Reversed Quotes
105 quotes by 98 authors
-
The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will require…
— Vince Cable
-
The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed…
— Abraham Flexner
-
Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.
— William Gurnall
-
In Alien, Sigourney Weaver's role was written for a man. In Salt, Angelina Jolie's role was written for Tom Cruise. These things, when reversed, do…
— Olivia Wilde
-
With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.
— Charles Caleb Colton
-
By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man of science, and…
— Albert Einstein
-
It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time…
— Arthur C. Clarke
-
Maturity consists in the discovery that there comes a critical moment where everything is reversed, after which the point becomes to understand more and more…
— Soren Kierkegaard
-
In the move The Last Emperor, the young child anointed as the last emperor of China lives a magical life of luxury with a thousand…
— Philip Yancey
-
But, contrary to the lady's prejudices about the engineering profession, the fact is that quite some time ago the tables were turned between theory and…
— Nicholas Metropolis
-
Our enemies didn't adhere to the Geneva Convention. Many of my comrades were subjected to very cruel, very inhumane and degrading treatment, a few of…
— John McCain
-
Today in many places we hear a call for greater security. But until exclusion and inequality in society and between peoples is reversed, it will…
— Pope Francis
-
In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.
— Richard Whately
-
My loneliness...still comes over me sometimes...It's a liminal, lost sensation of having wandered wide, endless boulevards, among rows of orange trees, winter butterflies, seasons reversed…
— Marco Roth
-
My advice was to start a policy of making reversible decisions before anyone left the meeting or the office. In a startup, it doesn't matter…
— Steve Blank
-
Well. There was noting to be done for it. Things had happened as they did, time's arrow had yet to be reversed by humans, done…
— Steve Perry
-
The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be…
— Theodore C. Sorensen
-
The Costa Rica experience shows that with dedicated resources, creative institutions, and a sound legal framework, deforestation can be reversed and forest cover expanded.
— Bruno Stagno Ugarte
-
Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause.
— Gregory Bateson
-
Without doubt the emphasis in Christian teaching today should be on worship. There is little danger that we shall become merely worshipers and neglect the…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
Who Wrote These Reversed Quotes
98 authors contributed a total of 105 Reversed Quotes, led by these top contributors: