Backwards Quotes - Page 9

• The Gothic idea that we were to look backwards instead of forwards for the improvement of the human mind, and to recur to the annals of our ancestors for what is most perfect in government, in religion and in learning, is worthy of those bigots in religion and government by whom it has been recommended, and whose purposes it would answer. But it is not an idea which this country will endure.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Ideas, Government

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.318

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

  Rajneesh

  Love, Beautiful, Devil

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• When people really hate one another, the tension within them can sometimes make itself felt throughout a room, like atmospheric waves, first hot, then cold, wafted backwards and forwards as if in an invisible process of air conditioning, creating a pervasive physical disturbance.

  Anthony Powell

  Hate, Air, Creating

  Anthony Powell (1995). “A Dance to the Music of Time: Third Movement”, p.161, University of Chicago Press

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• Maybe you could go backwards and forwards at the same time, but it wasn't easy. You had to want to.

  Sarah Dessen

  Querer, fácil

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.179, Penguin

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• So apart from writing letters home to your fantasy girlfriends,"Ben says, walking backwards, "what do you guys do out here without television and phones?" "Men's business. Bit confidential," Griggs says patronisingly. "Wow, wish I were you," Ben says, shaking his head with mock regret. "All I'll be doing tonight is hanging out in Taylor's bedroom, lying on her bed, sharing my earphones with her, hoping she won't hog all the room because it's such a tiny space.

  Melina Marchetta

  Girlfriend, Regret, Lying

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• You don't realize that if you stop looking backwards craving the love and acceptance which you didn't receive from your parents, then you might open your eyes to what is available for you now. But you won't let go. If only you could see that looking back into an incomplete and imperfect past, with regret, blame, guilt or resentment is keeping you from the treasures that await you here now. The past has gone. You cannot rectify something that is no longer with you.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Letting Go, Regret, Eye

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• It's very hard to get out of this hold, that's why you either have to scoot backwards, move forwards, or try to get up.

  Bobby Heenan

  Moving, Wrestling, Trying

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• I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time.

  Syd Barrett

  Waste, Path, Wasting My Time

  "Biografía / Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• I believe my party should never flinch from the requirement that we must continue this progression, otherwise we may end up like the Republican party who lost an election last year that they could have won were it not for their socially conservative agenda. We may have gone two steps forward, but I fear we may have gone one step backwards. The modernisation of the Conservative party is not yet complete.

  Margot James

  Fiesta, Creer, Gay

  "Gay marriage debate: Tory MP warns party not to follow the Republican road" by Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2013.

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• Una persona con media voluntad avanza y retrocede, pero no avanza ni en el más suave de los caminos.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Compromiso, Progreso, Mitad

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• The alchemists of past centuries tried hard to make the elixir of life: ... Those efforts were in vain; it is not in our power to obtain the experiences and the views of the future by prolonging our lives forward in this direction. However, it is well possible in a certain sense to prolong our lives backwards by acquiring the experiences of those who existed before us and by learning to know their views as well as if we were their contemporaries. The means for doing this is also an elixir of life.

  Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp

  Vida, Media, Ciencia

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• Siempre estoy mirando hacia delante. Paso muy poco tiempo mirando hacia atrás.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Inspirational, Littles, Looking Forward

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• Sólo recuerda, golf es flog deletreado al revés.

  Milton Berle

  Golf, Remember

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

  Terry Pratchett

  Horse, Walks

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• Eres bueno cuando caminas hacia tu meta con paso firme y valiente. Pero no eres malo cuando vas cojeando. Porque los que cojean no retroceden. Pero tú, que eres fuerte y veloz, procura no cojear ante el cojo, considerándolo una bondad.

  Khalil Gibran

  Fuerte, Bondad, Maldad

  Khalil Gibran (2014). "El Profeta - Der Prophet", p.104, Lulu.com

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• Going backwards is never an option.

  Melissa Marr

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• I’ve been here before, dreaming myself backwards, among grappling hooks of light. True to the seasons, I’ve lived every word spoken. Did I walk into someone’s nightmare?

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Dream, Light, Hook

  Yusef Komunyakaa (1998). “Thieves of Paradise”, p.14, Wesleyan University Press

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• It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Life, Wisdom, Philosopher

  Journal entry (translated by Alexander Dru, 1938).

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

  David Byrne

  Art, Emotional, Ideas

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 5, 2001.

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• A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs, who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A liberal is a man who uses his legs and hands at the behest of his head.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Feet, Perfectly Good

  Radio address, 26 Oct. 1939

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• & love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.

  Amiri Baraka

  Mean, Love Is, Evil

  Amiri Baraka (2015). “S O S: Poems 1961-2013”, p.31, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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

  David Mitchell

  Lying, World, May

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.401, Random House Group

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• Significa que, aunque la Bruja conocía la Magia Profunda, hay una magia aún más profunda que no conocía. Su conocimiento se remonta sólo a los albores del Tiempo. Pero si hubiera podido mirar un poco más atrás, en la quietud y la oscuridad antes de que comenzara el Tiempo, habría leído allí un encantamiento diferente. Habría sabido que cuando una víctima voluntaria que no había cometido traición era asesinada en lugar de un traidor, la Mesa se resquebrajaba y la propia muerte retrocedía.

  C. S. Lewis

  Fe, Inspiración, Significado

  C.S.Lewis (2016). "Las crónicas de Narnia Vol I: El león, la bruja y el armario", p.117, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED.

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• Lo grandioso es poder razonar hacia atrás.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Math, Science, Able

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “Sherlock Holmes: The Novels: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.93, Penguin

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• Icelandic people are really educated. But maybe we are at where the people in the States were 50 years ago, where they think that stuff that isn't done with a hammer or physical power is not a job. It's that backwards.

  Bjork

  Thinking, People, Done

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