Quotes of Reversal - somelinesforyou

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

- Roald Dahl

“ 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

“ If we are going to make a difference as fathers, we need to do it now. The decision is practical. It has to do with bedtimes, Saturday football games, stories, and hamburgers; and it has to do with carving those times out of busy lives - today. ”

- Rob Parsons

“ As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm. ”

- Tanith Lee

“ Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse. ”

- Juvenal

“ Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Yes? Well socialism is exactly the reverse. ”

- Len Deighton

“ I don't know if it's how I speak or what it is about me that presents that sort of label, but I don't know how many times I have to be out in public with a girlfriend to stop that from being said. ”

- Jeff Garcia

“ The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law. ”

- Maria Edgeworth

“ We're working very aggressively to reverse this natural disaster, which is one of the worst that we've seen in the last hundred years. ”

- Bill Frist

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

- Tony Blair

“ Hopefully today is the turnaround, that is my prayer. ”

- David Vitter

“ All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do so, would I? ”

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“ I think it would have been much easier just to say to the party in the country 'why don't we reverse the order - you have the first hit and MPs have the last say'. ”

- David Davis

“ History has in different questions laid out some tremendous turnabouts and curves. ”

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“ if you don't go far enough, you'll never know how far you can go. ”

- Harriet Rubin

“ This transaction, along with other progress GM has been making on its turnaround plan, is an important milestone. ”

- George Fisher

“ Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man. ”

- Napoleon

“ Do you know what is better than charity and fasting and prayer? It is keeping peace and good relations between people, as quarrels and bad feelings destroy mankind. ”

- Prophet Mohammad

“ If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known. ”

- George C. Marshall

“ Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. ”

- John Kenneth Galbraith

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

- William Shenstone

“ 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. ”

- Margaret Young

“ Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization. ”

- Frederick E. Crane

“ Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse. ”

- Joseph Roux

“ I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they'll print the truth. ”

- River Phoenix

“ Back up my hard drive? How do I put it in reverse? ”

- Unknown

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

- Charles Caleb Colton

“ Microsoft has stretched itself so thin, within a couple of years it will experience serious reversals. We'll make the millennium my deadline. ”

- Bob Lewis

“ Rather himself is counting on a reversal of public opinion in the future, hoping to rehabilitate himself, just like his old nemesis, Richard Nixon. ”

- Brent Bozell

“ If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record that we have ever known. ”

- George Catlett Marshall Jr.
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