#backward

The force I represent is Virginia's New Mainstream. It looks forward, not backwards. It tries to unify people, not divide them. ↗

— Douglas Wilder

#divide #force #forward #i #looks

There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#backward #case #certainly #countries #crop

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy. ↗

— August Strindberg

#because #demands #energy #every #evolution

I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own. ↗

— Dorothy Hamill

#help #how #i #learn #left

In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. That wasn't really skating backward, but I guess I was going in the right direction. ↗

— Dorothy Hamill

#backwards #direction #going #group #guess

Certain people are like 'Oh, here come the Feminazis!' You end up acting 10 times nicer than you even need to be, to be the opposite of the stereotype like 'You're the man haters!' We're always bending over backwards being extra nice. And I don't know if being nice is my legacy. ↗

— Kathleen Hanna

#always #backwards #being #being nice #bending

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. ↗

— Janis Ian

#backward #feel #ignorant #just #need

I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#backwards #being #born #dad #growing

In fact, the U.S. military has bent over backwards to respect the religious beliefs of some very dangerous fanatics who want to kill us. ↗

— Linda Chavez

#beliefs #bent #dangerous #fact #fanatics

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#farther #forward #look #see #you