Reversible Quotes

#1. Yet I was myself in no way prepared to accept this news as final: there was a level on which I believed that what had happened remained reversible. That was why I needed to be alone. After

Joan Didion

#2. By the mercy of God all the ideas of youth are reversible!

Katherine Cecil Thurston

#3. Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat - seamy on both sides.

O. Henry

#4. Still waiting for them to make reversible diapers, maybe with teflon coating ...

Neil Leckman

#5. Nothing is so deceptive as human reasoning, - nothing so slippery and reversible as what we have decided to call 'logic.' The truest compass of life is spiritual instinct.

Marie Corelli

#6. women were beginning to see that custom, religious precept, and law were in fact man-made and therefore reversible.

Adam M. Grant

#7. One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you, and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.

Merle Shain

#8. The solution to the novel's legal problem is a satisfyingly intricate one, and nobody will want his money back on the plot. But the echoes that will remain in your mind after you've finished Reversible Errors will mainly have to do with the novel's other elements.

Wendy Lesser

#9. (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

#10. The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible.

Silvan Shalom

#11. The progress of women's rights in our culture, unlike other types of 'progress,' has always been strangely reversible.

Ann Douglas

#12. So start saying F**k It to pain. When you respond to pain, you are only acting out a conditioned response. And all conditioned responses are reversible. When you encounter any pain, counter your immediate response by just saying F**k It.

John C. Parkin

#13. I believe that the problem of global climate change will ultimately spur our global society to respond and while the condition does not appear to be reversible, we will find ways to adapt to it.

Vinton Cerf

#14. There was a level on which I believed that what had happened remained reversible

Joan Didion

#15. A portable friend to all readers-especia lly but not only women-who need to learn that the Golden Rule works only if it's reversible: We must learn to treat ourselves as well as we wish to treat others.

Gloria Steinem

#16. There are two kinds of jackets - reversible, and reversible but it's hard to zipper up and it looks really stupid.

Demetri Martin

#17. Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and present. The poorest of the poor don't vote in American or European elections. They don't make donations to political parties or hire lobbyists in D.C., London or Canberra.

Hugh Evans

#18. In the old physics, three times two equals six and two times three equals 6 are reversible propositions. Not in quantum physics. Three times two and two times three are two different matters, distinct and separate propositions.

Paul Auster

#19. Life was not a reversible commodity. Things passed away, never to return: species, hopes, years.

Clive Barker

#20. The thermodynamic properties of electrolyte solutions can be determined from the measurements of the voltage between electrodes reversible to both ions.

Lars Onsager

#21. A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.

Aldous Huxley

#22. Here's how men think. Sex, work - and those are reversible, depending on age - sex, work, food, sports and lastly, begrudgingly, relationships. And here's how women think. Relationships, relationships, relationships, work, sex, shopping, weight, food.

Carrie Fisher

#23. So far as we know, all the fundamental laws of physics, like Newton's equations, are reversible.

Richard P. Feynman

#24. Waves, once they land on the beach, are not reversible.

Grace Paley

#25. Defeat is curable;
failure is reversible.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#26. Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.

Gordon Allport

#27. Wearing a breathable fabric is the most important thing for me. I also love to keep it simple and keep the number of garments I'm wearing ideally at one (a sundress for example), and then add some great jewelry.

Hilary Rhoda

#28. So What do you say, White Rabbit? ... Friends?
said by Konstantin Black to Bryn Aven

Amanda Hocking

#29. A figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#30. Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

Heinrich Heine

#31. She felt that it was only her body that was getting old. Inside she had always been the same young girl.

Jostein Gaarder

#32. There are more than 3500 military and commercial aircraft pilot reports of encounters worldwide; many cases have corroborating radar documentation and multiple witnesses both on the ground and in the air.

Steven M. Greer

#33. Most physical battles begin once mental ones have been lost, anyway. Conquer the mind, conquer the body.

A.J. Darkholme

#34. Edinburgh used to be a haughty city.

Alexander McCall Smith

#35. Is the future of humanity really about clouds you can't see and chips you can't eat?

Mal Fletcher

#36. My female friends said that seven days were long enough for a dream. But for me, those seven days were long enough to fall in love.

Venio Tachibana

#37. I don't really enjoy it, Mom."
"And you've always felt this way?"
"I don't know. I guess I want a break.

Julie Murphy

#38. I've never understood how anybody could be in love with two people at the same time. Your heart can only sing one song at a time.

Claudia Gray