Top 725 Backward Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
While I occasionally enjoy a bout of nostalgia, I would generally rather dream forward than backward.
The march of good fortune has backward slips: to retreat one or two paces gives wings to the jumper.
I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - You write backward Es!
There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward.
I don't support ObamaCare and see it as a step backward that entrenches the power of the private health care industry.
No More Avengers! There's nothing new to get out of it - I want to go forward, not backward.
Men should press forward, in fame's glorious chase; Nobles look backward, and so lose the race.
I was just oblivious to the fact that the country scene was socially backward and politically opposite of everything I am.
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.
Perhaps making movies is a step toward being able to move backward and forward and in and out of linear time.
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.
...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
To sin is to be off the mark, that is, to inhibit development, contracting backward into regression rather than expanding forward into growth.
I found college awkward: another teacher, same old chalkboard.
I felt I was shifting backward, when I expected to shoot forward.
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.
I can't stand people who are backward. I am honest, straightforward. I don't like to pretend. And I will not change either.
There are musicians who go through their lives sort of shedding their skins. For me, I've always felt backward-compatible to Version 1.0.
We can't forbid women from going to the beach because of a costume, even if it is rightly seen as neo-fundamentalist, backward, and shocking.
The Arab and Islamic countries suffer from severe backwardness, and the Western world wants to make them even more backward.
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
I have so much work to do every day to get back to my normal life that I can't afford to be angry, even at the bombers. I can't keep looking backward.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.
Today we take it for granted that war happens in smaller, poorer and more backward countries.
Human evolution relies on cooperation, which is why identity politics feels so backward.
The best I can say is that you move forward in your life. After every step you take, you can't go backward.
I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it.
These are the days when birds come back, a very few, a Bird or two, to take a backward look.
Reading is so private, and it is often a reader's habit to finish a book, close the covers, and plunge into the next one without a backward glance.
When we sincerely turn to God, we will find that His church always moves forward, not backward
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.
I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is.
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.
The only way we are going to reduce disease, is to go backward to the diets and lifestyles of our ancestors.
So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.
There was a joke in Czechoslovakia: The Communist Party dance, it's one step forward, two steps backward, and everyone is still clapping.
A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.
If the leaders of backward castes had done something for the community, then there would have been no need for the BSP. They didn't, so we exist.
In many ways, Trump appeals to people's smallness, their fears, whatever part of them wants to look backward.
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.
It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.
Can a democratic nation fight a War on Terror and at the same time bend over backward so as not to offend a few visitors' rights?
Everybody thinks that actors would be really good at bluffing, but I think it's a little backward.
I knew I was good because I was the only 14-year-old who could dunk backward.
When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward.
Whenever a political regime or religious establishment refuses to tolerate criticism, it advertises itself as repressive, backward, and insecure.
[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.
Right now, though, I wanted not to think forward or backward, but only to lose myself in the words.
If God had intended that man should go backward, he would have given him eyes in the back of his head.
Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward.
Rowing is such a fine sport. Everyone goes backward, and the leader can see his opponents as they struggle in vain.
It causes havoc on set anytime a director wants to go backward rather than forward.
I remember once I didn't like a dress that we had to shoot - I'll never forget this - and so I turned it inside out and put it on the model backward.
Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.
Art said he wanted to get more distance. I told him to hit it and run backward.
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.
Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.
We are becoming a society where traditional values and free speech are being diminished and the religious are viewed as having a backward mentality.
