Obverse Quotes

#1. I think the rise of quantitative econometrics and a highly mathematical approach to risk management was the obverse of a decline in interest in financial history.

Niall Ferguson

#2. [T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#3. Every choice has its obverse, that is to say a renunciation, and so there is no difference between the act of choosing and the act of renouncing

Italo Calvino

#4. The trouble begins when we start to be so impressed by the strategies of our systematized thought that we forget that it does relate to an obverse, that it is hewn from negation, that it is but very small security against the void of negation which surrounds it.

Glenn Gould

#5. Hate is often an obverse form of love.
You hate someone whom you really wish to love but whom you cannot love.

Sri Chinmoy

#6. The obverse of this freedom, of course, is that your work is so meaningless, so fully for yourself alone, and so worthless to the world, that no one except you cares whether you do it well, or ever.

Annie Dillard

#7. Never had there been such an opportunity for the dissemination of knowledge ... . But the obverse is also true. We can have thrust upon us a false picture of reality as distorting as the trick mirrors in a Coney Island funhouse.

Howard E. Koch

#8. But hatred was really not an emotion which he could sustain for any length of time, unless it was the obverse side of love.

John Le Carre

#9. The archive of supposed photocopies (I.E. memory) actually offers up strange creatures; the green paradise of childhood loves that Baudelaire recalled is for many a future in reverse, an obverse of hope in the face of the gray purgatory of adult loves.

Julio Cortazar

#10. The air brightened, the running shadow patches were now the obverse, and it seemed to him that the fact that the day was clearing was another cunning stroke on the part of the foe, the fresh battle toward which he was carrying ancient wounds.

William Faulkner

#11. That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality.

C.S. Lewis

#12. I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone. That was when I realised that a nigger is not a person so much as a form of behavior; a sort of obverse reflection of the white people he lives among.

William Faulkner

#13. The premium so often put in schools upon external "discipline," and upon marks and rewards, upon promotion and keeping back, are the obverse of the lack of attention given to life situations in which the meaning of facts, ideas, principles, and problems is vitally brought home.

John Dewey

#14. Marketing is the obverse of programming.

John McAfee

#15. Life and death are but phases of the same thing, the reverse and obverse of the same coin. Death is as necessary for man's growth as life itself.

Mahatma Gandhi

#16. It is through truth & non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God. Truth & non-violence are my God. They are the obverse and reverse of the same coin.

Mahatma Gandhi

#17. We go along, without a fixed itinerary, yet at the same time with an end (what end?) in mind, and with the aim of reaching the end. A search for the end, a dread of the end: the obverse and the reverse of the same act.

Octavio Paz

#18. Your hunter has a destiny to bear the mark of the gods. Only one true warrior receives such an honer - one who will lay down his own life for another's"
...
"You are the protector.

M.R. Merrick

#19. And it was easier to let him keep on touching me than ask him to stop, easier to let him inside than to push him away, easier than hearing him ask me, "Why not?" It was easier to keep quiet and take it than to give him an answer.

Jesmyn Ward

#20. All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#21. I find it very hard to write about Jewish history.

Simon Schama

#22. Are you still mad because i broke your phone" Jace said. "Because you broke my wrist, so i'd said we're even"
"It was sprained," Alec said. "Not broken, sprained

Cassandra Clare

#23. She had a dream about a tattoo. This was a pleasant dream. She was walking away and she had the most beautiful tattoo. It covered her shoulders, her back, the back of her legs. It was unspeakably fine.

Joy Williams

#24. Ackbar spoke desperately into the comlink. "It's a trap.

George Lucas

#25. To experience a great result is for everyone to be part of extending the reign of God's love

Sunday Adelaja

#26. When your spirit is heavy, when your heart is broken, when your burdens seem unbearable - trust Him. Look to Him.

Anne Graham Lotz