

I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward Votes: 0

By the mere fact that we do not go forward, we go backward. Votes: 0

Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes are ever backward to suspect others. Votes: 0

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. Votes: 0

You can't go forward if you're looking backward. You run into walls that way. Votes: 0

Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird. Votes: 0

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. Votes: 0

There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move. Votes: 0

It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources. Votes: 0

The direction worth going in isn't up, down, forward, or backward. It's towards. And beyond. Votes: 0

When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists. Votes: 0

Us ballplayers do things backward. First we play, then we retire and go to work. Votes: 0

I hate looking backward, but every once in a while it sneaks up on you. Votes: 0

Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations. Votes: 0

It's like . . . time is flowing backward. We're caveman archeologists in the ruins of the future. Votes: 0

Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them. Votes: 0

I knew I was good because I was the only 14-year-old who could dunk backward. Votes: 0

Today we take it for granted that war happens in smaller, poorer and more backward countries. Votes: 0

Men should press forward, in fame's glorious chase; Nobles look backward, and so lose the race. Votes: 0

You can't look forward and backward at the same time...........so I choose to look forward. Votes: 0

Looking backward at what has been lost, I feel sad, then indifferent, and at last relieved. Votes: 0

While I occasionally enjoy a bout of nostalgia, I would generally rather dream forward than backward. Votes: 0

Never wear a backward baseball cap to an interview unless applying for the job of umpire. Votes: 0

That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward. Votes: 0

And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope. Votes: 0

Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor. Votes: 0

Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward. Votes: 0

You have to split, bend over backward, touch our toe to our heads to get recognized. Votes: 0

What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward. Votes: 0

And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction. Votes: 0

The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup. Votes: 0

Art said he wanted to get more distance. I told him to hit it and run backward. Votes: 0

Every day you reinvent yourself. You're always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or backward. Votes: 0

Everybody thinks that actors would be really good at bluffing, but I think it's a little backward. Votes: 0

Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward. Votes: 0

I rolled my eyes so far into the top of my head I almost fell over backward. Votes: 0

Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist. Votes: 0

Every day, you reinvent yourself. You're always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or backward. Votes: 0

When we sincerely turn to God, we will find that His church always moves forward, not backward Votes: 0

We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be. Votes: 0

Time never runs backward when I need it to. Not for me, and not for anyone else. Votes: 0

The transfer of Wall Street from private ownership to public ownership has been a big step backward. Votes: 0

When the British left, India was a multireligious, multiregional, multiethnic country, exploited, backward, and poor from colonialism. Votes: 0

I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space. Votes: 0

It is only in the backward countries of the world that increased production is still an important object. Votes: 0

part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations. Votes: 0

Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward. Votes: 0

Choices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood. Votes: 0

I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. Votes: 0

Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter. Votes: 0

You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward. Votes: 0

Donald Trump as a figurehead is the opposite of that - he's regression, he's taking a step backward. Votes: 0

A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward; to reset oneself by an inner compass. Votes: 0

when I say go back''- I forget it is backward,today always go to tomorrow .that is natural . Votes: 0

The problem with a lot of nations, is that they keep trying to move forward with backward agendas. Votes: 0

If you have a wormhole, then you can turn them into time machines for going backward in time. Votes: 0

Politics is like driving. To go backward put it in R. To go forward put it in D. Votes: 0

Spare the stress on your neck musclesLooking backward takes more energy; it's more painful than looking forward! Go ahead! Votes: 0

No More Avengers! There's nothing new to get out of it - I want to go forward, not backward. Votes: 0

Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out. Votes: 0

The march of good fortune has backward slips: to retreat one or two paces gives wings to the jumper. Votes: 0

Ever wonder about those people who spend $2 apiece on those little bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backward. Votes: 0

For the first time in history we can work backward from our imagination rather than forward from our past. Votes: 0

One of the first things one notices in a backward country is that children are still obeying their parents Votes: 0

Faith begins with a backward look at the cross, but it lives with a forward look at the promises Votes: 0

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward. Votes: 0

We start with the perfect experience and then work backward. That's how we're going to continue to be successful. Votes: 0

If Bangladesh succumbs to the rule of one family, it would be a major step backward for the region. Votes: 0

I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine. Votes: 0

Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward. Votes: 0

If you are content with yourself, you'll stop taking those little steps forward and begin taking big steps backward. Votes: 0

You learn from your mistakes, or you go backward. I'm the kind of person who wants to move forward. Votes: 0

