Reverse Quotes - Page 4

• However, as every parent of a small child knows, converting a large object into small fragments is considerably easier than the reverse process.

  Andrew S. Tanenbaum

  Children, Parent, Easier

  "Computer Networks". Book by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 1981.

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• It is now time to reverse the trend we have seen developing over the years, that of beauty at all costs and health will take care of itself.

  Bill Munson

  Years, Cost, Care

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• A wise man watches his faults more closely than his virtues; fools reverse the order.

  Napoleon Hill

  Wise, Men, Order

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.92, Penguin

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• I never had a low self-esteem that would make me gay. At one point, though, the reverse happened. Being homosexual led me to have a loss of self-esteem when I first became aware of society's attitudes about homosexuality.

  Aaron Fricke

  Attitude, Self Esteem, Gay

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• I figured I’d probably write 50 scripts in my life. Out of those 50, I figured maybe five would be produced, and that maybe one or two would be successful. So I always kind of expected I’d write at least one successful film in my life. [...] The way it all came together was kind of like Murphy's law in reverse—I don’t expect that kind of experience again any time soon.

  Michael Arndt

  Writing, Successful, Law

  "Family Values". Interview with Jennifer M. Wood, www.moviemaker.com. February 3, 2007.

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• 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.

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Opposites, Two

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)”, p.208, Random House

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• Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. So if, from perhaps some unhealthy desire for sympathetic support, you describe your life in negative terms you will find that this will reinforce your mind's negative emotions and make you unhappy and even more susceptible to feeling unhappy in the future. By simply doing the reverse and focusing on why you are lucky and grateful things are not worse, you will strengthen and increase your mind's positive emotions and make yourself happy and even more likely to feel happy in the future.

  Benjamin Lee Whorf

  Gratitude, Grateful, Support You

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• 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.

  David Korten

  Years, Looks, Debt

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• Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare.

  Gene Tunney

  Sports, Book, Fighting

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• We are losing the war against cancer... I would like to offer for your consideration the following legislative proposals on the following topics: prohibition of the authorisation of new carcinogenic products; reduction of toxics in use; right-to-know...

  Samuel Epstein

  War, Cancer, Epidemics

  Samuel Epstein's Right Livelihood Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 1998.

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• It is supposed by some that religion makes people solemn, takes the sunshine out of their life, the joy out of their heart, the song out of their mouth. But the reverse of this is the truth. No other one in the world has such secrets of joy as has the Christian. Christ teaches his followers to rejoice. He bids them rejoice even in sorrow and trial.

  J.R. Miller

  Christian, Song, Heart

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• I put my thing down, flip it, and reverse it

  Missy Elliot

  Flip

  Song: Work It, Album: Under Construction

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• The question is not do you take money out of stocks and put it into real estate, or the reverse. There's so much money out there looking for a home. I don't think it's either/or.

  Sam Zell

  Money, Real, Home

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• Action and reaction are equal and opposite, and are expressed simultaneously. Sequentially they are repeated in reverse, the reaction becoming the action and the action the reaction.

  Walter Russell

  Life, Opposites, Balance

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• Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can happen. Tides can reverse; oceans can open. That's why they say, we don't stop playing because we get old. We get old because we stop playing.

  Satchel Paige

  Inspirational, Motivational, Baseball

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• There's a lot of debate on this subject - about what kind of car handles best. Some say a a front-engined car, some say a rear-engined car. I say a rented car. Nothing handles better than a rented car. You can go faster, turn corners sharper, and put the transmission into reverse while going forward at a higher rate of speed in a rented car than in any other kind.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Car, Kind, Debate

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• Women must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and rhetorics, regulations and codes, they must submerge, cut through, get beyond the ultimate reverse-discourse, including the one that laughs at the very idea of pronouncing the word "silence"...In one another we will never be lacking.

  Helene Cixous

  Writing, Cutting, Class

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• All people seem to want to talk about is the current Ashes series, and whether England are going to reverse the trend of recent series.

  Ian Botham

  People, Ashes, Trends

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• In place of practising wholesome self-abnegation, we ever make the wish the father to the thought: we receive as friendly that which agrees with, we resist with dislike that which opposes us; whereas the very reverse is required by every dictate of common sense.

  Michael Faraday

  Father, Self, Common Sense

  Michael Faraday (1859). “Experimental researches in Chemistry and Physics ... Reprinted from the Philosophical Transactions of 1821-1857; the Journal of the Royal Institution ... and other publications”, p.475

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• Time is short. We have at most a decade to sharply reverse course.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Climate, Courses, Decades

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• It’s never too late to start eating well. A good diet can reverse many of those conditions as well. In short: change the way you eat and you can transform your health for the better.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Eating Well, Too Late, Way

  T. Colin Campbell, Howard Jacobson (2013). “Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition”, p.17, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• Let’s start with the most prominent ecological crisis of our time: global warming. When you look seriously at the numbers, you find that switching from a meat-based to a plant-based diet would do more to curb and reverse global warming than any other initiative.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Numbers, Meat, Looks

  T. Colin Campbell, Howard Jacobson (2013). “Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition”, p.167, BenBella Books

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• Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can’t do anything because they’re tied up in knots.

  Barney Frank

  Ties, Republican, Knots

  "Will the Moderates Speak Up?" by Dionne, E. J., www.washingtonpost.com. November 16, 2004.

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• The microspeed of the tongue ought to be always slightly less than the microspeed of the thoughts and certainly not ever the reverse.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Tongue, Ought

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2007). “We”, p.9, Modern Library

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• People gave ear to an upstart astrologer who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the sun and the moon....This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but sacred scripture tells us [Joshua 10:13]that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth.

  Martin Luther

  Moon, People, Heaven

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