Top 100 Quotes About Irreversible
#1. My favorite film score is the one Thomas Bangalter created for 'Irreversible.' The soundtrack absolutely defines the daymare-into-nightmare feeling you get from the film.
Richard Phillips
#2. I know that it's easier to look at death than it is to look at pain, because while death is irrevocable, and the grief will lessen in time, pain is too often merely relentless and irreversible.
Robert Goolrick
#3. The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible.
Silvan Shalom
#4. Man has gone to the moon but he does not yet know how to make a flame tree or a bird song. Let us keep our dear countries free from irreversible mistakes which would lead us in the future to long for those same birds and trees.
Felix Houphouet-Boigny
#5. From that moment on, there will be an irreversible process to separate Quebec from Canada.
Jean Charest
#6. While in some cases the damage already done may well be irreversible, in many other cases it can still be halted. It is necessary, however, that the entire human community - individuals, States and international bodies - take seriously the responsibility that is theirs.
Pope John Paul II
#7. Devoid of the outside influences of capital and technology, the source of bitcoin value becomes the pure irreversible passage of time. The
George Gilder
#8. The taking of life is too absolute, too irreversible, for one human being to inflict on another, even when backed by legal process ... Where the death penalty persists, conditions for those awaiting execution are often horrifying, leading to aggravated suffering.
Ban Ki-moon
#9. Most business mistakes are irreversible setbacks, but you get another chance. There are two things in life that you don't get another chance at - marrying the wrong person and what you do with your children.
Warren Buffett
#10. We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.
Barbara Jordan
#11. Odd," agreed Reg. "I've certainly never come across any irreversible mathematics involving sofas. Could be a new field.
Douglas Adams
#12. It's cool when fashion recycles itself, it's not cool when sustainable living does because it means there was (and is as I write) a period of absolute and possibly irreversible destruction.
Cameron Conaway
#13. Space hurls outwards, falconswift, mounting like an irreversible justice, a final disease
John Gardner
#14. The Alexander Technique keeps the body alive, at ages when many people have resigned themselves to irreversible decline.
Robertson Davies
#15. I like a movie that brings out many discussions. From my experience, every time I have done movies, they create this kind of situation. Like 'Irreversible,' 'The Passion of the Christ,' 'Malena'; it's so interesting. I like to explore the dark side of humanity. That's why I'm an actor.
Monica Bellucci
#17. Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past.
Walter Lippmann
#18. Is it 10 years, 20, 50 before we reach that tipping point where climate change becomes irreversible? Nobody can know. There's clearly a probability distribution. We need to ensure this planet, and we need to do it quickly.
Vinod Khosla
#19. In their eyes I must have appeared like some kind of nightmarish totem, a domestic idiot suffering from the irreversible brain damage of a motorway accident and now put out each morning to view the scene of his own cerebral death.
J.G. Ballard
#20. The future will belong to the Germans ... when we build the House of Europe. In the next two years, we will make the process of European integration irreversible. This is a really big battle but it is worth the fight.
Helmut Kohl
#21. If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.
Valerie Jarrett
#22. Second-degree faith is resurrection faith. It's a faith that refuses to put periods at the end of disappointments. It's a faith that believes that God can reverse the irreversible.
Mark Batterson
#23. Constitutional democracy has created astonishing and apparently irreversible social progress. All we're interested in is talking about when government doesn't work.
Tony Kushner
#24. The quantum fluctuations within a zero-point field can start the process that builds the process, which builds into matter, an irreversible process. We have some evidence that suggests that. We don't have a Big Bang, but we have a lot of little pops! A continuous set of little pops!
Edgar Mitchell
#25. A challenge so far-reaching in its impact and irreversible in its destructive power, that it alters radically human existence ... There is no doubt that the time to act is now.
Tony Blair
#26. It means joining with allies to deploy renewable energy technologies
both at home and around the world
to confront the very real and present danger of potentially irreversible climate change.
Bernie Sanders
#27. So many social changes are as irreversible as the reaction when sodium is thrown into water.
Gunnar Myrdal
#28. One thing is obvious: Our policy, which is directed at making the country ungovernable, has started to bear fruit. The process that has been initiated is irreversible.
Joe Slovo
#29. What happens slowly carries in each part the possibility of returning to what came before. In an accident everything is simultaneous, sudden, irreversible. It means this: no going back.
Rachel Kushner
#30. There was someplace urgent he needed to be, and he wasn't going to make it there on time. It was a gorgeous calamity in scale, I thought. A lovely misfortune. Immediate and irreversible and very soon forgotten. We needed more troubles like that.
Lyndsay Faye
#31. Before it's too late, we need to make courageous choices that will recreate a strong alliance between man and Earth. We need a decisive 'yes' to care for creation and a strong commitment to reverse those trends that risk making the situation of decay irreversible.
