Today we take it for granted that war happens in smaller, poorer and more backward countries.
Dog is God spelled backward.
I have asked Centre for scheduled caste status to 13 backward classes including Kewat, Kahar, Kashyap, Mallah, Nishad, Lonia, Kumhar, Dheevar, Bind, Machhiara, Lohia-Chauhan, Nonia and Dhangar.
I remember standing on a medal podium at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, imbued with a sense that if you won enough basketball games, there was no such thing as poor, backward, country, female, or inferior.
I was just oblivious to the fact that the country scene was socially backward and politically opposite of everything I am.
Serve the dinner backward, do anything – but for goodness sake, do something weird.
No More Avengers! There’s nothing new to get out of it – I want to go forward, not backward.
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.’
After 9/11, a few hundred CIA and Special Operations personnel, backed by airpower and Afghan militias, devastated Taliban and al-Qaeda forces. That effort has since turned into a conventional Pentagon nation-building exercise and gone backward.
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.
You know the way it is: sometimes Americans think of us as their backward little cousin. It’s the whole shamrock, potatoes, famine, leprechaun thing, all that drunken paddies rubbish.
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.
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.
There’s one secret to hitting hard, and that is to completely dedicate your body. That’s the difference between a man going forward and a man going backward, no matter how big he is.
We are becoming a society where traditional values and free speech are being diminished and the religious are viewed as having a backward mentality.
A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.
I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
Reading is so private, and it is often a reader’s habit to finish a book, close the covers, and plunge into the next one without a backward glance.
I can bend my wrist down to my forearm. I can wrench my fingers backward until they rest on my hand. A hitchhiker’s thumb might arc into a 90-degree angle; mine will go to 135.
I had an experience that was kind of backward. Instead of thinking that photography was a step down, it brought me a step up, to transpose and modify things.
Human evolution relies on cooperation, which is why identity politics feels so backward.
When you learn about stories in school, you get it backward. You start to think ‘Oh, the reason these things are in stories is because a book said I need to put these things in there.’ You need a death, as my husband says, and you need a little sidekick with a saying like ‘Skivel-dee-doo!’
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.
Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.
A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples.
For so long, the world has viewed West Indian culture as semiliterate and backward, which it is not. In my work, I have tried to give that world an exposure so the world can better understand it.
When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
What are the 10 major legacies that European colonization have left behind? Issues of illiteracy. Issues of ill health. Issues of poor infrastructure. Issues of backward agricultural economies. And it goes on.
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?
You learn from your mistakes, or you go backward. I’m the kind of person who wants to move forward.
I’m not some little soft touch. I will never take a backward step when batting, but I want to be respected as a nice guy, too.
I take no step backward from anyone.
There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to.
I don’t subscribe to the narrative that Africa is backward because of colonialism.
The historian is a prophet looking backward.
Just going to Bangladesh was an experience… if you go into small villages in the U.K., they’re backward and culturally devoid. But if you go into small villages in Bangladesh, they have classical music concerts.
The reason why Apple computers have worked so well over time is that, unlike Microsoft, they don’t bend over backward to be compatible with every piece of hardware or software in the digital universe. To code or create for Apple, you follow Apple’s rules. If you’re even allowed to.
The way I look at it, every day that I’m moving forward is a day I’m not moving backward. Just the fact that I’m in the race at all is a miracle.
In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. That wasn’t really skating backward, but I guess I was going in the right direction.
I’m having this disbelief and dissatisfaction with an establishment that feels like it’s moving backward, and I think there’s a similar feeling with everyone of my age and in the world of music and artistic stuff. Art is an important way those feelings get expressed and help people process their feelings and opinions.
There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you’re good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.
Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.
You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward.
Near the end of high school, I was always super shy, backward.
I have no hassles handling U.P. For 57 years, the state has been ruled by non-BSP parties which is why it is so backward. In my first term as the chief minister, in four months I did the work of four years.
I consider myself a progressive. I have a passion for people who work. To me, this is about forward looking versus backward looking. Ideological gradations are the wrong way to look at it.
When you’re transitioning, and you’re trying to develop a better brand of soccer, at some point, you have to step backward before you step forward.
There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!
In many ways, Trump appeals to people’s smallness, their fears, whatever part of them wants to look backward.
Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there’s got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you’re at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.
Today’s interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
I know every Bowie song backward.
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.
In Las Vegas, a day before the Latin Grammys, I was walking backward and hit a light and fell down. The worst part is that I was singing with Becky G and Mau y Ricky – they all rushed over to help me. It was very dramatic.
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.
I stayed away from family life and stayed fixated on getting rights for the backward castes. This is why I could never have a family, as it brings added responsibilities, and people start accusing them of giving more importance or focus on their families.
It is in many circumstances a troubling thing to belong to the advanced class of a backward nation. One surrenders coherence and begins a difficult process of choice which ends, often, in an eclectic idiosyncrasy.
I always try to start out with some type of goal. Then I work backward and think of what I need to do to get there, and give myself smaller goals that are more immediate.
I don’t have any control over the offers that are going to come to me or not come to me. But I can’t go backward, and so that’s what’s tricky.
