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Memories extend our lives backward through time, making them feel longer. — Dathan Auerbach

We start with the perfect experience and then work backward. That's how we're going to continue to be successful. — Brian Chesky

The arabs are a backward people who eat nothing but camel dung. — Winston Churchill

But not to take a step forward is to take two steps backward", Abnum protested.

~ Before the Throne — Naguib Mahfouz

Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward. — Charles Yu

No one should have to dance backward all of their lives. — William Ruckelshaus

The real strategic differentiation is to create true value, look forward, not backward, and present the advanced uniqueness to shine through. — Pearl Zhu

And so when the scar wraith approached him, he took a diagonal step backward putting himself behind Squirrel like a king retreating behind a pawn. — Neal Shusterman

Frog backward is GO RF. — Raymond Federman

It seems to me that going backward sometimes means going forward. — Siri Hustvedt

His rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power. — John Milton

What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward. — Stanley Crouch

I start with the joke line and write backward. — Nipsey Russell

Christ is the great central fact in the world's history. To Him everything looks forward or backward. All the lines of history converge upon Him. — Charles Spurgeon

Reality is a wave function traveling both backward and forward in time. — John L. Casti

When we feel stuck, going nowhere-even starting to slip backward-we may actually be backing up to get a running start. — Dan Millman

If you have a wormhole, then you can turn them into time machines for going backward in time. — Kip Thorne

There are musicians who go through their lives sort of shedding their skins. For me, I've always felt backward-compatible to Version 1.0. — Pat Metheny

No parents should see their child die, that such an event is like nature spun backward. — Gillian Flynn

I rolled my eyes so far into the top of my head I almost fell over backward. — Janet Evanovich

I staggered backward-her one hand gripping my shoulder, the other still holding my wrists behind her-and she followed until my back hit the wall. — Kim Harrison

I believe that we're all created in the image of God and we're all fallen sinners. And I think we can recognize that as we look backward in history. — Russell D. Moore

The sooner you stop fighting, the easier your life will be. That is what your purpose is."
Lana stood so abruptly she nearly fell backward. "No. — Kiersten White

In your life's defining moments there are two choices - you either step forward in faith and power or you step backward into fear. — James Arthur Ray

Mostly though, college was me trying to look cooler than I was. There were definitely some Carhartt jeans and backward kangol caps in my repertoire. — Rashida Jones

Every day, you reinvent yourself. You're always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or backward. — James Altucher

Leave me like this. I have come full circle and I understand. The world must be read backward. All is clear. — Italo Calvino

A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward. — Christian Nestell Bovee

My feet took an involuntary step backward as I suddenly envisioned a world where I wasn't a hot tempered smartass. It was a pretty world. — Jennifer R. McDonald

a negative charge moving backward in time is mathematically equivalent to a positive charge moving forward in time! — Lawrence M. Krauss

I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is. — Loretta Lynn

It's not right to live so long in this world only moving backward."

-from "Diary of My Sixteenth Year — Yasunari Kawabata

Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward. — Al-Waleed Bin Talal

This was the Darker Life, where every truth was written backward. — Stephen King

If I could, I would work my way backward, paring away the years. I would reel my life arouond the wheel of this longing like so much loose wire. — Kevin Brockmeier

Disempowered and backward in social and economic — Anonymous

The only way we are going to reduce disease, is to go backward to the diets and lifestyles of our ancestors. — Denis Parsons Burkitt

But time could not move backward. Just as he had been made, he had to be unmade."

pg 299 — Veronica Roth

Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us. — Edward Bellamy

When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists. — Stephen Fry

If you see me at a restaurant, blow me a kiss, wave, blow me another kiss, then walk five steps backward. — Todd Barry

Dog' is 'God' spelled backward; you know that. That's why you're here, to help the nuns do God's work. — W. Bruce Cameron

As travel pushes me forward, memory keeps dragging me backward. — Frances Mayes

Innovation is about moving forward. If you are not moving forward, you are moving backward. There is no standing still. — Pearl Zhu

Backward we are naturally to all good things, and it is a lesson of grace to learn to go forward in the ways of God. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

RECURSION [Now rare or oh.s. 16261. A backward movement, return. — William F. Clocksin

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward. — Amar Bose

It seemed like a backward step at first, but now I know going back was the only way to show how far I've come. — Kekla Magoon

Devil spelled backward is Lived. — Terry Tempest Williams

You can't look forward and backward ... — Coleman Young

Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind. — Wolcott Gibbs

The direction worth going in isn't up, down, forward, or backward. It's towards. And beyond. — Umair Haque

Stop looking backward. Life isn't lived in that direction. Your future isn't in that direction. It's forward, out into the horizon ahead of you. — F.E. Feeley Jr.

