Reverse Quotes

493 quotes by 432 authors

Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose. — Steven Pinker
The truth is limitless in its range, if you drop the T and look at it in reverse it could hurt. — Lupe Fiasco
America is a land of healthy appetites. It is not in the American character to live in order to eat. Rather, the reverse is true.… — Ludwig Bemelmans
As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals --or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at… — Rose Macaulay
We knew before we came (to earth) that there would be many adverse circumstances to test us: accidents, sickness, and disease to prove us; temptations… — Robert E. Wells
Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon he could not exorcise. But he did… — Philip Yancey
Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment. Here we have the first internal inconsistency of… — Jacques Maritain
If I'm in the car after a bad game, I may think about ways I need to improve. But the second I reach home, the… — Matt Kemp
You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you. — J. Cole
The buildings that I build very often have a dreamlike reality. I don't mean by that they have a fantasy quality at all, in fact… — Christopher Alexander
The elimination of horrible disease, the increase of the quality of lives (for humans and for animals) achieved through research using animals is so incalculably… — Carl Cohen
Carter's hopes died when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and he ended up having to reverse policy and launch the military buildup that Reagan continued.… — Walter Russell Mead
The hopeless hope is one of the early harbingers of spring, bespeaking an innocent belief that the world might right its wrongs and reverse its… — Aleksandar Hemon
Armaments do not, generally speaking, cause wars. This notion, the logical crux of all arguments in favor of disarmament, turns the causal relationship upside down.… — James Burnham
I'm challenging myself to reverse the hate. — Orlando Jones
A current pejorative adjective is narcissistic. Generally, a narcissist is anyone better looking than you are, but lately the adective is often applied to those… — Gore Vidal
The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses. — Horace
Love without limits; reverse the hate. — Orlando Jones
Men and women make their own beauty or their own ugliness. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton speaks in one of his novels of a man "who… — Alexander Smith
The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them. — William Hazlitt

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