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«If I see an ending, I can work backward.»
Author: Arthur Miller (Playwright) | Keywords: backward, ending
«I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.»
«Never wear a backward baseball cap to an interview unless applying for the job of umpire»
«Ideas, ideas, backward and forward. His influence is layers and layers of spirit.»
«Looking backward we could almost see, suspended with the most delicate equipoise above the flat little island, the ghostly shapes of those twin orbs of the Empire, the cricket ball and the blackball.»
«It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.»
«I walk slowly, but I never walk backward»
Author: Abraham Lincoln (President) | Keywords: backward, slowly, walk
«Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom»
«It is fatally easy for Western folk, who have discarded chastity as a value for themselves, to suppose that it can have no value for anyone else. At the same time as Californians try to re-invent ''celibacy,'' by which they seem to mean perverse restraint, the rest of us call societies which place a high value on chastity ''backward.''»
«It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived /forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.»