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  If I see an ending, I can work backward.

  Arthur Miller

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Ending, Backward

• It seems to me that going backward sometimes means going forward.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Backward, Forward

• Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.

  Hans Rosling

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Avoid, Backward

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Backward, Civilization
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  I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Slowly, Backward

• When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.

  Stephen Fry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Backward, Infants

• I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Hope, Backward

• We’re all goofed up. We’ve got it all backwards. He’ s supposed to steal bases, and I’m supposed to hit the home runs.

  A. J. Pierzynski

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Backward, Runs

• I start with the joke line and write backward.

  Nipsey Russell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Backward, Joke

• I took a little break – I was coming back to work and the last thing I was going to do was take a step backwards, so I knew that if I was going to take a feature it was going to have to be taking a step forward.

  Nia Long

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Backward, Step

• American officials have bent over backwards to show how sensitive they are to Muslim culture. It didn’t seem very effective. They seem to be worried about winning the respect of other people.

  Tucker Carlson

  Topics in Respect

  Tags in Worried, Sensitive, Backward, Effective

• A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reactionary, Walking, Backward

• I went backwards and forwards over it until I was 22. And then in the past few years I began to say to myself, OK, look, I’m not messing around. This is something I want to attack, instead of thinking, I’ll just see what happens with it.

  Christian Bale

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Forwards, Backward

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Trajectory, Backward

• If you stand still there is only one way to go, and that’s backwards.

  Peter Shilton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Backward

• Revolutions go not backward.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Revolution, Backward

• A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples.

  Emily Greene Balch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nationalism, Regions, So-Called, Backward

• The Yangtze never runs backwards; man recaptures not his youth.

  Topics in Chinese Proverbs

  Tags in Runs, Backward