Top 100 The Other Way Around Quotes
#1. Do all kids have to worry about their parents' mental health? The way society is set up, parents are supposed to be the grown-up ones and look after the kids, but a lot of times it's the other way around.
Ruth Ozeki
#2. You have to be original. The people creating a buzz on YouTube are taking risks, and they're doing something different. I like it when 15 year-olds come on and tell me what to do rather than the other way around.
Simon Cowell
#3. People in New Orleans really care about food, care about it passionately, can spend hours arguing over whether Antoine's is better than Galatoire's or the other way around ... in New Orleans, there is basically nothing to do but eat and then argue about it.
Nora Ephron
#4. It is wiser, I believe, to arrive at theory by way of evidence rather than the other way around ... It is more rewarding, in any case, to assemble the facts first and, in the process of arranging them in narrative form, to discover a theory or a historical generalization emerging of its own accord.
Barbara Tuchman
#5. First of all, I'm not narcissistic." ... "I know Narkissos of Thespiae
while we might share traits, I came first, so he's Lothairistic, not the other way around"
Lothaire
Kresley Cole
#7. FBI creating a world where citizens rely on Apple to defend their rights, rather than the other way around.
Edward Snowden
#8. Let your intentions create your methods and not the other way around.
Peter McWilliams
#9. No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.
Christopher Hitchens
#10. Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither did the economic system it upheld.
Sarah Churchwell
#11. People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.
Terry Pratchett
#12. Mother of mercy,"said Tovar."And that caused the riot?"
"It's the other way around,"said Kira sheepishly."We started the riot as a distraction for the jaibreak."
Tovar whistled."You don't mess aroud."
P303
Dan Wells
#13. You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around.
Clint Eastwood
#14. The cruelty of nature is you have to work out harder when you get older ... It should be the other way around: Work out hard when you're a kid you should be able to coast when you get older. But unfortunately you have to do more to stay in the same position.
Clint Eastwood
#15. If you rent a U-Haul to move your company, it costs twice as much to go from San Francisco to Austin than the other way around, because you can't find enough trucks to leave the Golden State.
Rick Perry
#16. I don't think people are fans of me because I wrote hit songs. I think they're fans because I'm a lunatic or a weirdo. The hit songs came out of my idiosyncratic personality, not the other way around.
Billy Corgan
#17. Jerry reversed the usual formula of the superhero who goes to another planet. He put the superhero in ordinary, familiar surroundings, instead of the other way around, as was done in most science fiction. That was the first time I can recall that it had ever been done.
Joe Shuster
#18. The ideas choose me, not the other way around.
Jodi Picoult
#19. I eat to live and not the other way around. As a vegetarian, I'm not at all fussy about food and can make do with anything.
Vidya Balan
#20. Debbie often talked about Gretchen as if she was his mistress. But to Archie it sometimes felt like the other way around. As if, by moving back in with his ex-wife, he was cheating on Gretchen.
That was probably worthy of bringing up in therapy
Chelsea Cain
#21. First life, then spaces, then buildings - the other way around never works.
Jan Gehl
#22. Effective discipleship builds the church, not the other way around. We need to understand the church as the effect of discipleship and not the cause.
Mike Breen
#23. Maybe it's the other way around," Jason suggested. "Maybe people with special gifts show up when bad things are happening because that's when
they're needed most.
Rick Riordan
#24. As a senator, I worried every day about the size of the federal deficit. I did not spend a single minute worrying about the effect of gays on the institution of marriage. Today it seems to be the other way around.
John C. Danforth
#25. You know, it shows how old I am. I can remember the good old days when the president picked the Supreme Court justices instead of the other way around.
Jay Leno
#26. The point of the silo was for the people to keep the machines running, when Jahns had always, her entire long life, seen it the other way around.
Hugh Howey
#27. Those who talk about individuality the most are the ones who most object to deviation, and in a few years it may be the other way around. Some day everybody will just think what they want to think, and then everybody will probably be thinking alike; that seems to be what is happening.
Andy Warhol
#28. If you relax too much, the subconscious plays the role; the conscious does something else, rather than the other way around, which is the way it's supposed to be.
Maria Karnilova
#29. Oh, we'll fuck Sienna. Believe me, it's been bound to happen since I first laid eyes on you. But this time it's going to be because you beg me. Not the other way around. And when you do, it'll be because you're ready to to completely give yourself to me.
Emily Snow
#30. Man is flowing. In him there are all possibilities: he was stupid, now he is clever; he was evil, now he is good, and the other way around. In this is the greatness of man.
Leo Tolstoy
#31. We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.
