Reverse Quotes

I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear.

Art cannot be used to show the validity of Christianity; it should rather be the reverse.

Wish I could spin my world into reverse just to have you back again

Our instinct as parents is to order our kids around — it's easier, and frankly, we're usually right. [But] reverse the waterfall as much as possible. Enlist the children in their own upbringing.

If power corrupts, the reverse is also true; persecution corrupts the victims though perhaps in subtler and more tragic ways.

In the Middle Ages, everything bad was the work of the devil, everything good, the work of God. Today, the French see everything in reverse and blame the Germans for it.

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.

We will reverse course on the heavy hand of regulation, discarding Dodd-Frank and any other regulations that advance a political agenda at the expense of jobs and investment on Main Street.

Play the Reverse gossip game. See how many nice things you can say behind someones back.

In America, we tax work, investment, employment, savings, and production, while we subsidize non-work, consumption, and debt. It's time we reverse this trend.

Someone with an obsession for arranging things in alphabetical order was an abcedist, whereas someone with an obsession for arranging them in reverse alphabetical order was a zyxedist.

Prose proposes, verse reverses.

Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Well socialism is exactly the reverse.

Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment.

Under pressure, the mouth speaks when the brain is disengaged, and, sometimes unwittingly, the gearshift is in reverse when it should be in neutral.

Time is more important than price. When time is up price will reverse.

To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore the external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse, that's quite a task

It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

From that moment the pendulum went into reverse

As much as Parkinson's is about movement, the end stage is being frozen. So the more I let that happen, the more I'm gonna be stuck within that and unable to reverse it.

The sucker's trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don't know, rather than the reverse.

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

Jealousy is the very reverse of understanding, of sympathy, and of generous feeling. Never has jealousy added to character, never does it make the individual big and fine.

If you were to buy a [BMW] 6-series, I recommend you select reverse when leaving friends’ houses so they don’t see its backside.

Destructors for virtual base classes are executed in the reverse order of their appearance in a depth-first left-to-right traversal of the directed acyclic graph of base classes.

The future is but the obsolete in reverse.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

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 has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty.

The truth is that nobody is owed an apology for anything. Apologies are lovely when they happen. But they change nothing. They do not reverse actions or correct damage. They are merely nice to hear.

Soviets always use words which mean almost the reverse of what they mean to us. So peaceful co-existence does not in any way mean peaceful.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.

Friends are just enemies in reverse.

Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.

I was a middle child and was used to negotiating. But there was nothing I could do to reverse my mothers condition.

It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.

The success of any trap lies in its fundamental simplicity. The reverse trap by the nature of its single complication must be swift and simpler still.

There is no condition so severe that you cannot reverse it by choosing different thoughts.

Reverse the ball one time for a good shot, two times for a great shot, three times for a layup.

It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.

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 invent a fictive self.

Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse

Fear is faith in reverse gear.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose.

It has always amazed me how tax cuts don't work until they take effect. Mr. Obama's experience with deferred tax rate increases will be the reverse. The economy will collapse in 2011.

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 artist can receive!