Pope Benedict XVI
#32. No victory is irreversible, no defeat is definitive. That is what makes life worth living.
Leszek Kolakowski
#33. Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it's afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.
Pat Conroy
#34. In five years' time at this pace global warming becomes irreversible.
Yosef Abramowitz
#35. I had no evidence. No physical signs of my rape existed anymore. My body had already purged them. That was the irreversible reality.
Aspen Matis
#36. I think we must ask ourselves if this is really what we want to do to God's creation, to drive it to extinction? Because extinction really is irreversible; species that go extinct are lost forever. This is not like Jurassic Park. We can't bring them back.
Stuart L. Pimm
#37. Age is a clever thief. It takes a little from you each day, so you're not aware of your loss until it'd irreversible.
James Lee Burke
#38. Please consult your child's Witch doctor before using this product. Diapers may cause severe allergies, internal bleeding, and irreversible sex change.
Kenya Wright
#39. We see a newborn moth unwrapping itself and announce, Look, children, a miracle! But let an irreversible wound be knit back to seamlessness? We won't even see it, though we look at it every day.
Leif Enger
#40. For animals, life is all there is; for man, life is a question mark. An irreversible question mark, for man has never found, nor will ever find, any answers. Life not only has no meaning; it can never have one.
Emil Cioran
#41. Unfortunately, some of our poor choices are irreversible, but many are not. Often, we can change course and get back on the right track.
James E. Faust
#42. I used to write on a big old couch, but I gave that away. I was wise enough to give it to my son, so if it turns out that the couch was essential to my work, at least the decision to be rid of it is not irreversible.
Marilynne Robinson
#43. If you were searching. I also would have left a small indication that something so important, something so critical to your soul has disappeared. The sole reason a constellation exists is because it's a sum of its parts. To lose one of those parts ... it's painful and irreversible.
Katie McGarry
#44. Activity proneness in the service of an ideology ... leads the individual into an irreversible series of commitments from which is forged an identity to which the individual inevitably becomes strongly attached psychologically.
Edgar Schein
#45. It is with our entire past ... that we desire, will and act ... from this survival of the past it follows that consciousness cannot go through the same state twice. The circumstances may still be the same, but they will act no longer on the same person ... that is why our duration is irreversible.
Henri Bergson
#46. (1) irreversible processes are as real as reversible ones. (2) irreversible processes play a fundamental constructive role in the physical world. (3) irreversibility is deeply rooted in dynamics.
Ilya Prigogine
#47. If a child in its first thousand days - from conception to two years old - does not have adequate nutrition, the damage is irreversible.
Josette Sheeran
#48. As far as I am concerned this referendum should settle the matter. I believe it will one way or another be decisive. Britain will not want to go through this again. On the other hand if we vote to leave, this really is irreversible.
David Cameron
#49. Such a suitable word, stroke. I'd heard it since childhood without fully understanding its meaning, but it sounded, even through a haze of sleep and dope, just like itself: abrupt and brutal and irreversible. A stroke of lightning, the stroke of midnight, the stroke of a pen.
Armistead Maupin
#50. We'd sit. we'd eat. And I'd pretend that I wasn't in irreversible love with his girlfriend. No.Big.Deal.
Rachel Van Dyken
#51. I feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest, most sacred, and most irreversible part of my obligation to preserve the union of these states, although it may cost me my life.
Andrew Jackson
#52. The spectacle is nothing more than the common language of this separation. What binds the spectators together is no more than an irreversible relation at the very center which maintains their isolation. The spectacle reunites the separate, but reunites it as separate.
Guy Debord
#53. If a problem is irreversible, is there still an ethical obligation to try to reverse it?
Chuck Klosterman
#54. There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge; and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from the reality.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
#55. Once it builds up in the victim's system, a threshold is reached, the organs begin to fail, and the degeneration is irreversible. It's not a killer. It's a thief. It steals years. And he will never get them back.
I felt a little chill at the satisfaction in her voice.
Leigh Bardugo
#56. And I do get it; some decisions are irreversible. But like I've said, sometimes it's the irreversible ones that help a person get to know herself a little better. It's the consequences that matter. It's the fact that there are no do-overs that makes life matter at all.
Hannah Pittard
#57. Russians clearly perceive America's global influence as being in irreversible decline and American society shattered by major political, economic and ideological crises.
Ivan Krastev
#58. Irreversible is not glamorous at all. I try to do different things because I want to grow as an actress and I like to take risks.
Monica Bellucci
#60. Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.
Fidel Castro
#61. Money, credit scores, material things don't matter. Life & death, your family & friends, once they're gone it's irreversible. Don't forget.
Heather Dorff
#62. We have 20 years [until 2026] to reduce carbon emissions or climate change will become irreversible.
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
#63. The worst possible approach to a problem is waiting until it becomes overwhelming or irreversible, and that is exactly what many people do. They put dealing with stress on the backburner until they start to experience all the worst symptoms of stress, and by then, it may be too late!
