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Backward and forward each throwing his shuttle, / Death ending all with a knife.


Robert Browning

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JOSEPH GRAVES Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character
ROBERT BROWNING Ideas, ideas, backward and forward. His influence is layers and layers of spirit.
DIZZY GILLESPIE We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems thems...
CARL SANDBURG An idea ran backward and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid furniture.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD If I see an ending, I can work backward.
ARTHUR MILLER We take one step forward with teacher recruitment, and two steps backward.
KATHERINE JOYCE Love is motion Potter love is forward movement but you said yourself the memory reel backward it's a...
KYLE BEACHY And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.
ROBERT FROST No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a s...
AMAR GOPAL BOSE You can't look forward and backward at the same time.
COLEMAN YOUNG Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER A man who is looking backward all the time cannot move forward, he will be standing still
SUNDAY ADELAJA Throwing young men out of work, throwing people into poverty and ending business life don't promote ...
CHRIS PATTEN Over the field rang his clear voice calling: ‘Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending!
J.R.R. TOLKIEN They cover for each other if one makes a mistake, ... Karen knows every song he's going to sing back...
DON FRASER His movie is called 'Planet Terror,' and mine is called 'Death Proof,' ... Mine is sort of a slasher...
QUENTIN TARANTINO All Life death does end and each day dies with sleep
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS All Life death does end and each day dies with sleep
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exi...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR He who moves not forward goes backward! A capital saying!
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE He who moves not forward, goes backward
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE He who moves not forward, goes backward.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Phaedra of Alonso’s death was a never-ending pain that gnawed at his insides. It made him a prison...
MELINA MARCHETTA He is a teenager, after all-a strange agent with holes in his jeans, studs in his ear, a tail down h...
ELLEN KARSH At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
JESSE JACKSON Few tips,
Don't Stop, don't look backward, what has happen has already happen and try again.
DEYTH BANGER Far from looking backward we're going to be looking forward.
TOM SHANNON I don't want to take one step forward and two steps backward.
CHRISTOPHER TAYLOR Earnings warnings are backward looking; economic data are forward looking. People want to look forwa...
DAVID BEARD I cannot call it a major step forward, but I can say it was a step forward, rather than backward.
HIROFUMI KUGITA Like the watermen who advance forward while they look backward.
MICHAEL EYQUEN DE MONTAIGNE Daily affirmation:Every blessed day my life is advancing forward,today inclusive,hence forward ever ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I walk on the set every day since his ... you know, since his death, and feel a great loss. It feels...
ALLISON JANNEY When you think well of others, cheerful with everyone, find the good in all there is, you are direct...
SISI MODISE I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë We all have same beginning (BIRTH), and we will have same ending (DEATH). So how different can we be...
MITCH ALBOM Were all these entities failing when Dena Schlosser walked into the kitchen, bypassed the small knif...
BILL DOBIYANSKI We have to learn from this, and we have to keep looking forward, not backward.
JENNY PFEIFFER He smiled and bent forward, a hand on each knee, his truculence gleaming through his smile like a st...
PAULA FOX Mr Watson lurched forward towards the knife. He walked into it.
DAVID AUBREY The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.
ERIC ROTH It sounds really good. There's singles, pairs and then a team match against all the European teams B...
TIM NASH We never really realized how big we were and we kind of knew it wouldn't last. We went from playing ...
DUANE PROPES Robert Peterson is a welcome addition to our Technical Advisory Board, bringing valuable senior mana...
BOYD PEARCE We didn't go backward and maybe we even went a little bit forward in the 2003 and 2005 legislative s...
BARRY SMITH Everybody else was about a house museum and backward-looking things. Phil was talking about Wright's...
GERALD MOROSCO The best anthology is the one each reader compiles, personally, according to his or her judgment, pl...
ROBERT PINSKY There is no way forward without ending the occupation.
JEAN PARKER There was something twisting in his gut that he wanted to deny and couldn't. It was like a knife in ...
HAZEL B. WEST He's just inconsistent with his rhythm and his mechanics. He's good enough to be there if he's throw...
DAVE ROWELL Hiring a woman in place of a man is not a step forward. It is a step backward.
APURVA GAGLANI Clearly, all fear has an element of resistance and a leaning away from the moment. Its dynamic is no...
STEPHEN LEVINE And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death bri...
NIGELLA LAWSON (The teen) really wants to be with his dad. A happy ending.
LOUELLA RICHEY Stories about lives remembered bring us backward while allowing us to move forward.
NINA SANKOVITCH Robert believes in our system of justice, and he looks forward to his day in court. He's confident t...
ALLAN MAYER Tony had that problem with throwing his bat,
HARMON KILLEBREW By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER He can give little to his servant, that lickes his knife. [He can give little to his servant that ...
GEORGE HERBERT Perhaps we know each other in the future and you’re only remembering backward.
MARISSA MEYER If I was drowning you would part the sea
And risk your own life to rescue me . . .
JAMIE MCGUIRE We're talking to him about his contact with Robert Stevens, his mail distribution procedures, his da...
JUDY ORIHUELA When they got there, they noticed (Antone) was inside his apartment and was stabbing something with ...
DETECTIVE SAM BAILEY Tom Hanks is a good friend and I'm looking forward to seeing him playing the hero scientist Robert L...
DONNY OSMOND Flying on the space shuttle is a big part of his public persona.
AUBREY JEWETT The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
EDMUND BURKE People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
EDMUND BURKE People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors
EDMUND BURKE The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Killed by a man with a switch blade knife, for 43 dollars my friend lost his life.
HANK WILLIAMS JR. Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard...
NANETTE L. AVERY There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. Y...
ERICA JONG There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship /only backward. Yo...
ERICA JONG If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
SAM SNEAD I think we're improving every time out. A lot of teams take a step forward and then go backward a li...
PETE ADRIAN We are the archers with the bows that spring our children forward. Life does not go backward, nor do...
DAVID PAUL KIRKPATRICK That guy pitched a great game. He was on all night, throwing all his pitches for strikes.
DERIN MCMAINS Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking b...
CHARLES YU Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.
CHARLES SIMMONS He took a shot that shoved his kneecap backward.
TIM FLOYD There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!
EDGAR CAYCE People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors.
EDMUND BURKE Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you can not remain still.
PATRICIA RUSSELL-MCCLOUD You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longe...
NICK HORNBY He told me this while ripping through his duffel bag, throwing clothes into drawers with reckless ab...
JOHN GREEN I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story th...
BEVERLY CLEARY Each day is the beginning and the ending of my life.
LORRIN L. LEE in infinite space and time everything develops, becomes more perfect and more complex, is differenti...
LEO TOLSTOY Happy endings? The only ending life allows us is death, and that’s rarely happy. So, until my happ...
STEPHEN MOSLEY Its better to get Cut & Split apart ones in all by Knife THAN Being in a fake Relation & Loosing a P...
ASHISH SOPHAT A story with a single ending seems to us a bare and diminished thing, like a tree with a single bran...
STEVEN MILLHAUSER There are lines of geomagnetic force running through the Earth's crust, and most of the time, th...
DIANA GABALDON At that time, Robert comes back in, and Robert is standing in front of me, and he wants his money.
EDWARD KARABACK

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ROBERT BROWNING And after April, when May follows, / And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows!
ROBERT BROWNING Round the cape of a sudden came the sea, And the sun looked over the mountain's rim: And straight wa...
ROBERT BROWNING Let me not know that all is lost, though lost it be - leave me not tied to this despair, this corpse...
ROBERT BROWNING Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed, As God be thanked! I...
ROBERT BROWNING The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know.
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