Backwards Quotes - Page 18

• 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

  Believe, Book, Past

  "Class Interview with Anita Desai". www.baruch.cuny.edu. 2003.

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• Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even agony into a glory

  C. S. Lewis

  Agony, Heaven, Glory

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• What are you going to do? Are you going to keep looking backwards, full of anger, resentment and unfulfilled desire. Or are you going to be here now. Because everything is available for you in the here and now. Love, compassion, silence, bliss and Oneness.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Compassion, Oneness, Silence

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• 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

  Motivation, Fighting, Thinking

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• 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

  Purpose, Tuning, Chess

  David Bronstein (1991). “200 Open Games”, p.195, Courier Corporation

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• Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Knowing Who You Are, Want, Drag

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.117, Penguin

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• Smacked her so hard I knocked her clothes backwards like Kris Kross.

  Eminem

  Clothes, Musical, Hard

  Song: hi my name is

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• If you don't physically age gracefully, it's a bit sad. I think Steven Tyler can get away anything, because he still looks like he did in '73. Especially from row Z backwards in an arena. As long as the Stones keep their hair and don't get fat they'll get away with the wrinkles.

  Joe Elliott

  Thinking, Wrinkles, Hair

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• So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course.

  Thom Mayne

  Ideas, Existence, Courses

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• Dancing on 'Dancing With The Stars' really broadened my fan base. I jumped off the stage backwards one week, and so many women come up to me now and say, 'You're so brave. I can't believe you put yourself out there like that'. If that inspires some girl out there, then great, because boys aren't the only ones who get to have fun. We get to have fun too.

  Monique Coleman

  Girl, Stars, Fun

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• I'll find places to grab as I walk and talk, sometimes even walking backwards because I have more control that way. People have no idea that I'm doing this.

  Montel Williams

  Ideas, People, Way

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• Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason; there is no reason but must be built upon another reason: so here we are retreating backwards to infinity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Philosophy, Medicine, Psychology

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• I was the chief executive once, I've been there. My recommendation to anybody is don't go backwards.

  Stuart Rose

  Recommendations, Chiefs, Chief Executives

  "Sir Stuart Rose: 'They say we can't afford to retire, and I don't want to'". Interview with Juliette Garside, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2012.

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

  Howard Staunton

  Moving, Boards, Bishops

  Howard Staunton (1847). “The chess-player's handbook ...: with frontispiece”, p.5

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• This is a world that defines everything backwards, a world in which good is called bad, brightness is called darkness, up is called down, enlightenment is called abnormal behavior and abnormal behavior is applauded as reason.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Darkness, Humanity

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• You know, I've got a confession to make myself. I'm not really a priest, I've just got my shirt on backwards.

  Ryan Stiles

  Shirts, Confession, Priests

  "Whose Line is it Anyway?" with Drew Carey (Episode 201), www.oocities.org. October 7, 1999.

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• Most people put the cart before the horse, which is an interesting way to go through life. They approach everything directly. In Zen we approach everything backwards or inside out.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Horse, Buddhism

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• What healthy religion is saying is that the real life is both now and later. You have to taste the Real first of all now. The constant pattern, however, is that most Christians either move both backwards (religion as nostalgia) or into the distant future (religion as carrot on the stick) and consistently avoid where everything really happens and matters—the present moment.

  Richard Rohr

  Faith, Christian, Real

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• To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.

  John Negroponte

  Thinking, Reform, Election

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• When the time comes for your brain to process the information, the second word comes up faster than the first one. So when it's in your head, all of a sudden, it comes out backwards and you think of the word backwards.

  Bruce Jenner

  Thinking, Brain, Information

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Unity, Together, Stills

  Address Upon Taking the Oath of the U.S. Presidency, delivered 9 August 1974 East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C.

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• The word "no" denotes a shutting of the door. It means failure, defeat, delay. But spell in backwards and take new hope, for backwards it spells "on."

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Mean, Doors, Delay

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2013). “You Can If You Think You Can”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm looking forward, that's all, I'm not looking backwards.

  Robbie Lawler

  Mma, Looking Forward, Looking Back

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• New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance.

  Andrew Cuomo

  New York, Down And, Upside Down

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• Never job backwards. What might have been was a waste of time.

  Ian Fleming

  Jobs, Might, Waste

  Ian Fleming (1961). “gilt-edged bonds”

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