Go Forwards Quotes

#1. Sometimes in life, we have to go backward a certain distance in order to go forwards. If we have conflicts within ourselves that we have not resolved, then we will find ourselves living inside of these conflicts, not in the realms of light.

Frederick Lenz

#2. Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards.

David Soul

#3. Ultimately it doesn't matter whether you go forwards or backwards: you need to live your life as well as you can.

Eric Roth

#4. When I go forwards, you go backwards And somewhere we will meet

Thom Yorke

#5. I hope in my books I help children to see their strengths, and show them I have some idea of what they may occasionally be going through. Especially at tricky moments when it is easier to go back and evade things rather than go forwards and confront them.

Nina Bawden

#6. You gotta look backwards to go forwards.

Fennel Hudson

#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. Life, after all, should go forwards, not backwards.

David Lodge

#9. 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

#10. There is little point in teaching anything backwards. The whole object of life, Headmistress, is to go forwards.

Roald Dahl

#11. You come from the NRL and it's a forwards-dominated game, I think, at the moment. You get three sets and kick and chase. But at Warrington it couldn't be more opposite. They'll have a crack from anywhere and it's the type of style you want to play as a rugby player.

Joel Monaghan

#12. Just hang on, Malcolm, I pray as I press down on the gas and the car leaps forwards, racing into the night. I'm coming. And I've brought the cavalry with me.

Pittacus Lore

#13. How would he know if time was going backwards or forwards or if he was going with it?

Flannery O'Connor

#14. History is lived forwards but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it was to know the beginning only.

C.V. Wedgwood

#15. 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

#16. You're jumping over the bench, jumping back onto the ice and you're working as a unit. Defenders can move up the ice and score goals as well as the forwards. It's a real fast, physical game. It's the fastest game on earth so it's pretty enjoyable to watch.

Gerad Adams

#17. The experience of the Mayas is one more reminder that any interpretation of human evolution based on the idea of unilineal progress forwards (or upwards) is an illusion. Peoples decline as well as rise.

Hugh Thomas

#18. Within minutes, the entire village was in the water, splashing about, falling over, getting up, moving steadily forwards towards the horizon; never looking back to shore ... "come back," he beseeched his wife: "nothing is happening. come back!

Salman Rushdie

#19. Peter Forsberg's skills and determination made him one of the most powerful forwards in the NHL during the best years of his career. Hearing of his retirement is sad news but one day every athlete has to come to this decision. He should be very proud of all he accomplished throughout his career.

Patrick Roy

#20. Sex exists in the now without past or future. If, for a single second, your minds drifts back to the past or forwards into the unknown, the moment withers like a dead plant and the passage of pleasure turns to a road of dust.

Chloe Thurlow

#21. 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

#22. Thank you, I said. I have lived in my own book. One I never planned to write, recording time backwards and forwards.

Patti Smith

#23. Now, most dentist's chairs go up and down, don't they? The one I was in went back and forwards. I thought 'This is unusual'. And the dentist said to me 'Mr Vine, get out of the filing cabinet.

Tim Vine

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

Soren Kierkegaard

#25. Whereas, once under way, you can get so far that going forwards is the only choice.

Jules Verne

#26. It is the province of the tarot reader to move backwards, forwards, even sideways in time.

Sasha Graham

#27. I miss dreaming forwards," Anna said.
"What?"
"I dream backwards now. You won't believe how backwards you'll dream someday.

Marina Keegan

#28. If our minds can hold us back, then they can push us forwards too.

Sally Brampton

#29. For one's children so often gave one's own perceptions a little thrust forwards.

Virginia Woolf

#30. We still seek to solve conflicts with 'judgement' instead of designing the way forwards.

Edward De Bono

#31. 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

#32. I love moving in extra dimensions. Not just backwards and forwards, but up and down and around.

Kirsten Hubbard

#33. I'm always looking upwards and looking forwards and so when someone says, "Hey, would you consider a TV show?" I say, "Hell yeah, I'll consider that. I'll check that out."

