Top 100 Only Forward Quotes

#1. When you work, you don't have time to do anything stupid. When you work ten hours a day, you forget everything. We have to forget. There is no looking back, only forward." In

Barbara Demick

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#2. Every moment is precious, even the ones behind me that I often reflect upon with a reserved smile. However ... I seldom look back, only forward in anticipation of the next greater now.

Carl Henegan

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#3. Viola blows out a thoughtful air. "My dad used to say, 'There's only forward, Vi, only outward and up.'"
"There's only forward," I repeat.
"Outward and up," she says.

Patrick Ness

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#4. There is only forward. Only tomorrow. No yesterday, no going back. And nothing of value is left behind, so nothing is truly lost.

Lesley Livingston

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#5. But one cannot look backward, only forward. What has passed has passed forever.

Kate Atkinson

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#6. I'm not into writing many more books or more pages. My goal is to increase the value of each sentence I write. And for that, I have to just erase my past and bring only forward what matches the new me, things I can easily rewrite and adapt to my new perspective.

Robin Sacredfire

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#7. Everything you've done, everything you've seen, everything you've become, remains. You never can go back, only forward, and if you don't bring the whole of yourself with you, you'll never see the sun again.

Michael Marshall Smith

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#8. A good soldier, whether he leads a platoon or an army, is expected to look backward as well as forward; but he must think only forward.

Douglas MacArthur

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#9. Would have to find something else, he thought mazily. Something new. Couldn't stay here anymore. Couldn't go back. Only forward.

Lev Grossman

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#10. You can't look back. Nothing you can do to change it. Only forward.

Jen Calonita

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#11. Clockwork could not run counter to its nature. The seconds, minutes, and hours moved only forward. Patient, precise, and unstoppable. Memory was an indulgence, an illusion that broke like a wave upon the juggernaut of time. The past remained the past.

Matthew J. Kirby

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#12. I'm a forward, but I can't be the only forward at a club. Over the years, the clubs who've won titles have had several strikers.

Jermain Defoe

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#13. I ain't looking back only forward.

Eminem

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#14. They must be real people. And this means that every word in every line of speech must be accurate and full of some kind of meaning which stretches not only forward in the book but stems from before in the book.

John Steinbeck

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#15. Moving forward is the only way to survive.

Tahereh Mafi

Only Forward Quotes #5162
#16. The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.

Alyson Noel

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#17. You can only succeed. You cannot fail. Failure is impossible; it is an illusion. Nothing is a failure. Nothing. Everything moves the human story, and hence the process of evolution, forward. Everything advances you on your journey.

Neale Donald Walsch

Only Forward Quotes #11850
#18. Wanderlove is about forgetting the bad things and focusing on the good. Out with the old and in with the new ... The only way to escape the past is to keep moving forward.

Kirsten Hubbard

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#19. Chronocanine Envy:
Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said, Life must be lived forward.

Douglas Coupland

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#20. You know, as most entrepreneurs do, that a company is only as good as its people. The hard part is actually building the team that will embody your company's culture and propel you forward.

Kathryn Minshew

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#21. The only way forward is in the direction of a common passion, for nothing in the universe can ultimately resist the cumulative ardor of the collective soul.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

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#22. We all want a United Africa, United not only in our concept of what unity connotes, but united in our common desire to move forward together in dealing with all the problems that can best be solved only on a continental basis.

Kwame Nkrumah

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#23. Right now, though, I wanted not to think forward or backward, but only to lose myself in the words.

Sarah Dessen

Only Forward Quotes #40314
#24. I know about people who talk about suffering for the common good. It's never bloody them! When you hear a man shouting "Forward, brave comrades!" you'll see he's the one behind the bloody big rock and the wearing the only really arrow-proof helmet!

Terry Pratchett

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#25. Clearly, if it is sensible to hold a referendum on independence, it is crucial that we have one on marriage. It is the only way the country can move forward on this issue. Let all those who have a view on this subject place their trust in the Scottish people and let Scotland decide.

