Forwards Quotes

83 quotes by 72 authors

FootballÂ these days isn't going forwards. It's going sidewards — Bobby Gould
I travel backwards and forwards quite a lot. I live very near to the train station. I'm kind of playing at being an expatriate, I… — Jarvis Cocker
As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge,… — David Mitchell
When you read, I'm sure you don't realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don't… — Terry Pratchett
Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work,… — David Soul
Now, most dentist's chairs go up and down, don't they? The one I was in went back and forwards. I thought 'This is unusual'. And… — Tim Vine
In all my life I'd never been approached this way, the car pulling up, the Where you going? It was something I wish had happened… — Dave Eggers
Every Mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother and every mother extends backwards into her mother and forwards into her daughter. — Carl Jung
Weary of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At this vessel's prow I stand, which bears me… — Matthew Arnold
Life, after all, should go forwards, not backwards. — David Lodge
You've sort of made up for it tonight,' said Harry. 'Getting the sword. Finishing off the Horcux. Saving my life.' 'That makes me sound a… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
There was a saying that the strength of a manâ€™s steel was only known under the hammer of circumstance. If anyone had asked me a… — Alison Goodman
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
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
Maybe you could go backwards and forwards at the same time, but it wasn't easy. You had to want to. — Sarah Dessen
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
Certainly. But take this into consideration: of every ten problems we have, nine are created by our own selves - through guilt, self-punishment, self-pity. However,… — Paulo Coelho
Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backwards after taking a step forwards is not a disaster. It's a cha-cha. — Robert Breault
Times have been tough, the economy has been tough. But I want to bring forward a fantastic manifesto for taking the city forwards. — Boris Johnson

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