Quotes: backwards
Quotes 1 till 15 of 22.
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A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.
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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.
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And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.
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Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.
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Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?
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Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning with revelations and ending up in small talk without loss of esteem.
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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.
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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.
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Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.
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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.
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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.
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Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels.
Source: Frank and Ernest (1982) -
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.
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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.
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Sure he [Fred Astaire] was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything he did,... backwards and in high heels.
