Quotes About Reversal

There is a bit of me if I'm pushed in one way I might bounce back and go the opposite.

Broken Windows theory and the Power of Context are one and the same. They are both based on the premise that an epidemic can be reversed, can be tipped, by tinkering with the smallest details of the immediate environment.

If the world were really right, humans would live life backward and do the first part last. They'd be all knowing in the beginning and innocent in the end...

Whenever something great happens, you're always kind of poised for the universe to correct itself.

When you're facing in the wrong direction, progress means walking backward.

Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life.

That a [presidential] candidate would do whatever it took to get power is now proof that a candidate is fit for the job—a perfect reversal of the founders' intent.

I had always been taught that life was the other way around -- that you had to make sure you got what was coming to you . . .

Dare to turn life on its end, and you may find that topsy-turvy is a truer perspective than turvy-topsy.

I remember a little later wondering why things always turn out to be diametrically opposed to what you expect them to be. It's no good even trying to predict what this opposite will be because it always fools you and turns out to be the opposite of that , if you see what I mean. If you think this is geometrically impossible all I can say is that you don't know my life

Halbwüchsige [...], die sich in der Welt schon abgehärtet haben, aber noch keine Verantwortung tragen, auch für ihre Körper nicht. Sie vertragen es, wenn Unten einmal Oben ist und umgekehrt.

If you expect a kick in the balls and you get a slap in the face, it's a victory.

Happily, there's a reversal of the brain drain occurring in Ghana now. We're seeing a lot of - actually in Africa - we're seeing a lot of African professionals, you know, returning to the continent to contribute their quota.

Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.

On gay adoption I have changed my mind.

Such a gift might be easily taken back again.

Words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion in the human heart that can never be reversed

We must become a people who are in submission, that is, submitted completely to the mission of the Church, 'in statu missionis.' Thus, living fully within the mainstream of grace, under the mantle of God's divine authority, and by uniting ourselves to the obedience of Christ on the cross, we participate in the reversal of Adam's sin.

We have witnessed a stunning reversal of power between mainstream and social media: The ability to go direct to end users of information through social channels radically disrupted the mainstream news agenda.

That's always been the driving force on the show, we're the ones who should be getting put in bad situations not the other people, they're more like witnesses. That's really like the big spin that we thought was good.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

When I was thirty, and a long time after that, I felt like I had to leave home to do what I had to do. Now, it's just the opposite.

away, but he swung back

Generally speaking, the historical experience has been that movements away from democracy taken in the name of emergency conditions is not reversed when those conditions change (when internal and external threats to revolution subside).