“Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward." from CUTTING FOR STONE” — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird. — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“You're not a nuthatch, Laurie." "Oh, but I am. I'm totally upside down. I'm a very backward kind of guy.” — Leslea Tash Copy Share Image
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Time never runs backward when I need it to. Not for me, and not for anyone else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can't go forward if you're looking backward. You run into walls that way. — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward. — Jim Bakker Copy Share Image
When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
Well, I think, I certainly used backward music in Sea of Monsters. I can't remember in the Sea of Time. I would… — George Martin Copy Share Image
Ataturk approved of the mevlevi dervish approach to God as being 'an expression of Turkish genius' that reclaimed Islam from what he… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
“When we judge others, we judge ourselves through comparison. We go backward on the ladder, which means we are going down.” — Mihail Militaru Copy Share Image
You know the way it is: sometimes Americans think of us as their backward little cousin. It's the whole shamrock, potatoes, famine,… — Sheamus Copy Share Image
When I see the sort of mindless tax cuts for the wealthy, cuts to education, I just think we've got it exactly… — Bill Foster Copy Share Image
“We live our lives in forward motion, but only understand them when looking backward. I therefore challenge you to keep a six-… — Mary C. Neal Copy Share Image
“Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it's a cha-cha.” — Robert Brault Copy Share Image
And so everything I see in this world, it all moves backward and forward at the same time, like a black-smith's bellows,… — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
After 9/11, a few hundred CIA and Special Operations personnel, backed by airpower and Afghan militias, devastated Taliban and al-Qaeda forces. That… — Erik Prince Copy Share Image
The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Whoever said that the past isn’t dead had it backward. It’s the future that’s already dead, already played out. This whole night… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
When you learn about stories in school, you get it backward. You start to think 'Oh, the reason these things are in… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
“If only life could be lived backward, we'd know the mistakes not to make,' Kylee thought, 'and instead of losing all we… — Alex London Copy Share Image
“I know the past will drag you backward and down, have you snatching at whispers of wind & the gibberish of trees… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“none of us move on without a backward look. We move on always carrying with us those we have lost. What we… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
I've heard that kind of weird backward compliment often - 'She's so talented, but not pretty.' — Kathy Baker Copy Share Image
I hate looking backward, but every once in a while it sneaks up on you. — Burt Lancaster Copy Share Image
Every day you reinvent yourself. You’re always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or backward. — James Altucher Copy Share Image
Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us. — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
French courts are backward and politically correct, which is the height of stupidity. — Brigitte Bardot Copy Share Image
There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
If Bangladesh succumbs to the rule of one family, it would be a major step backward for the region. — Khaleda Zia Copy Share Image
When you take a step on the ladder to success, you don't want to take a step backward. — Randall Cunningham Copy Share Image
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I don't subscribe to the narrative that Africa is backward because of colonialism. — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
“Life is ahead of us. If we spend too much time looking backward, we can’t see where we are going!” — R.J. Palacio Copy Share Image
They had their faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward, because they could not see ahead of… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
The mind cannot be securely anchored. If we do not advance, we go backward. If we do not grow, we decay. If… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In order to move on from something of our past we have to change our way of thinking and our looking backward… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
