1970s, First Presidential address (1974)
“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.
“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.
“Forward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward.”
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Komarr (1998), Chapter 16 (p. 268)
29-Jun-2005, Radio Derby
I think he's covered all the angles there.
“There are many ways of being wrong, but only one way of being right.”
As quoted in Thinking to Some Purpose (1939), p. 153
“When you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.”
Source: The Alchemist
“Thou goest thine, and I go mine —
Many ways we wend;
Many days, and many ways,
Ending in one end.”
Phantastes (1858)
Context: Thou goest thine, and I go mine —
Many ways we wend;
Many days, and many ways,
Ending in one end.
Many a wrong, and its curing song;
Many a road, and many an inn;
Room to roam, but only one home
For all the world to win.
