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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

If a blackbird had your brains he'd fly backwards. — Frederick Manfred

I was feeling real good and real manly. Until a real cowboy walked by and told me I had my hat on backwards. So much for my career as a cowboy. — Michael Biehn

If there's one thing I discovered since I came back from hiatus, it's that you can't go backwards. — Trey Anastasio

Do you know why the nose of the bull dog is sloped backwards? So it can keep on breathing without ever letting go. — Winston Churchill

I know and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backwards. — William H. Seward

We have all been guilty of bending over backwards to be nice to an unworthy but powerful opponent, — Richard Dawkins

Motivation will keep
you
going forwards,
Hesitation will only
drag you
backwards. — Mouloud Benzadi

Never job backwards. What might have been was a waste of time. — Ian Fleming

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

The Providence of God is like Hebrew words - it can be read only backwards. — John Flavel

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

Everyone has these ideas, especially about the middle of the country, about people being backwards and three-toothed. — Kelli O'Hara

Sometimes the solutions to our problems come from looking backwards, not forwards. — Jane V. Blanchard

The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny. — Tennessee Williams

Sometimes the amount of stupid in this world confounds me. I swear some of these citizens are evolving backwards. — Charlie Cochet

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

Thank you, I said. I have lived in my own book. One I never planned to write, recording time backwards and forwards. — Patti Smith

I think backwards. "This was beautiful." Instead of forward. — Alice Herz-Sommer

Though life has to be lived forward, it can only be understood backwards — Adeline Yen Mah

I love moving in extra dimensions. Not just backwards and forwards, but up and down and around. — Kirsten Hubbard

I didn't want him to move on. I wanted to go backwards, back in time and hug him. Never let him go. — Penelope Ward

The sky is falling. No, I'm tipping over backwards. — Steven Wright

Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.' — Arthur Smith

Do you know what happens when you play a country song backwards? You get your wife back, your dog back and your job back. — Richard Belzer

He could not afford to indulge misery, to live in the past and stumble through life facing backwards. — Jonathan Renshaw

Instead of hopping around like a wild in'jun on fire, try counting from 10 backwards while hopping on one foot. — R. Alan Woods

Your thought is so important because it has the ability to make or mar you. Your thought will either move you forward or set you backwards. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

I never felt my career was going backwards. — Charlie Adam

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

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

When you're stressed, you eat ice cream, cake, chocolate and sweets. Why? Because stressed spelled backwards is desserts. — Anonymous

Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right. — David Mitchell

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards? — Edvard Munch

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas. — David Byrne

I never reasoned on what I should do, but what I had done; as if my Reason had her eyes behind, and could only see backwards. — Henry Fielding

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

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

Me? I'm going to grow backwards and be a kid again. — Guy Laliberte

You might as well fall on your face as lean over too far backwards — James Thurber

I got no use for a man piss backwards on his friends. — Cormac McCarthy

Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions. — Hanif Kureishi

Around here ... we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things. — Walt Disney Company

When I have diarrhea I sit backwards on the toilet, because I like to face my enemy before I destroy it. — Sarah Palin

We cannot look backwards. What we have to do is raise our heads, look forward, roll up our sleeves and work. — Roberto Azevedo

The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs. — Rudyard Kipling

My heart is drawn backwards and forwards between the spinning wheel and books. — Mahatma Gandhi

[Y]ou've got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. — Bernadette Jiwa

It is hard to focus on going forwards when you are looking backwards. — Gillian Duce

The wise are in the light,
moving forward;
the foolish are in the dark,
moving backwards. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Jack doesn't give a jackshit about me. No, wait, I got that backwards. I don't give a jackshit about Jack the Shit. — Sara Wolf

Desserts is just stressed spelled backwards. — G.A. Wilson

Strap On spelled backwards is No Parts. Just sayin'. — Dana Gould

In my next life I want to live backwards. Start out dead and finish off as an orgasm. — Woody Allen

I always [or "often"] walk slowly, but I never walk backwards. — Abraham Lincoln

Just remember, golf is flog spelled backwards. — Milton Berle

You can't move forward looking backwards. — Delores Thornton

Don't play the reels of your life backwards - play them forward. — Art Hochberg

There must not be a canon of orthodoxy where art is judged and measured. The culture cannot move forward with our heads turned backwards. — Paul Russo

Every profound new movement makes a great swing also backwards to some older, half-forgotten way of consciousness. — D.H. Lawrence

Dear girl, it will be a very long road if you spend more time looking backwards than forward. — Soman Chainani

Time moves forward don't live backwards — E'yen A. Gardner

The idea of let's all share the pain equally, or let's freeze salaries altogether - it's ass-backwards. It's absolutely ass-backwards. — Jack Welch

I will not walk backwards in life. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Some say, what is the Salvation of the Movies? I say, run 'em backwards. It can't hurt 'em and it's worth a trial. — Will Rogers

We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent. — Jeff Bezos

Revenge is not redress. Revenge is a wheel, and it turns backwards. — Terry Pratchett

Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first. — Rob Zombie

The best way to be future-friendly is to be backwards compatible. — Jeremy Keith

You gotta look backwards to go forwards. — Fennel Hudson

I don't ever think about the roads I didn't take because I spend too much time thinking what's ahead. I don't go backwards. — Kelli O'Hara

We know that, when it comes to technology and the economy, if you're not constantly moving forward, then - without a doubt - you're moving backwards. — Bill Owens

It was once rumored that fledgling executives walked around their offices backwards so they wouldn't have to face an issue. — Fred Allen

Walk out backwards if you must go, but please don't wave good-bye. — Sara Evans

Life, after all, should go forwards, not backwards. — David Lodge

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

Fears drive us backwards. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It has been a mistake living my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backwards and still hold its reins. — Richard Paul Evans

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

The nose is also the only organ that can see backwards in time. — Terry Pratchett

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

The word devil is very beautiful, if you read it backwards it becomes lived. — Rajneesh

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

Commercials are so contemporary and up to date that when you're involved in that visual world, you can't really go backwards. — Damien Hirst

Federal Switzerlandization would be a huge step backwards for Germany. Two — Vladimir Lenin

Most horses don't walk backwards voluntarily, because what they can't see doesn't exist. — Terry Pratchett

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

I can ski backwards on one ski. And foldblinded! — Ivana Trump

It would seem no matter how progressive we get there are always those few who are backwards in their ways. — Solange Nicole

You'll feel me in the fall backwards. She'd kissed me on the mouth and walked out. — Tarryn Fisher

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. — Soren Kierkegaard

And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat. — Berkeley Breathed

I'm writing songs to perform, to entertain. And when I'm really trying to get inspired, I go backwards, and I just rap. — Mystikal

Shoved him backwards out of her lab, pulling its door closed behind them. — Karen Miller

History ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries. — Marthe Bibesco

Some providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backwards. — John Flavel

Backwards understood be only can but, forwards lived be must life. — Soren Kierkegaard

Sure he (Fred Astaire) was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything he did,..backwards and in high heels. — Robert Thaves

After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels. — Ann Richards