Quotes About Reversal

Nobody comes here anymore, its too crowded

If you want to know what he's like — reverse what his opponents say.

Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.

Imagine the one god himself has reversed his clock and reversed your regrets. Imagine knowing the bone-deep truth that whatever impossibility would make you truly happy has been granted. Imagine knowing you can once again hold your lost lover or your newborn child. Imagine what you feel during those first seconds of knowing. Now, imagine those first seconds last for days on end. .... Like I said, I'm a chemist. It's all coming back to me.p62

When people reach age 12-14, they become obsessed with evil. The percentage of people who are good versus evil becomes reversed. It's part of the way that teens' minds are being reordered - it's just a developmental stage.

What you think is going to be a big break or opportunity can sometimes turn into the opposite, and vice versa.

Apparently, you can make people happy by delivering bad news and then taking it back (which, personally, would just make me mad). Still,

Hey," he said. "Stressed is desserts spelled backward.

There was a level on which I believed that what had happened remained reversible

I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the power to reverse the narrative

I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the power to reverse the narrative, change the outcome.

How else should it be done then?", was always the immediate question. The answer is simple: "Exactly in the opposite way that it is done today!

Non-Christians hate God with their minds, but regeneration reverses this, and enables the chosen ones to fulfill the greatest commandment.

Relationships have a nasty habit of reversing themselves; whatever has been done to you in a previous involvement you'll do to the next person you're involved with, if you get half a chance.

Imagine yourself acclaimed, a decorated national hero, an idol to millions of desperate people, then within six months, condemned to death by hanging.

[The witch] would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards.

Instead, in a stunning reversal, Jesus instructed us to pray, "Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us." At the center of the Lord's Prayer, which Jesus taught us to recite, lurks the unnatural act of forgiveness.

What goes up must come down.

Leave me like this. I have come full circle and I understand. The world must be read backward. All is clear.

Il Re deve stare al gioco: non stipendia forse il Matto apposta per farsi contraddire e canzonare? È antica e saggia usanza nelle corti che il Matto o Giullare o Poeta eserciti la sua funzione di capovolgere e deridere i valori sui quali il sovrano basa il proprio dominio, e gli dimostri che ogni linea diritta nasconde un rovescio storto, ogni prodotto finito uno sconquasso di pezzi che non combaciano, ogni discorso filato un bla-bla-bla.

On that lonely road they looked like mirror images of each other. Perhaps each of them thought of real communication as unnecessary, words divide by multiplying, what was certain was the oneness underneath the words. But now they refrain from talking because it might reveal to them how dangerously unlike one another they are. An image in a mirror is a reversal, the reflection and the original are joined but might cancel each other out.

We are mighty because we are right, Garviel. We are not right because we are mighty. Vile the hour when that reversal becomes our credo.

You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The viewer thinks it's going to be about something and it does the opposite.

Us ballplayers do things backward. First we play, then we retire and go to work. —CHARLIE GEHRINGER