Keith O'Brien

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#26. 'Plenty of men are good at acquiring money and cars and things, but only a few have real forward motion. You know. Thrust.'

Vicki Pettersson

Only Forward Quotes #43901
#27. The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man.

Howard Staunton

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#28. Only in a state of solitude, when you willingly stay face to face with God, can He help you to open yourself, and show the impurities preventing you from moving forward and help you to identify your unique gift, life mission and destination

Sunday Adelaja

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#29. Decree now, and say it meaningly: "From this moment forward, I will admit to my mind for mental consumption only those ideas and thoughts that heal, bless, inspire, and strengthen

Joseph Murphy

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#30. I did six internships, even though I was only allowed to do one. I had a paper with my advisor's signature on it that I would just forward for every new internship. I didn't get school credit, but I got away with giving free labor to everyone.

Grace Helbig

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#31. One of the goals of philosophy is wage theoretical battle. That is why we can say that every thesis is always, by its very nature, an antithesis. A thesis is only ever put forward in opposition to another thesis, or in defence of a new one.

Louis Althusser

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#32. Ryuu stepped forward. "Meryn, listen carefully. Elizabeth is not only your new sister, she will also be your Yoda. She will teach you and guide you in the ways of using the force, so that you will master paranormal politics. Learn well, young padawan." He clapped a hand on Meryn's shoulder.

Alanea Alder

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#33. I hope everybody will go back to the negotiating table. I've always said this is the only way forward.

Mohamed ElBaradei

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#34. Destiny is manifested only through action.

Suzy Kassem

Only Forward Quotes #93025
#35. Fear is only the enemy if you let it keep you from moving forward.

Put fear on your side and let it motivate you.

This is the definition of an alchemist. To turn base metal into gold. Fear into Motivation.

Matthew Donnelly

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#36. If you keep looking back, you'll never be able to move forward. You're the only one who can stop yourself from your own success.

B.A. Gabrielle

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#37. If workmen are denied any increase in real wages and they can look forward only to a better standard of living through reduction of prices, progress for them is terribly slow, and they become impatient and dissatisfied.

Charles E. Wilson

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#38. The great joy of being a prosecutor is that you don't take whatever case walks in the door. You evaluate the case; you make your best judgement. You only go forward if you believe that the defendant is guilty.

Merrick Garland

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#39. Asking 'why' only makes us feel hopeless. Asking 'how' points the way forward, and shows us what we must do

Sue Klebold

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#40. Don't fret. We all experience it. We must. For despite our humanity love is the only way we can be like gods. It is in love that we glimpse heaven during our lifetime and have proof that there's something worth looking forward to in the end.

Felix Alexander

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#41. I think Brian Moore's gnashers are the kind you get from a DIY shop and hammer in yourself. He is the only player we have who looks like a French forward.

Paul Randall

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#42. I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion.

Mary Shelley

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#43. You're the only girl that I want to be with. The only girl I look forward to seeing walk into a room. When I'm not with you, all I can think about is getting back to you. When you touch me, it's like fire running through my veins.-loc 1725

Nichole Chase

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#44. The only other job that I've ever had that provided that time in the morning, where you're going to work and you can't wait to get there, and the sun's rising, and you are moving towards something you look forward to, was getting up and doing every day, was being a carpenter.

Mark Harmon

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#45. I had only two goals going forward: to fool people into thinking I was Sidonia, and of course, to try not to die.

S.J. Kincaid

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#46. He pauses for only a fraction of a second. Then he leans forward and presses his lips to mine, and the whole world powers off, the moon and the rain and the sky and the streets, and it's just the two of us in the dark, alive, alive, alive.

Lauren Oliver

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#47. Nothing in Nature stands still; everything strives and moves forward. If we could only view the first stages of creation, how the kingdoms of nature were built one upon the other, a progression of forward-striving forces would reveal itself in all evolution.

