Reverse Quotes
493 quotes by 432 authors
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What one thing does the world need most today-apart, that is, from the all-inclusive thing we call righteousness? Aren't you inclined to agree that what…
— B. C. Forbes
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Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
— Thomas A. Edison
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We are losing the war against cancer. The prohibition of new carcinogenic products, reduction of toxins in use, and right-to-know laws - these are among…
— Samuel Epstein
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Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the…
— Gene Tunney
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If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse…
— David Korten
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Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. So if, from perhaps some unhealthy desire for sympathetic support,…
— Benjamin Lee Whorf
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They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man to reverse first.
— Terry Pratchett
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I figured I’d probably write 50 scripts in my life. Out of those 50, I figured maybe five would be produced, and that maybe one…
— Michael Arndt
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Reverse petting zoo. You pet the animals, and they pet you back.
— Andy Biersack
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I never had a low self-esteem that would make me gay. At one point, though, the reverse happened. Being homosexual led me to have a…
— Aaron Fricke
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A wise man watches his faults more closely than his virtues; fools reverse the order.
— Napoleon Hill
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It is now time to reverse the trend we have seen developing over the years, that of beauty at all costs and health will take…
— Bill Munson
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However, as every parent of a small child knows, converting a large object into small fragments is considerably easier than the reverse process.
— Andrew S. Tanenbaum
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The relationship of the two problems is rather the reverse. To a great extent disarmament is dependent on guarantees of peace. Security comes first and…
— Ludwig Quidde
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We must reverse this psychology (of needing guns for home defense). WE can do it by passing a law that says anyone found in possession…
— Carl T. Rowan
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She wondered then if she had ever been on the right track. She had been reticent all her life, because it turned out that her…
— Nuruddin Farah
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Reverse psychology is an awesome tool, I don't know if you guys know about it, but basically you can make someone think the opposite of…
— Michael Scott
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If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an…
— Carlisle Floyd
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It's not life in the present moment that is intolerable; the pain we are avoiding has already happened. We are living in reverse.
— Geneen Roth
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Reverse Darwinism: survival of the most idiotic.
— Alan Grant
Who Wrote These Reverse Quotes
432 authors contributed a total of 493 Reverse Quotes, led by these top contributors: