Going Backward Quotes

#1. It seems to me that going backward sometimes means going forward.

Siri Hustvedt

#2. You decide that you don't want to go backward. You want to go forward. But sometimes, going 'backward' isn't really going backward, it's actually moving forward.

Leryn Franco

#3. It's the pausing and the stopping, perhaps going backward and losing some time, not being able to do everything we're supposed to do, that serves the soul. That's the enchantment that feeds the soul.

Thomas Moore

#4. It occurs to me that artists go forward by going backward, something which I have nothing against intrinsically when it is a reproduced retreat - as is the case with the better artists.

Soren Kierkegaard

#5. What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward.

Stanley Crouch

#6. The Dharma Path is to keep walking forward. But the true Dharma has no going forward, no going backward, and no standing still.

Ajahn Chah

#7. Janus and his doorways. He would have you believe that all choices are black or white, yes or no, in or out. In fact, it's not that simple. Whenever you reach the crossroads, there are always at least three ways to go ... four if you count going backward.

Rick Riordan

#8. If you have a wormhole, then you can turn them into time machines for going backward in time.

Kip Thorne

#9. It is impossible to stand still in Christian life and service, for when you stand still, you immediately start going backward. "Let us go on!" is God's challenge to His church (Heb. 6:1), and that means moving ahead into new territory.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#10. Honestly, if you were any slower, you'd be going backward.

J.K. Rowling

#11. Robinson could deliver a knockout blow going backward.

Bert Sugar

#12. Life can only be understood going backward, but must be lived going forward.

Soren Kierkegaard

#13. But more often than not, the easy decisions are the wrong decisions, and sometimes we feel like we're going backward when we're actually moving forward.

Cecelia Ahern

#14. Jesus, you're so bloody ... forward."
"You don't get anywhere in life by going backward.

Samantha Towle

#15. There's one secret to hitting hard, and that is to completely dedicate your body. That's the difference between a man going forward and a man going backward, no matter how big he is.

Ray Lewis

#16. I can't comprehend why any black man with even a lick of sense would have the slightest bit of interest in time travel. Going backward in time? A black man? You have got to be out of your mind.

Dexter Palmer

#17. Silence moves faster when it's going backward.

Jean Cocteau

#18. The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.

A.J. Liebling

#19. It occurred to me when I was thirteen and wearing white gloves and Mary Janes and going to dancing school, that no one should have to dance backward all their lives.

William Ruckelshaus

#20. Their bodies are tall and skinny, but their legs are huge. Their knees allow them to walk backward. We call them the backward-walking people. They have strange heads. When they are walking, their heads flip backward so they can see where they are going.

Ardy Sixkiller Clarke

#21. There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!

Edgar Cayce

#22. The cultural influences in our country are like the floo floo bird. I am referring to the peculiar and especial bird who always flew backward. To keep the wind out of its eyes? No. Just because it didn't give a darn where it was going, but just had to see where it had been.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#23. She turned to Jin now, sprawled by the fire, his hat pulled over his eyes. "I can tell you're awake. Are you coming with us?" He sighed, tipping his hat backward. "Yeah, yeah. Just trying to get some sleep before going to near certain death.

Alwyn Hamilton

#24. When searching for help, look for the one that will push, not the one that will pull! Your machinery needs a pusher; just avoid every puller and you'll keep going forward!

Israelmore Ayivor

#25. An arrow can only be shot by pulling it backward. So when life is dragging you back with difficulties, it means that it's going to launch you into something great. So focus, and keep aiming.

Anonymous

#26. I'm going to change my image - backward caps, the lot.

Tom Felton

#27. We will be able to travel backward or forward in time and see what has been and what is going to be, as well as experience the glorious wonderful present! We will see, hear, feel and experience the very events of the past, just as they happened.

David Berg

#28. I have a daughter and I have granddaughters and I will never vote to let a group of backward-looking ideologues cut women's access to birth control. We have lived in that world, and we are not going back, not ever

Elizabeth Warren

#29. The direction worth going in isn't up, down, forward, or backward. It's towards. And beyond.

Umair Haque

#30. I swore I wasn't going to rescue any more damsels in distress," Day muttered.
To his surprise, Barbara gave him a lopsided grin, banging on the side of the trailer to make it produce a door. "What makes you think she isn't rescuing you?" she asked, and stomped inside without a backward look.