Gudjon Bergmann
#64. Time is a catastrophe, perpetual and irreversible.
Italo Calvino
#65. Somtimes you lie in a strange room, in a strange person's home, and you feel yourself bending out of shape. Melting, touching something hot, something that warps you in drastic and probably irreversible ways you won't get to take stock of until its too late
Rob Sheffield
#66. Noah had 120 years to warn humanity of the flood. We have only 4-5 years until global warming is irreversible
Yosef Abramowitz
#67. Salty tears stream down my face - coating my lips as I mutter senseless apologies for so many things. So many irreversible things.
Morpheus peels the vines off and lifts me, cradling me to his chest.
A.G. Howard
#68. It is hard to have patience with people who say, 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as wel say that birth doesn't matter.
C.S. Lewis
#69. Despite his care, Reid was still playing with fire, the kind that could without warning sheathe one's whole life in irreversible conflagration.
Paul Russell
#70. Look at situations as contingent, not as inevitable, look at them as the result of a series of historical choices made by men and women, as facts of society made by human beings, and not as natural or god-given, therefore unchangeable, permanent, irreversible.
Edward Said
#71. Nothing we do is inevitable, but everything we do is irreversible.
Joy Williams
#72. A Soviet man is a product of invisible changes, degradation and progressive deformation. Breaking the chain of those changes is hard. Perhaps they are irreversible.
Merab Mamardashvili
#73. Death was irreversible, he suspected, and he began to think he was going to lose
Joseph Heller
#74. A reactionary is someone who wants to return to a previous state - that's never a possibility in my books. For me, everything's irreversible in the life of a society, as well as an individual's.
Michel Houellebecq
#75. The siren song of redistribution of wealth by centralized government never ceases for those who seek irreversible and unusurpable control over the lives and liberties of private citizens.
Josh Jones
#76. Iam kind of hoping the rest of my night will be full os regretful behavior and irreversible decisions.
Christine Zolendz
#77. If we define risk as 'the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,' inaction is the greatest risk of all.
Tim Ferriss
#78. Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way.
Nelson Mandela
#79. It is dangerous to build systemic reforms on a close association with one particular government. Systemic reforms need broad public participation and support. That is what makes them irreversible.
George Soros
#80. We are of the opinion that an important and irreversible process is taking place among the white population. Just as with the blacks, the whites, too, are currently overcoming a psychological barrier.
Joe Slovo
#81. The climate is nearing tipping points. Changes are beginning to appear and there is a potential for explosive changes, effects that would be irreversible, if we do not rapidly slow fossil-fuel emissions over the next few decades.
James Hansen
#82. Supporters of capital punishment bear a special responsibility to ensure the fairness of this irreversible punishment.
William J. Clinton
#83. Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
Hannah Arendt
#85. Certain people were simply meant to cross your path - to reach into your chest and leave an irreversible handprint on your heart, on your very soul.
Julie Johnson
#86. Let the separation between you and the world be final and irreversible. Say, 'Here I go for Christ and His Cross, for the faith of the Bible, for the laws of God, for holiness, for trust in Jesus; and never will I go back, come what may.
Charles Spurgeon
#87. Do other people, remembering their parents, feel, as I do, a sense of having inadvertently done a small though significant, irreversible wrong?
John Banville
#88. Europe must dissipate any doubts over the euro, affirm that the euro is an irreversible project and act in consequence.
Mariano Rajoy
#89. Others were simply possessed by a feeling that they had made a catastrophic mistake. They had made an irreversible error in coming to England, and their lives would never recover - their lives would never again be their lives, but the story of this huge mistake that they had made.
John Lanchester
#90. The revolutionary process by which all books, old and new, in all languages, will soon be available digitally, at practically no cost for storage and delivery, to a radically decentralized world-wide market at the click of a mouse, is irreversible.
Jason Epstein
#91. Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination,
Antonin Artaud
#92. What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.
Estelle Morris
#93. I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.
Dan Quayle
#94. By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.
John Le Carre
#95. Leave the broken, irreversible past in God's hands, and step out into the invincible future with Him.
Oswald Chambers
#96. Time is life. It is irreversible and irreplaceable. To waste your time is to waste your life, but to master your time is to master your life and make the most of it.
Alan Lakein
#97. Though I am fully aware that it was an act of desperation after the sun flares, releasing the Flare virus as a means of population control was an abhorrent and irreversible crime.
James Dashner
#98. Ahead lies only the irreversible long decline. For the first time we know there is nothing beyond ourselves.
James Tiptree Jr.
#99. The greatest danger hanging over our children and grandchildren is initiation of changes that will be irreversible on any time scale that humans can imagine.
James Hansen
#100. With all these forks in the roads of our path, why do so many choose to take the knife?
Anthony Liccione
