Backwards Quotes - Page 6

• This society believed it was looking towards a new future, yet we consistently find ourselves being dragged backwards.

  David Ervine

  This Society, New Future, Consistently

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• The useless search of philosophers for a cause of the universe is a regressus in infinitum (a stepping backwards into the infinite) and resembles climbing up an endless ladder, the recurring question as to the cause of the cause rendering the attainment of a final goal impossible.

  Ludwig Buchner

  Climbing, Goal, Finals

  Ludwig Büchner (1884). “Force and Matter: Or, Principles of the Natural Order of the Universe. With a System of Morality Based Thereon”

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• ...conscience looks backwards and judges past actions, inducing that kind of dissatisfaction, which if weak we call regret, and if severe remorse.

  Charles Darwin

  Regret, Past, Judging

  Charles Darwin (2008). “The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex”, p.91, Princeton University Press

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• Describing laughter: The sound is produced by a deep inspiration followed by short, interrupted, spasmodic contractions of the chest, and especially the diaphragm... the mouth is open more or less widely, with the corners drawn much backwards, as well as a little upwards; and the upper lip is somewhat raised.

  Charles Darwin

  Laughter, Inspiration, Sound

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• Indeed the worthy housewife was of such a capricious nature, that she not only attained a higher pitch of genius than Macbeth, in respect of her ability to be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, loyal and neutral in an instant, but would sometimes ring the changes backwards and forwards on all possible moods and flights in one short quarter of an hour; performing, as it were, a kind of triple bob major on the peal of instruments in the female belfry, with a skilfulness and rapidity of execution that astonished all who heard her.

  Charles Dickens

  Wise, Character, Interesting

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• Winning a rowing race is not like winning anything else. Here's my theory: you're facing backwards, so you're looking at the people you're beating--and there's something exquisite about that.

  Hugh Laurie

  Winning, Race, People

  "Rowing, or the Greatest Decision You Will Ever Make" by Amy Yao, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 12, 2012.

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• If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Winning, Race, Looks

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• The clock doesn't matter in baseball. Time stands still or moves backwards. Theoretically, one game could go on forever. Some seem to.

  Herb Caen

  Baseball, Moving, Games

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• 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 backwards in time and exist in two places at once.

  Margaret Atwood

  Time, Moving, Light

  Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam

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• I've always been very forward-looking, and it was actually kind of difficult to turn my gaze backwards to look at comics history.

  Scott McCloud

  Looks, Kind, Difficult

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. August 23, 2000.

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• There were a couple of companies that wanted to put me with a producer, and I said, "Well, I just produced my last album," and I wasn't about to go backwards.

  Shuggie Otis

  Couple, Albums, Lasts

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• A reactionary revolution is nothing but a high-speed evolution backwards!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Revolution, Speed, Reactionaries

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• history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.

  Marthe Bibesco

  History, Upside Down, Immortality

  Marthe Bibesco (1928). “Catherine-Paris”

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• As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.

  Mark Twain

  Europe, Ideas, Borrowed

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.194, Courier Corporation

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• It is always possible that society you live in might go backwards, towards the land of ignorance and darkness! While this tragedy and stupidity happening, you must move forward! You must walk forward, towards the light and wisdom, to the land of reason!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Moving, Ignorance, Light

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• In a way, I'd rather ride down the street on a camel than give what is sometimes called an in-depth interview. I'd rather ride down the street on a camel nude. In a snowstorm. Backwards.

  Warren Beatty

  Giving, Depth, Camels

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• With my eyes turned to the past, I walk backwards into the future.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Eye, Past, Walks

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• This bowl has lived up to all the hype that I heard of it. Coaches...that have been here rave about the hospitality, rave about the venue and all the activities for the players. The people here have been marvelous. The bowl committee has bent over backwards to make sure that our stay is an excellent one. The players have something to do if they choose every day. You couldn't find a better place.

  Barry Alvarez

  Player, Hype, People

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• Nothing's true that I say, because I don't really want to say anything. I don't think my life's that cool, and I don't think my opinion's that valid. They're just silly jokes. Usually I just take a topic that isn't funny at all, like Shakespeare, and work backwards. I just try to find an unfunny subject.

  Bo Burnham

  Silly, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.shockya.com

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• Let me hear the music. I'ma let the music instruct me on which way to go. Forwards, backwards, left, right. It's like boxing. I'm only as strong as my opponent.

  Kevin Gates

  Strong, Boxing, Opponents

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• The weeks go by so slow I almost think time passin backwards.

  Winston Groom

  Time, Thinking, Week

  Winston Groom (2002). “Forrest Gump”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• In terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and writing on history but I got sick 14 years ago when I was 19. Getting sick derailed that plan completely

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Horse, Writing, Years

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• My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over a cliff while framing a better shot.

  A. A. Gill

  Death, Father, Directors

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• I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.

  Carter Burwell

  New York, Looks, World

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• In fact, the U.S. military has bent over backwards to respect the religious beliefs of some very dangerous fanatics who want to kill us.

  Linda Chavez

  Religious, Military, Want

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