Backward Quotations

I've heard that kind of weird backward compliment often - 'She's so talented, but not pretty.'

It seems that we have it backward in our society. We tend to look up to people who are under a great deal of stress, who can handle loads of stress, and those who are under a great deal of pressure.

I don't subscribe to the narrative that Africa is backward because of colonialism.

Well, I think, I certainly used backward music in Sea of Monsters. I can't remember in the Sea of Time. I would tend to do that all the time, you know? I tended to do all sorts of weird things. Just to get effects.

In spite of this fact, the Western powers have never given sufficient importance to the Muslim world. They have always been inclined to treat it as a big backward and lethargic child.

Of course the orders all converge backward in time, to different degrees.

We don't spend our days thinking about Microsoft or trying to get revenge on Microsoft. That's a really negative and backward way, and that's not how I want to live.

A paparazzo once jumped out of a car and started running backward with me. I slowed down out of courtesy because she started drifting into the street. I reached out my hand and moved her back so she didn't get hit by a bus.

I became interested in this question of whether you can build wormholes for interstellar travel. I realized that if you had a wormhole, the theory of general relativity by itself would permit you to go backward in time.

With Alzheimer's, recent memory is affected first. At the start, you count the memory loss in days, then hours - then in minutes. But there's also an insidious backward creep of deterioration.

Can a democratic nation fight a War on Terror and at the same time bend over backward so as not to offend a few visitors' rights?

The point of conservatism is not that it prevents movement forward and upward, but that it prevents movement backward and downward, into chaotic darkness and a return to a primitive state.

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

We are a heterogeneous society. We have to accept that. Growth has to be such that the most backward sections also benefit from it. Otherwise, it will be a very imbalanced growth.

The birth of the Savior into mortality is an event of immeasurable significance that occurred almost 2,000 years ago. In much of the world, calendar years are numbered forward and backward from the entire time of His birth.

We have to go back to those mighty precious values we've left behind. We have to go back and look and see to remember the battles we've fought ... looking backward to help us move forward.

We have high ideals here. We know how to provide top-quality service. It's a very difficult decision every time you take a step backward from what you've been doing.

Lee County is perhaps a spectacular example of a backward market. In most markets, jobs come first and then housing. In Florida and particularly Lee County, the retirees come first and then the jobs and retail.

Most theorists suspect that space has an intricate structure - that it is 'grainy' - but that this structure is on a much finer scale than any known subatomic particle. The structure could be of an exotic kind: extra dimensions, over and above the three that we are used to (up and down, backward and forward, left and right).

New Delhi has adopted an enlightened approach to helping Pakistan during this tragedy, and a backward approach to accepting foreign humanitarian assistance on its side of the Kashmir divide.

One of the pillars of backward thinking in America is the idea that you can have jobs or you can have clean air and water, but you can't have both. That myth has been busted a thousand times, but still it lives on.

If we do this it means 100 players every week would not get a game and I think that would be a backward step.

I got to the door and heard crackling, smelled smoke and felt intense heat. I took two to three steps (inside) to meet Annie. I grabbed both of her hands firmly to get her out of the house. I was walking backward and she was walking forward.

Ideas, ideas, backward and forward. His influence is layers and layers of spirit.

Basically, it's like taking seven steps backward from what we're trying to achieve in the school system. If we start this City Schools Foundation, do we have to use that kind of money to fill the void, which doesn't help that situation at all? If we get this thing off the ground this first part of the year, and we start out in a $7 million hole, that's not going to help.

I find the tone somewhat more moderate and noted that there appears to be some talk of community-building, working with others, that wasn't there before. Its edges are somewhat rounded; it's not as strident. It bends over backward to stress America's need to work with others.

I feel like we took a couple of steps backward in the direction of our season. But we still have a couple of weeks left. There's still a long way to go between now and the state tournament and I'm confident the kids can come back and play the way we are capable of playing.

I don't think we should ever give up the right to unilaterally use our military, but I think we should bend over backward to build our world in which we are sharing responsibility and sharing benefits.

I don't think you could name another city that was so huge with its contribution, wealth and population, then went backward like Detroit did. We went from big to smaller, and now we're building back up. The Super Bowl will change the conversation about Detroit. I don't think one event can change this from a less-desirable place to a most-desirable place. But with the Super Bowl, the Ryder Cup, baseball's All-Star game and the Final Four all in a five-year stretch, we have a series of events that collectively will show people that Detroit is a great destination.

I don't think it matters that we were Super Bowl champions; we always have to come to a game and line up and play. Every team is good. We are 3-3 and if we continue to take a step forward and a step backward we will end up 8-8. . . . The bottom line is we are not doing the things we need to do. People aren't making their tackles, staying in their gaps.