Eric Hoffer
#32. Hold a bottle by the neck and a woman by the waist. Never the other way around.
Amitav Ghosh
#33. Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.
Yoko Ono
#34. Most people don't think past themselves. I know that. But I want Vera to see other people. To respect other people. To realize that the whole world is not here for her. I want her to see her duty to the world, not the other way around.
A.S. King
#35. You mean murder and eat," Alice said.
"No, I mean eat and murder," the rat said. "I'd rather it the other way around, wouldn't you?"
"I'd rather it not all all," Alice said.
Christina Henry
#36. Perhaps the moral ambiguity of money is most plainly evidenced in the popular belief that money itself has value and that the worth of other things or of men is somehow measured in monetary terms, rather than the other way around.
William Stringfellow
#37. You have to create a form from the life that exists, not the other way around. If it comes out in these little pieces, that's what it is.
Aleksandar Hemon
#38. Each of us has a vital role to play in building a world in which the government and technology serve the world's people and not the other way around.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#39. If I look at the performance of another friend Sting, whenever I hear him take over a stage and share his art with millions, it's very inspiring to me. So I have a lot in my life, a lot of friends who inspire me and I'm sure it goes the other way around, or so that I inspire them.
Philippe Petit
#41. A ballplayer spends a good piece of his life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
Jim Bouton
#42. Consciousness creates form. It is not the other way around. All personalities are not physical. It is only because you are so busily concerned with daily matters that you do not realize that there is a portion of you who knows that its own powers are far superior to those shown by the ordinary self.
Jane Roberts
#43. I had always been taught that life was the other way around
that you had to make sure you got what was coming to you ...
Debbi Fields
#44. We see what we believe, not the other way around.
Seth
#45. Most people think it's the other way around: that time is going faster and we're doing less. But really time seems to be going faster because we're cramming so much into it.
Neil Young
#46. I wasn't a big guy. People thought the big guys would eat me up. But it was the other way around. I loved to fight bigger guys.
Joe Frazier
#47. Liberty came to the West centuries before democracy. Liberty led to democracy and not the other way around.
Fareed Zakaria
#48. I spent a lot of time listening to people. But it's also true that I liked details and listening to people when I was a bartender and when I was a waitress and probably when I was a babysitter as well. I suspect that's part of what drew me to psychotherapy rather than the other way around.
Amy Bloom
#49. Why are hemorrhoids called hemorrhoids and asteroids called asteroids? Wouldn't it make more sense if it was the other way around? But if that was true, then a proctologist would be an astronaut.
Robert Schimmel
#50. Wow" is all I can say. I'm amazed. It never occurred to me to change the clothes to fit me. I always thought it had to be the other way around. And it never occurred to me that people who aren't overweight could have trouble with the off the rack sizes.
K.A. Barson
#51. In reality, everybody in Congress is a stand-in for some kind of lobbyist. In many cases it's difficult to tell whether it's the companies that are lobbying the legislators or whether it's the other way around.
Matt Taibbi
#52. A Universal Good should reflect the reality of the individual benefits that are collected under its name, not the other way around.
Paul Feyerabend
#53. I don't think the planet can survive people. It's not the other way around. I don't think the planet can survive.
Ray Price
#54. I would love to take an old space and restore it to exactly the way I want it. Like an old factory, just something with great bones and lots of character. I'd take an old house and flip it into something very modern inside, or the other way around.
Jason Wu
#55. Death didn't answer. He was looking at Spold in the same way that a dog looks at a bone, only in this case things were more or less the other way around.
Terry Pratchett
#56. You're choosing to let life control you, instead of the other way around. That's the big secret. You choose the kind of life you want to live.
Nicholas Sparks
#57. We Christians must build all of our thinking in every area on the Bible. We must start with God's Word, not the word of finite, fallible man. We must judge what people say on the basis of what God's Word says - not the other way around.
Ken Ham
#58. I nipped little kisses along his jawline. God, I just couldn't keep my hands or lips off of him. "God, you are the most delicious thing I have ever tasted."
He laughed. "That's something the vampire should be saying to you, not the other way around.
Tish Thawer
#59. A cat chooses its owner, not the other way around.
Helen Brown
#60. Perhaps there was no God. God was a creation of man, not the other way around.
Tam Linsey
#61. You should always love people and use money rather than the other way around
Bob Proctor
#62. As I've gotten older, I realize how important my fans are and that I'm here because of them and not the other way around.
Rick Springfield
#63. Religions are manipulated in order to serve those who govern society and not the other way around.
Gore Vidal
#64. Jesus gives his life for the congregation, not the other way around.
