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Backward and Backwards Quotes

Backward and Backwards Quotes

1. The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see. - Winston Churchill

2. 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

3. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. - Edmund Burke

4. When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism. - Vladimir Lenin

5. There was a joke in Czechoslovakia: The Communist Party dance, it's one step forward, two steps backward, and everyone is still clapping. - Martina Navratilova

6. If Bangladesh succumbs to the rule of one family, it would be a major step backward for the region. - Khaleda Zia

7. When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song. - Alicia Keys

8. The point of conservatism is not that it prevents movement forward and upward, but that it prevents movement backward and downward, into chaotic darkness and a return to a primitive state. - Vladimir Putin

9. I feel that the law should ensure speedy justice to girls, be it from poor, rich or backward communities, and for this, the Modi government has made laws. - Anurag Thakur

10. You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. - Steve Jobs

11. Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. - Aldous Huxley

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

13. It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length. - Helen Keller

14. We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards. - Robert Mugabe

15. In this experiment, made on the 9th of October, 1876, actual conversation, backwards and forwards, upon the same line, and by the same instruments reciprocally used, was successfully carried on for the first time upon a real line of miles in length. - Alexander Graham Bell

16. Eight years ago, you may remember Hillary and I were rivals for the Democratic nomination. We battled for a year and a half. Let me tell you, it was tough, because Hillary was tough. I was worn out. She was doing everything I was doing, but just like Ginger Rogers, it was backwards in heels. - Barack Obama

17. A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

19. At times, I find that TV today has taken so many steps backwards and has become so regressive as compared to the kind of wit in shows from the '80s and '90s. - Mandira Bedi

20. It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. - Lewis Carroll.

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