Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.
You know, I've got a confession to make myself. I'm not really a priest, I've just got my shirt on backwards.
Instead of hopping around like a wild in'jun on fire, try counting from 10 backwards while hopping on one foot".
The Afghans, despite their backwardness, are a friendly lot, but the Taliban are as barbaric as the Huns from the past.
IF is a very long word in Formula One; in fact, IF is F1 spelled backwards.
It's cool to play the guitar, but to me it's even cooler to scratch a guitar backward and forward, to manipulate it with a turntable. Guitars can't do that themselves.
I was feeling real good and real manly. Until a real cowboy walked by and told me I had my hat on backwards. So much for my career as a cowboy.
We adore babies because they're so cute. And, of course, we are amused by jokes because they are funny. This is all backwards. It is. And Darwin shows us why.
If it came to saving the life of one priest or sacrificing the life of an entire congregation, the church would save the life of the priest. Which is backwards, of course.
Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter.
I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - You write backward Es!
Every day, you reinvent yourself. You're always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or backward.
trust your heart, if the seas catch fire, and live by love though the stars walk backward.
Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.
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?
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.
Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.
When a dragonfly flutters by, you may not realize, but it's the greatest flier in nature. It can hover, fly backwards, even upside down.
The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot mix in one region.
In fact, the U.S. military has bent over backwards to respect the religious beliefs of some very dangerous fanatics who want to kill us.
