Reverted Quotes

#1. Archer had reverted to all his old inherited ideas about marriage. It was less trouble to conform with the tradition and treat May exactly as all his friends treated their wives than to try to put into practice the theories with which his untrammelled bachelorhood had dallied.

Edith Wharton

#2. Never had a good gut feeling. It wasn't so much that I didn't have faith in my team, but that I maintained the truest fans always reverted to a doomsday position

Emily Giffin

#3. The single set of footprints, Joe and Lynn had been seeing in their dreams, steadily reverted to the original set of two. Now, they found themselves standing, with wonderment and anticipation, on the threshold of a new beginning.

Robert Marcin

#4. Ah, Klaas! Dear Klaas reverted to compost many years ago.

David Mitchell

#5. I have finally reverted the publishing rights for my Cocoon Trilogy back to me and, for the first time, e-published the final book - Butterfly: Tomorrow's Children. Cocoon, the movie and the book, was only the beginning.

David Saperstein

#6. With so much to be aware of, awareness bracelets have reverted to signifying nothing more than color itself. Idealism has devolved into fashion.

Timothy Noah

#7. Wasn't so much that I didn't have faith in my team, but that I maintained the truest fans always reverted to a doomsday position in the same way that parents always worried about tragedy befalling their children.

Emily Giffin

#8. Shina is the Japanese appellation for China most commonly used during the first half of the twentieth century. After World War II the name for China reverted to chugoku (Middle Kingdom), a common name from before the Meiji Restoration (1868).4

Stefan Tanaka

#9. He was aware for the first time of how quiet the city had gotten. After dark the streets and canals seemed to empty out. As if Venice felt less of an obligation to pretend to be part of this millennium at night, and had reverted to its medieval self again.

Lev Grossman

#10. America having changed to benefit them, their accounts suddenly cleared, they reverted to the only actions that still seemed mercenary in this topsy-turvy landscape: They rode the countryside like desperadoes, helping people.

Alden Bell

#11. I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.

Daniel Craig

#12. My parents reverted to their Catholic faith through the charismatic renewal, so I was raised charismatic.

Regina Doman

#13. In 1958 I finally found a large enough apartment on the Lower East Side, where I reverted to figure painting. I drew and painted quite a lot of figures and nudes. People would come and pose for me.

Claes Oldenburg

#14. He could be so charming and irreverent and witty, and then-bam!-a switch flipped and he reverted right back to the cocky asshole everyone reported him to be.

Lauren Weisberger

#15. Children, after being limbs of Satan in traditional theology and mystically illuminated angels in the minds of educational reformers, have reverted to being little devils; not theological demons inspired by the evil one, but scientific Freudian abominations inspired by the unconscious.

Bertrand Russell

#16. I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation.

Jack Steinberger

#17. not to cancel or undermine this system," said Gref, a former economic development minister, who went on to paint a grim picture of what it would be like if Russia reverted to a pay-as-you-go pension system. "Particularly with the radical

Anonymous

#18. When I walked out of the house with hijab on, i felt beautiful in the eyes of Allah. I felt protected, shielded - i just felt somebody was watching over me'
- Nadia, a reverted Muslim

Na'ima B. Robert

#19. Next week I shall ask the Congress of the United States to act, to make a commitment it has not fully made this century, to the proposition that" - he had gone formal, but now he reverted to plain language - "race has no place in American life or law.

Ken Follett

#20. We always thought it strange that nobody was up on that stage playing soul stuff. Maybe people were playing it in their garages, like us, but they always reverted to pure rock when they got on stage.

Michael Hutchence

#21. I don't think irony's meant to synergize with anything as heartfelt as
sadness.

David Foster Wallace

#22. In Britian we have a free press. It's not a pretty press, but it's free. The people who can't bear the Daily Mail, they say: 'you should ban it'. No no, no no, you don't ban it ... you don't buy it.

Ian Hislop

#23. If the whole world should agree to speak nothing but truth, what an abridgment it would make of speech! And what an unravelling there would be of the invisible webs which men, like so many spiders, now weave about each other!

Washington Allston

#24. Avoiding automaticity through continual practice is another way of saying that great performers are always getting better. This is why the most devoted can stay at the top of their field for far longer than most people would think possible.

Geoff Colvin

#25. May I write words more naked than flesh,
stronger than bone, more resilient than
sinew, sensitive than nerve.

Sappho

#26. Michael used to draw self-portraits with nightmares hidden in his curls.

Janet Fitch

#27. Longevity has never bothered me at all, I have studied longevity for years.

Frank Buckles

#28. I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.

Abraham Lincoln

#29. Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

Dalai Lama

#30. In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

Franz Kafka

#31. There are few problems that won't go away if you ignore them long enough.

Mark Lawrence

#32. Hey guys, what did the lion say after eating the clown?" The boys stopped. One looked confused, but the other grinned. "What?" he called. "I don't know about you, but I think that tasted kind of funny.

Erin Nicholas