Quotes of Reverse - somelinesforyou

“ I think Converse is betting on it. ”

- Henry Thomas

“ Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, or opposites at all without opposites. ”

- Plato

“ Time gives his hour-glassIts due reversal.Their hour is gone. ”

- Matthew

“ 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

“ 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 Anson Heinlein

“ I wake up in the morning and the latest Chris Lydon interview in on my iPod. I didn't have to do anything, I didn't have to understand how it got there. I call it a kind of reverse Tivo. ”

- Adam Curry

“ 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. ”

- Charles W. Colson

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

- Tony Blair

“ The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does the reverse. ”

- Confucius

“ The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants. ”

- Theodore Roosevelt

“ One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you, and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless. ”

- Merle Shain

“ I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. ”

- J.D. Salinger

“ Contraries are cured by contraries. ”

- Unknown

“ Contraries are cured by contraries. ”

- Unknown

“ Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. ”

- Sir William Blake

“ There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ Opposites may attract, but I wouldn't put my money on a relationship of financial opposites. ”

- Suze Orman

“ Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new. ”

- Sir William Temple

“ Opposites are not contradictory but complementary. ”

- Niels Bohr

“ I was supposed to be gutted but that's all nonsense. I'm happy as I am. I'm single and not looking for anything. I have a great collection of mates I can talk to. ”

- Keira Knightley

“ Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. ”

- Andy Warhol

“ There is so much time and so little to do; strike that, reverse it. ”

- Willy Wonka

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

- Charles Caleb Colton

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

- Susan Sontag

“ It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars. ”

- Arthur C. Clarke

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

- Roald Dahl

“ In a minute there is time for decision and revisions that a minute will reverse. ”

- T.S. Eliot

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

- Juvenal

“ A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers would one day suffer reverse. ”

- Sophocles

“ You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters. ”

- Plato
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