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If Plan A fails, they could always revert to Plan A. -- Mark Lawrenson
Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron. -- Walter Kohn
Traders can cause short-term volatility. In the long run, the market must revert to a sensible price/earnings multiple. -- Ben Stein
Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism. -- Marguerite Young
I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research. -- John Forbes Nash, Jr.
Indeed, eventually, random outcomes all revert to the mean, meaning that streaks eventually end. Understanding this is a key part of intelligent and rational investing. -- Barry Ritholtz
It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one. -- Herbert Read
You step over the threshold of your parents' home, and you're instantly transported back to your childhood. It's like time travel. You revert at once to a place of arrested development. -- Tamsin Greig
Often, investors will discover a manager after he's had a terrific run, usually when he lands on a magazine cover somewhere. Invariably, funds swell up with new investor money just before they revert to their long-term averages. -- Barry Ritholtz
Let me give you an idea of Fifties Britain. The war had ended ten years before, and most people had returned to their gardens and allotments hoping life would revert to how it was before the hostilities. -- Mary Quant
There are some that feel like human activity is the cause for carbon emissions, and because of that, we need to revert to where we were in the 1870s for carbon emissions. I just choose to disagree with that. -- Marsha Blackburn
Women have been brought up to be passive, accepting, not come forward and play a major role in life. And with age, there's a tendency to revert to that - to pull back, recede. I don't think it's advisable or admirable. -- Katherine Helmond
Panic is rare, looting is essentially insignificant, people are not terrified and trampling each other to flee from a disaster scene, but in fact are trying to manage a situation. We may in fact revert to some sort of primordial civility. -- Rebecca Solnit
Tax rates for the wealthy should revert to Clinton-era levels, both because it is necessary for long-term deficit reduction and because fairness dictates it. Moreover, there is no proof that higher marginal rates dissuade investment, all the rhetoric from the Right notwithstanding. -- Eliot Spitzer
I love people, and I love to be with people and to make music with people, but my natural state is to revert back to being by myself in my house, which is cool because that's where I practice and write and listen and study. -- Esperanza Spalding
Now, I do think when we move into 2012 and '13 when, presumably, the economy is on firmer ground, I would allow the tax rates for upper-income individuals to revert back to where they were before the cuts in the 1990s. I think at that point it makes perfect sense. -- Mark Zandi
I think if I ever stopped pushing myself, I would revert quickly to quite repetitive, restrictive behaviour. But in pushing myself and concentrating on what I can do, I think I can contribute to society. And that gives me the desire to keep pushing, to see what I'm capable of. The thing to do is not to stop. -- Daniel Tammet
My smile wavers as I revert to my natural state of being: nervous and weird. -- Stephanie Perkins
They say that not matter how old you become, when you are with your siblings, you revert back to childhood. -- Karen White
The word "feral" has a kind of magic potency which allied itself to two other words, "ferocious" and "free." To revert to a feral state! -- T.H. White
When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was -- Samuel Johnson
We know what we should and shouldn't put in our mouths, but in those times that pull on our souls, we revert to what's emotionally comfortable. -- Mehmet Oz
I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Africa must revert to what it was before the imperialists divided it. These are artificial divisions which we, in our pan-African concept will seek to remove. -- Robert Mugabe
Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ask people not to be people, they revert to bad, mob-like behaviors. -- Jaron Lanier
We are all Spirit experiencing a process set up to facilitate its (each Spirit's) understanding of its true identity and, through that understanding, to revert to its pristine state. -- Ian Gardner
Symbol systems cannot simply be rejected; they must be replaced. Where there is no replacement, the mind will revert to familiar structures at times of crisis, bafflement, or defeat. -- Carol P. Christ
I don't feel that I decided deliberately I'm going to write something and have it stand alone. Somewhere by the end I think it would probably revert to imagery. -- Raymond Pettibon
ClichÃ© activates the comfortable mental laziness, we sort of revert to the domain of the already-familiar, what we have already imagined so that it doesn't seem that bad. -- Aleksandar Hemon
[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
If we can revert to the truth, then a great deal of one's suffering can be erased, because a great deal of one's suffering is based on sheer lies. -- R. D. Laing
If you stay in that new flow of positive behavior, it's hard to revert back to old patterns. But if you do fall off, just forgive yourself, recover quickly, and get right back on. -- Gabrielle Bernstein
When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstance revert at once to yourself and don't lose the rhythm more than you can help. You'll have a better grasp of harmony if you keep going back to it. -- Marcus Aurelius
I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action. -- Rex Stout
Give the FBI unchecked domestic spying powers and instead of focusing on preventing terrorism, it will revert to doing what it does best - monitoring, harassing, and intimidating political dissidents and thousands of harmless immigrants. -- Wendy Kaminer

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