Quotes About Reversal

You have turned things around, as if the potter were the same as the clay. Isaiah 29:16

Market forces will one day crush the Federal Reserve. One day, the market forces will reverse.

In late 2003, the Bush administration reversed a long-standing policy requiring agents to destroy their files on innocent American citizens, companies and residents when investigations closed.

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

This looking from the bottom up is the catalyst for a reversal of consciousness, not only for ourselves but also for the most resistant among us. For when we stop perceiving, assuming, and theorizing from the top, the dominant view, and instead go to the bottom of the social pyramid and identify with those who are oppressed and disenfranchised, a whole new way of relating opens up. Until we look from the bottom up we have seen nothing.

When a parent forces parental responsibilities on a child, family roles become indistinct, distorted, or reversed. A child who is compelled to become his own parent, or even become a parent to his own parent, has no one to emulate, learn from, and look up to. Without a parental role model at this critical state of emotional development, a child's personal identity is set adrift in a hostile sea of confusion.

If I'd known how the week was going to turn out I would have sent it back first thing Monday and asked for a refund.

What the insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies.

Une sortie, c'est une entrée que l'on prend dans l'autre sens.

The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.

All those good people huddling behind bars in gated communities - it's the wrong way round. The others should have the bars.

When there is a situation where one does not see demand for a year or two, then capex is suspended. It will reverse only when the situation improves.

The loss of the American colonies was the first time the process of British empire building had been put significantly into reverse, and became the starting point for a nostalgic yearning for lost colonies - and the wealth and global influence that came with them - that has become part of our national psyche.

Perhaps the most startling reversal of tradition came in the case of Lefty Grove. He shattered the cruel slanders which have always followed lefthanders.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

For the last couple of years, as the economic ground beneath all I've accomplished and cherished has shifted so profoundly in a life-shattering reversal of fortune, I've trained myself to stay alert when the roar and the rumbling of what could be catastrophic change begins.

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

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

Several people have now sued to reverse state regulations requiring them to attend AA on the grounds that these violate their religious freedom.)

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.

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.

The truth is paradoxical to the extent of being exactly contrary to the usual perception.

When we stand the truth on its head we generally fail to notice that our head is not standing where it should be standing either.

But time has a way of changing things. It's a circle. It takes power away and gives it to those who once had none. Right now your father is the one who is destroyed.