Right now, though, I wanted not to think forward or backward, but only to lose myself in the words. Votes: 0

So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road. Votes: 0

When we feel stuck, going nowhere-even starting to slip backward-we may actually be backing up to get a running start. Votes: 0

I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is. Votes: 0

My journey has been a very slow build-up. Each year has been a step upward. I've never actually gone backward. Votes: 0

No wonder women don't negotiate as often as men. It's like trying to cross a minefield backward in high heels. Votes: 0

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure. Votes: 0

I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - You write backward Es! Votes: 0

The Arab and Islamic countries suffer from severe backwardness, and the Western world wants to make them even more backward. Votes: 0

These are the days when birds come back, a very few, a Bird or two, to take a backward look. Votes: 0

Dog' is ‘God' spelled backward; you know that. That's why you're here, to help the nuns do God's work. Votes: 0

We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries. Votes: 0

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward. Votes: 0

I found college awkward: another teacher, same old chalkboard. I felt I was shifting backward, when I expected to shoot forward. Votes: 0

There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward. Votes: 0

The sort of commercial parameters of classical music changed after the [World War II] , and the whole industry became more backward-looking. Votes: 0

One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters. Votes: 0

To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong. Votes: 0

Perhaps making movies is a step toward being able to move backward and forward and in and out of linear time. Votes: 0

A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward. Votes: 0

The only way we are going to reduce disease, is to go backward to the diets and lifestyles of our ancestors. Votes: 0

If you see me at a restaurant, blow me a kiss, wave, blow me another kiss, then walk five steps backward. Votes: 0

Miss Hayes, have you stopped to consider that you might have this all backward? That in fact you are my fantasy? Votes: 0

Rowing is such a fine sport. Everyone goes backward, and the leader can see his opponents as they struggle in vain. Votes: 0

If you got into a taxi and the driver started driving backward, would the taxi driver end up owing you money? Votes: 0

There's no backward and no forward, no day other than this. You fill your cart as you go, and that's that. Votes: 0

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age. Votes: 0

Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more ... to give way to the happiness of the person you love. Votes: 0

If God had intended that man should go backward, he would have given him eyes in the back of his head. Votes: 0

I like to think that my finest hour is still ahead of me, so I can look forward rather than look backward. Votes: 0

Russia, Russia-unwashed, backward, appealing Russia, so ashamed of your own backwardness, so orientally determined to conceal it from us by clever deceit. Votes: 0

Spiritually, yes, now many people knows Tibetans in spiritual field are very, very advanced but in material field is very, very backward. Votes: 0

The helicopter appeared so reluctant to fly forward that we even considered turning the pilot's seat around and letting it fly backward. Votes: 0

An unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction. Votes: 0

A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing. Votes: 0

Marla said, "This isn't like when guys sit backward on the toilet and pretend it's a motorcycle. This is a genuine accident. Votes: 0

His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract. Votes: 0

You linger to see his back, and the back of his neck and shoulder-side...The Bending forward and backward of the rowers... Votes: 0

If I turned around every time somebody called me a faggot, I'd be walking backward - and I don't want to walk backward. Votes: 0

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward. Votes: 0

Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step. Votes: 0

Shall we not go on in so great a cause? Go forward and not backward. Courage, brethren; and on, on to the victory! Votes: 0

To sin is to be off the mark, that is, to inhibit development, contracting backward into regression rather than expanding forward into growth. Votes: 0

Welfare reforms and the whole "happy" exploitation movement are not "baby steps." They are big steps"“in a seriously backward direction. Votes: 0

Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated. Votes: 0

It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward. Votes: 0

Seeing outward is equivalent to looking backward in time because the telescope's mirror is capturing primeval light... galaxies that existed before our time. Votes: 0

The Dharma Path is to keep walking forward. But the true Dharma has no going forward, no going backward, and no standing still. Votes: 0

The sciences are found, like Hercules's oxen, by tracing them backward; and old sciences are unravelled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot. Votes: 0

Paradoxically, only journeying backward in time and reentering the home we once knew allows us to go forward to the home we've always wanted. Votes: 0

I love you. Okay? Want it louder? I LOVE YOU. Spell it out, should I? I ell-oh-vee-ee why-oh-you. Want it backward? You love I. Votes: 0

You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. Votes: 0

I staggered backward-her one hand gripping my shoulder, the other still holding my wrists behind her-and she followed until my back hit the wall. Votes: 0

In your life's defining moments there are two choices - you either step forward in faith and power or you step backward into fear. Votes: 0

