Quotes About Reversal

That which is man-made can be unmade.

Sometimes the only way up is down. Sometimes the only way forward is to back up.

Maybe, said his brain and his upbringing, if you make enough tea and small talk, time reverses and all bad things are undone.

Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.

Drolls & dreamers that we are, we fancy that we can undo what we fancy we have done.

No matter how long we have traveled on the wrong road, we can always turn around.

Just when you think you're in the cat-bird's seat, the Angel of Death calls "dibs" on shotgun.

An upturned life is righted in the box.

Fortune is fickle and soon asks back what he has given.

To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.

In the world we make good as evil and evil as good.

Never do what you can't undo.

With the news about Andy, it was like someone had thrown an x-ray switch and reversed everything into photographic negative, so that even with the daffodils and the dogwalkers and the traffic cops whistling on the corners, death was all I saw: sidewalks teeming with dead, cadavers pouring off the buses and hurrying home from work, nothing left of any of them in a hundred years except tooth fillings and pacemakers and maybe a few scraps of cloth and bone.

but the first rule of restorations, as he'd taught me earlier on, was that you never did what you couldn't reverse.

And that, my friend, is how the world ends. On the edge of a precipice, with one foot over the edge, it stops, turns and goes back, leaving an empty earth of birds and insects, wind, rain and rusting weapons.

I have long stressed the Hegelian procedure at work in this reversal of positions of the beautiful soul in relation to the reality he accuses. The point is not to adapt him to it, but to show him that he is only too well adapted to it, since he assists in its very fabrication.

hence the palace revolution that had accompanied Francis II's accession only seventeen months before was reversed.

Nine days after Elizabeth first offered the interview, she changed her mind.

If this were not enough, a volte-face had taken place in France itself.

Prices driven up by the expectation that they would go up, the expectation realized by the resulting purchases. Then the inevitable reversal of these expectations because of some seemingly damaging event or development or perhaps merely because the supply of intellectually vulnerable buyers was exhausted.

Reversed [Hillary Clinton's] position on charter schools, reversed her position on changing the way our urban education is run, because she has sold out to the teachers union.

My experience is the opposite.

Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment.

The irony is that we are busy doing many things that don't matter and we have no time for things that do. Shouldnt we reverse it?-RVM