Backwards Quotes - Page 10

• Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Women, Literature, Intimacy

  "The Death of the Heart". Book by Elizabeth Bowen, 1938.

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• When the time comes for your brain to process the information, the second word comes up faster than the first one. So when it's in your head, all of a sudden, it comes out backwards and you think of the word backwards.

  Bruce Jenner

  Thinking, Brain, Information

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.

  Chief Joseph

  Running, Men, Rivers

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• It caused more problems as a young kid, because the simple process of perceiving words on a piece of paper was hard for me. Many people think dyslexic people see things backwards. They don't see things backwards.

  Bruce Jenner

  Kids, Simple, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

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• I'll have wine or a piece of cake once in a while, but I don't look at it as sliding backwards, even if I go a whole week without working out. I don't dwell on it and beat myself up - I just try to have a healthier day tomorrow.

  Alison Sweeney

  Wine, Cake, Work Out

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• I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Life, Relationship

  "Taylor Swift is Our December Cover Girl!". "Cosmopolitan" Interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 31, 2012.

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• You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

  James Thurber

  Inspirational, Funny, Fall

  New Yorker 29 Apr. 1939 "The Bear Who Let It Alone"

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• There is no difference in quality between a life lived forward and a life lived backwards, she thinks. She had come to love this backward life. It was, after all, the only life she had.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Thinking, Differences, Quality

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• You go ahead, stand still, or go backwards in life.
  Your objective should be to go ahead.

  Napoleon Hill

  Should, Stills, Objectives

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• I had as yet no notion that life every now and then becomes literature—not for long, of course, but long enough to be what we best remember, and often enough so that what we eventually come to mean by life are those moments when life, instead of going sideways, backwards, forward, or nowhere at all, lines out straight, tense and inevitable, with a complication, climax, and, given some luck, a purgation, as if life had been made and not happened.

  Norman Maclean

  Mean, Long, Luck

  Norman Maclean (2009). “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.127, University of Chicago Press

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• In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. That wasn't really skating backward, but I guess I was going in the right direction.

  Dorothy Hamill

  Sports, Thinking, Numbers

  "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000.

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• You should not fool the laymen when you're talking as a scientist... . I'm talking about a specific, extra type of integrity that is not lying, but bending over backwards to show how you're maybe wrong, [an integrity] that you ought to have when acting as a scientist. And this is our responsibility as scientists, certainly to other scientists, and I think to laymen.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Integrity, Lying, Responsibility

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• Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.

  Coventry Patmore

  Wise, Adversity, Evil

  Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Root, the Rod and the Flower”, p.34, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror.

  George Carlin

  Sports, Baseball, Mirrors

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• I walk slowly, but never backwards.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Autism, Walks

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• Everyone wants charities to spend as little as possible on overhead. That's backwards. Overhead is what drives growth. If charities can't grow, they can't solve problems. So overhead is a good thing. And I'm overhead.

  Dan Pallotta

  Fundraising, Growth, Charity

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• So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course.

  Thom Mayne

  Ideas, Existence, Courses

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• Icelandic people are really educated. But maybe we are at where the people in the States were 50 years ago, where they think that stuff that isn't done with a hammer or physical power is not a job. It's that backwards.

  Bjork

  Thinking, People, Done

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• You know, I've got a confession to make myself. I'm not really a priest, I've just got my shirt on backwards.

  Ryan Stiles

  Shirts, Confession, Priests

  "Whose Line is it Anyway?" with Drew Carey (Episode 201), www.oocities.org. October 7, 1999.

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• Most people put the cart before the horse, which is an interesting way to go through life. They approach everything directly. In Zen we approach everything backwards or inside out.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Horse, Buddhism

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• I'll find places to grab as I walk and talk, sometimes even walking backwards because I have more control that way. People have no idea that I'm doing this.

  Montel Williams

  Ideas, People, Way

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• I understand true life doesn't happen when I constantly gaze backwards, mulling over all the injustices others have done or I have done to others.

  Mary E. DeMuth

  Mulling Over, True Life, Done

  Mary E DeMuth (2010). “Thin Places: A Memoir”, p.48, Zondervan

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• It is annoying that the rules of chess do not allow a pawn to take either horizontally or backwards, but only forwards ... This psychological tuning is ideal for attacking purposes, but what about for defence?

  David Bronstein

  Purpose, Tuning, Chess

  David Bronstein (1991). “200 Open Games”, p.195, Courier Corporation

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• We shook hands. For a moment our eyes met - which I found surprisingly destabilizing. Then we pulled back and there was a mement of what seemed like mutual appraisal. For me, it was like being at a regatta, sizing up the competition on the dock before climbing into the shells. Could I take him? ... He could inflict serious damage. I sensed that. But he would be unfamiliar with rowers - men used to toiling backwards, blindly, trained, most of all, to endure.

  Stefan Kieszling

  Eye, Men, Climbing

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• To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.

  John Negroponte

  Thinking, Reform, Election

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