No Reverse Quotes

#1. Unlike clocks, hours have no reverse motion..

Anonymous

#2. I ain't got no reverse. I've learned, a little later in life, it works out pretty good to have one every once in a while.

Waylon Jennings

#3. 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

#4. Read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information

Veronica Roth

#5. Nihil humanum a me alienum puto, said the Roman poet Terence: 'Nothing human is alien to me.' The slogan of the old Immigration and Naturalization Service could have been the reverse: To us, no aliens are human.

Christopher Hitchens

#6. Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.

Jon Johansen

#7. The real reason for democracy is just the reverse. Mankind is so fallen that no man can be trusted with unchecked power over his fellows.

C.S. Lewis

#8. Over to my left is the big grey wall in front of the church.
Are we the Thoughts of God? a poster asks.
No, I realise. It's the reverse.

Scarlett Thomas

#9. It was like a blackout in reverse. Since around nine o'clock, no lamps could be switched off, no electrical appliances powered down. If you tried to pull out the plug there was an alarming crackling sound and sparks flew between the outlet and the plug, preventing the circuit from being broken.

John Ajvide Lindqvist

#10. The irony is that we are busy doing many things that don't matter and we have no time for things that do. Shouldn't we reverse it?-RVM

R.v.m.

#11. Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.

Dambisa Moyo

#12. People say that where there's life, there's hope, and I have no quarrel with that, but I also believe the reverse.
There is hope, therefore I live.

Stephen King

#13. People of color grow up steeped in 'white' culture. The reverse is not true. And, no, listening to hip-hop on the way to work does not count as immersion.

John Ridley

#14. Of course I had to talk to myself. I had no prayer God. I had no prayer doG. Why not reverse bark and froth and recite verse?

Brian Spellman

#15. There's no such thing as reverse racism.

Paul Mooney

#16. If you can't afford the upkeep of your home, it makes no sense to do a reverse mortgage. You will just end up having to sell eventually when you realize you can't afford the home, and whether you have any equity left after the sale depends on the size of the reverse loan that must be settled.

Suze Orman

#17. No need to repent, no need to forgive - reverse 'evil' to live.

Chris Murphy

#18. I won't have my son doing drugs to get a
woman that he shall never have.

Initially NO

#19. Make no mistake: if he rose at all
It was as His body;
If the cell's dissolution did not reverse, the molecule reknit,
The amino acids rekindle,
The Church will fall.

John Updike

#20. We can become great in the eyes of others, but we'll never become successful when we compromise our character and show disloyalty toward friends or teammates. The reverse is also true: No individual or team will become great without loyalty.

John Wooden

#21. Mrs. Tulliver, as we have seen, was not without influence over her husband. No woman is; she can always incline him to do either what she wishes, or the reverse ...

George Eliot

#22. I think maybe Gladstone had it right. I think my father did. They understood that the meaning of life is connected, inextricably, to the meaning of death; that mourning is a romance in reverse, and if you love, you grieve and there are no exceptions---only those who do it well and those who don't.

Thomas Lynch

#23. Love ... is like nature, but in reverse; first it fruits, then it flowers, then it seems to wither, then it goes deep, deep down into its burrow, where no one sees it, where it is lost from sight, and ultimately people die with that secret buried inside their souls.

Edna O'Brien

#24. Remember Who it is that has placed you in your present position; perhaps you have no home, perhaps you have experienced a reverse of fortune; no matter what! It is God who has willed it so, therefore look to Him for guidance and protection. - HINTS TO GOVERNESSES, BY ONE OF THEMSELVES, 1856

Julie Klassen

#25. And that's the thing about marriage. It can look perfect to people from the outside but be utterly imperfect on the inside. The reverse is true as well. No one knows what goes on in a marriage except for the two people living in it.

Elin Hilderbrand

#26. What was the lifespan of these improbable loves? An hour. A week. A few months at best. The end was a natural thing, like the seasons, like getting older, fruit turning. That was the saddest part - there was no one to blame and no way to reverse

Miranda July

#27. Joy is distinctly a Christian word and a Christian thing. It is the reverse of happiness. Happiness is the result of what happens of an agreeable sort. Joy has its spring deep down inside. And that spring never runs dry, no matter what happens. Only Jesus gives that joy.

