#backwards

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#reactionary #walking

The Bishop moves diagonally forwards or backwards, to the extent of the Board. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#bishop #board #diagonally #extent #forwards

In terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and writing on history but I got sick 14 years ago when I was 19. Getting sick derailed that plan completely. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#ago #backwards #becoming #completely #fell

You know, I've got a confession to make myself. I'm not really a priest, I've just got my shirt on backwards. ↗

— Ryan Stiles

#confession #got #i #just #know

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. ↗

— Margaret Young

#backwards #happier #live #lives #money

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#backwards #efficient #going #means #merely

I was feeling real good and real manly. Until a real cowboy walked by and told me I had my hat on backwards. So much for my career as a cowboy. ↗

— Michael Biehn

#career #cowboy #feeling #good #had

I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#bit #fact #forwards #i #like

I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#been #boy #exploded #grown-up #had

Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#better #child #committed #countries #demand