The only direction Obama has the economy moving is backward.
Revolutions go not backward.
The masses in any given place are generally composed of three parts, the relatively active, the intermediate and the relatively backward. The leaders must therefore be skilled in uniting the small number of active elements around the leadership and must rely on them to raise the level of the intermediate elements and to win over the backward elements.
Nixon would like to consign us to to the level of the most backward countries in the whole Middle East. Why lower us to the standard of the Saudis rather than raising the Saudis to meet us?
I don't look at my life too much. I'm always looking forward, not backward.
The Suns, meanwhile, appeared to be hoisting a white flag over the Arizona desert. With a 12-22 record at the time, they were clearing out big contracts for salary-cap relief and a chance to start over again the following summer. We are taking a step backward in the immediate run,. . But we're certainly looking forward to the future.
The helicopter appeared so reluctant to fly forward that we even considered turning the pilot's seat around and letting it fly backward.
It is hopeless trying to go forward when you are looking backward.
The historian is a prophet looking backward.
. . . but one loves, and when one is on the brink of death, one turns around to look backward, and one says to oneself: "I have often suffered, I have sometimes been wrong, but I have loved.
Take one step backward into the unknown.
Today we take it for granted that war happens in smaller, poorer and more backward countries.
You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward.
Dog’ is ‘God’ spelled backward; you know that. That’s why you’re here, to help the nuns do God’s work.
I'm not so sure he's wrong about automobiles," he said, "With all their speed forward they may be a step backward for civilization-that is, spiritual civilization. . . But automobiles have come, and they bring a greater change in our life than most of us expect. They are here, and almost all outward things are going to be different because of what they bring. They are going to alter war, and they are going to alter peace.
I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.
Dog is God spelled backward.
I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward
Though you did eat all the pizza. " "I only had five slices," Simon protested, leaning his chair backward so it balanced precariously on its two back legs. "How many slices did you think were in a pizza, dork?" Clary wanted to know. "Less than five slices isn't a meal. It's a snack. " Simon looked apprehensively at Luke. "Does this mean you're going to wolf out and eat me?" "Certainly not. " Luke rose to toss the pizza box into the trash. "You would be stringy and hard to digest.
The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.