The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young. Votes: 0

I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it. Votes: 0

In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness. Votes: 0

Give unto us this day the daily manna Without which, in this desert where we dwell, He must go backward who would most advance. Votes: 0

More often than not, the easy decisions are the wrong decisions, and sometimes we feel like we're going backward when we're actually moving forward. Votes: 0

True stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded. Votes: 0

Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded. Votes: 0

A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples. Votes: 0

You’re impinging on my private space,” I said, inching backward. Patch gave a barely-there smile. "Impinging? This isn’t the SAT, Nora. Votes: 0

Mostly though, college was me trying to look cooler than I was. There were definitely some Carhartt jeans and backward kangol caps in my repertoire. Votes: 0

There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to. Votes: 0

O blest one hour like this! to rise And see grief's shadows backward roll; While bursts on unaccustomed eyes The glad Aurora of the soul. Votes: 0

I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis. Votes: 0

Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade? Votes: 0

Christ is the great central fact in the world's history. To Him everything looks forward or backward. All the lines of history converge upon Him. Votes: 0

I prefer the earlier birth control techniques, which ranged from the delicious (using honey as a spermicide) to the aerobic (jumping backward seven times after coitus). Votes: 0

Looking backward always presents an overdetermined depiction of fate; by this perspective we leave out of focus the possibilities of action which existed at the time. Votes: 0

China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward. Votes: 0

A good soldier, whether he leads a platoon or an army, is expected to look backward as well as forward; but he must think only forward. Votes: 0

You decide that you don't want to go backward. You want to go forward. But sometimes, going 'backward' isn't really going backward, it's actually moving forward. Votes: 0

They [Muslims] are backward and evil and if it is racist to say so... then racist I must be - and happy and proud, to be so. Votes: 0

While our bodies move ever forward on the time line, our minds continuously trace backward, seeking shape and meaning as deftly as any arrow seeking its mark Votes: 0

Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move, And when this dust falls to the urn In that state I came, return. Votes: 0

We cannot go backward. We cannot erase time and events. But we can go forward, hand in hand, hope in our hearts and love lighting our way. Votes: 0

England was a cold, backward, rebellious little kingdom. It's king: Henry the Eighth, remembered principally for his six wives and the chicken legs clutched in his fat fists. Votes: 0

When there's no experimenting there's no progress. Stop experimenting and you go backward. If anything goes wrong, experiment until you get to the very bottom of the trouble. Votes: 0

Ataturk approved of the mevlevi dervish approach to God as being 'an expression of Turkish genius' that reclaimed Islam from what he saw as hide-bound, backward Arab tradition. Votes: 0

Learn the backward step that turns your light inward to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face will be manifest. Votes: 0

Bush, himself the most intellectually backward American president of my political lifetime, is surrounded by advisers whose bellicosity is exceeded only by their political, military and diplomatic illiteracy. Votes: 0

We are not going back. Not only are we not going to retreat on women's rights, we are going to expand them. We are going forward, not backward. Votes: 0

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward. Votes: 0

To "learn from experience" is to make a backward and forward connection between what we do to things and what we enjoy or suffer from things in consequence. Votes: 0

While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide. Votes: 0

Because in life, the question is not if you will have problems, but how you are going to deal with them. Stop failing backward and start failing forward! Votes: 0

If the world were really right, humans would live life backward and do the first part last. They'd be all knowing in the beginning and innocent in the end... Votes: 0

The average term length of a member of congress is approaching 15 years, and the average term length of a convicted criminal is less than three. We've got that backward. Votes: 0

Gypsy [Rose Lee] wasn't a linear person, and she didn't live life in a linear fashion. She was relentlessly self-inventing, and moved backward as often as she moved forward. Votes: 0

I believe that we're all created in the image of God and we're all fallen sinners. And I think we can recognize that as we look backward in history. Votes: 0

If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety. Votes: 0

Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state. Votes: 0

Dreams are a sweet mistake All dreamers must awake.. On then with the dance No backward glance Or my heart will break Never look back NEVER LOOK BACK. . . . Follies Votes: 0

Business in Russia was not being done like in the West, with contracts. In Russia, hundreds of millions of dollars were going forward and backward by word of mouth. Votes: 0

As for people who are politically backward, Communists should not slight or despise them, but should befriend them, unite with them, convince them and encourage them to go forward. Votes: 0

It's amazing the gymnastics you can do when you don't want to do something. How you can force yourself against all the forces of nature. I threw myself backward. Votes: 0