Johann Gottfried Herder

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#48. I have done evil. But there's only one path forward: to fight evil. That's my only redemption

Michael Grant

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#49. One day, you will stand at the summit of a figurative mountain and look back on your life's journey. And, to your utter amazement, you will see how your experiences with depression, dark and painful as they were, only added to the overall beauty of your life.

Seth Adam Smith

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#50. Like a bicycle, like a wheel that, once rolling, is stable only so long as it keeps moving but falls when its momentum stops, so the game between a man and woman, once begun, can exist only so long as it progresses. If the forward movement today is no more than it was yesterday, the game is over.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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#51. To attain to the human form must always be a source of joy. And then to undergo continuous transitions, with only the infinite to look forward to: what incomparable bliss is that!

Laozi

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#52. Whether your life is destined to be short or to be long, along the way on that journey, if you access that inner power, not only will you change your life in a positive way, you'll ultimately help change other peoples lives. You will be carrying something forward.

Brad Willis

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#53. The only effective antidote to the wickedness around us is to live differently from this moment forward.

Philip Yancey

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#54. In fact, for all of us it is this open-hearted affirmation that my life is the same as yours that moves us forward much faster than when we believe that others' lives are orderly and peaceful and only ours is chaotic and full of bumps.

Virginia H. Pearce

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#55. It's only when they join together in a forward movement that this country moves ahead ...

John F. Kennedy

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#56. The silencing of the Haitian Revolution is only a chapter within a narrative of global domination. It is part of the history of the West and it is likely to persist, even in attenuated form, as long as the history of the West is not retold in ways that bring forward the perspective of the world.

Michel-Rolph Trouillot

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#57. Pause and remember - You alone are responsible for taking an interest in your own growth. Understanding your deepest fears and pain is what will move you forward. If you can do this, you will be rewarded with not only a deeper connection with yourself, but also with others.

Jennifer Young

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#58. that a lot of what happens in our lives is predetermined and that the only way forward is to accept what has happened and to move on. Who knew, perhaps what destiny had in store would be better than what one is grieving over now.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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#59. But we can't go back. We can only go forward.

Libba Bray

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#60. To be a writer and political is a dangerous thing. To be a writer and apolitical is even more dangerous. Art is right, left; in truth, it has only one direction and that is forward.

Chris Campanioni

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#61. As in the case of making a mound, if, before the very last basketful, I stop, then I shall have stopped. As in the case of leveling the ground, if, though tipping only one basketful, I am going forward, then I shall be making progress.

Confucius

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#62. I'm reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

Kobe Bryant

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#63. All change is change for the better. There is no such thing as "change for the worse." Change is the process of Life Itself, and that process could be called by the name 'evolution.' And evolution moves in only one direction: forward, and toward improvement.

Neale Donald Walsch

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#64. Paradoxically, only journeying backward in time and reentering the home we once knew allows us to go forward to the home we've always wanted.

Gloria Steinem

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#65. The only way was forward, whatever lay at the end.

Robert Jordan

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#66. The only way forward is to never look back.

William Goldman

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#67. A poem needs disguises. It needs secrets. It thrives on the tension between what is said and not said; it prefers the oblique, the implied, the ironic, the suggestive; when it speaks, it wants you to lean forward a little to overhear; it wants you to understand things only years later.

J. D. McClatchy

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#68. Finally, if you want to write, you have to just shut up, pick up a pen, and do it. I'm sorry there are no true excuses. This is our life. Step forward. Maybe it's only for ten minutes. That's okay. To write feels better than all the excuses.

Natalie Goldberg

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#69. Only a positive mind can move the world forward.

Pearl Zhu

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#70. 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

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#71. Loss is the price we pay for progress," she said. "Only as we leave things behind do we move forward.

Robert B. Parker

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#72. My faith survived because I realized God didn't want this for us, He never had. I'm passionately looking forward to a new Heaven and Earth where only good exists once more.

