Backward Quotes
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And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.
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The historian is a prophet looking backward.
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Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.
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Revolutions go not backward.
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Reforms are slow, but they never go backward.
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We're always making progress, every day, ... Sometimes it's inches. Sometimes it's feet. Sometimes it's backward.
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The sciences are found, like Hercules's oxen, by tracing them backward; and old sciences are unravelled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.
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Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade?
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Work backward from your goal.
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Robinson could deliver a knockout blow going backward.
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When I came to know Mrs. Marcet personally; how often I cast my thoughts backward, delighting to connect the past and the present; how often, when sending a paper to her as a thank you offering, I thought of my first instructress.
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There is no disputing that in the eyes of Schlechter, Teichmann or even Rubinstein, the backward pawn was something more substantial than lively piece play, but in our day the latter is more often preferred.
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He who moves not forward, goes backward.
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If the world were really right, humans would live life backward and do the first part last. They'd be all knowing in the beginning and innocent in the end.
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Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.
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You linger to see his back, and the back of his neck and shoulder-side...The Bending forward and backward of the rowers...
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Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for to-night!
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The only way we are going to reduce disease, is to go backward to the diets and lifestyles of our ancestors.
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Us ballplayers do things backward. First we play, then we retire and go to work.
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Get busy livin’, or get busy dyin’. If you’re not growing, you’re contracting. If you’re not moving forward, you’re moving backward.
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Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.
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I can bend my wrist down to my forearm. I can wrench my fingers backward until they rest on my hand. A hitchhiker's thumb might arc into a 90-degree angle; mine will go to 135.
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Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.
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I start with the joke line and write backward.
