Backward Quotes

It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.

You walk through a series of arches, so to speak, and then, presently, at the end of a corridor, a door opens and you see backward through time, and you feel the flow of time, and realize you are only part of a great nameless procession.

Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.

A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples.

Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.

I like to think that my finest hour is still ahead of me, so I can look forward rather than look backward.

I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - You write backward Es!

The historian is a prophet looking backward.

Winning times in the New York City Marathon have not dropped all that much over the years, but rather U.S. runners went backward. In 1983, there were 267 U.S. men who broke 2:20 in a marathon, and by 2000 that number was down to 27.

A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.

Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.

Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.

What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward.

You have to split, bend over backward, touch our toe to our heads to get recognized.

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it.

If I see an ending, I can work backward.

You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward.

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

It seems that we have it backward in our society. We tend to look up to people who are under a great deal of stress, who can handle loads of stress, and those who are under a great deal of pressure.

Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.

China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.