Sometimes you've gotta take a step backwards to move a few steps forward. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You go ahead, stand still, or go backwards in life. Your objective should be to go ahead. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
It doesn't mater if you're a slow walker, so long as you don't walk backwards. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“I work backwards with the ending in mind as I create art, stories, poems and books. Always in a process of becoming.” — Jill Telford Copy Share Image
“There is little point in teaching anything backwards. The whole object of life, Headmistress, is to go forwards.” — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
You know, I've got a confession to make myself. I'm not really a priest, I've just got my shirt on backwards. — Ryan Stiles Copy Share Image
Most people put the cart before the horse, which is an interesting way to go through life. They approach everything directly. In… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I keep saying that backwards is all you can see. You can't see front. My wife says, "Stop, you're always in the… — Tom Courtenay Copy Share Image
When you read, I'm sure you don't realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
At times, I find that TV today has taken so many steps backwards and has become so regressive as compared to the… — Mandira Bedi Copy Share Image
The truth is, I just don't have that much time to see movies. So if I get two hours where I can… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
When people really hate one another, the tension within them can sometimes make itself felt throughout a room, like atmospheric waves, first… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
The purpose of all our explanations is not to have you understand anything, but for you to snap from the understanding of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In LA you can't tell the teenagers and the moms apart, which is so strange to me. And then it's like, "Who… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
It's never said out aloud, or in so many words, but for many urban, upper caste Indians, 'the backwards' are precisely that… — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
It is this compulsion to look backwards at a time of crisis because one's got no idea of what lies ahead. There… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
I think a couple things, I mean, you know, the tragic death of Matthew Shepard occurred in Wyoming. Colorado and Wyoming are… — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
My dad used to take my younger sister Whitney and I to the firing range, and he'd stand behind us as we… — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
When I look for what I'm going to listen to I go backwards. I'm always going the other way you see. Most… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road; a man with a… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
As Gloria Steinem said about Ginger Rogers: She was doing everything Fred Astaire was doing, just doing it backwards in high heels.… — Michael Malone Copy Share Image
Both good and evil, when they are full grown, become retrospective...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporary suffering, 'No… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
People talking about politics usually start from the ass end backwards in that they think you have a political agenda, and then… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should judge, than… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The alchemists of past centuries tried hard to make the elixir of life: ... Those efforts were in vain; it is not… — Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp Copy Share Image
Because those events are so real that they cast their shadow forward and backwards through all time, whenever men think of these… — S.M. Stirling Copy Share Image
There are two goddesses in your heart,” he told them. “The Goddess of Wisdom and the Goddess of Wealth. Everyone thinks they… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies. — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
There is a period in life when we go backwards as we advance. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Grief moves us like love. Grief is love, I suppose. Love as a backwards glance. — Helen Humphreys Copy Share Image
IF is a very long word in Formula One; in fact, IF is F1 spelled backwards. — Murray Walker Copy Share Image
