Reverse Quotes - Page 2

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  People, Decision, Servant

  Abraham Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln Association (Springfield, Ill.) (1953). “Collected Works: 1860-1861”

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• There is no place for fear among men and women who Almighty, who do not hesitate to humble themselves in seeking divine guidance through prayer. Though persecutions arise, though reverses come, in prayer we can find reassurance, for God will speak peace to the soul. That peace, that spirit of serenity, is life's greatest blessing. .

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Prayer, Fear, Humble

  Ezra Taft Benson (1983). “Come unto Christ”, Deseret Book Co

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• In any event, parents never underestimated the abilities of their own children. Quite the reverse. Sometimes it was well nigh impossible for a teacher to convince the proud father or mother that their beloved offspring was a complete nitwit.

  Roald Dahl

  Mother, Teacher, Children

  Roald Dahl (1996). “Matilda”, Puffin

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• The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this.

  Confucius

  Men, Evil, Mind

  Confucius, William Edward Soothill (1910). “The Analects”, p.70, Courier Corporation

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• The truth is limitless in its range, if you drop the T and look at it in reverse it could hurt.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Hurt, Looks, Limitless

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• Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.

  Jim Carrey

  Funny, Fans, Recognition

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• Writing a play is like smashing that [glass] ashtray, filming it in slow motion, and then running the film in reverse, so that the fragments of rubble appear to fly together. You start - or at least I start - with the rubble.

  Tom Stoppard

  Running, Writing, Glasses

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• Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment. Here we have the first internal inconsistency of contemporary atheism: it proclaims that all religion must necessarily vanish away, and it is itself a religious phenomenon.

  Jacques Maritain

  Faith, Religious, Atheist

  Jacques Maritain (1966). “A Maritain Reader: Selected Writings”

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

  Jack London

  Time, Gears, World

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.8403, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Writing, Done, Authority

  "The Rolling Stones". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1952.

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• Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with. . . . Time will reverse the judgement of the vulgar.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Ignorance, Judgement, Criticism

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• Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.

  William Shenstone

  Poet, Very Good, Critics

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• There's no such thing as reverse racism.

  Paul Mooney

  Racism

  "CNN Talkback Live" with Bobbie Battista, www.cnn.com. September 3, 2001.

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• I love to read theories without ever using them when working... The paradoxical fact in the aesthetic is that theories are also true in reverse.

  Ernst Haas

  Facts, Theory, Paradoxical

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• I continue to be amazed by our bodies' ability for self-repair. ... Our bodies want to be healthy, if we would just let them. That's what these new research articles are showing: Even after years of beating yourself up with a horrible diet, your body can reverse the damage, open back up the arteries-even reverse the progression of some cancers. Amazing! So it's never too late to start exercising, never too late to stop smoking and never too late to start eating healthier.

  Michael Greger

  Cancer, Exercise, Self

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• Many more people could ride out the storm-tossed waves in their economic lives if they had their year's supply of food…and were debt-free. Today we find that many have followed this counsel in reverse: they have at least a year's supply of debt and are food-free.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Religious, Debt Free, Years

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• It is very hard to enroll people in anything. And there is a very big difference between the words motivate and inspire. Motivation means we have an idea and we are going to carry through on that idea. We work hard at it, and we are disciplined. A highly motivated person takes an idea, goes out there, and won't let anybody interfere with them. Inspiration is exactly the opposite. If motivation is when you get hold of an idea and carry it through to its conclusion, inspiration is the reverse. An idea gets hold of you and carries you where you are intended to go.

  Wayne Dyer

  Motivation, Inspiration, Mean

  Interview with Ray Hemachandra, www.drwaynedyer.com. November, 2005.

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• A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers should one day suffer reverse.

  Sophocles

  Mind, Suffering, One Day

  Sophocles (2013). “The Tragedies (Annotated Edition)”, p.284, Jazzybee Verlag

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

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Success, Congratulations, Adversity

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• We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the play out. We must live misfortune down, Trot!

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Play, Suffering

  Charles Dickens (1992). “David Copperfield”, p.425, Wordsworth Editions

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• 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.

  Aristotle

  Character, People, Action

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• Here is a good bill that's needed in America. If it's unconstitutional, let the U.S. Supreme Court reverse its opinion and get in line with New Hampshire and that will make it constitutional.

  Meldrim Thomson, Jr.

  America, Lines, Bills

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• Great and frequent reverses can crush and mar our bliss both by the pain they cause and by the hindrance they offer to many activities. Yet nevertheless even in adversity nobility shines through, when a man endures repeated and severe misfortune with patience, not owing to insensibility but from generosity and greatness of soul.

  Aristotle

  Crush, Pain, Adversity

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.19, Wordsworth Editions

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• But when we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future to see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before they come as to how we shall avert them if they ever do come, we lose our proper trustfulness in God. When we torment ourselves with imaginary dangers, or trials, or reverses, we have already parted with that perfect love which casteth out fear.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Perfect, Storm

  "Aids to Prayer".

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• Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

  John Stuart Mill

  Pain, Action, Absence

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.99, Hackett Publishing

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