Samuel Gordon

#28. Privacy is absolutely essential to maintaining a free society. The idea that is at the foundation of the notion of privacy is that the citizen is not the tool or instrument of government - but the reverse ... If you have no privacy, it will tend to follow that you have no political freedom ...

Benno C. Schmidt Jr.

#29. America should do a reverse Columbus. The world no longer needs to discover America; but America urgently needs to discover the world's view of America.

Timothy Garton Ash

#30. The reverse side of the coin in having this extraordinary ability to go anywhere, is that no one anywhere is remote any more.

David Attenborough

#31. People wanted me to do a CD-ROM of 'Hitchhiker's,' and I thought, 'No, no.' I didn't want to just sort of reverse-engineer yet another thing from a book I'd already written. I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.

Douglas Adams

#32. It is for this
reason that we find that co-existence, which could neither be in
time alone, for time has no contiguity, nor in space alone, for
space has no before, after, or now,

Arthur Schopenhauer

#33. There is no condition so severe that you cannot reverse it by choosing different thoughts.

Esther Hicks

#34. When people think about 'thinking,' they often think 'academia;' they think 'threat.' They think 'coldness.' I want to reverse all those images and say, 'No, the brain God gave you is intended to throw fuel on the fire of your affections for God. It's really good at it if you let it.'

John Piper

#35. At times it seems as if arranging to have no commitment of any kind to anyone would be a special freedom. But in fact the whole idea works in reverse. The most deadly commitment of all is to be committed only to one's self. Some come to realize this after they are in the nursing home.

John D. MacDonald

#36. When God chooses you to deliver a message, to have a purpose, no one and nothing can reverse the course of His plan.

Carlos Wallace

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

Michel De Montaigne

#38. There is no door that leads to the meaning of existence, no window to enlightenment. If only we could enter life through the exit and live in reverse; then maybe we'd have a chance at understanding what the hell life is about.

Barbara Schoichet

#39. The United States is no longer first in the world in upward mobility. We can reverse that trend by giving our young children an equal start in life as they begin their journey to fulfill the American Dream.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#40. Skylar todl you to come here?" I asked dumbly.
"No," Bethany said. "Skylar told me not to come here. Same dif.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#41. There's no comfort I can give,
that will ease her pain,
and make her see that she's the
perfect storm

Kristan Billups

#42. Knowledge is a matter of science and no dishonesty or conceit whatsoever is permissible. What is required is definitely the reverse - honesty and modesty.

Mao Zedong

#43. In the immortal words of Roberto Duran, we are saying, 'No mas!' We will educate students and then promote them, not the reverse

Joel Klein

#44. 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

#45. You can't just suddenly change gears and reverse yourself or go to the left or the right because there is no left or right. There's always a certain direction that you're moving in.

Robert Barry

#46. Government welfarism, with its ever-increasing army of pensioners and other beneficiaries, is fatally easy to launch and fatally easy to extend, but almost impossible to bring to a halt - and quite impossible politically to reverse, no matter how obvious and catastrophic its consequences become.

Henry Hazlitt

#47. You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.

Philip Kaufman

#48. No person that has enjoyed the sweets of liberty can be insensible of its infinite value, or can reflect on its reverse without horror and detestation

Alexander Hamilton

#49. There are men whose hearts insist upon a dogged fidelity to some image or cause thrown by chance into their keeping, long after their judgment has pronounced it no rarity - even the reverse, indeed, and without them the band of the worthy is incomplete.

Thomas Hardy

#50. India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.

Gary Wright

#51. [ ... ] I could no longer believe even in life. Which meant that I had come to be the reverse, the opposite of a Christian. For me, now, the only reality is death.

Russell Banks

#52. We must hurry!' said Mr. Wonka. 'We have so much time and so little to do! No! Wait! Strike that! Reverse it!

Roald Dahl