#backward

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #backward




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


Coleman Young


#forward #look #same #time #you

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.


Margaret Young


#backwards #happier #live #lives #money

I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.


Carter Burwell


#bit #fact #forwards #i #like

If it came to saving the life of one priest or sacrificing the life of an entire congregation, the church would save the life of the priest. Which is backwards, of course.


Rob Walton


#came #church #congregation #course #entire

I'll find places to grab as I walk and talk, sometimes even walking backwards because I have more control that way. People have no idea that I'm doing this.


Montel Williams


#because #control #doing #even #find

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.


August Strindberg


#because #demands #energy #every #evolution

Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.


James Hillman


#admit #afraid #already #american #backward

The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.


Thomas Huxley


#factory #forward #knowledge #looked #looks

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