Best 76 quotes in «backwards quotes» category

True leaders are like statues, whether it rains or it shines, they never bend their necks to look backwards! They never run away from challenges!

Time, I think, is like walking backward away from something: say, from a kiss. First there is the kiss; then you step back, and the eyes fill up your vision, then the eyes are framed in the face as you step further away; the face then is part of a body, and then the body is framed in a doorway, then the doorway framed in the trees beside it. The path grows longer and the door smaller, the trees fill up your sight and the door is lost, then the path is lost in the woods and the woods lost in the hills. Yet somewhere in the center still is the kiss. That's what time is like.

Where you are coming from doesn't matter but where you are going does. Hence look forward and not backwards. Your eyes are placed in front of you for a reason. Your eyes only look backwards for special references. Keep your eyes on the road.

A reactionary revolution is nothing but a high-speed evolution backwards!

The vision of the Progressive has often been but to walk forward while facing backward; the business of the Reactionary, but that of walking backward while facing forward; henceforth the fallout is oftentimes, and obviously enough, but the formulation and the construction of obstacles in life and hurdles on-site, as long as there are cliffs on edge.

A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.

Change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways

Commercials are so contemporary and up to date that when you're involved in that visual world, you can't really go backwards.

... commutative algebra is a lot like topology, only backwards.

As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.

Determine what your customers need, and work backwards.

Girls can do everything men can do...just backwards and in heels

'Dammit I'm mad' is 'Dammit I'm mad' spelled backwards.

Did you know that..........'embargo' spelled backwards is 'o grab me

If you stand still there is only one way to go, and that's backwards.

If you go through the pearly gates backwards in a fireball, that's a cool way to die!

I had the cab driver drive me here backwards, and the dude owed me $27.50.

If there's one thing I discovered since I came back from hiatus, it's that you can't go backwards.

I know and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backwards.

I have no rancor. I look forward, not backwards.

I have no regrets. If you regret things, you're sort of stepping backwards. I'm a believer in going forwards.

I know that mess spelled backwards is ssem and I felt much better armed with that information.

I keep saying that backwards is all you can see. You can't see front. My wife says, "Stop, you're always in the past." She sees me sort of daydreaming.

I'm just always looking forwards. I spend very little time, looking backwards.

I never think of what it's going to be like later. I only think in the present tense. The only time I think backwards is when I have to reissue something.

In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.

I'm looking forward, that's all, I'm not looking backwards.

Infinity is just zero spelled backwards.

In my next life I want to live backwards. Start out dead and finish off as an orgasm.

It doesn't mater if you're a slow walker, so long as you don't walk backwards.

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 suppose.

I think backwards. "This was beautiful." Instead of forward.

I stay away from churches in which I feel like I have to pretend I'm a better person than I am. That sort of thing moves my faith backwards.

It will be a great thing for the human soul when it finally stops worshipping backwards.

I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own.

I was the chief executive once, I've been there. My recommendation to anybody is don't go backwards.

It was a backwards memory of an event in his future so terrifying that it had generated harmonics of fear all the way along his lifeline.

Learn to see things backwards, inside out, and upside down.

Mark Twain had it backwards. Nowadays everybody is doing something about the weather, but nobody is talking about it.

[Lincoln in the Bardo] is not a long book. And that meant I could obsess over it and live in it both backwards and forwards and hyper-control everything.

Life, after all, should go forwards, not backwards.

Of course, you can say it backwards, which is dociousaliexpilisticfragicalirupus, but that's going a bit too far, don't you think?

Maybe the start line was supposed to be your finish line. Don’t be afraid to walk backwards.

One should look forward rather than backwards.

Progression is going forwards. Going backwards is regression. Going sideways is just gression.

Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.

Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Some providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backwards.

Revolutions never go backwards.

Strap On spelled backwards is No Parts. Just sayin'.