If the intranet is built by your constituents, and you've given them what they want, you've increased the odds they will embrace it by tenfold, ... The best thing to do is work backward from your customer.

He will be the consummate impartial jurist. He will bend over backward to be extremely fair to both sides.

There is no basis to say I'm being coy about running for president. If I chose to explore the presidency, I wouldn't do it in a backward way. I'll say, 'I'm exploring the presidency.'

We took some major steps backward today. If we are to start stepping forward, there has to be some soul searching.

We took a huge step backward when it looked like we would gain ground.

We've gone continuously backward while the need has gone continuously forward. There's about 225,000 people who qualify for our help and our services and we have about 16 or 17 attorneys, depending on the day.

What worries me the most is a slip backward becoming a spiral downward. Jobs are the linchpin of both consumer confidence and consumer spending. We can't sustain many more losses like this without that downward spiral getting started. This is the kind of data that could make the Fed think about easing again.

He'd call you and say he had a problem with your script 45 minutes before you were going on the air. Part of it was to remind you who the alpha dog was, but he also saw it as a mentoring thing. If you're going to get your piece on ABC News, you had better know your story backward and forward. That's why he was famous for asking obscure questions.

I think that will also be a key way for Serbia to escape its past. If Serbia wants to look forward, it has to look backward in order to atone for its mistakes of the 1990s.

It is more complicated because he takes off backward and I have to take off forward.

I think we're improving every time out. A lot of teams take a step forward and then go backward a little, but this team hasn't done that. I'm pleased with our progress.

I was a chunky little kid, and when they sat me in that wagon, it tipped backward and I banged my head on the (concrete) floor. I was howling pretty good, but Dad went outside and cried his eyes out.

Oprah was doing everything backward with Sophie. I just wanted to give back what she had given to me.

It feels good and bad. It's nice to get three wins in a row, but I also felt like in some of the areas, we took a little bit of a step backward tonight.

The advocates of retaliatory wars will continue to assume a much simpler reality with their hoary oppositions: Religious and secular, backward and enlightened, free and unfree. But if we are to admit how deeply and irrevocably interconnected our world is, then we must find new ways to break the cycle of counter-productive violence.

The artists are bending over backward for us. We should have 80 percent of the same lineup.

That was one we let get away, definitely. We took a step backward because this is one we were supposed to have so now we're going to have to go on the road and take one away.

We haven't stepped forward enough. You have to go more forward than backward and we haven't done that. I take a lot of responsibility for that. There's no moral victory. I don't believe in that in any shape or form.

You don't close divergences by taking time off to have a cup of tea. If you do so, you will find that everybody has moved backward in the meantime.

will likely deliver a backward looking defense of the status quo that does not properly address the threats before our nation.

We have some very ugly numbers. You can argue that the ISM is still backward looking, and maybe even the jobless claims, but eventually we're going to need some evidence that the economy is improving. We had a lot of enthusiasm coming from earnings, but the news today is a little bit of a slap in the face that we're not out of the woods yet.

We have the least (economic) resilience (of all the states), we never built up a surplus. We don't have the momentum, and we will go backwards; the economy of Michigan will get worse relative to the other states, we will go backward 1 to 2 percent.

We get letters all the time about him wearing his hat backward and how it makes him look like a drug guy and how he really needs to quit being an idiot and wear it the right way. It's incredible.

We didn't take a backward step. We can bump and grind with the best of them and they're the best of them.

The decision is a step backward in the protection of air quality in the United States.

We've bent over backward to reach out. We've gone door-to-door to all of the 25,000 hotel rooms no fewer than six times. And there are individuals who have refused to come to the door, refused to answer. There are people who have run when they saw us coming -- those are the ones that are now moving on.

This represents a monumental step backward for personal privacy for women.

There have been too many books in which some young man is looking forward, backward or sideways in anger. Or in which some Southern youth is being chased through the magnolia bushes by his aunt. She catches him on page 28 with horrid results.

We're trying to do everything we can to bend over backward for the city.

Too many investors tend to be backward looking. You can't just say they declared the quarterly dividend for the last 10 years, I guess they're going to keep paying it. Think about what the business conditions are.

We didn't go backward and maybe we even went a little bit forward in the 2003 and 2005 legislative sessions.

Failure to provide quality education to all young children, at least at age four, is inexcusable. Moving backward or making no progress at all, toward that goal is intolerable.

Writers begin changing the instant they append 'The End' to a novel. Readers begin changing the moment they encounter that same phrase. And even the novels themselves, through the strange transmutations of time and shifting tastes and mores, exhibit changes as we look backward upon them, acquiring retroactive meanings and tonalities.

What our experts tell us happened ... is that at some point Kathleen fell backward and hit her head. She lay bleeding, gets up, steps into the pool of blood, slips and hits her head again ... She bled out.

