Quotation Explorer - 'Reverse'

I destroyed that doll, hoping the sacrifice would somehow reverse time and bring my father back. I was a mad scientist and an angry child. - Walter Mosley
The more positive you are the more people want to be around you and the less positive you are...well, just reverse it! - Germany Kent
Humor is heartbreak in reverse. - Marty Rubin
Instead of falling to the ground like a heavy doll, as Kermin had seen the prisoners do at the Chetnik executions, his mother shrank into herself, a reverse blossoming, coming to rest in a sitting position, like a ruminative Buddha - Reif Larsen
The weirder you are going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person. - P. J. O'Rourke
Unlike clocks, hours have no reverse motion.. - Anonymous
Your advice seems a little ironical.""Oh, you may either follow it or reverse it—that is its chief beauty. It is equally good taken either way. - Thomas Henry Lister
Racism breeds racism in reverse. - Mary Brave Bird
Revolution doesn't always mean violent, it has a reverse meaning on it; noituLOVEr - Cj Lacuesta
Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history. - Hannah Arendt
A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers would one day suffer reverse. - Sophocles
People buy into this false notion of reverse racism, where they believe that just because there’s a group of people getting together to share something about their heritage that we’re excluding white people. But that’s not the reality. - Simon S. Tam
When you feel you are badly falling into the emptiness, stick to the reason , stick to the logic; they will reverse the situation! - Mehmet Murat ildan
If there is moral insanity," he said in a conspiratorial whisper, "then there may be the reverse, immoral sanity, if you will, that comes upon one suddenly, like a fever. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse. - Herman E. Daly
There is so much time and so little to do; strike that, reverse it.
We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it. - Roald Dahl
Too many Christians reverse New Covenant commands as we seek, through condemnation of the world, the return of the never-existent, demonic myth of the "Christian Nation"! - Gary Patton
The irony is that we are busy doing many things that don’t matter and we have no time for things that do. Shouldn’t we reverse it? - RVM
It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides. - George Sand
I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the power to reverse the narrative, change the outcome. - Joan Didion
In a minute there is time for decision and revisions that a minute will reverse. - T. S. Eliot
You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters. - Plato
Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves. - Benjamin Franklin
The reverse gear of time is the mind! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I think that Gnosticism is about discovering the way that God has turned into you, and then realizing that if you can describe how it is that God turned into you, you can reverse the process. - Stevan L. Davies
The agony of man is always longer than the fleeting moments of bliss. The trick is to reverse those two. - Ben Midland
From this arises the following question: whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the reverse. The answer is that one would like to be both the one and the other, but because they are difficult to combine, it is far better to be loved than feared if you cannot be both. - Niccolò Machiavelli
I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. - J. D. Salinger
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of trying to make me happy - J.D. Salinger
Joy is distinctly a Christian word and a Christian thing. It is the reverse of happiness. Happiness is the result of what happens of an agreeable sort. Joy has its spring deep down inside. And that spring never runs dry, no matter what happens. Only Jesus gives that joy. - Samuel Gordon
Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often true, and that madness is a fiction lived in like a rented house - William H. Gass
The reverse side also has a reverse side. - Japanese Proverb
I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him. - Mikhail Bakunin
The key to happy living is that Mind should be at rest and body must be exercised and active, but in the disillusioned pursuit of happiness during current times we reverse the mantra and ignorantly fly away from it. - Hiyamedia
Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. - T.S. Eliot
A lie is nothing more than the truth told in reverse - Arthur C. Buckner
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