Backward Quotes

439 quotes by 383 authors

We don't want to be wounds ("No, you're the wound!") but we should be allowed to have them, to speak about having them, to be… — Leslie Jamison
I think . . . that philosophy has the duty of pointing out the falsity of outworn religious ideas, however estimable they may be as… — Corliss Lamont
Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age. — Dorothy L. Sayers
To continue in one path is to go backward. — Igor Stravinsky
The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure. — Ross Macdonald
I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination… — Beverly Cleary
Us ballplayers do things backward. First we play, then we retire and go to work. — Charlie Gehringer
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function… — Margaret Barber
He that comes to Christ cannot, it is true, always get on as fast as he would. Poor coming soul, thou art like the man… — John Bunyan
The early Christians made it a part of their religion to look for his return. They looked backward to the cross and the atonement for… — J C Ryle
To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong. — Vladimir Lenin
I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - you write backward Es! — Hilary Putnam
We know that an object that is not consciously noticed at the time of a first visit can, by its absence during subsequent visits, provoke… — Ivan Chtcheglov
American Empire- it is an empire that lacks the drive to export its capital, its people and its culture to those backward regions which need… — Niall Ferguson
Memories and loneliness look backward, fear looks around, but faith always looks forward. — E. Lynn Harris
Where there was nature and earth, life and water, I saw a desert landscape that was unending, resembling some sort of crater, so devoid of… — Bret Easton Ellis
Floating in the void free of gravity I made my way along the side of the ship. I listened to my own breaths. It was… — Elisabeth Eaves
The fighter is to be always single-minded with one object in view: to fight, looking neither backward nor sidewise. To go straight forward in order… — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move. — Edgar Cayce
Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress. — Henry Ward Beecher

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