A Quote by William Penn

To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping.

William Penn

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William Penn
English - Leader
October 14, 1644 - July 30, 1718

We can slide it Rapidly backwards and forwards: we call this Easing the spring. And rapidly backwards and forwards The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers: They call it easing the Spring.

Henry Reed

The Gothic idea that we were to look backwards instead of forwards for the improvement of the human mind, and to recur to the annals of our ancestors for what is most perfect in government, in religion and in learning, is worthy of those bigots in religion and government by whom it has been recommended, and whose purposes it would answer. But it is not an idea which this country will endure.

Thomas Jefferson

I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.

Carter Burwell

Always forwards, never backwards.

Erich Honecker

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Yuval Noah Harari

History is written backwards but lived forwards.

Madeleine Albright

Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.

Soren Kierkegaard

Change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways

Alvin Toffler

I only move forwards, never backwards, darling.

Grace Jones

Life, after all, should go forwards, not backwards.

David Lodge

At the end of your days, be leaning forwards, not falling backwards.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Soren Kierkegaard

Backwards understood be only can but, forwards lived be must life.

Soren Kierkegaard

The Bishop moves diagonally forwards or backwards, to the extent of the Board.

Howard Staunton

My recovery has been backwards, forwards, up and down - and still is.

Katie Piper

I spent summers in my room listening to cast albums, like 'Les Miserables,' every night. I knew it backwards and forwards. I want to be the first black Jean Valjean.

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