Henry Rollins

#34. 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

#35. The trouble with life is that we lead it forwards and understand it backwards.

N. Lombardi Jr.

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. I love how, whenever you tell me a story, you go backwards and forwards and tell me everything else that could possibly be happening in every direction, like an explosion. Like a flower blooming.

Andrew Smith

#39. Maybe you could go backwards and forwards at the same time, but it wasn't easy. You had to want to.

Sarah Dessen

#40. In Greek, "nostalgia" literally means "the pain from an old wound". It's a twinge in your heart, far more powerful than memory alone. This device isn't a spaceship, it's a time machine. It goes backwards and forwards, it takes us to a place where we ache to go again.

Don Draper

#41. The world is all change, my friend. We all would like to go back, but the past is done. We must look forwards. We must change ourselves, however painful it may be, or be left behind.

Joe Abercrombie

#42. Like riding a bike for the first time, sometimes you just have to go for it. If you keep looking forwards and maintain your momentum, it will probably go well. But if you start to doubt yourself and look back, you are more likely to suffer a major wobble followed by a crash.

Roz Savage

#43. 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

#44. The Good Friday Agreement was an incredible breakthrough. But it's my view that the Hillsborough Agreement could see politics in the north come of age, and see us all move forwards on the basis of equality and partnership.

Martin McGuinness

#45. Frustration is the first step towards improvement. I have no incentive to improve if I'm content with what I can do and if I'm completely satisfied with my pace, distance and form as a runner. It's only when I face frustration and use it to fuel my dedication that I feel myself moving forwards.

John Bingham

#46. Olive thought she had forgotten what pain could be. She was a railway tunnel in which a battering train had come to a fiery halt. She was a burrow in which a creature had wedged itself and could go neither forwards nor back.

A.S. Byatt

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. At the end of your days, be leaning forwards, not falling backwards.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. Change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways

Alvin Toffler

#53. The Bishop moves diagonally forwards or backwards, to the extent of the Board.

Howard Staunton

#54. Sometimes the solutions to our problems come from looking backwards, not forwards.

Jane V. Blanchard

#55. 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

#56. She doesn't judge me for these words. I think she understands. She knows what it's like to want to throw yourself forwards, maintain momentum to keep from breaking down. I

Pittacus Lore

#57. 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

#58. walk forwards in the radiance of the past

Francesco Petrarca

#59. A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.

Thomas Carlyle

#60. When you play with good players, they will always create chances for the forwards to score.

Jermain Defoe

#61. There's the trick: to find the way - whether forwards or back - to what we long to be.

Rose Tremain

#62. We get forwards in the world not so much by doing services, as receiving them: you take a withering twig, and put it in the ground; and then you water it, because you have planted it.

Laurence Sterne

#63. Photographs make me forget if time is forwards or backwards. No, photographs make me wonder if there is a forwards or backwards.

David Mitchell

#64. Each team has a net liner, a goalie, and five attackers. We have two defenders on the ice and three forwards. Our forwards are left winger, centre man and a right winger. We work as units of five. In ice hockey you go out and you go as hard as you can for 35 to 45 seconds, then we change.

Gerad Adams

#65. 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

#66. 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

#67. Life must be lived forwards but can only be understood backwards. - Kierkegaard

Oliver Sacks

#68. 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

#69. 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

#70. Forwards are the gnarled and scarred creatures who have a propensity for running into and bleeding all over each other.

Peter FitzSimons

#71. 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

#72. It was half past six and the hands were quietly moving forwards.

Franz Kafka

#73. There's no way back,
There is no track
That leads to his past lives.
He sets himself on forwards.
And he loves.
And he survives.

Kate Tempest

#74. I'm pro-forwards. Do I want the Seventies to come back? No. The haircuts were terrible. Everyone stank. The food was awful.

Douglas Coupland