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Reversed [Hillary Clinton's] position on charter schools, reversed her position on changing the way our urban education is run, because she has sold out to the teachers union. -- Chris Christie
I don't know whether the future or 2018 exists or not, but if it exists, I'm offering a show to a museum in Australia titled "Time Reversed." Time is going backwards. -- Hiroshi Sugimoto
Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause. -- Gregory Bateson
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed. -- Wislawa Szymborska
Have you heard about the Irishman who reversed into a car boot sale and sold the engine? -- Frank Carson
We have a problem now with parents stealing their kids' CDs, so the roles have been reversed. -- Gerald Caiafa
When I arrived on the planet, there were only two billion. Wildlife was more abundant, we were less so; now the situation is reversed. -- Sylvia Earle
In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us. -- Richard Whately
In late 2003, the Bush administration reversed a long-standing policy requiring agents to destroy their files on innocent American citizens, companies and residents when investigations closed. -- Barton Gellman
I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely. -- Mary Pickford
Thus the slogan should be reversed: Catholics taught the world what music is supposed to sound like, and, more importantly, what it is supposed to mean. -- Richard Morris
The emotional magnets beneath home and workplace are in the process of being reversed. Work has become a form of 'home' and home has become 'work.' -- Arlie Russell Hochschild
The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will require long and painful adjustment. -- Vince Cable
Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed. -- Hamid Karzai
In critical ways, Obama has reversed not just Bush policy but every president's approach to the world since the Second World War, save for that of his soulmate Jimmy Carter. -- Elliott Abrams
In the 1990s, we introduced Boston's community policing strategy. We reversed the tide of violent crime that threatened our city, and we established a national model for preventing and fighting crime. -- Thomas Menino
The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants. -- Theodore Roosevelt
The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed. -- Theodore C. Sorensen
Children go with whatever makes them feel good - like if that's the color green or orange, they do that with their clothes. As I've grown older, everything reversed. My music, my personality - onstage those things became my colors. -- Janelle Monae
I had the most reversed education possible. Every parent wants their son to be a businessman, respectable - me, it was the opposite. When I had an artist career my mum was like, 'Oh finally, I'm proud of you!' -- David Guetta
The openness on which Apple had built its original empire had been completely reversed - but the spirit was still there among users. Hackers vied to 'jailbreak' the iPhone, running new apps on it despite Apple's desire to keep it closed. -- Jonathan Zittrain
Over 90% of people go home at the end of the day feeling unfulfilled by their work, and I won't stop working until that statistic is reversed - until over 90% of people go home and can honestly say, 'I love what I do.' -- Simon Sinek
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?' -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls. -- Jules Verne
After spending the 1980s building up Saddam's Iraq as a counterweight to Iran, U.S. policy abruptly reversed course with his invasion of Kuwait and has since tried to cut him down to size. The policy is called 'containment,' but the question is, containment of what? -- Michael Ignatieff
I just took the idea that King Kong was too big for everything and reversed it and put George in a land of giants, which is basically what every kid goes through anyway - that, you know, the world is made for grownups, for tall people, for the giants. -- William Joyce
The progress in Iraq is still fragile. And it could still be reversed. Iraq still faces innumerable challenges, and they will be evident during what will likely be a difficult process as the newly elected Council of Representatives selects the next prime minister, president, and speaker of the council. -- David Petraeus
Romney is a classic case of re-invention. As governor of Massachusetts, he supported government-sponsored healthcare, was sympathetic to gay rights, and opposed harsh restrictions on abortion. After measuring the difference between the Massachusetts electorate and the national one to which he must now appeal, he has reversed those positions. -- Stephen Kinzer
And once begun, change cannot be reversed. -- Michael Scott
Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. -- Cesar Chavez
Man's insulting God is not reversed by our insulting man. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
In rational worlds all the hierarchies of our world are reversed. -- Bruce Crown
Putin has reversed all the liberalizing reforms carried out by his predecessor. -- Alexei Navalny
It would be possible, in theory, for life and art to be reversed. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
I believe in God, family, and McDonald's. And in the office, that order is reversed. -- Ray Kroc
The beginning, middle, and end are parodied, reversed, and hidden by modernism, but not abandoned. -- Mason Cooley
The eye - which sees all objects reversed - retains the images for some time. -- Leonardo da Vinci
If we could only put God first, maybe this ugly trend could one day be reversed. -- Rebecca St. James
We have a problem now with parents stealing their kids' CDs, so the roles have been reversed. -- Gerald Caiafa
