Top 67 Quotes About Going Backwards
#1. We are going backwards in a field that's supposed to be all about moving forward
Hillary Clinton
#2. I feel like I'm going backwards, actually, as I get older. I'm regressing. I feel more and more like a kid, which is kind of a fun feeling.
Rachel McAdams
#3. When you read, I'm sure you don't realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don't do that.
Terry Pratchett
#4. Didn't we settle contraception & affirmative action? If the GOP keep going backwards they'll soon be debating slavery.
Andy Borowitz
#5. Security wins many battles but loses the security war. We are definitely going backwards in computer security.
Adi Shamir
#6. Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Aldous Huxley
#7. Both of us don't go backwards and I think that is the key to the fight. Whoever ends up going backwards is going to lose.
Ricky Hatton
#8. A maverick feels like he has no choice however difficult his choice of expression. In my case, it was going backwards into tonality. It seemed so wrong. The idea that progress is going into the past in a new way is very strange, even though there are precedents.
David Del Tredici
#9. 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
#10. Efforts to bring about democracy have hit a wall and are going backwards.
John McCain
#11. We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder ... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.
Robert Mugabe
#13. I want to remind you right quick what this country has been through, and the challenges this economy had faced over the last three years. First, we went through a recession. That means we were going backwards.
George W. Bush
#14. If you ever seem to be sliding back into the very thing you've already been set free of, don't even waste time getting discouraged. Often what seems like the same old thing coming back again may be a new layer surfacing that needs to come off. You're not going backwards - you are going deeper.
Stormie O'martian
#15. In LA you can't tell the teenagers and the moms apart, which is so strange to me. And then it's like, "Who is leading who?" Are the moms emulating the daughters? In which case we're going backwards - that's not how it goes - the mothers teach the daughters how to be. It's a very strange thing to me.
Laura Benanti
#16. In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.
George Orwell
#17. It's a different world we're going into but it's all based on the Internet. It's all based on these connections. If you start limiting the connections, you're going backwards as a society.
Glenn Beck
#18. I don't know whether the future or 2018 exists or not, but if it exists, I'm offering a show to a museum in Australia titled "Time Reversed." Time is going backwards.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
#19. The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.
Anita Desai
#20. How would he know if time was going backwards or forwards or if he was going with it?
Flannery O'Connor
#21. I never felt my career was going backwards.
Charlie Adam
#22. Progression is going forwards. Going backwards is regression. Going sideways is just gression.
Noel Gallagher
#23. You're not going to just walk out of my life. Especially when your reasons are ass backwards.
Tenaya Jayne
#24. It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards.
Chris Van Hollen
#25. Our actions in the present build the staircase to the future. The question is whether that staircase is going up or down.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#26. If there is anything that is likely to put me to sleep," he said, "it would be an English history book. So you can hold hands with a clear conscience." "I'm going with Nurse Burrows." "You can still hold hands." "I've no patience with you," she said patiently and faded backwards into the gloom.
Josephine Tey
#27. What I'm trying to explain to my sulky little cousin is that we are doing things backwards. We are going from the end of the river to the start of the river. And endings are always sad. We are doing the sad bit first, which is wrong. Strange.
Mal Peet
#28. When I look for what I'm going to listen to I go backwards. I'm always going the other way you see. Most people are trying to figure out 'how do I get in the fast lane going that way?'. I'm going in the other direction. I wanna find the oldest thing to do.
Eric Clapton
#29. When I turned 50, I realized I was now going to start counting backwards in terms of the years I had left. Then I turned 60, and I just stopped counting. I don't have a fear of death, but I have an awareness that there's a time limit.
Chris Crutcher
#30. I'm just going about my business. Am I going to bend over backwards to assure everybody that I'm a good guy? No, I'm not going to do it.
Corey Dillon
#31. I can depend less and less on my own power and sense of direction ... It is so strange to advance backwards and get where you are going in a totally unexpected way
Thomas Merton
#32. It is, from my perspective, less important today looking backwards as to why these militants decided they did it than to find them and bring them to justice, and then maybe we'll figure out what was going on in the meantime.
Hillary Clinton
#33. I have no intention of retaliating or looking backwards. We are going to forget the past and look forward to the future.
Jomo Kenyatta
#34. Me? I'm going to grow backwards and be a kid again.
Guy Laliberte
#35. I'm never going back to the past. It is like when I am driving - I never like to do those routes that take you backwards and make you go the long way. I always like to do the shortcuts and go forward.
