Quotes About Reversal

Lidé nevytváÃ…â"¢ejí myÅ¡lenky. PrávÄ› naopak.

You want to arrest the clocks, stop everything for half a second, give yourself a chance to do it over again, rewind the life, uncrash the car, run it backward, have her lifted miraculously back into the windshield, unshatter the glass, go about your day umtouched, some old, lost sweet tasting time.

V.V. sought to express something, which until expressed had only a twilight being (or even none at all--nothing but the illusion of the backward shadow of its imminent expression). It was Ada's castle of cards. It was the standing of a metaphor on its head not for the sake of the trick's difficulty, but in order to perceive an ascending waterful or a sunrise in reverse: a triumph, in a sense, over the ardis of time.

You can rèmove a tattoo; it's just difficult. And supposedly it's pretty painful. Some things, on the other hand, can't be undone.

Spirituality has always been about turning the world on its head.

Maybe she didn't know what she was giving up until afterward. Maybe once she saw the baby she changed her mind.

As if the estrangement between them had come of any culpability of hers. As if Mr. Lorry had not known it for a fact, years ago, in the quiet corner in Soho, that this precious brother had spent her money and left her! He was saying the affectionate word, however, with a far more grudging condescension and patronage than he could have shown if their relative merits and positions had been reversed (which is invariably the case, all the world over),

He read the verses backwards but then they were not poetry.

You see how easy it is to go from having everything to having nothing?

We have a problem now with parents stealing their kids' CDs, so the roles have been reversed.

Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.

It is my argument that reversing the meaning of "populist" tells us something important about the people who reversed it: denunciations of populism like the ones we hear so frequently nowadays arise from a long tradition of pessimism about popular sovereignty and democratic participation. And it is that pessimism—that tradition of quasi-aristocratic scorn—that has allowed the paranoid right to flower so abundantly.

science, properly used, could undo much of the damage men had done.

El problema con las monedas es que cuando una cara está boca arriba, la otra está boca abajo

In my expectation that good fortune will lead inextricably to its reversal, I should note that I don't think I'm less deserving of happiness than anyone else; it is that in an unequal world, nobody deserves the privileges I enjoy.

I destroyed that doll, hoping the sacrifice would somehow reverse time and bring my father back. I was a mad scientist and an angry child.

Many shall be restored that now are fallen and many shall fall that are now in honor.

I would give almost anything I have to reverse the course of my life in the last three years…. I have deceived my friends, and I had millions of them.

Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in

You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.

Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.

But maybe it takes a slightly unhinged person to reverse our decades of mindless consumption. Who else would dare suggest, "The basic rule for papers: Discard everything"? (Are they not required to keep tax records in Japan?) Who else would name a section of her book "Photos: Cherish who you are now"? Imagine Southwest Airlines changing their slogan from "Wanna get away?" to "What are you running from?

The thing you hope will never happen to you might just happen to someone else instead, who has been spending their life dreading the thing that will happen to you.

THE 7 FORMULAS OF HUMOR: 1. POW's -- plays on words 2. Reverses (quick switch in audience point of view) 3. Triples (build to exaggerated finale) 4. Incongruity (pairing two logical but unconventional ideas) 5. Stupidity (so audience feels superior) 6. Paired phrases (using antonyms, homonyms, synonyms) 7. Physical abuse (slapstick)