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Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for to-night! -- Elizabeth Chase Allen
Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic. -- Larry McMurtry
Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us. -- Edward Bellamy
Backward we traveled to reclaim the day Before we fell, like Icarus, undone; All we find are altars in decay And profane words scrawled black across the sun. -- Sylvia Plath
[In The Dark Backward ] someone who has writer's block and kills people in A Cabin By The Lake. I guess he's a type of serial killer, but I don't know. -- Judd Nelson
Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years!I am so weary of toil and of tears,-Toil without recompense, tears all in vain!Take them, and give me my childhood again! -- Elizabeth Chase Allen
The Dark Backward. Bill Paxton is in it with me. Wayne Newton. James Caan. Adam Rifkin wrote and directed it. It was made a number of years ago and very odd. Not for the squeamish. -- Judd Nelson
Revolutions go not backward. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Silence moves faster when it's going backward. -- Jean Cocteau
If I see an ending, I can work backward. -- Arthur Miller
I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time. -- Syd Barrett
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see. -- Winston Churchill
Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power. -- Charles Simmons
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. -- Edmund Burke
Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies. -- Ann Landers
There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move! -- Edgar Cayce
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. -- James Thurber
The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom. -- Stephen Gardiner
At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division. -- Jesse Jackson
Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way. -- Adam McKay
I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause. -- Abraham Lincoln
I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It's a conscious thing; it's a common-sense thing. -- Taylor Swift
It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward. -- Patrick Stewart
Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates. -- H. L. Mencken
The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children. -- Nancy Friday
A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. -- Edmund Burke
There's one secret to hitting hard, and that is to completely dedicate your body. That's the difference between a man going forward and a man going backward, no matter how big he is. -- Ray Lewis
When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism. -- Vladimir Lenin
The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now. -- Henri Nouwen
Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together. -- Yo-Yo Ma
When I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the club in a polo T-shirt and pants and sneakers and a hat on backward, just so I would not be dressed like other girls. -- Rihanna
The reason why Apple computers have worked so well over time is that, unlike Microsoft, they don't bend over backward to be compatible with every piece of hardware or software in the digital universe. To code or create for Apple, you follow Apple's rules. If you're even allowed to. -- Douglas Rushkoff
Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics. -- Carlos Fuentes
Revolutions never go backward. -- William H. Seward
Dog is God spelled backward. -- Duane Chapman
I have seen myself backward. -- Philip K. Dick
Work backward from your goal. -- Edward Boyden
Studios look backward. Filmmakers look forward. -- Guillermo del Toro
You can't look forward and backward... -- Coleman Young
Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it. -- Marshall McLuhan
The historian is a prophet looking backward. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Take one step backward into the unknown. -- Adyashanti
I will not walk backward in life. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
He who moves not forward, goes backward. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Historians are prophets with their face turned backward. -- Friedrich Schiller
You live it forward, but understand it backward. -- Abraham Verghese
Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system. -- Stokely Carmichael
Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward. -- Abraham Lincoln
Robinson could deliver a knockout blow going backward. -- Bert Sugar
A backward glance can often lift the heart. -- Dante Alighieri
Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system -- Stokely Carmichael
Reforms are slow, but they never go backward. -- Belva Ann Lockwood
Glance backward, look heavenward, reach outward, press onward -- Thomas S. Monson
Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward. -- Hans Rosling
His rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power. -- John Milton
For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday. -- Khalil Gibran
The heart does not go backward. Only the mind. -- Elizabeth Kostova
You either use the Internet or you are backward. -- Lee Kuan Yew
I start with the joke line and write backward. -- Nipsey Russell
To continue in one path is to go backward. -- Igor Stravinsky
Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward. -- Muriel Spark
As travel pushes me forward, memory keeps dragging me backward. -- Frances Mayes
Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river. -- Victor Hugo
Honestly, if you were any slower, you'd be going backward. -- J. K. Rowling
You can't look forward and backward at the same time. -- Coleman Young
The only direction Obama has the economy moving is backward. -- Bob Beauprez
You live life looking forward, you understand life looking backward. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Like the watermen who advance forward while they look backward. -- Michel de Montaigne
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'. -- Ernst Haas
This was the Darker Life, where every truth was written backward. -- Stephen King
I'd rather look forward and dream, than look backward and regret. -- James Van Praagh
I'm going to change my image - backward caps, the lot. -- Tom Felton
No one should have to dance backward all of their lives. -- William Ruckelshaus
Ah! The seasons of love roll not backward but onward, downward forever. -- Jean Paul
If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward. -- Geoff Hickson
Of course the orders all converge backward in time, to different degrees. -- George Gaylord Simpson
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Reality is a wave function traveling both backward and forward in time. -- John L. Casti
Slow are the steps of freedom, but her feet turn never backward. -- James Russell Lowell
It is hopeless trying to go forward when you are looking backward. -- Nancy Astor
the arabs are a backward people who eat nothing but camel dung. -- Winston Churchill
What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? -- William Shakespeare
...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward. -- Barbara Kingsolver
I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward. -- Iggy Pop
I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization. -- Naguib Mahfouz
Memories and loneliness look backward, fear looks around, but faith always looks forward. -- E. Lynn Harris
I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals. -- Brigitte Bardot
Stories about lives remembered bring us backward while allowing us to move forward. -- Nina Sankovitch
I don't subscribe to the narrative that Africa is backward because of colonialism. -- Mo Ibrahim
Youth looks forward, for nothing is behind! Age backward, for nothing is before. -- Ambrose Bierce
Light and dark are relative to one another like forward and backward steps. -- Shitou Xiqian
I always thought the purpose of time was to move forward, not backward. -- Michelle Moran
There's always a choice,' said Torak, and walked backward off the cliff. -- Michelle Paver
I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward -- May Sarton
By the mere fact that we do not go forward, we go backward. -- Fulton J. Sheen
Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes are ever backward to suspect others. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. -- Winston S. Churchill
You can't go forward if you're looking backward. You run into walls that way. -- Karen Marie Moning
Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird. -- Elsa Maxwell
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. -- Charlotte Bronte
There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move. -- Edgar Cayce
It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources. -- Paul McCartney
The direction worth going in isn't up, down, forward, or backward. It's towards. And beyond. -- Umair Haque
When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists. -- Stephen Fry
Us ballplayers do things backward. First we play, then we retire and go to work. -- Charlie Gehringer
I hate looking backward, but every once in a while it sneaks up on you. -- Burt Lancaster
Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations. -- Douglas Coupland
It's like . . . time is flowing backward. We're caveman archeologists in the ruins of the future. -- Dan Wells
Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them. -- Ray Bradbury
Today we take it for granted that war happens in smaller, poorer and more backward countries. -- Steven Pinker
Men should press forward, in fame's glorious chase; Nobles look backward, and so lose the race. -- Edward Young
You can't look forward and backward at the same time...........so I choose to look forward. -- Buck Brannaman
Looking backward at what has been lost, I feel sad, then indifferent, and at last relieved. -- Mason Cooley
While I occasionally enjoy a bout of nostalgia, I would generally rather dream forward than backward. -- Robert Breault
Never wear a backward baseball cap to an interview unless applying for the job of umpire. -- Casey Stengel
That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward. -- Alice Hoffman
And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope. -- Robert Frost
Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor. -- Alexander Pope

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