Backward Quotes

439 quotes by 383 authors

I was in a play directed by my father, and I was doing a fight scene, and the choreography went haywire, and I flew backward… — Jeremy Piven
Obama sees everything backward. Where Americans see individual achievement, he sees government's work. Where we see failing companies, he sees innovation worth subsidizing. Where we… — Reince Priebus
Sometimes in life, we have to go backward a certain distance in order to go forwards. If we have conflicts within ourselves that we have… — Frederick Lenz
I'm not terribly technological. I'm awfully backward about iPads and BlackBerries and suchlike; I still have a great fondness for Teletext, and I clung onto… — David Tang
I think as a whole America is dealing with the issue of homophobia. We got to be really honest about whether we believe in civil… — Kerry Washington
Liberalism, contrary to popular belief, is facing backward in considering the injustice of its ancestors. Conservatism, contrary to popular belief, is facing forward in considering… — Criss Jami
Everybody thinks that actors would be really good at bluffing, but I think it's a little backward. — Ron Livingston
Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter. — Charles C. Mann
The only way we are going to reduce disease, is to go backward to the diets and lifestyles of our ancestors. — Denis Parsons Burkitt
You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. — Khalil Gibran
Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization. — Naguib Mahfouz
Winning times in the New York City Marathon have not dropped all that much over the years, but rather U.S. runners went backward. In 1983,… — Alberto Salazar
No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if… — Daniel Gilbert
A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples. — Emily Greene Balch
I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way… — Hannes Alfven
Dog is God spelled backward. — Duane Chapman
Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward. — Josef Albers
You have to split, bend over backward, touch our toe to our heads to get recognized. — Monique Coleman
There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to. — Janis Ian
If Bangladesh succumbs to the rule of one family, it would be a major step backward for the region. — Khaleda Zia

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