Reverse Quotes
493 quotes by 432 authors
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A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear.
— Tony Blair
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It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to…
— Gary Busey
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Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.
— Jim Carrey
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No person that has enjoyed the sweets of liberty can be insensible of its infinite value, or can reflect on its reverse without horror and…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again and again did he preach…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up and rearranged to…
— Nicholas Delbanco
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I knew Pluto was popular among elementary schoolkids, but I had no idea they would mobilize into a 'Save Pluto' campaign. I now have a…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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When you feel stuck in reverse, take a breath and let go.
— Judith Orloff
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Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress.
— Daniel Ellsberg
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We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very reverse of the…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Reverse the ball one time for a good shot, two times for a great shot, three times for a layup.
— John Wooden
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For the first two years of a child's life, we spend every waking hour tryibg to get the child to communicate. Then we spend the…
— Erma Bombeck
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Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
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On one hand, we know that everything happens for a reason, and there are no mistakes or coincidences. On the other hand, we learn that…
— Yehuda Berg
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If we take care of the means, we are bound to reach the end sooner or later. When once we have grasped this point, final…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Life and death are but phases of the same thing, the reverse and obverse of the same coin. Death is as necessary for man's growth…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to the general, unless afterwards we…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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As is well known the principle of virtual velocities transforms all statics into a mathematical assignment, and by D'Alembert's principle for dynamics, the latter is…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State in a Forest: It was…
— Jonathan Swift
Who Wrote These Reverse Quotes
432 authors contributed a total of 493 Reverse Quotes, led by these top contributors: