Irreversible Quotes

85 Irreversible quotes by 74 unique authors

Age is a clever thief. It takes a little from you each day, so you're not aware of your loss until it'd irreversible. — James Lee Burke
Once, I discovered the skulls of two impala rams, their horns locked into an irreversible figure-of-eight; the two animals had been trapped in combat, latched… — Alexandra Fuller
So many social changes are as irreversible as the reaction when sodium is thrown into water. — Gunnar Myrdal
Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for… — Gary Larson
Europe must dissipate any doubts over the euro, affirm that the euro is an irreversible project and act in consequence. — Mariano Rajoy
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 in… — Michel Houellebecq
(1) irreversible processes are as real as reversible ones. (2) irreversible processes play a fundamental constructive role in the physical world. (3) irreversibility is deeply… — Ilya Prigogine
Is it 10 years, 20, 50 before we reach that tipping point where climate change becomes irreversible? Nobody can know. There's clearly a probability distribution.… — Vinod Khosla
I think we must ask ourselves if this is really what we want to do to God's creation, to drive it to extinction? Because extinction… — Stuart L. Pimm
The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.… — Rachel Carson
Let the separation between you and the world be final and irreversible. Say, 'Here I go for Christ and His Cross, for the faith of… — Charles Spurgeon
If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe. — Valerie Jarrett
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change. — Dan Quayle
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
We see a newborn moth unwrapping itself and announce, Look, children, a miracle! But let an irreversible wound be knit back to seamlessness? We won't… — Leif Enger
Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship. I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Carolina… — Pat Conroy
Each man lives for himself, uses his freedom to achieve his personal goals, and feels with his whole being that right now he can or… — Leo Tolstoy
How could people, I wondered for the ten thousandth useless time, how could people who had loved so dearly come to such a wilderness; and… — Dick Francis
We suddenly feel fearful and apprehensive, naked in our perishable flesh, and for just a moment we wish we could go back to being stoneâ€”crumbling… — Ekaterina Sedia
Somtimes you lie in a strange room, in a strange person's home, and you feel yourself bending out of shape. Melting, touching something hot, something… — Rob Sheffield

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