Reverse Quotes

• We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.

  Roald Dahl

  Inspirational, Funny, Sarcastic

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, p.152, Penguin

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• I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

  J. D. Salinger

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse.

  Salman Rushdie

  Life Is, Judged

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• The future is but the obsolete in reverse.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Obsolete

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov”, p.635, Vintage

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• Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can't learn history in reverse!

  Archimedes

  Past, Men

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• Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Principles, Caged

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.170, Modern Library

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• When you feel stuck in reverse, take a breath and let go.

  Judith Orloff

  Letting Go, Emotional, Stuck

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• Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.

  Ben Hogan

  Golf, Hair, Swings

  Ben Hogan (2010). “Power Golf”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Shapes, Limits, Sides

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  God, Jealous, Humanity

  Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (2009). “God and the State”, p.28, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In joy or sorrow, health or sickness, prosperity or the reverse, the effort must still continue. One must rise after every fall and gradually acquire courage, faith, the will to succeed and the capacity to love.

  Alexis Carrel

  Fall, Capacity To Love, Effort

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• Unhappy love freezes all our affections: our own souls grow inexplicable to us. More than we gained while we were happy we lose by the reverse.

  Madame de Stael

  Heartbreak, Soul, Unhappy

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• where I have seen good I shall speak of it with pleasure, and where I have seen the reverse, I shall try to be silent; for a book is meant to give pleasure, and pain that is inflicted in black and white lasts for ever.

  Isabel Burton

  Pain, Book, Black And White

  Lady Isabel Burton (1875). “The Inner Life of Syria, Palestine, and the Holy Land: From My Private Journal”, p.3

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• You become great aligning yourself to what is great. The reverse is also true.

  Marshall Vian Summers

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• Beingness, doingness and havingness are like a triangle where each side supports the others. They are not in conflict with each other. They all exist simultaneously. Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: They try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

  Shakti Gawain

  Happy, Pursuit Of Happiness, Careers

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• Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Boredom, Fascination

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• Falling in love makes the unknown known. Falling out of love reverses the process.

  Glen Duncan

  Falling In Love, Process, Known

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)”, p.64, Canongate Books

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

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Boredom, Fascination, Sides

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

  William Delbert Gann

  Important

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• 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.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Nice, Apology, Lovely

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• A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes.

  Helmut Jahn

  Thinking, Propose, Engineers

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• The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Looks, Normal, Appearance

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Tony Blair

  Gears, Way, I Can

  Tony Blair (2004). “Tony Blair in His Own Words”, Politicos Pub

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• Finally, if you still are growing, you reach the highest archetype, the archetype of the spirit. This is the time when you finally realize what Jesus meant when he said, "You are in this world, but you are not of this world." You are not here as a human being having a spiritual experience, but the reverse is true: All of us here are spiritual beings having a human experience.

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Jesus, World

  "Interview With New Age Retailer". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, www.drwaynedyer.com. November, 2005.

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• My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse.

  Jodi Picoult

  Dad, Regret, Car

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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