Deborah Blake

#31. In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. That wasn't really skating backward, but I guess I was going in the right direction.

Dorothy Hamill

#32. I am going to MURDER YOU - "
"No," he says, pointing at me as he shifts backward again. "Bad Juliette. You don't like to kill people, remember? You're against that, remember? You like to talk about feelings and rainbows -

Tahereh Mafi

#33. But while science fiction imagined time travelers as moving forward or backward in time, this timepiece demonstrated a different chronology. The open secret of the clock, naked for all to see, was that we were only going in circles.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#34. Just going to Bangladesh was an experience ... if you go into small villages in the U.K., they're backward and culturally devoid. But if you go into small villages in Bangladesh, they have classical music concerts.

Sarah Gavron

#35. I do not like to dwell on the past. Life is ahead of us. If we spend too much time looking backward, we can't see where we are going!

R.J. Palacio

#36. The only way we are going to reduce disease, is to go backward to the diets and lifestyles of our ancestors.

Denis Parsons Burkitt

#37. When we feel stuck, going nowhere-even starting to slip backward-we may actually be backing up to get a running start.

Dan Millman

#38. Because in life, the question is not if you will have problems, but how you are going to deal with them. Stop failing backward and start failing forward!

John C. Maxwell

#39. To discover your real questions, simply take a time-out. Stop looking ahead of yourself at where you're going or backward at where you've been. When you do stop, there's a sense of going nowhere. There's a sense of gap, which is a tremendous relief. You can simply breathe and be who you are.

Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

#40. You can look forward with love or backward with hate, and people have to make that choice for themselves. But holding on to bitterness is like drinking poison and waiting for someone else to die, and she by God wasn't going to waste her time like that.

Abigail Strom

#41. Kenzie took two staggering steps backward, staring at the feeline as if in a daze. "O-kay," she breathed, shaking her head slightly. "A cat. A cat that talks. I'm going crazy." she glanced at me. " Or you slipped something into my drink at the tournament. One or the other.

Julie Kagawa

#42. We are not going back. Not only are we not going to retreat on women's rights, we are going to expand them. We are going forward, not backward.

Bernie Sanders

#43. I scrambled backward on the bed, moving toward the headboard.
"Where you going, sweet Caroline?" he asked, crawling across the bed to get to me.
"I wanted to hold on for this," I quipped, arching an eyebrow and my back as I grabbed on to the iron headboard.
"That's my girl.

Alice Clayton

#44. We start with the perfect experience and then work backward. That's how we're going to continue to be successful.

Brian Chesky

#45. When I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the club in a polo T-shirt and pants and sneakers and a hat on backward, just so I would not be dressed like other girls.

Rihanna

#46. We all must travel,' the driver said, keeping his eyes on the way ahead. His hands grasped the wheel firmly. 'It is the essence of all things, to move and change and keep going forward and backward and around. Even the spirits and the dead.

Nnedi Okorafor

#47. Backward now?' he suggested.
'Are you going to call out our lovemaking like a billiards game?

Julie Anne Long

#48. Sometimes, staying put, going sideways, or moving backward is actually the best way to eliminate what blocks or impedes your path.

Ryan Holiday

#49. Business in Russia was not being done like in the West, with contracts. In Russia, hundreds of millions of dollars were going forward and backward by word of mouth.

David Reuben

#50. Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.

Muriel Spark

#51. In these days when anything goes in literature, movies, and even TV, to think there are some places so isolated, so backward, so ill-informed as to what's going on in the world

W.P. Kinsella

#52. 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

#53. The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do, they can't go back the way they were. If even one little thing goes awry, then that's how it will stay forever.

Haruki Murakami

#54. I know you don't understand, but sometimes we have to go back to go forward," he says.

Zoe Cruz

#55. 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

#56. Oh, you know me, Jules," she answered. "I do not like to dwell on the past. Life is ahead of us. If we spend too much time looking backward, we can't see where we are going!" Much

R.J. Palacio

#57. You're going to mess this up, do you know that? You don't even see what's in front of you. You're like everybody else.
No, I'm not.
You're dreaming backward.

Kent Haruf