We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The Bishop moves diagonally forwards or backwards, to the extent of the Board. — Howard Staunton Copy Share Image
The Providence of God is like Hebrew words-it can be read only backwards. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates — H. Jackson Brown, Jr Copy Share Image
My heart is drawn backwards and forwards between the spinning wheel and books. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as standing still in this world. Either we must move forward or we must go backwards.” — Mazhar-ul-Haque Copy Share Image
“True leaders are like statues, whether it rains or it shines, they never bend their necks to look backwards! They never run… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“America want nostalgia. They want to go back as far as they can, even if it turns out to be only last… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
Hey officers, the only people who can say the alphabet backwards are the people who practice it because they're always drinking and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“know what happens when you play a country tune backwards? You get your girl and your truck back, you’re not drunk anymore… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
“Wonderful", the Flatline said, "I never did like to do anything simple when I could do it ass-backwards.” — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Write backwards. Start from the feeling you want the audience to have at the end and then ask "How might that happen?"… — Lucy Prebble Copy Share Image
I have the opportunity to do something positive, I want to stay positive. It's hustling backwards in my eyes when I can… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
I love the way a story's ending can force you to read backwards. It's as if you are slowly adjusting a kaleidoscope… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards.… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
A self is, by its very essence, a being with a past. One must look lengthwise backwards in the stream of time… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I… — Anita Desai Copy Share Image
Even Hitler didn't wake up going, 'Let me do the most evil thing I can do today.' I think he woke up… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
“I tend to walk around convinced that any amount of forgiveness that I could extend could never possibly compensate for the offenses… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
I'm not optimistic about reform in many, if any, policy areas at all. I think we'll make further progress by inventing new… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
“Life too is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward.” — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
I hate getting the ball and passing it sideways or backwards. I hate it. — Jonjo Shelvey Copy Share Image
“To de-escalate a potential conflict, one method is to take a step backwards.” — David W Earle LPC Copy Share Image
I can no longer face life, so I've decided to go through the rest of it backwards. — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
If you watch Cinderella backwards, it's about a woman who learns her place. — Orange Carrot Copy Share Image
“We have to live life forwards, but can only understand it backwards.” — Claire Seeber Copy Share Image
It will be a great thing for the human soul when it finally stops worshipping backwards. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Life must be understood backwards; but... it must be lived forward. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
