Inverted Quotes

43 quotes by 41 authors

We must substitute fear for faith, for fear is only inverted faith; it is faith in evil instead of good. — Florence Scovel Shinn
He credited her with a number of virtues, of the existence of which her conduct and conversation had given but limited indications. -But, then, lovers… — Lucas Malet
Oh, that's typical of you modern young men; you've nibbled at science and it's made you ill, because you've not been able to satisfy that… — Emile Zola
Since nature does not endow all men with equal beauty or equal intelligence, and the faculty of volition leads men to make different choices, the… — Ayn Rand
The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading,… — Hannah More
Political Correctness is inverted McCarthyism. — Dennis Miller
We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has… — Clifton Fadiman
It is the mass dream of inverted self, populous with fears overt and secret, that forms the continuous but gossamer thread upon which are strung… — Louis Sullivan
And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling cooped we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help-for it As… — Omar Khayyam
Andrade [who was looking after wartime inventions] is like an inverted Micawber, waiting for something to turn down. — Henry Tizard
An idol may be undeified by many accidental causes. Marriage, in particular, is a kind of counter apotheosis, as a deification inverted. When a man… — Joseph Addison
You see, for me [art]'s not one of life's ornaments, rococo relaxation to be greeted affably after a day of hard work; I'm inverted on… — Arno Hintjens
I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a… — Yann Martel
Even if I turned myself in, it wouldn't change anything. It wouldn't make me one of them. I knew that when I got my powers,… — Austin Grossman
How does it feel? I feels exactly like one of those dreams in which you suddenly realize that you have to take a test you… — Audrey Niffenegger
The painting showed a hairless, oppressed creature with a head like an inverted pear, its hands clapped in horror to its ears, its mouth open… — Philip K. Dick
Who knows but that you will get up to find that the world has inverted itself yet again? — Megan Whalen Turner
A bruise, blue in the muscle, you impinge upon me. As bone hugs the ache home, so I'm vexed to love you, your body the… — Li-Young Lee
Runes, runes, runes... Runes. An inverted Algiz rune. The caption next to it said â€œChernobog.â€ The Black God. Right. Of course, it wouldnâ€™t be Chernobog,… — Ilona Andrews
The idea was to have a basin inverted on his head and his hair cut to the shape of it. Skill and money were not… — Janet Frame

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