Forward Quotes
4434 quotes by 2775 authors
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Well, I think it’s extraordinarily fun to write, and I look forward to it every day, but that doesn’t mean I think it’s easy. There’s…
— David Guterson
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I don’t like to badmouth people. But I’m the head of a monarchy that began in the ninth century, and I’m apparently more modern than…
— Queen Elizabeth II
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That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
— Madame de Stael
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Believe in the life inside you, believe in the great and holy mind within you, and push forward with the dream you have chosen until…
— Ilchi Lee
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Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asanas each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach. If…
— B.K.S. Iyengar
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All down the ages we see how blood has stained the surface of the earth; but now a ray of greater light has come, man's…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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The atheist must abandon his defensive positions, take up the cudgels and go forward, rather than into the retreat of apathy.
— Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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I cannot prevent anyone from getting angry, or mad, or frustrated. I can only hope that they'll turn that anger and frustration and madness into…
— Harvey Milk
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I really feel like civilisation's already over. It's not ending but it's already done. We're all addicted to the concept that humanity equals civilisation and…
— Serj Tankian
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Whenever I took a step forward, it seemed as though life was pushing me five steps back.
— Jenni Rivera
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We move through time like a man in a rowboat, looking back even as we move forward.
— William Landay
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Studying the martial Way is like climbing a cliff: keep going forward without rest. Resting is not permissible because it causes recessions to old adages…
— Mas Oyama
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Adam Nevill a spine-chiller in the classic tradition, a writer who draws you in from the world of the familiar, eases you into the world…
— Michael Koryta
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Our capacity to move forward as developing beings rests on a healthy relationship with the past. Psychotherapy, that widespread method for promoting mental health, relies…
— Patricia Hampl
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Edwidge Danticat's prose has a Chekhovian simplicity--an ability to state the most urgent truths in a measured and patiently plain style that gathers a luminous…
— Madison Smartt Bell
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There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.
— John Darnielle
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Don't lose sight of the fact that hip and legs drive the horse forward and the hands merely channel this power by gentle rein aids.
— Nuno Oliveira
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The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.
— Stephen Gardiner
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The Industrial Revolution was another one of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.
— Stephen Gardiner
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This is the law of prosperity: When apparent adversity comes, be not cast down by it, but make the best of it, and always look…
— Ralph Waldo Trine
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