Top 181 Reversed Quotes & Sayings

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.

Friendship of a kind that cannot easily be reversed tomorrow must have its roots in common interests and shared beliefs.

Putin has reversed all the liberalizing reforms carried out by his predecessor.

As knowledge increases, the verdict of yesterday must be reversed today, and in the long run the most positive authority is the least to be trusted.

Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.

Imagine the one god himself has reversed his clock and reversed your regrets. Imagine knowing the bone-deep truth that whatever impossibility would make you truly happy has been granted. Imagine knowing you can once again hold your lost lover or your newborn child. Imagine what you feel during those first seconds of knowing. Now, imagine those first seconds last for days on end. .... Like I said, I'm a chemist. It's all coming back to me.p62

The prospect of an Africa dominated by China means that progress in human rights and democracy in the region will stall and could be reversed.

The beginning, middle, and end are parodied, reversed, and hidden by modernism, but not abandoned.

You're only as old as you feel, and I feel pretty young. I've got one gear, and till it gets reversed, I'm going all out.

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

Decades of progress made in bringing down crime are now being reversed by this [Barack Obama] administration's rollback of criminal enforcement.

Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause.

If we could only put God first, maybe this ugly trend could one day be reversed.

The old saying holds. Owe your banker ?1000 and you are at his mercy; owe him ?1 million and the position is reversed.

The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.

Because it's important. Laws can be reversed, Supreme Court decisions can be overturned, gender classifications can continue.

A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.

Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.

whereas in childhood ... it was the parents' judgement that mattered to the child, later on the situation becomes reversed: it is then that the opinions of one's grown-up children become what matters, as well as their kindness.

Have you heard about the Irishman who reversed into a car boot sale and sold the engine?

I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.

I've lived long enough to know things go in and out of fashion, and things not well received now can be totally reversed years later.

I believe in God, family, and McDonald's. And in the office, that order is reversed.

There is a history which has to be reversed, and that is the demolition of our temples.

Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.

Reversed [Hillary Clinton's] position on charter schools, reversed her position on changing the way our urban education is run, because she has sold out to the teachers union.

I know there are things I did in education that will never be reversed. I have not done that in film yet because I have only been here for about nine months.

People come out of the mid-west and go to the Ivy League. I kind of reversed the direction.

We have a problem now with parents stealing their kids' CDs, so the roles have been reversed.

The degree of leverage now being reversed is on a staggering scale, and the underlying global imbalances – notably between the savers and the spenders – will require long and painful adjustment.

France built its best colony on a principle of exclusion, and failed; England reversed the system, and succeeded.

He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted.

There wasn't a lot of physical tenderness with my parents. There was plenty of love but we weren't into the hugging thing, which now I've totally reversed with my family to the point where it probably drives them crazy.

Growth without diversification, technological improvement, and increased productivity is easily reversed: all it takes is a dip in commodity prices.

What if history was changed? slavery reversed Would black ladies see white boys and clinch they purse?

In late 2003, the Bush administration reversed a long-standing policy requiring agents to destroy their files on innocent American citizens, companies and residents when investigations closed.

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.

Driving a Model T Ford was extremely difficult. The pedals are reversed from the way they are now. It's so crude, but that was the motorcar that started it all. It's an incredible part of history.

[John Kerry] actually stole my line because when I became Secretary of State, I said, 'I hope my heels will fill Warren Christopher's shoes.' So he reversed that.

If we have reproductive freedom, that is the ability to decide for ourselves when and whether to have children and what happens to our bodies, sexism can be reversed. It's the understanding that it's not inevitable. I think that is crucial.

Thus the slogan should be reversed: Catholics taught the world what music is supposed to sound like, and, more importantly, what it is supposed to mean.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

Most 25 year old guys have to work hard to impress the girls and have to do all the chasing. For me the roles are reversed. What more can a guy ask for? It's fun to be the centre of attention.

The brain drain from Africa has been reversed.

And once begun, change cannot be reversed.

It would be possible, in theory, for life and art to be reversed.

Ali reversed the decision in a second fight with Joe Frazier. That's what would happen if I played Billie Jean again.

I consider myself just a lovable old man who just loves women. I've reversed 100 percent.

Today in many places we hear a call for greater security. But until exclusion and inequality in society and between peoples is reversed, it will be impossible to eliminate violence.

The eye - which sees all objects reversed - retains the images for some time.

The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will require long and painful adjustment.

The Costa Rica experience shows that with dedicated resources, creative institutions, and a sound legal framework, deforestation can be reversed and forest cover expanded.

The Supreme Court has also issued and never reversed a number of decisions that are repugnant to the Constitution's vision of human dignity and equality.

Kentucky has long been Democratic at the state level but that trend had completely reversed in the Trump era.

When I arrived on the planet, there were only two billion. Wildlife was more abundant, we were less so; now the situation is reversed.

The oppressed always learned from and copied the oppressor. When the tables were turned, the stage was set for another round of revenge and violence -- roles reversed. And reversed and reversed ad nauseam.

With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.

I always had this notion of a noir novel in Galway. The city is exploding, emigration has reversed, and we are fast becoming a cosmopolitan city.

My first Premier League goal against Palace, I caught it on the bounce and reversed it across the 'keeper.

It has become fashionable in Washington to argue that Obamacare cannot be reversed. That is nonsense. It's a fight worth waging, and a fight which can be won.