Dee Henderson

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#73. There's no going back. Once you know something for sure, the only path through it is forward. Alfred

Aaron Hartzler

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#74. The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look forward to something greater to come.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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#75. Starvation does not occur because of a world food shortage. If everyone ate a vegetarian, or better still, a vegan diet there would be enough food for everyone. The only sane way forward is to grow food for humans rather than to feed it to farmed animals..

Jeremy Rifkin

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#76. You may not say much, Carlos Soto." She reached forward to place her hand over his heart, and he wondered if she could feel that it beat only for her. "But when you do say something, it tends to be the right thing.

Julie Ann Walker

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#77. The Snow Leopard's Tale is mesmeric. Tom McIntyre has compressed so many things into so few pages that I can think of only a few other short books that can compare. It was worth the wait for all of us who look forward to reading anything with his name under the title.

John Barsness

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#78. You move forward because thats the way it works; thats the only place you can go.

Jennifer Weiner

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#79. I want people to consider the idea that the only way of moving forward with their lives is to revisit and confront their issues and their pasts.

Sara Blecher

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#80. Whether we report Iran to the council or not, I believe the only way forward is through diplomacy.

Mohamed ElBaradei

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#81. Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.

Hanif Kureishi

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#82. Facing the backside of the future is the only way to move forward

Benny Bellamacina

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#83. God's vision is a call to move forward into the future in the full operation of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness, and self-control, with a fearlessness that could only come from him.

Sarah Bessey

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#84. God is the only safe way forward

Mica Tsoka

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#85. Only big goals will provide you with the motivational fuel. This is the fuel required to get over all those obstacles and temporary failures. This is the reason why you wake up and look forward to the day ahead.

Vivek Naik

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#86. Education is the only way forward in Latin America and developing countries in general.

Shakira

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#87. If we pursue a spiritual path in depth, then it changes who and what we are. There is no turning back. We can only move forward.

Vivianne Crowley

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#88. Only as He is faithful will His covenants stand and His promises be honored. Only as we have complete assurance that He is faithful may we live in peace and look forward with assurance to the life to come.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

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#89. Being near her was like balancing on a tipping world, trying to keep your footing as the ground wanted to roll you forward, hurl you into a spiral from which there was no recovery, only impact, and it was a longed-for impact, a sweet and beckoning collision.

Laini Taylor

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#90. Bereft of vision to guide the city's citizens forward, he could only draw them inward and backward, to encourage them to fight over imagined foes and manufactured hurt.

I.M. Savage

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#91. Artists in not only country but other genres usually make four or five albums, then they change producers to keep their sound moving forward.

Juice Newton

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#92. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

Lord Chesterfield

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#93. If you find yourself plagued by a recurrent worry, train yourself to think of something else. Your conscious mind can concentrate on only one thought at a time, and driving the negativity away will free you up to move forward again.

Harvey MacKay

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#94. Drink up your false courage and move forward. It's the only direction a man can move in.

Robin Hobb

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#95. Functionally, a man is somewhat like a bicycle. A bicycle maintains its poise and equilibrium only so long as it's moving forward towards something.

Maxwell Maltz

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#96. When I told my mother about them, she said she had similar attacks, and that they did no harm and lasted only a few minutes. With this, I started to look forward to my occasional attacks, wondering what might happen in the next one

Oliver Sacks

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#97. It will be contributing to bring forward the moment in which, seeing clearer into the nature of things, and having learnt to distinguish real knowledge from what has only the appearance of it, we shall be led to seek for exactness in every thing.

Jean-Andre Deluc

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#98. Holding on to weight (i.e. anger, bitterness, the past, hatred) will not only hold you back, but also block your blessings. You've got to let some things go to move forward.

Yvonne Pierre

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#99. Qhuinn took a step forward, with the intention of stepping in, in the event the Brother locked hands on the SOB's skinny neck: Someone should probably catch the head before it bounced all over their hosts' rugs. And the deadweight of the body.
Seemed only hospitable.

J.R. Ward

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#100. It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.

Louis Sachar

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