Backward Quotes

439 quotes by 383 authors

Souls, I said. I mean, you always wonder if they're real. Even if you believe in them, you still have to wonder: Is my existence… — Jim Butcher
My sudden, unforeseen capitulation had knocked me backward, and I had nothing to hold on to. My internal weather was eerily calm, as if in… — Kate Christensen
I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward — May Sarton
The only way to keep from going backward is to keep going forward. Eternal vigilance is the price of success. There are three steps, and… — Charles F. Haanel
I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis. — Mira Bartok
A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It was too difficult. People weren't prepared to put in the hours on the donkey work - you know, dates and facts and so on.… — Sebastian Faulks
It is out of fashion in these days to look backward rather than forward. About the only American given to it is some unreconstructed Southerner,… — John Crowe Ransom
Sometimes what makes us insecure and vulnerable becomes the fuel we need to be overachievers. The antidote for a snakebite is made from the poison,… — T.D. Jakes
Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by lynching, there is… — W. E. B. Du Bois
People tell me that the countryside must always be stupid and backward, and I get angry, as if it were said that only townspeople had… — George William Russell
Religion isn't best understood primarily as a collection of beliefs held by backward people with fear and trembling for most of human history (religion as… — David Dark
I swung from one place to the next, sometimes backward, sometimes forward, capitalizing on my own momentum, knowing that at some point my armsâ€”or, more… — Amanda Lindhout
Paradoxically, only journeying backward in time and reentering the home we once knew allows us to go forward to the home we've always wanted. — Gloria Steinem
Donâ€™t keep your head turned backwards. Look ahead and move on. You are trying to walk forward with your head turned backward. This is why… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Give unto us this day the daily manna Without which, in this desert where we dwell, He must go backward who would most advance. — Dante Alighieri
The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young. — A J Liebling
... but one loves, and when one is on the brink of death, one turns around to look backward, and one says to oneself: "I… — Alfred de Musset
There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward. — John Steinbeck
Philosophy is perfectly right in saying that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other clause - that it must be lived… — Soren Kierkegaard

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