#backward

Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#backward #company #easy #forests #fur

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#backwards #forwards #life #lived #must

I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#backwards #being #born #dad #growing

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

— Winston Churchill

#farther #forward #look #see #you

If you think you've already made it, that's when you can fall short and go backwards. I'm constantly pushing forward and chasing the element of perfection. ↗

— Jason Derulo

#backwards #chasing #constantly #element #fall

I took a little break - I was coming back to work and the last thing I was going to do was take a step backwards, so I knew that if I was going to take a feature it was going to have to be taking a step forward. ↗

— Nia Long

#backwards #break #coming #feature #forward

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. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#backward #edge #faith #fall #forward

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

— Naguib Mahfouz

#civilization #contradict #interpretations #needs #often

If the music in a groove fits with what you're playing, then play it; if not, then you can play it backwards. If that doesn't work, you try it at a different speed. If it really doesn't work you just break it. The whole ritual to put a record on a turntable just to listen to it, I don't do that too often. ↗

— Christian Marclay

#break #different #fits #groove #i

We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries. ↗

— John McCarthy

#between #brief #capitalism #countries #feudalism