#backwards

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length. ↗

— Helen Keller

#allotted #backwards #civilization #flow #headstrong

Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#backwards #cannot #election #even #except

A maverick feels like he has no choice however difficult his choice of expression. In my case, it was going backwards into tonality. It seemed so wrong. The idea that progress is going into the past in a new way is very strange, even though there are precedents. ↗

— David Del Tredici

#case #choice #difficult #even #expression

IF is a very long word in Formula One; in fact, IF is F1 spelled backwards. ↗

— Murray Walker

#f1 #fact #formula #formula one #in fact

At this time of day it should have been open and full of fifty fellow smackheads, crackheads, psychotics, epileptics, schizophrenics, self-harmers, beggars, buskers, car thieves, sherry pushers, ciderheads, just-released-that-morning convicts, ex-army, ex-married-men-with-young-children-who'd-discovered-their-wife-in-bed-with-two-members-of-the-university-rowing-team-at-the-same-time. ↗

— Alexander Masters

#stuart-a-life-backwards #life

I feel like I'm going backwards, actually, as I get older. I'm regressing. I feel more and more like a kid, which is kind of a fun feeling. ↗

— Rachel McAdams

#backwards #feel #feeling #fun #get

To come up with the ending to a story and then work backwards is like tying your shoe with one hand only. ↗

— Donald McKay

#come #ending #hand #like #only

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards? ↗

— Edvard Munch

#developed #go #technique #why

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. ↗