#reversal

The priest then turning toward the bride, inquired: "Wilt thou have this man to be thy wedded husband, etc., etc., so long as ye both shall live?" To which the bride, throwing aside her veil, answered, firmly: "No! Not if he were the last man and I the last woman on the face of the earth and the human race was about to become extinct and the angel of Gabriel came down from above to ask it of me as a personal favor." The effect of this outburst, this revelation, this explosion, may be imagined but can never be adequately described. ↗

— E.D.E.N. Southworth

#reversal #wedding #imagination

A fascinating challenge facing today's environmental movement is how to best approach the reversal of past decisions that altered once-pristine environmental spaces for the sake of urgent man-made needs. ↗

— Matt Gonzalez

#approach #best #challenge #decisions #environmental

Sooner or later in life, we will all take our own turn being in the position we once had someone else in. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#fairness #karma #life #role-reversal #life

The reversal of a Supreme Court opinion is possible. ↗

— Mike Rounds

#opinion #possible #reversal #supreme #supreme court

A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness. ↗

— Criss Jami

#denial #facing #facing-fear #facing-problems #fear

There's been a lot of role reversal going on in the band. The roles people have been playing for a long time will always be there, but everybody's willing to try on different outfits. ↗

— Stone Gossard

#band #been #different #everybody #going

To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice. ↗

— Carolyn Heilbrun

#become #both #choice #defeat #feminism

A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested. ↗

— Tony Gilroy

#audience #interested #just #keeping #reversal

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known. ↗

— George C. Marshall

#ever #find #his #known #man