Top 725 Backward Quotes & Sayings

I take no step backward from anyone.

If you are in a country that is progressive, the woman is progressive. If you're in a country that reflects the consciousness toward the importance of education, it's because the woman is aware of the importance of education. But in every backward country you'll find the women are backward, and in every country where education is not stressed its because the women don't have education.

As long as the reader is enjoying a story and the writing, it doesn't concern me if people don't understand why it's running backward or if it's running backward. I think disorientating a reader a bit can be really nice. Making them work and bringing their own past to play in a novel.

He who moves not forward, goes backward.

You can't go backward in life.

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

You live it forward, but understand it backward.

They had their faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward, because they could not see ahead of them. ...And since he wanted so to see ahead, he looks behind and walks a backward path.

I want Europe to go forward, not backward.

If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward.

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

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

I start with the joke line and write backward.

Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.

I know every Bowie song backward.

Okay," I said. "I'd hoped to avoid this, but... Bill, I rescind your invitation into my house." Bill began walking backward to the door, a helpless look on his face, and my brush still in his hand. Eric grinned at him triumphantly. "Eric," I said, and his smile faded. "I rescind your invitation into my house." And backward he went, out my door and off my porch. The door slammed shut behind (or maybe in front of?) them.

Reforms are slow, but they never go backward.

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

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

There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.

Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.

Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.

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!

Why did Modi not declare his caste if he is from backward community? It makes clear that he is not from backward community.

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?

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

I practice going backward all the time.

Philosophy is perfectly right in saying that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other clause - that it must be lived forward. The more one thinks through this clause, the more one concludes that life in temporality never becomes properly understandable, simply because never at any time does one get perfect repose to take the stance - backward.

The masses in any given place are generally composed of three parts, the relatively active, the intermediate and the relatively backward. The leaders must therefore be skilled in uniting the small number of active elements around the leadership and must rely on them to raise the level of the intermediate elements and to win over the backward elements.

Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.

Revolutions go not backward.

You either use the Internet or you are backward.

A backward glance can often lift the heart.

Work backward from your goal.

To continue in one path is to go backward.

Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.

The historian is a prophet looking backward.

Revolutions never go backward.

I'm a little bit backward. I didn't really go to school.

If I see an ending, I can work backward.

The heart does not go backward. Only the mind.

Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.

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

'Neechi rajniti' does not mean politics of backward communities. Modi has distorted the statement to link with caste to play backward card for political gains.

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.

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.

Dog is God spelled backward.

Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.

The only direction Obama has the economy moving is backward.

The impulse to scapegoat and belittle threatens to turn us into a fearful, backward-looking people. In the case of the Republican Party, those things also threaten to turn us into a fearful, backward-looking minority party.

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

Silence moves faster when it's going backward.

Take one step backward into the unknown.

I will not walk backward in life.

For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.

If you are walking backward, away from something you think is a mistake, you may be right in supposing it is a mistake, but for you to be walking backward is never right. You know what happens to people who walk backward.... We are meant to walk forward, not backward, and reaction is always a matter of walking backward.

I am exactly where I want to be now. You can't go backward. I'm not going backward. I'm grateful that I'm here, blessed to have what I have. Nobody can be prepared for anything. If you end up in a place where you can look back and go, 'It happened, but I'm so lucky to be sitting where I am sitting...'

Life goes on, and one should look ahead and not backward.

I have seen myself backward.

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