Rob Walton
#65. Self-acceptanc e leads to success, not the other way around.
Deepak Chopra
#66. If you had grown up with me, this is one of the things I would have tried to teach you: Marry a man who loves you more than you love him. Because I have both now, and when it is the other way around, there is no spell in the world that can even out the balance.
Jodi Picoult
#67. Shit. I was supposed to be seducing him, wasn't I? Not the other way around.
Karina Halle
#68. When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince instead of the other way around.
Nancy Willard
#69. I turned my air conditioner the other way around and it got cold out. The weatherman said 'I don't understand it. It was supposed to be 80 degrees out today.' I said, oops
Steven Wright
#70. I'm a lot luckier than most people, although I used to look at it the other way around-that so many people seemed luckier than me.
Dana Hill
#71. The speed of a tongue should always go some seconds behind the speed of thought, never the other way around.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#72. Mother Earth allows us to live and to walk on her surface, not the other way around.
Lawren Leo
#73. Doctrines are meant to serve man, not the other way around.
Amin Maalouf
#74. Movies, to him and the majority of the planet, are an enhancement to a life. The way a glass of wine complements a dinner. I'm the other way around. I'm the kind of person who eats a few bites of food so that my stomach can handle the full bottle of wine I'm about to drink.
Patton Oswalt
#75. Ideas emerge from plays, not the other way around.
Sam Shepard
#76. it's crazy, isn't it, the way we always say that children belong to their parents, when it's really the other way around?
Jodi Picoult
#77. I think most British people who say they can do an American accent are so bad at it. I find it excruciating. I find it excruciating the other way around, too.
Eileen Atkins
#78. I live opposite an amazing wood in London, and you can usually find me sitting there for hours and sketching. Sometimes the icon or symbol leads me to the face, but usually it's the other way around.
Noma Bar
#79. Email is a system that delivers other people's priorities to your attention. It's up to you to decide when that priority should be managed into your world. It's not the other way around.
Chris Brogan
#80. I find so many songwriters today are missing an element ... either the production is amazing but the songs aren't, or it's the other way around.
Rufus Wainwright
#81. Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
John Ortberg
#82. Things are currently the other way around in [Vladimir] Putin's realm. But it won't stay that way forever.
Garry Kasparov
#83. The time has come to match outgo to income, instead of always doing it the other way around.
Ronald Reagan
#84. I don't think all writers are sad, she said. I think it's the other way around- all sad people write.
Lang Leav
#85. Sinatra's idea of paradise is a place where there are plenty of women and no newspapermen. He doesn't know it, but he'd be better off if it were the other way around.
Humphrey Bogart
#86. You see," Bouton wrote, "you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time." Truer words were never written.
John Feinstein
#88. For Rat Kiley, I think, facts were formed by sensation, not the other way around, and when you listened to one of his stories, you'd find yourself performing rapid calculations in your head, subtracting superlatives, figuring the square root of an absolute and then multiplying by maybe.
Tim O'Brien
#89. President Obama compared himself to Gandhi and Nelson Mandela in the struggle to bring about change. The comparison is flawed. They spent years in jail before taking political power, while politicians from Chicago do it the other way around.
Argus Hamilton
#90. The refined simplicity should develop out of the complex. It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkie instead of the other way around.
Mary Pickford
#91. He was ego-free, which was very rare in the design student world. Most design students had lots of ego and very little talent. Jony was the other way around.
Leander Kahney
#92. I like the idea of the painting looking at the viewer than the other way around.
Joseph Raffael
#93. We'll meet and click and sit up all night and everything will tip out of me and into him and the other way around and while we're tipping the night will fade and the world will get pink and in that pinkness he'll kiss me.
Cath Crowley
#94. We are fashioned by God to be thinking and emotional creatures. The emotions should follow reason, and not the other way around.
Ravi Zacharias
#95. Now, he realized, he simply had to take what he wanted. He had to control the winds, not the other way around (p. 434).
Rick Riordan
#96. We must love God with our minds, allowing our intellect to inform our emotions, rather than the other way around.
Jen Wilkin
#97. Sometimes the writing leads to the revelations, not the other way around.
Julia Glass
#98. I never have a thematic intention at the outset. The story informs the theme for me rather than the other way around. But as it happens, this is, at least to a degree, about getting old and the rapid passage of our lives.
Stephen King
#99. I planned on having one husband and seven children, but it turned out the other way around.
Lana Turner
#100. As she conceived it, tea had to be as black as tar and as strong as a sinner's conscience. Or the other way around. As black as that conscience and as strong as tar. And sweet.
Sergei Lukyanenko
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