It's a funny thing. . . but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.
If you have a wormhole, then you can turn them into time machines for going backward in time.
Glance backward, look heavenward, reach outward, press onward
No More Avengers! There's nothing new to get out of it - I want to go forward, not backward.
Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.
Who is the winner? Not he who wins but he who has established his cheerful oneness with the result, which is an experience in the form of failure or success, a journey forward or a journey backward.
Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret. Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.
The Past is dead, and has no resurrection; but the Future is endowed with such a life, that it lives to us even in anticipation. The Past is, in many things, the foe of mankind; the Future is, in all things, our friend. In the Past is no hope; The Future is both hope and fruition. The Past is the text-book of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.
His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract.
Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.
Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.
At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
He who moves not forward, goes backward.
And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.
There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move.
I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward
Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.
His rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power.
Since in every European country between 1870 and 1914 there was a war party demanding armaments, an individualist party demanding ruthless competition, an imperialist party demanding a free hand over backward peoples, a socialist party demanding the conquest of power and a racialist party demanding internal purges against aliens - all of them, when appeals to greed and glory failed, invoked Spencer and Darwin, which was to say science incarnate.