“When you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.”
Source: The Alchemist
“Once you have started, the only way back is to go forward.”
Source: Detective Story (2008), p. 91.
Context: There was truth in Diaz’s logic, yes: our line of work is like that. Once you have started, the only way back is to go forward.
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Hungarian writer 1929–2016Related quotes
Variant: Hajime," she began, "the sad truth is that some things can't go backwards. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do, they can't go back to the way they were. If one little thing goes awry, then that's how it will stay forever.
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun
“When your back is against the wall, there's only one way to go and that's forward.”
Amitabh Bachchan
(1942) Indian actor
On Rajiv Gandhi, reported in Steven R. Weisman, "India a Year Later: Gandhi Leaving His Mark", The New York Times (October 30, 1985), A-1.
“But we can't go back. We can only go forward.”
Variant: One can never go back. One always has to move forward.
Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty
Boris Tadić
(1958) Serbian politician, President of Serbia 2004–2012
http://www.predsednik.yu/mwc/default.asp?c=101500&g=20060904151245&lng=eng&hs1=1
At the presidential inauguration ceremony.
“There is never any turning back Gemma. You have to go forward. Make the future yours.”
Libba Bray
(1964) American teen writer
“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
(1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
Mark Drakeford
(1954) First Minister of Wales
Rees-Mogg says reformed Brexit deal could win over critics https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46971390 BBC News (23 January 2019)
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