Reverse Quotes - page 2

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)
The truth.. is limitless in its range, If you drop a 'T' and look at it in reverse it could hurt. View quote
Lupe Fiasco
Ask a woman's advice, and, whate'er she advise, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise. View quote
Thomas Moore
One must stand stiller than still. On reverse time travel. View quote
James Jeans
Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The sucker's trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don't know, rather than the reverse. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
People used to wear ordinary clothes weekdays, and formal attire on Sunday. Today it is the exact reverse. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A rich bank account did not mean rich ideas; in fact, often the reverse. The bigger your ass, the more you want to cover it. View quote
Gregory Benford
It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides. View quote
George Sand
The weaving of mankind into one community does not imply the creation of a homogeneous community, but rather the reverse; the welcome and adequate utilization of distinctive quality in an atmosphere of understanding.... Communities all to one pattern, like boxes of toy soldiers, are things of the past, rather than of the future. View quote
H. G. Wells
The appearance in nineteenth-century psychiatry, jurisprudence, and literature of a whole series of discourses on the species and subspecies of homosexuality, inversion, pederasty, and "psychic hermaphroditism" made possible a strong advance of social controls into this area of "perversity"; but it also made possible the formation of a "reverse" discourse: homosexuality began to speak in its own behalf, to demand that its legitimacy or "naturality" be acknowledged, often in the same vocabulary, using the same categories by which it was medically disqualified. (Michel Foucault)
As a doctor I will make it my mission to heal the nation, reverse the course of Obamacare and repeal every last bit of it. View quote
Rand Paul
The U. S. alleges it wants to democratize [the Middle East] whilst it seeks to reverse election results not legally or through polls, but by force, fostering chaos and supporting, financing and arming the corrupt. View quote
Khaled Mashal
Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain. View quote
John Stuart Mill
Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Yes? Well socialism is exactly the reverse. View quote
Len Deighton
When private industry makes a mistake, it gets corrected and goes away. As governments make mistakes, it gets bigger, bigger and bigger and they make more, more and more because as they run out of money, they just ask for more and so they get rewarded for making mistakes. In the meantime that is exactly what we are doing by subsidizing companies which are failing, we have a reverse Darwinism, we've got survival of the unfittest, the companies and people that have made terrible mistakes are being rewarded and other people are being punished and being taxed. View quote
Peter Schiff
Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can't do anything because they're tied up in knots. View quote
Barney Frank
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. View quote
Peter Greenaway
Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse, namely, that this connection with the complications and fluctuations of life is necessarily still a too close one. View quote
Hermann Ebbinghaus
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
I take the Constitution very seriously. The biggest problems that we're facing right now have to do with [the president] trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all. And that's what I intend to reverse when I'm President of the United States of America. (Barack Obama)
All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do so, would I? View quote
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
However, as every parent of a small child knows, converting a large object into small fragments is considerably easier than the reverse process. View quote
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Ultimately, in the Internet, openness has always won. I cannot imagine that the current competitive environment would reverse that. View quote
Eric Schmidt
If anything, there's a reverse Moore's Law observable in software: As processors become faster and memory becomes cheaper, software becomes correspondingly slower and more bloated, using up all available resources. View quote
Jaron Lanier