Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Today we take it for granted that war happens in smaller, poorer and more backward countries.
I've heard that kind of weird backward compliment often - 'She's so talented, but not pretty.'
Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
Everybody thinks that actors would be really good at bluffing, but I think it's a little backward.
You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward.
If Bangladesh succumbs to the rule of one family, it would be a major step backward for the region.
You learn from your mistakes, or you go backward. I'm the kind of person who wants to move forward.
The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.
Technology does not run backward. Once a technical capability is out there, it is out there for good.
I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.
Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
A lot of folks look at the political calculation and then determine the policy. I think that's backward.
If you see me at a restaurant, blow me a kiss, wave, blow me another kiss, then walk five steps backward.
Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.
Every day, you reinvent yourself. You're always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or backward.
I like to think that my finest hour is still ahead of me, so I can look forward rather than look backward.
Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.
I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it.
In many ways, Trump appeals to people's smallness, their fears, whatever part of them wants to look backward.
I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - you write backward Es!
I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is.
Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.
Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter.
Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.
I was just oblivious to the fact that the country scene was socially backward and politically opposite of everything I am.
I can't stand people who are backward. I am honest, straightforward. I don't like to pretend. And I will not change either.
I'm not some little soft touch. I will never take a backward step when batting, but I want to be respected as a nice guy, too.
My fans are indulging in social welfare activities from time to time and have also been helping economically backward students.
The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.
Can a democratic nation fight a War on Terror and at the same time bend over backward so as not to offend a few visitors' rights?
I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it?
The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.
I believe that Prime Minister Modi will respond positively to development projects for backward areas. That is why I am promising them.
When I see the sort of mindless tax cuts for the wealthy, cuts to education, I just think we've got it exactly backward in this country.
There was a joke in Czechoslovakia: The Communist Party dance, it's one step forward, two steps backward, and everyone is still clapping.
I'm fair-minded, maybe. Maybe I bend over backward to give people too much benefit of the doubt. And I'll give credit where credit is due.
Every food I choose to eat helps me become more conscious of how it either moves me forward to my fab weight or backward to my flab weight.
We can't forbid women from going to the beach because of a costume, even if it is rightly seen as neo-fundamentalist, backward, and shocking.
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 don't have any control over the offers that are going to come to me or not come to me. But I can't go backward, and so that's what's tricky.
There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to.
To embrace Hindutva is to embrace an obscurantist, backward looking, divisive ideology that seeks to polarise society through identity politics.
Whenever a political regime or religious establishment refuses to tolerate criticism, it advertises itself as repressive, backward, and insecure.
The way I look at it, every day that I'm moving forward is a day I'm not moving backward. Just the fact that I'm in the race at all is a miracle.
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.
Reading is so private, and it is often a reader's habit to finish a book, close the covers, and plunge into the next one without a backward glance.
The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.
When you're transitioning, and you're trying to develop a better brand of soccer, at some point, you have to step backward before you step forward.
We are becoming a society where traditional values and free speech are being diminished and the religious are viewed as having a backward mentality.