#reverse

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear? ↗

— Jack London

#darn #gear #must #over #reverse

The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#absolutely #absolutely nothing #behave #extraordinary #four

We have a problem now with parents stealing their kids' CDs, so the roles have been reversed. ↗

— Jerry Only

#cds #kids #now #parents #problem

The pace of global warming is accelerating and the scale of the impact is devastating. The time for action is limited - we are approaching a tipping point beyond which the opportunity to reverse the damage of CO2 emissions will disappear. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#approaching #beyond #co2 #damage #devastating

A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness. ↗

— Criss Jami

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

In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#africa #apartheid #around #corporate #could

This led to the discovery that long chain fatty acids would remarkably stabilize serum albumin to heat denaturation, and would even reverse the denaturation by heat or concentrated urea solutions. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

#chain #concentrated #discovery #even #fatty

It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse. ↗

— Gary Busey

#actuality #because #change #everyone #friends

I think it's the sign of a leader to step up and say, you know, when something's not working to have the guts to reverse it. And the worst thing you can do is to let that mistake linger. ↗

— Jeff Zucker

#i #i think #know #leader #linger

The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#encounter #had #now #photograph #purpose