Move Backward Quotes

#1. But time could not move backward. Just as he had been made, he had to be unmade."

pg 299

Veronica Roth

#2. You can't just move backward. You can't push the chicken back into the egg, wine back into the grape, the boy back into the womb. If you want the baby to let go of your watch, you don't just try to explain that he ought to do it - you offer him something he would rather have.

Isaac Asimov

#3. But how did you do that? How did two people move backward through time and untie a knot that had tangled through every moment of their lives?

Kristin Hannah

#4. 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

#5. Perhaps some particles move backward in time; perhaps the future affects the past in some way we don't understand; or perhaps the universe is simply more aware than we are.

Philip Pullman

#6. Gabriel slowly raised his head and stared at her. Ten graduate students inhaled as one and began to move backward in their chairs, fearful that he might explode, or that a dagger from his eye might fly out and gut them.

Sylvain Reynard

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

Eleanor Coppola

#8. The earth doesn't move backward (very much) when you walk only because it's much more massive than you are.

K.C. Cole

#9. 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

#10. We always have to go backward to move forward. Whether it's to face our own missteps or reach the end of our lives with a final mistake... We always have to go back to pull ourselves out of ignorance or cast ourselves deeper into revenge.

Amy Rachiele

#11. A man who is looking backward all the time cannot move forward, he will be standing still

Sunday Adelaja

#12. Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move, And when this dust falls to the urn In that state I came, return.

Henry Vaughan

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

Edgar Cayce

#14. I'm not terribly technological. I'm awfully backward about iPads and BlackBerries and suchlike; I still have a great fondness for Teletext, and I clung onto my fax machine for as long as I could, but eventually you have to move with the times.

David Tang

#15. We can't go backward. There are too many regrets. Please just move forward with me?

Renee Carlino

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. None of us moves on without a backward look. We move on always carrying with us those we have lost.

Leigh Bardugo

#20. You learn from your mistakes, or you go backward. I'm the kind of person who wants to move forward.

Ndamukong Suh

#21. Take seriously the criticisms on yourself, then you move forward; ignore the criticisms on yourself, then you move backwards because in every criticism there is at the least some truth!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#22. Our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.

Barbara Kingsolver

#23. I want you sore, baby," he murmurs, and he continues his sweet, leisurely torment, backward, forward. "Every time you move tomorrow, I want you to be reminded that I've been here. Only me. You are mine.

E.L. James

#24. It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else ... begin to march us steadily backward.

Patrick Stewart

#25. Love is motion Potter love is forward movement but you said yourself the memory reel backward it's all backward with you. You are stuck back there because Potter you don't let yourself move forward your eyes get stuck on things and people.

Kyle Beachy

#26. 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

#27. Don't keep your head turned backwards. Look ahead and move on. You are trying to walk forward with your head turned backward. This is why you feel miserable. Just let go!

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#28. I always thought the purpose of time was to move forward, not backward.

Michelle Moran

#29. I wish I could tell you which issues will move forward surprisingly fast and which will slip unaccountably backward. There will be surprises in store on both fronts. All I know for sure is that those twenty-six shapes are what we have to defend our liberty and sustain our hope.

Andrew Solomon

#30. I'm ultimately not so much of a professor as a progresser. And I'm ready to move away from what I consider to be this weird mid-century dream that I feel pulls us as a country, and us as a culture, backward.

Christopher Bollen

#31. Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space. If you can bend space you can bend time also, and if you knew enough and could move faster than light you could travel backward in tie and exist in two places at once.

Margaret Atwood

#32. Sometimes you have to go backward to move forward

Elizabeth Genovese

#33. Russia on its path has oftentimes discussed and overdiscussed what had happened earlier, instead of moving forward. The result is always the same: It is very difficult to move forward when you're looking backward.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky