Quotes About Reversal

Growth without diversification, technological improvement, and increased productivity is easily reversed: all it takes is a dip in commodity prices.

There is a history which has to be reversed, and that is the demolition of our temples.

Story Climax is the fourth of the five-part structure. This crowning Major Reversal is not necessarily full of noise and violence. Rather, it must be full of meaning. If I could send a telegram to the film producers of the world, it would be these three words: "Meaning Produces Emotion." Not money; not sex; not special effects; not movie stars; not lush photography.

In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever it photographs. The 'anything whatever' then becomes the sophisticated acme of value.

a negative charge moving backward in time is mathematically equivalent to a positive charge moving forward in time!

Sometimes things that look safe, turn out nasty, and things that look nasty, turn out safe.

There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it

Modern art did not just happen. It came as a result of a deep reversal of spiritual values in the Age of Reason, a movement that in the course of a little more than two centuries changed the world.

I wrenched DOG backwards to find GOD; now GOD barks.

It began to behave – in victory – as its opponents once did. When the boot was on the other foot something ugly happened.

Man's insulting God is not reversed by our insulting man.

That which goeth up must needs come down; and that which is down must needs go up. But Brahma has ordained that the that that goeth up is seldom the same as the that that hath gone down.

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.

You see, 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.

Only turning God's house into a house of fervent prayer will reverse the power of evil so evident in the world today.

I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history... The overt reversal of America's basic values as expressed by previous administrations, including those of George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon and others, has been the most disturbing to me.

How short a period often reverses the character of our sentiments, rendering that which yesterday we despised, today desirable.

And yet what has been learned can be unlearned.

What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank.

Streams of the sacred rivers flow uphill; Tradition, order, all things are reversed: Deceit is men's device now, Men's oaths are gods' dishonour. Legend will now reverse our reputation; A time comes when the female sex is honoured; That old discordant slander Shall no more hold us subject.

In an almost unthinkable reversal of a global pattern, almost every Arab country today is less free than it was forty years ago. There are few places in the world about which one can say that.

In other words, God's righteousness involves not only a great reversal ("the first will be last") but also an actual transformation and re-creation.

It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose crimes they were minded to punish in order that a complete reverse of fortune might make them suffer more bitterly.

People have a tendency to do that - to go the polar opposite of what they've done before if they've felt like they've done something wrong.