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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.
Patrick Leigh Fermor
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He who moves not forward, goes backward
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.
Friedrich von Schiller
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors
Edmund Burke
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom
Arthur Schopenhauer
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I could tell you the criticism backward and forward about Little Man Tate (1991). But it didn`t bother me as long as they were talking about the work and not about `she has fat thighs` or something. But I fared really well with `Tate,` so I shouldn`t be c...
Jodie Foster
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(Early in her career about husband Eddie Judson) "I owe everything to Ed. I could never have made the grade in Hollywood without him. I was just too backward. My whole career was his idea."
Rita Hayworth
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(On Stage mistakes) "During Saturday Night Fever at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can`t do them so I ended up on my ass followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling ov...
Adam Garcia
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I was pissed. I really was. You have to split, bend over backward, touch our toe to our heads to get recognized. The men walk out there, sit down and have a woman dance around them and get higher scores.
Monique Coleman
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I am not an adult, that`s my explanation of myself. Except when I am working on a set, I have all the inhibitions and shyness of the bashful, backward child . . . unless I have something very much in common with a person, I am lost. I am swallowed up in m...
Jean Arthur
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[from an interview three months before the release of Superman III (1983)] Look, I`ve flown, I`ve become evil, loved, stopped and turned the world backward, I`ve faced my peers, I`ve befriended children and small animals, and I`ve rescued cats from trees....
Christopher Reeve
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I also wonder how I got this far in life. Growing up, I never knew what I wanted to do. I was not a terribly good student or a very vivacious, outgoing person. I was just kind of a backward kid. I grew up in various little towns and ended up in Oakland, C...
Clint Eastwood
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You walk through a series of arches, so to speak, and then, presently, at the end of a corridor, a door opens and you see backward through time, and you feel the flow of time, and realize you are only part of a great nameless procession.
John Huston
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You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward.
Jim Bakker
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When you`ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
Stephen Fry
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When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the "freedom of the press" goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.
Andrew Joudrey
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Well, I think, I certainly used backward music in Sea of Monsters. I can`t remember in the Sea of Time. I would tend to do that all the time, you know? I tended to do all sorts of weird things. Just to get effects.
George Martin
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We`re trying to do everything we can to bend over backward for the city.
Sam Hall
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We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.
John McCarthy
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Villa are a quality club, and I don`t consider this a backward step at all. My situation will be better there.
Milan Baros
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Today`s interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
Naguib Mahfouz
Keywords: and :: are :: backward :: civilization :: contradict :: interpretations :: needs :: of :: often :: religion :: the :: todaySource: brainyquote.com
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Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there`s got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you`re at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.
Yo-Yo Ma
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The historian is a prophet looking backward.
Alex Garwood
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The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.
Winston Churchill
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Oprah was doing everything backward with Sophie. I just wanted to give back what she had given to me.
Cesar Millan
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No More Avengers! There`s nothing new to get out of it - I want to go forward, not backward.
Honor Blackman
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Most people who want to get ahead do it backward. They think, `I`ll get a bigger job, then I`ll learn how to be a leader.` But showing leadership skill is how you get the bigger job in the first place. Leadership isn`t a position, it`s a process.
John Maxwell
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It’s not a plus or a minus or a forward or backward,
Michael Stewart
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It`s just like learning to drive. If you want to go forward, you put it in D. If you want to go backward, you put it in R.
Erin Sullivan
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It seems that we have it backward in our society. We tend to look up to people who are under a great deal of stress, who can handle loads of stress, and those who are under a great deal of pressure.
Richard Carlson
