Backward Quotes

439 quotes by 383 authors

My days were not days of the week, bearing the stamp of any heathen deity, nor were they minced into hours and fretted by the… — Henry David Thoreau
If you are in a country that is progressive, the woman is progressive. If you're in a country that reflects the consciousness toward the importance… — Malcolm X
Tell them I came, and no one answered, That I kept my word," he said. Never the least stir made the listeners, Though every word… — Walter de La Mare
This is ideal, youâ€™ll see. We do everything backward. Itâ€™s just how we are. We began with an elopement. After that, we made love. Next,… — Tessa Dare
I have seen myself backward. — Philip K. Dick
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom. — Arthur Schopenhauer
The heart does not go backward. Only the mind. — Elizabeth Kostova
It's as if when you love someone, they become your reason. And maybe I've gotten it backward, maybe it's just because I need a reason… — David Levithan
I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space. — Dan Simmons
Raven jerks and stiffens. For a second, I think she is only surprised: Her mouth goes round, her eyes wide. Then she begins teetering backward,… — Lauren Oliver
It's just one thing after another. Cars that won't run. Planes that will never fly again. Computer systems we can barely use, let alone re-create.… — Dan Wells
He was the first to reach the aircraft, and he went for the door that by some miracle was facing outward and not into the… — J R Ward
It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what… — Khaled Hosseini
Okay," I said. "I'd hoped to avoid this, but... Bill, I rescind your invitation into my house." Bill began walking backward to the door, a… — Charlaine Harris
Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for to-night! — Elizabeth Chase Allen
So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and… — Samuel Johnson
Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations. — Douglas Coupland
At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin.… — Andre Gide
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. — Rashida Jones
No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward. — Amar Bose

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