Quotes About Backward

We all have defining moments. It is in these moments that we find our true characters. We become heroes or cowards; truth tellers or liars; we go forward or we go backward.

We are all wishful creatures, and we wish backward, too, not only forward, and thereby rebuild the curious, crumbling architecture of memory into structures that are more habitable.

backasswards!

When you learn about stories in school, you get it backward. You start to think 'Oh, the reason these things are in stories is because a book said I need to put these things in there.' You need a death, as my husband says, and you need a little sidekick with a saying like 'Skivel-dee-doo!'

His handwriting was pygmy, and the date wasn't just written backward but it's zero was slashed, as is the practice in Europe, where the women grow out their hair and go without underwear and the children all smoke and drink wine.

His handwriting was pygmy, and the date wasn't just written backward but its zero was slashed, as is the practice in Europe, where the women grow out their hair and go without underwear and the children all smoke and drink wine.

His handwriting was pygmy, and the date wasn't just written backward but its zero was slashed, as is the practice in Europe, where the women grow out their hair and go without underwear and the children all smoke and drink wine.

The goal was to get employees to distill a pitch into its purest essence, to start from something the customer might see—the public announcement—and work backward.

yea dost thou fall upon thy face? thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit!

What would later become modern Greece was at the time a backward and isolated province of the Ottoman Empire with few towns, far removed from all this intellectual ferment.

Children are unconstrainedly sincere and not ashamed of the truth, while we, from fear of seeming backward, are ready to betray what's most dear, to praise the repulsive, and to say yes to the incomprehensible.

The backward look behind the assurance Of recorded history, the backward half-look Over the shoulder, towards the primitive terror.

For backward or forward, eternity is the same; already have we been the nothing we dread to be.

Scholars who write of Moscow facing an "uncooperative world economy" have it exactly backward.

Mental time travel is constantly taking us off the frontier of the present moment. But when time travel turns obsessive, it fosters the backward-looking gaze of depression and the forward pitch of anxiety.

The nose is also the only organ that can see backwards in time.

Time. What was time? Time is a river that flows both forward and backward. How could that be true?

His eyes flared dangerously. Did the lass think to share such intimacies with him and then rescind them? Och, nay, Dageus MacKeltar didn't go backward. She would find that out soon enough.

I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.

I thought of summer as the living time; the rest of the year was the backward time, the writing time.

Welfare reforms and the whole "happy" exploitation movement are not "baby steps." They are big steps–in a seriously backward direction.

I don't have any control over the offers that are going to come to me or not come to me. But I can't go backward, and so that's what's tricky.

Emma leapt over the wall and with all the strength she possessed, enfolded Aninka in a tight embrace and threw both of them backward with the weight of her body

I was just oblivious to the fact that the country scene was socially backward and politically opposite of everything I am.