What if history was changed? slavery reversed Would black ladies see white boys and clinch they purse? -- Fredro Starr
Because it's important. Laws can be reversed, Supreme Court decisions can be overturned, gender classifications can continue. -- Carolyn Maloney
People come out of the mid-west and go to the Ivy League. I kind of reversed the direction. -- E. L. Doctorow
France built its best colony on a principle of exclusion, and failed; England reversed the system, and succeeded. -- Francis Parkman
A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted. -- Alice Hoffman
Friendship of a kind that cannot easily be reversed tomorrow must have its roots in common interests and shared beliefs. -- Barbara Tuchman
Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again. -- William Gurnall
Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it. -- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion in the human heart that can never be reversed. -- Frederick Buechner
With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth. -- Charles Caleb Colton
In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us. -- Richard Whately
The old saying holds. Owe your banker ï¿½1000 and you are at his mercy; owe him ï¿½1 million and the position is reversed. -- John Maynard Keynes
A wrong decision isn't forever; it can always be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
By the age of 3, children from wealthier households hear, on average, about 500,000 encouragements and 80,000 discouragements. The ratio is reversed in households on welfare. -- Jonah Lehrer
The Costa Rica experience shows that with dedicated resources, creative institutions, and a sound legal framework, deforestation can be reversed and forest cover expanded. -- Bruno Stagno Ugarte
The Supreme Court has also issued and never reversed a number of decisions that are repugnant to the Constitution's vision of human dignity and equality. -- Sam Brownback
The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order. -- Francis Bacon
As knowledge increases, the verdict of yesterday must be reversed today, and in the long run the most positive authority is the least to be trusted. -- Hugh Nibley
I always had this notion of a noir novel in Galway. The city is exploding, emigration has reversed, and we are fast becoming a cosmopolitan city. -- Ken Bruen
Dr. John Dee looked up. "Look at this world," he said, pointing at something hidden far away in the mountainside. "Once begun, change may not be reversed. -- Michael Scott
Normally, an actress has to work to bring out her male side. In our case, the dynamic is reversed. The actor playing her modelled himself on Sharon Stone. -- Edward Hall
It has become fashionable in Washington to argue that Obamacare cannot be reversed. That is nonsense. It's a fight worth waging, and a fight which can be won. -- Bobby Jindal
[John Kerry] actually stole my line because when I became Secretary of State, I said, 'I hope my heels will fill Warren Christopher's shoes.' So he reversed that. -- Madeleine Albright
In the early days of my child labor activities I was an investigator with a camera attachment... but the emphasis became reversed until the camera stole the whole show. -- Lewis Hine
Bad things happen, but really bad things do not. Do buy the dips, especially the lowest quality securities when they come under pressure, because declines will quickly be reversed. -- Seth Klarman
It seems then that instead of consumers' willingness to pay influencing market prices, the causality is somewhat reversed and it is market prices themselves that influence consumers' willingness to pay. -- Dan Ariely
Today in many places we hear a call for greater security. But until exclusion and inequality in society and between peoples is reversed, it will be impossible to eliminate violence. -- Pope Francis
If these were my last moments on earth, I'd spend them fighting to save him with everything I had. If our roles were reversed, I knew he'd do the same". -- Jeaniene Frost
Everything in high school was reversed. If marijuana was supposed to make you mellow, I would be like, "The cops, the cops, the cops . . ." I was what you call the buzz kill. -- Val Kilmer
I know there are things I did in education that will never be reversed. I have not done that in film yet because I have only been here for about nine months. -- Estelle Morris
Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed. -- Abraham Lincoln
I know there are things I did in education that will never be reversed. I have not done that in film yet because I have only been here for about nine months. -- Estelle Morris
While I regard the Nakba as an ongoing crime that needs to be prosecuted and reversed...Shavit defends its necessity and lectures Palestinians trapped in squalid refugee camps to just get over it. -- Max Blumenthal
Maturity consists in the discovery that there comes a critical moment where everything is reversed, after which the point becomes to understand more and more that there is something which cannot be understood. -- Soren Kierkegaard
It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars. -- Arthur C. Clarke
The oppressed always learned from and copied the oppressor. When the tables were turned, the stage was set for another round of revenge and violence -- roles reversed. And reversed and reversed ad nauseam. -- Frank Herbert
Afford each person the same respect, support, and fair treatment you would expect if your roles were reversed. Deal with people individually, not as objects who are part of a herd-that's the critical factor. -- Bill Walsh
Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar?And if you lie to a liar, is the sun somehow negated or reversed?" -- Lauren Oliver
Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar?And if you lie to a liar, is the sun somehow negated or reversed? -- Lauren Oliver

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