Backwards Quotes - Page 16

• History is a game played backwards only.

  Marge Piercy

  Games, History

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.129, Knopf

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• Seeing you sleeping peacefully on your back among your stuffed ducks, bears and basset hounds, would remind me that no matter how good the next day might be, certain moments were gone forever because we could not go backwards in time.

  Joan Baez

  Children, Sleep, Next Day

  Joan Baez (2012). “And A Voice to Sing With: A Memoir”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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• Beingness, doingness and havingness are like a triangle where each side supports the others. They are not in conflict with each other. They all exist simultaneously. 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 that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

  Shakti Gawain

  Happy, Pursuit Of Happiness, Careers

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• The trouble with therapy is that it makes life go backwards.

  Anne Sexton

  Trouble, Therapy

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.191, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny.

  Tennessee Williams

  World, Paper, Way

  Tennessee Williams, John S. Bak (2009). “New Selected Essays: Where I Live”, p.84, New Directions Publishing

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• Buonaparte is certainly writing, or rather dictating, his memoirs. He walks backwards and forwards with his hands behind him, and dictates so fast that two or three of his suite are obliged to be in attendance, that the one may take down one-half of a sentence, and another the rest; they then literally compare notes, and put the disjointed legs and wings and heads of periods together. This is writing a book as he fought a battle.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Book, Writing, Wings

  Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “The Life of Mary Russell Mitford ; Related in an Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends. Ed. by A.G. Estrange”, p.7

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• One of the uncovenanted benefits of living for a long time is that, having so many more dead than living friends, death can appear as a step backwards into the joyous past.

  Storm Jameson

  Past, Long, Steps

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Journey from the North, Volume 2: Autobiography of Storm Jameson”, p.402, A&C Black

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• If we wish not to go backwards, we must run.

  Pelagius

  Running, Wish, Ifs

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• When you feel that you are at the end of your path and there is a ten foot high brick wall right there in front of you, and you have nowhere to go but backwards, break down that wall and move forward. There are great and wonderful things on the other side of that wall... and, they have always been there. Let nothing divide you from what you need to do in life, and see the solutions that are right in front of you. The key is, you must break down what separates you from them and choose to find them.

  Rich Barnes

  Motivational, Wall, Moving

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• Grief moves us like love. Grief is love, I suppose. Love as a backwards glance.

  Helen Humphreys

  Grief, Moving, Like Love

  Helen Humphreys (2003). “The Lost Garden: A Novel”, p.57, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Moving forward is not always good, especially when there is a precipice ahead! Know to turn back! Know to step back! Sometimes moving backwards is moving forward!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Moving, Steps, Sometimes

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• I feel like I'm going backwards, actually, as I get older. I'm regressing. I feel more and more like a kid, which is kind of a fun feeling.

  Rachel McAdams

  Fun, Kids, Feelings

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• Things that make me laugh range from a wonderful stand-up like Jerry Seinfeld, Louis C.K. and Chris Rock to my son Gabe, who does great improv work. I also look backwards to the great comedic actors like Jackie Gleason, Paul Lynde and Phil Silvers.

  Jason Alexander

  Son, Rocks, Laughing

  "Jason Alexander: George Costanza gets his hair back". Interview with Erica Rivera, www.startribune.com. January 23, 2014.

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• Sometimes your friends take you ten steps backwards for every step you take forward. Sometimes misplaced loyalty ruins your destiny.

  Keshia Chante

  Loyalty, Destiny, Ruins

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• The purpose of all our explanations is not to have you understand anything, but for you to snap from the understanding of the intellect to the understanding of pure spirit. All our explanations work backwards.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Understanding, Purpose

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• See the Congress' track record. It has taken the nation backwards. They keep talking about Rights. The Nation is tired of your Acts, the Nation needs action.

  Narendra Modi

  Taken, Tired, Talking

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• My concern is the holistic development of society. No one should go back, everyone must move forward. Enough time has been spent going backwards; now let us pledge to stride ahead, whether it's in education, health, agriculture or education of our daughters. This Government belongs to the poor. It is to support the destitute.

  Narendra Modi

  Daughter, Moving, Government

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• I'm mean and turf and I'm mean and turf and I'm mean and turf and I'm mean and turf, And me an' my friends can walk towards you with our hats on backwards in a menacing way, Yo!

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Way, Hats

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)”, p.227, Random House

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• I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  People, Want, Six

  "The Next Crusade" by John Cassidy, www.newyorker.com. April 9, 2007.

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• Some say, what is the Salvation of the Movies? I say, run 'em backwards. It can't hurt 'em and it's worth a trial.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Art, Hurt

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• The idea of let's all share the pain equally, or let's freeze salaries altogether - it's ass-backwards. It's absolutely ass-backwards.

  Jack Welch

  Pain, Ideas, Salary

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• In my mind the job of a natural scientist is to bend over backwards to say something which can be demonstrated to be true or at least which is not of such a nature that there's no way to demonstrate that it's false.

  Richard Lewontin

  Jobs, Mind, Way

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you cant fake. Im not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.

  Wale

  Talking, Common Sense, Fake

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• You never look at the backside of a mirror because when you do, it'll affect your future because you're looking at yourself backwards. No, you're looking at your inner self and you don't recognize it because you've never seen it before.

  Gus Van Sant

  Mirrors, Self, Looks

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

  Ginger Rogers

  Girl, Men, Heels

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