Reverse Quotes - Page 25

• Sometimes I dread loneliness more than bores. Other times, the reverse.

  Mason Cooley

  Loneliness, Boredom, Sometimes

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• Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection, there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sigh that you will recognize it.

  Simone Weil

  Single, Solitude, Affection

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.67, Psychology Press

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• If it be true that men of strong imaginations are usually dogmatists--and I am inclined to think it is so--it ought to follow that men of weak imaginations are the reverse; in which case we should have some compensation for stupidity. But it unfortunately happens that no dogmatist is more obstinate or less open to conviction than a fool.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Strong, Men, Thinking

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.95

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• I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortunes.

  Washington Irving

  Endurance, Fortitude, Fortune

  Washington Irving (2014). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories”, p.33, Penguin

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• Jealousy is the very reverse of understanding, of sympathy, and of generous feeling. Never has jealousy added to character, never does it make the individual big and fine.

  Emma Goldman

  Jealousy, Character, Understanding

  Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.88, PM Press

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• Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Mind, Excess, Exciting

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.315

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• We have the reverse of the Puritan work ethic in America now. No one ever becomes a star by plugging along year after year. What is needed is flair, talent, 'an eye,' contacts, charisma, and, most of all, naturalness.

  Judith Martin

  Stars, Eye, Years

  Judith Martin (1986). “Style and substance: a comedy of manners”, Scribner

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• There are too many who reverse both the principles and the practice of the Apostles; they become all things to all men, not to serve others, but themselves; and they try all things only to hold fast that which is bad.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Practice, Trying

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.106

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• Friends are just enemies in reverse.

  Gary Busey

  Enemy

  "I'm with Busey". www.imdb.com. (2003 - ).

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• I was a middle child and was used to negotiating. But there was nothing I could do to reverse my mothers condition.

  Leeza Gibbons

  Mother, Children, Middle Child

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• On Earth Day I made a commitment to reduce our emissions of greenhouse gases to 1990 levels by the year 2000. And I asked for a blueprint on how to achieve this goal. In concert with all other nations, we simply must halt global warming. It is a threat to our health, to our ecology, and to our economy. I know that the precise magnitude and patterns of climate change cannot be fully predicted. But global warming clearly is a growing, long-term threat with profound consequences. And make no mistake about it, it will take decades to reverse.

  William J. Clinton

  Mistake, Commitment, Years

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• In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, but the reverse is true. America has become more like Russia: a kleptocratic society.

  Gary Shteyngart

  America, Russia, Unions

  "Russian revolution" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2007.

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• The nobility of Teresa Leo's poems is that they are not disposed to hide from the dark-rather, they display a mind that tends toward obsession and brooding, that works against fatality like fingers at a knot. The firm, attentive mind on display and the lucid unfolding of the poems are the life instinct seeking and finding its way through again and again. Love and beauty are the argument, but they don't win easily. Bloom in Reverse works through elegy toward survival with moving persistence, both driven and compelling.

  Tony Hoagland

  Moving, Dark, Winning

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• It is worthy to note, that the early popularity of Washington was not the result of brilliant achievement nor signal success; on the contrary, it rose among trials and reverses, and may almost be said to have been the fruit of defeat.

  Washington Irving

  Rose, Achievement, Trials

  Washington Irving “Life of George Washington”

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• I want to be the first guy to reverse a communist revolution.

  Elliott Abrams

  Guy, Firsts, Revolution

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• Insecure managers create complexity. Frightened, nervous managers use thick convoluted planning books and busy slides filled with everything they’ve known since childhood……. They worry that if they’re simple, people will think they’re simple minded. In reality, of course, it’s just the reverse. Clear, tough minded people are the most simple.

  Jack Welch

  Book, Insecure, Simple

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• Under pressure, the mouth speaks when the brain is disengaged, and, sometimes unwittingly, the gearshift is in reverse when it should be in neutral.

  Henry Ford

  Brain, Mouths, Pressure

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• You can't be a strong or cool woman and be represented except in a harsh way, looking mean and cold and hard. It's like reverse sexism.

  Kim Gordon

  Strong, Mean, Way

  "Kim Gordon: life after Sonic Youth". Interview with Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2014.

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• The game Flights of Fancy or Reverse Strip Jump is played from as high a jumping-point as a competitor will dare. After each successful jump, the competitor is allowing to put on an article of clothing. Thirteen jumps is normally more than enough to see a competitor fully dressed for the day.

  Peter Greenaway

  Successful, Jumping, Games

  "Drowning By Numbers". Comedy, Drama, 1988.

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• Always remember, money is a servant; you are the master. Be very careful not to reverse that equation, because many people of high intelligence have already done so, to their great detriments. Unfortunately, many of these poor souls loved money and used people, which violated one of the most basic laws governing true financial success. You should always love people and use money, rather than the reverse!

  Bob Proctor

  Law, People, Soul

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Aug 03, 2011

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• Once you have something so deeply infused in your culture and your brand, it would be very difficult to reverse that inertia if you wanted to.

  Andrew Mason

  Would Be, Culture, Difficult

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• If love is what is held to make us immortal, hatred is the reverse.

  Rachel Cusk

  Love Is, Hatred, Immortal

  Rachel Cusk (2015). “Outline: A Novel”, p.82, Macmillan

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• During the 1970s and 1980s, the popular television soap opera As The World Turns portrayed sunrise during the opening credits and sunset during the closing credits... The soap-opera sunrise showed the sun moving toward the left as it rose rather than to the right. They obviously had gotten a piece of film showing a sunset and played it in reverse... Had they called their local astrophysicists, any one of us might have recommended that if they needed to save money, they could have shown the sunset in a mirror before they showed it running backward.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Running, Moving, Sunset

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• It is only by demanding the impossible of the piano that you can obtain from it all that is possible. For the psychologist this means that imagination and desire are ahead of the possible reality. A deaf Beethoven created for the piano sounds never heard before and thus predetermined the development of the piano for several decades to come. The composer's creative spirit imposes on the piano rules to which it gradually conforms. That is the history of the instrument's development. I don't know of any case where the reverse occurred.

  Heinrich Neuhaus

  Mean, Reality, Piano

  Genrikh Gustavovich Neĭgauz, Heinrich Neuhaus (1973). “The art of piano playing”, Longwood Pr Ltd

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• People talk about things happening and it being "unbelievable," and it's exactly the reverse. It's really believable, but we are so conditioned to believe that these kinds of things are just coincidences, that they're just things that show up arbitrarily in our lives, when the fact is that all of us have this kind of guidance available to us.

  Wayne Dyer

  Believe, People, Facts

  "I Can See Clearly Now". Interview with Reid Tracy, www.aquarianonline.com. March 28, 2014.

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