Top 725 Backward Quotes & Sayings - Page 4
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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.
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.
I'm not some little soft touch. I will never take a backward step when batting, but I want to be respected as a nice guy, too.
There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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.
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?
If you have a wormhole, then you can turn them into time machines for going backward in time.
I feel that the law should ensure speedy justice to girls, be it from poor, rich or backward communities, and for this, the Modi government has made laws.
The transfer of Wall Street from private ownership to public ownership has been a big step backward.
Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.
I'd rather look forward and dream, than look backward and regret.
When we feel stuck, going nowhere-even starting to slip backward-we may actually be backing up to get a running start.
Dog’ is ‘God’ spelled backward; you know that. That’s why you’re here, to help the nuns do God’s work.
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.
Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.
Give unto us this day the daily manna Without which, in this desert where we dwell, He must go backward who would most advance.
Shall we not go on in so great a cause? Go forward and not backward. Courage, brethren; and on, on to the victory!
You have to split, bend over backward, touch our toe to our heads to get recognized.
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.
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.
Youth looks forward, for nothing is behind! Age backward, for nothing is before.
One of the pillars of backward thinking in America is the idea that you can have jobs or you can have clean air and water, but you can't have both. That myth has been busted a thousand times, but still it lives on.
I had my pants backward, cut a hole in my baseball cap, stuck my ponytail through it . I wanted to be the third member of Kris Kross.
We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.
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.
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.
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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?
To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong.
In the fifty years since the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, we have made tremendous strides in the fight for equality. We must continue to move forward, not backward.
The sort of commercial parameters of classical music changed after the [World War II] , and the whole industry became more backward-looking.
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.
Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out.
As travel pushes me forward, memory keeps dragging me backward.
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.
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.
Harlem's streets lead backward, into history, straight to a work such as 'This Was Harlem.'
It's always easier for people to face backward than to face forward.
I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it?
What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward.
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.
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.'
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.
I believe that Prime Minister Modi will respond positively to development projects for backward areas. That is why I am promising them.
An unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction.
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.
Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.
Technology does not run backward. Once a technical capability is out there, it is out there for good.
Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations.
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.
The future is our greatest adversary. We are a very backward-looking society, and as such, we are continually blindsided by the future.
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.
And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
Faith begins with a backward look at the cross, but it lives with a forward look at the promises
Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.
... but one loves, and when one is on the brink of death, one turns around to look backward, and one says to oneself: "I have often suffered, I have sometimes been wrong, but I have loved.
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.
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.
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.
Memories and loneliness look backward, fear looks around, but faith always looks forward.
