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"Only a fool walks backwards into the future." »Terry Goodkind
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"A good excercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up." »John Andrew Holmes
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"A good exercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up." »Anonymous
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"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." »Soren Kierkegaard
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"Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards." »Johann von Goethe
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"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards." »Albert Camus
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"A reactionary revolution is nothing but a high-speed evolution backwards!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Nobody gets to live life backwards. Look ahead -- that's where your future lies." »Ann Landers
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"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards." »Aldous Huxley
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"To state a theorem and then to show examples is literally to teach backwards." »E. Kim Nebeuts
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"Ginger Rodgers did everything Fred Astair did, but she did it backwards and in high heels." »Faith Whittlesey
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"When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time." »Saint Francis de Sales
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"Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels." »Bob Thaves
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"Too bad you can't just grab a tree by the very tip-top and bend it clear over the ground and then let her fly, because I bet you'd be amazed at all the stuff that comes flying out." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them." »Robert Graves
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"Music has charms to soothe the savage breast
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak." »William Congreve, The Mourning Bride, Act 1 Scene 1
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"Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak." »William Congreve
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"The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance ... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward ... allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process." »Herbert Butterfield
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"People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend." »Walter Savage Landor
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"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. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want." »Margaret Young
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"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. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want." »Margaret Young
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"We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"For an apple you can't reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won't bend down for you!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend." »Walter Savage Landor
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"The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny." »Tennessee Williams
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"Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back." »Edgar Lee Masters
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"Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.N.B. This quote is commonly misquoted as savage beast." »William Congreve
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"Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day." »Stephen Jay Gould
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"Those who are skilled in archery bend their bow only when they are prepared to use it; when they do not require it they allow it to remain unbent, for otherwise it would be unserviceable when the time for using it arrived. So it is with man. If he were to devote himself unceasingly to a dull round of business, without breaking the monotony by cheerful amusements, he would fall imperceptibly into idiotcy, or be struck with paralysis." »Herodotus
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"'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow." »J. A. Spender
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