You may as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward

What was the chance someone would put a g-switch in backward and not be discovered, ... It has got to be a low probability event.

We were pressing and she slid in front of a girl, but she fell backward and knocked her head on the floor. She knocked herself out.

We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.

We felt she should have her own history of sexual abuse . . . which makes her feel very deeply about what she is doing, because she's having to look backward into her own vulnerability as well as using all her training and strength,

We're going to win the division, ... If we don't, we've taken a step backward unless our young guys have done something where you can see hope. But I'm going to tell you this, and hopefully it won't be often: That young team stuff is not going to be used as a crutch. OK, we're young. So what?

We scaled things down as the game went on because (quarterback) Trent (Green) was getting hit back there. We went backward in what we could call.

Villa are a quality club, and I don't consider this a backward step at all. My situation will be better there.

Both Gore and Bush have just bent over backward to try to reach out, try to appeal, to Hispanics and Latinos nationally.

Boston is positioned extremely well for the future. They have a good farm system with upper-level players and a depth of pitching talent. They've rebuilt the farm system from a dilapidated system to a productive one. If they take a small step backward this year, at some point they will go on a run that will be an impressive run. They're a short period away.

Earnings warnings are backward looking; economic data are forward looking. People want to look forward.

Far from looking backward we're going to be looking forward.

I've been involved in springs where, the last week, you're going backward -- you go out for the spring game and the quarterback throws three interceptions, the running backs fumble and the offense doesn't score a touchdown. Then you start making excuses. But we played well enough today and did enough good things.

The whole process is taking us backward in attitude. We're looking at special education costs versus operating costs. I wish the state would consider doing something about special education funding in small towns such as ours. It would make a world of difference.

It would take us backward from all the things we've worked for from an NFLPA standpoint. It's never been better to be a player in the NFL than right now. It would be a shame if all that ended.

Seeing outward is equivalent to looking backward in time because the telescope's mirror is capturing primeval light... galaxies that existed before our time.

Ron is a great, great advocate for the elderly. He's a leader who is committed to the cause and bends over backward to get things done.

Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter.

Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look -- historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.

They had one of their low performances. We really took a few steps backward - steps we couldn't afford to take.

This is too good a group to not be in the playoffs. To take a step backward would have been really difficult.

There's a song on the album called, 'Pride is a Lonely Blanket,' and that is the cornerstone of the album. Pride is what pushes you forward and pushes you backward at the same time.

Ataturk approved of the mevlevi dervish approach to God as being 'an expression of Turkish genius' that reclaimed Islam from what he saw as hide-bound, backward Arab tradition.

As we secure and shut down vulnerabilities, we know that terrorists will seek new ways to carry out their agenda. Rather than looking backward at yesterday's threats, we are building upon what we have already accomplished to meet evolving threats.

As much as we've struggled, I've really enjoyed this team. They've never quit. But within the team, they've got to learn to get over the difficult times. Every time we get to a difficult point, they go backward instead of forward.

a better than average chance that the Xbox 2 will be backward compatible.

It's a backward and wrong direction. It's putting our progress in reverse.

It wasn't the prettiest thing, obviously. There were too many penalties, and we've got to straighten that out. We went backward at times faster than we went forward.

It is vital to create a conducive environment that enables backward integration with innovative work at the Industry level. We need to create the best regulatory framework to facilitate the fruits of industrial research reach into the market place.

Everyone's bent over backward in the Whitesboro school district,

It's weird, because American films in the 1930s and '40s, particularly melodramas, were made for woman, from Bette Davis to Joan Crawford to Barbara Stanwyck to Katherine Hepburn, and for some reason we've taken a step backward in this sense.

They cover for each other if one makes a mistake, ... Karen knows every song he's going to sing backward and forward. They work in concert. They blend together beautifully.

The vertical design of the Series C is a real breakthrough in the industry and the incorporation of security and safety measures shows that Honeywell is actively integrating top-of-mind industry issues into products today. Backward compatibility is also a big plus as more products are coming out with limited backward compatibility due to platform choices. This shows that Honeywell is keeping industry realities front-of-mind when developing new products.

The new data are particularly troubling for working people, showing backward movement for most workers. In short, the census data provide new evidence that, as in 2002 and 2003, the recovery was neither robust nor broad-based.

After the Meiji restoration in 1868, Japan adopted an expansionist and colonial attitude towards its neighbours. It sought to identify itself with the West and looked down upon the Asian continent as backward and inferior. For most of the next 70 years, Japan was at war, mainly with its neighbours.

Arjun Singh announced reservation in the institutions for backward class students. For two days, he kept saying it was the prime minister's decision. On Sunday he has said no such decision has been taken.