Quotes About Reversal

On the other side of a mirror there's an inverse world, where the insane go sane; where bones climb out of the earth and recede to the first slime of love.

The Wheel of Fortune rotates, fickle as the moon. Soon those who were down will move upwards. And vice versa, of course

You are the sun in reverse, all energy flows into you and is abolished

So much has happened it's as if the whole world had suddenly turned upside down.

I hoped her life would turn topsy-turvy enough to get her attention. Topsy-turvy is often a symptom for the presence of God—the last become first, the hungry are fed, the obnoxious are welcomed.

Topsy-turvy is often a symptom for the presence of God--the last become first, the hungry are fed, the obnoxious are welcomed.

The wet earth. I did not imagine your death would reconcile me with language, did not imagine soil clinging to the page, black type like birds on a stone sky. That your soul – yes, I use that word – beautiful, could saturate the bitterness from even that fate, not of love but its opposite, all concealed in a reversal of longing.

He seemed even younger now, as though he were traveling backwards in time, in his mind, or merely becoming innocent, as if the dead, if they are going to stick around, have a right to remember their innocence.

when a man fell into a deep hole, it was usually a good idea to stop digging.

Okay. Let's see what we've got. He lifted up her foot and said, Well, what we've got here is a freakin' boat. Really? She slammed her heel against the side of his face, snapping his head to one side. How big are they now, Mitch? Rubbing the abused side of his face, Dainty little elf feet? Exactly.

She would always be living her life backwards, she realized, trying to regain something perfect that she'd lost.

You put his brain in a bird, the bird would fly backwards" -Secret Life of the Bees

It would be possible, in theory, for life and art to be reversed.

You see," Bouton wrote, "you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time." Truer words were never written.

ah! I thought the wolves used to devour the heretics, but now I see the heretics eat the wolves.

What childishness is it that while there's a breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?

Aristotle's Politics, like his Metaphysics, turns Plato's system upside down.

One could say that Aristotle had turned Plato on his head. Instead of the individual being a pale copy of a more real abstract form, the universal is less real (indeed only a copy) of the individual.15 This reversal left Aristotle's philosophy with a built-in bias in favor of the individual: in science, in metaphysics, in ethics, and later in politics.

sometimes when moving forward in life leads you to no where, one best option is to start moving backward" Ashu Shamy

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.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

So many times I've seen that done where it's the man laying back in bed, with his chubby belly, and the woman is absolutely gorgeous in every way, and you see all of her beautiful backside. To flip that on its head was so interesting to me.

As governor, I'll reverse cuts to the Local Government Fund and will work cooperatively with communities across the state to combat the challenges they face.

As I stared into the fire, it seemed more possible than I would have liked to believe that someday, perhaps after a blow on the head, perhaps for no discernable cause, my imagination and my reason might reverse their places—just as two friends who come every day to the same seats in some public garden might at last decide for novelty's sake to exchange them.