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Tag Name "Backward" (306)

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As for people who are politically backward, Communists should not slight or despise them, but should befriend them, unite with them, convince them and encourage them to go forward.
Mao Zedong
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His rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power.
John Milton
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Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning One pain is less'ned by another's anguish Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning One desperate grief cures with another's languish.
William Shakespeare
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We all have defining moments. It is in these moments that we find our true characters. We become heroes or cowards truth tellers or liars we go forward or we go backward.
Robert Kiyosaki
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Bush, himself the most intellectually backward American president of my political lifetime, is surrounded by advisers whose bellicosity is exceeded only by their political, military and diplomatic illiteracy.
Gerald Kaufman
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Give unto us this day the daily manna Without which, in this desert where we dwell, He must go backward who would most advance.
Dante Alighieri
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The transfer of Wall Street from private ownership to public ownership has been a big step backward.
John C. Bogle
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Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.
Al-Waleed bin Talal
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Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step.
William Jennings Bryan
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Most of us prefer to walk backward into the future, a posture that may be uncomfortable but which at least allows us to keep on looking at familiar things as long as we can.
Charles Handy
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The average term length of a member of congress is approaching 15 years, and the average term length of a convicted criminal is less than three. We've got that backward.
Oliver North
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Don’t keep your head turned backwards. Look ahead and move on. You are trying to walk forward with your head turned backward. This is why you feel miserable. Just let go!
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time.
Syd Barrett
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Here's an idea: How about just 'Americans?' That has a nice ring to it, if you ask me. Placing undue emphasis on our 'separateness' is a step backward. Bring back the melting pot.
Bobby Jindal
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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
H. L. Mencken
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The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.
Ross Macdonald
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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
Adam McKay
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There's no backward and no forward, no day other than this. You fill your cart as you go, and that's that.
John Burnham Schwartz
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
Abraham Verghese
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I love you. Okay? Want it louder? I LOVE YOU. Spell it out, should I? I ell-oh-vee-ee why-oh-you. Want it backward? You love I.
William Goldman
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There's always a choice,' said Torak, and walked backward off the cliff.
Michelle Paver
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Ever wonder about those people who spend $2 apiece on those little bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backward.
George Carlin
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I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space.
Dan Simmons
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The Negro is not the man farthest down. The condition of the coloured farmer in the most backward parts of the Southern States of America, even where he has the least education and the least encouragement, is incomparably better than the condition and opportunities of the agricultural population in Sicily.
Booker T. Washington
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