Love is infinite. Grief can lead to love. Love can lead to grief. Grief is a love story told backward just as love is a grief story told backward. Votes: 0

It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our age.... sympathy as a fine art is backward in the growth of progress ... Votes: 0

Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish. Votes: 0

In transforming backward agricultural China into an advanced industrialized country, we are confronted with arduous tasks and our experience is far from adequate. So we must be good at learning. Votes: 0

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy. Votes: 0

There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities. Votes: 0

If we love-and-serve an ideal we reach backward in time to its inception and forward to its consummation. To grow is sometimes to hurt; but who would return to smallness? Votes: 0

We don't spend our days thinking about Microsoft or trying to get revenge on Microsoft. That's a really negative and backward way, and that's not how I want to live. Votes: 0

The mind cannot be securely anchored. If we do not advance, we go backward. If we do not grow, we decay. If we do not develop, we shrink and shrivel. Votes: 0

The gospel points us upward to a God who gave himself for us, backward to the price he paid for our sin, and forward to what he's making us into. Votes: 0

Long ago, long ago. The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward. Votes: 0

It's cool to play the guitar, but to me it's even cooler to scratch a guitar backward and forward, to manipulate it with a turntable. Guitars can't do that themselves. Votes: 0

People long to go backward in their imagination as well as forward. We don't wish simply to exist forever in some future; we wish to have existed in some distant past. Votes: 0

It occurred to me when I was thirteen and wearing white gloves and Mary Janes and going to dancing school, that no one should have to dance backward all their lives. Votes: 0

The thing I love most about my job is watching people age backward, becoming more lively and energetic as they free themselves from situations that are toxic to their essential selves. Votes: 0

The point of conservatism is not that it prevents movement forward and upward, but that it prevents movement backward and downward, into chaotic darkness and a return to a primitive state. Votes: 0

Except for its backward compatibility with existing Wii software and accessories, we have so far failed to make propositions worthy of Wii U's position as a successor to the Wii system. Votes: 0

Not since the days of George W. Bush's 'Clear Skies' and 'Healthy Forests' initiatives has America been presented with a project as cravenly corporate and backward-looking as the Keystone XL pipeline. Votes: 0

Sweet April-time-O cruel April-time! Year after year returning, with a brow Of promise, and red lips with longing paled, And backward-hidden hands that clutch the joys Of vanished springs, like flowers. Votes: 0

Don't keep your head turned backwards. Look ahead and move on. You are trying to walk forward with your head turned backward. This is why you feel miserable. Just let go! Votes: 0

I'm looking around at the real world and I'm kind of seeing that as technology is advancing and the human race is advancing, we are kind of also taking steps backward. Votes: 0

America was founded on a genocide, on the unquestioned assumption of the right of white Europeans to exterminate a resident, technologically backward, colored population in order to take over the continent. Votes: 0

We've got to turn this backward thinking around where ignorance is championed over intelligence. Young black kids being ridiculed by their peers for getting A's and speaking proper English: that's criminal. Votes: 0

For some, the past is a chain, each day a link, raveling backward to one ringbolt or another, in one dark place or another, and tomorrow is a slave to yesterday. Votes: 0

Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and a respect for labor uncorrupted by cynicism. Votes: 0

You know, once you've had that guitar up so loud on the stage, where you can lean back and volume will stop you from falling backward, that's a hard drug to kick. Votes: 0

With Alzheimer's, recent memory is affected first. At the start, you count the memory loss in days, then hours - then in minutes. But there's also an insidious backward creep of deterioration. Votes: 0

Grandchildren now don't write a thank you for the Christmas presents. They are walking on their pants with their cap on backward, listening to the Enema Man and Snoopy, Snoopy Poop Dog. Votes: 0

Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse under your wheel. Votes: 0

Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders. Instead, its steps forward (and sometimes backward) are often very human events in which personalities and cultural traditions play major roles. Votes: 0

I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there. Votes: 0

I lay there knowing something eerie ties us to the world of animals. Sometimes the animals pull you backward into it. You share hunger and fear with them like salt in blood. Votes: 0

I made the journey to knowledge like dogs who go for walks with their masters, a hundred times forward and backward over the same territory; and when I arrived I was tired. Votes: 0

We all have defining moments. It is in these moments that we find our true characters. We become heroes or cowards; truth tellers or liars; we go forward or we go backward. Votes: 0

I sometimes think I prefer suitors in books rather than right in front of me. How awful, backward, cowardly, and mentally warped that will be if it turns out to be true. Votes: 0

