Forwards Quotes

83 Forwards quotes by 72 unique authors

It is annoying that the rules of chess do not allow a pawn to take either horizontally or backwards, but only forwards ... This psychological… — David Bronstein
In 1823, William Webb Ellis first picked up the ball in his arms and ran with it. And for the next 156 years forwards have… — Unknown Author
Forwards are the gnarled and scarred creatures who have a propensity for running into and bleeding all over each other. — Peter FitzSimons
You can't ask every player to do the same thing. That's why we have amazing midfielders, defenders, forwards and keepers. You can't ask them to… — Tiffeny Milbrett
At the end of your days, be leaning forwards, not falling backwards. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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
Tomorrow, our nation will sit on the throne of the world. [..] Tomorrow we will lead the world, Allah willing. Apologize today, before remorse will… — Khaled Mashal
Progression is going forwards. Going backwards is regression. Going sideways is just gression. — Noel Gallagher
The walking of Man is falling forwards. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Bishop moves diagonally forwards or backwards, to the extent of the Board. — Howard Staunton
Sometimes in life, we have to go backward a certain distance in order to go forwards. If we have conflicts within ourselves that we have… — Frederick Lenz
I hope in my books I help children to see their strengths, and show them I have some idea of what they may occasionally be… — Nina Bawden
A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road; a man with a whole volition advances… — Thomas Carlyle
When you play with good players, they will always create chances for the forwards to score. — Jermain Defoe
Ultimately it doesn't matter whether you go forwards or backwards: you need to live your life as well as you can. — Eric Roth
Football 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

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