Reversal Quotes

36 quotes by 35 authors

Governments do not have the answers. Indeed quite the reversal. A lot of times they not only do not have the answers, they themselves are… — Betty Williams
Turning something upside-down elicits a reversal of content and pointing a steeple into the ground directs it to hell as opposed to heaven. — Dennis Oppenheim
Once I witnessed a windstorm so severe two 100-year-old trees were uprooted on the spot. The next day, walking among the wreckage, I found the… — Mary Ruefle
Those in the community who defy authority and 'break the law' seem to enjoy the good life and have everything in the way of material… — Huey Newton
It is only in a crowd that man can become free of this fear of being touched. That is the only situation in which the… — Elias Canetti
To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. This total reversal of the truth accounts for the fact… — Eckhart Tolle
I was blessed with a sense of my own destiny. I have never sold myself short. I have never judged myself by other people's standards.… — Sophia Loren
Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime puts… — Albert Camus
Almost every sin is committed for the sake of sensual pleasure; and sensual pleasure is overcome by hardship and distress arising either voluntarily from repentance,… — Gregory of Nazianzus
People accuse journalism of being too personal; but to me it has always seemed far too impersonal. It is charged with tearing away the veils… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism:… — Carolyn Heilbrun
One of the marks of our world is perhaps this reversal: we live according to a generalized image-repertoire. Consider the United Sates, where everything is… — Roland Barthes
The investigation of making is illuminating towards that moment rather than the other way around, a reversal of the way that I would approach making… — Julie Mehretu
A fascinating challenge facing today's environmental movement is how to best approach the reversal of past decisions that altered once-pristine environmental spaces for the sake… — Matt Gonzalez
The reversal of a Supreme Court opinion is possible. — Mike Rounds
I'm not a big crime reader, but I'm reading Michael Connelly's 'The Reversal.' I'm going back to his novels. I'm also reading Keith Richards' 'Life.'… — Jo Nesbo
A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested. — Tony Gilroy
These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting… — Hari Kunzru
Happily, there's a reversal of the brain drain occurring in Ghana now. We're seeing a lot of - actually in Africa - we're seeing a… — John Dramani Mahama
Parents want their kidsâ€™ approval, a reversal of the past ideal of children striving for their parentsâ€™ approval. — Elizabeth Kolbert

Who Wrote These Reversal Quotes

35 authors contributed a total of 36 Reversal Quotes, led by these top contributors: