Backward Quotes

439 quotes by 383 authors

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every… — August Strindberg
Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not aÂ step backward. — Yvon Chouinard
Doing ill to those on whom we have to make our power felt; for pain is a far more sensitive means for that purpose than… — Friedrich Nietzsche
In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness. — Douglas Coupland
The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. . . . They look… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Look not back. No, not even if you see the dearest and nearest cry. Look not back, but forward. We cannot stop. If we stop… — Swami Vivekananda
When we sincerely turn to God, we will find that His church always moves forward, not backward — Jim Cymbala
You can't look forward and backward... — Coleman Young
When you can't go forward, and you can't go backward, and you can't stay where you are without killing off something deep and vital in… — Sue Monk Kidd
Art need not be intended. It comes inevitably as the tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the blossom from the twig. None… — Robert Henri
I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine. — Ogden Nash
Just as a car parked on a hill will naturally roll backward when shifted into neutral, we will naturally go the wrong way if we… — Greg Laurie
Sweet April-time-O cruel April-time! Year after year returning, with a brow Of promise, and red lips with longing paled, And backward-hidden hands that clutch the… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
I have been envious of male characteristics, if not the men themselves. I'm jealous of the ease with which they seem to inhabit their professional… — Lena Dunham
I still can't believe that some pseudocritics continue to accuse me of having murdered tango. They have it backward. They should look at me as… — Astor Piazzolla
Every day you reinvent yourself. Youâ€™re always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or backward. — James Altucher
Ka is a wheel; its one purpose is to turn. The spin of ka always brings us back to the same place, to face and… — Robin Furth
Reality is a wave function traveling both backward and forward in time. — John L. Casti
The decision to let go of that which has completed its course in your experience is even more important than the decision to welcome new… — Raymond Charles Barker
I had drunk our great cultural Kool-Aid about regret, which is that lamenting things that occurred in the past is an absolute waste of time,… — Kathryn Schulz

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