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Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs. -- Rudyard Kipling
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. -- Aldous Huxley
We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards. -- Robert Mugabe
Life can only be understood backwards. -- Mackenzie Astin
Love, when spelled backwards and read phonetically, reads evil -- Eminem
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. -- Lewis Carroll
Backwards understood be only can but, forwards lived be must life. -- Soren Kierkegaard
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see. -- Winston Churchill
If you stand still there is only one way to go, and that's backwards. -- Peter Shilton
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. -- Charlotte Bronte
Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies. -- Ann Landers
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. -- Edmund Burke
Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.' -- Arthur Smith
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
The Mandolin is the bottom four strings of the guitar, backwards...so a person with dyslexia has no problem learning to play the Mandolin. -- Steve Goodman
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 time, which is eternity. -- Alfred North Whitehead
In a way, I'd rather ride down the street on a camel than give what is sometimes called an in-depth interview. I'd rather ride down the street on a camel nude. In a snowstorm. Backwards. -- Warren Beatty
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
Religion is now the first obstacle to women's advancement. Religion pulls human beings backwards, it goes against science and progressiveness. Religion engulfs people with a fear of the supernatural. It bars people from laughing and never allows people to exercise their choice. -- Taslima Nasrin
If individuals do not occupy their legitimate position, then it will be occupied by a god or a king or a coalition of interest groups. If citizens do not exercise the powers confered by their legitimacy, others will do so. (I - The Great Leap Backwards) -- John Ralston Saul
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. We are going to accelerate the process of democratization and I think that is the biggest opportunity for Congress party because that is the DNA of the Congress -- Rahul Gandhi
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. -- Steve Jobs
I don't know about torture. I have educated myself on many things but on torture I have not known the boundary between what is torture and what isn't torture. I know the NRA tie these people (rebels, etc.) when they catch them. They tie their hands backwards. I am now being told that is torture. It is the traditional method. -- Yoweri Museveni
A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards? -- Al Boliska
Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future. -- Aneurin Bevan
IF is a very long word in Formula One; in fact, IF is F1 spelled backwards. -- Murray Walker
You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up. -- Chief Joseph
It's a wonderful world. You can't go backwards. You're always moving forward. It's the wonderful part about life. And that's terrific. -- Harvey Fierstein
When a dragonfly flutters by, you may not realize, but it's the greatest flier in nature. It can hover, fly backwards, even upside down. -- Louie Schwartzberg
If you think you've already made it, that's when you can fall short and go backwards. I'm constantly pushing forward and chasing the element of perfection. -- Jason Derulo
One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you. -- Philip Pullman
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 backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past. -- Anita Desai
Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense. -- Wale
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Someone told me something that stuck with me: 'You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.' I've been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I'm just backtracking and trying to get back up there. -- Bruno Mars
Matangi's mantra is aim, which is MIA backwards. She fights for freedom of speech and stands for truth, and lives in the ghetto because her dad was the first person in Hindu mythology who came from the 'hood, but had gained enlightenment through not being a Brahmin. -- M.I.A.
I took a little break - I was coming back to work and the last thing I was going to do was take a step backwards, so I knew that if I was going to take a feature it was going to have to be taking a step forward. -- Nia Long
I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. When I found out that I had missed lunch, I gave such a shout that the Earth stopped and spun backwards two days. That's why I celebrate my birthday on 8 September. -- Jon Scieszka
Hendrix was the bass player for Little Richard. We were both left-handed, but we would use a right-handed guitar held upside down and backwards. He developed my slides and my riffs. In fact he used to say, and this is documented, 'I patterned my style after Dick Dale.' -- Dick Dale
People always joke that 'dog' spells 'god' backwards. They should consider that it might be the higher power coming down to see just how well they do, what kind of people they are. The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test. -- Linda Blair
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. -- Steve Jobs
I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until I have a solid sense of how that ending sounds and feels. You have to know what your voice sounds like at the end of the story, because it tells you how to sound when you begin. -- John Irving
I learned everything by ear and played all the different instruments. So then I was able to find a guitar. That was, like, in the seventh grade. And then I didn't know how to put my fingers on all the different strings, so I had to figure out how to do it upside down and backwards, and I still play that way today. -- Dick Dale
