Top 52 Forwards Not Backwards Quotes
#1. I've always thought you have to live life looking forwards, not backwards. I've had no interest at all in who my ancestors are.
Jeremy Paxman
#2. Life, after all, should go forwards, not backwards.
David Lodge
#3. How would he know if time was going backwards or forwards or if he was going with it?
Flannery O'Connor
#4. You gotta learn the alphabet, backwards and forwards. And then the choice is yours, 'cause last I looked, the Bible is written in the same words, the exact same alphabet, as my favorite pornography. Choice is yours.
David Lee Roth
#5. I miss dreaming forwards," Anna said.
"What?"
"I dream backwards now. You won't believe how backwards you'll dream someday.
Marina Keegan
#6. It is annoying that the rules of chess do not allow a pawn to take either horizontally or backwards, but only forwards ... This psychological tuning is ideal for attacking purposes, but what about for defence?
David Bronstein
#7. If you walk backwards, you'll find out you can go forwards and people won't know if you're coming or going.
Casey Stengel
#8. I love moving in extra dimensions. Not just backwards and forwards, but up and down and around.
Kirsten Hubbard
#9. If you play a Nickleback song backwards you'll hear messages from the devil. Even worse, if you play it forwards you'll hear Nickleback.
Dave Grohl
#10. The trouble with life is that we lead it forwards and understand it backwards.
N. Lombardi Jr.
#12. It is hard to focus on going forwards when you are looking backwards.
Gillian Duce
#13. Progression is going forwards. Going backwards is regression. Going sideways is just gression.
Noel Gallagher
#16. In a supersonic jet, you'll land before you take off. Your watch - if it's working right - will go back. (It'll stop if it's not). You've made a journey forwards and backwards at the same time. The trip will make you younger.
Zdenek Mahler
#17. I'm just always looking forwards. I spend very little time, looking backwards.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#18. Instead of writing backwards over what had happened, giving structure and meaning to his story, he wrote forwards, slipping into troubling futures.
Alan McCluskey
#19. I went backwards and forwards over it until I was 22. And then in the past few years I began to say to myself, OK, look, I'm not messing around. This is something I want to attack, instead of thinking, I'll just see what happens with it.
Christian Bale
#21. You're like a candle in a dark room, throwing light backwards and forwards.
Christopher Barzak
#22. Other projects later this year, but I think it's going to be a very very busy year this year with Star Wars and the re-release, so I'm sort of running about going backwards and forwards to America, Japan, Mexico. So there will be a lot of things to do.
Jeremy Bulloch
#23. When people really hate one another, the tension within them can sometimes make itself felt throughout a room, like atmospheric waves, first hot, then cold, wafted backwards and forwards as if in an invisible process of air conditioning, creating a pervasive physical disturbance.
Anthony Powell
#24. My heart is drawn backwards and forwards between the spinning wheel and books.
Mahatma Gandhi
#25. Why do scuba divers fall backwards off a boat? Because if they fell forwards they'd still be in the boat.
Mark Hoppus
#26. Sex generally makes them intae real relationships, or ends them. Ye go backwards or forwards after shagging, but maintaining the status quo is difficult.
Irvine Welsh
#27. When I go forwards, you go backwards And somewhere we will meet
Thom Yorke
#28. To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping.
William Penn
#29. It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard
#30. I travel backwards and forwards quite a lot. I live very near to the train station. I'm kind of playing at being an expatriate, I suppose.
Jarvis Cocker
#32. Escape is the byword - forwards, backwards, or sideways - into alcohol, busyness, good works, passivity, fantasy, or even madness. For the reality of the present and the immediate future seem even more frightening today
Peter Marshall
#33. I will treat you with my knife the way you've treated my pages with your merciless eyes. Backwards and forwards, backwards and forwards.
Clive Barker
#34. Change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways
Alvin Toffler
#35. The Bishop moves diagonally forwards or backwards, to the extent of the Board.
Howard Staunton
#36. Sometimes the solutions to our problems come from looking backwards, not forwards.
Jane V. Blanchard
#37. Thinking about it later he understood that a battle was a distillation of time: many years of preparation and decades of innovation and change were squeezed into a clash of very short duration. And when it was over the impact radiated backwards and forwards through time, determining the future
Amitav Ghosh
#38. The thing about Vegas is, I don't have to fly anywhere, and that really helps. It means I stay in one place for three weeks at a time instead of flying backwards and forwards.
Elton John
#39. His life was dominating by conflicting ideas, as often happens in periods of transition. The turbulence of the times makes some people feel a need to bestir themselves, but in the opposite direction, backwards rather than forwards;
Italo Calvino
#40. Photographs make me forget if time is forwards or backwards. No, photographs make me wonder if there is a forwards or backwards.
David Mitchell
#41. The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.
Alfred North Whitehead
#42. Where are we headed? Are we not endlessly plunging - backwards, sideways, forwards, in all directions? Is there an up and a down anymore? Do we not wander as if through an endless nothingness? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? Hasn't it grown colder?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#43. Life must be lived forwards but can only be understood backwards. - Kierkegaard
Oliver Sacks
#44. My dad was working abroad, in Iraq, and he was a doctor. We used to go and visit him, in Baghdad, off and on. For the first ten years of my life, we used to go backwards and forwards to Baghdad, so that was quite amazing. I spent a lot of time traveling around the Middle East.
Andy Serkis
#45. There is little point in teaching anything backwards. The whole object of life, Headmistress, is to go forwards.
Roald Dahl
#46. Beachy Head brims with electrical currents flying backwards and forwards, with the force of poems that have been well fought out and felt. I hear the currents of Alice Notley, of Bernadette Mayer, of Eileen Myles, and Sylvia Plath
Dorothea Lasky
#47. Messi makes the difference most of the time. In particular, he is always going forwards. He never passes the ball backwards or sideways. He has only one idea, to run towards the goal.So as a football fan, just enjoy the show.
Zinedine Zidane
#48. Let me hear the music. I'ma let the music instruct me on which way to go. Forwards, backwards, left, right. It's like boxing. I'm only as strong as my opponent.
Kevin Gates
#49. A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.
Thomas Carlyle
#50. Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard
#51. Thank you, I said. I have lived in my own book. One I never planned to write, recording time backwards and forwards.
Patti Smith
#52. The chains that held my left leg were about two yards long, and gave me not only the liberty of walking backwards and forwards in a semicircle, but, being fixed within four inches of the gate, allowed me to creep in, and lie at my full length in the temple. ,
Jonathan Swift
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