Backwards Quotes - Page 5

• I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Birthday, Dad, Age

  "Helena Bonham Carter: 'We're the bonkers couple'" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2010.

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• 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

  Country, Mean, Years

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• And if I really can see the future, then what does it mean? Is there any sense in our lives if everything is already out there, just waiting to happen? For if that were so, then life would be a horrible monster indeed, with no chance of escape from fate, from destiny. It would be like reading a book, but reading it backwards, from the final chapter down to chapter one, so that the end is already known to you.

  Marcus Sedgwick

  Book, Reading, Mean

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• I put all of my resources into pushing the evolution in an industry that is notoriously backwards and I enjoy pushing that envelope,.

  George Lucas

  Envelopes, Pushing, Evolution

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• Life can be confusing. Good God, and how. Sometimes it seems like the older I get, the more confused I become. That seems ass-backwards. I thought I was supposed to be getting wiser. Instead, I just keep getting hit over the head with my relative insignificance in the greater scheme of the universe. Confusing, life. But it beats the hell out of the alternative.

  Jim Butcher

  Confused, Confusing, Alternatives

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1268, Penguin

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• I do not have a fear of heights at all. I was the kid who would see how high I could get in the trees. I was always climbing something. But I wasnt allowed to look down; I had to step off completely blind and backwards.

  Kyle Gallner

  Kids, Climbing, Tree

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Everyone now claims to be a moderniser and it's obvious, really. I mean, no one now says 'We need to go backwards... to the days of Lord Salisbury'.

  Francis Maude

  Mean, Needs, Lord

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• Of course, you can say it backwards, which is dociousaliexpilisticfragicalirupus, but that's going a bit too far, don't you think?

  Julie Andrews

  Thinking, Courses, Bits

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• Healing requires far more of us than just the participation of our intellectual and even our emotional resources. And it certainly demands that we do more than look backwards at the dead-end archives of our past. Healing is, by definition, taking a process of disintegration of life and transforming into a process of return to life.

  Caroline Myss

  Life, Healing, Past

  Caroline Myss (2009). “Defy Gravity: Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason”, p.16, Hay House, Inc

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• To play a specifically gay event for me is a backwards step. I don't want to play gay events because I don't want anybody coming to the show thinking that they're not part of the group.

  Jason Sellards

  Gay, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Our Lord God doeth work like a printer who setteth the letters backwards; we see and feel well his setting, but we shall see the print yonder - in the life to come.

  Martin Luther

  Letters, Lord, Print

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• Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and are ignorant and unreasonable by simple nature. We must learn to be free, to organize the random and detect the reflexive, to acquire the knowledge of particulars and the powers of reason. The examined life is impossible if we cannot examine, order, classify, define, distinguish, always in minute particulars.

  Richard Mitchell

  Wisdom, Simple, Order

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• My writing isn't actually guided by issues. I know it seems that way, but I don't sit down and think, Oh, there's this issue I'm bothered about. I only write about things that directly impact my life. When I write, there's a pain that I have to reach, and a release I have to work toward for myself. So it's really a question of the particular emotional circumstance that I want to express, a character that appears, a moment in time, and then I write the play backwards.

  Paula Vogel

  Pain, Writing, Character

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• The thing about Vegas is, I don't have to fly anywhere, and that really helps. It means I stay in one place for three weeks at a time instead of flying backwards and forwards.

  Elton John

  Mean, Vegas, Flying

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• In response to the escalating violence in Iraq, President Bush is delaying the return home of 25,000 troops and will actually add reinforcements to the south. Then in a symbolic gesture he pulled down the mission accomplished banner, put on a flight suit, walked backwards to a jet fighter and flew it in reverse off an aircraft carrier.

  Tina Fey

  Home, Iraq, President

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• There is a close relationship between a house full of possessions and a heart full of desires, between a cluttered closet and a crowded schedule, between having no place to put possessions and having no priorities for our life. These are precious clues. They remind us to slow down, to live in the present, to reduce the desires that drain our vitality, to clarify priorities so we can give our time and attention to what matters most. Tragically, in the press of modern life, we have managed to get backwards one of life's most vital truths: people are to be loved; things are to be used.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Love, Relationship, Truth

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• Someone told me something that stuck with me: "You have to envision your life, and then go backwards." I've been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I'm just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

  Bruno Mars

  Trying, Needs, Motto

  "Bruno Mars heads for the stars with new album". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. October 5, 2010.

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• 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

  Letting Go, Moving, Trying

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• You know Alou's name spelled backwards is Uola? That sounds like a first name, Uola.

  Harry Caray

  Names, Sound, Firsts

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• No Victor, you got it backwards, you should evaluate these integrals non-rigorously if you can, and rigorously if you must.

  Doron Zeilberger

  Science, Mathematics, Should

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• A self is, by its very essence, a being with a past. One must look lengthwise backwards in the stream of time in order to see theself, or its shadow, now moving with the stream, now eddying in the currents from bank to bank of its channel, and now strenuously straining onwards in the pursuit of its chosen good.

  Josiah Royce

  Moving, Past, Self

  Josiah Royce, John Edwin Smith (1988). “Josiah Royce: Selected Writings”, p.274, Paulist Press

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• Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, History, Looks

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• Every notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the debit is more or less equivalent to the credit. Except of course when it's more than equivalent, as it has been with universal education, for example, or wireless, or these damned aeroplanes. In which case, of course, your progress is a step backwards and downwards.

  Aldous Huxley

  Education, Organization, Progress

  Aldous Huxley (1953). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• The only time I had what you would call life-threatening fear was when I was on the Moon. Towards the end of our stay, we got excited and we were going to do the high jump, and I jumped and fell over backwards. That was a scary time, because if the backpack got broken, I would have had it. But everything held together.

  Charles Duke

  Moon, Broken, Scary

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• A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.

  Karl Kraus

  Journalism, Prophet, Historian

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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