Reverse Quotes

I'm a kind of a paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. (J. D. Salinger)
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. View quote
Mikhail Bakunin
Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true. View quote
William Shenstone
The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship. View quote
Havelock Ellis
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse. View quote
Bing Crosby
What the insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies. View quote
Gerry Spence
A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers should one day suffer reverse. View quote
Sophocles
The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
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. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
Carter's hopes died when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and he ended up having to reverse policy and launch the military buildup that Reagan continued. Mr. Obama would be forced back into a war on terror if terrorist groups pull off enough damaging or frightening attacks to force this issue to the fore. (Walter Russell Mead)
I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism. View quote
Shia LaBeouf
We assume that good-looking people are smarter and more effective than they really are, and that homely people are the reverse. View quote
James Surowiecki
Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a brocade- all the threads are there, but not the subtlety of colour or design. View quote
Kakuzo Okakura
The relationship of the two problems is rather the reverse. To a great extent disarmament is dependent on guarantees of peace. Security comes first and disarmament second. View quote
Ludwig Quidde
As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient. View quote
W. Averell Harriman
A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes. View quote
Helmut Jahn
It will be said, however, that protection tends to destroy commerce, the civilizer of mankind. Directly the reverse, however, is the fact. View quote
Henry Charles Carey
I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they'll print the truth. View quote
River Phoenix
Who can think that this eviction of Germans was undertaken only as a temporary experiment? Those who adopted the decision on the eviction of the Germans from these territories, and who understood that Poles from other Polish districts would at once move into these territories, cannot suggest after a while to carry out reverse measures. The very idea of involving millions of people in such experiments is unbelievable, quite apart from the cruelty of it, both towards the Poles and the Germans themselves. View quote
Vyacheslav Molotov
In the Middle Ages, everything bad was the work of the devil, everything good, the work of God. Today, the French see everything in reverse and blame the Germans for it. (José Rizal)
The old notion that the savage is the freest of mankind is the reverse of the truth. He is a slave, not indeed to a visible master, but to the past, to the spirits of his dead forefathers, who haunt his steps from birth to death, and rule him with a rod of iron. View quote
James Frazer
Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse. View quote
Maya Angelou
It's odd to look out there and see a bunch of Mini-Mes,” says Williams. "You're wondering what possessed them to do such a thing... It sort of does a reverse psychology on you. You'd think you'd be like `Hey, all these people want to look like me. I feel pretty cool.' But actually it makes you feel more self aware and I'm not really fond of that. View quote
Hayley Williams
Aspiring dictators sometimes win elections, and elected leaders sometimes govern badly and threaten their neighbors. ... History demonstrates that democracy usually follows good governance, not the reverse. View quote
Rudy Giuliani