Andrea Arnold
#36. I kept taking one step forward and two back. Then I went all the way around backwards and arrived where I had dreamed of going.
Bryant McGill
#37. Motivation will keep
you
going forwards,
Hesitation will only
drag you
backwards.
Mouloud Benzadi
#38. Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#39. I have no regrets. If you regret things, you're sort of stepping backwards. I'm a believer in going forwards.
Kate Winslet
#40. 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
#41. We have unleashed aspirations of youngsters. Democracy is not going to go backwards. India is too big a country to be run by one person. We are going to accelerate the process of democratization and I think that is the biggest opportunity for Congress party because that is the DNA of the Congress
Rahul Gandhi
#42. Social media has changed the world forever. We're not going to go backwards. People are not going to accept being poor, accept being excluded anymore.
Jim Yong Kim
#43. A backwards step of self-doubt, a lying promise that you knew would hurt you later, a knowledge that you were going to get hurt and you probably deserved it.
Maggie Stiefvater
#44. By not foretelling the ending to yourself, as a writer, you're able to open up the canvas and say, "I'm going to go here. I'm going to go there." It's just a little bit more freeing than a stand-alone procedural, where you work backwards from the end.
Veena Sud
#45. I don't look backwards. I'm pleasantly surprised, and I feel really proud of the team and what we were able to accomplish together. But really, where I'm focused is the future and where Nest is going.
Tony Fadell
#46. MR.GOUDY: I believe you testified that you backed away from Aaron Wharton.
MR.COGBURN: That is right.
MR.GOUDY: You were backing away?
MR.COGBURN: Yes sir. He had that ax raised.
MR.GOUDY: Which direction were you going?
MR.COGBURN: I always go backwards when I am backing up.
Charles Portis
#47. I try not to look backwards, Elise. Makes is hard to see where you're going.
Kelly Bowen
#48. I have my welcome mat turned around backwards so when people leave they think they're going to a better place.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#49. Of course, you can say it backwards, which is dociousaliexpilisticfragicalirupus, but that's going a bit too far, don't you think?
Julie Andrews
#50. I was going to tape some records onto a cassette, but I got the wires backwards. I erased the all of the records. When I returned them to my friend, he said, "Hey, these records are all blank."
Steven Wright
#51. I thought I was going to write fiction but I fell backwards into non-fiction. It started when I got locked out of two apartments in one day and I told the story to some friends, one of whom worked in the 'Village Voice' and asked me to turn it into an essay.
Sloane Crosley
#52. Going back to a simpler life is not a step backwards.
Yvon Chouinard
#53. Even Hitler didn't wake up going, 'Let me do the most evil thing I can do today.' I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was 'good.'
Will Smith
#54. It's like jumping backwards into a snowdrift and not knowing how deeply you're going to sink.
Tarryn Fisher
#55. 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
#56. He seemed even younger now, as though he were traveling backwards in time, in his mind, or merely becoming innocent, as if the dead, if they are going to stick around, have a right to remember their innocence.
Anne Rice
#57. Safety is not a destination that we reach for, rather it is a retreat that we escape to. And if our lives are marked by the incessant search for safety, we will live the whole of it going in reverse.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#58. I never think of what it's going to be like later. I only think in the present tense. The only time I think backwards is when I have to reissue something.
Henry Rollins
#59. Dum walks backwards, talking to us. We're going back to high school where our survival instincts are at their finest.
Susan Ee
#60. You and I are walking in the snow. "Why are you walking backwards?" I ask. You point in the direction we came from. "So they'll think that's where I'm going." You point to where we're going. "And that's where I'm from.
David Levithan
#61. God has got everything worked out; He has everything set and in place to make us successful. He knows that if our life is going to progress, we need to keep moving forward, and not go backwards.
Sunday Adelaja
#62. 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
#63. You're never quite sure where the song is going, because you might not find the word to rhyme with the end of the line. You have to find associative meaning to get you there. So it's rather like doing a crossword puzzle backwards. A kind of strange, three-dimensional, abstract crossword puzzle.
Annie Lennox
#64. It is hard to focus on going forwards when you are looking backwards.
Gillian Duce
#65. You can tell it's going to be a good day when you start it by putting your shorts on backwards.
Me
#67. I took a little break - I was coming back to work and the last thing I was going to do was take a step backwards, so I knew that if I was going to take a feature it was going to have to be taking a step forward.
Nia Long
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