Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Komarr (1998), Chapter 16 (p. 268)
“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”
“When your back is against the wall, there's only one way to go and that's forward.”
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.
Address to the European Parliament (2015)
“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.
As quoted in The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Inspirational Quotes (2005) by Wendy Toliver, p. 18.
“How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?”
Lyrics, Imagine (1971 album)
Variant: How can I give love when I don't know what it is I'm giving?
"How?" (song)
“When you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.”
Source: The Alchemist
"A Quick-and-Dirty Introduction to Accelerationism" https://jacobitemag.com/2017/05/25/a-quick-and-dirty-introduction-to-accelerationism/ (2017) (original emphasis)
“deleted my Yahoo, Hotmail, flickr, digg and stumbleupon accounts one way forward to social freedom”
Tweet Jan 21, 2012, 7:10AM https://twitter.com/basselsafadi/status/160740948375126016 at Twitter.com
