Backward Quotes

Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.

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.

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.

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

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.

I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals.

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.

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.

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

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.

Forward ever, backward never.

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.

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

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.

You can't look forward and backward at the same time.