Backwards Quotes

483 quotes by 411 authors

Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand… — Marian Wright Edelman
I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it… — Brian Eno
It's a wonderful world. You can't go backwards. You're always moving forward. It's the wonderful part about life. And that's terrific. — Harvey Fierstein
I kind of fell backwards into acting. I was studying to be a high school teacher. I look now and I understand completely, or actually… — Nathan Fillion
Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win… — Gerald R. Ford
Certain people are like 'Oh, here come the Feminazis!' You end up acting 10 times nicer than you even need to be, to be the… — Kathleen Hanna
Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of… — James Hillman
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. — Aldous Huxley
The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new… — Thomas Huxley
At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division. — Jesse Jackson
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow… — Steve Jobs
You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up. — Chief Joseph
It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it… — Helen Keller
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be… — Soren Kierkegaard
Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs. — Rudyard Kipling
China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go… — Dalai Lama
Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies. — Ann Landers
I feel like at 50 I've decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I always seem to work backwards. — K D Lang
When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom… — Vladimir Lenin
There's one secret to hitting hard, and that is to completely dedicate your body. That's the difference between a man going forward and a man… — Ray Lewis

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