Backward Quotes

439 quotes by 383 authors

When we feel stuck, going nowhere-even starting to slip backward-we may actually be backing up to get a running start. — Dan Millman
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… — Charles Lamb
The sciences are found, like Hercules's oxen, by tracing them backward; and old sciences are unravelled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot. — Jonathan Swift
Standard mathematics has recently been rendered obsolete by the discovery that for years we have been writing the numeral five backward. This has led to… — Woody Allen
Historians are prophets with their face turned backward. — Friedrich Schiller
How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come;… — Charles Caleb Colton
Human science cannot discover God. Human science is but the backward undoing of the tapestry web of God's science. It works with its back to… — George MacDonald
If you see me at a restaurant, blow me a kiss, wave, blow me another kiss, then walk five steps backward. — Todd Barry
If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward. — Geoff Hickson
Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river. — Victor Hugo
No one should have to dance backward all of their lives. — William Ruckelshaus
Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step. — William Jennings Bryan
These are islands in time - with nothing to date them on the calendar of mankind. In these areas it is as though a person… — Harvey Broome
Choices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood. — Loren Eiseley
Russia on its path has oftentimes discussed and overdiscussed what had happened earlier, instead of moving forward. The result is always the same: It is… — Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Used to the conditions of a capitalistic environment, the average American takes it for granted that every year business makes something new and better accessible… — Ludwig von Mises
I always try to start out with some type of goal. Then I work backward and think of what I need to do to get… — Kristi Yamaguchi
Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Its at night, when perhaps we should be dreaming, that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life… — Brian Aldiss
I literally had a very articulate, though highly impaired, homeless man say to me, â€œSmokey! I love you! Whatâ€™s happening with Jacob?â€ Hereâ€™s a guy… — Titus Welliver

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