but I do believe one ought to recognize the irreversible…

When you're challenged, you're totally alive and totally dealing with reality, particularly if it could be dangerous. And that excites me!

— Bai Ling

our present picture of physical reality, particularly in relation to the nature of time, is due for a grand shake up

— Roger Penrose

A reactionary is someone who wants to return to a previous state - that's never a possibility in my books. For me, everything's irreversible…

— Michel Houellebecq

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.

— Dan Quayle

Women's liberation, if not the most extreme then certainly the most influential neo-Marxist movement in America, has done to the American home what communism…

— Ruth Wisse

So many social changes are as irreversible as the reaction when sodium is thrown into water.

— Gunnar Myrdal

Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it's afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.

— Pat Conroy

All life pulsates in time to the Earth and our artificial fields cause abnormal reactions in all organisms... Increasing electropollution could set in motion…

— Robert O. Becker

It is hard to have patience with people who say ''There is no death'' or ''Death doesn't matter'.' There is death. And whatever is…

— Anonymous

“Leave the broken, irreversible past in God's hands, and step out into the invincible future with Him.”

— Oswald Chambers

Accepting the the past is irreversible and the future doesn't exist means we can actually be in the present moment.

— Anonymous

Look at situations as contingent, not as inevitable, look at them as the result of a series of historical choices made by men and…

— Edward Said

The revolutionary process by which all books, old and new, in all languages, will soon be available digitally, at practically no cost for storage…

— Jason Epstein

Can the state, which represents the whole of society and has the duty of protecting society, fulfill that duty by lowering itself to the…

— Kofi Annan

Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal…

— Deepak Chopra