Backwards Quotes

483 quotes by 411 authors

The tragedy of our time is that we've got it backwards, we've learned to love techniques and use people. — Herb Kelleher
Some psychologists argue that the idea of God is a response to our emotional needs, but this presumption is backwards. Our emotional fluctuations are a… — Tarek Saab
In terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and writing on history… — Laura Hillenbrand
Self - development should be a perpetual process. In life you are either growing or rotting. You're moving forward or backwards; there is no standing… — Al Duncan
The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the… — Marshall McLuhan
Beachy Head brims with electrical currents flying backwards and forwards, with the force of poems that have been well fought out and felt. I hear… — Dorothea Lasky
For me, when I think about Christ, I think about this iconoclastic man who lived and died for the broken. And the paramount underdog, which… — Jon Foreman
Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards. — Soren Kierkegaard
Some providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backwards. — John Flavel
It stands to reason that we love chocolate cake because it is sweet. Guys go for girls like this because they are sexy. We adore… — Daniel Dennett
Far from being the crown of human thought and religion as its supporters have claimed for several bloody millennia, [monotheism] is in fact a monstrous… — Isaac Bonewits
A mathematician makes plans to travel backwards in time through a wormhole to a parallel universe when he can't even make it to Mars with… — Bill Gaede
Many people in Western culture are striving for success. They want the home, they want the great business. They want all of these outer things.… — Marci Shimoff
I have learned that you're not perfect, and that sometimes the one you love can burn you. But it's just the fool that's looking backwards:… — Ben Rector
After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. You can't go backwards and regain your… — Zeena Schreck
To call oneself a libertarian marxist today is not to look backwards but to be committed to the future. The libertarian marxist is not an… — Daniel Guerin
Religion is now the first obstacle to women's advancement. Religion pulls human beings backwards, it goes against science and progressiveness. Religion engulfs people with a… — Taslima Nasrin
It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around. — Henry David Thoreau
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards. — Florence Nightingale
Maybe the start line was supposed to be your finish line. Donâ€™t be afraid to walk backwards. — Tablo

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