Rückwärts / Backward Zitate auf Englisch

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I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it? Alice Walker

Technology does not run backward. Once a technical capability is out there, it is out there for good.

Ellen Ullman

The thing I love most about my job is watching people age backward, becoming more lively and energetic as they free themselves from situations that are toxic to their essential selves.

Martha Beck

I hate looking backward, but every once in a while it sneaks up on you.

Burt Lancaster

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

Stephen Gardiner

I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - You write backward Es!

Hilary Putnam

Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.

Wolcott Gibbs

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.

Sean Astin

When I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the club in a polo T-shirt and pants and sneakers and a hat on backward, just so I would not be dressed like other girls.

Rihanna

The dragonfly is an exceptionally beautiful insect and a fierce carnivore. It has four wings that beat independently. This gives it an ability to maneuver in the air with superb dexterity. A dragonfly can put on a burst of speed, stop on a dime, hover, fly backward, and switch direction in a flash. This is a hunting behavior known as hawking.

Richard Preston

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.

Josef Albers

Some folks run from the doubt and go backward. You try for all the spiritual Band-Aids you can find... when actually, what you need to do is press forward, to accept those doubts and work through them.

Frank Peretti

Business in Russia was not being done like in the West, with contracts. In Russia, hundreds of millions of dollars were going forward and backward by word of mouth.

David Reuben

The country is too often assumed to be a backward place: The First World has trouble remembering that Haitians were two centuries ahead of us in abolishing slavery and in extending full rights of citizenship to everyone, regardless of race.

Madison Smartt Bell

To embrace Hindutva is to embrace an obscurantist, backward looking, divisive ideology that seeks to polarise society through identity politics.

Kapil Sibal

Every food I choose to eat helps me become more conscious of how it either moves me forward to my fab weight or backward to my flab weight.

Karen Salmansohn

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

Charles Simmons

You decide that you don't want to go backward. You want to go forward. But sometimes, going 'backward' isn't really going backward, it's actually moving forward.

Leryn Franco

Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly.

Ellsworth Huntington

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.

Stephen Kinzer

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.

Pankaj Mishra

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

Naguib Mahfouz

I would bend over backward to be back on Grey's. Any day, I'll choose lying in bed with Katherine Heigl looking over me over getting thrown against walls by supernatural persons at 5 in the morning.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.

H. L. Mencken

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.

Vladimir Putin

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

John McCarthy

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Ann Landers

I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals.

Brigitte Bardot

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it?

Alice Walker

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

Charlotte Bronte

Revolutions go not backward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.

Jean Cocteau

I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.

Taylor Swift

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

Vladimir Lenin

The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now.

Henri Nouwen

What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward.

Stanley Crouch

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.

Richard Carlson