A Step Backward Quotes

#1. It's weird, because American films in the 1930s and '40s, particularly melodramas, were made for woman, from Bette Davis to Joan Crawford to Barbara Stanwyck to Katherine Hepburn, and for some reason we've taken a step backward in this sense.

James Gray

#2. I can be absolutely assured that any endeavor of which God is not a part is most certainly a step backward. And any step backward is at least two steps behind where I'd be if I'd have gone forward in the first place.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#3. Here's an idea: How about just 'Americans?' That has a nice ring to it, if you ask me. Placing undue emphasis on our 'separateness' is a step backward. Bring back the melting pot.

Bobby Jindal

#4. No one step back, that is the idea ... Fight it out, whatever comes. Let the stars move from the sphere! Let the whole world stand against us! ... What of it? Thus fight! You gain nothing by becoming cowards ... Taking a step backward, you do not avoid any misfortune.

Swami Vivekananda

#5. Great Leadership sometimes requires taking a step backward in order to take a leap forward.

Todd Stocker

#6. Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backward
after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it's a cha-cha.

Robert Brault

#7. And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.

Kurt Vonnegut

#8. Finn says, "No, ma'am," as he enters the shop, where he gets poked directly in the chest by the fertility goddess. I move a step backward so he can get away because the last thing I need is for Finn to suddenly decide to become fertile.

Maggie Stiefvater

#9. Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward. Rather, returning to a simpler way allows us to regain our dignity, puts us in touch with the land, and makes us value human contact again.

Yvon Chouinard

#10. I'm not sure he's wrong about automobiles," he said. "With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization
that is, in spiritual civilization. It may be that they will not add to the beauty of the world, nor to the life of men's souls.

Booth Tarkington

#11. Perhaps making movies is a step toward being able to move backward and forward and in and out of linear time.

Eleanor Coppola

#12. She reflects on the girl she had been in this place, and the things she had to do in order to survive. For a long time, she'd had to live her child- hood backward, forced to step up and take charge of things that were thrust into her hands.

Susan Wiggs

#13. There's a reason why your toes are forward and your heels backward.
It means, step on your past with your heels and approach your furute with your toes.

Nomthandazo Tsembeni

#14. Notwithstanding how uncanny moments of life might be, you never walk backwards. Once you take a step, you move forward by a step with a step. That is life! Even a child would never crawl backward and so would streams hardly flow backward. Just keep moving when it is a must to move!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#15. My journey has been a very slow build-up. Each year has been a step upward. I've never actually gone backward.

Vijay Singh

#16. My feet took an involuntary step backward as I suddenly envisioned a world where I wasn't a hot tempered smartass. It was a pretty world.

Jennifer R. McDonald

#17. If Bangladesh succumbs to the rule of one family, it would be a major step backward for the region.

Khaleda Zia

#18. But not to take a step forward is to take two steps backward", Abnum protested.

~ Before the Throne

Naguib Mahfouz

#19. Seeing you puts me in mind of a piece of French chocolate." She swallowed and took another step backward. "If one wants to discover what is inside, one must first remove the foreign wrapping.

Julie Klassen

#20. While the others
those who wanted him to stay, to hold the line, to become the brink, but no farther
felt viable now with disgust for the shouters: they wanted the man to save himself, step backward into the arms of the cops instead of the sky.

Colum McCann

#21. The transfer of Wall Street from private ownership to public ownership has been a big step backward.

John C. Bogle

#22. 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

#23. It seemed like a backward step at first, but now I know going back was the only way to show how far I've come.

Kekla Magoon

#24. And so when the scar wraith approached him, he took a diagonal step backward putting himself behind Squirrel like a king retreating behind a pawn.

Neal Shusterman

#25. Many of the gunters on the front lines took an involuntary step backward. A few others turned and ran for their lives.

Ernest Cline

#26. No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Amar Bose

#27. The past can hold a weak man down like an anchor. It takes a strong man to remember the past, but forgive. Forgive and forget. Taking the first step forward is difficult. But take it. Save a backward glance for the times when you're uncertain, just to make sure your past is where it belongs,

Scott Hildreth

#28. Acceptance may be seen as the first step in healing, though when there is true acceptance, this is not really a step. Acceptance is there whether you step forward, backward or remain where you are. Also when acceptance is total there is no need of any further step. Acceptance will suffice.

Franco Santoro

#29. When I turn on the TV in Russia I see a general calmly claiming that our missiles are ahead of the latest American models by three five-year plans. It's a nightmare. We are creating a concept of the enemy, just as they did in the Soviet era. This is a giant step backward.

Vladimir Sorokin