Backwards Quotes

483 quotes by 411 authors

I'm not the type of person who likes to look backwards. I've always felt compelled to move forward and I've never been one to dwell… — Tony Bennett
Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even agony into a glory — C.S. Lewis
We are going backwards in a field thatâ€™s supposed to be all about moving forward — Hillary Clinton
Goodbye to my friends at home, goodbye to people I've trusted. I've got to go out and make my way, I might get rich, you… — Steve Miller
To stand still today is to go backwards...and quickly...! — Richard Branson
Mark Twain had it backwards. Nowadays everybody is doing something about the weather, but nobody is talking about it. — Stephen Schneider
I went backwards and forwards over it until I was 22. And then in the past few years I began to say to myself, OK,… — Christian Bale
If you go through the pearly gates backwards in a fireball, that's a cool way to die! — Jeremy Clarkson
Everyone wants charities to spend as little as possible on overhead. That's backwards. Overhead is what drives growth. If charities can't grow, they can't solve… — Dan Pallotta
In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. That wasn't really skating backward, but… — Dorothy Hamill
The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going… — Anita Desai
Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and are ignorant and… — Richard Mitchell
My writing isn't actually guided by issues. I know it seems that way, but I don't sit down and think, Oh, there's this issue I'm… — Paula Vogel
... commutative algebra is a lot like topology, only backwards. — John C. Baez
We have unleashed aspirations of youngsters. Democracy is not going to go backwards. India is too big a country to be run by one person.… — Rahul Gandhi
Life can only be understood backwards. — Mackenzie Astin
What are you going to do? Are you going to keep looking backwards, full of anger, resentment and unfulfilled desire. Or are you going to… — Leonard Jacobson
Modern civilization has no understanding of sacred matters. Everything is backwards. — Thomas Yellowtail
Progression is going forwards. Going backwards is regression. Going sideways is just gression. — Noel Gallagher
The investigation of making is illuminating towards that moment rather than the other way around, a reversal of the way that I would approach making… — Julie Mehretu

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