Backwards Quotes - Page 21

• It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.

  Patrick Stewart

  Moving, Civilization, Tiny

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• I was feeling real good and real manly. Until a real cowboy walked by and told me I had my hat on backwards. So much for my career as a cowboy.

  Michael Biehn

  Real, Cowboy, Careers

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• I thought I was going to write fiction but I fell backwards into non-fiction. It started when I got locked out of two apartments in one day and I told the story to some friends, one of whom worked in the 'Village Voice' and asked me to turn it into an essay.

  Sloane Crosley

  Writing, Two, Voice

  "Book Talk: Sloane Crosley hits brothels and clowns in new essays". Interview with Belinda Goldsmith, www.reuters.com. June 23, 2010.

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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.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Winning, Years, People

  Address Upon Taking the Oath of the U.S. Presidency, delivered 9 August 1974 East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C.

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• At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.

  Jesse Jackson

  Fear, The End Of The Day, Division

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• It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

  Helen Keller

  Civilization, Literature, World

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• Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.

  H. L. Mencken

  Missing You, Ocean, Men

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• 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

  Pride, Ladders, Feels

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• 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

  Real, Past, Enemy

  Henri J.M. Nouwen (2017). “You Are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Convergent Books

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• 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

  Growing Up, Moving, Grandparent

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• IF is a very long word in Formula One; in fact, IF is F1 spelled backwards.

  Murray Walker

  Long, Racing, Facts

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• 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

  Exercise, People, Laughing

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• A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.

  Karl Kraus

  History, Historian, Journalist

  Aphorism collected in Heinrich Fischer (ed) Beim Wort genommen (1955). Translated by Harry Zohn in Half-truths and one-and-a-half truths (1986).

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• A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Walking Backwards, Walking, Reactionaries

  Radio address, 26 Oct. 1939

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• 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

  Perception, Foundation, Eternity

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.

  Alan Cumming

  Boys, Should Have, Littles

  "Acting out" by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2007.

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• Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first.

  Rob Zombie

  Black, Firsts, Faster

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• The Providence of God is like Hebrew words-it can be read only backwards.

  John Flavel

  Hebrew, Providence

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• 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

  Guitar, Play, Four

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• They’d say, ‘If you play the record backwards, you can hear evil things like 'grrrr!'’ and I would think, ‘Geez, I didn’t know the devil sounded like that. I thought he was coherent like the rest of us.’

  Brian Johnson

  Thinking, Play, Evil

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• It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Self, Knowing Who You Are, Looks

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.87, BookBaby

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• People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. Many people who approach the area of vision in leadership have it backwards. They believe that if the cause is good enough, people will automatically buy in and follow. But that's not how leadership works. People don't follow worthy causes; they follow worthy leaders with a cause they can believe in. They buy into the leader first.

  John C. Maxwell

  Believe, People, Leader

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• If you play a Nickleback song backwards you'll hear messages from the devil. Even worse, if you play it forwards you'll hear Nickleback.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Play, Devil

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• I believe that if the silent majority were to protest against those who believe in irrational blind faith - who want to go backwards instead of forward, who are for tradition not innovation, who oppose individualism and plurality of thought - then the world would become a truly civilized world in which to live.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Believe, Innovation, Majority

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• I have no intention of retaliating or looking backwards. We are going to forget the past and look forward to the future.

  Jomo Kenyatta

  Past, Looks, Forget

  Post-election statement in 1964. "Ancestral Passions: The leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings". Book by Virginia Morell. Chapter 19, 1995.

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