It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want. Votes: 0

Every now and then I will see a word as if for the first time, and suddenly appreciate that Evian is 'naive' spelled backward, or that Bosnia is an anagram of 'bonsai.' Votes: 0

Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel. Votes: 0

You cover 50 yards on the playing field of faith with a story that downplays your success. You cover 3 yards, or you may even end up backward, with anything that up-plays or promotes you. Votes: 0

It occurs to me that artists go forward by going backward, something which I have nothing against intrinsically when it is a reproduced retreat - as is the case with the better artists. Votes: 0

I've been barbecued, stewed, screwed, tattooed, and fried by people claiming to be my friends. The human race has gone backward, not forward, since the days we were apes swinging through the trees. Votes: 0

Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel. Votes: 0

We look backward too much and we look forward too much; thus we miss the only eternity of which we can be absolutely sure - the eternal present, for it is always now. Votes: 0

Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' - or else not. Votes: 0

I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs. Votes: 0

Society bends over backward to be accommodating to religious sensibilities but not to other kinds of sensibilities. If I say something offensive to religious people, I'll be universally censured, including by many atheists. Votes: 0

When you can't go forward, and you can't go backward, and you can't stay where you are without killing off something deep and vital in yourself, you are on the edge of creation. Votes: 0

And Phoebe and Sebastian went their separate ways, to the blacksmith shop and the library, after several backward glances that weren't coordinated enough to allow either to know that the other one was looking. Votes: 0

Russia on its path has oftentimes discussed and overdiscussed what had happened earlier, instead of moving forward. The result is always the same: It is very difficult to move forward when you're looking backward. Votes: 0

Painting has this ability to send the viewer [backward], but it's also this physical object in the room with you. It's always knocking you back into the present moment, which I find very pleasurable. Votes: 0

Here's an idea: How about just 'Americans?' That has a nice ring to it, if you ask me. Placing undue emphasis on our 'separateness' is a step backward. Bring back the melting pot. Votes: 0

Black child poverty is higher. As I write in the epilogue, "Yes we can. No he didn't. President [Barack] Obama didn't push black people backward, but he missed the opportunity to move us forward." Votes: 0

Most of us prefer to walk backward into the future, a posture that may be uncomfortable but which at least allows us to keep on looking at familiar things as long as we can. Votes: 0

In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. That wasn't really skating backward, but I guess I was going in the right direction. Votes: 0

There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is the moment when he crosses the line into manhood. Votes: 0

Ahead! Courage! In the spiritual life he who does not advance goes backward. It happens as with a boat which always must go ahead. If it stands still the wind will blow it back. Votes: 0

The most poor and backward areas in the world are those in which women are subjugated and exploited. Improving the situation of the woman improves the family, the community, and by extension the whole country. Votes: 0

Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat? Votes: 0

Prospective research looks forward in time to see how a group of individual change over time while retrospective research looks backward in time and attempts to reconstruct the conditions that led to the current situation. Votes: 0

It is in many circumstances a troubling thing to belong to the advanced class of a backward nation. One surrenders coherence and begins a difficult process of choice which ends, often, in an eclectic idiosyncrasy. Votes: 0

I would bend over backward to be back on Grey's. Any day, I'll choose lying in bed with Katherine Heigl looking over me over getting thrown against walls by supernatural persons at 5 in the morning. Votes: 0

There is no difference in quality between a life lived forward and a life lived backwards, she thinks. She had come to love this backward life. It was, after all, the only life she had. Votes: 0

I still can't believe that some pseudocritics continue to accuse me of having murdered tango. They have it backward. They should look at me as the saviour of tango. I performed plastic surgery on it. Votes: 0

There is no disputing that in the eyes of Schlechter, Teichmann or even Rubinstein, the backward pawn was something more substantial than lively piece play, but in our day the latter is more often preferred. Votes: 0

I always try to start out with some type of goal. Then I work backward and think of what I need to do to get there, and give myself smaller goals that are more immediate Votes: 0

Raven jerks and stiffens. For a second, I think she is only surprised: Her mouth goes round, her eyes wide. Then she begins teetering backward, and I know that she is dead. Falling, falling, falling . . . Votes: 0

The BJP is an optimistic party. Our strength and our democratic values are such that even a poor person from a backward section - like me - has been nominated as a Prime Ministerial candidate. Votes: 0

In art school, I started to see Pettibon in magazines, and I figured it out backward. I was into the idea that someone could show work in galleries while making album covers and photocopied books. Votes: 0

To me it's a question of being able to look backward and give the present a root... To give meaning to where we are today, we need to look at where we have come from. Votes: 0