Reverse Quotes

• I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

  J. D. Salinger

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.

  Roald Dahl

  Inspirational, Funny, Sarcastic

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, p.152, Penguin

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• The future is but the obsolete in reverse.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Obsolete

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov”, p.635, Vintage

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• A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  God, Jealous, Humanity

  Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (2009). “God and the State”, p.28, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can't learn history in reverse!

  Archimedes

  Past, Men

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• Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.

  Ben Hogan

  Golf, Hair, Swings

  Ben Hogan (2010). “Power Golf”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Principles, Caged

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.170, Modern Library

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• The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Shapes, Limits, Sides

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• When you feel stuck in reverse, take a breath and let go.

  Judith Orloff

  Letting Go, Emotional, Stuck

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• Time is more important than price. When time is up price will reverse.

  William Delbert Gann

  Important

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• Falling in love makes the unknown known. Falling out of love reverses the process.

  Glen Duncan

  Falling In Love, Process, Known

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)”, p.64, Canongate Books

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• Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Boredom, Fascination, Sides

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• A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes.

  Helmut Jahn

  Thinking, Propose, Engineers

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• The truth is that nobody is owed an apology for anything. Apologies are lovely when they happen. But they change nothing. They do not reverse actions or correct damage. They are merely nice to hear.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Nice, Apology, Lovely

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• Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Boredom, Fascination

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• Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse.

  Salman Rushdie

  Life Is, Judged

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• Beingness, doingness and havingness are like a triangle where each side supports the others. They are not in conflict with each other. They all exist simultaneously. Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: They try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

  Shakti Gawain

  Happy, Pursuit Of Happiness, Careers

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• The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Looks, Normal, Appearance

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  People, Decision, Servant

  Abraham Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln Association (Springfield, Ill.) (1953). “Collected Works: 1860-1861”

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• In any event, parents never underestimated the abilities of their own children. Quite the reverse. Sometimes it was well nigh impossible for a teacher to convince the proud father or mother that their beloved offspring was a complete nitwit.

  Roald Dahl

  Mother, Teacher, Children

  Roald Dahl (1996). “Matilda”, Puffin

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• The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this.

  Confucius

  Men, Evil, Mind

  Confucius, William Edward Soothill (1910). “The Analects”, p.70, Courier Corporation

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• Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.

  Jim Carrey

  Funny, Fans, Recognition

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• One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Writing, Done, Authority

  "The Rolling Stones". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1952.

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• Many people excuse their own faults but judge other persons harshly. We should reverse this attitude by excusing others' shortcomings and by harshly examining our own.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Attitude, Yoga, People

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• My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse.

  Jodi Picoult

  Dad, Regret, Car

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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