If the music in a groove fits with what you're playing, then play it; if not, then you can play it backwards. If that doesn't work, you try it at a different speed. If it really doesn't work you just break it. The whole ritual to put a record on a turntable just to listen to it, I don't do that too often. -- Christian Marclay
Kangoroos can't hop backwards. -- Daniel Tosh
Revolutions never go backwards. -- Wendell Phillips
Always forwards, never backwards. -- Erich Honecker
I walk slowly, but never backwards. -- Abraham Lincoln
Going backwards is never an option. -- Melissa Marr
Infinity is just zero spelled backwards. -- Derek R. Audette
One should look forward rather than backwards. -- Anna Wintour
Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard
History is written backwards but lived forwards. -- Madeleine Albright
Just remember, golf is flog spelled backwards. -- Milton Berle
History is a game played backwards only. -- Marge Piercy
Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile. -- Edward Young
The historian is a prophet looking backwards. -- Friedrich von Schlegel
Only a fool walks into the future backwards. -- Terry Goodkind
Don't go backwards - you've already been there. -- Ray Charles
Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards? -- Edvard Munch
Determine what your customers need, and work backwards. -- Jeff Bezos
Life, after all, should go forwards, not backwards. -- David Lodge
A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards. -- Karl Kraus
'Dammit I'm mad' is 'Dammit I'm mad' spelled backwards. -- Demetri Martin
I think backwards. "This was beautiful." Instead of forward. -- Alice Herz-Sommer
Some providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backwards. -- John Flavel
... commutative algebra is a lot like topology, only backwards. -- John C. Baez
I'm looking forward, that's all, I'm not looking backwards. -- Robbie Lawler
If you keep looking backwards, you don't go anywhere. -- Jeff Ross
Strap On spelled backwards is No Parts. Just sayin'. -- Dana Gould
The sky is falling. No, I'm tipping over backwards. -- Steven Wright
I always go backwards when I am backing up. -- Charles Portis
I have no rancor. I look forward, not backwards. -- John McCain
Love is evil, spell it backwards, I'll show ya. -- Eminem
Sometimes to move forward, you have to find yourself backwards. -- Reba Riley
Moving forward without honest efforts is moving backwards in disguise -- Constance Chuks Friday
Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long -- Walt Disney
Change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways -- Alvin Toffler
A reactionary revolution is nothing but a high-speed evolution backwards! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
To stand still today is to go backwards...and quickly...! -- Richard Branson
Learn to see things backwards, inside out, and upside down. -- John Heider
Sometimes the only way to succeed is to fail backwards -- Benny Bellamacina
If we wish not to go backwards, we must run. -- Pelagius
The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
If you walk backwards, you will never stub your toe. -- Harvey Mackay
History is an angel being blown backwards into the future -- Laurie Anderson
I did everything he did but backwards & in high heels. -- Ginger Rogers
If poetry could truly tell it backwards, then it would. -- Carol Ann Duffy
You have to envision your life, and then go backwards. -- Bruno Mars
I always [or "often"] walk slowly, but I never walk backwards. -- Abraham Lincoln
In the spiritual life, he who does not advance goes backwards. -- Pio of Pietrelcina
Modern civilization has no understanding of sacred matters. Everything is backwards. -- Thomas Yellowtail
Going back to a simpler life is not a step backwards. -- Yvon Chouinard
the trouble with therapy is that it makes life go backwards ... -- Anne Sexton
Did you know that..........'embargo' spelled backwards is 'o grab me -- Colin Mochrie
The best way to be future-friendly is to be backwards compatible. -- Jeremy Keith
At least as coherent as the Gettysburg Address backwards in Albanian, anyway. -- Norman Spinrad
I'm just always looking forwards. I spend very little time, looking backwards. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard
I know and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backwards. -- William H. Seward
At the end of your days, be leaning forwards, not falling backwards. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror. -- George Carlin
Smacked her so hard I knocked her clothes backwards like Kris Kross. -- Eminem
Never job backwards. What might have been was a waste of time. -- Ian Fleming
Revenge is not redress. Revenge is a wheel, and it turns backwards. -- Terry Pratchett
I do everything the man does, only backwards and in high heels! -- Ginger Rogers
Walk out backwards if you must go, but please don't wave good-bye. -- Sara Evans
Girls can do everything men can do...just backwards and in heels -- Ginger Rogers
If you think success will make you happy, you have it backwards. -- Oliver $
When I go forwards, you go backwards And somewhere we will meet -- Thom Yorke
A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise. -- Bill Cosby
The weeks go by so slow I almost think time passin backwards. -- Winston Groom
My heart is drawn backwards and forwards between the spinning wheel and books. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Don't look backwards. That never does any good. Think about the future instead. -- Abigail Strom
With my eyes turned to the past, I walk backwards into the future. -- Yohji Yamamoto
There is a period in life when we go backwards as we advance. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. -- Andrew Cuomo
Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even agony into a glory -- C. S. Lewis

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