I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward. — G.K. Chesterton

The success of my journey depended on whether my heart walked forward - toward my people - instead of backward, away from them. — Anasazi Foundation

I hate looking backward, but every once in a while it sneaks up on you. — Burt Lancaster

Edward Bellamy's eugenic utopian novel, "Looking Backward" was the inspiration for American Progressivism. — A.E. Samaan

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. — Charlotte Bronte

We can't go backward. There are too many regrets. Please just move forward with me? — Renee Carlino

If God had intended that man should go backward, he would have given him eyes in the back of his head. — Victor Hugo

Sometimes, staying put, going sideways, or moving backward is actually the best way to eliminate what blocks or impedes your path. — Ryan Holiday

Glance backward, look heavenward, reach outward, press onward — Thomas S. Monson

It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else ... begin to march us steadily backward. — Patrick Stewart

I'd rather look forward and dream, than look backward and regret. — James Van Praagh

He who moves not forward, goes backward. - Goethe — Mark W. Johnson

Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations. — Douglas Coupland

I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it. — Tom Wolfe

Our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward. — Barbara Kingsolver

These are the days when birds come back, a very few, a Bird or two, to take a backward look. — Emily Dickinson

Us ballplayers do things backward. First we play, then we retire and go to work. — Charlie Gehringer

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Honestly, if you were any slower, you'd be going backward. — J.K. Rowling

One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters. — W. H. Auden

I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - You write backward Es! — Hilary Putnam

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power. — Charles Simmons

Marla said, This isn't like when guys sit backward on the toilet and pretend it's a motorcycle. This is a genuine accident. — Chuck Palahniuk

A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward; to reset oneself by an inner compass. — May Sarton

Take one step backward into the unknown. — Adyashanti

No wonder women don't negotiate as often as men. It's like trying to cross a minefield backward in high heels. — Sheryl Sandberg

Of course the orders all converge backward in time, to different degrees. — George Gaylord Simpson

Our habit of wishing backward from what is to what might have been is the soft but persistent tapping that cracks the crystal. — Walter Kirn

There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward. — John Steinbeck

You're not a nuthatch, Laurie."
"Oh, but I am. I'm totally upside down. I'm a very backward kind of guy. — Leslea Tash

The sort of commercial parameters of classical music changed after the [World War II] , and the whole industry became more backward-looking. — Esa-Pekka Salonen

It's screwed up, is what it is. Ain't normal to rain roses. That's like a clock running backward, or well water turning to blood. — Jodi Picoult

A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward. — Hans Rosling

Our last impression of her as she turned the corner was that smile, flung backward like a handful of flowers. — Wallace Stegner

Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more ... to give way to the happiness of the person you love. — A.A. Milne

Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for to-night! — Elizabeth Chase Allen

Beauty is looking backward and urging forward, and trying desperately to pay attention to the now. — Lou Gaglia

It's like ... time is flowing backward. We're caveman archeologists in the ruins of the future. — Dan Wells

Don't step backward toward nothing, step forward toward something, better awkward steps forward, than coward steps backward. — Victoria Addino

No More Avengers! There's nothing new to get out of it - I want to go forward, not backward. — Honor Blackman

What is past, one cannot change,
so each backward glance is a bit of the present slipping away. — James Conroyd Martin

Shall we not go on in so great a cause? Go forward and not backward. Courage, brethren; and on, on to the victory! — Joseph Smith Jr.

Dog is God spelled backward. — Duane Chapman

The Dharma Path is to keep walking forward. But the true Dharma has no going forward, no going backward, and no standing still. — Ajahn Chah

A year jammed full of adventure and misadventure, strides forward and many steps backward, another year in my topsy-turvy, Jekyll-and-Hyde existence. — Anthony Kiedis

IT'S SAID that you can only live life forward and understand it backward. — Jack Welch