There is no disputing that in the eyes of Schlechter, Teichmann or even Rubinstein, the backward pawn was something more substantial than lively piece play, but in our day the latter is more often preferred.
And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward.
I hate looking backward, but every once in a while it sneaks up on you.
The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.
I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is.
Work backward from your goal.
An unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction.
Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward. Rather, returning to a simpler way allows us to regain our dignity, puts us in touch with the land, and makes us value human contact again.
Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out.
The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.
Robinson could deliver a knockout blow going backward.
Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes are ever backward to suspect others.
Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.
If you are in a country that is progressive, the woman is progressive. If you're in a country that reflects the consciousness toward the importance of education, it's because the woman is aware of the importance of education. But in every backward country you'll find the women are backward, and in every country where education is not stressed its because the women don't have education.
I will not walk backward in life.
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.
Perhaps making movies is a step toward being able to move backward and forward and in and out of linear time.
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.
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.