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Quotes About Backward

We all cope with fear and uncertainty differently. A great many conservatives are dealing with their fears about a changing and destabilizing world by attempting to force back the clock. But if the Right specializes in turning backward, the Left specializes in turning inward and firing on each other in a circular hail of blame.
~ Naomi Klein
They are lovely pigeons to look at and their eyes are full of lessons to learn.. They came back yesterday, they came back home, was the answer. They came back limping on their feet with their toes turned in so far they nearly turned backward. Every day the last six days I get a telegram, six telegrams from six pigeons--and at last they come home.
~ Carl Sandburg
That's weird," she said. "If I stand right here and don't look over my shoulder, it's kind of scary looking. If I turn around, all is happiness and sunshine." "Kind of like life, ain't it?" Elijah opened the truck door for her. "It all depends on what way you're lookin'—backward or forward.
~ Carolyn Brown
It bothers me that so many lack common sense, that their opinions can be so biased and backward, so utterly frustrating,misguided,misinformed and dangerous that I can't stand to listen to them.
~ Cecelia Ahern
BJP has traditionally been against backward communities and minorities.
~ Mayawati
Firm the whole fabric stood, Or seemed to stand, and sound As it had stood before. But nothing backward climbs, And when I looked around As at the former times, There was Life—pale and hoar; And slow it said to me, 'Twice-over cannot be!
~ Thomas Hardy
Art said he wanted to get more distance. I told him to hit it and run backward.
~ Ken Venturi
customers often bend over backward to give market share leaders second and third chances, bringing cries of anguish from their competitors who would never be granted such grace.
~ Geoffrey A. Moore
While we know that history flows forward, it is difficult to realize that we envision it backward. Why is it so?
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It took us a while to discover that we do effectively think, but that we more readily narrate backward in order to give ourselves the illusion of understanding, and give a cover to our past actions.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Have you given any thought to my offer?" Roberta asks her. "I don't need to. I already gave you my answer." "It's very noble to stand on principle and refuse an unwound spine," Roberta says. "It does, however, represent a wrongful mind-set that is neither productive nor adaptive. It's backward, actually, and it makes you part of the problem.
~ Neal Shusterman
When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails like the picture of a meteor in my astronomical atlas. But if you stir backward, the jam will not come together again. Indeed, the pudding does not notice and continues to turn pink just as before. Do you think this is odd?
~ Tom Stoppard
But in the intervening decades, something curious had happened, an act of what psychologists today might term recovered memory. Locals had reclaimed a past of their own , in which Todd County was staunch rebel territory, a pastoral land of Southern belles and brave Confederates. History, like nature, knows no jumps. Robert Penn Warren once wrote. Except the jump backward
~ Tony Horwitz
I'm not moping. (Ewan) Oh, forgive me. See, where I come from an upside-down smile means you're frowning, and if you're frowning while withdrawn from everyone and everything, it means you're moping. I guess here in your cave, the world is backward and a frown means you're happy. (Nora)
~ Kinley MacGregor
Evil spelled backward is live.
~ Graffiti
El corazón de cada Pronostic consiste en un circuito con un retraso negativo del tiempo; envía una señal atrás en el tiempo.
~ Ted Chiang
It's too bad we don't live life backward. I think it was Kierkegaard who said that.
~ Kristin Hannah
Evening backward leadeth silence.
~ lamartine alphonse de
We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.
~ John McCarthy
Only a fool walks backwards into the future.
~ Terry Goodkind
Marla said, This isn't like when guys sit backward on the toilet and pretend it's a motorcycle. This is a genuine accident.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It (NY) was like the city that Lot left behind and it would dissolve if it ever began looking backward over its own shoulder. Two pillars of salt. Long Island and New Jersey.
~ Colum McCann
The great error has been to mistake the darkness for damnation, to surrender to immobility or worse, to try to retrace our steps backward to a safety that has ceased to exist or never existed.
~ Larry Kramer
Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.
~ Victor Hugo