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

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