Backwards Quotes

483 quotes by 411 authors

You are good when you walk to your goal firmly and with bold steps. Yet you are not evil when you go thither limping. For… — Khalil Gibran
Going backwards is never an option. — Melissa Marr
Iâ€™ve been here before, dreaming myself backwards, among grappling hooks of light. True to the seasons, Iâ€™ve lived every word spoken. Did I walk into… — Yusef Komunyakaa
It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards. — Soren Kierkegaard
The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of… — Alfred North Whitehead
Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end… — Paul Arden
It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be… — Soren Kierkegaard
Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions. — Hanif Kureishi
That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal sufferring, "No future bliss can make up for it" not knowing that Heaven, once attained,… — C.S. Lewis
It was a backwards memory of an event in his future so terrifying that it had generated harmonics of fear all the way along his… — Terry Pratchett
Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right. — David Mitchell
In my next life I want to live backwards. Start out dead and finish off as an orgasm. — Woody Allen
I had as yet no notion that life every now and then becomes literatureâ€”not for long, of course, but long enough to be what we… — Norman Maclean
Maybe you could go backwards and forwards at the same time, but it wasn't easy. You had to want to. — Sarah Dessen
So apart from writing letters home to your fantasy girlfriends,"Ben says, walking backwards, "what do you guys do out here without television and phones?" "Men's… — Melina Marchetta
We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future. — Marshall McLuhan
When people really hate one another, the tension within them can sometimes make itself felt throughout a room, like atmospheric waves, first hot, then cold,… — Anthony Powell
Just that dwelling and planning is bullshit, you dwell on the past, you canâ€™t move forward. Spend too much time planning for the future and… — J.A. Redmerski
A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs, who, however, has… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
You should not fool the laymen when you're talking as a scientist... . I'm talking about a specific, extra type of integrity that is not… — Richard P. Feynman

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