Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish.
What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?
We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be.
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.
It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else. . . begin to march us steadily backward.
It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered. . . that we are behind our age. . . . sympathy as a fine art is backward in the growth of progress.
It's a funny thing. . . but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.
I don't think it's going to be related to social or economic policies; it's going to be the fact that [Barack Obama] said let's go forward, not backward, in regard to the violations of law that occurred under the Bush administration.
Contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present. If it seems so it is because when you look backward things that happened years apart are telescoped together, and because very few of your memories come to you genuinely virgin.
I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
By the mere fact that we do not go forward, we go backward.
The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.
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.
As travel pushes me forward, memory keeps dragging me backward.
To me it's a question of being able to look backward and give the present a root. . . To give meaning to where we are today, we need to look at where we have come from.
It's like. . . time is flowing backward. We're caveman archeologists in the ruins of the future.
There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.
No one should have to dance backward all of their lives.
I will not walk backward in life.
Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move, And when this dust falls to the urn In that state I came, return.