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.
When the British left, India was a multireligious, multiregional, multiethnic country, exploited, backward, and poor from colonialism.
My feet took an involuntary step backward as I suddenly envisioned a world where I wasn't a hot tempered smartass. It was a pretty world.
If you always try to measure yourself with money... well, it's like counting backwards, the more you keep on, the less you'll have to show for it.
Our course heavenward is like the plan of the zealous pilgrim of old, who for every three steps forward, took one backward.
You seem to think you have a choice," Cam said. "But you have it backwards. Love chooses you. The shadow moves as the sun commands.
You’re like a candle in a dark room, throwing light backwards and forwards.
No wonder women don't negotiate as often as men. It's like trying to cross a minefield backward in high heels.
& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.
Instead of writing backwards over what had happened, giving structure and meaning to his story, he wrote forwards, slipping into troubling futures.
His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract.
There's a reason why your toes are forward and your heels backward. It means, step on your past with your heels and approach your furute with your toes.
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.
I have my welcome mat turned around backwards so when people leave they think they’re going to a better place.
We can't afford to see Afghanistan roll backwards into a failed state that could become a base from which terrorist campaigns can be launched anywhere in the world.
It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.
Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight.
Moving forward is not always good, especially when there is a precipice ahead! Know to turn back! Know to step back! Sometimes moving backwards is moving forward!
I'll find places to grab as I walk and talk, sometimes even walking backwards because I have more control that way. People have no idea that I'm doing this.
Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments have become less progressive.
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.
